Thomas Woodrow WILSON
1914 - Woodrow Wilson signs a Mother's Day proclamation.

GIVES APPROVAL TO MOTHERS' DAY
President Wilson Acts on Joint Resolution of Congress
FLAGS ORDERED UP

Washington, May 9. - President Wilson today approved a joint resolution setting apart tomorrow as Mothers' day and issued a proclamation commanding that all flags be displayed in observance of the occasion. The proclamation recited the resolution and its purpose and continued:

"Whereas, by the said joint resolution it is made the duty of the president to request the observance of the second Sunday in May as provided for in the said joint resolution:

"Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said joint resolution, do hereby direct the government officials to display the United States flag on all government buildings and do invite the people of the United States to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places on the second Sunday in May as a public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country.

"In witness whereof I have set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.

"Done at the city of Washington this ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen and of the independence of the United States one hundred and thirty-eighth. WOODROW WILSON."