Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-10-28
ISSUES PROCLAMATION FOR
ANNUAL THANKSGIVING DAY

Washington Oct. 21-President vii
son today in a proclamation designat-
ing Thursday November %. as Thanks
giving Day( called attention to the
fact that the United States has been at
peace while most of Europe has been
lat war.
I'VE 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" said the President.
The text follows:
ct has long been the honored Gus
ktom of our people to turn in the fruit
tful Autumn of the year in praise and
Thanksgiving to Almighty God for His
many blessings and mercieS to- us as
a Nation. The yea that is now. draw
ing to a 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 a year of special blessing
for us.
Another year of peace has beer
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 respon-
sibilities thrust upon us by a 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
asserted these rights we have been
able also to perform duties and exeF-
else privileges Of suecor and helpful
ness which should serve to demon
strate, our desire to make the Offices
OF friendship the means of truly disin-
terested and unBel1sh service.
'Our 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 and more abundant crops; our
ample financial resources have enabled
US to steady the markets Of the world
and facilitate necessary movements OF
commerce which the war might other
wise have rendered impossible: and
our people have come more and more
to a sober realization of the part they
l OSOA VI dPOh " PIoy III q IIAIAN
when all the world is shaken by unpar-
alleled d~istresses and disasters.
1.-The extraordinary circumstances
of such. a time have done much to
quicken our National consciousness,
and deepen and confirm our confidence
in the principles of peace and freedom
bv which we have always sought tc
be guided. Out of darkness and per-
plexities have come firmer counsels OF
policy and clearer perceptions of the
1 essential welfare of the Nation. We
have prospered while other peoples
were at war, but orr prosperity has
been vouchsafed u.s. I'VE believe. only
that we might the better perform the
functions which wa rendered it i'm
possible for them to perform. !
"Now, therefore. /, Woodrow Wilson,
President Of the United States OF
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day the tw~enty-ifth of November next,
as a day of Thanksgiving and nraver
and invite the people throughout the
land to cease from their wonted occu-
pations and in their several homes
and places of worship render thanks
to A1migAtycGod.
I'm witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
OF the United States to be affixed
Done al the City of Washington,
this twentieth day of October IN the
year of Our Lord one thousand nine
kindred and fifteen and of the indie
,peadence Of the United States Of Amer
ica the one hundred and fortieth.
WOODROW WILSON.
teBY the President:
ROBERT LANSING.
tSecretarv Of State"