Letters to the Editor

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 190, 28 August 1937, Page 3

Letters to the Editor

r * • ^A'GRIGOLA."

"One from One Leaves Two" Sir, — The following American rhyino bearing the above title appeared recently in • the coluiuns of the Morning Post (London). It provides such.au aniusing reflefction-upon an agricultural policy (not neeessarily confined to Tf.S.A.) .that it -sould bring rueful laughs from a 'great number in this country to-day. - "Higgledy .piggledy, my blaek hen, She iays eggs for gentlemen. Gentlemen come every day To count what niy, blaqk hen doth lay. If perchanco. she.lays.too many They fine my. hen a pretty penny: If perchance she fails to lay, The gentlemen a bonua pay. "Mumbledy puinbledy, my re.d cow; She's co-operating now. At^ first she didn't unders'tand " That milk production must be planned: She didn't understand at iirst She either had to plan or burst. But now the Government reports She's giving pints instead of qaarts. f'Eiddle de dee, my nest door .neighbours, They are giggling at>their labours. r First they plant the tiny seed, Then they Avater, 'th^n they weed Then they hoe and priine and lopk • ■ Then they raise a-record crop, Then they laugh .their- eides asunder And plough the . whole damn garden nnder. 1 W * I-:- ' "Abraeadabra, thus we learn - The more -you' creatGj -fho -less you earn. The less",you'-earn,itho -more yo-u're givenj* - - - • . . The less- -you lead, . the more , you-'re driven. , • . ; * The more destroyed, the mofe they f eed, The more you pay, the "more they need, The more ' you earn, 1 the less you- keep. And now I lay me';down-tq -sleep, • I pray tke Lord my"spul-to*take'v If the ta,x-collector hasn't got it before I wake',^ • It is common 'history that. a; ribald song or a' wittyTampoon niay serve in,, no small - measure -t'o ovcrthrbw 'an - unpopular government, and the timo is ripe for a little fidiculefto combat the pronouncements aud; absurd pfoposals put forward by ' present-'day politicians when the'y cdnctefn' 'themselves with agricultural : probleius.— Yours," etc.