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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21020, 8 May 1930, Page 14

TO THE EDITOR. Sib,—" What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say.” Taking the long view, is not the unemployment problem essentially one of training? What is needed is a change in our educational system that shall place character, initia* tive, and the_ will to work in the forefront. To this end the standard of the teaching profession must be raised to make the highest character and the possession of an energetic personality indispensable qualifications. What would be the result in this land of splendid natural advantages and possibilities? The politician would disappear and the State bec?mo onl Y an example of justice but or efficiency. The industrial community, instead of being a drag on the primary producers, would acquire sometning of the Elizabethan spirit and develop u arge export trade with the teeming millions of the East ; with the lesser civilisanon almost within coo-ee of these shores. Well-meaning Labour would realise how senseless it is to pour water into a sieve, and would deal in earnest with the stupid dreadful waste entailed in drink and other dissipations—a waste immensely greater than that created by war or by a few idle rich. The country yokel would be less m , evidence, and the churches and the whole social structure be permeated with reality.—l am, etc., Earnscleugh, May £***** C '