Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1920 — WILSON SETS THANKSGIVING [ARTICLE]

WILSON SETS THANKSGIVING

President Calls for Observance Nov. 25—Says We Have Abundant Cause to Be Thankful. Washington. Nov. 15. —President Wilson issued his Thanksgiving proclamation saying that “in plenty, security and peace our virtuous and self-reliant people face the future,” anti setting aside Thursday, November 25, for the usual observances. “We have abundant cause for thanksgiving.” the proclamation says. “The lesions of the war are rapidly healing. The great army of free men which America sent to the defense of liberty, returning to the grateful embrace of the nation, has resumed the useful pursuits of peace as simply and as promptly as it rushed to arms in obedience to the country’s call. The equal justice of our laws has received steady vindication in the support of a law-abiding . people against various and sinister ‘ attacks, which have reflected only the baser agitations of war, now happily passing. In a spirit, then, of devotion and stewardship we should give thanks In our hearts, and dedicate ourselves to the service of God’s-merciful and loving purposes to His children.”