SOCIAL CREDIT

Evening Star, Issue 24002, 29 September 1941, Page 5

SOCIAL CREDIT

WOMEN'S BRANCH At the last of the study group meetings of the Dunedin women’s branch of the Social Credit Movement Mrs S. Townend summarised the main points from the W.E.A. lecture course, ‘ World Crisis and Proposed Solutions,’ which had been prepared at the request of the National Council of Women and studied by different women’s orgauisalTrs- Townend criticised the unsatisfactory findings, of the lectures, at the end of which no practical solution had been offered likely to appeal to the majority of people.' The Liberal-Democratic approach contained plenty 'of platitudes concerning the desirability of individual freedom, but in its appeal .for a Socialism which was neither a bureaucracy nor a dictatorship no attempt was made to show how this might be actually realised, while in the international sphere the pernicious idea of Federal Union was selected as most likely to provide economic stability between nations. Most ot these writers, Mrs Townend said, were on the horns of a dilemma. They wanted to preserve individual freedom, yet they could see no alternative to greater State control as a means of solving the economic and political problems of to-day. She felt that their confusion and vagueness was due to the fact that they could not or would not recognise. Social Credit as the third resolvent factor to the impossible duality of the LeftRight conflict. Throughout this course the present debt-ridden monetary system was not once criticised, and the profit motive operating through industry was considered to be the chief source of the trouble. At a time when nearly everyone was ready to admit that there was something radically wrong with the money system it was rather disgraceful, Mrs Townend concluded, that it should not be criticised in a "W.E.A. course dealing with the present world crisis.