HORSE RACING AND OTHER THINGS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 195, 7 May 1918, Page 6

HORSE RACING AND OTHER THINGS

Sir—May I ask you to allow mo space in which to express how strongly 1, soldier's mother, and many other won ei (with whom I have spoken) agrei wit the two letters written by A. Ule"dower," and also voice my dec). logiot at tbo attitude you have taken with re gard to his outspoken, straightfoi expressions. If this is the attitude of vour paper, then it is time we, * "'mothers," took some trouble to slow you how utterly wo disagree with it, ."<1 I hope shortly wo shall hnvo .;omc othei puper in our homos which will moi nearly agree with the strong feelings hnvo on the .matters-feelings voiced > Glendower" -most truly, as wo would also express them. Did you e B ee in a well-known *e\v Zealand weekly a picture of Brigadier-General funeral, with its- pathetic fence o tiuj wooden crosses beside the, track What was opposite it ? A piUurc o: th latest cup winner hven my httle w" dron of seven and nino years ranaikw on tho fact of what was opposito (in l#r(,o form , and expressed wonder.' uut i does not matter if our children arc hiinriscd at our attitudes of mdifterence, or If we tho stricken mothers, look with wondering eyes at the careless thron„ which goes by one's gates ' on bent." whilo wo go our lonolj \u> membering our gallant boys, many only mero hoys, who havo given even life itself. Cio on in your callous indifference, but remember there will bo awakening later on.-I am, etc.. MOTHERi