CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10106, 13 October 1917, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

RETURNED SOLDIER’S GRIEVANCE. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In the account ot the special meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Association held last evening, 1 am reported as having said to Mr White that 1 consideri'd that “any man who had had one drink was under the influence of liquor.'* 1 bejj to. emphatically deny this statement. I have never in my life" given expression lo such a silly r reetc" T. r. iioumi. Palmerston North, October 12. SHOOT EVERY SEVENTH -MAN. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Certainly ! Quito right! Weed them out I Seven is the symbol of perfection, and Germany the only nation in the world that understands the root mca.rung of the word. “Perfection rules tho roost all over the factory!” Shoot every seventh man and give double rations for six weeks to every newly married couple. A bonus for every child, and every encouragement to foster illegitimacy and polygamy; inateniitj homes free for tho general public, i>e<;ause the ixipulation must bo attended to and kept up to tho mark ; so “evolution does its elevating and humanising work (at any rate in this particular God-fearing country), and if only let alone would soon bring in the now era of a “new heaven and a neu earth,” wherein dwclleth a perfected principle that might is right—ami “what’s yours is mine.” Discipline by force alone must Iw maintained, or tho country will go bang,—l ai “BE C YE THEREFORE PERFECT.”