EDITORIAL
never heard of. But then it dropped off to zero. I had
received about 30 cuttings altogether. Then other people
began to send me cuttings in a friendly way, and Messrs.
Romeike and Curtice maintained a silence and immobility
which would have done credit to a first-rate Mahatma.
They missed, for example, little things like an editorial
par. in “ John Bull,” a full page in “The Sketch,” the “ Daily
News,” a page and a quarter in “The Nation,” half a column
in the “ Daily Mail.” .. .
{I hear you ask, “ How can they make such oversights?
Perhaps the Post Office is to blame.”]
Well, if the Post Office is to blame, I can’t answer your
other question, ‘‘ How can they do it?” and if it is by “ over-
sight” or “clerical error” or “absence of mind,” I am in a
similar position. And it is a curious coincidence that exactly
the same thing happened to me 12 years ago.