CONTENTIONS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21319, 12 November 1934, Page 9

CONTENTIONS

TO Till EDXTOS Off THE I'IIESS. Sir, —Now that you have sung your requiem over the "Contentions" I hope you will allow us to make our comments. The contentions will be missed by us on this page because the article in "the corner" often supplied the heron for us to fly our hawks at. Each week I hoped to see an article on the subject that W. E. Gladstone once said was of first Importance: viz., a knowledge of what happens to us when we died. The number of people who still believe what the Bible tells them is surprising: viz., that the dead know not anything. If they are questioned they will tell you that we sleep in our graves till the last trump 6hall sound, or some sort of ridiculous—ahem! stuff like that. Then there are the very many who have no ideas at all and never give the subject a thought. These people will probably have a better time, get a better start, than those who pass over holding wrong Ideas. News should not be the be all and end all of an enterprising newspaper.

If I were an editor I would try to conduct a sort of sky pilot corner or column wherein all sorts of opinions and ideas would be ventilated as to how to dodge the devil, who is supposed to be walking up and down the earth as in the days of Job. "I never gave the subject a thought till I started to read your letters," I have been told. If the space that has been spared for contentions was devoted to blazing the trail to heaven, shall I say, I believe "the corner" would catch on. —Yours, etc., PETER TROLOVE. November 11,. 1934.