 Just before the boys go to the football game, they hear a commotion  in the distance. Curly says, "Maybe its the Fourth of July!" Moe  says, "The Fourth of July in October?" Curly replies, "Sure. Look  what they did with Thanksgiving." This reference is lost on most  people today. Before 1939, Thanksgiving was not a fixed date, but  relied on a Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation each year.  Lincoln began the national holiday in 1863 and most people were used  to Thanksgiving being the last Thursday of November. In 1939 (the  year before this short was released), President Roosevelt changed  the date of the national holiday, much to the disagreement of many  of the states governors and their citizens. This change added an  extra week of holiday shopping, which pleased the leaders of big  business. The move was quite controversial and it wasnt until the  end of 1941 that Congress passed a law to settle the dispute and  establish the "fourth Thursday" of November as our Thanksgiving Day.