Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-11-21
WEEKEND HOLIDAY
MOVEMENT lNAUGURATED Bv
NEW JERSEY BANKER.
Would Also Have All Days of CeIebra.
ton, Except Christmas and New
Years, Observed on Weeks
Last Working Day.

A holiday that would be celebrated
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 y.
Chandler, banker, says Montclair
IN. JO 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.
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 commem0rated in the
minds of those who are behind the Sat
urday full holiday national movement.
THE business and professional m:n
in these days begins the weeks work
on Monday mornings keyed up in
spirit for five or five and 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
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.
rio 1Agcnt.AI hn
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 hide
pendence day annually on the first Sat
urday in July it is not unlikely that
the Canadians would conclude to OBJ
serve their Dominion day on the same
day. Such harmony would he Of senti-
mental benefit and gain usually of
one business day each year in bust
ness intercourse between the two peO-
pies"
no oAlONlhS lllt lNlNNINy upOu INV
part of mercantile business toward
Saturday full holiday, Mr.. Chandler
pointed out that leading department
store in New York city has for the last
10 years made every Saturday In July
and August full holiday for its EN-
plOyees and during the last two sum-
mers the number of stores that have
Oeen 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 half days
would be added to the school term
by having Saturday holidays.