The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-11-05
THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLANiA-
TION. 4
President Wilson Designates Thurs
day, November Goth As Day
of Thanks. S

suAys INOSCIHDCI ~OVll AS Icy .a 90.
of Thanks.
President Wilson has issued a pro-
clamation designating Thursday,
November rs, 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:
"A prOclamation:
ct has long been the honored Gus
tom 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 a nation. The year that is
now drawing to a close since we last
observed our day of national thanks
giving has been, while a year OF dis
cipline because of the mighty forces
Of war and of change which have dis
turbed the world, also year of spec
ial blessing for us.
Blessings of Peace.
ut 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 safe control IN
some degree to steady the counsels
and shape the hopes, and purposes
of day of fear and distress. Our
people have looked on their own life
as a nation with a deeper compre-
hension, a fuller realization of their
responsibilities as we'll as their bless
ings 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 on one
another and has stirred them to a
helpful cooperation such as they
have seldom practiced before. They
have been quickened by a great NOR
al stimulation. Their unmistakable
ardor, for peace, their earnest pity
and disinterestcd sympathy for those
who are suffering, their readiness to
help and think of the needs of others,
has revealed them to themselves as
we'll 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 difficulties and the steadiness
and resourcefulness of our business
men will serve other nations as we'll
as our own.
Much To BE Thankful For.
'The business Of the, country has
been supplied with instrumentalities,
and the commerce of the world with
new channels of trade and inter
course. The Panama canal has been
opened to the commerce of the ma
lions. The two continents of Amer.
ca have been bound in closer ties OF
friendship New instrumentalities OF
international trade have been Great
ed, which will be also new instrument
talities of acquaintance, intercourse
and mutual service. Never before
have the people Of the United States
been SO situated for their own advan
tage or the advantage of their neigh
bors, or so equipped to serve them
selves and mankind.
''Now, therefore, 1, Woodrow Will
son, president of the United States o.
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the twenty-sixth of November
next, as the day of thanksgiving ant
prayer, and invite the people through
out the land to cease from thel1
wonted occupations and in their sew
eral homes and places of WORSHIP
render thanks to Almighty God:
''In witness whereof have here
unto set my hand and caused the sea
of the United States to be affixed. .
Done at the city of Washington
this twenty-eighth day of October, II
the year of our Lord, one thousand
nine hundred and fourteen and O.
the independence of the United States
of America the one hundred ant
lsigned) WOODROW WILSON
by the president.
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State"