Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1919 — WILSON LONGS FOR WORLD RULED BY FRIENDSHIP AND GOOD WILL [ARTICLE]

WILSON LONGS FOR WORLD RULED BY FRIENDSHIP AND GOOD WILL

Washington, D. C., Nor. 6. — President Wilson Wednesday set aside Thursday, Nov. 27, as Thanksgiving day in a proclamation which said the country looked forward " with , confidence to the dawn of an era where the sacrifices of the nations will find recompense in a world at peace.” The proclamation follows:

“The season of the yesr has again arrived when the «nonle of the United States are accustomed to unite in giving thanks to Almighty God for the blessings which -He h»s conferred upon our country d urlng the twelve months that have passed. A year ago our people poured out their hearts in praise and thanksgiving that through Divine aid the right was victorious and peace had come to the nations which had so courageously struggled in defense of human liberty and justice. Now that the stern task is ended and the fruits of achievement are ours we look forward with confidence to the dawn of an era where the sacrifices of the nations will find recompense In a world at peace. “But to attain the consummation of the great work to which the American people devoted their manhood and the vast resources of therr country they should as they give thanks to God, reconsecrate themselves to those principles of right which triumphed through His merciful goodness. Our gratitude can find no more perfect expression than to bulwark with loyalty and patriotism those principles for which the free peoples of the earth fought and died. V * "During the last year we have had much to make us grateful and in spite of tne confusion in our economic life resulting from the war we have prospered. Our harvests have been plentiful and of a bundance we have been able to render succor to less lavored nations. Our remains unshaken in a world torn with political and social unrest. Our traditional Ideals are still our guides in the path of progress and civilization. “These great blessings, vouchsafed to us, for which we devoutly give thanks, should arouse us to a fuller sense ot our duty to ourselves and to mankind to see to It that nothing we may do khall mar the completeness of the victory which we helped to win. No selfish purpose animated us in becoming participants in the world war, and with a like spirit of unselfishness we should strive to aid by our example and by our co-operation In realizing the enduring welfare of all peoples and In bringing Into being a world ruled by friendship and good will“Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States of America, hereby designate Thursday, the 27th aay of November, next, for observance as a day of thanksgiving by my fellow-countrymen, inviting them to cease on that day from their ordinary tasks and to unite in their homes and in their several places of worship In ascribing praise and thanksgiving to God the Author of all blessings and the Master of our destinies. “In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done in the District of Columbia, this fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-fourth. ■ I “WOODROW WILSON.”