French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-11-15
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
ISSUED BY PRESIDENT WILSON

Washington. Nov. president Will
son issued tonight his 1917 Thanksgiv-
ing proclamation calling upon the ma
ton. even in the midst of the sorrow
and great peril of a world shaken by
war, to thank God for blessings that
are better than mere peace mind anG
prosperity of enterprise.
Tne proclamation fixing Thursday,
November 20, as Thanksgiving Day,
follows:
thanksgiving
"By the President of the United States
of America
"A Proclamation
ct 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 blessings and mercies to us as a
nation. That custom We can follow
even now in the midst of the tragedy
of a-Morld- shaken by war and M
measurable disaster, in the midst of
sorrow and great peril. because even
amidst the darkness that has gather
ed about us we can see the great
blessings God has bestowed upon us,
blessing that are better than mere
peace of mind and prosperity Of en-
terprise.
eve have been given the opportun-
itv to serve mankind as we once serv-
ed ourselves in the great day of our
Declaration of Independence, by TAX
ing up arms against a tyranny that
threatened to master and debase men
everywhere and joining with other
free peoples in demanding for all the
nations of the world what we then
demanded and obtained for ourselves.
In this day of the revelation of our
duty not only to defend u oWn
rights as a nation but to defend also
the rights of free men throughout the
world, there has been v~Ouchsafed us
in full apd inspiring measure b res
olution and spirit of united action.
We have been brought to n mind
and PURPOSE. A new vigor of COM
mon counsel and common action has
boon revealed in us. We should es-
pecially thank God that in such cir
cumstances. in the midst of the great
est enterprise the spirit of men have
entered upon, We have, if We bat OBJ
snrva a reasonable and practicable
economy. abundance with which to
supply the needs of those associated
ur'fh us as well rs our own. A new
light shiccs about us. The great
duties of a new day awaken a new and
greater national sDirit in us. We
shall never again be divided or won
do what stuff we are made of.
"knd while we render thanks for
those things let us pray Almighty
that in all humbleness of spirit
we NAV look always to Him for guild
ance; that we may be kept constant in
the spirit and purpose of service; that
by His grace or minds may be direct
ed and our hands strengthened, and
that in His good time liberty and Sc
curity and peace and the comradeship
of a common justice may be voch1
safed all the nations of the earth .
Wherefore, 1 Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States of
America do hereby designate Thurs
the twenty--ninth day of Novem-
Der, next. as a day of thanksgiving
and prayer and invite the people
throughout the LAND to cease upon
that day from their ordinary Noccupa-
and in their several homes and
res of worship to render thanks to
Cod the great ruler of nations
In tunes WHEREOF, nave ueFeuu-
set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Ozone in the District Of Columbia
this 7th day of November, in the year
Of our Lord, one thousand nine hun
bred and seventeen, and of the indie
pendence Of the United States of
America the one hundred and forty
second.
srWOODROW WILSON.
'Bv the President:
Robert Lansing. J