"I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, Ho hereby designate Thursday the "Our nation has gone steadily forward in the application of democratic processes to economic and social problems. We have faced the specters of business depression, of unemployment, and of widespread agricultural distress, and our positive efforts to alleviate these conditions have met with heartening results, We have also been permitted to see the fruition of measures which we have undertaken in the realms of health, social welfare, and the conservation of resources. As a nation we are deeply grateful that in a world of turmoil we are at peace with all countries, and we especially rejoice in the' strengthened bonds of our friendship with the other peoples of e Western Hemisphere.
Let us, on the day set aside for this purpose, giving thanks to the Ruler of the Universe for the strength which he has vouchsafed us to carry on our daily labors, and for the hope that lives within us of the coming of a day when peace and the productive activities of peace shall reign on every continent.
"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 thirty-first day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty nine and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth.
Franklin D, Roosevelt.
"By the President: Cordell Hull Secretary of State."
Mr, Yozo Ouchi will resign his Shimpo" said yesterday, He has been head of the school since December, 1931, Mr. Ouchi is 66 years old,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.