Show Gee Thanksgiving Moves Again Back Back to Old Stand This Time WASHINGTON May 20 UP President Roosevelt decided Thursday his experiment in changing the date of Thanksgiving ing has been a failure and that beginning in 1942 the holiday again will be established on its traditional date the date the last Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day in November The president said Thanksgiving ing day this year will be proclaimed proclaimed proclaimed pro pro- claimed for the next to last Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day In November because it now is too late to revise previous com corn commitments commitments to calendar makers and other groups But next year he said he will proclaim Thanksgiving day forthe for forthe I Ithe the final Thursday y of November the day on which the holiday had been celebrated until 1939 when he changed it I I 1 His original move he said was made at the earnest solicitation of retailers and retail agencies who felt that Thanksgiving and Christmas fell too close together By advancing the Thanksgiving date a week they felt retail sales could be be increased considerably he said For some time the president said the department of commerce commerce and the United States Conference of Mayors have conducted surveys to discover whether retail business business business busi busi- ness actually had been assisted In general they found that the large majority of retail stores re reluctantly reluctantly reluctantly re- re agreed the change had hadnot hadnot hadnot not made much difference he said The personnel of the United States Slates Conference of Mayors was about evenly divided in the controversy controversy controversy con con- over the tite holiday date |