PUBLIC OPINION

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21230, 28 September 1940, Page 12

PUBLIC OPINION

As expressed by correspondents whose letters are welcome, but for whose views we have no responsibility. Correspondents are requested to write in ink. It is essential that anonymous writers enclose their proper names as a guarantee of good faith. Unless this rule is complied with, their letters will not appear. BOMBING AT RANDOM (To the Editor) Sir, —Hitler has a cold-blooded murder act on by dropping bombs at random, killing women and children and sinking boats with children on board. The Germans do not care what they do with their bombs as long as they do not take them back to Germany. It is getting a bit hot for the British people. They are like many thousands of us New Zealanders; they are saying, “Do the same thing to them.” It is no good being kind to coldblooded murderers. We hear over the air from London that our air force go over to Germany and if they do not find their target they just bring their bombs back. Does ! Jerry do that? No. We will have 1 to do the same with the murderers. If not he will fetch gas over, and then there will be slaughter. We should do as Americans say, “An eye for an eye.”—l am, etc., J. MOODY, Waihi Beach, September 25.

NATURAL SOCIALISM (To the Editor) Sir, —In spite of ‘Mr T. E. McMillan’s long exposition of his views, I still think that his first letter was largely irrelevant to the point at issue. The problem is not one dealing with the original sources of capital, nor of economic theories and definitions but of actual practice in economic life. Let me state a hypothetical case. A has obtained a capital of £IO,OOO, and has possession of purchasing power to that extent. Whether he secured it as business profits or by burglary is immaterial; he has it. A invests this in a factory and by the joint use of his capital and the work of his employees carries on profitable production regardless of ground rents, taxation and other obstructions. The question at issue between A and his employees is not the extraneous factors I have mentioned, but the equitable distribution of the profits earned by their joint efforts. Therefore, I argue that the question of ground rents is quite irrelevant to the point at issue between capital and labour, namely, the equitable distribution of the profits.—l am, etc., A. WARBURTON, Ngaruawahia, September 26.