The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-10-28
nation At PEACE
AMID WORLD WAR
PRESIDENT WILSON IS GRATEFUL
FOR AMERICAS MANY
BLESSINGS.
NAMES DAY TO GIVE THANKS
President Calls on America to Express
Appreciation of Its Maniforld
Blessings During Year.

Washingt Wilson, in
proclamation designating Thursday,
November 25, as Thanksgiving Day,
called attention to the fact that the
United States has been at peace while
most of Europe has been at war.
eve have been able to assert our
rights and the rights of mankind with
out breach of friendship with the
great nations with whom we have had
to deaa,' said the president.
The text follows:
ut has long been the hOnored 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 blessing and mercies to us as
a nation. The year that is now draw
ing to close since we last observed
our day of national Thanksgiving has
been, while a year of discipline De
cause 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
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 war
which has involved almost the whole
of Europe. We have been able to as
sert our rights and the rights of man
kind without breach of friendship with
the great nations with whom we have
had to deal; and while we have as
serted these rights we have been able
also to perform duties and exercise
privileges of succor and helpfulness
which should serve to demonstrate
OUT desire to make the Offices OF
friendship the means of truly disin-
terested 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 study the markets of the world and
facilitate necessary movements of
commrece which the war might other
wise 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
time when all the world is shaken by
distress and disasters.
1.-The extraordinary circumstances OF
such time have done much to quick
en- our national consciousness, and
deepen and confirm our confidence in
the principle OF peace and freedom by
which we have always sought to be
guided. Out of darkness and perp1ex-
tiles have come frmer counsels OF
policy and clearer perceptions of the
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.
Nov, therefore. I, Woodrow Wilson.
president of the United States OF
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the twenty-fifth of November !
next, as day of Thanksgiving and
prayer, and invite the people through
out the land to cease from their wont |
I'd occupations and in their several |
homes and places of Worship render |
thanks to Almighty God.
Gin witness whereof 1 have here |
into set my hand and caused the seal
If the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City, of Washington,
his twentieth day of October in the
rear of Our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and fifteen and of the indie
pendence of the United States pf
America the one hundred and fortieth.
"By the President: Robert Lensing
Secretary of State.
WOODROW WILSON,"