The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-10-30
PRESIDENT ASKS
NATION TO Give
THANKS NOV. &c
European War Has Discip-
lined This Nation, He Says
In Proclamation.
TWO AMERICAS NOW
BOUND IN FRIENDSHIP
Opening of Panama Canal Gives
Country New Channels To
Prosperity, He Says.

IIOSpCtlty, IiC says
Washington, Oct. 2S-Presiden
Wilson issued a proclamation desig
mating Thursday, Nov. &c as Thanks
giving day.
The Presidents proclamation, which
refers to the fact that the United
States is at peace while much of the
rest of the world is at war, follows:
at has long been the honored Gus
tom of our people to turn in the fruit
full autumn of the year in praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for his
many blessings and mercies to us as .
nation. The year that is now drawing
to a close since we last observed our
day of national thanksgiving, has been
while a year of discipline because of
the mighty forces of war and OF
change which has disturbed the world,
also a year of special blessing for US.
at has been vouchsafed to US to re-
main at peace, with honor, and in some
part to succOr the suffering and sup
ply the needs of those who are in
want. We have been privileged by our
own peace and self-control in some de-
gree to steady the counsels and to
shape the hopes and purposes of day
If fear and distress.
"Our people have looked upon their
OWN life as a nation with a deeper
comprehension, a fuller realization Of
heir responsibilities as we'll as Of
heir blessings and a keener sense of
he moral and practical significance of
What their part among the nations Of
The world may come to be.
"The hurtful effects of foreign war
IN their own industrial and commercial
affairs have made them feel the more
;ully and see the more clearly their in
Independence upon one another and
has stirred them to a helpful cooper
alton such as they have seldom prac-
Iced before.
"They have been quickened by 4
great moral stimulation. Their un
nistakable ardor for peace, their earn
est pity and disinterested sympathy
for those who are suffering, their read
ness to help and to think of the needs
If others, has revealed them to them
selves as we'll as to the world.
"Our crops will feed all who need
God; the self-possession of our people,
amidst the most serious anxieties and
difficulties and the steadiness and re-
SourcefulneSs of our business men will
jerve other nations as we'll as our
own.
"The business of the country has
been supplied with instrumentalities
md the commerce of the world with
new channels of trade and intercourse.
The Panama Canal has been opened to
he commerce of the nations. The two
continents of America have been
pound in closer ties of friendship.
New instrumentalities of information
Il trade have been created, which will
De also new instrumentalities of &C
Iuaintanee, intercourse and mutual
service. Never before have the people
If the United States been so situated
or their own advantage or the advan
age of their neighbors or so equipped
% serve themselves and mankind.
"Now, therefore, l, Woodrow Will
son, President of the United States Of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
lay, the twenty-six of November next,
as day of Thanksgiving and prayer,
and invite the people throughout the
land to cease from their wonted Oc
eupations and in their several homes
and places of worship render thanks
to Almighty God.
ain witness whereof | have hereun-
to set my hand and caused the seal
Of the United States to be affixed.
"Done at the City of Washington,
this twenty-eighth day of October, i'll
the year of our Lord, One Thousand
Nine Hundred and Fourteen, and OF
the independence of the United
States of America, the one hundred
and thirty-ninth.
WOODROW WILSON,
"By the President.
ROBERT LANSING,