Arizona republican., 1915-11-12
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION
Governor Issues Annual
Notice Of Coming Of Sea
son for Return Of Thanks;
Holiday Comes This Year
November %

! Governor George w. p. Hunt yester-
day issued the customary Thanksgiv-
! ing proclamation and has followed the
| lead of the president of the United
| States who a few days ago sent out d
similar edict, calling on the citizens to
set aside Thursday, November % as a
time for the return of thanks for the
blessings with which they have been
| favored during the past twelve months.
| Following is the proclamation:
! A Proclamation of Thanksgiving
! Regularly recurring in the cycle of
human events comes the annual Day of
Thanksgiving, when the people of the
worlds greatest Republic turn with
! fond Renaissance to the earliest days
I of their national life and earnestly, but
| joyfully perpetuate the custom of hold
ing special ceremonies and festivities
commemorative of Gods ubiquitous
benevoIence for which the sturdy sett-
lers Of New England's bleak and barren
coast, first gave reVerent thanks in
unison nearly three hundred years ago.
Today. in Arizona, whittier, with phe-
nomenal encompassment of distance,
that lofty civilization inaugurated by
our Puritan forefathers has advanced
with Irresistible tread in obedience to
Destiny's decree, an intelligent. liberty
loving populace, mindful of the per-
petual, Omniscient guardianship of Di-
vine Providence, adhere to time-hon-
ored custom by gratefully acknowledge
ing the beneficence of an omnipotent
Creator with appropriate manifesto
tiOns of gratitude for blessings bounti-
fully bestowed.
There is, in truth, wealth of Provi-
Dental gifts calling forth from the SOY
ereign people of Arizona such express
siOns of gratefulness as commonly
characterize the observance of religious
feastd1ys. For during the past twelve
months, the commerce of the Old World
and the New has fostered in Il way al
most Unprecedented the prosperity and
development of the mines and ranches
Of the state, thereby giving greater in
centive and wider scope to the endeav-
ors of those VINO invest and those who
toll. And meanwhile, Notwithstanding
the great surge of human strife that
has engaged the greater part of the civ
ilized world in deadiest conflict, both
our nation and our state, through the
graciousness of a kindly God have sue
cessfully held aloof from the maelstrom
of destructive warfare thereby holding
inviolate the tenets of true civilization.
Excelling, moreover, in the scale of
human valuation, all merely material
benefits however essential they may
be, are those incalculable blessings of a
spiritual, intellectual and civic nature
life is rendered richer and
more cOlorful and wherein modern civ
iliZation in our own state, as else |
where, finds at once it's justification
and it's perpetuity.
NOW, THEREFORE,, I Geo. w. P. |
Hunt, Governor of Arizona, by virtue of |
the authority in me vested, Go hereby |
designate and set apart Thursday No |
vember 25th, A. D., 1915, as a Day of |
on which, in churches |
and at firesides, reverential thanks may !
be rendered unto God in grateful recog- |
milton of countless blessings divinely |
conferred. And it is likewise earnestly |
urged that on the dav set apart, the |
thoughtful and ever considerate people
If Arizona may be deeply mindful of |
he needy, the sick and the sorrowinG
so that those who bear the "cross and !
bitterness of life" may also find reason
or Thanksgiving.
GEO. w. p. HUNT,
Governor of Arizona.