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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34041, 3 January 1976, Page 15

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(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) PHILADELPHIA, Jan 2. The Procrastinators’ Club in Philadelphia has put off joining America’s bicentennial celebrations until May — subject to further delays. Celebrations by the majority of “come-alive, get-up-and-go” Americans have already begun, bit the president of the Procrastinators’ Club, Mr Leonard Haas, says that his members may make a “somewhat-tentatively-planned” trip to the Netherlands early in May “to meet the boy who stopped a flood by putting his finger in a dyke, if we’re in time.” “However, even though next May could be a busy month, the club will continue to remain as inactive as possible,” Mr Haas said. “We do have steering committee meetings every month, but we

don’t do much. And we’ve just had our 1973 awards banquet, but we didn’t get around to choosing anybody for the honours. “We have a very inactive chapter in Sacramento, California. Most of the members there work for the Government, so they’re ideaL” The club claims 2700 members world wide, including the son of a former British Prime Minister, Sir Clement Atlee, but Mr Haas says that he’s not sure how many people actually belong to it, “because most of them don’t get around to paying their dues, and we can’t be bothered to count them.” The club, which began life as a joke in 1956, and has been going downhill ever since, has as its motto: “Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.’’