Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-01
PRESIDENT HARDING ISSUES
 THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION

Washington, Oct. 31.-President Hard ing issued a proclamation tonight desig- hating Thursday, November "A, as day of thanksgiving, devotion and prayer and urging the people to give thanks flor 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 nation" The proclamation follows:
 "A PROCLAMATION.
 That season mas come when, alike in pursuance of a devout peoples time honored custom and in grateful recogr : tion of favoring national fortunes, it ( proper that the president should sul4- mon the nation to a day of devotion, of thanksgiving for 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 thankful ness therefore, we may well unite in the hope that Provi s nee will vouchsafe ap- proval to the things we have done, the aims which have guided us the aspira-
 
 be prospered as we shall deserve nros- perity seeking not alone for the mater ial 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 1 fittingly pftition 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 steaded, their purposes stren; = med, in 1 answer to our prayers.
 Ours has been favored nation in the bounty which God has bestowed up- on it. The great trial of humanity though indeed we bore our part as well as we were able left us comparatively l little scared. 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 dc well to pledge. ir humility and all sincerity. our purpose to prove deserving. We have been raised up and preserved in national power anf l conseuuence as part of 8 plan whose wisdom we cannot question. Thus be lieving, we can do no less than hold ou1 nation the willing insFunNent of tFe providence which has so wonderfully ia vored US. Opportunity for very great SerNlce aWalIS us 1T we SIldu pIONe tuud to it. Let our prayers be raised, for di rection in the right paths. Under good our responsibility, is great; to our owl first. to all men afterward to all man kind in Gods own justice.
 Now. therefore. I, Warren G. Hard ing president of the United States hereby design Thursday, the twenty fourth day of November, to be observes by the people as a day of thanksgiving devotion and prayer; urging that a their hearthsides and their altars the will give thanks for all that has bee rendered unto them, ard will pray for
 continuance of the Divine fortune whic has been showered so generously upo
 this nation.
 "In witness whereof, I have hereunt
 set my hand and caused to be affixed tn
 seal of the United States of America.
 Done at the capital of the Unite
 States. this 51st day of October, in tn year of our Lord, nineteen hundred an twenty-one, and of the Independence the United States, the one hundred an
 forty-sixth
 ! (signeD WARREN G. HARDING. By the president:
 , Charles F. Hughes,
 Secretary of State"