PRODUCTION PROBLEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 November 1934, Page 6

PRODUCTION PROBLEMS.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Many opinions have been expressed, in print and otherwise, on the subject of over-production. There is always a certain percentage of tne community who are ever ready to take the first excuse offered to it. People so inclined define the cause of the piesent low prices to over-production. They have even taken pains to keep this obnoxious phrase before the public. So we have, in two of the great est producing countries of the worm, America arid Holland, the contro hng bodies issuing an order for the destiu - tion of milch cows and other producing animals. To destroy that which was created by Nature for a definite reas is fundamentally in opposition to tne law of natural existence. May u this country never have cause to follow such an example of blind narrow minded groping in the wrong di - tion. In actual fact, over-production is a fallacy. Why not look on the other side of the subject, undei-con-sumption. So long as there is even a minute percentage of children nourished for want of that which we are anxious to destroy then we not truthfully believe in over-produc-tion. We cannot side-step the fact that there are tens of thousands of our infant population the world ovei who are handicapped from the beginning because of semi-starvation, buiely they are entitled to what we cannot use. Instead of subsidising the faimer, utilise that subsidy to make possible the consumption of our increased pioduetion. The consuming power of the people controls the price of an article. The destroying element is ever present in the majority. During a time of war we see enough of this. Live them more of the essentials of life. Give them bread, butter, and nnlk. Utilise these things for the purpose for which they were given to us. Build, and keep oil building a future generation. Never mind about destroying. The war-mongers will see to that. Never mind about the supposed leaders of industry who have an ■ axe to grind. Keep close to Nature and we will come out on top. A definite and apparently successful attempt has been made financially to destroy the purchasing power of the masses. It rests with those responsible to see that the same principle is not used in conjunction with our foodstuffs. In conclusion, sir, may I say to those who have perhaps a more efficient and direct remedy, may they have every assistance to put their theory into practice.—l am, etc., VOX POPULI.