The record. (Greenville, Ky.) 1899-1???, 1917-11-15
President Names November 70 Day
OF Thanksgiving ard Prayer

thank God for blessings that are
better than mere peace of mind and
and prosperity of enterprise.
The proclamation, fixing Thursday
November 20, as Thanksgiving Day,
follows:
"By the President of the United
States of America.
IA proclamation:
"It has long been the honored
custom of our people to turn in the
fruitful autumn of the year in praise
and thanksgiving to Almighty God
for His many blessings and mercies
to us as a nation. That custom we
can follow now even in the midst of
the tragedy of a world shaken by
war and immeasurable disaster, in
the midst of sorrow and greet peril,
because even amidst the darkness
that has gathered about US, we can
see the great blessings God has be-
slowed upon US; blessings that are
better than mere peace of mind and
prosperity of enterprise.
1--WE have been given the oppor-
tunlty to serve mankind as we once
served ourselves in the great day OF
our declaration of independence, by
taking up arms against a tyranny
that threatened to master and debase
men everywhere and joining with
Their free peoples in demanding for
all the nations of the world what we
then demanded and obtained for
ourselves. In this day of the reve-
lation Of our duty not only to de-
fend our own rights as a nation but
to defend also the rights of free men
thruout the world, there has been
vouchsafed US in full and inspiring
measure the resolution and spirit of
unltedac,ion. We have been brought
to one mind and purpose. A new
vigOr of common counsel and COM
mon action has been revealed in US.
We should especially thank God that
in such circumstances, IN the midst
of the greatest enterprise the spirits
of men have ever entered upon, we
have, if we but observe a reasonable
and practical economy, abundance
with which to supply the needs as
sociated with US as well as our own.
! GUT shincs a5ode
great duties of a new day awaken
new and greater national spirit in
US. We shall never again be divl-
ded or wonder what stuff we are
made of.
vAnd while we render thanks for
these things let US pray Almighty
God that IN all humbleness of spirit
we may look always to him for guild
ance; that we may be kept constant
in the spirit and purpose of service;
that by His grace our minds may be
directed and our hands strengthened
and that in His good time liberty
and security and peace and the COM
radeship Of a common justice may
be vouchsafed all the ma tons of the
earth.
uWherefore, |, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thurs,
day, the twenty ninth day OF No
vember, next, as day of thanks
giving and prayer, and invite the
people turnout the land to cease
upon that day from their ordinary
occupations and in their several
homes and places OF worship to rem
der thanks to God, the Great Ruler
of Nations.
ain witness whereof | have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be afiy-
ed.
NDone IN the District Of Columbia
this seventh day of November, in
the year of our Lord, one thousand
nine hundred and seventeen, and OF
the independence of the United
States of America the one hundred
and forty-second.
WOODROW WILSON,
"By the President.
"ROBERT LANSING,
"Secretary of State"