23 OCTOBER 1920, Page 13

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In your issue

of October 16th there is a letter signed "One of the Bureaucrats." He says the Civil Servant is very hardly hit, Ac., Ac.; a pre-war income of £600 is now apparently £976; but take the case of one who is obliged to live on a pre-war income—a life interest of £600 per annum (funds invested in railways—a great anxiety—or in some industry equally benefi- cial to the community); he or site cannot touch the capital and has none. Life interests are charged for Income Tux on the un- earned scale, which in the case of small incomes is an injustice. If hardship or suffering count, these unfortunates—a numerous class—are paying for the war.—I am, Sir, Ac.,

TIRED Or BUREAUCRATS.