There are complaints galore regarding various regulations and the methods of carrying the same out, but the: world is not yet Utopia and these can be expected. There is obviously nothing in the world 100 per cent. efficient and also 100 per cent. of the complaints are not justifiable. It is very easy to criticize, specially theoretically, and to my mind the old saying about the dog-bite and news explains a lot of the grumbles one sees in papers, The blackout. is a great source of grumbling, but an the whole is taken very good-humouredly. It is quite a big job to make all windows and doors light-proof and it is impossible to know from the inside whether they are so. It must be very annoying on a cold night to have a warden ring and call you out of bed on account of "lights," specially as it may be the maids' room.
In the inky darkness it is almost impossible to definitely know even the floor of a lighted window in a twelve-storied block of flats and although the great majority of people appreciate the necessity of and carry out the complete blackout, there are a few who make the lot of the unpaid wardens by no means easy. The most common of the reasons Is, "Mrs.
X doesn't, so why should I?" Mrs, X will give the same reason. But as I said, the majority of the printed Complaints are because the man bit the dog. and not the way in which the people here take the matter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.