Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-11-05

President Wilson, on Oct. %,
ISSUED the following thanksgiv-'
ing proclamation. which will be
observed on Thursday, Nov; 26,
1914: '..' ~
SBy the President Of the Uni.
ted States Of America:
'IthAs long been the thonored
custom Of our people to turn in
tn fruitful autumn Of the year in
praise and thanksgiving to AL
mighty God for his many bless
ings and blessings and mercies to
us'asa7natiou. The year that's
nowdrawing to a close since We
last observed our day OF nation
.al thanksgiving has been, while
ayearof discipline because OF the
mighty forces OF war and Of
change which have disturbed the
world, also a year of Especial bless
ing for u.s. =
'"Ithas 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. Wehave
been privileged by our own peace
and self control in some degree
to steady the counsels and shape
the hopes and purpocts Of a day
OF fear and Distress. Our people
have looked upon their own life
as a nation, with a deeper com.
| preAension, a. fuller. realization
Ieof their responsibilities as we'll as
Of their blessings, and a keener
sense OF the moral and practical
significance Of what their part in
the affairs of the nations OF the
world may come to be.
"Hurtful effects of foreign war
in their own industrial and rom.
mercial affairs have made them
feel the more fully and see the
more clearly their mutual depen.
dence upon one another and has
stirred them to a helpful cooper.
alton such as they have seldom
practised before. They have
been quickened by a great moral
stimula ton. ~.
"rheir unmistakable ardor fol
peace, their earnest pity and dis.
interested sympathy for those
who are suffering, their readiness
to help and to think of the needs
of othnrs, has revealed them tC
. f:irrn o.tH.4 as vii rs to the
wDGio.
"Our crops will feed all who
need feed; the self-possession o
our people amidst the most seri
/, GUS anxieties and difficulties anc
the steadiness and resourcefyl
4 ness of our, business men viii
serve other nations as we'll as ou
own
"The business OF the countr,
has been supplied with new in
i. .strumentalities and the com
rnerce OF the world with channel
( of trads. and intercourse. Th
Panama canal has BEEN opene,
to the commerce OF the nations
The two continents 'of Americ
i have been bound in closer ties c
friendship. New instrnmentalitie
of International trade have bee
created which will be;also new ir
. strumentalities OF acquaintance
= intercourse and mutual service
Never before have the people {
the United States been so situa
tod foptheir own advantage, Q
the advantage OF their neigh
bors or 40 equipped rs to serv
themselves and mankind. -
"Now, Therefore ] Woodro'
Wilson, President of the Unite
States Of America, do hereby de
ignate Thurday, the twenty.sixt
OF November next as q day
Thanksgiving and prayer, and i
vite the people throughout Il
land to cease from their wonte
occupations and in their sever
homes and places of worship re
{. der thanks to- Almighty God.
I'm witness whereof Ihave he
unto set my hand and cause
the seal of the United States