the Editor of the "Nonta-Cniva Dany News Sin—A week or so I receiv froma" friend a, "Good fetter which read og follows:—"This is a good luck letter, sent to me by a very dear friend, and I am sending it on Weryen among cthece: Tsun ing you not to break the d bal Zend ie on, Copy this and fend it fo nine pere ta whom you wish good luck. The Chain was started by a British Naval Officer and' should go around the World three times. not break the chain for whoever does will have bad luck. rite mine Totters and mall them within twenty four" hours fand count nine days and you wil ave ood tech, "Tt io. posldvey ly remarkable how many times the prediction has' been fulfilled Since "the chain started. With success to you and yours, Let'
Us go smiling through."
Whilst I appreciated the good wishes foisted" upon me, (on cor dition that I did not break the "Chain") I confess to consigning my "good luck" letter to the waste paper basket and dubbing my friend a "blithering idiot", expressing at the same Lime the sentiment that others ing with the principle of this nuisance also suffer from mental defcleney, It. there: fore affords me much plessuro in quoting in full a letter which Atnothe® han received in return for good wishes he had been weak enough to "pass o1 "This 'Good Luck Chain'
scheme is simple a reversion to barbarism. We all wish our friends good luck without having to send them letters threatening them with bad luck unless they ass them on, La it a friendly act to threaten any one with bad luck? Superstition has been responsible on this Earth for more misery and crime-than most other aueea, 20 why ing these futile missiles round thi earth of ours. This letter does not threaten you with bad luck it'you do not do an suggested, but merely asks you to undo your part of the 'Chain of superstition'
with which you have helped to shackle your fellow human beings, "Please copy out this letter and send it first to the person who tent you the Good Luck "Chait letter recently, and then to the nine. people te whom you passed {om Having done this you wil know that you have helped the World. towards. the Light, and TTrath, to" which "ideale, these threatening chains of superstition are directly opposed."
There is a volume of sound common sense in this letter, and in Communicating it to you for publi: cation it is in the earnest hope that newspapers in all the places of the globe whither your paper finds its way will reproduce it and thus help The World vid itself of this aboma ination, the "Good Luck Chain' Scheme.
Tam, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.