The Elbert County tribune., 1914-11-06
GIVE THANKS TO PEACE
PRESIDENT ISSUES THANKS
GIVING PROCLAMATION.
oweiis on American Freedom From
War, and Says BountIfui crops
Feed All Who Need Food.

Western Nswspapsr Union News Service.
Washington.-President Wilson to-
day issued proclamation designating
Thursday. Nov. 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.
A proclamation:
1t has long been the honored Gus
tom OF our people to turn In the fruit
rul autumn OF the year In praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for His
many blessings and mercies to US AZ
a nation. The year that Is now draw
ing to close since We last observed
our day OF national thanksgiving has
been, while year OF discipline be-
cause of the mighty forces OF war and
Of change which have disturbed the
world. also year Of special blessings
sor us.
1t 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 de-
gree to steady the counsels and
shape the hopes and purposes of a
day OF fear aud distress. Our people
have looked upon their own life as a
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fuller realization OF their responsible.
ties as we'll as Of their blessings. and
| . keener sense OF the moral and prac-
tical 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 moro
fully and see the more clearly their
mutual interdependence upon one an
other and has stirred them to a help.
ful cooperation such as they have sal.
dom practiced before. They have been
quickened by a great moral stimula,
tion. 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 has re-
vealed them to themselves as well af
to tho world.
Our crops will feed all who need
food: the self-possession of our peo
pie amidst the most serious anxietiei
and difficulties and the steadinesi
and resourcefulness Of our business
men will serve other nations as wei
as our own.
The business Of the country hai
been supplied with instrumentalitiei
and the commerce Of the world will
Few channels OF trade and inter
course. The Panama canal has beer
opened to the commerce OF the ma
tions. The two continents of Americi
have been bound In closer ties o
friendship. New instrumentalities o
international trade have been createt
which will be also new instrumen
talities OF acquaintance. intercours,
and mutual service. Never before
have the people Of the United Statei
been 80 situated for their own advan
tage or the advantage OF their neigh
bors or 80 equipped to serve them
selves and mankind.
Now, therefore, l. Woodrow VII
con. President Of the United States o
America. do hereby designate Thurs
day, the twenty-sixth Of November
next. as day Of Thanksgiving ant
prayer and invite the people through
out the land to cease from theil
wonted occupations and in their sew
eral homes and places of worship rem
der thanks to Almighty God.
In witness whereof have hereuntt
set my hand and caused the seal o
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city Of Washington thii
twenty-eigith day Of October. In thu
year OF Our Lord, one thousand, nine
hundred and fourteen and Of tn,
independence of the United States o
America the one hundred and thirty
ninth.
(signed) WOODROW WILSON.
| By the President.