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TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Can you help us? My daily prayer is: “.How long, O Lord, how Jong must we suffer discomfort and pain before you convert the enemies in our midst who arc compelling us—upwards of 60,000 people—to daily swallow stone dust?” Certainly it is nice, fine dust—the stone crusher fiends seo to that—but, nevertheless, it is stone dust, not comparatively harmless mud dust. A second “stone age” is at bund. As our daily winds continue we must continue to swallow stone, insidious because of its fine texture, but still stone. No wonder that our great army of doctors is kept busy. Soon, if our present gravel fiends arc not removed, wc shall become so impregnated with stone that we shall be able to engage Italian sculptors to work on our faulty features: but I, for one, am content to leave mine as they are—faulty, but familiar.—l am, etc., A.vothek Woman Pkotkstk'k. October 24.
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Evening Star, Issue 20315, 25 October 1929, Page 1
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