SIR,—Many of your readers, besides myself, must be grateful to
"Janus" for his protest against the unseemly attack upon P. G. Wodehouse on the wireless. We may console ourselves by remem- bering that no one listened to the original Cassandra. We were further disgusted by a broadcaster who informed us that he was in the habit of smoking forty cigarettes a day and intended to continue doing so as long as possible. By his own showing he is so doped with nicotine that he has lost the power of self-control. He therefore begged us. all to be lenient towards those who expend petrol on going to dog and horse races. He gave no thought to the fact that by taking more than his fair share he is depriving others. Nor of the fact that cargo-space is required for necessary food and materials. Now that stern self-control by all of us is needed to obtain a final victory and every penny saved is wanted for national defence, such a talk on the Wireless is, to 'put it mildly, very inadvisable. If we are given more of this stuff we shall wonder if B.B.C. stands for Beneath British
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