An Advocate of Change

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 196, 4 September 1937, Page 3

An Advocate of Change

AliCH.

LOWE.

Sir, — Gonvinced, as I ari, that open discussioa of public matters is a vital factor to the ereati.on of public welfare, I deplore the methods of such writers as "Ajax" in to-night's HeraldTribune, and X believe it would be all to the good if legal compulsion forced all users of the public Jfress to sign their names to attacks upon the trutnfiilnees and honour of other people. For well over a quarter of a century I have been of the opinion that uur economie slstem is wrong m that the iinancially strong are free to prey upon the iinancially weak. To ine that seems as foolish and wrong as to allow ilie physically strong the same licence, and, as our legal and politieaJ systems aro the great props of that wrong t i have, over the yuars, giveu open supporfc to the politicai party that declares for a change. That the 'present Covernment oi Great Britain has, unden the stark compultlion of current events, Iji'stituted measures in some direetions far in advance of what is so loudly declared to be extreme Socialism in New Zeatand to-day is a iact that "Ajax could learn if he would bring his readtug to a later date than 192b. Concluding, Sir, may I draw attention to two items that make good reading in to-night's issue? A visiting Chief of° Police declares that general prosperity lessens crime and an Auckland magistrate presiding over an nnportant public body was moved to remark upon the ' ' extraordinary position" and to inquire from police reasons for tlie absence of crimej "while another heading upon the same page reads: — "White Gloves for Judge: Freedom of AVest Coast From Crime."

— ^Yours, etc..

Hastings, Sept. 2, 1937.