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Show HAPPY HOLIDAYS This Won't Happen Again Until 1976 You like to have holidays fan on3 weekends? Then 1948 should be a year of great promise. Most of the major holidays this year will fall on Saturdays and Sundays, Sun-days, which Is either good or bad, depending on how you feel about getting time off down at the old mill. Sundays, whereon fall Washington's Washing-ton's birthday. Memorial Day and Independence Day, aren't too bad because the government and most other employers observe the Mondays Mon-days following as legal holidays and so extend holiday benefits to their employees. But for the working man it's a rough shake when a holiday falls on a Saturday, for it doesn't bring an alternate day off. And this year a eF ! . both Christmas and New Year's Day (1949) fall on Saturdays. Of the three remaining holidays, two come on weekdays without the j aid of any Idiosyncracies on the part of the calendar. Labor Day. September 6 this year, arrives on Monday simply because be-cause it always falls on the first Monday of September instead of on any one numerical day in the month. Same goes for Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing on Thursday. Armistice Day just happens to come on Thursday this year. Study of the calendar and holidays holi-days for 1948 also developed another an-other odd angle. The year's three Sunday holidays can happen only once every 28 vears. So, the last time February 22 May 30 and July 4 all fell on Sundays Sun-days in the same year was in 1920. The next time after this year will be in 1976. The deciding factor is the extra day (February 29) every seven leap years. Now this is the place for someone who knows calendar law to argue that since the coming year 2000 (a century year divisible by 400) is not a leap year, it will be 32 more years, or 2008, after 1976 before the three holidays again appear on Sundays. Sun-days. However, this is not a subject to spend much time worrying about. Besides, who'll be alive to take a holiday in the vear 2008' |
