EX-SERVICE ON BELIEF.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 68, 22 March 1933, Page 6

EX-SERVICE ON BELIEF.

FINANCE AND LOGIC

(To the Editor.)

.i ir '"^ The aJ ei;aS e Professional man is generally a fool where finance is con-cerned-and undoubtedly is. I.am' one of them. But lam thankful that I received some training in scientific thought, and consequently logic. For the lifl of me I could not make out how the Minister ot finance made out a compulsory conversion into a voluntary conversion I refer to the present conversion loanbut there I thought—stupid again—our brains are trained all wrong-we don't see and think as financiers do; I must be wrong. However, lam glad-to see that l still possess some sanity and logical thought as your sub-leader in . today's paper has given me hope that at any rate there are some people who think tor themselves; and are not bull-dozed oy patriotic phrases into believin" and accepting as gospel just what is said, without giving the subject in question some mental consideration. Your last paragraph of "Both Coons Look Alike to Me" is all that need be said to the intelligentsia. I will quote it: "But to assume moi al status, and to say that compulsion is merely a kind action intended to protect converters from non-converters imposes on

But are; you strictly, correct? Doesn't it impose on the masses, or, call them what you may—the people who "allow others to think for them, and whom I regret to say are in the majority? Nevertheless you have "at least done the pro-' tessioual ranks a favour; for now they know that at any rate they can thiukeven if they are rotten financiers from a money-making point of view. I have never used a ncm-de-plume before, but in tins ease I think "Discretion is the Better .fart of Valour, so I subscribe,

LOGIC*.

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