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Message on the Special Statewide Observance of Thanksgiving Day in Arkansas.

November 26, 1931

[Released November 26, 1931. Dated November 19, 1931

I WAS ADVISED today of the special plan for statewide observance of Thanksgiving Day in Arkansas.

The remarkable recovery of Arkansas from the effects of the drought during 1930, which had followed floods in 1927, is evidence of the courage and energy of the people and of the blessings of Almighty Providence.

Reports show that Arkansas has been fortunate indeed. Weather conditions have been most favorable. Its harvest is the largest and most varied in years. Larders that were empty last year are now filled almost to overflowing. The people have enjoyed immunity from disease and pestilence.

It is not difficult for one to understand why its people, remembering that the first Thanksgiving centered about a harvest following a period of hardship and near famine, have come to realize its true significance.

Please will you convey my appreciation for this exemplification of the spirit of our people to the Chairman of the Statewide Committee having charge of the Thanksgiving observance as well as to the ministers, churches and other organizations.

HERBERT HOOVER

[Harvey Couch, Pine Bluff, Arkansas]

Note: Mr. Couch read the message during a Thanksgiving Day radio broadcast sponsored by the State advisory committee on relief.

Herbert Hoover, Message on the Special Statewide Observance of Thanksgiving Day in Arkansas. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206955

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