MINORITY AND MAJORITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 190, 14 August 1933, Page 6

MINORITY AND MAJORITY.

RESTRICTIONS ON AMUSEMENT. (To the Editor.) "Junius Jun." can never hope to via with the brilliant Junius, for his arguments are unsound and fail to broaden our outlook in any way. Such innocent pleasures as Sunday tennis and golf l.iight be tolerated as long as another's toil was not involved. But would it stop at this? What is to prevent the "majority" from making these a stepping stone to Sunday cricket and football, boxing and wrestling, pictures and dancing, horse racing and open hotels? And if hotels opened on Sunday why not offices, warehouses and shops ? The Sunday games and of the "majority" would encroach on the rights of the "small minority." As a rest Sunday is more needed than ever; for life is a rush in the pursuit—the "majority" knows not what. It is even more than a day of rest—it is a day of liberty, which should be honoured not by license but by a sense of duty. Yes, of course "unearned increment" is getting money for nothing, and this is a part of the world's trouble to-day. It is one of the main faults in our system, which is already tottering on its foundations. "Unearned increment" rightly belongs to the State, but landlords get it, and consequently the public" suffer. I can assure "Junius Jun." that I am not likely to be left a legacy of £5000, nor does it worry irie. Money in itself is nothing. The man who leves and lives for money is a miser, and mad. What matters most is what it stands for. If "Junius Jim." has aiiy doubt about the Church (and its offshoot*) earning the money left to it, let him put it to test by a donation to the Auckland City Mission, which, I understand, is in need of funds. The demoralising law which compels a magistrate to fine a man for bookmaking was sanctioned bv. the "majoritv," and it is up to them to enforce it, so why blame the "small minority"? That art unions are demoralising is proved by the fact that little children are being used as a medium for a straight-out gamble when they canvas? houses with "Please buy a ticket for a penny and win £10." The "small minority," made of sterner stuff than the "majority," insists that this state of affairs should cease. Art unions would not flourish but for the cupidity of those who speculate in them. S. R. HALE.