Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
WILSON PROCLAIMS BIRD DAY
Formally Announces Thanksgiving
for Thursday, November 20.
YEAR OF GREAT BLESSINGS
while whole OF Europe e. in Com
fIict Commerce and Peace In the
United states Have Gone
Satisfactorily Forward.


WASHINGTON. oct 2S-Prosident vii.
son today issued proclamation desig-
mating Thursday, November 1s as
Thanksgiving day. Tho presidents proc
lamation. 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 custom
OF our people IN turn in the fruitful au-
tumn Of the year in praise and thanks
giving to Almighty God for his many
blessings and mcrcies TO US as nation.
The year that is now drawing to a close
since we last observed our day OF ma
tional thanksgiving has been. while
year Of discipline because OF the mighty
forces Of war and Of changes which have
disturbed the word, also a year. of spe-
cial blessing for us.
1T has been vouchsafed to us 20 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 Teace
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 nation with deeper comprehen-
sion, a fuller realization OF their respon-
siblities. as well 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.
War Brings CO-OperatiOn.
The hurtful effects of foreign war in
their own industrial and commercial ar
fairs have made them feel the more fully
and see the more clearly the mutual in
tcrdependence upon one another, and has
stirred them to helpful cooperation
such as they have seldom practiced be-
fore They have been quickened by a
great moral stimulation. Their unmis-
taxable ardor for peace. their earnest
pity and dsinterested sympathy FOR those
who are suffering, their readiness to
help and 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 serious anxieties and diff
Culties and the steadiness and resource
fulness of our business men will serve
other nations as we'll as our own.
Changes Commerce Channels.
The business Of the country has beer
supplied with nstrumentalities 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 Observation-Disclosures OF in
ternational trade have been created
which will be also new instrumentalitie'
OF acquaintance, intercourse and mutua
service. Never before have the people o
the United States been so situated fo
their own advantage or the advantage o
their neighbors or so equipped to serr'
themselves and mankind.
Now, therefore, /, Woodrow Wilson
president of the United States Of America
do hereby designate Thursday. the 6tl
of November next, as a day of thanksgiv
ing and prayer and invite the peopl
throughout the land to cease from thei
wontod occupations and in their severa
homes and places OF worship renGe
thanks to Almighty Cod
In witness whereof / have hercunt,
set my hand and caused the seal OF Tn
United states TO be affixed.
Done at the city OF Washington, tn,
oSth day OF October, in the year OF GU
Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred am
Fourteen, and of the Independence Of tn
United States of America, the One Hun
Ired and Thirty-ninth.
"(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
BY the President:
"ROBERT LANSING,
''Acting Secretary OF State"