The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1914-11-05
Thanksgiving
Proclamation

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Washington, Oct 2S.-President
Wilson today issued a proclamation
designating Thursday, November 26,
as Thanksgiving day.
The presidents 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:
1T has long been the honored Gus
tom of our people to turn in the fruit
full autumn of the year in praise and
Thanksgiving to Almighty God for his
many blessings and mercies to us as
nation. The year that is now draw
ing to a close since We last observed
our day national thanksgiving has
been, die year of discipline
because the mighty forces of war
nd Of nge which have disturbed
% wol also year of special bles-
-..g TO- rs.
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 tho counsels
and shape the hopes and purposes Of
day OF fear and distress. Our peo-
pie have looked upon their own life
as nation with deeper comprehen-
sion, a fuller realization Of their re-
sponsibilities as we'll as Of their
blessings, and a 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
! their industrial and commerce.
si%aairs X made them feel more
ny an ee more clearly their mu-
siM int spendence upon one an
her, a, las stirred them to a help
1ui cooperation such as they have
seldom practiced before. They have
been quickened by great moral stim-
ulation. Their unmistakable ardor
for peace, their earnest pity and dis
interested sympathy for those who
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 on!
people amidst the most serious anxi-
cites and difficulties and the steadi-
ness and resourcefulness of our bust.
ness men will serve other nations as
well as our own.
"The business of the country has
been supplied with 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 nations The
two continents of America have been
bound in closer ties of friendship.
New instrumentalities of information
al trade have been created which
will be also new instrumentalities of
acquaintance, intercourse and mutual
service. Never before have the peo-
pie of the United States been SO sit
mated for their own advantage or the
of their neighbors or so
equipped serve themselves and
Now. srefore. I Woodrow Will
s;aa, pre- mt of the United States
J Amer do hereby designate
aursday, che twenty-sixth Of Novem-
Der next, as day Of Thanksgiving
and prayer and invite people through
out the land to cease from their
wonted occupations and in their sew.
eral homes and places Of worship
render thanks to Almighty God.
I'm witness whereof, have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be at
fixed.
Done at the city of Washington,
this twenty-eighth day of October,
in the year of our Lord, one thousand
nine hundred and fourteen, and of the
Independence Of the United States
Of America the one hundred and thir-
ty-ninth.
by the president:
~, WOODROW WILSON
ROBERT LANSING,
''Acting Secretary of State"
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