Our Children

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 65, 9 December 1937, Page 7

Our Children

W.

SISSON

Sir, — The all-absorbing question of tho future of our children comes into OVery home. To-day's socialistic note is a direct result of past prosperous times; the parents of to-day'S voters, though hard workiug folk themselves, invariably lmpressed their children to despise tke following of their parents. Is it not a fact that every mothet, and indeed most_fatbers, to-day avow they woula sec to it tliat their children would at least be lifled above common though honest work and even life itself, creating characters lacking in both fortitude and enterprise. These facts loo'k us in the face defying contradiction. Our nation 's rccent vote was, to t>ay the least, a discredit to education,

with a poor tribute to our hard-work-ing piouuera. iSocialism is but a reflection of weakness in self-enterprise. It is, too, a known fact that eighty per Cent Of our school-teachers are socialistic liorh in district sehOolS and universites. The nation's greatest gold mine lies hidden in its wealth of grass, but we find farming a despise d fert. s It struggles to-day not with th6 help of our Government — btit despite its reactionary ebstructioiis,— Yours, etc..

December 8/37.