To the Editor of the Sm—As public
the cost of living T venture gxeteises "profound influence suggest that the time has come to Tt is in the direction of public policy that Councillors can_ exer cise a beneficent power in favour]
Gumps if they so desire.
Ir all cornea back on the Gumps! hich ever way you look at it.
A Gump wrote to the "Nort! China. Daily News" the other. day and complained of the high price fof razor blades or something of inaugurate a policy of "marking! the sort, apparently oblivions of tha, fact that those who sell
Tike the rest of us and have to pay rents and "taxes, and got them back from the others like everyone else.
Thoro.can be no decrease G.L. until people realize that each one. has a responsibility. in
public policy one way oF the otner the maties "and can" iniiuenco if they' will take the trouble, That is why T utter this Feeble beat for retrenchment, Reform is hardly necessary as: tirings are bretly well run on the whole—but T do think the present scale of lavish publio expenditure curtailed for a while until times get. better. am, ete, W. Bruce Lockwanr.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.