The St. Johns herald., 1919-11-27
A PROCLAMATION OF THANKSGIVING DAY BY The Governor of Arizona,
Executive Department, State of Arizona.

While THANKSGIVING DAY Is dis
 tinctively American; it's scope has broad
 ened since that November day, at Ply
 mouth, when the Pilgrim Fathers with
 grateful haarts for their deliverance
 from the shakes of civil and religious
 servitude, rendered tribute to Him who
 had guided them to distant shores and 8
 land destined to become the refuge of
 the oppressed of all the world. Truly
 they had much to be thankful for, and
 in reverent spirit they acknowledged
 their dependence upon that power, the
 wisdom of which passeth all human un-
 derstanding. From their sturdy stock comes the nucleus of the virile Ameri-
 can nation of today and to it we owe
 those concepts of government and hu-
 man conduct which have set us aside
 and marked US as a people peculiar unto
 ourselves. Since then we have passed
 through the frey furnace of war sever
 al times, triumphing because our cause
 was just, and refining our national spir-
 it in separating the dross from the finer
 metal On each occasion we have
 emerged, not onIy conquerors in phy-
 sicaI sense, but imbued with better and
 higher ideals of the duty we owe to
 society and government. Our material progress has kept pace with, in fact, ex- ceeded our spiritual advancement until today it is our proud and indisputable boast that we are the richest and most powerful nation in the world. If we use, as in the past, these instrumental ities in the proper way, we may go for ward to our destiny in hope and copfid- ence that the perpetuity of our insti- tutions is assured. If we misuse this God-given power, then we have just reason to face the future with appre- hension.
 The past year has given us manifold to be thankful From feeling of insecurity brought aboutby the close of the Great Conflict and the necessity of re-adjustment to new conditions, we have finally found ourselves, and placed our feet on soldid ground, sustained by the thought that the Puritan spirit still animates our body polite and makes for that which is good and worth while. Bountiful harvests have been our DOT ton; our mines have yielded their treas ure and provided employment at good wages for every man who desired it; farmers and merchants have prOspered and we have been happy and content ed people; the relations of labor and capital have been amicable betokenirg approach of better understanding of the rights of each; seditious organiza- tions have not openly sowed the seeds of discord, and those who oppose the have foundithis IS not the fertile field it once was for their nefari- ous work. Many of our soldier boys have returned to US and again taken places in civil life. Their fidelity to the government has had aheartening and strengthening effect upon those dis posed to lean toward the crop of isms which seemed with startling suddenness to find root in the soil which we believed to be indigenous only to the growths of sane civilization. The mothers and fathers of these boys have just cause to rejoice and be glad over the return of their loved ones, but while we join in their paean of thankfulness, we should let memory turn in sOlemnlty to the poppy-covered fields of France where sleep our honOred dead, thanking God that it was through their great sac7 rifice we are permitted to observe thls ime-honored occasion.
 WHEREFORE, I, THOMAS E. Governor of the State of Arizona, by Virtue of the authoTity in me- vested by law, do set aside Thurs iay, November i27, 1919,f as o1- ilti" 1ifiTHA NKS CIV ING D AY D and proclaim the same a public holiday, that all our people re- frain from unnecessary labor and m mystic circle of the home and places set apart for public worship meet and give thanks unto Him who has crowned us with His loving kindness and tender nercies; and while at the table of plen- -y and in the midst of abundance, forget 1ot those less fortunately situate6 ~. IN. WITNESS WHEREOF, l have iereunto set my hand and caused the Great SeaIof the State to be affixed.
 Done at Phoenix, the Capi- SEAL ltal, this 2Oth day of Novem- --Zber in the yearfOf our Lord, -'-', THOMAS E. CAMPBELL, dreA vanao 4 Governor of, Arizona. A+f9Se+. MT STMMSJ< <A tftlita5-A