The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-11-06
president NAMES
THANKSGIVING DAY
Asks People to Cease LabOrs
and Render Prayers.
AT PEACE With HONOR
Says People OF U. s. Have Been
Observation-Disclosures People Are
Anxious For Peace and SYM
pathize With All Nations.

Washington, d. C.-President Will
son issued his annual Thanksgiving
proclamation. setting Thursday, No
vember 26, as day of thanksgiving
and prayer and inviting the people
throughout the land to cease from
their wonted occupations and in their
several homes and places of worship
to render thanks to Almighty God"
The proclamation follows:
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 close since we last observed
our day of national thanksgiving has
been, while a year of discipline be-
| cause of the mighty forces Of war and
of change which have disturbed the
world, also year of special blessing
| for US.
st has been youchsafed to us to
remain at peace, with honor, and In
some parts 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 own life as a
nation with a deeper comprehension,
deeper realization of their RESPONSE
| bilities as well as of their blessings
and a keener sense of the moral and
part among the nations of the world
| may come to be.
1.-THE hurtful effects of foreign war
in their own Industrial and CONNER
cial affairs have made them feel the
more fully and see the more clearly
their mutual independence upon one
another and have stirred them to a
helpful cooperation such as they have
seldom practiced before. They have
been quickened by great moral
stimulation Their unmistakable ardor
for peace, their earnest pity and disin-
terested 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 our people
amid the most serious anxieties and
difficulties and the steadiness and re.
sourcefulness of our business men will
serve other nations as well as our
own.
1.-THE business of the country has
been supplied with new instrument
talities and the commerce 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 Amer
! lea have been bound in closer guise of
friendship. New instrumentalities of
international trade been created which
will be also new instrumentallties of
acquaintance, intercourse and mutual
service. Never before have the peo-
pie of the United States been so stu
ated for their own advantage or the
advantage of their neighbors or so
equipped to serve themselves and man
kind
"Now, therefore, /, Woodrow VIII.
son, president of the United States of
America. do hereby designate Thurs
day, the 26th of November next as a
day of Thanksgiving and prayer and
invite the people throughout the land
to cease from their wonted occupa
tons and in their several homes and
places of worship render thanks to AL
mighty God.
SIN witness whereof have here
unto set my hand and cause the seal
Of the United States to be affixed
Done at the city of Washington,
this 2Sth day of October, in the year
OF our Lord one thousand nine hun
dred and fourteen and of the indie
pendence of the United States of
America the one hundred and thirty
ninth.
WOODROW WILSON.
"By the President:
ROBERT LANSING,
Acting Secretary of State"