ARMS AND THE MEN

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 18, 20 July 1918, Page 4

ARMS AND THE MEN

TO TUB EDITOR,

Sir, —Were it not for the grim tragedy now boing enacted on the other side of the Globe, the, naivete displayed by your correspondent "Common Sense" in last evening's Post could only be productive of mirth, but, coming on the back of- our High Commissioner's indiscretion re wool and mutton versus fighting, one is left in a quandary as to the true genesis of the "feelers." As "Common Sense" has been pilloried in your leading article last evening, and driven into.the cul-de-sac of his own planning, it is surely a work of supererogation to slay the slain; but, Sir, the iteration and reiteration of a plausible story of the man in the street works like madness in the brain and- the sense of proportion inevitably suffers thereby. Seriously, Mr. Editor, let me ask this question : If we have, as implied by "Com,mon Sense" and others, reached the last man and the last shilling, and are undergoing the operation of being bled white, how comes it that riches are being heaped up in places beyond the dreams of avarice, and the volume of expenditure on sport and luxuries has swollen to an enormous extent? Surely the element of eordidness is not going to be allowed to. stay our efforts in any and every. direction which will bring about the desired result.—l am, etc.. JOHN MORRIS. 18th July.