The Columbus dispatch., 1921-11-09
%AY OF THANKS
Is PROCLAIMED
PRESIDENT HARDING DES-
IGNATES NOVEMBER "a
AS HOLIDAY
A GRATEFUL PEOPLE
Should Lay Aside Regular Work
And Meet Together To
Thank Giver Of All
Good.

President Harding has issued
proclamation designating Thursday,
November "a, as a day Of Thanksgiv-
ing, devotion and prayer and urging
the people to give thanks "for all that
has been rendered unto them" and to
pray for continuance Of the Divine
fortune which has been showered 50
generously upon this nation The
proclamation follows;
THAT season has come when, alike
in pursuance Of deyout peoples
time-horored custom in grateful rec
ogntion Of favoring national for
tunes, it is proper that the president
should summon the ration to a day Of
devotion of thanksgiving for bless
ings 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
of 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
therefore, we may we'll
unite in the hope that Providence will
vouchsafe approval to the things we
have done, the aims which have guild
ed US, the aspirations which inspired
us, We 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 REM
der thanks anew for the exaltation
which CAME 20 us, We may Ettngly
petition that moderation and wisdom
shall be granted to 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 bestJwLd
upon it, the great trial Of humanity,
though indeed we bore our part as
well as we were able left US COM
paratively 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
our purpose 20 prove de-
serving. We have been raised up and
in national power and con-
sequence, as part of a plan whose
wisdom we cannot question Thus
we can do no less than hold
,ur nation the willing instrument Of
.he providence which has so wonder
fully 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 paths. Under God, our
is great: TO our own
irst, to all men afterward; to all
mankind in Gods own justice.
"Now. therefore, I, Warren G..
harding. presiden. Of the United
States, hereby designate Thursday,
he twenty-fourth day Of November,
o be observed by the people as a
ay Of Thanksgiving, devotion and
rayer; urging that at their hearth
ides and their altars they viii give
hanks for all that has been rendered
INTO them, and viii pray for con-
inuance of the divine fortune which
as been showcrud So generously up
~ this nation
I'm witness whereof, I have here
INTO set my hand and caused % be
fixed the seal of the United States
f America.
-Donc az the capital of the United
states. tht- tbirty-frst day of Oct-
bcr. in the year of Our Lord, nine
cen hundred and tweaty-one and Of
7e independence Of the United States,
me hundred and f0rty-siNth.
WARREN G.. HARDING,
BY the president;
CHARLES r. HUGHES,
Secretary of State.