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Show Editorial . . . LET'S KEEP SUNDAY A DAY OF WORSHIP NOT A DAY OF WORK (Krprliited from an editorial In the Sunset News) The good Lord, in his infinite wisdom, gave us many laws and commandments to live by. One of these, the admonition to not work on the Sabbath and to keep it holy, is the easiest one to keep and yet it is the one that Is most often broken. Granted many people have to work on Sunday and there is little they can do about it. Farmer's have to feed their livestock and certain businesses vital to our very existence have to keep their employees at work on the Sabbath. These particular instances have to he condoned. But for the average worker there is little excuse for not spending Sundays with their family. With the busy schedule that even our children have, Sunday is perhaps Che only day of the week that the family can be together. Whether they go to Church or not is a matter that they only should decide. Nearly all retail stores have long ago decided that to be open for business six days a week is sufficient. That is, nearly all retail stores except grocery concerns. Somewhere along the line they decided that Sunday is just as important and lucrative a day 'as week days. Some of them insist that it is necessary to stay open on Sundays because the health and welfare of the people are in question. They argue that it would be unfair to deny these people the right to buy bread and milk for thoir children. This is a fair argument but unfortunately it is senseless. If grocery groc-ery stores were closed on Sunday it would merely mean that the average aver-age housewife would have to buy on Saturday the things she knows from past experienoe the family will need on Sundays. The people who do their shopping on Sundays are merely doing'so for their own convenience. Certainly it's very convenient to go to the gioccry store on Sunday to pick up some charcoal or hot dogs when you decide at the last minute to have a barbecue on Sunday afternoon. But it would be no great burden to ask people to think one day ahead and anticipate their grocery needs. It would probably be very nice also to be able to go to town on a Sunday and pick up a pair of shoes for the kids or a shirt for dad. But we are accustomed to this type of a stone being closed on Sunday so we do our shopping for clothes on a week day. It's doubtful if there has ever been a case of kids going barefooted because the shoe stores are closed on Sundays. And so we must come to -the conclusion that the arguments in favor of grocery stores being open on Sundays are indeed groundless. THie best you can say is that it is a convenience. Perhaps in this day of easy living and very ftw hardships, this is one convenience we can well do without. There are many valid reasons why grocery stores should close on Sundays. Among these are the fact that it will enable the employees of the giooery stores, and there are many of them, to spend Sunday with their families and observe the Sabbath. This might sound trivial to you but to these people it is very important. Simple logic tells you that no one would be hurt if grocei-y stores were to close on Sunday, including the store owners themselves. They would do the same amount of business in six days that they now do in seven. Sunset (News. |