Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-04
PRESIDENT NAMES
THURSDAY, NOV. 80
THANKSGIVING DAY

INV OBU
Washington, Nov. 3.-Declaring
that the state and the nation pres
ents very much to justify a nation
vide and most sincere testimony of
gratitude for the bounty which has
been bestowed upon u.s." President
Harding in the annual Thanksgiving
proclamation issued today, calls upon
the American people to observe
Thursday. November 80 "as a day
of thanksgiving, duplication and de-
votion."
The text of the proclamation fol-
lows:
BY the President of the United
States of America,
"A proclamation: !
In the beginning Of our country,
the custom was established by the
devout fathers of observing annually
day of Thanksgiving for the boun-
ties and protection which divine
Providence had extended throughout
the year. 1t has come to be perhaps
the most characteristic of our ma
tional observances, and as the sea-
son approaches for it's annual re-
currence, it is fitting formally to dir
ect attention to this ancient insti-
tuition of our people and to call upon
them again to unite in it's appropriate
celebration.
THE year which now approaches
it's end has been marked, in the ex-
perence of our nation, by a COM
plexity of trials and triumphs, If
difficulties and of achievements,
which we must regard as our newt
able portion in such an epoch as that
through which all mankind is NOV
ing. AS we survey the experiences of
the passing II months we shall find
that our estate presents very much to
justify nation wide and most sin
cere testimony of gratitude for the
bounty which has been bestowed
upon US. Though we have lived in
the shadow of the hard consequences
of great conflict, our country has
been at peace and has been able to
contribute toward the maintenance
and perpetuation of peace in the
world. We have seen the race of
mankind make gratifying progress
on the way to permanent peace, to-
ward order and restored confidence
in its high destiny.
For the divine guidance which has
enabled us in growing fraternity with
other peoples, to attain so much of
progress; for the bounteous field
which has come to us from the re-
sources of our soil and our industry,
we owe our tribute of gratitude, and
with it our acknowledgment of the
duty and obligation to our own peo-
pie and to the unfortunate, the suf-
fering. the distracted of other lands.
Let Us in all humility acknowledge
how great is our debt to the Provi-
denee4 which has generously dealt
with us, and give devout assurance of
unselfish purpose to play helpful
and ennobling part in human adj
vancement. 1t is much to be desired
that in rendering homage for the
blessings which have come to US, we
should earnestly testify our con-
tinued and increasing aim to make
our own great fortune a means for
helping and serving, as best we can,
the cause of all humanity.
Now, therefore. !, Warren G.
Harding, President of the United
States of America, do designate
Thursday. the thirtieth day of No
vember as a day of Thanksgiving,
supplication and devotion.
l recommend that the people gath
or at their family affairs and in their
houses of worship to render thanks
to God for the bountes they have
enjoyed and to petition that these
may be continued in the year before
us.
IN witness whereof. have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal Of the United States to be af-
fixed.
Done at the City of Washington.
this second day of November. in the
year of Our Lord, One Thousand
Nine Hundred and Twenty-Five, and
of the Independence of the United
States of America, the One Hundred
and Forty-seventh.
WARREN G. HARD1NG.'