The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-11-11
PRESIDENT WILSON ISSUES
THANKSGIVING PROCLA-
NATION.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 10.-Pres-
dent Wilson set aside Thursday,
November ~ as Thanksgiving Day
| in a proclamation which said the
country looked forward with conf
dence to the dawn of an era where
the sacrifices of the nations will
find recompense in world at peace.
The proclamation follows:
A Proclamation.
"By the President of the United
States of America:
"The season of the year has again
arrived from which the people of the
United States are accustomed to
unite in giving 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 people poured out
their hearts in praise and thanksgiv-
ing that through divine aid the fight
was victorious and peace had come
to the nations which had so courage
ously struggled in defense of human
liberty and justice. Now that the
stern task is ended and the fruits of
achievement are ours we look for
ward with confidence to the dawn of
an era where the sacrifices of the
nations will find recompense in
world at peace.
"But to attain the contamination
of the great work to which the Amer
lean people devoted their manhood
and the vast resources of their coun-
try they should, as they give thanks
to God, reconsecrate themselves to
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triumphed through his merciful good
ness. Our gratitude can find no
more perfect expression than to bull
wark with loyalty and patriotism
those principles for which the free
peoples of the earth fought and died.
During the past year we have
much to make us grateful in spite of
the confusion in our economic life
resulting from the war we have pros
pered. Our harvests have been plen-
tiful and of our abundance we have
been able to render succor to less
favored nations. Our democracy re-
mains mistaken in a world torn with
political and social unrest. Our ira
ditional ideals are still our guides in
the path of progress and civilization.
"These great blessings vouchsafed
to US. for which we devoutly give
! thanks, should arouse us to a 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
unselfishness we should strive to aid
by our example and by our co-opera-
ton in realizing the enduring well
fare of all peoples and in bringing
into being a world ruled by friend
ship and good will.
Therefore, l, Woodrow Wilson,
President 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 country
men, inviting them to cease on that
day their ordinary tasks and to unite
in their homes and in their several
places of worship and ascribing praise
and thanksgiving to God, the author
of all blessings and the master of our
destinies.
"In witness whereof, / have here
unto 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 nine
hundred and nineteen, and of the in
dependence of the United States the
one hundred and forty-fourth.
"(Signed.)
WOODROW WILSON.
l"lSeaL) BY the President,
ROBERT LANSING, Sec. of State