The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-11-12
PRESIDENT WILSON ISSUES
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
Chief Executive Calls Upon People to
Give Thanks to God for Blessings
Conferred Upon Our Country.

| Washington, Nov. 5.--Presidcnt vii
son today set aside Thursday, Novem-
Der 27, as Thanksgiving Day, in a
proclamation which the country look
ed forward with confidence to the
dawn fan era where the sacrifices of
the nations will find recompcnse in
world at peace"
The p reclamation follows:
"By the President Of the United
States of America.
"a proclamation.
The season fthey ear has again
arrived when the people of the United
States are accustomed to unite in Civ
ing thanks to Almighty God for the
blessings which he has conferred upon
our country during the twelve months
that have passed. A year ago our peo
pie 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 so
courageously struggled in defense of
human liberty and justice Now that
the stern task is ended and the fruits
OF achievements are ours, we look for
| ward with confidence to the dawn of
an era where the sacrifices of the ma
tlons will find recompense in a world
| at peace.
but to attain the consummation Of
the grea work to which the American
| people devoted their manhood and the
vast resources Of their country they
should as they give thanks to God,
reconsecrate themselves to those prin
ciples of right which trIumphed throu
His merciful goodness. Our gratitude
can find no more perfect expression
than to bulwark with loyalty and pa
triotism 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-
sulting from the war we have pros
pered. Our harvests have been plenti-
tul, and of our abundance we have
been able to render succor to less ia
Vored nations. Our democracy remains
unshaken in world torn with politi-
cal and social unrest. Our traditional
ideals are still our guides ir the path
OF progress and civilization.
"These great blessings, vouchsafcd
to US, for which we devoutly give
thanks, should arouse to us q fulle,
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 be-
coming participants in the world war
and with like spirit of unsclfishness
we should strive to aid by our exam
pie and by our cooperation in realia
ing the enduring welfare of all peo-.
pies and in bringing into being a
world ruled by friendship and good
will.
Wherefore, |, Woodrow Wilson
President of the United States of Am
erica, hereby designate Thursday, the
twenty-sevcnth day of November next
Tor observance as day of thanksgiv-
ing and prayer by my fellow country
men, inviting them to cease on that.
day from their ordinary tasks and TO
unite in their homes and in their sev
eral places of worship in ascribing
praise and thanksgiving to God, the
Author Of all blessings and the Mas
ter of our icstinics.
I'm witness whereof nave hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal Of
the United States to be affixed.
Done in the District of Columbia
this fifth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nlnc
hundred and nin"'"'n. and Of the IN
dependncce Of The ''nited States .hc
one hundred and y-fourth.
(Signed) "Woodrow Wilson"