DOUGLAS CREDIT SCHEME.

Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 15

DOUGLAS CREDIT SCHEME.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —At the beginning of his letter in your issue of April 9, Mr Chapman assumes 1 am what he says at the finish of his letter I cannot be—i.e., a Socialist who thinks the Douglas analysis correct. It is quite possible 1 am one of those who think without bias, and in that ease my reasons for criticising Mr Chapman’s remarks on Socialism are fairly obvious. I will not comment on the quotation of Mr Cole, but would ask Air Chapman to road the ‘ History of the Working Classes of Scotland,’ by Thomas Johnston. He will therein find why Air Cole arrived at these views. Air Chapman knows as well as I that quotations such as he gave do not convey anything of the nature of the subject contained in the book they are taken from. Air Chapman concludes his letter thus: “The thing to do at present in New Zealand is to persuade as many people as possible to study it without bias.” It is a pity Air Chapman did not think about that before ho wrote the letters I criticised. The only thing that depresses “ W.F.” is that it is such letters as Air Chapman’s that split into different camps all organisations working for a better social order, and until such time as individual believers in each theory or system get that into their heads bricks will always be flying around, and we shall get nowhere. So 1 suggest again that Mr Chapman get on with the Douglas scheme and leave side issues alone.—l am, etc., W.F. Dunedin, April 14.