CORRESPONDENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

I JMAKIMAGK AND SHIRKING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAE. ' Sir,—ln the ISt.vk of the 28th inst., there was an article on "Marriage and Shirking' , signed by "Empire First. ,, Now, in a time of f tress, as at the present Lime, 1 think a fetter of tin's description is very" much out of order and would cau.se far more harm than good, as a Britisher will Tiot bo bullied by anyone who likes to write a dirty letter and then is afraid to sign bis own name, and so uses a noni de plume. As regards the extra marriages. ], do not soc thut "•β-nvpiro Virst" has much cau.se for alarm and for using such strong lun-nag'\ as most of the weddings have taken place after the men have enlisted; unless be is afraid I hat bis turn might conic sooner when they run out of single men. Hut I say. why not give our heroes their one wish before they go to defend the country:-' Now. iL , * an old saying that a bad workman always finds fault, with bis tools, and so most of us think the same of n lot of (he. men who write about shirkers and cowards without even signing their own name. I am, etc., W. T. \<\ Chaink. Stairway. 31 /I /l(j.