MENTAL ABERRATION?

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 153, 29 May 1942, Page 4

MENTAL ABERRATION?

Sir,-I must enter my protest against the inanities of your columnist in his "Things to Come" paragraph, "Solomon Comes Second" (issue 17/4/42). It is crystal clear that the purpose of the writer on the various subjects is to provide "light" reading for your subscribers, Accepted that there must be times of difficulty over subject matter, it is none the less discouraging to wade through the witless diatribe of the paragraph under review, to finally decide that it is pointless and without aim. To quote a Lancashire comment on a similar journalistic adventure, "°F ’d nowt to write when ’e started and ’e wouldn’t knock off when ’d writ’ it". The 3YA garden expert does at least know what he is talking about, and maintains both a humorous and an informative contribution to thousands of listeners through his session. I therefore trust that he will at least treat the "pointer" to his talk as a period of mental aberration on the part of your col-

umnist:

JONAITCH

(Christchurch).

(The writer of the paragraph replies: boss, this may be a brick bat but at least you will admit that it is concrete .evidence that somebody reads some of my stuff : sometimes in witness whereof i hereby apply for another five per cent. raise in salary bracket make it net not gross will you close bracket what i always says is if i may coin a phrase the customer is always right and after all in a big business like ours dash our audited circulation figures may be inspected any time in business hours at the head office of the company dash you're bound to come across a few queer customers)