Christmas Parties
Sir,—A jolly good editorial! You will find, I am sure, that worth-while people will respond whole-heartedly to those who give a moral lead—like the deputy-Mayor on the films. Leadership usually entails taking an unpopular line, but what is popularity compared with the moral future of a country?—Yours, etc., L.C. December 8, 1960. Sir, —In answer to “Think—and Act,” depriving children of their Christmas parties will not improve the terrible conditions in Eastern countries. What mother with a young family can go the round of lavish parties, anyway? Remove the bad working conditions (if you can) in these countries. I have lived in these countries during the war. You find two classes, the very rich and the beggars. Did the beggars ask their own countrymen for alms? Ask any soldier or woman who served abroad. They haunted us and we gave freely. Charity is not the answer. I never felt truly grateful for the food I had to line up for with a food ticket, facing the ill-concealed contempt of the shopkeepers. Neither did I enjoy wearing other people’s cast-offs. Man was not meant to live on charity but by the sweat of’his brow.—Yours, etc., JUST A MUM. December 7, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29385, 12 December 1960, Page 10
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