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PROCLAMATIONS—MAY 10, 1955

CHILD HEALTH DAY, 1955 BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

April 26, 1955 [No. 3093]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Congress, by a 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; and WHEREAS the health we seek for our children includes their spiritual, emotional, and intellectual, as well as their physical, wellbeing; and WHEREAS Child Health Day provides us with an occasion for dedicating ourselves to enlarging the opportunities of children for achieving such health; and WHEREAS Child Health Day has been given added significance this year by the recently announced discovery of a means of protecting our children from the crippling scourge of poliomyelitis: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Presi- ^gChiid Health Day, dent of the United States of America, do hereby designate Sunday, the first day of May 1955, as Child Health Day; and I invite all citizens, meeting in their various places of worship and elsewhere on that day, to unite in observances that will emphasize the importance of abundant health for all children throughout the coming year. 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. DONE at the City of Washington this 26th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State.

NATIONAL MARITIME DAY, 1955 BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the American Merchant Marine is today carrying on a long and honorable tradition of serving the trade and commerce of the world upon the high seas; and WHEREAS American merchant ships and American seamen stand ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice; and WHEREAS we have added to the United States Program for Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy a proposal to build an atomicpowered merchant ship that will visit the ports of the world to demonstrate to people everywhere atomic energy harnessed to peacetime uses for the benefit of mankind; and WHEREAS the Congress by a joint resolution approved May 20, 1933 (48 Stat. 73), designated May 22 as National Maritime Day, se use 145. thus honoring the Merchant Marine by commemorating the departure from Savannah, Georgia, on May 22, 1819, of the Savannah on the

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