SUNDAY

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1919, Page 11

SUNDAY

(By "No. 1367890.")

A mother has asked me to express her views. Here they are. -If any credit is due it is hers, if any abuse it is mine. I can stand it better : —

Sunday is the day, the day of days, the perfect day, the day of rest, mothers' day, fathers' day, the kiddies' day, the day which we all spend together. Our day. your day, the day on which mother can spend an extra hour or two at rest, the day on which father can romp with the kiddies. Sunday—Home day, and that's it, home day, and there's no place like home, is there?

Sunday, the day for recreation for those unable to get it during.the week. Sunday, rest day, cure day—the day on which we relay and renew the vigour that the week has taken out of us; the day on which the boss don't count; your day to 6pend as you wish—at home, at church, at the beach, at the Zoo, at the park. The day to visit or to be visited. The day of days.

Sunday is essentially the worker's day. It is the greatest privilege he enjoys— one day's rest in seven. His trades unions have never gained for him a greater privilege. They have gained for him shorter hours and higher wages, but they do not get him one day's rest in seven; Sunday is worth protecting. You should protect it because it protects you.

How do the Labour Party—the Socialists rather—protect your Sunday?—they protect it by making it a working day— the same as the other six. Either the public are too thick-headed to take their views into their heads in six, or their policy wants so much explaining that it takes seven days to do it instead of six. Labour should do nothing to interfere with your rest day. They should protect it. They should not mar it by holding political meetings. No other political party makes Sunday a working day. Do you want the day of rest taken from you? ,Six days shalt thou labour and do all" that thou are able; on the seventh day you shall holy: stone the deck and square the cable, is the sailor's slogan. Do you want to see the ships working on Sunday—the wharves open; the same as they are in India,' the Continent of Europe, and some parts of the United States? Do you want to see the Sunday Family Circle broken up? Protect your greatest privilege—protect it by voting out those who for their own personal ends would turn [home day into a working day. There is nothing greater than Sunday. There never was; there never can be anything greater than Sunday. It stands out by itself—a monument of greatness. To gain the ends' of peace, Sunday was used as a day of work in war. It had to be, for the other fellow worked. Peace is now here and Christmas with its tidings of goodwill and love for your fellow men will soon bs> here. Protect your goodwill. Protect your Sunday. To protect Sunday may be old-fashioned, but it is a fashion that should never change. The ages have built it up ; the present age should guard it. Neither Veitch (Labour M.P.) nor Smith (Labour M.P.) speak violently on Sunday. But they represent true Labour '