The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-10-28
NATION At PEACE
AMID WORLD WAR
PRESIDENT WILSON is GRATEFUL
FOR AMERICAS MANY
BLESSINGS.
NAMES DAY TO GIVE THANKS
Presisicnt Calls on America to Express
Appreciation of Its Maniforld
Blessings During Year.

Washington. President Wilson, in
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.
1--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 dead," 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 mercics to us as
a nation. The year that is now draw
Ing ITO close since we last observed
our day Of national thanksgiving has
been, while a year Of discipline be-
cause of the mighty forces Of war and
of changes which have disturbed the
world, also q year Of special blessing
Tor 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-
sponstbilities thrust upon us by o 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 e
OUT desire to make the offices of
friendship the means of truly disin-
terested and unselhsh 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 bhe markets Of the world and
facilitate necessary movements OF
commerce which the war might other
wise have rendered impossible; and
{
to sober realization Of the part they
haye been called upon to play in &
time when all the world is shaken by
unparalleled distress 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 principle of peace and freedom by
which we have always sought to be
guided. Out of darkness and perplex.
dties have come frmer counsels 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 1t i'm.
possible for them to perform.
"Now, therefore, l. Woodrow Wilson,
president of the United States OF
America, do hereby designate Thurs.
day, the twenty-ifth 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 I have here.
unto 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 inde
pendence OF the United STAKES of
America the one hundred and fortie th
"By the President: Robert Lensing
Secretary Of State
"WOODROW WILSON,"