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 Paoommarioxs, 1923. 1931 to the friendly people of Japan. This called forth from the ople of the United States a demonstration of deep and humane feegihg. It was wrought into the substance of good works. It created new evidences of our international friendship, which is a guarantee of world peace. It replenished the charitable impulse of the country. By experiences, such as these, men and nations are tested and refined. We have been blessed with much of material prosperity. We shall be better able to appreciate it if we remember the privations others have suffered, and we shall be the more worthy of it if we use it for their relief. We will do well then to render thanks for the good i that has come to us, and show by our actions that we have become strmfer, wiser, and truer by the chastenings which have been impose _ upon us. We will thus prepare ourselves for the part we must take in a world which forever nee s the full measure of service. We have been a most favored people. We ought to be a most generous people. We have been a most blessed people. We ought to be a most thankful elgple. ` WHEREFOII, I, Calvin Cooliilge, President of the United b,'m§f'§’§l,?{•d,,il·Q°]g{',?"d States, do hereby fix and designate msday, the twenty-ninth day •¤ ’“**¤¤¢*'*¤¢ my- of November, as Thanksgiving Day, and recommend its general observance throughout the and. It is urged that the people, gathering in their homes and their usual placesof worship, give expression to their gratitude for the benefits and blessings that a gracious Providence has bestowed upon them, and seek thehguidance of Almighty God, that the]; ma deserve a continuance of is favor. IN WITN SS HVHEREOF, I have herenmto set my hand and caused to be affixed the wat seal of the United States. DONE at the City of ashington, this 5th day of November, in the ear of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and [SEAL.] Twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United gates, the One Hundred and Forty-eighth. Canvm Coonmen By the President: Cuaauzs E. Homme Secretary of State. BY rum Pnnsmnur or rms Uurrmn Sryrns 1>¤¤¤¤¤¥>¤r1§»1¤¤8- A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Act of Congress directing the disposal of lands  R°’°" within a specified part of the Crow Indian Reservation, in the State xljmngblo-w of Montana, approved April 27, 1904 (33 Stat., 352), among other ‘ ’°' ` things, rprovides: _ hat when, in the judgment of the President, no more of the land herein ceded can be disposed of at said price, he may by proclamation, to be repeated at his discretion, sell from time to time the remaining land subject to the provisions of the homestead law or otherwise as he may deem most advantageous, at such price or prices, in such manner, upon such conditions, with such restrictions, and upon such terms as he may deem best for all the interests concerned; AND WHEREAS certain lands in the Reservation were sold and vo, mw WL entered in the manner provided for by Proclamations of September 4o,p.i6°:i5.P` ' 28, 1914 (38 Stat., 2029), and April 6, 1917 (40 Stat., 1653) which Proclamations Hxed the terms under which the lands might be paid or;