To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cuixa Daly News."
Sim—I am, so my wife tells me [and who should know better, a toler ly patient man, but sometimes a8 on this occasion, madness descends upon me. It is when I read in your Jcolumns that again a "compass tionate allowance" is to be made to Municipal servants that T rage and [bemoan an unkind fate which der Jme admittance to that glorious Jeconomic Eden. There they tell mo {the Doctor, the Hospital Shroff and the Chemist all lie down together under one departmental Manager's K. That there one saves painlessly and without effort and that there at fixed periods, entire families are sent on leave and brought back with only the chits for Jdrinks to burden the mind. Gott im Himmel! if 1 could only' look my Doctor again in the eye I could stilt snatch at some consolation, Now het us consider the case of the pariah—the due who like myself has been prowling always round those delectable confines without success. I am so the Auditors tell me a qualified Accountant drawing Tls. 250.00 per month (and there of us!) without benefit or privilege, supporting a wife and ildven adequately in food and In normal eiveumetances 1 do not grumble and the purpose of this letter is not to set forth my ow circumstances. But when sickness attacks any of our fa you Sir, unleash your imagi sufficiently to picture the riot of our financial budget. Quite recently my wife was ordered to the Hospital Jand was under Doctors orders there for a month. I suppose every mar-fried man who reads this will be fable to gauge to the last tael the total expense, Well, let us say Tis, bare minimum and of that figure docs not include nes or tonics. What happens? To cpinmence with T get into very bad dour with most of the monthly. Ishroffs, I mean those who come monthly with their optimism une ved. Then there are tricks [which I may not reveal here in loy-Jalty. to our class, but they are demeaning and leave their own special rma. So froth and I rage until my wife from an unexpected secret source produces $2.00 and we sit in the balm as distilled by Greta Garbo.
There is only one thing which fewitches and pulls at my mind and although I hate to give it express sion I feel there possibly might be something in it. The Municipal [Servants have I have been told (and the whole body will deluge your paper with ink if Tam wrong) an JAssociation whereby they seck bet Iterment of the Now I wonder an Association of Pariahs could any conceivable piece of strategy Jzet an option on some of the crumb [which fall from the higher places.
Shangh:
Aug. 11, Disrener. 1980.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.