To the Editor of the lokr-CuiNA Day NEWS
Sm,—The year 1939 will be much ha ppier all around if we can shake Off some of our selfishness.
A taipan gives an employee a 10 per cent. allowance for H.C.L. and feels a without much damage. The news-balm on his conscience. But fuel papermen of British nationality re-land vitamins have gone up 33 per marked to us that he hoped we would cent. not let there be any doubt in our The employee, in his turn, forgets dispatches as to the wilful murder of that his servant's bowl of rice is civilians by the Japanese, whereupon costing more. the American fairly answered that he; would not, as the bombs apparently had been aimed at military establish- 5
Worst of all is the case of man beast of burden. the man; because the legal fare is ments.
The dropping of bombs from planes has not yet come to the po fection that every bomb invariably hits its aim, much to the delight of the soldiers at the front who are exposed to the danger of being torn into pieces much more than the civi-Hans who still enjoy a comparative safety except the danger from ootübs aimed at military establishments, or in a few cases—which I am far from denying—where the enemy tries to terrorize the civilians so that they might induce their government to sue for peace. But I think that idea has already been done away with by modern strategists because it does not work, And a militarist might even cents the mile, few passengers ey er dream of giving him a few ex tra coppers to make up for the oni hanced cost of his bowl of congee.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.