False Standards

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1942, Page 2

False Standards

deal.—John Gordon, editor of the London Sunday Express.

I think most of us, except, perhaps, the last-ditch vested interesters, realise that the heart and core of most of our national troubles has been individual selfishness. We had a false idea that happiness was to be found in money-grabbing. We grab- .

bed it good and hard, and most of us see now that in the grabbing we did pretty considerable harm to the lives and rights of others. The big man wasn't the only sinner in that respect. Some wage-earners who held the community up to ransom have also a good deal to answer for. We believed that life was a fight or a

scramble. That what happened to others who fell in the scramble was no concern of ours. We know better now. We know that what happens to each one of us is very much the concern of all of us. And we are determined for the future to make it our concern. We know now that there is in life a richness beyond purchase by riches. That it can be given to those who have little as well as to those who have a great