14 MARCH 1925, Page 3

For our part we believe that nothing would create that

healthier public opinion more quickly than a deter- mination among every person threatened with blackmail to report the matter instantly to the police. It has been said that blackmail is the tribute which cowards obtain from cowards. It requires courage, of course, to- bring the blackmailer into the light of day, but the man who yields to blackmail enters into a slavery which ends only with his OWr life or with that of his blackmailer.

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