Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-28
PRESIDENT WILSON,
IN PROCLAMATION,
LAUDS U. S. PEACE
Calling People to Day of
Thanksgiving and Prayer
He Tells of Blessings
Country Enjoys.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2s.-President Will
son today issued his annual thanksgiv-
ing proclamation, setting apart Thursday.
November &c, as a day of Thanksgiving
and Prayer. and inviting the people
throughout the land to cease from their
wonted occupations and in their several
homes and places of workship render
thanks to Almighty God"
The proclamation follows:
1t has long been the honored custom of
our people to turn in the fruitful autumn
Of the year in praise and Thanksgiving
to Almighty God, for his many blessings
and mercies to us as nation. Tho 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 have dis
turbed the world, also a year of special
blessing for us.
1t has been vouchsafed for us to re-
main at peace, with honor, and in some
parts 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
lire as a nation with a deeper compre-
her sion, deeper realization of their
responsibilities as we'll as of their bless
inGj and keener sense of the moral and
practical significance of what their part
among the nations OF the world may
come to.
WARS EFFECT AT HOME.
The hurtful effects of foreign war in
their own Industrial and commercial af-
fairs have made them feel the more fully
and see the more clearly their mutual de-
pcndence upon one another, and have
stirred them 20 helpful cooperation
such as they have seldom practiced be-
fore. They have been quickened by a
great moral stimulation. Their unmis-
taxable ardor for peace, their earnest
pity and disinterested sympathy for those
who are suffering. their readiness to help
and to think of the needs of others have
revealed them to themselves as well as
to the world.
Our crops will feed all who need food:
the self-possession OF our people amid the
most serious anXeties and difficulties and
the steadiness and resourcefulness of our
business men will serve other nations as
well as our own.
The business of the country has ba.,
supplied with new instrumentalltles and
the commerce OF the world with new
channels of trade and intercourse The
Panama Canal has been opened to the
commerce of the nations. The two conti-
nents OF America have been bound In
closer guise of friendship. New instru-
mentalitles of international trade have
been created which will be also new in
stFumentalities of acquaintance inter /
course 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
Therefore, !, Woodrow Wilson Presi- /
lent OF the United States OF America. do
hereby designate Thursday, the 26th of
November, next. as a day of Thanksgiving
md PRAYER and invite the people through
'ut the land 20 cease from their wonted
and in their several homes
md places of worship render thanks TO
Almighty God,
In witness whereof have hereunto set
ny hand and caused the seal OF the
United States to be affixed,
Done at the city of Washington, this
2Sth day OF October, in the year OF Our
Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and
Fourteen and the Independence of
the United States OF America the one
hundred and thirty-ninth,
WOODROW WILSON.
BY the President,
ROBERT LANSING,
Acting Secretary of state,