State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
WILBUR L. CROSS
GOVERNOR
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HE past year has witnessed many trials and
tribulations among Our people. Actual want
and suffering have been abroad in our country.
(42% 2/May it please God, the Author of all Good,
that the day is near when “sorrow and sighing shall flee
away” and “the desert shall rejoice and blossom as
the rose.” Easter approaches with its lesson that matter,
mute and inanimate, has a constant rebirth; that resurrec-
tion follows death.
The spiritual transcends the material. That there
may be a quickening realization in the chastened con-
sciences of mankind that the beginning and the end of
wisdom is to deal justly with our fellows and walk
humbly with our God, I designate Friday, the third day
of April next, as a day of
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and I call upon the people of this State to fittingly observe
the solemn significance of the day and learn anew the
lesson that in sacrifice and suffering and struggle is the
glorious hope of a Better Day.
Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this nineteenth day of
March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one and of the independ-
ence of the United States the one hundred and fifty-fifth.
By His Excellency's Command:
Secretary.



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