A Fixed Easter SIR,—Would not all the difficulties caused by
the vagaries of Easter be removed by simply separating the holidays from the holy days? I suggest that the "spring bank-holidays" should be the third Monday in April and the preceding Friday, except when Easter falls that week-end, when the holidays would be taken a week earlier. The "summer bank- holiday" should be seven weeks later, in June. This would produce all the advantages of a fixed Easter, and the following additional advantages:
(a) Easter would no longer be regarded by most Englishmen as the occasion for three football-matches in four days.
(b) People who go away from home for the bank-holidays would be at home for Easter and Whitsuntide, and could attend the services in their own churches, instead of missing them completely, or attending as strangers.
I can see only one difficulty: how to celebrate Good Friday. In my view nothing could be less appropriate than the present attitude to Good Friday, which has become for most people 'just another bank- holiday." It would be far better if it were generally regarded as a day of work, with early services for those who wish to attend church.—
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