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to tee editor. Sir, —Lord Macaulay in his ‘Lays of Ancient Rome ’ puts into the month of Hqratius the worms ; “To every man upon this earth death cometh soon or late; and how can mar die better than facing odds,” etc. Possibly you had these lines ,m mind when you penned the list of “ fearful odds ” which you presented your readers with in your issue of this evening. Perhaps you 'will grant me space to mention a few of them. Eggs, 3s 3d per dozen; fowl wheat, 9s a bushel; pallets, £1 each; milk to rise Id a quart; Hospital rate increased old in the pound; rice increased to 9d a lb; butter—“ nobody can say what the price will be,” etc., eto. I hardly think that Horatius, with all his love “For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods” would have faced this additional list of “fearful odds” that we arc called on to face. Is it not time that a public meeting was called to take steps to force the exploiter and tbs Government to take a share of the “fearful odds” we are up against?—l am etc., April 13. Hard Hit.
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Evening Star, Issue 17327, 15 April 1920, Page 3
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