The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-11-07
PRESIDENTS THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION

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President Wilson has set
aside Thursday, November r.
as Thanksgiving Day in . pro-
clamation which said the coun'
ty looked forward with conf
dence to the dawn of an era
where the sacrifices :of the ma
tons will find recompense in q
world at peace.
The proclamation follows;
By the President Of the Unit
ted States of America.
"A proclamation.
1.-The season of the year has
again arrived when the people OF
the United States are accustom.
ed to unite in giving thanks te
Almighty God for the blessings
which he has conferred upon
our county during the ID 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~shad
come to the nations which had SO
couragcous1y struggled lin de-
fence Of human liberty and JUS
tice. Now that the stern task
sended and the fruits OF achieve
ment are ours, we look forward
with confidence to the dawn of an
era where the sacrifices Of the ma
tions will find recompense in a
world at peace.
but to attain the consumma-
ton of the great work to which
the American people devoted
their manhood and the vast re-
sources of their country they
should, as they give thanks to
God, reconsecrate themselves to
those principles of right which
triumphed through His merciful
goodness. Our gratitude can
find no more perfect expression
than to bulwark with loyalty and
patriotism the sprinciples for
which the free peoples of the
earth fought and died.
During the past year we had
much to make US grateful. In
spite of the confusion in our eco
nomic life resulting from the war
we have prospered. Our har-
vests have been plentiful and
of our abundance we have been
able to render succor I'd less fav-
ored nations. Our democracy
remains mistaken in a..world
torn with political and social I'M
rest. Our traditional ideals are
still our guides in the path Of
-progress.and civilization.
These great blessings, vouch-
safed to us, for which we de-
voutly give thanks, should arouse
us to fuller sense of our duty
to ourselves and to mankind to
see it that nothing we may do
shall mar the completeness of
the victory which we helped to
win. No selfish purpose Animal
ed US in becoming partieip-
ants in the world war and with
a like spirit of unselfishness we
should strive to aid by our ex-
ample and by our cooperation in
realizing the enduring welfare
of all peoples and in bringing in
to being a world ruled by friend
ship and good will.
II, Woodrow Wilson, Presi-
dent of the United States Of
America, hereby designated
Thursday, the 25th day of Nov
ember next, for observance as
a day of thanksgiving and pray
er by my fellow countrymen, in
viting them to cease on that day
from their ordinary tasks and to
unite in their homes and in their
several places of worship in as
cribing praise and thanksgiving
to God, the Author of all bless
ings and the Master of our des-
TIMES.
I'm witness whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to be
affixed.
Done in the District of COL
umbia this fifth day of November
in the year of our Lord, one thous-
and nine hundred and nineteen,
and of the independence of the
United States the one hundred
and forty-fourth.
(Signed)
WOODROW WILSON. |
By the President:
TSeaD "RORERTLANSING