OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1943, Page 4

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

COAL ECONOMY (To the Editor.) Sir, —So J. Smith was amused about my letter of the 29th inst. Bernard .Shaw said: “The truth is always amusing when accurately stated.” - Thanks for the compliment. I expect my friend ’.'will be amused again when our war industries are held up for want of coal. -3. Smith has wandered far from the '.point under discussion —namely waste of coal in war time. I have nothing ■against racing as my friend assumes, JJgut if the racehorses have to be turned out so that our butter factory, our gasworks, etc., can be kept going, then I say turn them out, and the oats saved could be turned into oatmeal for ..the children of England. Re amusements in Russia, according to the “Moscow News,” the men and 'women work in the factories until late at night and then go home to bed, to •save fuel and light for the following day, it would be hard to visualise the, Russians, with their realistic outlook, wasting coal in time of total war, I am not finding fault, but this js an obvious truth: “Waste not want not.” —I am,, etc., E. J. ESLER. Masterton, November 3.