THE WORLD’S NEED.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18705, 3 August 1932, Page 9

THE WORLD’S NEED.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l have before me two letters written by “Proportion” and Mr I Lei toll in'" your correspondence columns, which I think deserve recog- ! nitlon. I, like “Proportion," am of i the opinion that we have been given i accumulatorsI—or 1 —or what we term ! brains—to use for self preservation. We have been endowed with, or accumulated, powers greater than most other animals, and for what purpose? Are these powers for independence, or solely that we may worship the 'Creator? I say it was for the former. When our fathers and mothers try to advise us when grown to manhood, we resent their interference and seldom ever ask their advice, because we, as another generation, think our parents are old fashioned, out of touch with us. Therefore, it seems to mo that having grown from a dependent child to full manhood, we have accumulated power to govern ourselves, with'out asking advice from our earthly or Heavenly parents, What are we educating our children for? We are continually advising our children to use their brains. Well, can we not take the same for instructions from the Creator? I say we can, and must do so; more so now than ever. Competition—-that curse to man—has become so keen that we must use our intellect to frustrate a oatacalysm that is fast overtaking mankind. The Creator has said in effect; “I have endowed you with sufficient intelligence to run your own lives—get on with the Job." Well let us get oh with it. Let us devise a system whereby all of mankind will participate in the profits from production. “As “Proportion” says, let us share each others’ burdens, and i hope, pleasures too. Let us follow "Bellamy’s" scheme; It Is most simple—all for the State, the State for all. Some people think the greed of man cannot he suppressed. Let me explain how I think it can: If _ a mother bearing a child knew for certain that she and her child were assured of a comfortable life, free from the harassing cares and anxiety of our present mother's burden, would not that child grow up free from the devastating 'sdul-tdeatro'ying system prevailing at present?—Most assuredly it would, or our theory of prenatal influence is all wrong. Under “Bellamy’s” system, within 25 years, we would have an ideal race- —a “human" race in thought and deeda race that could worship a God—they would have cause to .thank a Creator for delivering them from a soul-destroying, greed-engendering system, that Is unworthy of animals, less munificently endowed. People, if assured of bread and butter 'from childhood to their death, would be an in toto different race to the present self-seeking sycophants 'that prevent the dreams of humanist —minded people becoming a reality. Can I through your columns, advise every one who Can, to read “Looking Backward”—it i s most pertinent to the Dresent juncture.—l am, etc., C. J. TUCK. Rotorua, July 31, 1932. We must ask this correspondent to write in ink.