PRODUCER.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43367, 3 September 1908, Page 3

PRODUCER.

To the Editor,

Sib, —In a recent issue of your paper appears a letter dealing with the meaning of the word “ producer.” The writer declares Nature to be the only producer, according to him, only an assistant. In a sense this is true. At the same time the term must, for practical purposes, be extended in its application. A producer is anyone who supplies some felt need, without regard to the importance or moral quality «f the need. This, strictly and scientifically speaking, is the meaning of the term. All producers are not of equal worth or assistance to the State. Some are profitable, others' unprofitable. The farmer, the doctor, the schoolmaster and the clergyman are examples of the former, the low-class writer, the sensationmonger, and the quack, of the latter class.- I am, etc.,

Polecon.