CORRESPONDENCE SURPLUS APPLES. DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES. REPLY’ TO “BOY WORKER.”

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 118, 17 April 1940, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

SURPLUS APPLES.

DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.

REPLY’ TO “BOY WORKER.”

(To ilio Editor.) Sir, —The local broadcasting station 2ZA conducts a “telephone quiz’’ i every Saturday night ami 1 am going to suggest that'the giving away of | apples to most people on the telephone will not l>e giving the apples to those I who not only need hut also earn them. |1 suggest that if 2ZA has apples to | give away it hands them over to the ! boc.al Security Department who could i donate them to the workers on the | dole, who can ill afford to buy apples i out of the sum they receive from this source. I am certain that those people on the telephone would rather have it this way. —1 am, etc., LEO SLU. 11 imatangi, 15/4/40.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Mr Barnard lias been talking about playing last and loose witii democratic principles. 1 quite agree with him in that respect. That is the attitude of the Government, lately pretending to act on that principle, and Mr Barnard induded. J fail to see any difference in them. To my mind they are all of one school—one trying to beat the other. Mr Barnard says we have to dance to Mr Chamberlain’s time, that does not sound democratic. Mr .Chamberlain has more brains than any socialist in New 'Zealand and half a dozen would not match Mr Chamberlain or get near him. llis Government is something to be proud of. —I am, etc., TRUE BRITON.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Tt is axiomatic that when some people are trounced in argument they resort to shuffling, distortion, misrepresentation, irrelevancy, and anything which will cover up their retreat. In that category can be classed vour correspondent, the alleged “Hoy Worker,” who will always remain a hoy tiil he is man enough to sign his name. With impertinence “Hoy Worker” presumes that my abstention from newspaper correspondence was due to reverses. Nothing of the kind I can assure him, hut any I have had were under Toryism. “Ajax,” “Householder.” “BlackOut,” and company sound suspiciously like my old friend “Hadio.” To hear that 1 have had any K.O. from them is highly amusing because people who hide behind the fistic nom de-plume hush arc never able to deliver one. ! “Boy Worker” makes no reference at all to the cause of my previous letter, j viz., the slur on old age pensioners and physically afflicted humans, but with side-tracking typical of his ilk quotes the case of a young fellow leaving a farm, and going on sustenance, a cowardly thing to do over a nom-de-plume Although a quotation, the inference is there. Now “Boy Worker,” if you have a specific case of imposition, why don’t you report it to the proper quarter (the young man may have a valid defence) and you are no more a walking encyclopaedia than 1 nm? “Boy Worker” accuses me of speaking detrimentally of your paper. Mr Edi-, tor; I did nothing of the kind. If he consults his dictionary, he will find that the definition of the word standard has no hearing on newspapers whatsoever. “Boy Worker” should marshal his facts correctly, stick to the issue, and not wander all over the literary sea; otherwise he may do as he has done ill his last effort, viz., strike an uncharted rock.- -I am. etc., W. F. CUTLER, Palmerston North, April 15, 10-10.