POINTS FROM LETTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 61, 13 March 1934, Page 6

POINTS FROM LETTERS

'■'Orongorongo" refers to the rubbish-tip on Muritai waterfront, arid 'thinks that it will be equally objectionable if removed, as proposed, to Gollan's Valley, where, he assumes, it will be on the route that leads from Eastbourne through Gollan's Valley to Wainui-o-mata and the Orongorongro, a trampers' resort. z When "Onlooker 7' sees numerous new motor-cars (evidence of growing prosperity) in the streets he regrets that the bodies are not built in this country, employing New Zealand labour. In Australia "body-building or assembling factories are working double shifts," and these factories are attracting skilled labour= from New Zealand. "Onlooker" hopes that Mr. G. B. Shaw will comment on this. J. R. Scott thinks that D. McLaughlin has not sufficiently defined his position. The correspondent considers that humanity should aim at the gregariousness of the hive rather than that of the wolf pack. In this aim Roosevelt and Mussolini are fundamentally identical, but Roosevelt methods are an appeal to voluntary effort plus judicious pressure, and. Mussolini methods are an appeal to creative desire plus physical coercion;, or a; choice between hopeful persuasiveness and ruthless discipline. An idealist's task, the writer considers, is to stimulate thought processes and to hope that Providence will send the great heart and great mind^