STATE OF OREGON
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
SALEM
Thanksgiving Proclamation
The Congress of the United States, in return to long-honored custom, having fixed the last Thursday in November as the day for national Thanksgiving, now, therefore, I, Charles A. Sprague, Governor of the State of Oregon, do proclaim Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of November, 1942, as the date for Thanksgiving observance in the State of Oregon.
The continuance of peace is usually hailed as a principal cause for a nation's gratitude. This year that source of thanksgiving is denied us. In the year past the United States has become involved in a great and terrible war, a war in which the existence of the nation is clearly at stake.
In this situation we still may find much to be thankful for. The nation is meeting the test of war with courage. Our people make the necessary sacrifices without hesitation. The youth in our armed forces are bearing the burden of battle with inspiring bravery. There is generating a deeper loyalty to our country and to its foundation principle of human freedom under law. We should indeed be grateful that the American people prize liberty above life, and war in the cause of justice above a craven peace.
There are other reasons for public thanksgiving. In this critical year God through nature has blessed the long toil of the husbandmen, giving bountiful crops now safely harvested. The state has been spared natural calamity and waste and loss from fires in our forests. No serious contagion has impaired the health of the people. Unemployment is no longer the dread spectre at many doorsteps.
I call on the people of the state to assemble in their places of worship on the day herein appointed, there to offer solemn thanks to Almighty God for the blessings we enjoy, to pray for divine guidance for our nation, and to beseech divine favor on the progress of our arms. In the homes let the day be spent soberly, without gluttony, matching in these war times the Spartan courage of our soldiers with Spartan continence in living.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the State of Oregon to be affixed.
DONE in the City of Salem this sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-two.
[SEAL]..........{Begin handwritten}Charles A. Sprague{End handwritten}
Governor
Attest:
{Begin handwritten}{Omitted text, 1w} Snell{End handwritten}
Secretary of State
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