SOCIAL CREDIT MEETING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24255, 25 March 1940, Page 11

SOCIAL CREDIT MEETING

At a social credit meeting last Wednesday Mrs Porter spoke'on “Social Credit Viewpoint.” She told how she had come to adopt the social credit outlook, and spoke of it as the benefit which has accrued to society by the harnessing of solar energy to industry. It belonged to the people as a whole, but was being withheld by the controllers of financial credit, who did not issue sufficient tickets .to enable the social heritage to be used and enjoyed by all. She believed that women particularly ought to be interested in this question, as they were chiefly responsible for making the tickets or money go round. Women had once been taught to sacrifice and efface themselves, but now—enlightened as to the real cause of economic distress and worry—it was time that they demanded of their servants, the representatives in Parliament and on city councils, such action as would ensure

henceforth that the. social heritage was made beneficial to humanity as a whole and that anything physically possible was made financially possible.,; Mi: Bonn then spoke on “ Social Engineering,” stating' that the, principles which governed association ' for the common good were as. capable of defi. nition as those which governed bridge building. He compared the “ sqcial ’’ engineer with any other engineer who used the power in his' particular field to produce a given result. In “ social ” engineering the power which had been slowly developed through the ages was the whole field of human effort for the betterment of mankind. The tragedy was that-with all this human effort we had not progressed correspondingly in terms of human happiness and satisfaction. Mr Bonn defined social credit as the efficiency measured in terms of human satisfaction of people in association and went on tc show that in order to take advantage of human effort as a whole we must associate to get the results we desired. It was obvious that we did not get the desired results from our city councils and our House of Representatives which might be considered as the small-scale models of social engineering, because we had not expressed our desires, but as soon as the will of the people was mobilised to this end we should be instrumental in bringing about a changed economic and financial system, which would make it possible for the benefits derived from association to be utilised to the full