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President Wilson Issues N
. Annual Call |
WAR HAS TAUGHT A LESSON
People Urged to Offer Thanks %
Having Preserved an Honorable
tionai Peace.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. - President
Wilson issued his annual ThanksglF.
ing proclamation, setting THURSDAY
Nov. rs, as a day of "thanksgivhs
and prayer" and inviting the people
throughout the land to cease IRON
their wonted occupations and In then
several homes and places of WORSHIP
to render Thanksgiving to Almighty
God" The proclamation follows:
at has long been the honored Gus
tom of our people to turn In the 1rult
full autumn of the year in praise ane
THANKSGIVING to Almighty God for R1s
many blessings and melcies teGnS Ia
a nation.
"The year that is now growing to
close since we last observed our DAY
of national thanksgiving has beer
while a year OF discipline because OF
the mighty forces of war and o.
change which have disturbed the
world, also year of special blessing
for US.
ut has been youchsafed to US tt
remain at peace, with honor, and II
some parts to sueeor the sunerlne
and supply the needs Of those VINO
are in want. We have been privileged
by our own peace and selfzcontrol II
some degree to steady the counsek
and shape the homes and purposes o.
a day of fear and distress. Our people
have looked upon their own life as {
nation with a deeper COMPREHENSIVE
a deeper realization of their RESPONSE
bilities as we'll as of : heir blessings
and a keener sense of the moral sig
uificance of what their part among
the nations of the world may CONT
to be.
THE hurtful effects Of foreign wal
in their own industrial and CONNER
cial affairs have made them feel tht
more fully and see the more clearly
their mutual independence upon ont
another and have stirred them to 6
helpful cooperation such as they have
seldom practiced before. They have
been quickened by great mora
stimulation. Their unmistakable ar
dor for peace, their earnest pity ano
disinterested sympathy for those WHIT
are suffering, their readiness to helI
and to think of the needs OF Others
have revealed them to themselves a
vel las to the world.
"Our crops will feed all who neee
food; the self-possession of our PEG
pie amid the most serious anxietie.
and difficulties and the steadiness
and resourcefulness Of our business
men, will serve other nations as vel
as our own.
1.-THE business of the country hS
been supplied with new instrument4
tiles and the commerce of the worf
with new channels of trade and int9-
course. The Panama canal has bel,
opened to the commerce of the M
lions. The two continents OF America
have been bound in closer guise
friendship. New instrumentalities p
international trade have been createe
which win be also new instrumental
ties of acquaintance, intercourse ane
mutual service. Never before have
the people of the United States beer
80 situated for their own advantage
or the advantage Of their neighbors
or so equipped to serve themselves
and mankind.
"Now, therefore, l, Woodrow VII
son, president of the United States Of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the Goth day of November next
as q day of thanksgiving and prayer
and invite the people throughout the
land to cease from their wonted &C
equations and in their several homes
and places Of worship render thanks
to Agility God.
IN witness whereof l have here
unto set my hand and caused the sea-
Of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington
this 28th day of October, In the yeal
of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hun
Dire dand Fourteen, and of the Inde
pendence Of the United States OF
America the One Hundred and Thirty
ninth. WOODROW WILSON,"