POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23087, 1 August 1940, Page 10

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Referring to the Welcome Club’s charge to soldiers of 6d a meal, ‘Another Mother” wonders what is done withvthe money “since the food is practically; all subscribed by the different organisations who undertake the job of entertaining tbe men on Saturday or "evenings, and tne Patriotic -Council finances the concern from'its- funds.” Greets- 1 attention, to’ the original : ?^don

not only .did these organisations devote themselves to furthering the interests of their particular trades, but many of had religious foundations and often devoted a great deal of their activity to helping the aged, the sick, and the widows and orphans of members, the help being furnished to master and man alike.** “It is a pity,’ 1 “Observer" adds, “that some of our ‘intellectuals’ had not devoted some of their attention to this aspect of pur socalled plutocracy, instead of digging up dark spots in our history and industrial development.” : “One of the Mugs” supports Mr Adam Hamilton’s protest in the House of Representatives against the. size of the public works vote. “This is a tune for sacrifice,” writes the correspondent, “and in my opinion public works and social security should be completely cut out.” The correspondent also contends that it is foolish to encourage farmers to grow more wheat in New Zealand when Australia has an export surplus of 100,000,000 bushels. “T.A.5.,” referring to road accidents, asks why the Minister for Transport does not cut down speed • and watch the effect that it has on the death rate. “The time could not be more opportune,” writes the correspondent, “as this- will assist in the much-desired saving "of petrol, and will lessen - the wear and : tear- on both road surfaces and tyres. It -will also chech the ever-. mounting insurance rate.” "26752,” on the question whether we are' fighting the German, people or merely Hitler, writes: “Of course, , we are* fighting ;thq; Germans,- 1 and- - air

though they would fiercely deny it, no people would profit more than they themselves if, by the help of Almighty God, we utterly vanquish their arrogant military caste.” "A Sufferer” complains of a “noise fiend” who is a daily early morning visitor to Richmond and who, between 3 a.iii. and 4 a.m., in several streets, makes a disturbance which “resembles that produced at Monica Park during a motor-cycle race.” H. J. Buttle (Barfield) writes: “Your correspondents who debate whether Anglo-Saxons are racially kin with Continental Saxons or ethically superior, are not contributing much to who’s who or what’s what in this war. Racially, on our -side, we have negroes, Mongols, Polynesians,, Circassians, Anglo-Saxons, Piets, Scots, Semites, and, very useful in a 'test of force, Hittites. Ethically, there are important contributions to our forces from those who are travelling towards the many mansions by routes as varied as Voodoos, Hindus, Moslems, Orangemen, Catholics, Communists, Presbyterians, and possibly a few Christians.”