SOCIALISM

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1938, Page 6

SOCIALISM

THE WAY TO SUCCESS

Ever since people got away from the nomadic life they had moved towards^Socialism, said the Rev. Clyde Carr ; (Government, Timaru). Every community had to be socialised in many things k' it was to succeed. The Government had been criticised because some of its achievements had been recorded irf the Speech from the Throne, but the reason was that the Government had achieved more than any. other Government. He had been told that some of the bitterest critics of the Government ! were the sustenance men "who congregate in public bars and drink their money away instead of taking it home to their wives," said Mr. Carr. They were the ones who bit the hand that fed them, but they were in the minority. They were not to blame because they had probably been demoralised by the irelief schemes of the last Government. 1 Continuing, Mr. Carr referred to the destruction that was being done by erosion. brought about by the removal of native forest. Lands" had deteriorated in many districts, he said, and there was; also deterioration of arable land from'other causes. Unless care was taken.to reclaim and restore these lands they would never be of any use; In /many cases the denuded land was privately owned and when the Government suggested taking the land over to replant it exorbitant prices were asked. He appealed to the Government to take action before it was too late. "ENTERPRISE" OFTEN MEANS "CUNNING," , 1 Mr. H. E. Herring (Government, MidCanterbury) said there were many references to enterprise and ability, but very often enterprise was another word i for cunning. A man of enterprise and ability should use his ability for the good of the community and not for his own selfish, ends. The men who had done most for progress had not | worked for themselves but for the good of mankind. The Government members had gone before tfie electors with certain policy J points, Mr. Herring said, but the removal of sales tax, the reduction in the exchange rate, and reduction of taxation were not included. Mr. S. G. Holland: Not sales tax? Mr. Herring said, the three points had not been mentioned by him during .the election and were not in the party's policy.' If the Government had- not been responsible for the reduction of inter- | est rates, said Mr. Herring, it had kept interest down and had made money available at low rates. Local bodies had been saved large sums in interest :by -the Governments' policy.