The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-10-30
THANKSGIVING DAY
NOVEMBER 26TH
Day Designated by Proclamation of
President Woodrow
Wilson,

Wilson today ssued proclamation
designating Thursday, November &c.
Thanksgiving Day. The proclamation
which refers to the fact that the
United States 1T at peace while the
rest of the world is at war. follows:
BY the President of the United
States Of America:
"a proclamation:
1T has long been the honored
custom of our people TO turn i'm the
fruitful autumn of the year to praise
and Thanksgiving to Almighty God
for His many blessings and mer-
cles to us as a nation The year
that is now drawing to @ close since
we last observed our day of national
thanksgiving has been, while a wear
or discipline because of the mighty
forces of war and Of change which
have disturbed the world, also n
year OF special blessings for us.
ut has been vouchsafed to rs tn
remain at peace, with honor, and in
some part to succor the suffering and
supply the needs OF those who are in
want. We have been privileged by
our own peace and self-control in
some degree to steady the counsels
and shape the hopes and purposes
OF day of fear and distress. Our
people have looked upon their own
life as a nation with deeper COM
prehension, fuller realization of
their responsibilities as well as their
blessings, and a keener sense of the
moral and practical significance of
what their part among the nations
OF the world may come to be.
THE hurtfui effects of foreign
war in their own industrial and com
mercial affairs have made them foo,
the more fully and see the more
clearly their mutual interdependence
upon one another and has stirred
them to helpful cooperation such
as they have seldom practiced he.
fore. They have been quickened bv
great moral stimulation. Their nm
mistakable ardor of peace. their
earnest pity and disinterested svm-
pathy for those who are suffering.
their readiness to help and to think
or the needs as others has revealed
them to themselves as well as TO the
world.
Our crops will feed all who need
food; the self-possession of our peo-
pie amidst the most serious anxieties
and the steadiness and resourcefuI-
ness of our business men will serve
other nations as we'll as our own.
THE business of the country has
been supplied with new instrument
talities and the commerce of the
world with new channels of trade
and intercourse. The Panama
canal has been opened to the com
merce of the nations. The two con-
tinents Of America have been bound
In closer ties of friendship. New in
strumentalities of international
trade have been created which will
be also instrumentalities of acouain-
tance. intercourse. and mutual ser.
vice. Never before have the people
OF the United States been so situat-
ed for their own advantage or the
advantage of their neighbors or so
equipped to serve themselves and
mankind.
Now, therefore, /, Woodrow Will
son. President of the United States
or America, do hereby designate
Thursday, the twenty-sixth of No
vember next. as day of thanksgiv-
Ing and prayer and invite the peo-
pie throughout the land to cease
from their wonted occupations and
In their several homes and places of
worship render thanks to Almighty
God.
I'm witness whereof | have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to he
affixed
Done at the city of Washington,
this twenty-eighth day of October in
the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fourteen and of
the independence of America the one
hundred and thirty-ninth.
WOODROW WILSON