AN AGE OF PLENTY.
(To the Editor).
Sir, —Why quotas? News comes daily of present or impending quotas—quotas on cheese, on eggs, on apples, on bacon and to-night the).'© is. a glowing account of a. “successful” tin production control, said to create a beneficial effect on prices and shares. Prices and shares! But what effect on humanity—on you and me? All quota operation and production control has one tangible result —it withholds the plenteousness of production from the people. Hear what the world’s premier industrialist, Mr Henry Ford, says on the matter: “We have made strenuous efforts not to go along with life. We have tried to baulk it, to frustrate it, to limit it. to confine it within a pattern which has nothing at all to do with life. But life has insisted on its natural expression. Result—a scorning chaos. If we would go along with life we should find orderly progress and real, prosperity. In my opinion the surplus is not ail evil. We do not solve the problem of the surplus by an artificial scarcity. The last few years of experience would teach us to yield to the clamant demands of an abundant life, which is a constant unfolding, of new opportunities for social and spiritual happiness.” What is it that- stands be-' tween us and the fruits of production ?
NEW ZEALANDER
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 November 1933, Page 4
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225AN AGE OF PLENTY. Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 November 1933, Page 4
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