Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-25
A PROCLAMATION Of Thanksgiving Day By the Governor of
 Arizona.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT STATE OF ARIZONA

While THANKSGIVING DAY is distinctively American, it's scope has broadened since that November day, at Plymouth. when the Pilgrim Fath- CTS with grateful hearts for their deliverance from the shackleS of civil and religious servitude, render ed tribute to Him who had guided them to distant shores and 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 acknowl- edged their dependence upon that power, the wisdom of which passeth all human understanding. From their sturdy stock comes the nucleus of the virile American nation of to- | day and to it we owe those con cepts of government and human con- duct which have set us aside and marked us as d people peculiar unto ourselves. Since then we have passed through the fiery furnace Of i war several times, triumpning be- cause our cause was just, and e fining our national spirit in separ- ating the dross from the finer metal. On each occasion we have emerged, not only conQueTors in q physical sense, but iInbued with better and higher ideals of the duty we owe to society and government. Our ma terial progress has kept pace with in fact. exceeded our spiritual ad- vancement until today it is our proud and indisputable boast that we are the richest and most powerful na- tion in the world. If we use, as in the past, these instrumentalities in the proper way, we may go forward to our destiny in hope and confi- dence that the perpetuity of our in- stitutions is assured. If we misuse this God-given power. then we have just reason to face the future of ap- prehension
 The past year has given us mani fold reasons to be thankful. From feeling of insecurity brought about by 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 solid 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 portion; our mines have yield ed their treasure. and provided em- ployment at good wages for every man who desired it; farmers and merchants have prospered and we have been happy and contented people; the relations of labor and capital have been amicable betoken- ing approach of better understand ing of the rights of each; seditious organizations have not openly sowed the seeds of discord, and those who oppose the government have found this is not the fertile field it once was for their nefarious work. Many of our slider boys have returned to us and again taken their places in civil life. Their fidelity to the gov ernment has had a heartening 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 indi genous only to the growth of sane Civiliza- tion. The mothers and fathers of these boys have just cause to re- joice 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 sol emnity to the poppy-covered fields of France where sleep our honored dead thanking. God that 1t was through their great sacrifice we are permitted to observe this tinle-hon- ored occasion
 WHEREFOR, I, THOMAS F. CAMPBELL, Governor of the State of Arizona by virtue of the authority in me vested by law, do set aside Thursday, November 27, 1919. as
 THANKSGIVING DAY
 and proclaim the same a public holi- day, recommending that all of our people refrain from unnecessary labor and in the 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 mer- cies; and while at the table of plen- ty and in the midst of abundance. 1 forget not those less fortunately situated.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed.
 Done at Phoenix, the Capital, this goth day of November in the year of our Lord, 1919.
 THOMAS E. CAMPBELL, (SEAL) Governor of Arizona. Attest:
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