QUEENS’ CARNIVAL.

Evening Star, Issue 21510, 7 September 1933, Page 6

QUEENS’ CARNIVAL.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —As tho concluding days draw near the excitement and Keen interest increase, but, as in horse racing, when a dark horse forges ahead spice is added to your readers’ sporting instincts and to the glory of the game. May I appeal to your readers’ sporting instincts, and point out that there is a queen going a-begging? Where are the chivalrous Walter Raleighs of our day to come to her aid? Surely the people of our city are not going to keep the services queen at the bottom. Evidently the sporting proclivities of the people predominate over their instincts of duty, but service comes first. During the war tho service queen, as Red Cross sister, one of many heroic women, the very reincarnations of Florence Nightingale, nursed and brought comfort to many wounded soldiers, and us an old soldier I feel prompted to appeal on her behalf. Now then, citizens and diggers, what about it? Give her a chance to rise from fourth, so that in truth “ tho jast shall be first.” Feeling sure the rival queens will appreciate this request and trusting this appeal will not bo in vain, so that the flow of funds as * result to feed hungry children will justify the noble title she has chosen, —T am, etc., B. E. Kite. September 7.