"CHECK, MATE!"

Levin Daily Chronicle, 12 February 1918, Page 2

"CHECK, MATE!"

Sir, —Your correspondent "Brunus Poeticus" is timely in liis remark®. They evidence a liveliness in the "Paint-up and Cleanup Society" that was not superficially apparent. May the. Society go 011 in its good work, and go on more obtrusively. It "did" seem moribund). and I wrote you purely in the hope of galvanising it into activity. If your correspondent "Brunus Poeticus" (or any other poeticus, for that mutter) doubts this, "let him go to" —whatever the Bard of Avon meant by that. Your correspondent invites me and half a hundred more' to approach Arcadia with our' cheque-books, to swell the Society's funds by writing our names 1 ; but that is out of all reason. Cash in Arcady? Impossible ! Let. your correspondent and his energetic Oxford street vis-a-vis still exercise that "quiet suasion" they have so persistently exercised (all unsuspected) during the twelve months la s t elapsed ; then shall Levin's painters be busier than aforetime, and the purveyors of besoms double tlieir output. I don't for one instant ill ink I am suspected of being inimical to Levin's youngest society : it had my heartiest good wishes always, from :it® cradle to (what seemed to be) its grave, and I am delighted to find it still living, and to see what m ay be the latest earnest of this fact made apparent on the "Levin Chronicle" facade and other elevations. But. this suggestion of "Brunus -Poeticus" that I should "send a cheque" has me quite 'amazed; he hap me Check Mated, so to speak, and the laugh is with 'Mm. Yours etc., MATTHEW KENNESOX.