Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1919-11-15
THE DAY FOR THANKS
President Wilson Designates Thursday,
November 9th as a Day for Ma
tional Thanksgiving.

President Wilson has set aside Thurs.
day, November 27th, as Thanksgiving
Day III proclamation which said the
country looked forward "with conf
dence to the dawn of an era where the
sacrifices Of the nations will find recon-
pense in world at peace" The procla.
nation follows:
The season of the year has again ar
rived when the people Of the United
States are accustomed to unite in giving
thanks TO Almighty God for the bless
ings which be has conferred upon our
country during the twelve months that
have passed. A year ago our people
poured out their hearts in praise and
thanksgiving that through divine aid
the right was victorious and peace had
come TO- the nations which had 50 cour-
ageousy struggled in defense of human
liberty and justice. Now that The stern
task is ended and The fruits of achieve.
ment are ours, we look forward with
confidence to the dawn of an era where
the sacrifice of the nations will find
recompense in a world of peace.
But TO attain the COnsummation of the
great work to which the American peo-
pie devoted their manhood and vast re-
sources Of their country, they should,
as they give thanks to God, reconsecrate
themselves to these principles of right
which triumphed through His merciful
goodness. Our gratitude can find no
more perfect expression than to bul-
wark with loyalty and patriotism those
principles for which the free peoples of
the earth fought and died.
During the past year We have had
much to make US grateful. In spite OF
the confusion in our economic life, re-
sqlting from the war, We have prosper
ed. Our harvests have been plentiful
and Of our abundance we have been
able to render succor to less favored
nations. Our democracy remains un-
shaken in world torn with political
and social unrest. Oar traditional ideals
are still our guides in the path of pro.
gress and civilization.
These great blessings yousafed to us,
for which We deYoutly give thanks,
should arouse US TO fuller sense of our
duty to ourselves and To mankind to see
TO it that nothing we may do shall mar
the completeness of the victory which
We helped to win. No selfish purpose
animated Us in becoming participants in
the world war, and with like spirit of
unseifshness, We should strive to and
by our example and by our cooperation
in realizing the enduring welfare of all
peoples and in bringing into being a
world ruled by friendship and good will.
Therefore, !, Woodrow Wilson, presi-
dent of the United States of America,
hereby designate Thursday, the 9th
day Of November, next, for observance
as day of thanksgiving and prayer by
my fellow countrymen inviting them TO |
cease on that day from their ordinary
tasks, and to unite in their homes aud |
In their several places of worship, in |
ascribing praise aud thanksgiving to |
God, the author of all blessings and the |
master of our destinies.
In witness whereof | have hereunto |
set my hand and caused the seal of the |
United States TO be affixed.
Done in the District of Columbia, this |
9th day of November, in the year Of
Our Lord, One thousand nine hundred |
aud nineteen, and of the Independence
of the United States the one hundred |
and forty-fourth.
WOODROW WILSON.
BY the President.