TILLERS OF THE SOIL.
Sir,-When listening to the interesting broadcast of 2ZB’s Citizens’ Forum recently I heard one of the speakers say that very often people who had been regarded as belonging to the category of "simple tillers of the soil and such like," had with a little hélp become engineers, teachers, etc. I understood from this that generally speaking we have come to consider that manual work is in some way inferior to the more intellectual pursuits, is Surely the highest value ought to be put upon work which is most necessary. And when all is said. and done, No matter how far we ddvance on any given line of progress, eat we must. The one thing on which we depend is food. The farm worker is, therefore, essentially necessary, and as such he ought to be highly valued: Does it not appear to be a fact that because we have failed to keep our sense of proportion and have come to under-value the farm labourer, we ‘find it difficult to staff our farms? ; The civilisation which. is more concerned. about its entertainment than about the production of ‘its food is indeed sadly lacking in proportion. We appear to be willing to pay and to honour entertainers a great deal more than those upon whom we are almost entirely dependent for the very bed-rock means of existence.
M.K.
R.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 5
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