UTOPIAN PEACE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 212, 7 August 1945, Page 4

UTOPIAN PEACE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Peace at the point of the bayonet is not beyond man’s understanding and any form of peace ruling, apart from force, is so far too Utopian for practical application. Each war brings the whole world a step nearer to ultimate peace. Such peace, however, is dependent on a harmony of life which is enriched by giving and impoverished by getting. People so far have been too easily satisfied with peace so long as their estimated strength suffices for the moment to repel any probable rebellion. Conditions pertaining to peace are too frequently discouraged. For instance: Our miners obtain about 4s per ton for hewing and loading coa'l into trucks. An extra shilling per ton to the miner would willingly be subscribed by the public, who would then be far better served, confusion and strikes avoided, and mining made ntore attractive. Tiie farmer, too, if guaranteed 8s per bushel for his wheat would produce all the Dominion can use. the Empire's- birth-rate, 100, is much below ideal. Increase the desire for big, healthy families and the present g.eatest menaces to robust offspring will soon disappear. Very few of your readers seem to realise that ihe great majority of physicians are dependent on sickness in the community for their income. I, who have lived in ten decades, naturally avoid doctors, drugs, tobacco and those things which most people imagine necessary for health and happiness. Peace is dependent on harmonious living. Locks, bars, and barricades endanger peace by being provocative. There is no time but the present and, until incongruities are removed, real peace will forever remain a “will o’ the wisp.”—Yours, etc., C. H. MASON.