QUO VADIS?

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 11 April 1934, Page 2

QUO VADIS?

(To the Editor) Sir, —Well, where are we going, or rather where do we want to go? For two generations we have been driving our sons and daughters into airless, sunless dens called offices, or else tying them to the tail of a cow. What lias happened is that our offspring has rebelled. We call it a slump. The slum]) is as much man-made, and mandesired, as was the war. There is jubilation that tilings appear to be getting back to normal, more dark dens for children that love the sun, more cows’ tails for intelligent vouth.

The'only sensible people to-day are in the unemployment camps, and many of them know it. True the camps are far from perfect, but, in time, they will perfect themselves. To live in tli e sun, to do a little work (as little as possible as we are assured on the most high Authority that work is a curse) to cultivate an intellect that is the greatest tiling on earth, what more desirable? It is a queer thing that of all the machines in the world the most wonderful must be reduced in numbers. Every one must have one motor car, better still two or three or a dozen, but no one must have children. The madness of it. Is there any wonder fhere is rel'cTiion somewhere' and slump? Our aim should be to make New Zealand one vast unemployment camp. We would be tiie wonder of the world.—l am etc., METHUSELAH. Nelson, 9th April.