Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-10-28
Presidents Proclamation.
Names November 25th AS Day
of National THANKSGIVING.

of National Thanksgiving.
Washington, Oct. 81. President Will
son today, in proclamation designating
Thursday, November Is, as Thanksgiv-
ing Day, called attention to the fact that
the United States has been at peace
while most of Europe has been at war.
T e text of the proclamation follows:
ut has long been the honored custom
of our people to turn in the fruitful .-u-
tumn of the year in praise and thanks
giving to Almighty God for His many
blessings and mercies to US as nation.
The year that is now drawing to close
since we last observed our day of nation
al Thanksgiving has been, while year
of discipline because of the mighty forces
of war and of change which have dis
turbed the world, also year of special
blessing for us.
"Another year of peace has been
vouchsafed US; another year in which not
only to take thought of our duty to our
selves nd to mankind, but also to adjust
ourselves to the many responsibilities
thrust upon US by war which has in
volved 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 to perform duties and exercise priv
ileges of succor and helpfuness 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 our services in
the midst of crisis has been increased,
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 nee
essary movements of commerce which
the war might otherwise have 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 time when all the world is
shaken by unparalleled distresses and
disasters. The extraordinary circum-
stances of such time have done much
to quicken our national consciousness and
deepen and confirm our confidence in the
principles of peace and freedom by which
we have alw avs sought to be guided. Out
of darkness and perplexity have come
firmer counsels of policy and clearer per-
ceptions 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 impossi-
BILE for them to perform.
"Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States of Amer
lea, do hereby designate Thursday, the
twenty-fifth day of November next, as
day of thanksgiving and prayer, and in
vite the people throughout the land to
cease from their wonted occupations and
in their several homes and places of wor-
ship render thanks to Almighty God.
"In witness whereof | have hereunto
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 hundred and
fifteen and of the independence of the
United States of America the one hun
dred and fortieth.
WOODROW WILSON"
By the President:
Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State.