SOCIALISTIC DEFINITIONS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 10

SOCIALISTIC DEFINITIONS

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Everybody knows that civilisation is a state of affairs where nothing can be done unless it is financed. "Student" says Socialism is the state of affairs wherein the inefficient are disgruntled with the prosperity of the efficient, or words to that effect. The Socialists are, therefore, the inefficient, and all they have to do to become efficient is to be financed. The Socialists like Ramsay Mac Donald, Bernard Shaw, and Philip Snowden, have become efficient through having become financed and therefore financial. The Socialist Snowden was once Utopian, but when financial he dropped that bundle and as Chancellor of the Exchequer he went to The Hague and deprived the poor of Europe of millions sterling a year for the benefit of the poor of Great Britain, and the capitalists gave him the Freedom of London to demonstrate his efficiency. Our Socialists in Parliament are rapidly becoming efficient. They fell to capital like a shot when there was a chance of grabbing a £100 each for themselves. They are now more civilised, for that is a state or condition wherein everything and everybody is properly financed. When Socialists are Sociaiists they are not financial. When they get from £550 to £10,000 a year they have become "efficient." But your inefficient Socialist always preaches about giving practical effect to Christianity. Beware! That Socialist is only using his tongue to work himself up into a state of efficiency that -will get him, like our Parliamentary Socialists, £550 a year for three months' work, or like Philip Snowden £10,000 .a year.

I do not blame Philip Snowden for taking from the poor of Europe to benefit the poor of England, nor do I blame our Parliamentarian Socialists for grabbing for themselves an extra £100 a year when there were so many inefficient Socialists out of work or doing the "Government stroke" at Us and 9s a day. All this proves there is really nothing in Socialism but skite" when the Socialist has become so civilised as to be, like all things in civilisation, properly financed. If the Socialist representatives in Parliament would only stand down at the next election and give some of the unsuccessful Socialist candidates a chance of living up to £550 a year instead of down to 14s a day there would be some sense in and approbation for the Socialistic cause—sacrifice before self No tear!

Socialism as practised—not as preached— if, •% unde?. the other Mlow while you kid" to him.—l am, etc.,

A SOCIALIST MUG.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln a letter to "The Post," your correspondent "Student," gives us a definition ot Socialism, viz., "Socialism is the discontent of the inefficient at the prosperity of the efficient." Under our present administration it is a case of the discontent • the efficient at the prosperity of the inefficient For instance, anyone who can exploit the public in land speculations, etc., etc., are quite inefficient as far as being a useful member of the community country. What , s wrong in this country .o-day is that we have too many inefficient noa-prodncerg and speculators and not enough efficient workers. In other words, worVin"^ °i Pel ,° ent- efflcient Producers working to keep 75 per cent, of the nonproducers who are inefficient as far as being of any use to the country's produc--7;,, f he defimtion quoted by "Student" I take to mean that under Socialism the idlers will be discontented at the Vos?£tti^F^T -,f fc P«Snt the Pto° - cis get the skimmed milk.—l am, etc., KEEP STUDYING.

9th December.