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STAT.

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PROCLAMATIONS—APR. 29, 1954

acquaint the public with the action which is needed to combat this tragic illness; and WHEREAS the work of these organizations and the mental-health funds which they are raising through public subscription are deserving of generous support by all of us; and WHEREAS the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is actively engaged in programs of research, training, and rehabilitation, and other activities designed to strengthen the attack on mental illness; and WHEREAS Senate Joint Resolution 130 of the 83d Congress, 2nd Session, approved April 27, 1954, requests the President of the United States to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning May 2 and ending May 8, 1954, as National Mental Health Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning Sunday, May 2 and ending Saturday, May 8, 1954, as National Mental Health Week. I also urge the people throughout the Nation to cooperate in the work now being done to build sound mental health and to strengthen our forces against mental illness, and I invite the communities of the United States to observe National Mental Health Week with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I N WITNESS 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 27th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-eighth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President:

Ante, p. 63.

National Mental Health Week, 1954.

WALTER B. SMITH

Acting Secretary of State

MOTHER'S DAY,

1954

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

April 29, 1954 [No. 3052]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS our mothers are enshrined in our hearts as symbols of those high ideals which have fostered our growth as a great Nation; and WHEREAS we are wont to unite on one day each year in paying special tribute to our mothers, whose love and care and teaching have guided us in youth and blessed us in maturity; and WHEREAS the Congress gave formal recognition to that custom by a joint resolution approved May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 770), which set aside the second Sunday in May of each year as Mother's Day, and requested the President to issue a proclamation calling for the observance of that day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that Sunday, May 9, 1954, be observed as Mother's Day; and I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day. I also call upon the people generally to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places, as an expression of love for their own mothers and reverence for the mothers of our country.

36 USC 142.

Mother's Day, 1954.

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