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 PROCLAMATIONS-MAR. 10, 17,22,1944 DONE at the City of Washington this tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-four, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. CHILD HEALTH DAY-1944 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Congress by joint resolution of May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 617), has authorized and requested the President of the United States to issue annually a proclamation setting apart May 1 as Child Health Day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, in recognition of the importance to every child and young person of a healthy body and a sturdy spirit, do hereby designate the first day of May of this year as Child Health Day. And I invite our boys and girls to use this occasion as a time to gather with parents, teachers, and other citizens, or by themselves, in schools, churches, and community centers, and to consider how we can make our home and community life contribute in full measure to the building of bouyant health and valiant spirit in all our boys and girls. 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 17th day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. ARMY DAY-1944 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS America's valiant soldiers have been welded by the fire of battle into a mighty army of liberation; and WHEREAS the men and women of the American Army, of different races and creeds but one in their love of freedom and their devotion to the goals for which the United Nations are striving, must face during the coming year a burning test of their courage, their resource- fulness, and their physical prowess; and WHEREAS the Congress, by Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, 75th Congress, agreed to by the House of Representatives March 16, 1937 has recognized April 6 of each year as Army Day and has requested that the President issue a proclamation annually with respect to that day: March 17, 1944 [No. 2609] 36 U.S. C. 143. Designation of May 1,1944 as Child Health Day. March 22. 1944 [No. 26101 0 tat. 1108 . 58 STAT.]

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