CO-ORDINATION OF EFFORT

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 148, 26 June 1933, Page 8

CO-ORDINATION OF EFFORT

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —The poet Cowper once said in one. of his letters that "a Cheshire cheese full of mites is 'more- lively than a sound one, but its' very liveliness only proves its rottenness." How. trua a parallel da we find in modern society. The last weekhas -witnessed the birth of yot another politico-economic organisation based, like most of its predecessors, '.on a policy of nebulous incomprehensibility. Through its provisional chairman (Mr. R. G. Buckleton) the preliminary executive of the proposed National Reconstruction Association calls for public support •in its objective of reconstructed business and restored prosperity. If the average man stopped to think—he.never does in political or economic matters—he could not but perceive the inconsistency of theNational Reconstruction Association's position in having the audacity to ask for public support on the sole ground of co-ordination of effort when a mope comprehensive body, based on sounder foundations and under move inspiring leadership, lias preceded it in word and deed by only a few weeks. Moreover, the Legion is only one of a whole concourse of essentially similar organisations. Anyone can join one .or "all or none of them without any inconsistency, for all have the highest ideals based on allegedly the most, disinterested public-spjritedness. The result of so many essentially.similar organisations all harnessed to the community and pulling towards prosperity is dissipation and cancellation of energy rather than 'co-ordination and concentration of effort while the slump, of course, stays where it is and will so _ continue until this multitude of. similarities is subrog'atcd to a unanimous whole. If the National Reconstruction Association is sincere in its objectives the obvious thing forft is to .withdraw and allow its prospective members to support one of the numerous bodies \already in existence, rather, than further complicate an already hopelessly intricate position.—l am, etc.,

A. McGHIE.