Public Opinion

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 209, 4 September 1934, Page 4

Public Opinion

‘ PUBLIC CONTROVERSY Sir, In your issue of 30th, uud®f the caption, “World Credit,” a correspondent signing himself "National • Credit for All” (which seems a con venient patch of scrub to snipe from), advances some perfectly sound reasons i in favour of a new monetary or credit system. They merit attention. The petulant and querulous reference to a previous correspondent detracts from iu value. Mr. Moore, at least signs his name and is above writing , insultingly or discourteously, if tional Credit for All” holds a rank not above a drill sergeant’s in the movement, his language is excusable. Hom an aspiring deader one expects something balanced. Pitt, during the Anglo-American War, said, ”1 don’t know whether our generals frighten the enemy, but they 1 tighten me-” No cause should need bolstering with i abuse. With regards to his remarks about Mr. Forbes h. | ing a wooden head, it does not seem to have prevented him developing the average amount of wisdom teeth. If your correspondent favours Major Douglas’proposals, his form at a glance will t>« released as soon as we get the result of his deliberations with President Roosevelt, and the public can put a bit on him either way. With regards to studying the cows, your correspondent’s advice is sound. The chairman of a. dairy factory meeting in Taranaki opened up with “cows pay.” The local storekeeper remarked, ‘Some of the cows never pay,” and that will hold true whatever system is adopted. With regard to all this literature on the credit theme, one needs to be careful. Too much of it might warp the judgment. People can mesmerise them selves, Coue-ists get better and better, fakirs in India, one understands, work themselves into a frenzy that makes them insensible of pain nearly. Your correspondent, no doubt, is sincere and apart from animus could probably put up a sound argument, but to get back to the cows which he introduced: They often give a good bucket of milk and then kick it over. D. D. McLEAN. Kaka 1 ahi. August .31, 1934.