The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-04
President SETS UAY
FOR THANKSGIVING

WaShlngtOn-(By A. )-PreSident
Harding issued a proclamation Mon
day night designating Thursday, No
vember "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 continuance of the divine for
tune which has been showered so gen
erously upon this nation" The pro-
clamation follows;
THAT season has come when, alike
in pursuance of a devout peoples
ltime-honored custom and 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 bless
ings bestowed and of prayer for guild
ance in modes of life, that may de-
serve continuance of divine favor.
Return of Peace
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 therefor we may well
unite in the hope that Providence will
vouchsafe approval to the things we
have done, the aims which have guild
ed us, the aspirtions which have in
spired us. We shall be prospered as
we shall deserve prosperity, seeking
not alone 70 rthe material things, but
for those of the spirit well; earnest
ly trying to help others, asking before
all else the privilege of service. AS
we render thanks anew for the exalta-
tion which came to us, we may fit
tingly petition that modertion and
wisdom shall be granted to rest upon
all who are in authority in tasks they
must discharge. Their hands will be
steadied, their purposes strengthen
ed, in answer to our prayers.
"Ours has been favored nation in
the bounty which God has bestowed
upon it. The great trial of humanity
though indeed we bore our part as
we'll as we were able, left us compara-
lively little SCARED. 1t is for us to
recognize that we have been thus fa-
vored, and when we gather at our
affairs to offer up thanks, we will do
well to pledge, in humility and all
sincerity, our purpose to prove de-
serving. We have been raised up and
preserved in national power and con-
sequence, as part of a plan whose
wisdom we cannot question. Thus be-
lieving, we can do no Tess than hold
our nation the willing instrument OF
the providence which has SO wonder
fully favored us.sOpportunity 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 responsibility is
great; to our own first, to all men
afterward; to all mankind in Gods
own justice.
November "a Proclaimed
"Now, therefore, I, Warren G.
Harding, president of the United
the oath day of November, to be OBJ
served by the people as a day of
Thanksgiving, devotion and prayer;
urging that at their hearthsides and
their affairs they will give thanks for
all that has been rendered unto them,
and will pray for a continuance of
the divine fortune which has been
showered so generously upon this ma
ton.
"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, hereby designate Thursday,
States this 31st day of October, in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred
and twenty-one, and of the independ-
ence of the United States the one
hundred and forty-sixth.
WARREN G.. HARDING.
"By the president:
CHARLES E. HUGHES,
Secretary of State"