The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-11-04
DAY OF THANKSGIVING
PRESIDENT ISSUES PROCLAAfA'
TION TO NATION.
Calls on All Christian People That
They Give Up Their Work and Go
to Their Houses of Worship.


President Wilson Wednesday is
sued proclamation. designating
Thursday, November 26, as Thanks
giving Day.
The presidents proclamation,
which refers to the fact that the
United States is at peace while the
rest of the world is a. war, follows:
by the President Of the United
States-A Proclamation:
1T has long been the honored Gus
tom OF our people to turn n the
fruitful autumn year in praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for his
many blessings and mercies to US as
a nation. The year that is now draw
ing to close since we last observed,
our day of national Thanksgiving has
been, while a year Of discipline be-
cause Of the mighty forces Of war and
of change which have disturbed the
world, also a 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
a day of fear and distress. Our peo-
pie have looked upon their own life
as nation with a deeper comprehen-
sion a fuller, realization OF their re-
sponsibilities, as well as Of their
blessings, and a keener sense Of the
moral and practical signigcance Of
what their part among the nations Of
the world may come to be.
1.-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 has stirred them to
a helpful cooperation such as they
have seldom praeticed before. They
have been quickened by great moral
stimulation. Their unmistakable ar
dor for peace, tasir earnest pity and
disinterested 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 amidst the most serious anxieties
and difficulties and the steadines and
Of orr business men
will serve other J.ations IS we'll as
our own.
"The business Of the country has
been sGpblie;: with new channels Of
trade and iri;':c5Irse. The Panama
canal has been opened to the COM
merce Of the nations. The two CONT
nents sf America have been bound in
closer ties ST :rsendship. New instru-
mentalities Of ;6icr9ational trade
have bean created which VIII be also
new nstrumcntalities of Acquaintance,
intercourse and mutual service. Never
before have the people Of the United
States been so situated for their own
advantage or the advantage Of their
neighhors, or so equipped to serve
themselves and mankind.
Now, therefore. I, Woodrow VIII
son, president of the United States OF
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day. the 2eth Of November, next, as
a day of thanksgiving and prayer and
invite the people throughout the land
to cease from their %orited occupa-
tions and in their several homes and
places Of worship render thanks to
Almighty God.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caIsed 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 1914, and of the inde-
pendeace of the United States OF
America the 139th.
"WoodreT Wilson.
"By the president:
Robert Lansing,
Acting Secretary of State.