Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-11-25
Dear M. b. Friends:

Dear NJ. b. Friends:
The poem furnished espe cialiy. for our
Thanksgiving number is very appropriate,
and l.. E. t, may know it is much appre-
ciated. How quickly these anniversary
days come around, frei GIFTED leach Iyear
with eyer-inereasing memories OF the
past. The Thanksgiving proclamation
of President Wilson is well worthy OF the
high commentator it has received all
over the country. As naturally that has
not been printed SO widely in the papers
as those Of the governors in the different
states, am placing in the colum.the main
part OF it. While of course in an entirely
different line, it reminds me of LiDcoin's
speech at Gettysburg. We do not for st
that while he was voicing the reasons OF
the nation for gratitude, there is a vac n
place in his own home this Thanksgivi z,
as there are in so many other homes in hs
land. The proclamation reads asIfolloN q:
at has long been the honored icustom Of
our people to turn in the fruitful autumn of
the year in praise and than ks giving to the
Almighty God for His many blessings and
mercies to us as nation. The year that is
our day of national thanksgiving has been.
while year OF discipline because of the
mighty forces of war and of changeJwhieh
have disturbed the world, also. a, year of
special blessing for US.
lit has been vouchsafed to us to remain at
peace, with honor, and in some part.to.succor
the suffering and supply the needs off those
who are in want. We have been privileged
hv on own naare nd self m ut nj In snu.e de.
gree to steady the counsels and shape the
hopes and purposes Of day Of fear and dis
tress, Our people have looked uponItheir
own life as a nation with q deeper eompre-
hension, a fuller realization of their response
bilities as well as of their blessings. and q
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 shd commercial affairs: have
made them feel the more fully and see the
more clearly their mutual dependence upon
one another, and have stirred them tosa help
full cooperation such as they have seldom
prscticed before. They have been quickened
By 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 others, has revealed / hem to them
selves as well as to the world.
"our crops will feed all wh5 need food: the
self possession of our people amidst the most
serious anxieties and difficulties aud the
steadiness and resourcefulness Of our bust
ness men viii serve other nations as well as
our OWE.
1.-THE business of the country has been
supplied with new instrumentalities, and the
commerce of the world with new channels of
trade and intercourse. The Panama canal
has been opened to the commerce of the ma
tions. The continents of America have been
bound in closer ties of friendship. New in
strumentalities Of international trade have
been created which will be also new instru-
mentalities Of acquaintance, intercourse and
mutual service. Never before have the people
of the United States been so situated for their
own advantage or their neighbors or so
equipped to serve themselves and mankind"
Dear dun. Madqe and II. B. Sisters.
Good morning Am sending you line this
lovely morning to tell you / have gone into
camp for the winter, and quite near some of
my NJ. B. sisters--so near Irish Molly that
may walk in some morning for asdrink of
that delicious fluid. Yes, am in little
camp just across the road from Sherwood
farm, Surry road. My John is working in the
woods for the winter. So, all NJ. BIS, just look