The Archive · 1936

A Reader's Reaction

To the Editor of the "Nonu-Cinwa Daty News"

Sim—Unless things cheer-up soon I shall stop buying newspapers, retire to a dug-out, and write odes to the man in. the' moon Its erally awful: front page, back page, second page, third page—it's nothing but war—or religion—or tame. A plague on it alli Its like sitting by a graveside. waiting for the corpse! It's literally loathly.

'We don't want war, or Fascism, or Communism, or crazy Ideas" on religion, or' post mortem In ad-1 "It we have to dio to-morrow, well, let's die decently and make no unseemly noise about it But T don't think we ie; there Is far too much good life in us, capable of rendering a very good account of itself. Away with war and plagues of any sort.

Cheer-up! It ain't going to war no more, no more, Mont Horerut, Shanghai, Aug. 21.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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