PROCLAMATIONS-APR . 13, 1946 CHILD HEALTH DAY, 1946 April 13, 1946 [No. 288] 36U. . 0. 143. Designation of May 1, 1946, as Child Health Day. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Congress by joint resolution of May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 617) has authorized and requested the President of the United States to issue annually a proclamation setting apart May 1 as Child Health Day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, in recognition that the health of American children, like their education, should be accepted as a definite public responsibility, do hereby designate the first day of May of this year as Child Health Day. And I call upon the people in each of our communities to pledge themselves today to review their community health and medical care services to see how well these services meet the needs of all our children in the light of the goals of the national health program, and to organize a definite plan to achieve within the coming year at least one improve- ment in community health services which will contribute to the better health of children. 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 1 3 th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. By the President: JAMES F BYRNES Secretary of State. HARRY S TRUMAN NATIONAL MARITIME DAY, 1946 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS improvements in modes of ocean transportation during the last one hundred and fifty years have opened possibilities, new in history, of mutually profitable intercourse and closer relations between peoples; and WHEREAS a signal event in this technical progress was the first successful ocean passage by a steam-propelled vessel, the Savannah, which departed from Savannah, Georgia, May 22, 1819; and WHEREAS in World War II the seamen of the United States Merchant Marine displayed splendid heroism, under stress and under hazard in the waters of every ocean, in meeting the demands on them in the colossal task of supply which was so essential to our victory; and WHEREAS in peace no less than in war the Merchant Marine makes a vital contribution to the welfare of the Nation; and WHEREAS the Congress by a joint resolution approved May 20, 1933 (48 Stat. 73) designated May 22 of each year as National Maritime Day and requested the President to issue annually a [60 STAT. April 13, 1946 (No. 26871 36U. S. 0.145. 1344
�
