OCR Text |
Show Thousands of Pedes! rians Rc-deeked Rc-deeked Willi Pledges lo Help Retail Clerks. xJNE O'CLOCK MOVEMENT . EVIDENTLY FINDS FAVOR Promoters of Campaign Relieve Re-lieve That Alucb Rood Will Result to Workers. "Tag. you're It," was the popular salutation salu-tation Thursday on I he streets of Salt Lake. The salutation was accepted with the best of good nature, for there was no reason why It should noL be, "seeing as how" people -were tagged by charming charm-ing young ladles, who did the lagging with grace and skill. Twenty thousand tags were used up early in tho day, and a lot moro were ordered. These, too, went the way of tho llrst lot on the coat lapels of young men, old men. women and girls. The tags bore the legend on the ono side: "1 shop early on Saturday, do you?" On the reverse side was the appeal: "Please shop early on Saturday and help the clerks." The committee having in charge the decorating of the pedestrians Included tho MIssca Boyd. Morgan. Kimball, Palmer. Pal-mer. ReM. Knowldcn and Bushy. At noon Mrs. L. Andrews of Walker Bros.' department store headed a large nunibor of saleswomen who. in tho lunch hour, assisted in the work. The result of tho day's campaign was that practically everybody who was templed out by the beauty of tho day carried a tag. Tho slKiiiilcance of the occasion was a step forward in the movement for Ii-o'elock closing on Saturday nights, recently re-cently Instituted by the retail clerks' union. The theory and. Indeed, the practice, ought to be. too Is that people peo-ple can do all of their buying earlier on Saturday, early enough, at any rate, to permit the clerks to have a little time In which to prepare for tho following Sunday, The movement, loo. It is contended, will result In larger attendances at the Sunday services in Lite churches, for the store employees will not need the luxurious luxu-rious extra nap of a Sabbath morning. |