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Show FOIl 52 DAYS New Year's Day ushers in for Americans an average of only 52 working days. No, that's not a misprint. The figure fig-ure 52 is right, for all the rest of the days are holidays somewhere in the nation. And, to carry the hypothesis hy-pothesis further, if all the legal holidays now observed anywhere were adopted generally, the average aver-age working week would be only one day for labor, and six for rest and play. For after you leave out the Sundays and legal holidays which will occur during the year, there remain 52 days on which no one can find any excuse ex-cuse except laziness for not working. Unlike almost every other country, coun-try, tha United States has no national nation-al legal holidays. All the public holidays in the various states have been declared so by state legislatures. legisla-tures. The President's Thanksgiving Day proclamation, for instance, makes the day he designates a legal holiday everywhere in the U.S. and its territories simply because every state and all the territories have passed local laws declaring that whatever day the President designates desig-nates as Thanksgiving Day shall be observed. All over the world January 1 is celebrated as New Year's Day except ex-cept in England. Northern Ireland, Wales, in the Mohammedan countries coun-tries of Hejaz, and in China. |
