Disclosures about other agg ple's habits are always entertaining. and a
great deal is to be led about this nation's holiday habit, from a singularly interesting Booklet (called simply and sufficientb. Holidays) published by the Oxford University Press for the National Council of Social Service at 3s. 6d. It is concerned with what it is no exaggei-ation to call the holiday crisis, deriving from the fact tha: the demand for holiday accommodation is at present double the pre- war demand, and rapidly increasing, while the supply is, for various reasons, 75 per cent. below pre-war. What is to be done to meet the need? Obviously a great many different things, both because every kind of expedient must be invoked, and even that will be not
enough, and because tastes in holidays differ so widely. The majority taste is clear. Sea is preferred to country, and society—in large aggregations—to solitude. Holiday camps, therefore, near the sea are likely to be highly popular, and something can be done by con- verting the admirable hostels provided during the war by the Govern- ment for munition-workers and others, land-girls' hostels, some R.A.F.
camps and other institutions of the kind. Price, of course, has to be kept low, and a certain amount of organised entertainment must be provided, but a Government which has declared so decidedly in favour of holidays with pay may reasonably be asked to do something to make such holidays possible. * * * *
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