2 NOVEMBER 1945, Page 15

SPENDING AND HAVING

SIR,—I agree, of course, with your rejoinder to Mr. F. A. Heaton's exasperated letter on " Spending and Having." But I have found that an effective method of explaining to troops the contrast between war-time expenditure on munitions and peace-time expenditure on social services is to liken that war-time expenditure to the expense incurred by a man combating an illness which may prove fatal if untreated. He may, by exhausting his savings and borrowing from his friends, be thereby in a position to spend a hundred pounds in one month in obtaining a cure. But he cannot if his annual income is L50o continue to live at the rate of f1,200 per annum.—Yours truly, JOHN KENT. "Range House," 93 High Street, Shoeburyness, Essex.