FOOTBALL IN CALCUTTA

To The Editor Of The Statesman

SIR, – The thanks of the football followers of Calcutta go to the Calcutta Football Club for the generous way in which they provide not only a model pitch but excellent accommodation for the vast crowds who go there to enjoy watching the game.

Why should the C.F.C. be put to all this expense and trouble? Why should the I.F.A. not have a ground of their own as the C.F.C. have? My idea would be to remove the Calcutta Cricket Club to a part of the Belvedere grounds which are lying waste and would make an ideal cricket ground.

Give over the present cricket ground to the I.F.A., who could have the ground enclosed by a high wall and stands erected to accommodate 20,000 people. A small entrance fee of say 0-4-0 (annas four) could be made at the gate and season tickets could be issued to meet the cost of upkeep. By doing this the public would be better provided for and the cost would be borne by the people for whose benefit and amusement it is got up.

OLD SPORT.

Calcutta.

VEGETARIANISM

To The Editor Of The Statesman

SIR, – The attack in last Sunday’s issue is so direct and my advice so utterly misunderstood that I must defend myself. I recommend cream, butter and milk to others because I know how difficult it is to get the palate as well as the mind educated to accept and feel satisfied with purely vegetable diet, but I partake very little and very seldom of those ingredients and would gladly give them up entirely if I thought I caused any loss of life by having them occasionally.

I repeat that I stand for vegetarian diet as being the best from every point of view and I cannot recommend animal food in any form; the most I can do is not to condemn the meat eaters, first because I do not recognise to myself the right of judging and also because they, according to my lights, pay dearly for the so-called pleasures of the table and they have my sympathy.

LAURA VULDA.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND PASTOR RUSSELL

To The Editor Of The Statesman

SIR, – Last month you reproduced an item of news from The Christian Science Monitor relating to the action of the Chief Press Censor for Canada in regard to the pacificist propaganda of the Pastor Russell’s Bible Students Association, Brooklyn.

This brought forth a letter from Mr. A.A. Hart claiming that religious bias had governed the Monitor in giving publicity to the news, the publication of which is characterised as the “mischievous fulminations of Christian Science”! The object of The Christian Science Monitor was stated by Mrs. Eddy, who conceived the plan of an international daily newspaper, to be “to injure no man but to bless all mankind” and in fulfilling this object it is necessary to reveal the hidden purposes of selfishness and evil in its many forms and phases.

The Christian Science movement is in no way antagonistic to the practice of the religious faith of Pastor Russell’s adherents; it demands freedom to exercise its own faith and accords it to others.

H.W. CARR.

Chowringhee Mansions, Calcutta.