Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-11-22
THE PRESIDENT CALLS
THE PEOPLE TOPRAYER
Appoints Day Of Thanksgiving for
"Year of Special Blessing"
NEW DUTIES PUT UPON NATION.
1t is for Their Performance. President
Holds, That Prosperity Has Been
Vouchsafed the Country.

BY request of the clergy and for the
benefit of those who did not see, or
failed to read the Presidents Thanks
giving proclamation, designating next
Thursday, November 25. as Thanks
giving Day, and calling attention to
the fact that the United States has
been at peace while most of Europe
has been at war, The Capital publish
es it again:
I'VE have been able TO assert our
rights and the rights of mankind with
nations with whom we have had to
DEAL said the President The text of
the proclamation follows:
"It has long been the bonored Gus
tom OF our people TO turn in the fruit
full autumn of the year in praise, and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for His
many blessings and mercies TO us as
nation. The year is now drawing to
a close since we last observed our day
Of national thanksgiving has been,
while year of discipline because of
the mighty forces of war and of
changes which disturbed the world
also a year of special blessings.
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 by a
war which has involved almost 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 have been able also
TO perform duties and exercise priv
ileges of succor and helpfulness which
should serve to demonstrate our desire
to make the offices of friendship the
means of truly disinterested and un-
selfish service. Our ability to serve
all who could avail themselves of
our services in the midst of crisis
has been increased by a gracious
Providence, by more and more abund-
ant crops Our ample financial re-
sources have enabled us to steady
itate necessary movements of COM
merce, which the war might otherwise
have rendered impossible, and our peo-
pie have come more and more to So
Der realization of the part they have
been called upon to play in a time
when the world is shaken by unpar-
leled distresses and disasters.
THE extraordinary circumstances OF
such a time have done much to quick
en- our national consciousness and
deepen and confirm our confidence in
the principles of peace and freedom
by which we have always sought to be
guided. Out of darkness and per-
plexitty have come firmer councils OF
policy and clearer perceptions of the
essential 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 inn
possible for them to perform.
Now, therefore, /, Woodrow Will
son, President of the United States OF
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the twenty-fifth day of November
next, as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer, and invite the people through
out the land to cease from their wont
ed occupations and in their several
homes and places of worship render
thanks to Almighty God
In witness whereof have hereun-
to set my hand and caused the seal OF
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
twentieth day of October. in the year
of our Lord, one thousand nine hun.
dred and fifteen and of the independ.
ence of the United States of Americs
the one hundred and fortieth.
WOODROW WILSON,
4 BY the President
ROBERT LANSING
/ Secretary of State.'