RECENT COURT CASE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 83, 22 June 1943, Page 4

RECENT COURT CASE

Sir, —Letters to the Editor, making" personal attacks on a member # of the community, should not be published, unless the correspondent has the stomach to put. his. name, to the letter. -'Wake Up Whakatane" knows that the gentleman he refers * to in his letter to the Editor, is as well known as "the local Post Office, and goes on to make a personal attack on him, while he covers his own identity with a nom.de-plume.r Once a man has paid the fine, 1 should think lie has paid the penalty, but your correspondent while croaking about loyalty, patriotism, etc., Avants to apply Hitler methods on him, Avhich is A r ery typical of many exponents of freedom and jus-yfc? tice just now. Because the other felloAv won't swalloAv their one-eyed views they Avant to crucify him, and unconsciously apply Gestapo methods to do so, Avhile at the same time, deploring similar methods, used in other countries. Is it because "Wake Up" has an axe to grind, or is he jealous because the « other fellow has the brains to make his "sugar" a little easier than he? No doubt, the gentleman he pulls to pieces, has lent more pounds to increase Avar profits than "Wake Up." has lent pence. Whether he be a Dalmatian or an African black, he does not stoop to tactics of "Wake Up" and from what D know of him (not asking any favours or desiring to pat him on the back) * will say this, that if all my felloAv countrymen who hold no monopoly for straight dealing, were as straight in business as the Dalmatian he refers to, then the public Avould have little to worry about. Further, in •• grinding his.axe, "Wake Up" speaks of a business the law froAvns at. What has that got to do Avith him. Does he squeal about the hundreds y of Art Unions AvJicre. the public getjfr very little for their money, and i&+ he not awake to the fact that our law makers invest in Tatts, despite all the frowning. The sooner many of these things are legalised the. better, as in Australia. Th.e trouble is that there are too many one-eyA gentlemen like "Wake Up" about, who cannot see further than their noses, and perhaps in the years following the war, your correspondent will have ample time to Ayake up, when he will require a telescope to see Avhat the pound, note av*ll buy. In the meantime, "Wake Up" is probably more interested in the "Jog cabin" erected in Commerce: Street, which looks ideal for stopping drunken motorists, than anything else. A few points, "Wake Up" Avould find Avorthwhile study-

I in{« t besides finding out which end »un fires a shot, are a close study of economics, causes of wars, booms and slumps, who finds the tears, blood, sweat and corpses for all wars, and pays for same, and who rakes in the profits. Don't pick on individuals, get away from those petty ideas. The family ei, the pound note and the children s clothes have not yet. diminished sufficiently for "Wake Up" j£f wake up. I thought it was the duty of these "Home Guard" enthusiasts to protect the homes. This is one item they have missed out of their programme which is most essential. The Czar never had any thought of that, when he expected the. Russians to light, while the larders; went bare, but not his of course. Probably he thought Russia was a lovely country, as my children were tokl recently that New Zealand was, but when mother went to buy clothes and blankets for the children, she told me it would be a lovely country if I Ave re. only plucking a fat salary. There are many things I could mention, if. "Wake Up" has. the mentality to wake up, but there

are so many like, your eorresijondent just, now, that I am more interested 111 fowls than human beings. The ' [owls won't lay if one does not feed, and liou.se them properly. To rob them of the eggs, it is necessary tq& do that, but liumans can be fed, half clothed, robbed of what {.Continued in previous column} t