The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-01
THANKSGIVING DAY. IS PROCLAIMED BY.
 PRESIDENT HARDING.
Urges People to Give Thanks for All That Has Been Rendered Unto
 Them
By Associated rress

Washington. October 31.-President Harding Issued a proclamation to- night designating Thursday. Novem- ber 24, as a day of thanksgiving, de- votion and prayer, and urging the people to give thanks for all that has been rendered unto them," and to pray for a continuance of the Divine fortune which has been show cred so generously upon this na- ton" The proclamation follows:
 That season has come, when alike in pursuance of a devout peoples time-honored custom, in grateful rec ognition of favoring national ror- tunes, it Is proper that the President should summon the nation to a day of thanksgiving for blessings be- slowed and prayer for guidance In modes of life that may deserve con tinuance 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 long period of, struggle and turbulence. In thankfulness therefor 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. We shall be pros pered as we shall deserve prosperity, seeking not alone for the material things but for those of the spirit as well earnestly trying to help others asking, before all else, the privilege of service. As we render thanks anew for the exaltation which came to us, we may fittingly petition that moderation and wisdom shall be granted to rest upon all who are in authority in the tasks they must dis charge Their hands will be steadied, their purposes strengthened, in am swer to our prayers.
 ours has been favored nation in the bounty which God has be- slowed upon it. The great trial Of humanity, though indeed we bore our part as well as we were able. left us comparatively little scared. II is for us to recognize that we have been thus favored, and when we gather at our altars to offer up thanks. we will do we'll to pledge, in humility and all sincerity, our purpose to prove deserving. We have been raised upon and preserved in na- tional power and consequence, as part of a plan whose wisdom we cannot question. Thus beliving, we can do no less than hold our nation the will ing instrument of the Providence which has so wonderfully favored us. Opportunity for very great service awaits us if we shall prove equal to It. Let our prayers be raised for direction in the right path. Under God, our responsibility is great; to our own first, to all men afterward; to all mankind in Gods own justice.
 Now, therefore, l, Warren G. Hard- ing, President of the United States hereby designate Thursday, the 24th day of November, to be day oi thanksgfving, devotion and prayer; urging that at their hearthsides and their altars the people will give thanks for all that has been rendered upon them. and will pray for a con- tinuance of the divine fortune which has been showered so generously upon this nation.
 In witness whereof. I have here unto set my hand and caused to be affixed the seal of the United States of America.
 Done at the capital of the United States, this 31st day of October, in the year of our Lord. 1921, and of the independence of the United States 146. WARREN G. HARDING. ''By the President:
 "CHARLES E. HUGHES.
 Secretary of State"