Mr Shaw’s Nostrums.
Dear Sir,—l like Mr Shaw’s mixed logic—he w’ould give everybody free bread and milk in one place, but in another he says that we are all slaves (in the wage-slave sense) to Nature. I take it his second statement is true, and therefore his first proposition is impracticable. He who will not work should starve—that is even the Communists’ creed. How. then, can we provide the means of sustenance for many who would turn round and refuse to work for it. We would need some big prison camps to enforce the law, for to-day w’C cannot get many of the relief workers to do a tap for what they receive. I also think that somebody pulled our eminent visitor’s leg on the subject of harnessing our hot springs. They are all right for Maoris to cook eels and potatoes in, but give me hydro-electricity every time.—l - am, etc., SANITY.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 8
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