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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 4

Bees in young BiII' $ bonnet 010 says Uncle Chris: 86 How doth the little busy bee;' I said musingly. Pity some humans weren't as industrious;' said young Dill Wilkes. You know Uncle, if we organised society like a beehive; things would be Dreadful; I broke in. Well, you'd have security, efficiency and maximum pro- duction:' You would not; I countered: Why not?" said young Bill: 66 Well, for many reasons but, first and foremost, because me 1 are not bees 66 You know it'8 as simple as that. Despite what the scholarly reformers say, you can't make men into bees or ants or numbers. The hive works because individuals are com- pletely unimportant: Now Bill Wilkes starts most sentences with the word {I' He' S interested in Bill Wilkes. He be- lieves deep down that anything you can do, Bill Wilkes can do better: In short he's a typical young individual who is going to do something for his world and his world i8 going tO reward him. This individualism, this striving to excel, is the seed and course of human progress. What a pity then that some good intellects are busy devising ways to restrict; hamper; channel and control instead of fostering man' $ free enterprising spirit: 66 I feel that all individuals must resist any further en- croachment on individual freedom: Inserted by tbe Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand: 5.2A