POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS
"Anti-Lunatic" writes; “What right has anyone to bring children into this lunatics’ world where we must either become gun fodder or make munitions and bombs to destroy humans? They even drag the name of God into their lamentations to make the birth of a teeming population a pious necessity. There are scientists who predict that we are heading for extinction. We shall well deserve it.”
. Gu. Mannering, jun., writes: “I have just read the letter of your correspondent, “Slap Happy” on the subject of swing.’ I think it is right that he should know that there are plenty of others willing to back him up in his statements about the Duke’s “Blue is a great shame that the public do not get a chance to hear this music rather than the tin-pan tripe that they are getting thrown at them through the local air-waves and. which they are given to believe is swing. No wonder, with this state of affairs existing. is swing music considered trash.”
Practical,” o n the campaign for Ghnstian Order, contends that in gen--i Win u of youth does not “rise °' unt f ri , ab *?y.® things material.” To I* 1 , 1 , 3 attltude the writer suggests that religion in some form must ehi.rcb U a ?n earl £ years 53 a habit and church-going and attendance at Sun- , a t s i hoGl and Bible classes must be looked upon as a natural procedure on Sunday. Practical” suggests that thp approach must be made to the y o img n others and fathers of to-day "to bnng their children up as church-goers as they used to two generations ago.”
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23882, 26 February 1943, Page 6
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