POTATO PATCH CRITICISM.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 681, 4 November 1921, Page 5

POTATO PATCH CRITICISM.

(To 'the Editor).

Sir,—l warmly congratulate you on your “Potato Patch,” though slightly at a loss as to whether to address • asthe '‘Digger” or as “Potato Patch.” Intrust; however, you cart find room for a few thoughts arising from what he terms “pabulum.” Local Mr “Digger” Or '.otherwise,, let me just say I am glad to meet you. I may be ignorant bs to your identity, but I enjoyed reading your “pabulum, hirst, becaus'e you seem to have some sort of acauaintarice with (that old Book, the Bible. Is it not a wonderful thing how it can fit into circumstances. even the commonest things of New Zealand, “Last, Lonliest, Loveliest.” But my friend, do not cherish the’ idea that you can safely sneer either at it or its verbiage. It is never safe for the head anyway., to thrust too violently against a rock. ' Other subjects, even Robbie Burns, are more fit for criticism. All the same, does it not seem the least little bit cowardly to put your criticism into the mouth of a small bov ? The Immortals are a select bodv. and deserve more frorn us than the ignorance of such. For instance, the Empire has just been celebrating the memory of another whose name spells “Nelson” to whose genius and to whose famous signal our hearts , ever thrill, but no small boy s “misoell” was ever levelled at his life on Naples. “ De.mortuw nil msi bonum” is good sound sense. Kindly remember, I am not fauU-hnding. Neither' Bums nor Nelson need a y help from me, and I have not the slightest idea of hitting at you. On the contrary, I hope you will go on. There is plentv of matters needing investigation and cviticiism> :ami may 1 sav iust wade into it, and my hesi; S'“o with you. Probably you have guessed your correspondent is