IT’S A SMALL MARGIN

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32775, 27 November 1971, Page 16

IT’S A SMALL MARGIN

(By

WHIM WHAM)

New Zealand could face a Communist takeover ‘in our generation,’ said the Mayor of Tauranga and Mount Maunganui, Mr R. A. Owens, speaking to the Auckland Catholic Men’s Luncheon Club. There were people in the pay of China and Russia doing their very best to disrupt this country, and they are succeeding . . . “This is not an exaggeration it could happen in our lifetime,” he said. News. Remember Thomas Malthus? It must be nearly Two hundred Years ago that He stated It clearly: War, Famine and Disease Were Nature’s Remedies

For Man’s original Sin of Breeding Too many Mouths for Feeding, Along with What he called in his quaint Eighteenth-century language ‘Moral Restraint.’ Disease, Famine and War Does the World want More? Man multiplies, multiplying Still deadlier Ways of Dying,

And livelier Ways of not getting Bom, and still We can’t pay Dr Malthus’s Bill, For ‘Moral Restraint,’ read ‘Pill,’ Vasectomy, or What you will, Parsons and Kiddies lisp, Family Journals know The Facts of Death as They didn’t 10 years ago, Abortion Law Reform Isn’t a hot Potato, only warm.

King Herod’s Sword was only a Smack from Nanna Compared with the Family Planner, The Sociologist, and the Womlib Girlie (Making her Run a bit early?), With Nothing but a Drug, a Needle, or a Knife To match Man’s oldest, deadliest enemy, Life!

Whatever the Band plays, the Kiwi follows It. Whatever Dope is new, the Kiwi swallows It. If India with its ill-fed Millions teems, New Zealand must be bursting at the Seams. The Kiwi’s got to make his Contribution To Mankind’s necessary Diminution. Who wants another Generation, Sir? They might be Communistic! If They were, They’d curse Us, that we didn’t FIX the Nation By a simple, inexpensive Operation.