COMPULSORY STOP

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29803, 21 April 1962, Page 10

COMPULSORY STOP

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WHIM WHAM]

Law offices will be closed Hotel bars and liouor wholesalers wib be closed on Good Friday and Anzac Dav Postmen will make no deliveries on Friday, Monday or Wednesday. . . —Newspaper report. Sir, 1 think No-one doubts that You and I Revere the Things all decent Men revere Not shallow Cynics, cheaply to decry The solemn Days our Nation keeps each Year. Deeply religious though we may not be, Nor apt to burn with patriotic Zeal, I think, at least I like to think, that We Feel, at such Times, what decent Men must feel. I wonder, though (I wonder if You too Wonder a Little) if our well-meant Blend Of Holy Days and Holidays rings true. If pious Means best serve the pious End. This extra long Week-end, this gay Vacation No Harm in That, please don’t mistake Me, now! But with such Days of grave Commemoration, Doesn’t it seem incongruous, somehow? F° ur _Days the Postman neither knocks nor rings. Three Days all Trade in Liquor is prohibited; To Laws like these the Nation’s Conscience clings, By W’hich its Faith and Piety are exhibited. Going away for Easter. Sir? I've said What we All say. and we All need the Break. Good Friday s past, but Anzac Day's ahead For Conscience’ (and for Recreation's) Sake. Am 1 too serious? That’s the Way it wags. Our island World, and maybe it’s 0.K.. But still the Question frets, the small Doubt nags IS the Day holier for the Holiday?