Catoctin clarion., 1914-11-12
THURSDAY, NOvMEBER 12, 1914
Thanksgiving Proclamation
November 26th Set Apart AS
Day of THANKSGIVING.

President Wilson issued his annual
Thanksgiving proclamation, setting
Thursday, Nov. 26, as day of "thanks-
giving and prayer" and inviting "the
people throughout the land to cease from
their wonted occupations and in their
several homes and places of worshn to
render thanksgiving to Almighty God. y
The proclamation follows:
at has long been the honored custom
of our people to turn in the fruitful
autumn of the year in praise and thanks
giving to Almighty God for his many
blessings and mercies to US as a nation.
1.-The year that is now growing to
close since we last observed our day of
national thanksgiving has been while
year of discipline because 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 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
life as nation with deeper compre-
henson. deeper realization of their re-
sponsibilities as well as of their bless
ings and keener sense of the moral sig
nifieance 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 commercial af-
fairs have made them feel the more fully
and see the more clearly their mutual in
dependence upon one another and have
stirred them to helpful co. operation
such as they have seldom practiced be-
fore. They have been quickened by a
great moral stimulation. Their unms-
taxable ardor for peace, their earnest
pity and disinterested sympathy for those
vh' 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 anxieties and difficulties
and the steadiness and resourcefulness of
our business men, will serve other nations
as we'll as our own.
1.-The business of the country has been
supplied with new irstrumentalities 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 con-
tinents of America have been bound in
closer guise of friendship. New instru-
mentalities of international trade have
been created which will be also new in
strumentalities 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 and man.
kind.
''Now, therefore, |, Woodrow Wilson,
president of the United States of Amer
lea, do hereby designate Thursday, the
26th day of November next as day of
thanksgiving and prayer and invite the
people throughout the land to cease from
their wonted occupations and in their
several homes and places of worship
render thanks to Almighty God.
I'm 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
18th day of October, in the year of our
Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred Four,
teen, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the One Hun,
dred and Thirty-ninth.
WOODROW WILSON.