REPENTANCE v. PAPER SHORTAGE
SIR,—Today I received by post a large, fat, strong envelope filled with pamphlets adjuring me to " Repent, Repent, Hell yawns. Flee the Wrath to Come." In this land of freedom (sic) the right of anyone to send such a warning is undisputed, its implication regarding my current modus vivendi unresented, its brave try allowed. But, Sir, in these days when newspapers are so attenuated that public opinion is guided largely by headlines, when a weekly of the cultural value of The Spectator has had to slim to its present girth, when urgently needed school and technical books are hardly obtainable, how, where and why are the lavish supplies of excellent paper allotted to this type of unrewarding though well-meant caveat? Very recently the Government broadcast an appeal for continued paper salvage. Newsprint costs dollars. The American loan is in jeopardy. Considering all this, is it' unreasonable to suggest that advice of flight from corning wrath might more 'profitably be addressed to the present mis-director of the nation's scanty stock of precious paper?—
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