" PROFITEERING."
(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Yon have admitted one exception (the medical profession) to your rule that " the rise in the price of labour is universal." May I mention a second exception—salaried officials? I am a public official, in charge of a public department, and have had occasion to ask my Board three times since the outbreak of war to increase the wages of those who serve the Board in a minor capacity. But no consideration has been asked, or given, ft, the chief official, and I believe this has been the general experience. I do not grudge this in the least. We must pay for the war, and, personally, I ant thankful to be able, on a middling poor salary-, to carry on, with my wife's very noble assistance, without getting into debt. But it is a little hard to be classed among those who are enjoying an increase in the price of their labour.—I am,
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