LETTERS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 9, 5 October 1927, Page 3

LETTERS IN BRIEF

“Listener-in'' complains about what ho terms the bias shown by the Broadcast Announcer of tho' North v. South Island Rugby match on Saturday. The letter concludes: “What all listeners-in desire is a fair and impartial report of the actual progress of tho game. Allowing an individual to take advantage of his position to pass unwarranted criticism about any one player or players (and it is only one man’s opinion). I think is absolutely unfair, departing from the intention of the ■Privilege extended for such broadcasting. “Sparrow” writes: “The letter signed “Farmer” in your issue of Saturday, and the recent discussion in the House on daylight saving, are to anyone who has experienced th° measure in operation in England, to say the least, most trifling and. in fact, I may say ludicrous. The farmer will work from dayilght to dark, as most do now, and should an odd one here and there trv to get finished before the day is ended it is certain he will have a game of tennis or a swim in the river in view. . . . Tho summer-time measure was uncrating in Europe when’America'won the war, and yet everything went on just the same, so why worry?. We are onlv a speck iy the ocean with a few toy'trains and only two passenger ones that run during the night. What a schedule to alter!” “The remarks of the Minister of Health at tho opening of tho maternity home in Palmerston North,” writes “Basie Wage Wife,” “have caused at least one low-paid wage earner’s wife n little annovance. I say cmphaticallv that it is nothing short of criminal on the part of the low paid wage earner to increase his family beyond his income—‘Quality. Not Quantity.’ should be tho slogan for New Zealand’s population. The high paid wage, earner should bo the one, if any. to increase the population, but his wife, coming as she does usually (for obvious reasons) from the better educated section of society, is too intelligent to saddle herself and husband with tho expense of a big family. 'Once again, quality not quantity, counts in everything, especially human beings, and I personally regard the ‘alarmingly low birth rate as n. distinct and encouraging sign of increasing common-'sense and intelligence amongst working men’s wives. Keep the good work going, wives, and give your children a better chance in life than you and I are having! Commenting on tho heading “Something Wronc” over an article 111 last Friday’s Dominion, Harry Homan writes': Undoubtedly there is something wrong, and the, man in the street in his naive way is not inclined, even if nue«t'oned. to sav what it is- .Experience shows that the laws of individualism have been well nich lost amid the throes of life s battle, and mob rule nnd Communistic influences have robbed us all of our individual chara'-teristies. Over-organisation is the curse of our present day living, and tho result is that when one starts even to think the average man seems to’ cling to something or to someone for support.