Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-08
Thanksgiving
 Proclamation
ISSUED BY PRESIDENT WILSON
 OF MORE THAN USUAL INTEREST
BECAUSE OF THE WAR
Calls for Especial Thanks Because, With Reasonable Economy, We Have ply the Needs of Those Nations As sociated With Us in War.

Washington, Nov. 7.-President Will son issued tonight his 1917 Thanks. giving proclamation, calling upon the nation, even in the midst of the sor- row and great peril of a world shaken by war, to thank God for blessings that are better than mere peace of mind and prosperity of enterprise.
 The proclamation fixing Thursday. November 29, as Thanksgiving Day, follows:
 Thanksgiving, 1917. By the President of the United States of America
 A PROCLAMATION.
 'It has long been the honored cus- 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 now even in the midst of the tragedy of a world shaken by war and i'm measurable disaster, in the midst of sorrow and great peril, because even amidst the darkness that has gath cred about us we can see the great blessings God has bestowed upon us, blessings that are better than mere peace of mind and prosperity of en- terprise.
 Opportunity to Serve Mankind.
 we have been given the opportu- nifty to serve mankind as we once served ourselves in the great day of
  taking up arms against a tyranny that threatens 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 our own rights as a nation, but to defend also world, there has been vouchsafed us in full and inspiring measure the res- olution and spirit of united action. 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 a reasonable and practicable economy, abundance with which to supply the needs of those associated with us as well as our own. A new light shines about us The great duties of new day awaken a new and greater na- .ional spirit in us. We shall never again be divided or wonder what stuff we are made of.
 Pray for Guidance.
 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 guild ance; that we may be kept constant Tn the SplflI ana purpose or SerVlce, 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 comrade- snip of a common justice may be vouchsafed all the nations of the earth.
 Wherefore. I. 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 throughout the land to cease upon that day from their ordinary occupa- tions and in their several homes and places of worship to render thanks to God, the Greater Ruler of Nations.
 'In witness whereof, I have hereun- to set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
 Done in the District of Columbia this 7th day Of November in the year of our Lord. one thousand nine hum dred and seventeen and of the inde- pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty second.
 WOODROW WILSON. By the President,
 Robert Lansing,
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