Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-06 | Page 2 | Postoffice Clerks Cross a Bridge Far, Far Away

Postoffice Clerks Clerks' Cross a Bri Bridge ge Far Far Away Holidays are all right but you must not let them interfere with pay day for for after all what's a holiday without without with with- out a pay check And And hewing have mercy on us us- us if the clerks at the postoffice didn't discover today that If the president continues to follow precedent and proclaim pro claim the last Thursday in as the day upon which we feast and give thanks Thanksgiving day and their pay day will be coincident There was panic panic and and consternation verging on hysteria A delegate was appointed to look up and find if pose possible possible pos pos- sible the e only d day y if lf there was one when the president proclaimed other than the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving dayGee dayGee day Gee fellers Cant Can't you see what will happen It will interfere with pay day Therefore If the clerks In the postoffice post post- postoffice office and the mail mall carriers can dig up a precedent tb they y are desperate enough to send a petition or something something some some- thing ot of the kind d a asking ing that ThanksgiVing Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- I giVing better day daTi still be dated a da day behind or a day in advance so as not to interfere with pay day Their concern Is somewhat natural isn't It