The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-11-13
THURSDAY, NOV. 20, is
THANKSGIVING DAY

WASHINGTON, D. C.-President
Wilson has issued his 1917 Thanks
giving proclamation, calling upon
the nation, even in the midst of the
sorrow and great peril of world
shaken by war, to thank God for
blessings that are better than mere
peace of mind and prosperity of en-
terprise.
The proclamation fixing Thursday,
November 30, as Thanksgiving day,
follows:
THANKSGIVING-1917
By the president of the United
States of America, proclamation:
1t has long been the honored GUS
tom 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 Unreasonable disaster, in
the midst of sorrow and great peril,
because even amidst the darkness
that has gather about us we can
see the great blessings God has be-
slowed upon, blessings that are bet
ter than mere peace of mind and
prosperity of enterprise.
We have been given the opportun-
ity to serve mankind, as we once
served ourselves in the great day
of our Declaration of Independence,
by taking up arms against tyranny
that threatened to master and debase
men everywhere and joining with
other free pOples in demanding for
all the nations of the world what
we then demanded and obtained for
ourselves In this day of the revela-
ton of our duty not only to defend
our own rights, but to defend also
the rights of free men turnout the
world, there has been vouchsafed us
in full and inspiring measure the
resolution and spirit of united &C
ton. We have been brought to one
mind and purpose. A new vigor Of
common counsel and common 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 reasonable and
practicable economy, abundance with
which to supply the needs of those
associated with us as we'll as our
own. A new light shines about us.
The great duties of day awaken
a new and greater national spirit in
us. We shall never again be divided
or wonder what stuff we are made
of.
And 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
guidance; that we may be kept con-
slant 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 comradeship of a common
Justice may be vouchsafed all the ma
lions of the earth.
Wherefore, l, Woodrow Wilson,
president of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the twenty-ninth day of Novem-
Der next, as a day of Thanksgiving
and prayer, and invite the people
thruout the land to cease upon that
day from their ordinary occupations
and in their several homes and
places of worship to render thanks
to God, the great ruler of nations.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto. set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be af-
fixed
Done 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
the one hundred and forty-second.
WOODROW WILSON.
BY the president:
Robert Lansing, Secretary Of
State.