TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 448, 8 October 1919, Page 6

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Letters to the Editor should be terse, of general interest, and free from offensive personalities. They should be written in ink. on cue side Of the p-ip'-r only, and th" names of the writer, should be ".iveu as a si. n ot good iaitu. TH_ 0.8.L. ANu IT!, MEHIIS. I ha\o ais:.her spa.m, and -is per -Mi-:1 rush |i> The Worker for relief'till, time .1 am xvry much concerned and -iTrioii X niv mind about tho 0.8.1. Xol the <>'.!..V. I thoroughly understand (hat and heartily appiovo of it-; but the o.l3.l:.—Order of th. British Empire. t want to knew mere about it. I U.n. isi." iv, .',. s In - --I.!. -, :,s.-nn..] ,-!::. -. third class, tuinlli class and tilth ila.-:s; I do uofc know übother tlii'ro is a, sixth class, seventh class, ~ighth class and deg box class, but perhaps there uiay be. 1 L.tii'o that tho people who are awarded with tho 0.E.8. are geueially the least, desirablo and most useless people in tile community, yet really useful and desirable people such as Bob Semple, The Vug. the editor of The Worker and Bill l'lirkoi", are never distinguished this way. Obviously therefore it cannot be an order of merit. 1 am told however that it is v. mark of dis-stink-tion, and what I am concerned about is to locate tho __iux of the whole billy business . Some people, nnt many, seem to think it is awarded for patriotism. If this is so does it nean that a second-rate patriot gets a _.c(__Lclass 0.8. E., and a fifth-rate patriot gets a fifth class 0.8.L. : But, most people seem to think it is awarded to those people wiho pinched th.- most war-profits, and judging from »n« .e----cipient3 of this order I am iu*-ined t.o agree with them. But if this is _"•• why is it that so few are chosen for this dis-stink-tion? I once Knew or a prostitute, who after getting" _• returned soldier drink, wheedled his money from him and bought a fur coat. Now I claim that the fur cent was real genuine war profits. Is she entitled to an 0.8. E.? Say fifth class? and if not why not? I hay© no private axe to Knurl. I freely admit that whether the 0.8. E. is awarded for patriotism n' j.-'ielii-. war profits, 1 a.m entirely t.X'.i-.ilih'-d. Tli c motiv© which actuates t-is spasm is purely aitruX.ic. I eimply demand justice for tbe prostitute. Th© principlo which inspired her to get the fur coat was exactly the same as t-tro principle which inspires any or.her war-protu-p. r, ami it :» cert-amly not her fault iha; her opportunities wer© so many the less. Perhaps -cur dear comrade and brother, Magistrate Fraser, will a-'d us with his university education anid forensic experience in this matter. He was good enough to offer mc his opinions upon a matter which he did not understand and when I did not want them; surely he will not fail now to drop The Worker a line (presuming my last spasm has convicted him) when one Drotuer Bolshevik appeals to another, so urgently as I do in this, my most' earnest and passionate appeal to hi in. —BOLSHEVIK.