POLICY OF SOCIALISM.

Evening Star, Issue 23991, 16 September 1941, Page 8

POLICY OF SOCIALISM.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The Government’s policy has been sufficiently indicated in a recent statement concerning the carrying trade, but carriers and people engaged in the transport business are not the only oppressed people in this country. It would be rather difficult to locate and designate any one business which, is not partially or wholly controlled by the State. Tlie wedge of State control, or Sovietism, is being driven slowly but none the less surely. The very foundation of our prestige, built by the early settler with his fine characteristics, is being blasted away under the pretest of war emergency or “ industrial efficiency,” and we are apparently intended to become a community of automatons, amenable to the dictation of a' few. Restricted and subdued will he all the fine dements begotten in us. We are to become dependent on the State; we are to he marshalled to this or that vocation, quite independent of our qualifications or capabilities. What a tragedv; what a sacrilege; what an imposition of unwanted and unnecessary control! This tragedy will surely be realised when this boomerang of State control, hurled at the people by the agents of power, rebounds to the source of impetus,—l am, etc.. Un Petit Homme. September 13.