Show FOR 52 DAYS New Years Year's Day ushers in for Americans an average of only 52 working days No that's not a misprint The figure figure figure fig fig- ure 52 is right for all the rest of ot the days are holidays somewhere inthe in inthe inthe the nation And to carry the hypothesis hypothesis hypothesis hy hy- hy- hy further if It all the legal holidays now observed anywhere were adopted generally the average average average aver aver- age working week would be only one day for labor and six for rest and play For after you leave out the Sunda Sundays s 's and legal holidays which will occur during the year there remain 52 53 days on which no one can find any excuse ex ex- cuse except case except laziness lazIness for for not working Unlike almost every other country country country coun coun- try th tha United States has no national nation nation- al legal holidays All AU the public holidays in the various states have been declared so by state legisla legisla- tures T The h e Presidents President's Thanksgiving Day proclamation for instance makes the day he designates a legal holiday everywhere in the US U.S. and its territories simply because every state and all the territories have passed local laws declaring that whatever day the President designates designates nates as Thanksgiving Day shall be observed All over the world January 1 Is ig celebrated as New Years Year's Day except except ex ex- ex in England Northern Ireland Wales in the Mohammedan countries coun coon tries of and in China |