OUR LETTER BOX.

To the Editor, Amman Valley Chronicle

Sir, — In your last week’s issue a letter appeared from the pen of Mr. Davies, the Secretary of the Ammanford War Eisteddfod, in which he states that no notice whatever will be made of any letter sent to the Press in connection with the said Eisteddfod unless the writer gives his full name and address.

May I ask Mr. Davies which is the greater wrong, to write a letter asking for certain information in the interest of the public generally under a nom-de-plume, or to sign ones name to a letter written by some other person?

Facts are stubborn things, and the Committee of this Eisteddfod are trying to evade them by talking about “courage and conviction.” Will giving full particulars of name and address alter the facts in any material way so as to make it possible for the Committee to give satisfactory answers to the questions asked?

If I thought that that would be the case I would willingly comply with their request.

The letter states that my first letter is treated with the “contempt it merits” – a very popular phrase. That is just what Germany says about England and the British Army. What do this Committee say about the “programme of their Eisteddfod”? I can imagine them calling it a “scrap of paper.”

I have no objection whatever for Mr. Davies nor his Committee to treat my letters with “contempt,” but that is not what they are doing. They are treating with contempt those brave lads who have left the district and who are laying down their lives for what is right and just.

And while our heroes are doing this, the Shylocks of the present day are taking advantage of the circumstances and will have their “pound of flesh,” whosoever may suffer thereby, I again ask the Committee to answer the questions given to them.

The public have a right to know all that is asked and unless the answers will be given shortly a few more questions will be asked, which will not be quite so agreeable to the cultured taste of some people

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