INDIVIDUALISM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 228, 25 August 1938, Page 2

INDIVIDUALISM.

(To the' Editor.) Sir,—l must begin by congratulating “Radio” on his power of being able to read a person’s mind. I would suggest without any hesitation that he let his extraordinary ability be known to the hon. the Leader of the Opposition who has been waiting ever since last election for a man who could read the Labour members’ minds and. so be in the lucky position of being a jump ahead of them. An alternative would be to join the master mind readers’ union and go on the stage. “Radio” then goes further and says that the writer has evidently not reached manhood and is void of the spirit of rugged individualism. Admittedly, I did not have the gifts of self-commendation bestowed on me at birth as “Radio” appears to have had, but even then I am able to stand up on my own feet and say I am a man, and I am sufficiently interested in the affairs of the country to know that if “Radio’s” party got back into power the youth of the country would be called, upon to do all the worry and battling while looking for jobs whereby they could earn an honest sixpence. If that is rugged individualism let us hope, even if “Radio” is agreeable to it, that his children do not have to ever go through it. “Radio” then goes on to say that he is worrying about the fifteen or twenty million pounds that is held by the various Friendly Societies throughout the country. He is scared that the present Government'is going to take this money and use it for its own purposes. Dr. McMillan definitely stated that the Government intended to leave the Friendly Societies strictly alone, and when a man of Dr. McMillan’s calibre says a thing like that you can believe every word of it. Apart from these statements which I have mentioned that is all “Radio” could find wrong with Dr. McMillan’s speech. “Radio” did mention in his letter that you can get nothing from a pig but a squeak, but as neither I in my previous letter nor Dr. McMillan, in his speech said anything to the contrary about that I presume that “Radio” put that in his letter fo make it look long and full of knowledge. I hope that in future when “Radio” is writing a letter to the paper he will keep to the subject and not go rambling on to the habits of a pig.—I am, etc., YOUNG NEW ZEALANDER.