fTo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIRS I should like to say how entirely my experience as local secretary to the War Pensions Committee corroborates the article in last week's issue of your paper entitled " The Pension Scandal In Our Village." I will give only one instance as your space is valuable. A very respectable woman with a little property of her own, and her husband earning not less than fifty shillings a week, and only one daughter at home, decided to withdraw her claim allowed on account of a son killed in the war. She did not need the pension, and she could not describe herself as in any sense dependent on her boy. I wrote to this effect to the authority, and after a while Mrs. B. received a letter asking her to reconsider the withdrawal of her claim, which she did, and she is now receiving five shillings a week. Supposing the nation did respond to the constant exhortations to economy, it would he but as a drop in the ocean while its treasure is poured out in needless pensions and in unemploy-
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