The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-11-04
NATION CALLED
TO GIVE THANKS
ANNUAL PROCLAMATION ISSUED
FROM WHITE HOUSE.
Approach to Normal Ways Again
Foremost Among Blessings
for United States

Washington, Oct. 31.-president
Harding issued proclamation desig-
mating Thursday, November "a, as a
day of thanksgiving, devotion and
prayer and urging the people to give
thanks "for all that has been rendered
unto them" and to pray "for contin-
uance of the divine fortune which has
been showered so generously upon
this na.ion."5 The proclamation fol-
lows:
That season has come when,
alike in pursuance Of devout peo-
pies time honored custom in grateful
recognition of favoring national for
tunes, it is proper that the president
should summon the nation, to a day
of devotion, Of thanksgiving for
Blessings bestowed and of prayer for
guidance on modes Of life that may
descrve 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 ali nations after a long
period of struggle ard turbulence. In
thankfulness, therefore, we may we'll
unite in the hope that providence will
vouchsafe approval to the things we
have done, the aspira which have
inspired US. We shall be prospered as
we shall deserve prosperity, seeking
no. alone for the material things but
for those of the spirit as well; earn
estly trying to help others, asking be-
lore al else the privilege Of service
A. We render thanks anew for the
eXaltation which came to us, we may
fittiEgiy petition that moderation and
wisdom snail be granted to rest upon
all who are in authority in the task
they must discharge. Their hands will
be steadied, their purposes strength
cred IN answer to our prayers.
ours mas been a favored nation in
the bounty which God has bestowed
upon it. The great trial of humanity
though indeed We did our part as we'll
as we are able, left US comparatively
rnscarred. It 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 pur-
pose to prove deserving. We have
been raised up and preserved in ma
t;onal Gower and consequence, as
part cf plan whose wisdom we can
rot question. Thus believing, we can
90 no less than hold our nation the
wiling 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 direc-
tion in the right paths. Under God,
our responsibility is great, to our own
first, to all men aftelward; to all
mankind in Gods own justice.
"Now, therefore, 1, Warren G.
Harding, president of the United
States, hereby designate Thursday,
the. 24tA day of November, to be OBJ
served by the people as day of
Thank; giving, devotion and prayer;
urging that at their hearths and their
altars they viii give thanks for all
that has been rendered unto them,
and will pray for a continuance Of
the divine fortune which has been
showercd 50 generously upon this ma
ton.
an witness whereof, have here
unto set my ha.d and caused to be
affixed the seal of the United States
of America.
'Done at the capital of the United
States this the 31st day of October
in the year of our Lord, 1921, and Of
the independence of the United .
States, the 146th.
'Warren G. Harding.
"By the president:
"Char1es F.. Hughes.