The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-30
President t Wilson'S
Thanksgiving
Proclamation
PEACE NOT THE LEAST OF THE
BLESSINGS OF THE LAND
OF PLENTY.

WdSnlnStOn, fOct. oU. - fTeSluenJ
Wilson issued a proclamation desig-
mating Thursday, November 26. as
Thanksgiving Day.
The Presidents proclamation,
which refers 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 proclamation:
1T has long been the honored Gus
tom Of our people to turn in the fruit
full autumn of the year in praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for His
many blessings and mercies to us, as
q nation. Tho year that is now draw
ing to . close since we aast observed
our day of national thanksgiving, has
been, while atyear Of discipline be-
cause OF the mighty forces Of war, and
Of 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 peo-
pie have looked upon their own life
as nation with a deeper comprehen-
sion, fuller realization of their respon-
sibilities, as well as of their blessings,
and keener sense Of the moral and
practical significance Of what their
part among the nations of the world
may come to be.
) 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 have stirred them to a
, helpful cooperation, such as they have
seldom practiced before. They have
, been quickened by great moral
{ stimulation. Their unmistakable- ar
: dor for peace, their earnest pity ant
disinterested sympathy for those who
, are suffering their readiness to hell
t and to think of the needs of others
r have revealed them to themselves as
: well as to the world.
/ "Our crops will feed all who neet
2 food; the self-possession of our peo
g pie amidst the most serious anxietiei
: and difficulties and the steadiness ant
Il resourcefulness Of our business men
! will serve other nations as well a.
Il our own. rf-" t. I"
Il "The business of the country ha
e been supplied with new Instrumental
e ties and the commerce of the worl
; with new channels of trade and inter
q course. The Panama canal has bee
., opened to the commerce Of the ns
u tions. The two continents of Americ
have been bound in closer ties @
friendship. New instrumentalities c
international trade have been created
which will be also new instrumental
ties of acquaintance, intercourse an
= mutual service. Never before hav
+ the people of the United States bee
so situated for their own advantag
or the advantage of their neighbour
or so equipped to serve themselve
and mankind.
"Now, therefore. /, Woodrow Wilson
President of the United States
America. do hereby designate Thur
dayday, the 26th of November, next, 6
day of thanksgiving and prayer, an
E. invite the people throughout the Ian
It. to cease from their wanton occup
n tions and in their several homes an
Or places of worship render thanks
g. Almighty God.
st "In witness whereof have hereu
is to set my hand and caused the seal
r. the United States to be affixed.
"Done at the city of Washingto
10 this 2Sth day of October, in the ye
,e of Our Lord one thousand nine hu
is dred and fourteen, and Of the ind
ct pendence of the United States
fe America the one hundred and thirt
xA.aIr~.., Au;lcnr
rs ninth. WOODROW WILSON,
ne "By the President: s%
he "Robert Lansing,
a "Acting Secretary Of State"
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