HEALTH AND THE SOIL
Sir.-For a thoroughly provocative and "tail-twisting’’ editorial, yours on the _above topic holds its own. You pose unanswerable questions regarding health, -and then by inference claim that politics could be relied on to apply the remedy. But the most objectionable comment in your article is the statement that "the soil is one of the earth’s new religions." As I type, it occurs that most likely that remark was made as a joke, but most readers will take it seriously as a sort of cheap gibe, though not intended /as such. If the enthusiasm of those who see a danger in depléting the soil and toil mightily to prevent that, if that can fairly be called a new religion, then one might say that such a religion will be a national asset, especially when compared to the now prevalent religion of free dope to swallow. and never mind the rules of health. Huge profits from drugs, but the State gets its big rake- | off, so why worry. | , You comment on the failure of Sir | Stanton Hicks to say whether the Jap- | anese are healthier than the people of | New Zealand, but would it prove any- | thing if they were or were not. Are there not many other factors which go to make a healthy nation? For example, could not ovér-population undermine a nation’s stamina and health, in spite of every other factor being right? You conclude with this: "he is béld . . +. . Who argues that nature never | fails." Fails to do what? Fails to exact | full penalty for short cuts?
A. D.
YOUNG
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 22
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266HEALTH AND THE SOIL New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 22
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