(To the Editor.)

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 7

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—First let me thank you for publishing my letter, in which the last part would have been better had I used the relative pronoun. "A.1.F." and "Infantry Com-

pany Commander" are both grasping the wrong end of the stick. Heaven forbid that we should fight the war over again even in the columns of a newspaper. The "play's the thing" under discussion, and whether the art of thei playwright held the balance of the opposites—beauty and honour, good and evil, happiness and misery—up to view. "Journey's End" is an impressionistic picture of one dug-out. The author is too great an artist to have strayed from truth. Let J. H. Curie finish this letter: —"As my years increased, and my experience, I saw the deep negative side of life gradually unfold. The beauty of Nature was easily offset by its horror, and the joy of life by its sorrows. Mankind, so god-like in its ■■ hour, invariably sank again, and under the glamour of its achievements lay vast futility; wherever I looked deep enough, there I saw Ormuzd (King of Light) and Ahriman (Prince o£ Darkness), the gods of the Opposites, locked in the Eternal Struggle. Everywhere in the world, there seemed to be Balance—the Opposites—swaying eternally and in ceaseless rhythm betwen their two poles."—l am, etc.,

FAIR PLAY.