The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-10-31
1881 SUMTER s. c. sATU7DAY oCToBER RI 1e14
PROCLAMATION
WILSON SETS APART NOVEMBEI,
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president Cites Reasons Why the
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Washington, Oct. 28.-President
Wilson today issued a proclamation,
designating Thursday, Nov &c, as
Thanksgiving day.
The presidents proclamation, which
trefers to the fact that the United
States is at peace while the rest of
the world is at war, follows:
E"By the President Of the United States
A Proclamation:
1T has long been the honored GUS
tom of our people to turn in the fruit
ful autumn year in praise and thanks
giving to Almighty God for his many
blessings and mercies to us as a ma
ttion. The year that is now drawing
/ to close since we last observed our
dday Of national thanksgiving has
been, while year of discipline be-
cause Of the mighty forces Of war and
tef change which have disturbed the
world, also year Of special blessing
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
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
lnation with deeper comprehension,
AZ fuller realization Of their RESPONSE
Ebilities, as we'll as Of their blessings,
Iand keener sense Of the moral and
practical significance of what their
part among the nations Of the world
may come to be.
4 The hurtful effects Of foreign war
/ IN their own industrial and CONNER
fcial affairs have made them feel the
more fully and see the more clearly
1their mutual interdependence upon
lone another and has stirred them to
- helRtsl cooperation :, such as they
have seldom practiced before. They
have been quickened by q great moral
stimulation. Their unmistakable ardol
for peace, their earnest pity and dis
interested sympathy for those who are
suffering, their readiness to help and
to think Of the needs for 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 admist the most serious anxieties
and difficulties and the steadiness and
resourcefulness Of our business men
will serve other nations as we'll as our
own.
THE business Of the country has
been supplied with new channels of
trade and intercourse. The Panama
canal has been opened to the COM
merce of the nations. The two conti-
nents Of America have been bound in
closer ties Of friendship. New instru-
mentalities Of international trade have
been created which will be also new
instrumentalities Of acquaintance, in
tercOurse and mutual service. Never
before have the people of the United
States been SO situated for their own
advantage or the advantage Of their
neighbors, or so equipped to serve
themselves and mankind.
"Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Will
son, president Of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the 26th Of November, next, as
a day of thanksgiving and prayer and
invite the people throughout the land
to cease from their wonted occupa-
tions 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 sea;
Of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city Of Washington
this 2Sth day Of October, in the year
of our lord 1914. and Of the independ-
ence of the United States of America
the 139th. Woodrow Wilson.
''By the president:
Robert Lansing,
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