POLITICAL SEESAW

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 57, 31 October 1949, Page 4

POLITICAL SEESAW

Sir, —In spite of the propaganda, contention and dissention, cheering and jeering involved in the coming election, a simple pencil will decide the “to be or not to be” of the candidates seeking election. The motives that prompt the pencil, to vote are many and varied according to the personality of the voter. The slogan of the haves will be “to have and to hold” the have-nots will naturally claim a more equal distribution of the amenities of life. According to their disposition some thankful for a' modest competence for which they are willing to do something, others mercilessly demanding more for which they will do nothing. After the election the chosen candidates will be initiated into their seats on the political seesaw, right or left according to their opinions. The right is of course always right or in other words “money talks and weight tells” to the discomfort of the extreme lefts who are skied with expectation and let down with a thud of apprehension which causes some to relinquish their seats prefering “terra firma.” The front benches hang tenaciously on trying to balance the budget, which seems to be the vital* part of the Parliamentary seesaws.

After War I the world’s front benchers formed a League of Nations, for whom a palatial home from home was built to be a modern Babel of refuge from a probable war flood, which provoked more confusion than the Biblical Babel and is the memorial of a ghastly failure.

Yet another home from home is being built that will dwarf the skyscrapers in- New York’s dollar cemetery, that will, cost millions of dollars and absorb labour and building material sufficient for a residential suburb. Within this international palace the world’s key men will discuss “The housing shortage,” which inclines one to think “The bigger the balloon going up (for the taxpayers to gape at while their pockets are being picked and go home sader but not wiser) “the better” may be fulfilling the prophesy of the Psalmist who wrote, He who sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh because the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things. Yours etc., H. SEHGANT.