FACTS VERSUS RHETORIC.

Evening Star, Issue 23335, 3 August 1939, Page 14

FACTS VERSUS RHETORIC.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —My respectful congratulations to “ Inquirer ” for so ably putting the position of the average man in regard to “ Popoffski ” and his letters; “ and so compels us to see them both as absurdities ” is neat and to the point. 1 have always followed “ Popoffski’s ” letters with great attention until it became obvious that his sole and absolute guide to the prosperity of each and every class of the community was to be measured by how much an (apparently) chronically unemployed man can screw out of the current Government by way of dole or “ subsidy ” (sic). His letters abound in “ a Government that expected me and my family to live on so much a week.” At the present time every possible—and in many cases impossible—penny is being gouged out of the taxpayer in order to present those whom “ Popoffski ” represents with a wage far in advance of what the country can afford. He and his friends are quite all right; therefore the country is prosperous. Surely this is rather a preposterous argument. Perhaps it is asking too much of our “ Scottish-Rus-sian ” to realise that, strange as it may seem to him, there_ are actually other people and classes in this country beside the immigrant unemployed. Let not our friend take offence at this, for the writer is himself an immigrant, and has known unemployment.—l am, etc., Mint Julep. August 2.