The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-27
Thanksgiving Proclamation
State of Maryland.
Executive Department.

! The President of the United States
! by proclamation has set apart Thurs
day, the twenty eighth day of Novem
| ber, 1918, as IL day of national
, thanks giving and pryaer. The war
for the preservation of the rights of
mankind in which our nation has
been engaged and in which our own
gallant Armies have won for us and
for themselves immortal glory, has
ended in complete and glorious tri-
umph more quickly than we dared
hope for, and We hope the whole
world may soon enjoy the blessings OF
just and righteous peace which has
been made possible by our success in
arms.
In all this work Maryland and the
people of Maryland have splendidly
done their part. More than fifty
thousand of the flower of Maryland
manhood are in the armed service of
our country. Some of them have
fallen. Their glory is imperishable,
and we of Maryland should do all in
our power to show we value the sac
rifice which they have made by con-
secralng ourselves anew to better
and nobler service for our State and
Nation and to higher efficiency and
standard in all the demands of our
citizenship. Maryland soldiers and
sailors have magnificently done their
duty and conferred upon their State
fame and honor which viii never
pass away. The women of Maryland
have done wonderful work and have
lived up to the best traditions of the
Maryland home, while participating
more than at any other time in our
history in all the practical activities
that have helped in eleyating the
morale of the people and in contribut
ing in every way and form towards
aiding and supporting all the forces
that won the war and kept our Gov
ernment strong. For all of these
things, for the loyalty and industry
of our workers, for the abundance of
our crops, for the sfaety and pros
perity of our State, and for innumer-
able blessings we should render
thanks, and We should seek Divine
mercy and forgiveness for our errors
and pray for guidance in our daily
lives and in the problems of read
justment and reconstruction result
ing from the great war.
Therefore. l, Emerson c. Harring-
ton, Governor Of Maryland, in con-
formity with the proclamation of the
President. and with a time-honored
custom, do hereby designate Thurs
day, November twenty-eighth, one
thousand nine hundred and eighteen,
THANKSGIVING DAY
and proclaim it a Legal Holiday and
urge its observance as day OF
thanksgiving for the past and of
prayer for the future, and earnestly
entreat all the people of this Com
monWealth to assemble in their homes
or halls for public gatherings, and at
their places of public worship for ap-
propriate religious services, and in
song and prayer, offer unfeigned
thanks and praise to the Giver of
every good and perfect gift, for the
triumph of American arms in the war
for right, for the glorious heroism of
Maryland troops, for the return of
seed-tine harvest and for the other
blessings of His merciful providence
bestowed upon this State and Nation,
beseaching Him to continue His lov-
ing kindness to us in the days that
are yet to come in solving the great
questions that must now arise for
proper solution and readjustment.
In testimony whereof, l have here
unto set my hand and caused to be
affixed the Great Seal of the State of
Maryland, at the Capitol, in the city
of Annapolis, on the 25th day of
November, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand niue hundred and eigh-
teen.
EMERSON c. HARRINGTON.
lThe Great Seal
of Maryland.)
By the Governor:
Thomas W. Simmons,
Secretary of State