From Our Own Correspondent, London, April 21.
What you want in these days is a sense of humour; it is about the only thing which will carry you through, since the pessimist is ubiquitous and people are everywhere pulling long faces Our psychologists will tell you that you also need an increased moral sense and really they are right. 1 never knew the moral sense of the community so low. Quite apart from the fact that there are 2,000 divorce cases now to be heard, while the Criminal Courts are stuffed with charges of all sorts against the law, there is undoubtedly a great weakening in what one might call the general principles of the community. Dishonesty, big and little, is rampant, "gold brick" companies are common. Barefaced swindles abound. Many of the criminals in the Courts are men holding high and well paid positions. Peculation seems to be becoming 'a fine art and the Post Office spends much "4 its time in prosecuting its employees. This is the sort of thing that appears in the papers and it is not exaggerated. I quote from the Evening News" of yesterday:
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