Show dys r thankful allai ild ul but tom n turkey 1 u akey kid and the guy that prints your calendar by BOB released by western newspaper union thanksgiving doy day in most states of tho the union will bo be november this your year dig down deep into your old trunks up in tho the attic and find yourself a calendar of a few years ago then turn to tho the clementh cle page november see sea that red number staring at you on the last thursday thurida y no matter where a person lived in this country lie ho saw the same date marked with ire red but this year that is different ferl some calendars place thanksgiving on the gist and some on the other companies imbued with a deep desire to remain strictly nonpartisan failed to mark either cither date or else printed them both in red printers were placed in such a dilemma only once before in this nations history that was brick back in 1703 1705 when the scheduled ing dato date was shifted around duo due to molasses dut but moro more of that later for many years it has been the custom tor for the president ot of the united states to proclaim the last thursday of november ns as thanksgiving u day ely for years it was an established date vacation plans school holidays and even big intersectional and traditional grid contests were arranged tor for this date request for change then last year president roosevelt surprised the notion nation by issuing his famous move it up a week proclamation pro clama tion it all happened tills this way low lew hahn bahni general manager ot of the national retail dry goods association cia tion wrote harry hopkins secretary of commerce a letter the letter ultimately handed to president roosevelt read retail merchants throughout tho the united states who are through the nature of their business obliged to plan well in advance are considerably disturbed at tho the moment over the possibility of tho the pro pre christmas period proving to be a week shorter this year than normal it seems impossible to interest the general public in preparations ny until the tho ny until the tho lor for christmas day observance la Is out of the way and inasmuch as it Is taken for granted that the president will issue hla his thanksgiving day proclamation tor for the last thursday of the month november 30 this will mean that all the great volume oi 01 christmas business will have to be transacted within tho the period of three weeks and two days As ot of course you know the preparations which the american people make for or the christmas holiday play a tremendously important part in the economy ot of the nation 1 I think it is no exaggeration to say that from 12 to 15 per cent of the entire business ot of retail stores is transacted in the period between thanksgiving and christmas pre christmas shopping 1 I have not sufficient temerity to seek seck to influence the president of 0 the united states in connection with the thanksgiving day pr proclamation 0 cla mation but it seemed to me that I 1 should point out to you the situation ns as it is and to say any that if any relief could be secured it would be not only good for business but tor for the public as well mr hahn was just as surprised as you or I 1 when the president announced that he intended moving thanksgiving day ahead from the N T IPP i WAL P 9 0 M r 16 q nil ja R R baw g 4 i 1199 w 4 these photos would have you believe that evert even tha turkeys themselves are lining doing sortie some art rious oua protesting about dual thanksgiving days in it tho the above picture little shirle shirloy ann vleit four cearold carold car old grand laugh ter ol of a F florida ac orida turkey farn farmer ter last year staged a strike ice lor for her furj turkey cey pets turkeys at right went on similar against an illinois farmer thirtieth ot of november to the twenty third lie ile had had no idea of the move until notified by the newspapers mr hahn a staunch republican Is 58 a resident ot of ridgewood N J and Is an enthusiastic golfer goker store more executive in 1028 lie ho was made president of a 29 storo store chain of department stores in 1032 1932 he was appointed to the industrial board ot of lie he also was waa on the roper advisory board for or the department of commerce ills his work with the brain trust I 1 completed he returned to his position in now new york as general manager of the national retail dry goods association the tha picture of tho the man whose letter persuaded mr roosevelt to give tho the turkey one week less ot of life those first thanksgiving days were big events on tho the social calendar of pioneering new england our historians tell us that tho the first thanksgiving ing was held in 1021 1621 in plymouth and were for the main gastronomic pow bows wows held largely for shrewd diplomatic conferences with the ever rendy ready to go anthe warpath karpath indians pumpkin pie and plum pudding were the savory ln in citations that lured the redskin from his windswept wind swept tepee down to tho the festive laden boards of the pilgrims no clat date while the pilgrims set aside day to greet thor their fellow men and give thanks tor for the capps there was no official date set ar for the observance in boston 10 il years year s later hungry colonists lined the shore eagerly scanning tho the skyline sky line tor for a sight ot of the ship that had left for england E six months before food was low moral was low the governors wit however was running on full steam ile he gathered them together and in order to preserve what little food they had left declared that there should be held a day of fast to av twi uumo seek the lord by and lasting that ho he might hasten the voyage of tho the lifesaving life saving ship bearing provisions towards evening on the day of fast a treetop tree top observer gave a shout of joy A speck in ili tho the distance a sail ball mindless of the wind and spray that hew flew over them tho the colonists gathered on tho the coastline coast line and shouted in joy as tho the speck grew larger and larger hunger and stimmy abbe 1 the next day tho the pangs panes of hunger in the stomachs of those settlers cott lera turned to the gnawing pains ot of 4 tummy acho as the governor ordered a spontaneous thanksgiving day and handed out provisions enough for all that first boston thanksgiving day incidentally was held on february 22 over a century before tho the birth of george father of his country premature but prophetically enough cause tor for thanksgiving in the years that followed thanksgiving days were observed but not annually several times there were lapses in between years when thanksgiving days daya were finally hold they were marked by some special reason such euch as good harvests deliverance Il from smallpox small pox good weather and prayer for deliverance of the danger donger to their frontiers in 1703 after thanksgiving days had been pretty well town of Co lechester in connecticut postponed thanksgiving ono one week due to a deficiency of molasses the s shortage hortage was tragedy since in those early days molasses was a symbol ot of thanksgiving day just as easter eggs symbolize easter to the kiddies and candy striped canes re represent P christmas too much molasses this postponement caused the older puritans to lament the fact that thanksgiving day was fast becoming so much a thing of molasses and other good eatables and so little a day of 0 solemn religious ceremony during the congress appointed thanksgiving days which variously fell in april may july and december from 1784 to 1789 there were no thanksgiving days but in the latter year congress recommended to george washington that a day be set aside for or thanksgiving that americans might give thanks to the almighty that the constitution of the united states had been adopted george washington in 1705 1795 set aside december 18 as thanksgiving daythan day that we might thank him that the insurrection had been suppressed there Is no record as to what the dry goods merchants of that era said or wrote to him in 1816 1810 president james madison urged congress to name a thanksgiving day in honor of peace in 1603 1803 abraham lincoln received and acted upon a suggestion to make the thanksgiving day an annual affair ile ho recommended the same to congress and advised that it be held in november it has been a november day ever since and so on year by proclamations procla mahlons of the prest dent and the governors gove mors ot of the varl vari ous states turkeys will end their days on platters surrounded by steaming potatoes gleaming cranberries luscious pumpkin pie and all the trimmings that go along to make thanksgiving day the least that it is A few states will continue to ob serve on november 28 while several as they did last year will abse observe two thanksgivings pity the poor turkey |