SOCIAL SECURITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 19

SOCIAL SECURITY

Sir, —In the name of the youth of New Zealand 1 appeal to the adults of our country to protect lis from Labour's orgy of taxation when election dav arrives.

It is the rising generation which will have to bear the full weight' of the "social security" scheme, and we are not being given the chance to say whether we want to accept such a crippling burden. On election day we shall have to sit at home in seething impotence while the issue that affects us more than any other single section of the community is fought out in the polling booths. This means that Mr. Savage is indulging in pure dictatorship, by imposing a tax on a section of true-born New Zealandcrs which has no vote —a monstrous injustice which, even the State-controlled schools teach us, is directly contrary to the first principles of democracy. If our parents and other adults are so misguided as to let Mr. Savage go back to power unlimited, and if Mr. Savage goes ahead with the taxation of schoolchildren in order to help Mr. Nash balance h<is precious Budget, then we have nothing left to do but to get out of this Pacific paradise and flee to some other country where youth is encouraged to progress, and where the individual is freer than he i.s in New Zealand. Lloyd Robekts. Westmere.