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PROCLAMATIONS—MAY 21, 1953

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WHEREAS citizens' voluntary mental health organizations— national, State, and local—are working diligently in this battle to build sound mental health; and WHEREAS the efforts of these private organizations and the mental health fund which they are raising through public subscription are deserving of generous support by all of our citizens; and WHEREAS the Department of "Health, Education, and Welfare, through the National Institute of Mental Health of the Public Health ' Service, and also State and local governments, are mobilizing appropriate governmental resources to aid in the fight for sound mental health for all citizens of this Nation; and WHEREAS Senate Resolution 93 of the 83d Congress, 1st Session, adopted May 5, 1953, requests the President of the United States to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning May 3 and ending May 9, 1953, as National Mental Health Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President National Mental of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week begin- Health Week, ning May 3 and ending May 9, 1953, as National Mental Health Week; and I urge the people throughout the Nation to cooperate in the fight against mental illness, and invite the communities of the United States to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this eighth day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-seventh. DWIGHT D EISENHOWER. By the President: JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S

Secretary of State.

PRAYER FOR PEACE, MEMORIAL D A Y, 1953 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA

May 21, 1953 [No. 3016]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the bodies of our war dead lie buried in hallowed plots throughout the land, and it has long been our custom to decorate their graves on Memorial Day in token of our respect for them as beloved friends and kinsmen and of our aspiration that war may be removed from the earth forever; and WHEREAS it is fitting that, while remembering the sacrifices of our countrymen, we join in united prayers to Almighty God for peace on earth; and WHEREAS the Congress, in a joint resolution approved May 11, 1950, provided that Memorial Day should thenceforth be set aside 64 Stat. iss. nationally as a day of prayer for permanent peace and requested

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