The Spectator., 1914-11-03
WHY J. $. SHOULD
 bE THANKFUL NATION
PRESIDENT WILSON ISSUES HIS ANNUAL THANKSGIVING PROC.
 LAMATlON FOR NOV. 26.
OUR PEOPLE ARE AT PEACE
While Other Nations Have Been Dis. turbed By War, Ours Has Enjoyed
 the Fruits of Plenty.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 hington.-President Wilson is. sued proclamation designating Thursday, November 26, as Thanks giving Day. The 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:
 Tt has long been the honored cus- tom of our people to turn in the fruit ful autumn of the wear in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us as nation. The year now drawing 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 has disturbed the world, also a year of special blessing for us. It has been vouchsafed to us to re- main 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 people have looked upon their comprehension, a fuller realization of their responsibilities, as well as of their blessings and keener sense of 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 all the more fully understand and see the more clearly their interdependence upon one another and has stirred them to a helpful cooperation, such as they seldom have practiced before.
 They have been quickened by a great moral stimulation. Their un mistakable ardpr for peace, their earnest pity and disinterested sympa- thy for those who are suffering: their readiness to help and to think of the needs of others has revealed them to themselves as well as to the world
 Our crops will feed all who need food: the selfpossession of our peo- pie, amidst the most serious anxie- ties and difficulties and the steadiness and rpSourcefulnpSS of o,r hucinacc will serve other nations as our own
 The business of the country has been supplied with instrumentalities and the commerce of the wsrld with new channels of trade and inter- course.
 The Panama canal has been open ed to the commerce of the nations The two continents of America have been bound in closer ties of friend ship New instrumentalities of inter- national trade have been created, which also will be new instrumentali- ties of acquaintance, intercourse and mutual service. Never before have the people of the United States been
 
 the advantage of their neighbors or so equipped to serve themselves and mankind
 Now, therefore. l. Woodrow Will. son, president of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the 26th of November next. as day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to cease from their wonted occu. pat!ons and fin their several homes and places of worship, render thanks to Almighty God.
 Tn witness whereof. l have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be af- fixed.
 (Signed) Woodrow Wilson,"
 Bryan in Home State.