ICE-CREAM OR STARVING INDIANS.
Sir,-In your leading article of August 27 you make reference (by way of illustration, and perhaps not altogether unsympathetically) to boys, ice-creams, and starving Indians, and finally state that "the boy who is more interested in good works than in good ice-cream is not exactly the kind of boy the average man would like for a son." Is that a fair way to put it? There are a great many boys (and girls) in New Zealand who are keenly interested in both ice-creams and starving Indians (or Chinese), and who are willing to forgo some of the former in order to help the latter. This is as it should be. Only a man without understanding of what it means when millions of men, women and children starve would be ashamed of his son if he wished to give up some of his usually fairly numerous ice-creams on their behalf. What hope is there of a decent world order, Christian or otherwise, so long as this selfish outlook is encouraged- And what hope that anyone who does not learn young to be unselfish will ever learn? Surely the leading article of this excellent and widely-read paper is not the place for any suggestion of priggishness in those, young or old, who take at its face value God’s great command to love one another!
FORBID THEM NOT
(Matangi).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 222, 24 September 1943, Page 5
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230ICE-CREAM OR STARVING INDIANS. New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 222, 24 September 1943, Page 5
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