The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-06
COOLIDGE ISSUES
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION
Year Has Been Fruitful
Of Peace, Says
49,. President

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-President
Coolidge issued a proclamation today,
formally proclaming Thursday, No
yember q, as Thanksgiving Day.
The proclamation urged that thanks
be given because the year had been
marked by a continuation of peace
whereby "our country has entered into
a relationship of better understanding
with all the other nations of the earth, y
and because at home I'VE have con-
tinually had an improving state of
health" with industrial production
large and harvests bountiful.
The Proclamation
1--WE approach that season of the
year when it has been the custom for
the American. people to give thanks tor
the good fortune which the bounty
of providence, through the generosity OF
nature, has visited upon them. 1t is
altogether a good custom. 1t has the
sanction of antiquity and the approba-
ton of our religious convictions. In
acknowledging the receipt OF Divine
favor, in contemplating the blessings
which have been bestowed upon us,
we shall reveal the spiritual strength
of the nation.
The year has been marked by a
continuation of peace whereby our
country has entered into a relation
ship of better understanding with all
the other nations of the earth. Ways
have been revealed to us by which we
could perform very great service
through the extension of financial as
sistance, and through the exercise OF
a spirit of neighborly kindness to
less-favored peoples. We should give
thanks for the power which has been
given into our keeping, with which
we have been able to render these serv.
ices to the rest of mankind.
Continual Improvement
At home we have continually had an
improving state of the public health
The production of our industries has
been large and our harvests have been
bountiful. We have been remarkably
free from disorder and remarkably sue.
cessfu1 in all those purusits which
flourish during a state of democratic
peace. An abundant prosperity has
overspread the land. We shall do well
to accept all these favors and bounties
with a becoming humility, and dedicate
them to the service of the righteous
cause of the Giver of all good and
perfect gifts. AS the nation has pro.
posed let all the people show that they
are worthy to prosper, by-dedicating
America to the service of God and man
Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, Presi
dent of the United States of America
hereby proclaim and fix Thursday, the
twenty-seventh day of November, as a
day for national Thanksgiving. rec
ommend that the people gather in
their places of worship, and at family
affairs, and offer up their thanks for
the goodness which has been shown to
them in such a multitude of ways. Els.
pecially urge them to supplicate the
Throne of Grace that they may gather
strength from their tribulations, that
they may gain humility from their vic,
tories, that they may bear without
complaining the burdens that shall be
placed upon them, and they may be in.
creasingly worthy in all ways of the
blessings that shall come to us.
1t witness whereof, I have hereuntc
set my hand and caused to be affixed
the great seal of the United States
Done at the city of Washington, this
9th day of November, in the Year OF
Our Lord ne-Thousand- Nine Hundred
and Twenty-four, and of the Independ
ence of the United States, the one.
hundred and forty-ninth.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Seal, CHARLES e. HUGHES,
Secretary of State.