Williams news., 1919-11-28
A PROCLAMATION ON THANKSGIVING DAY
By the Governor of Arizona. Executive Department, State of
 Arizona

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 Arizona
 While Thanksgiving Day is distinctly American, it's scope has broadened since the No vember day, at Plymouth, when the Pilgrim Fathers with grate- full hearts for their deliverance from the shackles of civil and religious servitude,. rendered tribute to Him who had guided them to distant shores and land destined to become the re- fuge 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 passes all human understanding. From their sturdy stock comes the nu- cleus of the virile American na- tiOn of today and to it we owe those concepts of government and human conduct which have set us aside and marked us as a people peculiar unto ourselves. Since then we have passed through the fiery furnace of war several times, triumphing because our cause was just, and retaining our national spirit in separating the dross from the finer metal. On each occasion we have emerged. not only con- querors in a physical sense,, but 1 imbued with better and high CT ideals of the duty we owe to society and government. Our material progress has kept pace with, in fact, exceeded our spir- itual 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 for ward to our destiny in hope and confidence that the perpetuity of our institutions is assured. If we misuse this God-given pow CT then we have just reason to face the future with apprehen- sion.
 The past year has given HIS manifold reasons to be thank full. From a feeling of insecur- itv brought about bv the close of the Great Conflict, and the necessity of re-adiustment to new conditions. we have final ly found ourselves. and placed our feet on solid ground. sus- tained 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 yielded their treasure and pro- vided employment at good wages for every man who de- sired it; farmers and merchants have prospered and we have been a happy and contented i people; the relations of labor and capital have been amicable betokening approach to bet 1 ter understanding of the rights of each; seditious organizations i 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 ther nefarious work. Many of our soldier boys have returned to us and 1 again taken their places in civil life. Their fidelity to the gov ernment has had a heartening and strengthening effect upon those disposed 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 civiliza- ton. The mothers and fathers of these boys have just cause to rejoce and be glad over the return of their loved ones, but while we join in their peon of thankfulness, we should let memory turn in solemnity to the