ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 20 May 1920, Page 17

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Evolutionist. Considering the dictatorial and infallible tone of your wonderfully modest and courteous letter, we are amazed to find you admitting that there are some things you do not knowespecially as these things are known to most people of average education.

Hopeless. Thanks for your letter. More than once during the war we dwelt on the fact that many of the lies told about the Germans would never have been told if the liars had even a moderate education. British ignorance was the origin of many a tale of atrocities.

Spring Poet. Good advice is to write a few poems—and burn them. Versification and rhyme do not make poetry. And common-place ideas expressed in rhyme are common-place all the time, only if possible more so than ever.

Marxian. We will deal at length' with your questions in our Topics later. An answer to your query about the materialistic conception of history must needs be of considerable length. Reader. Thanks for the cutting. We have read many absurdities in our ignorant British press but your cutting takes the cake. The Melbourne Herald is now easily first of first. It is surely the hall mark of British culture and the tine flower of

Colonial education to say that “It is - expected that the 'Pope shortly make an important pronouncement on Irish Caff airs, and will probably take the occasion to canonise Count Plunkett, the prominent Sinn Feiher.” Of course it does not matter that the Count is still alive and that the saint was killed by the English in hatred of his religion centuries ago. But it is lovely— it now The man who wrote that ought to be in the N.Z. Cabinet,