编辑同志:“党费”这个曾经体现党员党性和历史责任感的庄严的字眼在一些党员的思想里开始淡化:那种临死之前向党组织交纳党费的悲壮情境已被有些党员当作“历史的遗憾”;老党员把多年的积蓄当作党费上缴,在不少年轻党员心目中更是不可思议的事情。党费的收缴目前也出现了一些错位和偏差。有些党组织不按中央组织部的有关规定,随意提高或降低计算党费的基数,某机关党总支将党 Comrade editor: The dignified term “party dues”, once embodying party spirit and sense of historical responsibility, began to play down in the thinking of some party members: the tragic situation of paying party dues to party organizations just before dying has been viewed by some party members as “a pity of history ”The old party members have turned over many years’ savings for dues. It is even more incredible in the minds of many young party members. At present, there are some dislocations and deviations in the collection of dues. Some party organizations do not arbitrarily follow the relevant provisions of the Central Organization Department, arbitrarily raise or lower the basis for calculating party dues,