The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-22
BIDS NATION
GIVE PEACE THANKS.
With a World in Arms We
Have Upheld Our Dignity,
D.. Says Proclamation.
NOV. 25 Is THANKSGIVING

WARRINGTON, Oct. 21.-In a proclama.
uon Issued to-day President Wilson
desisnates Thursday. November 26, az
thanksgiving Day, and calls attention to
the fact that Americans should be CRATE
ful for the blessing Of peace.
Tt has long been the honored Gus
TOM OF our people to turn in the fruit
rul autumn Of the year in praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty Co for His
many blessings n merclee to us as a
nation says the proclamation. sThe
year that IL now drawing to a close
since We last observed our day of ma
hon Thanksgiving has been. while a
year Of discipline because OF Abe mighty
FORCES OF war and of changes which
have disturbed the world, also a year
OF special blessing for us.
Year Of Peace.
Another year Of peace has been
vouchsafed US: another year In which
not only to take thought Of our duty to
ourselves n to mankind but also to
ADJUST ourselves to the many RESPONSE
Dilities thrust upon us by a war which
has involved almost the whole Of Eu-
rope. We 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 deal,
and while We have asserted rights we
have been able also to perform duties
and exercise privileges OF succor and
~helpfulness which should serve to dem
onstrate our desire to make the offices
OF friendship the means of truly dlsin-
terested and unselfsh service.
~Our ability TO serve all who could
avail themselves of our services in tho
midst OF crises has been increased. BY a
gracious providence. by more and more
abundant crops our ample financial re-
sources have enabled us to steady the
markets of the world n facilitate the
necessary movement of 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
In a time when all the world is
by unparalleled distresses and
Conscience IN Peace.
The extraordinary circumstance OF
such a time have done much TO quicken
our national consciousness and deeper
and confirm our confidence IN the prin-
ciples of peace and freedom by which we
have always sought to he guided. out
rkn and perplexities nave come
frmer counsels Of policy and clearer
perceptions Of the essential welfare of
the nation. We nave prospered while
other peoples were at war. bu; our pros
pcrity has been vouchsafed us. We be-
lieve. only that we might the better per-
form the functions which war rendered
1t impossible for them to perform.
Now. therefore. l. Woodrow Wilson, |
OF the United States Of Amer
lea. do hereby designate Thursday, the
OF November next. as a das' of
and prayer. and invite the
throughout the land to cease from
their wonted occupations and in their
several homes and places OF worship
render thanks to Almighty God.
In witness whereof l have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal Of the
States TO be affixed
Done at the city Of Washington. this
10Th day Of October. In the year Of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and
fteen, and Of the Independence of the
States OF America one hundred
fortieth. WOODROW WILSON.
by the President: Robert Lansing,
of State"