The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-11-04
ISSUES
A THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION

Observation-Disclosures Wilson is
sued a proclamation designating
Thursday, November 26, Thanksgiv-
ing Day. The proclamation which re-
fers to the fact that the United States
Is 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 GUS
tom Of our people to turn in the fruit
full Autumn of the year to praise and
Thanksgiving to Almighty God for His
many blessings and mercies to US as
a Nation. The year that is now draw
ing to a close since we last observed
our day Of National thanksgiving has
been, while a year Of discipline be-
cause Of the mighty forces Of val and
Of change which have disturbed the
world, also q year Of special blessings
for us.
1T has been vouchsafed to us to
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
own peace and self-control in
some degree to steady the consels
and shape the hopes and purposes Of
q day Of fear and distress. Our people
have looked upon their own life as a
Nation with a deeper comprehension,
a fuller realization Of their response
bilities as well as their blessings, and
a keener sense Of the moral and prac-
tical significance Of what their part
among the Nations Of the world may
come to be.
1.-The hurtful effects of foreign war
in their own industrial and CONNER
cial affairs have made them feel the
more fully and see the more clearly
their mutual interdependence upon
one another and has stirred them to
a helpful cooperation such as they
have seldom practiced before. They
have been quickened by o great moral
stimulation. Their unmistakable ar
dor Of peace, their earnest pity and
d%isinterestod sympathy for those who
are suffering, their readiness to help
and to think of the needs of 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 resourceful-
ness of our business men will serve
other Nations as well as cur own.
1.-THE business of the country has
been supplied with new instrumental
tiles and the commerce Of the world
with new channels Of trade and in
tercourse. The Panama Canal has
been opened to the commerce of the
Nations. The two continents of Amer
lea have been bound in closer ties OF
friendship. New instrumentallties Of
International trade have been ere
ated which will be also instrumental
tiles of acquaintance, intercourse, and
mutual service. Never before have
the people OF the United tates been
so situated for their own advantage
or the advantage Of their neighbors or
so equipped to serve themselves and
mankind. -....... t. .a,
Now, therefore, 1, Woodrow Will
son, President Of the United States
of America, do hereby designate
Thursday, the twenty-sixth of Novem-
Der, as a day Of thanksgiving
and prayer and invite the people
throughout the land II cease from
their wonted occupations and In their
several homes and places OF worship
render thanks to Almighty God.
IN witness whereof, l have here
unto 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 IN
the year of Our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fourteen and of the
independence of America the one nun
dred and tEirty-ninth.
WOODROW WILSON.
"By the President: