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 PROCLAAMATIONS-APR. 27,1946 MOTHER'S DAY 1946 April 27, 1946 [No. 2689] 36U.S.C.§§141, 142. Observance of May 12, 1946, as Mother's Day. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it has become customary on one day of each year to unite our hearts in public celebration of the common bond of humanity which we share in the memory and enjoyment of a mother's love, a mother's training, and a mother's care; and WHEREAS it is especially appropriate this year after the achieve- ment of victory on a thousand momentous fields of battle that we express the debt of gratitude which each of us owes to his own mother and which we all owe to the mothers of America; and WHEREAS by Public Resolution 25, 63d Congress, approved May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 770), the second Sunday in May is designated as Mother's Day, and the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling for the observance of that day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that Sunday, May 12, 1946, be observed as Mother's Day with public and private expressions of honor, reverence, and love; and I call upon the officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day and the people of the United States to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places as a public expression of honor for the mothers of this country. 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 27 th day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. By the President: DEAN ACHESON Acting Secretary of State April 27, 194 [No. 2690] Observance of week commencing July 21, 1946, as National Farm Safety Week. HARRY S TRUMAN NATIONAL FARM SAFETY WEEK, 1946 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS an increased supply of food is vitally needed to promote peace and happiness in the postwar world; and WHEREAS farm accidents rob the nation of thousands of lives and millions of dollars worth of food and other property each year; and WHEREAS experience in previous observances of National Farm Safety Week has clearly shown the necessity and benefits of a coordi- nated and constant educational farm-safety program: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the Nation to observe the week commencing July 21, 1946, as National Farm Safety Week. And I request all persons and organizations concerned with agri- culture and farm life to do everything in their power to discover and publish the facts about farm accidents, and to develop practical safety programs which farm people everywhere can translate into [60 STAT.

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