Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-10-27
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.
President Wilson Has Set Aside No.
vember 18th for Thanksgi,

Wilson to-day in a proclamation des-
lgnating Thursday, November 25, as
thanksgiving Day, called attention to
the fact that the United States has
been at peace while most Of Europe
mas been at war. The text follows:
1T has long been the honored cus-
tom OF our people to turn in the fruit
lul 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
drawing to close since we last OBJ
served our day of National Thanks
giving has been, while a year of dis
cipline because of the mighty forces
OF war and Of changes which have
disturbed the world, also a year Of
special blessing for us.
"Another year Of peace has been
Nouchsafed us; another year in
which not only to take thought Of
our duty to ourselves and to man
kind, but also to adjust ourselves to
the many responsibilities thrust upon
us by war which has involved al
most the whole Of Europe We have
been able to assert our rights and the
rights OF mankind without breach of
Friendship with the great nations
with whom we have had to deal; and
while we have asserted rights we
nave been able also to perform duties
nv ~,
hclDfulness which should serve to
demonstrate our desire to make the
Offices Of friendship the means of
truly disintCrestcd and unselfish SER
vice.
Our ability to serve all who could
avail themselves of our services in
the midst Of crises has been increas-
ed, by gracious Providence by more
and more abundant crops; our ample
financial resources have enabled us to
steady the markets Of the world and
facilitate necessary movement Of
commerce which the war might otn-
erwise have rendered impossible;
and our people have come more and
more to 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
disasters.
'The extraordinary circumstances
Of such a time have done much to
quicken our national consciousness
and deepen and confirm our conf
dence in the principle of peace and
freedom by which we have always
sought to be guided out Of darkness
"Out Of darkness and perpleXities
have come firmer cOunsels Of policy
and clearer perceptions Of the essen
tial welfare Of the nation. We have
prospered while other peoples were
at war, but our prosperity has been
vouchsafed us. we believe, only that
we might the better perform the
functions which war rendered it i'm
possible for them to perform.
"Now, therefore, |, Woodrow Will
son, President of the United States Of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the 25th day of November next,
as day OF Thanksgiving and prayer,
and invite the people throughout the
land to cease from their wonted occu-
patiOns and in their several homes
and places Of worship render thanks
10 Almighty God.
"In witness whereof, ! have here !
unto set my hand and caused the seal
Of the United States to be affixed
ozone at the city Of Washington !
this 21st day Of October, in the year
Of our Lord one thousand nine hun |
dred and fifteen, and Of the ndepend- |
ence Of the United States Of America |
the 140th.
"By the President:
"WOOdrOw Wilson,
"RObert Lansing.