A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
HE Government is not very happy in its decisions about public holidays. The fiasco of the Christmas holiday is • dently to be repeated at the Easter holiday. Perfectly right its view that, since workers in the munitions and other essen- industries must in the country's interest remain at work, proper thing is for the whole country to remain at work, the overnment has announced that though a holiday on Easter onday may be permitted, Good Friday will be observed as a rural day, and retail shops are asked to remain open. It .ght well, perhaps better, have been decided to stop on riday and work on Monday, but whichever it was the Govern- eat ought to take steps to get its decision observed. As it the daily papers are to appear on Monday, which is a holiday, d not appear on Friday, which is to be observed as an ordinary . Various other industries are simply ignoring the request bout Friday. If the Government cannot get its wishes re- cted—it is still to be hoped that it can—it would be uch better to express no wishes at all. Flat disregard is not ood for its prestige.
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