"MOST INSPIRING"

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 9, 11 January 1941, Page 8

"MOST INSPIRING"

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —I have just read that Mr. Webb considers that because the workers at the Colonial Ammunition Company's factory returned to work on time after their Christmas holidays it -was "a patriotic action that was most inspiring" ... so inspiring that it warranted his expressing the Government's appreciation. So we have now come to the stage of our social development when the Government is "most inspired" when a worker does what is right, war or no war. It seems to me that the time is not far off when I will jump joyously out of my bed at 4 a.m. to tell the milkman how "inspired I am" that he has delivered my milk. I wonder if Mr. Nash will be "so inspired" when he hears that I have paid my income tax on time, that he will send me a nice illuminated address, or if income-tax payers who do not pay up on time will "get away with it" as easily as apparently many folk get away with a four-day week or play wag from work whenever they feel inclined. Totalisator returns show where interest lies today.

It seems to me that Mr. Webb has lost all confidence in the workers doing what is right, or otherwise why be '•most inspired" when the unexpected happens?—l am, etc., NOT INSPIRED.