THE OTTAWA CONFERENCE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20730, 15 December 1932, Page 15

THE OTTAWA CONFERENCE.

ICO THE IiDITCE Or TEE rXSS.t jjf-rMr A. W. Beaven .speaking on jil Ottawa Conference gets us nowhere study a -umber of "ifs" j[ fproviuecs.'* Has he forgotten Sugland has from £2,000,000.000 invested in South lactic* aloneV England cannot ignore jrcfo from these countries without iaimM herself. 'When will Mr Beaven ! that a system that has for its paging motive tho piling up of the 0U to goods (which pile up still more [ more titles to goods by way of "ini tgrt&t") is mathematically as well as •jjßomltally defective. _ .Surely the •jjptisg system with periodical ImUBl and" slumps, feast and famine, jutruetion of goods and equities, has glfgß sufficient evidence ot ! its merei\Znt- and disastrous symptoms (inffiiiiir war) to make any man devote gj fjmn to doing away with it, rather jtyjve for its continuance. It is' fetsaMy conceded that if competitive I staggers to its feet once the nest financial breakdown a-,-ill !« to severe as to wreck our socivilisation. We should direct «r energies to treating causes—not fffljotoßis. "Wo arc like a medico treatm g scarlatina rash instead of the jjjrfatma itself, with humanity as •w naticnt. What folly! Tours, etc.. F MYOPIA. Deecmber 1-ith. 11W-.