LATE CORRESPONDENCE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20238, 23 February 1934, Page 4

LATE CORRESPONDENCE.

WHERE IS THE PLAN? Dear Sir, —Mr Howard has told us dozens of times about there being poverty in a world of plenty, and has used many other similar phrases. Almost everyone knows that the present trouble i» one of distribution, not of production. It is folly to keep on harping about a thing everybody knows. Mr Howard can do some real thinking and give us a remedy. The Douglas plan is not a remedy; that would only get us into worse trouble. The only good thing about it is the name. The Socialists in Russia have not found a remedy, though they slaughtered millions of people and caused millions of others to die of starvation. Yet the general standard of living in Russia is lower than the unemployed standard in New Zealand. And Russia as a country could, if worked to the best advantage, support at least five times its present population. The Labour Party in Christchurch have not got a remedy. Their management of the trams promises to be one of revenge and exploitation and general muddledom. Mr Howard and others are fond of calling coins discs and banknotes tickets. That is silly. We all know that everything round and flat is a disc, but a great many discs are not coins. W hat do they hope to gain .by calling coins discs? Have they only found out that coins are discs, and do they want to let the world know ? And what benefit is it to call banknotes tickets? Tickets include many things. Is it not better to be precise, and sav what one means.—l am, etc., CRITIC. P.S.—Mr Howard has said that the shortage of discs and tickets (he likes to mimic other writers, who think themselves clever by using these terms) is the cause of our troubles. That is not so. We have as many coins and banknotes as ever we had.—Critic.