TOWN AND COUNTRY VIEWPOINTS.
Sir,- Mutual understanding, like charity, should begin at home. Looking back over the past year of radio broadcasts in New Zealand, the name of Norman Corwin stands out like a memorial landmark. Corwin’s topic of One World
brought home to each one ‘of us the necessity of knowing the other chap in far-off corners of the globe, who, like us, had similar hopes, trials, and thoughts of a better future. In theory, the idea of One World sounds good. But alas, in actual practice, we need not go out of the country in order to know about the "other fellow’s way of life." At the present time there appears to be a distinct gulf between the town and country here. The average "townie," be he a slave to the 8.0 a.m. whistle or a "city slicker," knows* comparatively little about the country way of life, the "cockie’s" trials and tribulations, his importance in our national economy. To the city dweller, the farmer is a perpetual grizzler who wants rain when it. is fine weather, and when the rain does turn up, wants sunshine. Likewise, the | farmer doesn’t know of the city except the, biased viewpoint expressed in headlines concerning persistent industrial friction. "Sundowner’s" articles in The Listener are about the best educator the town can find on the country way of life.
A. E. E.
IVORY
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 457, 25 March 1948, Page 17
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231TOWN AND COUNTRY VIEWPOINTS. New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 457, 25 March 1948, Page 17
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