DOUGLAS SYSTEM

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 4043, 28 September 1933, Page 4

DOUGLAS SYSTEM

Just as societies Lave to be set up to elucidate' the subtleties of poets likei Browning, so in Australia and New Zealand Douglas Social Credit Societies have been formed by enthusiasts- Here is the understandable theme of the Douglas system: “Tlie world crisis is due, chiefly, to one cause: a. shortage of purchasing power. Of everyThis shortage comes about bething else their is abundance, cause it is impossible for any industry to pay out sufficient purliasing power to cover the cost of the good it produces. This is true of all industries. The use of labour saving machinery increases the shortage of purchasing power.” If Major Douglas’s system was as simple as this thjesis, all, would be well. Some thoughtful Feilding folks who really desire to understand Ihe system listened to Mr Robinson expound the new gospel, which has a large following in Auckland, from which city Mr Robinson is campaigning. He is a clear speaker and gets tlie nearest yet to making the Douglas system understandable, to the, man in tlie street.