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 PROCLAMATIONS-MAR. 18, 21, 1938 NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, pursuant to the aforesaid Concurrent Resolution s do hereby declare April 6, 1938, as Army Day, and I hereby invite the Governors of the several States to issue Army Day proclamations; and, acting under the authority vested in me as Commander in Chief, I hereby order military units throughout the United States, its Territories and possessions, to assist civic bodies in the appropriate observance of that day. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this 18" day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. April 6, 1938, desig- nated as. THOMAS JEFFERSON'S BIRTHDAY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Inde- pendence and third President of the United States, was the advocate of great causes and high ideals of human freedom-principles adopted as fundamental by the American people; and WHEREAS Thomas Jefferson as lawyer, statesman, philosopher, scientist, farmer, and architect lived a life of such rich diversity that it encompassed the full scope of the knowledge of his time, and-of happy significance to his country-knew how to carry theory into practice, and from youth to a fine old age exemplified in all of his work the principle that the true evidence of life is growth; and WHEREAS Public Resolution No. 60, 75th Congress, approved August 16, 1937, provides: That the President of the United States of America is author- ized and directed to issue a proclamation calling upon officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on April 13 of each year, and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day m schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies in commemoration of the birth of Thomas Jefferson: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby call upon officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on April 13, 1938, and on April 13 of each succeeding year, and do invite the people of the United States to observe the day in schools, churches, and other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies in commemoration of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. March 21, 1938 [No. 22761 Thomas Jefferson's birthday. Preamble. Statutory provision 50 Stat. 668 . April 13, 1938, and April 13 of each suc- ceeding year to be ob- served in commem- oration of. 1537 52 STAT. ] 36525°- 38 -97

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