The border vidette., 1914-11-14
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NOVEMBER II. 1911.
LET US GIVE THANKS.

day, November 26, as the Thanksgiving day. The pro- clamation which refers to the fact that the United States is at peace, while the rest of world is at war, follows:
 By the President of the United States of America:
 A PROCLAMATION
 IT. has long been the honored cu.toal of our people to turn in the fruitful autumn of the year ir prise and thanksgiving to Al misnt.y God for his many bless inS and mercies to Us as na- tioa. The year that is now dra wing 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 a year of special blessing for us.
 It 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 people have looked upon their own life as a nation with deeper cOmpre tension, a fuller realization of their responsibility as well as Of their blessings, and a deeper 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 commercial affairs have made them feel the more fully and see the more clearly their mutual independence upon another, and has stirred them to helpful CO., operation such as they have sell dom practiced before. They have been quickened by a great moral stimulation. Their un- mistakable ardor for peace, their earnest. pity and disin- terested sympathy for those who arc suffering, their read mess to help aad 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 self possession of our people amidst the most ser . ious anxieties and difficulties, and the steadiness and resource fitness of our business men will serve other nations as well as our own.
 ''The business of the country has been supplied with new in strumentalities and the com merce of the world with new channels of trade and inter- course. The Panama canal has been opened to the commerce of the nations. The two continents of America have been bound in closer ties of friendship. New instrumentalities of inter- national trade have been creat- ed, which will also be new in strumentalitieS of acquaintance, intercourse, and mutual service. Never before have the people of the United States been so situat- ed for their own advantage or the advantage of their neighborS, or so equipped to serve them selves and mankind.
 Now, therefore. I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the 26th day of November next, as day of Thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people through out the land to cease from their wonted occupations, and in their several homes and places of worship render thanks to Al mighty God.
 Tn witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caus- ed the seal of the United States to be affixed.
 Done at the City of Washing ton this 28th day of October, in the year of Our Lord one thous- and nine hundred and fourteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty nineth.
 WOODROW WILSON. By the President:
 ROBERT LANSING,
 Acting Secretary of State"