The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-03
NATION SHOULD GIVE THANKS
Much To Be Grateful for, Says Hard
ing in Thanksgiving Proclamation.

Much To Be Grateful for, Says Hard
ing in Thanksgiving Proclamation.
/ Washington, Nov. 3-Declaring
! that the estate of the nation presents
very much to Justify a nationwide
and most sincere testimony of graft
tude for the bounty which has been
bestowed on u.s." President Harding
in the annual Thanksgiving proclama-
ton issued today calls upon the Amer
lean people to observe Thursday No
vember 80, "as a day of thanksgiving,
supplication and devotion.'
The text of the proclamation fol-
| lows:
By the President of the United States of
America.
Proclamation.
I'm the beginning OF our country the
custom was established by the devout
fathers of observing annually day of
thanksgiving for the bounties and protec-
ton which divine providence had extended
thruout the year. 1t has come to be per-
haps the most characteristic of our ma
tionaI observances and as the season ap-
proaches for its annual recurrence. 1t is
fitting formally to direct attention TO this
ancient institution of our people and to
call upon them again to unite in its ap-
The year which now approaches its end
has been marked, in the experience of our
nation, by a complexity of trials and
ments, which we must regard our in
evitable portion in such an epoch that
survey the experience of the passing twelve
months We shall find that our estate pre-
and most sincere testimony of gratitude
for the bounty which has been bestowed
upon us.
hard consequences of great conflicts our
country has been at peace and has been
able to contribute toward the maintenance
and perpetuatfon of peace in the world. We
have seen the race of mankind make graft
flying progress on the way to permanent
oTd nPd1 M r.
dence in its high destiny
For the divine guidance which has en-
abled US in growing fraternity with other
peoples to attain so much Of progress: for
the bounteous yield which has come TO US
from the resources of our soil and our in
dustry, We owe our tribute of gratitude
and with it our acknowledgment of the
duty and obligation to our own people and
to the unfortunate, the suffering the dis
tracted of other lands
LET US in ali humility acknowledge how
great is our debt to the providence which
has generously dealt with us and give de-
vout assurance of unselfish purpose to
play a helpful and ennobling part in hu-
sired that in rendering homage for the
blessings which have come to us we should
creasing aim to make our own great for
tune a means Of helping and serving, as
best we can, the cause of humanity
president of the United States of America.
do designate Thursday the thirtieth day
of November as a day of Thanksgiving,
that the people gather at their family al
tars and in their house of worship to
render thanks to God for the bounties they
have enjoyed and to petition that these
may be continued in the year before US.
In witness whereof, 1 have hereuDto set
my hand and caused the seal OF the United
States to be affixed
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 hun
dred and forty-seventh-
(Signed) "wARREN G. HARDING"