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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1916, 1917. 1813 BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNrrEn STATES or Ammncn N°'°m'>°'*"’»*°¥°~ A PROCLAMATION It has long been the custom of our eople to turn in the fruitful 1,;%{‘““m*"“g D“’· autumn of the year in praise and thanlgsgiving to Almighty God for P¤=¤¤b'¢· His many blessmgs and mercies to us as a nation_. The year that has elapsed since we last observed our day of thanksgiving has been rich in blessings to us as a people, but the whole face of the world has been darkened by war. In the midst of our peace and happiness, our thoughts dwell with painful disquiet upon the struggles and sufferings of the nations at war and of the peoples upon whom war has brought disaster without choice or possi ilrty of escap; on their part. We can not think of our own happiness without thin g also of their pitiful distress. _ Now, therefore, I, WOODROW WILSON, President of the wT}g;g<;¤>g,1§g{ej,¤ag¤; United States of America, do appoint Thursda, the thirtieth of No- ei); of igeiia-an mamvember, as a da of National T anksgivin and7Pra er, and 1u·ge and g*“”g· advise the eopga to resort to their severaf places ofvworship on that da to render thanks to Almighty God for the blessings of peace and unbroken prosperity which He has bes towed upon our beloved country in such unstinted measure. And I also urge and suggest our duty in this our day of peace and abrmdance to think in deep sympathy of the stricken peoples of the world upon whom the curse and terror of war has so pitilessl fallen, and to contribute out of our abrmdant means to the relief oi, their suffering. Our people could in no better way show their real attitude towards the present struggle of the nations than by contributing out of their abundance to the relief of the sufferlD%§_\Tl.].lClL1 war has bro§l§t m its train. .WI'I'NESS EOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this seventeenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nme hundred [SEAL.] and, sixteen and of the indo ndence of the United States the one hundred and forty-digt. Woonaow Winsor: By the President: Rormnr LANsrNo, ‘ Secretary (pf State. Br THE Pnnsmnxr or THE UNITED Srarns or Ammrcn _¥¤¤¤¤¤v¤¤»¤¤¤- A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it appears that the lands hereinafter described, in the ,,W¤i¤¤¤¤¤ N¤¤¤·>¤¤¤ State of Oregon, have been found by the Secretary of Agriculture to iiigihiii? be chiefly va uable for the production of timber or for the protection of stream flow; and WHEREAS it a pears that such lands should be added to the Wrhitman National £`orest; N ow, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States Aw¤¢¤1¤¤s¤·1- of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section 1 of the Am" P` 851 Act of Congress approved Se tember eighth, nineteen hrmdred and sixteen (39 Stat., 852), entitled "An Act Authorizing an adjustment of the boundaries of the Whitman National Forest, in the State of Oregon,_and for other p oses, ’ ’ do proclaim that the boundaries of the Vlihitman N ationalmllliirest are hereby changed to include the following described lands: