The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-15
RESIDENT PRO-
CLAIMS NOVEMBER
|27, THANKSGIVING.
SAYS COUNTRY FACES new
ERA WITH CONFIDENCE AND
OPTIMISM.

Washington, Nov. 49,. President
Wilson today set aside Thursday,
Nov. 27, as Thanksgiving Day in
proclamation which said the coun-
try looked forward with confidence
to the dawn Of an era where the
sacrifices Of the nations will find
recompense in world at peace"
The text Of the annual Thanks
giving proclamation, issued today by
President Wilson follows:
by the President Of the United
States OF America-A proclamation:
The season OF the year has again
arrived when the people OF the United
States are accustomed to unite in
giving thanks to Almighty God for
the blessings which he has conferr-
ed upon our country during the IL
months that has 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 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 sacrifice of the
Nation win find recomDense in a
world at peace.
''But to attain the contamination
OF the great work to which the
American people devoted their man
hood and the vast resources OF their
country, they should. as they give
thanks to God, reconsecrate them
selves to these principles OF right
which triumphed through his merci-
full goodness. Our gratitude can find
no more perfect expression than to
bulwark with loyalty and patriotism
those principles for which the free
peoples of tthe earth fought and died.
During the past year we have
spite of the confusion In our eco
had much to make us grateful, in
nomic life, resulting from the war,
we have prospered. Our harvests
have been plentiful and of our abun-
dance we have been able to render
succor to less favored nations. Our
democracy remains unshaken in a.
world torn with political and social
unrest. Our traditional ideals are
still our guides in the path of pro-
gress 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 complete
ness of the victory which we helped
to win. No selfish purpose animated
us in becoming a participant in the
world war, and with a like spirit of
unselfishness we should strive to aid
by our example and by our co-opera-
ton in releasing the enduring well
fare of all peoples and in bringing in
and good will.
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-countrymen
inviting 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 blessing and
the master Of our destinies.
I'm witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be affix-
ed.
Done in the District OF Columbia.
this 5th day of November. in the
year of Our Lord, one thousand,
nine hundred and nineteen, and Of
the independence OF the United States
the one hundred and forty-forth.
WOODROW WILSON,
by the President:
Robert Lansing. Secretary Of