SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 23422, 13 November 1939, Page 9

SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

TO THE EDITOR. gj r Your editorial on the above was very interesting, and I quite agree with your statement that “in the heart of the individual man and woman lies the solution.” That great movement for moral rearmament is based on that idea, and on a new outlook in life for the individual to help his fellow man. The Hon. P. C. Webb’s vision of a golden age when crime would disappear, only possible by the dissolution of the present economic system, is on par with Sir Thomas More’s Utopia. _ If the hon. gentleman would give his idea a trial, by giving the miners shares in the mines’’ he controls on the West Coast, they would be in the fortunate position of getting wages and sharing the dividend the same as the employer; and such a trial would prove whether his theory is correct. But we could hardly expect a community to settle down to a socialist Calm, because even Mr Webb is an owner of racehorses, and enjoys that thrill that comes to the lucky owner when his horse is,, first past’the post. Perhaps the honourable gentleman will tell us what interest there would bq in only watching the horses gallop, instead of our present system of the totalisator. where tho luckv individual goes to pick up the dividend on the first and second placed horses.—l am, etc., Moralist. November 13.