French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
WEEK END HOLIDAY
MOVEMENT INAUGURATED BY
NEW JERSEY BANKER.
Would Also Have All Days Of ceIenra'
tion, Except Christmas and New
Years, Observed on Weeks
Last Working Day.

A holiday that would be celebrated
over the entire North American CONT
nent north of the Rio Grande is one
of the possibilities of the Saturday
full holiday national movement that
has been started here by Alfred n.
Chandler, a banker, says Montclair
IN. j. dispatch to the New York
Sun. The movement is to be of wide
scope and headquarters, in charge of
Mr.. Chandler, are to be opened IN
Newark. The object Of the movement
is to have the present fixed date"
holidays, except Christmas and New
Years days, shifted to specified Satur-
days nearest the dates of their pres
ent observance, and as an equivalent
offset in annual holiday hours thus
gained, the adoption of eight Satur-
day full holidays in the summer time,
including Independence and Labor
days. -~-~---~~,r-
Whether Washington was born on
the twenty-second calendar day of Feb
ruary or on the third Saturday of Feb
ruary; whether Lincoln was born on
the twelfth calendar day of February
or on the second Saturday of Febru-
airy; whether the Declaration of In
dependence was adopted on the fourth
calendar day of July or on the first
Saturday of July; whether Columbus
discovered the western hemisphere on
the twelfth calendar day Of October
or on the second Saturday of OctO-
ber-none of these precise dates of
the calendar is Of paramount import
ance when compared with the spirit
of the event commemorated in the
minds of those who are behind the Sat-
urday full holiday national movement.
THE business and professional man
in these days begins the weeks work
on Monday mornings keyed up in
spirit for five or five and a half days
of continued and uninterrupted effort"
said Mr.. Chandler in speaking of the
movement, but on the average in
every sixth week there comes with q
bang legal holiday in the middle Of
the week. At such times it becomes
difficult to throw off the pressure,
to relax, to get the holiday spirit. We
seem rather, once we have started, to
prefer the continuous weeks work and
begrudge the time lost, feeling that we
are not doing our duty to ourselves,
our families or our business.
'This interruption would be mate
rally lessened If the different states
would adopt the plan of observing their
various legal holidays on specified Sat-
urdayS instead of on fixed calendar
dates" continued Mr.. Chandler. DO
miniOn day is observed throughout
Canada on the first day of July.
Should we decide to observe our indie
pendeuce day annually on the first Sat-
urday In July 1t is not unlikely that
the Canadians would conclude to OBJ !
serve their Dominion day on the same |
day. Such harmony would be of senti- |
mental benefit and a gain usually Of |
one business day each year in bust =,
ness intercourse between the two peo- !
PIES"
AS showing the tendency upon the q,
part Of mercantile business toward
Saturday full holiday, Mr.. Chandler |
pointed out that leading department
store in New York city has for the last
Is years made every Saturday in July
and August a full holiday for it's en-
ployees, and during the last two sum-
merS the number Of stores that have
been closed all day Saturday has so
rapidly increased that last year there
were II prominent retail stores in
New York city which were closed all
day every Saturday in July and Au-
gust.
Mr.. Chandler also points out that
an average of four and a half days
would be added to the school term
by having Saturday holidays.