To the Editor of the "NORTH-CAMA Datty NEWS"
Sm,—In most newspapers, the correspondence column is of very real interest to many readers; but it ceases to be so, when the contents of the letters to the Editor ceases to be worthy of real interest. When this happens, a letter of real public interest is very liable to be overlooked, for many readers refuse to waste any more time scanning the correspondence column.
May we not hope that the "silly Season" is now over, and permanently? Lately, we have been surfeited with abusive, protracted and inconclusive political arguments; with a shower of doggerel utterly unworthy of being termed "verse" and whose subject-matter (if any) was simply fatuous; with a series of letters which are long, pointless and not even witty—we have an example in today's edition, something about a "Plebiab's (sic) Thanksgiving" (no one I have met sees any meaning at all in it); and finally with long disquisition concerning a riddle which most of us solved before we had en-lered our teens!
Surely, sir, if the correspondence Column is intended to be read, it should be worth reading?
Quartus.
Shanghai, Sept. 12.
The Correspondent is to be congratulated on his undoubted ability to spell.—Ed. ce **Sévéral letters have been held over owing to pressure on space.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.