iving Day äs a genera holiday by ihe American community include the annual Americ between the ls* and 2nd Battalions of the Fourth Marines, and the reading of the President Roosevelt's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation by Col. Joseph C. Fegan, Commander of the Fourth Marines.
At 10 am. a Thanksgiving Day church service will take place at the Fourth Marines Club for Marines, iheir families and friends. This be followed by the reading of the Proclamation at 11 am. in Holy Trinity Cathedral The football game will end the day's celebrations.
As in former years the day will be marked by the closing of all offices in ihe American Consulate and American school-children also will have a general holiday. A large crowd is expected at the Canidrome at 1.30 pin. for the football game and all; seats will be free.
The Proclamation The proclamation: of President Roosevelt resds as follows:
Where Duke and Duchess of Kent Will Live I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the 24th of November, 1938, fs a day of general thanksgiving.
'Our Fathers set aside such a day as they hewed a nation from the primeval forest. The observance was consecrated when George Washington' issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation in the first year of his presidency. Abraham Lincoln set apart "a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our Beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."
"Thus, from our- earliest recorded history, Americans have thanked God for their blessings. In our deepest natures, in our very souls, we, like all mankind since the, earliest origin of mankind, turn to Ged in time of trouble snd in time of happiness. "In God We Trust."
For the blessings which have been ours during the present year we have ample cause to be thankful Our lands have yielded a paw harvest and the toiler in shop and mill receives a more just return for his We have cherished and preserved our Democracy. We have lived in peace and understanding with r neighbours and have seen the world cape the mpending disaster of a general war.
In the time of our fortune it Is fitting that we offer prayers for unfortunate 7*ople in other lands who are in dire distress at this, our Thanksgiving seazon.
Let us remember them in our families and our churches. when on the day appointed we offer our thanks to Almighty God, May we by our way of living merit the continuance of His Goodness.
Tu witness whereof I have hereunto et inv hand and caused the Seal of he United States of America to be fixed.
Done at the City of Washington this Nineteenth Day of November in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Thirty Eieht. end of the Independence nf the United S ates nf America the One Hundred and xty Third.
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