6 APRIL 1951, Page 22

.SIR.-1 should like to commend the excellent suggestion about Easter

in your last issue. Let Easter be variable as it is now, and let the spring holiday be independent of it and fixed. Surely Janus misses the point. Good Friday would not be a holiday at all, but a holy day.—Yours faithfully, N. H. FITZHERBLRT. The Hall, Somersal Herbert, Derby.

[Janus writes: How could anyone prevent Good Friday from being observed as a holiday by the greater part of the population if all normal employment is suspended?]