DISTRESS AND DISTRUST

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 142, 3 July 1937, Page 14

DISTRESS AND DISTRUST

A.G.C.

"'The world to-day," said a wcilknown wriber reeently, "is sufi'eriiig from. two maladies: distress and distrust. If the distress eould be removed, th© distrust would go." Burely the truth of the matter is exactly the other way about. If the distrust eould be reui -ved, tne distress would go! The fui dau cutal trouble in the modern w irlcl is not economic but ethicali Uuemployment and poverty, not td vspeak of class nariare and racial feuds and nati-ujal auimosities, ai'e but the syuiptomis of a dc-cper malady. Ultimately it is clistrust that causes all the distress. Oau it be denied that, as soineone p'lt, it, there ucol h- no need anywhere P The resoui'ces of the world are adequate (or all the ion& of men. And

yet w© haVe destruction of superflons food in oue country, and gnawing hunger in another. Pi'essur© of population here, aixd vast undcdupied spaces, with closed doors to ©migration, there. Tariif walls, aiid fortified frontiers, and suspicious diplomacy, and armament i'amps, aiid jealous nationalism, aiid iiisolent dictatoiis, propping. up their rickety thrones with petulant outbursts of apprehensive despotism.. VVhat's the root-trouble? What'fWrong with the world ? Distrust, OVery time, and all along. the ]ine. "Sirs, y§ are brethreu." If ohly that xdea couid get a grip of the mmds of men, our problems would soon he -solved. If distrust eould be dissipated, distress Would soon vanishl