Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-11-22
A Proclamation of Thanksgiving By
 the Governor of Arizona

While Thanksgiving day is distinc- lively American, its scope has broad ened since that November day at Ply mouth, when the Pilgrim Fathers with grateful hearts for their deliverance from the shackles of civil and religious servitude, rendered tribute to Him who had guided them to distant shores and a 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 understanding. From this sturdy stock comes the nucleus of the virile American nation of today and to it we owe those con cepts of government and human con duct which have set us aside and marked us as people peculiar unto ourselves. Since then we have passed through the fiery furnace of war sev- eral times, triumphing because our cause was just, and refining our na- tional spirit in separating the dross from the finer metal. On each occa- sion we have emerged, not only con querers in a physical sense, but inn bued with better and higher ideals of the duty we owe to society and gov ernment. Our material progress has kept pace with, in fact, exceeded 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 instrumentalities in the proper way, we may go forward to our destiny in hope and confidence that the perpetuity of our institutions is assured If we misuse this God-given power, then we have just reason to face the future with apprehension.
 The past year has given us manifold reasons to be thankful. From feel ing of security brought about by the close of the great conflict and the nec- essity of readjustment to new condi- tions, 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 har- vests have been our portion; our min es have yielded their treasures and provided employment at good wages for every man who desired it; farmers and merchants have prospered and we have been a happy and contented peo- pie; the relations of labor and capital have been amicable, betokening the approach of better understanding of the rights of each; seditious organi- zations have only openly sowed the seeds of discord, and those who op- pose the government have found this is not the fertile field it once was for their nefarious work. Many of our soldier boys have returned to us and again taken their places in civil life. Their fidelity to the government has had heartening and strengthening effect upon those disposed to lean to- ward the crop of isms which seemed with startling suddenness to find root in the soil which we believed to be in digenous only to the growth of sane civilization. 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 peaan of thankfulness, we should let memory turn in solemnity to the poppy covered fields of France where sleep our honored dead, thanking God