MR. LANG'S PROMISES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 79, 30 September 1930, Page 14

MR. LANG'S PROMISES

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Mr. Lang's £200,000,000 policy is as the "Evening News" states the cheapest quality of bird-lime. Further than that, he is evidently out to catch, by spurious promises, which have not the slenderest possibility of fulfilment, the class of Australian mentality which cannot think for himself or herself. Charles Diekcns's character, Micawber, laid down that famous axiom. "Income £1 per week, expenditure 19s Cd per week, result happiness; "liieoim> £] per week, expenditure 20s Gd per week, result misery." Since the beginning of the world millions of individuals the world over have tried the income £1 per week, expenditure 20s 6d, and. the result has always been misery. Australia has tried this for the last twenty years. What has she brought herself but untold misery? She has borrowed her metaphorical 6d per week for twenty years

to square accounts, and now the accumulation, like the boomerang, is hitting her with terrific force.

Mr. Bavin, who designates Mr. Lang's utterances as "humbug," was surrounded by an angry mob and almost jostled into his car. One can well understand why Sir Otto Niemeyor was not as popular over there as -Amy Johnson or Kingsford .Smith. Yet it is not too much to say that the international banker of the class of tin's financial adviser to the Bank of England will do much towards the peace and well being of the world. Nations like individuals must work put their own destiny. When an individual is down and out, a helping hand, financial assistance, and well-meant advice will put him on the road to prosperity again. When a nation is down out, the international banker is brought to show her tho error of her ways. His advice may not he pleasant, he doesn't get the cheering mob, but believe me he carries the promise of more solid happiness. Australia will again rise to prosperity. But on this side of. the Tasman we are eagerly looking for her to get right down to tin tacks. Hard work and strict economy in very large doses are what she wants. They are the greatest character builders in the world. They keen up the wits and strengthen the brain and brawn. Australia will rise a greater nation through her trials aud tribulations. —I am, etc.,

ASPIRIN,