Who Cares What Janus Says ?
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THE rigid policy of Many transport operators, particularly municipal undertakings, who are subject to public complaints andcriticism, is to ignore completely anonymous communications.
But " Janus " is sometimes tiresome and causes a blot in an otherwise excellent journal, into which his arrogant sarcasm does not fit and the relative page of which could be put to better use.
Calumny and cynicism to the degree in which he indulged in your issue of June 27, might be expected in a purely political journal in the throes of election fever. His disappointment with the Road Haulage Executive's figures and its failure to "pass quietly to its execution" is pitiful. To him' attempted justification" appears to be almost a crime. Were the accounts of the Commission produced in advance "purely by accident" or by command?
He later suggests that others "would have sneered" at the R.H.E., but his own "smile tolerantly" can be visualized as a malignant and vengeful grin. The traduced can afford to smile at his anonymity and consequent impotency. They have, as he patronizingly admits, at least accomplished something. He ," fails to understand," and he opines " the wrong direction." But again! Who cares?
The bras shown by " Janus" is so pronounced that it would be useless to argue in detail and much less to offer public debate. He childishly brings forward " the' accumulated deficit of nearly b=10m.," but chooses to ignore what the railways would have lost, whether nationalized or not. His-obsession is so narrow that he cannot visualize transport nationally. He failed to mention the proposed levy or the increase of 'Md. on fuel.
The writer does not belong to any party nor is he engaged with a transport undertaking.
L. DONSON HOLMES, A. M:INsT.T.
Nottingham.