Your correspondent "here is the man who invested in two dollars' worth of Famine Relief Stamps and used them on his mail last November, He did so in good. faith, believing that that was the correct thing to do and a very real way of assisting the good work of famine relief and he imagined that everybody using the Post Office would avail themselves of the opportunity afforded to be bountiful in small instalments. But two months have passed, letters of all kinds have poured in but not one single Famine Relief Stamp has come his way in correspondence, and his stamp-collecting friends will still wait for specimens. The local postmaster does not admit that he cannot sell benevolent stamps, nor. as in loyal regard for the regulations, does he state in response to inquiry if he has ever seen any such stamps in the mail bags, but he heaves long-drawn sighs and says: "Alas, my fellow-countrymen fail to reach the foreigners' standard in philanthropy We would like to know if this apathy to the Post Office plan for voluntary aid to the Famine Relief Funds is or is not justified?
There is a great influx of beggars to these parts. Many of these are, however, known to be people not by any means driven to beggary by famine conditions, The real refugees stand poor chances against! the skilled professionals here.
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