Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1915-11-04
THANKSGIVING

President wilson in proclamation
designating Thursday, November o. $
Thanksgiving day calls attention te thS
fact that the United States has been at
neace whiel most Of Europe has been
ut war.
"We have been able to assert our
rights and the rights # mankind witl-
ont breach of friendship with the great
nations with whom We have had u
deal" said the President.
TENT OF PRn' AMATlt \ --~-
The text follows:
aft has log been the honorcd custom OF
our people to turn in the fruitiul au-
tumn Of the wear in praise and thanks
yiving TO Almighty God or His many
blessings and mercieS to us as hati9h'
Tho year that is now drawing to close
since we last observed our day or natioh
nj thanksgiving has been. while year
of discipline because of the mighty Ior-
ces of war and Of changes which have
disturbed the world. also year or Spe-
cial blessing for us.
"Another year of peace has hce'l
youchsafed us: another year Ill Wnich
not only to take thought of our duty
to ourselves and to mankind hut 'Sn 10
adjust ourselves to the many reSponSi-
bilities thrust upon lis by war Which
has invilved almost the whole cf EG!
rome. We hav been able To aSSert our
rights of mankind without breach II
friendship with the great natlonS "lul
whom we have had to deal: and Whllc
we have asserted rights. we have been
able also to perform duties and eXer-
else privileges Of succor and helpful
ness which should serve to demonstrate
our desire 10 make the ocs of friend
shin the means Of truly disinterest'
ed and mselfish service.
sour 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 abundant crops; our ample imam
cial resources hhave enabled us TO
steady the markets Of the world and
facilitate necessary movements OF com
,nerce which the war might otherwise
have rendered impossible; and our peo-
ole have come more and more to Sob
er realization of the part they have
been called qg2n to play IN TIM. .yaene
distress and dlya lefs.
1.-The exxtrordinary circumstances OF
such time have done much to quicken
our national consciousness and deepen
and confirm our confidence in the prin,
ciple of peace and freedom by which we
nave always sought to he guided. Out
OF darkness and perpleXities have come
Irmer counsels OF poG"y ana clearer
perceptions Of the essential welfare OF
the nation. We have prospereu While
other people were ut war, but our pros.
perity has bbeen vouchsafed us we be-
.leve only that we might the better per-
form the functions which war rendered
1t impossible for them to perform.
Nov, therefore. |. Woodrow Wilson
President of the United States Of Amer
lea, do hereby designate Thursday. the.
twenty-ftifth Of November as Il day Of
Thanksgiving and prayer, and invite tho
peOpl throughout the land to cease from
their wonted occupations and in their
several homes and places of worship.
render thanks To Almighty Goa.
In witness whereof l have hercunto
set my hand and caused the seal Of the
United States to bbe 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
fhe t. S. of America. the one hundred
and fortieth.
by the President: Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State.
"Woodrow Wilson"