POINTS – FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23361, 21 June 1941, Page 5

POINTS - FROM OTHER LETTERS

secretory of: rftih - (Mr Tom ,W,. Sm»n) tnanKs readers'of “Thd .press” for “hundreds of pictorials And illustrated magazines cLt to the 1 club!’ rwe.r have, plenty of reouests/’toe adds; for'the, surplus andtoese ’will be seftf to .the 'camps round'the city.” • *'-■ ' • on. “Government promises” “NationaL Credit” writes; In present:. Government’ was elected tp sflS and althbugh years has elapsed, toe pe°ple are_stjll waiting hilftlitfenf of. > the," promises given them S tito Ume ‘ by their, Pari a-, :in -their deter-: miriflf.ion -’to , .every fn-”u?ffi;;Vffbrt-iri ; the . Dominion they" kave: ■ ■ not/ ionlyr ” brought the

country’to a state of chaos, but in doing ;sd< haVe! instilled in the hearts, of the people a degree of resentment they had previously never known.” '

On « '‘Unity in the War .Effort" “trJ.’V write;: ‘‘There is no reason why we should riot make munitions, arms, tanks,- ships, etc., for overseas arid home defence, other than that our leaders are completely lacking, in any iriitiative whatever. We are far from the active war zone' and should be, able to import the metals required without undue trouble; The distressing truth is that we have, and have had for the lafet 20 years, no leaders of any foresight or even moderate genius. The poverty of thought and initiative in this country, is due. to the inertia of its people."

Commenting on Mr W. Machin’s recent address to the Workers Educational Association, W. B. Bray 'iwrites: “Mr Machin is reported to have" Said that men had overlooked' that: we ’could pot- live by what; we consumed, but by what we produced.’. t have always, been. under the impression that life is maintained by consum-ing-hot guns, but foodstuffs, of course. Production, in the jargon of economics, includes gunsv'The ‘emphasis to-day is on the necessity for more guns. Thei side ithat concentrates on too much production of the things that destroy life arid; falls short in the . production of food,. starves;its. people:, arid proVes Mr Mbchin’s economics to be -wrong.”

“About Vaughan* Williams’s War record,, there is-a story ’that:after brie of the early: perfor-, mances of - his ‘London Symphony,’ at "Queen’s -Hall; during- the 1914-18 war, cable in ffis privatefs unifpftri jtb acknowledge. One of our societies certainly - give his Cforia Novis Pacem,’ < without, if possible, ithat telephone bell that added Its wretched note 1 to a performance of 'On. Wenlock Edge’ at the Harmonic Society’s recent concert.” i

'On “Spring Tides at Sumner” Chas.. DV Matson writes: “I would like *to ally myself with those who refer to the stone walling and *oad-Obstruction near Cave Rock as probably rin important contributing cause and ..would-advocate their removal, • The theory that - the sand is; preveritM-from -beirig blown to the south-ea'si by these obstructions when the wind - is north-west, even if the free flow of the water at high tide cannot be lined up as also helpful in keeping a clearance for sand, seems to one to have something in it.”

S. W. ’Hickmott '.writes: “‘Piscator is- not correct in stating that ‘during his- 50- years of experience in Sumner that - the sea did ■ only occasionally come right;round,,Cave Rock.’ I can Wellremember.’ some 20 years back when every high ; tide would wash right through - the - Cave Rock and round both' sides, taking ; ail the loose sarid’ und debris back in the backwash. What I suggested was to assist Nature .'by toriking .a ipassage; way round the rocks, sa.that either wind-blown sand or the sea’ could get. right round the rocks at high tides, but not in;any way to. disfigure the natural* Cave Rock. .This could easily be done as ’Piscator’, 'suggests*!#! taking away the ‘SOUthern ; part oftoe'Esplanade.” .