"A GRANDER DESTINY"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22004, 10 January 1935, Page 13

"A GRANDER DESTINY"

Sir, —It is obviously stupid for Mr. .J. Johnstone to go on arguing in such a small vicious circle, for where is he getting now? "A part is not greater than the whole," and to deal with one small detail of a great subject as though it were the only thins worth consideration deceives no one but himself. There is no reason whatever in a land of'full and plenty why J,ife should be so threatening and precarious to so many as it is. If we cannot arrange our national economy to end the existing state of affairs, we must fail in building up a better and grander destiny for our people. What does he mean by "currency reformers" as applied in his letter in reply to mine, and does ho class all those who differ from him in that category? It just adds to the confusion of his thought. The betterment of our peojjle has ceased to be conjectural and tentative; it is a vital force in our national life and it must go on. Facts and figures speak to us with increasing emphasis, and in these days wo recognise that in questions of health, mind and body cannot be dissociated; herein lies the complexity of the whole question. It is the mental deterioration which is fostered by the present condition of things which is the most serious. There, comes a time which brings with it a sense of degradation because many of our people are not allowed to be selfsupporting and able to buy and use what has been produced and which they need. It was silly talk for Mr. Johnstone to ask what was the use of empty warehouses. They would soon be fuller than ever if the people could onlv buy, and that leads our thoughts on to a grander destiny where British citizenship will bo in the future what it has never been in the past, and it should carry advantages greater than the people'of any other nation enjoy and free them from "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." ! W. K. Howitt.