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NOVEMBER 24TH PROCLAIMED
THANKSGIVING day BY HARDING
CHIEF EXECUTIVE CALLS NATION TO DAY OF THANKS
GIVING FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY
NATION NOW AT PEACE WITH THE WORLD
Thanksgiving Day Many Changes Have Been Wrought
In Our Land and the Country Is Gradually Working Back
to a Normal Condition, No Calamite Visited Upon Us.

Washington, Oct. 31.-President
Harding issued a proclamation Mon
day night designating, November "a,
as day Of thanksgiving, devotion
and prayer and urging the people to
give thanks "for al that has been
rendered unto them" and to pray
"for a continuance Of the divine fort
une which has been showered so gem
erously upon this nation" The proc
lamatiou follows;
a Proclamation.
THAT season has come when, alike
in pursuance Of a devout peoples
time-honorcd custom and in Fratful
recognition Of favoring national fort
uncs. il is proper that the president
should summon the nation to a day
Of devotion, Of thanksgiving for the
blessings bestowed and Of prayer for
guidance in modes Of life that may
deserve continuance Of divine favor.
Foremost among our blessings is
the return Of peace, and the approach
to normal ways again. The year has
brought US again into relations OF
amity with all nations after a long
period Of struggle and turbulence. In
thankfulness, therefore, we may well
unite in the hope that Providence will
vouchsafe approval to the things we
have done, the aims which have
guided us, the aspirations which have
/ inspired US.
eve shall be prospered as we shall
deserve prosperity, seeking not alone
for the material things but for those
Of the spirit as we'll; earnestly trying
TO help others, asking, before all else,
/ the privilege Of service. As we ten
der thanks anew for the exaltation
which came to US, we may fittingly
petition that moderation and wisdom
shall be granted 10 rest upon all who
are in authority in the tasks they
must discharge Their hands will be
steadied, their purposes strengthened,
/ in answer 10 our prayers.
"Ours has been a favored nation
in the bounty which God has be-
/ slowed upon it. The great trial Of
/ humanity, though indeed we bore our
Dart as well as we we're able, left
us comparatively little Scared II
+ is for us 20 recognize that we have
been thus favored and when we gath
er az our altars 10 offer uD thanks
! we win do well to pledge, in human
ity and all sincerity our purpose to
/ prove deserving. We have been
raised up ard preserved in national
/ power and consequence as part Of a
( rlun whose wisdom we cannot ques-
lion. Thus believing. we can do no
less than hold our nation the willing
. instrument 81 the Providence which
has 50 wonderfully favored us. OPP
por,unity for very great service
awaits us If we shall prove equal to
it. Let our prayers be raised for di-
rection in the right paths. Under
God, our responsibility is great; TO
our own first, 10 an men afterward,
10 all mankind in Gods own justice.
Now, therefore, |, Warren G..
Harding. president Of the United
States. hereby designate Thursday,
the twentv-fourth dav Of November,
to be observed by the people as
day Of thanksgiving. devotion, and
prayer; urging that az their heart
sides and their affairs, they will give
thanks for all that has been rem
dered unto them, and viii pray for
continuance Of the divine fortune
which has been showered SO gener-
ouslv upon this nation
I'm witness whereof. I have here
unto set my hand and caused 70 be
affixed the seal Of the United States
Of America
Ozone at the canitol Of the United
States this thirty-firsc day Of Octo-
ber. IN the year or Our Lord. nine
teen hundred and twenty-one. and Of
the Independence ~ the United
States. the one hundrcdth and forty
sixth.
WARREN G. HARDING.
by the president
Charles +. Hughes. Secretary OF
State"