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Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1926, Page 2

Coxtinping in the same line of thought the critic above referred to, £oes on to say that another example of confused thinking is afforded in a widely-quoted sentence of the resolutions adopted by the last annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Springfield, Mass., to the effect that all wealth “created by society should he devoted to the development- of all the people in ways to he determined by the people themselves.” This is a very loose expression which rosy bo given almost any meaning, It

seems to point to a regulation of all the expenditures of the'people by some governmental authority, for it is what the people do with their wages, salaries and incomes of every kind that now determines the uses to which wealth shall l:e put. Investments for profit are all made with a view to supplying popular wants. “The people themselves have caused the flow of wealth into the automobile industry, and actually supplied the wealth, through the purchase of automobiles. The same is true of every other industry, and form of investment. Does this resolution contemplate any different system of providing liow wealth shall be “devoted to the development of the people!” If so. how is the new system to he harmonized with the final declaration? The truth, of course, is that utterances like these, purporting to represent the views of great organisations and deriving whatever influence they have from that fact, actually come from individuals, with perhaps more or less casual annrovnl hv small groups. The examples show the tendency of such spokesmen to roam outside the fields hi which they are supnosed to he specialists, and to deal with matters for which their qualifications cvidenfly •'re quite limited.