e streets are swept, and the stove-pipe hats
are back in their band-boxes....

"Yet of course there must be holidays. We can no more do without
holidays than without sleep. For every man there must be certain
stated intervals of repose--of recreation in the original sense of the
word. My views on the worthlessness of classical education are perhaps
pretty well known to you, but I don't underrate the great service that
my friend Professor Ezra K. Higgins has rendered by his discovery[5]
that the word recreation originally signified a re-creating--i.e.,[6]
a time for the nerve-tissues to renew themselves in. The problem
before us is how to secure for the human units in the Dawn--these
giants of whom we are but the foetuses--the holidays necessary for
their full capacity for usefulness to the State, without at the same
time disorganising the whole community--and them.

[Footnote 5: "Words About Words." By Ezra K. Higgins, Professor of
Etymology, Abraham Z. Stubbins University, Padua, Pa., U.S.A. (2
vols.).]

[Footnote 6: "_Id est_"--"That is."]

"The solution is really very simple. The community will be divided
into ten sections--Section A, Section B, and so on to Section J. And
to every section one day of the decimal week will be assigned as a
'Cessation Day.' Thus, those people who fall under Section A will rest
on Aday, those who fall under Section B will rest on Bday, and so on.
On every day of the year one-tenth of the population will be resting,
but the other nine-tenths will be at work. The joyous hum and clang of
labour will never cease in the municipal workshops....

"You figure the smokeless blue sky above London dotted all over with
airships in which the holiday-making tenth are re-creating themselves
for the labour of next week--looking down a little wistfully, perhaps,
at the workshops from which they are temporarily banished. And here I
scent a difficulty. So attractive a thing will labour be in the Dawn
that a man will be tempted not to knock off work when his Cessation
Day comes round, and will prefer to work for no wage rather than not
at all. So that perhaps there will have to be a law making Cessation
Day compulsory, and the Overseers will be empowered to punish
infringement of this law by forbidding the culprit to work for ten
days after the first offence, twenty after the second, and so on. But
I don't suppose there will often be need to put this law in motion.
The children of the Dawn, remem