FUTILE FORM -FILLING
SIR,—Various organisations responsible for supplying power and fuel have been circulating a form asking people to pledge themselves to do everything they can to save coal, coke, electricity, gas and so forth. The recipients are instructed to sign the form and return it to their electricity or gas showrooms. Surely this is a gross waste of that vital munition of war—paper. If these forms are to be sorted, filed and classified, such activity represents a reckless waste of labour. If they are not going to be used as records, then they are utterly futile. Form-filling wastes more paper, time and labour than any other bureaucratic device. I can imagine the sort of words (or word) that would be employed by that energetic statesman and man of busi- ness, Lord Beaverbrook, to describe this ridiculous and unnecessary badgering of householders, who are already doing their conscientious best to save every unit and therm.—Yours faithfully,
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