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 1926 PROCLAMATIONS, 1922.. Those who had the duty and res onsibility of government, must necessarily have the education with which to dischar e the obl` a- tions of citizenship. The sovereign had to be educated. The sovereign had become the people. Schools and universities were provided by the various governments, and founded and fostered by private charity, until their buildings dotted all the land. The willingness of the people to bear the burdens of maintaining these institutions, and the patriotic devotion of an army of teachers, who, in many cases, mig t have earned larger incomes in other pursuits, have made it yipssible to accomplish results with which we {nay well be gratified. ut the task is not finished, it has only been e un. · Tile have observed the evidences of a broadening vision of the whole educational system. This has included a recognition that education must not end with the period of school attendance, but must be given every encouragement thereafter. To this end the night schools of the cities, the moonlight schools of the southern Appalachian countries, the extension work of the colleges and universities, the provi- ' sion for teaching technical, agricultural and mechanical arts, have marked out the path to a broader and more widely diffused national culture. To insure the lpermanence and continuing imyggovernent of such an educational po icy, there must be the fullest pub `c realization of its absolute necessity. Every American citizen is entitled to a liberal education. Without this, there is no guarantee for the permanence of free institutions, no hope of perpetuating self—government. Despotism finds its chief support in ignorance. Knowledge and freedom go hand in hand. In order that the people of the nation may think on these things, it $1v deiirable that there s ould be an annual observance of Educational ee. ~ · wg °§,g{ NOW, THEREFORE, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United v¤mb¤r18.¤¤· States, do hereby proclaim the week beginning on the eighteenth of November, next, as National Education Wee, and urge its observance throughout the country. I recommend that the state and local authorities cooperate with the civic and religious bodies to secure its most general and helpful observance, for the purpose of more liberally supporting and more effectively improving the educational facilities o our country. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE, in the City of Washington, this twentgsixth dagl of September, in the year of our Lord, One housand ine [smn.] Hundred and Twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States, the One Hundred and Forty-eighth. CALVIN Coounem By the President: Cniuznns E. Huoims Secretary of State. BY THE Pimsrnnnr or Tun Uurrmn STATES or Ammroa A PROCLAMATION. F§_,&'°'_[’;z' N•“°¤°l WHEREAS, an Executive Order signed February seventeenth Prctlnblof and effective March first, nineteen hundred and twelve, excluded from the Sitgreaves National -Forest, in Arizona, certain Indian resgrvation lands included therein March second, nineteen hundred an nine;. AND WHEREAS, it agpears that the public good will be promoted by adding certain ands to the Sitgreaves National Forest, and by excluding certain areas therefrom and restoring the public