WHO IS WHO?

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 24 March 1926, Page 12

WHO IS WHO?

To the .Editor of Hie “Timaru Herald.” Sir, —J.n common with, so many of your .subscribers, J. get a great deal 'of pleasure in 'reading the varied ■debatable subjects brought up in your correspondence columns. Occupying a position of neutrality, I am able to weigh out the pros, and cons. submitted by your writers, and form my own judgment of the merits and demerits of their respective argument*. .In some cases, we get good solid reasoning, and in others tho evidence iof a narrow carped mind. For j instance, wo had a Jotter on Friday last ! from “Experienced,” on tlio wheat j question. Wheat, as we all know, is lood, for which the whole world is striving and helping to produce. “ExI perieneed” says, among other things, ‘‘the farmer is the backbone of the country,” talks of starvation, etc., and a long list of dependents. Such narrow-mindedness m this enlightened age is hard to understand. Has “Experienced” ever thought what is his snare, in producing this food? Let me tell him, he prepares tho ground, sows the Slid, and then liarvests it. To tell him all the others who have helped would fill a column. Here are a few to set him thinking The moulder in the British workshop, shaping his plough shares, the sailor carrying his goods, the wharf-labourer, tho railway engine-driver, miner, doctor, clerk, nurse, tailor. Ihe Hindu making the sacks, the man making split pins, etc. “Experienced” should remember that the farmer is only one unit in tlio ;body politic, and is just as dependent as tlio next man. Everybody is working for everybody, and all arc dependiid on each other. One tiling I give in to tho farmer is this: That of all these helping to grow wheat, lie lias ,11m healthiest job. The world is not going to starve, as lie suggests; anyhow, I will take good caro I will not,, as .long as the .earth will grow, wheat. Hr jlitciiener, at the farmers’ mooting on Friday last, says“A great deal of ignorance has been shown in tlio correspondence on the wheat question.” .1. would, therefore, advise “Experienced” to leave the matter in the hands of his more broadminded farmer friends, who will give us logical reasoning and sound arguments in their cause, and not r.o much “lop-sided talk.”— i am, etc.. "OFFICE STOOL.”