CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20056, 11 October 1930, Page 21

CORRESPONDENCE.

Correspondents wlio do not comply •with onr rules set out in the last column of our <eader page will excuse n» from noticing their letters. the bridge of remembkance. TO THE EDITOR OIT THE PRESS Sir, —According to a report which appeared in T.iik I'ress recently a motorist made the astounding statement that the Bridge of Remembrance was a death trap. As one who lives close to the bridge and who has motored over it upon many occasions, X wish to state that 1 have never witnessed an accident on or near the bridge. To my mind the architectural style of the bridge assists motorists by compelling them to slow down in order to take the turn over the bridge going west. All motorists approaching the City via the bridge have a clear view of the roadway north and south. Of course, if a stupid motorist approaches any bridge at a speed of 30 or 40 miles per hour, trouble must be expected. Bearing in mind what has happened to the Clock Tower, I do hope the Bridge of Remembrance will be allowed to rest in its present position.—Yours, etc., ERNEST .T. BELL. October 10th, 1930.

DEMOCRACY. IHE EDITOR OF THE PRXSS Sir,- —From various directions we liear cries of foar or of jubilation concerning the decline or the probable demise of the democracies of the world, but no true democrat should ever have oven a doubt as to the final success that will crown the efforts and the struggles that the forces of social progress are using in the present conflict against the powers of darkness and reaction. We have been told that the real purpose of trials and difficulties is threefold: First, to cause the reaction and the efforts necessary for progress; second, to serve as a warning against the repetition of mistakes; and third, to serve as a test. The present-day crisis belongs to the last category. Democracy although still in its embryonic stage, is really the result of natural social evolutionary tendencies rather than the produet of any one or many schools of thought, and it is the only logical and possible condition where man can develop those powers and virtues which are essential to a stable social Btate. The criticism levelled at democracies does not really a case of failure or a lack of suceess of the democratic principle. Democracy, like all vital movements, is an ever becoming and a never final process, and like the auriferous stream must take through the dangers, the trials, the difficulties, and also through the many deviations, the golden nugget of the perfected man to the sea of Divinity.—Yours, etc., H. COLONNA. October 20th, 1930.