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 PROCLAMATIONS-APR. 16, 27, 1949 Designation of Child Health Day. WHEREAS every citizen should do his utmost toward safeguarding and improving the health of the Nation's children: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate May 1, 1949, as Child Health Day; and I invite all agencies, organizations, and citizens inter- ested in the physical and mental well-being of children to consider on that day how best to promote in their own communities during the coming year definite programs of action designed to help our children to grow into healthy and responsible individuals dedicated to the principles of democracy. 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 16th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third. By the President: DEAN ACHESON Secretary of State HARRY S TRUMAN MOTHER'S DAY, 1949 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 36U.S.C. 142. Designation Mother's Day. WHEREAS our loftiest national ideals stem in large measure from those high principles which American mothers teach by example and devotion in their daily lives; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 770), formalized the happy custom of commemorating motherhood on the second Sunday in May of each year; and WHEREAS in accordance with the dictates of our hearts we have set that day aside for manifestations of our love and reverence for all mothers of the land: of NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby request the observance of Sunday May 8, 1949, as Mother's Day, and I direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government buildings on that day. I also call upon the people of the Nation to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places on Mother's Day, 1949, as a public demonstra- tion of the esteem in which we hold our mothers, and I urge that renewed expressions of affection be tendered mothers on 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 27th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DEAN ACHESON Secretary of State April 27, 1949 [No. 28361 1270 [63 STAT.

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