LETTERS TO A SOLDIER

Northern Advocate, 25 August 1943, Page 2

LETTERS TO A SOLDIER

Dear Jack —I noted with interest ! your remarks about Mr. Jones' visit. I It must have been rather funny. Still. I always think lie means well, and that’s more, perhaps, than can be said for some of the others. However, they will find when the election results are announced that the people’s memories are not so short as they seem to think. Also, it seems to me that the people as a whole view many current happenings with a great deal more clear-sighted-ness than they are given credit for. Take the Upper House, for example. } Members of' tne Government got very | hot under the collar when someone described tnis as a club for ex-union officials. but if they expect the public to be satisfied by this. I'm afraid they’re due for a disappointment. The evidence is too plain. I understand the National Party proposes some sort of overhaul of the Upper House, to make it justify its upkeep, and this proposal should appeal to the public. Another matter in which members of the Government deceive themselves —not me. though!—is in regard to Government appointments to Party members. Plums have been handed out right and left, as if the qualifications of a man who is paid £I2OO or so a year of the public’s money were not of the slightest consequence. It may not be so lo the Government, but it certainly is to the taxpayer, and a great many people will show what they think about it at the ballot, box. These are times when standards of both public and private conduct seem to be in jeopardy. It is up to all of us to do what we can to see that the principles of truth and honesty remain the governing motives in the lives of men. That, after all, is what you are fighting for. With all our love.—DAD. §79