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More Dangerous Than Germany .
You are trying to educate the masses .
You point out social conditions in this
country or abroad. Yet you have missed
one
crime
that is going
on,
practi–
cally un–
noticed
and
yet is caus–
ing more
damage than
German
or
any
. other
propaganda.
Tell
your
photographer
to go to pub–
lic
houses. Give him orders to snap as
many cases as he can of parents giving beer
to young children, some of them just
babies. You will be amazed. -
I
don't know whether the parents are
mentally deficient, but they are most
certainly ruining their children's lives, and
the law should do something about it
before the nation degenerates into a beer–
sodden race.
If
the Hulton Press really
has ·the interests of the British Empire at
heart, they will bring all such conditions
face to face with the people. "
H. E.
Guest,
South Road, Northfield, Birmingham.
We would
be
amazed, Reader
Guest. We have had a specialinvesti–
gation party round London's public
houses. Have· found no diunk babies.
Why Gi.rls Wear Shorts
I
read ,with interest your correspondenr-s
letter "Shorts are safer." August 19. This
raises a curious point of psychology.
The crowd on the shore may be dis–
illusioned 'on .finding that
~hat
they had
taken . to be undies are merely shorts.
Nevertheless, their thrills have been real.
The usual feeling of mild indignation plus
a certain satisfaction is also produced in
the girl displaying her charms.
As
one who is in constant touch with
many boy friends,
I
would say that while
most males welcome the 'Short 'skirts now
in vogue, they consider iunost unsporting
that the knickers should be so short as to
be out of view except under most excep- .
tfonal conditions.
Margaret Petersen, Nylands Avenue,
Kew Gardens, Surrey.
-
He Doesn't Mind Admitting It
How many men can honestly say they
do not like to see a pair of good legs, and
a good figure, the scantier clothed the
better? Isn't ,it better to admit it than to
take a narrow-minded view, whieh only
shows that the holder of such a view sees
,more indecencies into the picture' than are
apparent to a normal man who genuinely
enjoys it.
Who can see anything wrong in a party
. of beshoJted girl ..,- cyclists,
hikers or
bathers? Objectors shou1d look mto their
own consciences arid make sure that it is
not they themselves
who
"take a nasty–
minded view.
The average :modem man takes our
beshorted girls as they are, admires them,
, likes to see them and does not mind
admitting it.
J.
D.
M. Lodge,
·Westbourne Road,
Sheffield
10 ~
.
Wanted!
Wanted,
Widow or grass
Widow to join
week-end
illu–
minations Black–
pool: Sat. early,
- 43rd to Mor-day
25th. Car.
iv1y
age, 40, very fit.
H. Briggs,
M.
T.
Section,
R.A.F.,. Up–
wood,
Hllntingdon.
We don't want replies to this. The
date is past, and we· are not a matri–
monial agency. We publish
letter
because we think it's funny.
The Country Did Not Pay Its Debts
My husband, who . died in 1930 as a
direct result of
his
war service, and after
10 years' illness, was in the army for
9 years-1914-!923.
I was not given a
pension, although
I
had 3 children to feed
and educate.
When the w,ar started, all the men in
my family- answered the call. Six of them
were killed or died of wounds. Only one
pension was asked for, mine, but the
country did not pay its debts.
I
now have two sons of military age.
J.
E . Wilson.
SOllthwood Court, N. W .!1 ·
Official Secrets Disclosure I
I
am amused at your ,.frankness on your
cover,Vol. 4, No. 7, "The Life of a Militia-.
man 3d."
I
.thought that the Government would
nQ,t disclose the cost of raw materials.
F. K.
·Oliver,
.Hadleigh, EsseX.
Our Continental Bias
visiting our shores.
but not at'us.
I
protest against
the sneering word–
ing under the pic–
tl)res of the people
on
the Channel
Crossing.
Once ·
more you show
your Continental
bias.
Why "don't
you show us
the
dapper
bearded
Messieur
or
the
bullet-headed ·
monocled Herr
Poke
fun
at them,
J.
Williams,
Woodstock Road, Oxford.
Story of Another Life-
An
answer to Mrs. E.
H.,
Yorks.
Courting my wife at 16 years; married
(same way) 19 years
(5/8/35).
I
came off
work
(18710./35)
through
illness; the
doctor said
that I'd never be able to
work again.
_
First son born (20/11 /35) a prematUre
baby
(4
lbs. at birth). Suffered ...from fits
until recently (touch wood). Next, wife,
baby, myself under the doctor's care.
Second sonbom (25 /1/37). Wife taken
to
hospital very ill (25/1/38), after two months
she died (15/3/38).
.
My age 23 years (5 /2/16).
Will
Mrs.
E.
H.... Yorks,
shak~
handS?
Mr. W., Yorkshire.
.
Mrs. E. H., Yorks, told us the story
of her life in our August 19 issue.
Married at 17, she now has five
children.
H"er husband has been
1:memployed for years. But she thanks
God for health and happiness.
.
Advice to Mrs. E. H.
If
Mrs.
E.
H. thinks sqe is having a
hard life, there are thousands who would
shake hands with
her
and tell her she is a··
. lucky woman. ·She is fortunate in having
a good husba.r-d to share her
~roubles
with
her and five good kiddies.
~I
ilm
ma~ried
35 years and never:. had a day's hohday.
I
have had to work hard
all
my life to rear
4 children and a drunken husband who
left me 18 years ago, having sold 10 Iiomes
for drink while
I
was out working. Please,
Mrs. E. H., don't ten anyone you are down.
If
you do, the world will keep you down.
Try and keep your own counsel and your
neighbours
will
never know how you do it.
From one who has faced the wotld with a
smile and is not
out
yet.
Mrs. A. R., Birkenhead, Cheshire.
- P.S.-My age 52, April 1, All Fools Day.
His Idea of It
You have the almighty gall t6 publish ·
the "Story of a Life" (Mrs. E. H., Yorks.)!
. Watter
lije!--a
couple of dirty youngsters .
"caught out," 'who are still-acc9rding to
the story-breeding kids-they cannot afford
to keep; and seem to be proud of the fact
that they have to live on charity, and the
country has to keep the result of their "Ierv..
H
Hell! Why publish muck like this, at a
time when decent citizens control their
"lives" with an cye on economics.
J.
C.
Whiting,
-
. Gloucester Terr., W.2.
(Continued on page 64).
PICTURE ·POST
Picture Post, September
'J~
1939
J
aek and Jill drove up
the
hill
With joy
and
happy
laughter
On Castrol fine
they led the line
With other cars following after.
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