White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-24
PRESIDENT WILSON ISSUES
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION

president WILSON, Oh lHuIsuds III
a proclamation designating Thursday.
November IS. as Thanksgiving day.
called attention to the fact that the
United States has been at peace while
most of Europe has been at war.
The ext follows:
1T has long been the honored Gus
tom of our people to turn In the
fruitful autumn of the year in praise
and thanksgiving to Almighty God
for his many blessings and mercies
now drawing to a close since last We
observed our national day OF thanks
giving has been, while a yea of dis
cipline because of the mighty forces
of war and of changes which have
disturbed the world, also a year of
special blessing to US.
Another year of peace has been
~vouchsafed us; another year in which
not only to take thought of our duty
to ourselves and TO mankind. but also
to adjust ourselves to the many re-
sponsibilities thrust upon US b. a war
which has involved almost the whole
oil Europe. We have been able to
assert our rights and the rights of
mankind without breach of friend
ship with the great nations with
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ghile We have asserted rights, We
have been able also to perform du-
ties and exercise privileges of succor
and helpfulness which should serve to
demonstrate our desire to make the
Offices of friendship the means of
truly disinterested and unselfish
service.
Our ability to serve all who could
avail themselves of u services in
the midst of crises has been increas-
ed by a gracious Providence by more
and more abundant crops; our ample
financial resources have enabled US
to steady markets of the world and
facilitate necessary movement OF
commerce, which the war might have
otherwise rendered IMPOSSIBLE; and
our people have come more and more
to a sober realization OF the part they
have been called upon TO play in a
time when all the world is shaken
by unparalleled distresses and dis
asters.
The extraordinary circumstances
of such a time have done much to
quicken our national consciousness
and deepen and confirm our conf
dence in the principles of peace and
freedom by which We have always
sought to be guided. Out of dark
ness and ~perplexities have come firm
er counsels of policy and clearer per-
ceptions of the essential welfare OF
the nation. We have prospered while
other people have been at war, but
our prosperity has been youchsafed
Us, we believe. only that we might
the better perform the functions
which war rendered it impossible for
them to perform.
Now, therefore. l. Woodrow Will
son, President of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the 25th day of November next,
as a day of thanksgiving and prayer,
and invite the people throughout the
land to cease from their wonted oc-
equations and in their homes and sew
eral places OF worship render thanks
to Almighty God.
I'm witness whereof, i have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be af-
fixed,
Done at the city of Washington
this goth day of October, IN the year
of our Lord n thousand nine hum
dred and fifteen. and of the indepen-
dence of the United States Of Amer
lea one hundred and fortieth.
WOODROW WILSON
by the President.
ROBERT LANSING,
uCoo-.or- - Ctoto,s