Whole Truth

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 15, 11 October 1937, Page 7

Whole Truth

girA — To my mind the most disturbing feature of lifo to-day i'» the Tapia growth of deception as an accepted element. From the field of international diplomacy to petty business relationships misstatement and all forms of deception havq come to be regarded as uecessary, and, if successful, as admirable. i Competition, we are told, is the life | of trade. Well, Sir, it seems to me that. I competition with its essential accessory | of deception bids fair to be the death of all things worth while. I am moved to these thoughts by two letters in tonight's Herald-Tribune ; one purports to tell us how the microphone is used in the broadcasts from Parliament and thq other pretends to give etatements made by the Minister for Lands. As to the broadcasts it qhould be plain to anyone who listens in, even though they never have been in the chamber where such a large number of persons contribute, that to speak of "the microphone'' as though it was aa srrangement similar to that upon &n tirdinary public-speaking platform is to f-onvey a misconception. The fact is i ihat the best that radio engineering can fvccomplish has been done faithfully to trausniit exactly what is said by every raember who speaks. May 1 also add, Sir, that it is pntirely due to the' present Administration that the opposition to broadcasting Parliament was broken down and so we may sit at our own fireside while keeping an eye on our legislators, Mr Langstono's statement about the five millions and odd thousands of pounds was that that amount had been added to our debt load in the fora of costs of raising nnormous other loads of debt in the fora of loans that would not have been necessary if a proper use of our own natoual resources had been made. Whether or not tliesa contentions of tiro Minister are right or wrong is bcside the point, which is that misrepresentation of statemeut or fact oalls for condemnation if we are to mahe any uset'ul coutribution to our dav and ceneration. — Yours. ot«..

ARCJtl. LOWE.

Hastings, Oct. 9., 1937,