"YOUNG MEN AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1986, 17 February 1914, Page 4

"YOUNG MEN AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES."

be concerned atWUtj6uir:-,'jiiul'g:';"-incn'''if. the' reason' Riycn by your correspondent "Pro Bond Publico" :,i's correct. But it. is a moot ..point, whether'the,; remedy is to bo ," wroughtvout iaVtlio young men or in th(s , :Pross.:7.-';it7roiinb't'be denied.that a gopd;:.dcal' of':' ; 'tlie\ricwspaper criticism men is annoying, scaring"; to . faint-hearted persons, and-possibly the pathway to position, and'fanie, would bo more trod- . dcrtj:if the.'Vay- were smoother. The , Pi'bss.vhasia-lpprfeot. right to-level what . aspirants to pub- ■•'• HpnTde, provided, it.'docs'not get itself jnto-: ; .tr'puble, quality of, its crit'iwsm';'d'ciS'rnines;its placo in Society, and;oii'r';j : <)uug.':pien : ,'nuist'not expect to be pitcll : fp'rked''into . place and. power /.by-the kiivdly.assist.ahce of sophisticated pa'p9r-rnen.' ; '■ The public'have the.good sepseVEoailt'iniately discard-or approve a persp^fpr.his;actuaJ v v?ortli, independent of' Press. praughtelse, and it is neither friends; nor .fpes ;that.-;determine one's course.....;lt'Visi'thVrstraiciht,. fearless ': Roex; ivhoplans'., and; execiites' his own wprkvthat commands success. . ■■•

Ijtjiyoung'men'.aro-'.really' anxious to •fitly,;'take their.;pl.iceiin the community thqre are .many.,way's to do it without parading before'tlie public, which, after all f' niay;pnly, jnprease their vanity ;and give; them an 'exaggerated idea-of their owivyifnpbrtance;V I have -ah idea that it ; is i'not lack'of opportunity, nor that anyqn'e;..is standing.: in : their\.way that, prevents .people frorfi getting oh ■ in piib-lic>;or-,*;priv'ate. life, hut downright lazi-ness.-/tb'. think and .net 'for. themselves. country,,, wefe Smart','feli-, 1 able'/ capable young' men more "sought after than they.,are -to-dayj and never wereV,.sQung- • fellows Mess ;".■ inclined. to strike out-for themselves; and I think I conld make a shrewd:guess at the •reason; A belief has grown up amongst us; that it is the duty.'of Society and of'.'tho. State to mother and-.; mollycoddle its units from the cradle to the graver and,' in. consequence, "the. individuals, f.-.st losing the .usel'bf his own legsi'through being persuaded that he has.iio further use forthemV 'If young feljdws'want to gef'-throjigh the world thcfJii'Mist get up a'hd'go;-"not'lie , .'dbwa ind'jhbwl.—l am, etc;,; 'r:;l. ! "Jf-.;, ■-■■■,;■':.

OLtt^yARRIQR.

. {Siry—l have read:JjvitlV: : intertst anil amusement '•'Oopra's^ ; -'.,"soa're' > .' : .letter: oni'tho margarine :bodraV : -an'd'?-am': ■> -'hot . thjaj jeast little bit'/cjjnyincedi';;;!: have 1 not]\liad the X Mr; ; lCilison's .lotter, -'but...l ponder whether ]i7; : Jrfeally : did deplore the trend towards , adoption; of,; the. cheap and .'!whokBzirto" CocoiVttt>;butte'i£i£ makes out. 1 luatically milkfarticle is equa^yipal'aMle'aiid 'of equal . dietable and fdofeySlue; toHhe best cow, butter, but;.produce!;no/supporting.evidence. His own statem'enVit'is tnie," insistent, but'a'long -and varied experience of '"insistent" Statements! . hasVled me to the practice of/holding my/ijudgmont iii suspense until'the evidence/is forthcoming. The margarine perilvhas ', been before;.the- butter produc'pr'.for years and. : .yea'rs;'.'.it'may''iioW be/;;; growing, buffo assert'positively '■ "'.Sfc?■*■ ,T i" shortly.rdisplaee'.its'rival,is ..toj-my mind rather absurd.' And has iiotjcppra its own troubles "too ?'■' Since thji-rubber boom.'.of .1910.1.ha've. had a lot;,-to do with rubber and poconut companies and tho financial canditiori'of a good, many is anything but.flourishing. iWjj.en I was }tt, Singapore in 190&coconutginvestments we're the Consols of the East, then labour was . SfJIS-^P? 1, than it is to-day, and the Gdyeppne®fdia:;ndt'l(Ußplay;>as iit 'does' new, arrowing' interest .in the housing and medical, treatment of : ,the 'coolie. 'Now every plantation has to have a hospital, or-share the expenses of one, arid r^Mf. h e' G °vernment ; insp,ectbrsr bee;iWhizl aren't his wages goinn upl tree itself has many" foes bnd\!difficulties to contend with—more P a ™oularly tho heotle. As a good many' natives own small plantations,-.' interispersed among the larger ones, and make ■no :efforts to keep these pests down; tho outlay on post, prevention lias to he pretty considerable. Tlieh coconuts ■ ftnriyo'best along a littoral and wlien a> fcyphopn comas, ,Geo >Whiz! '• '.Salt water alsoisgets; at tho roots and after a .drainage system has to be instituted. As I can see the outlook.before coconut, /companies is very gloomy indeed, antl;as for any largo! increase-in' the on-put m paying quantities no such prospect is before tho butter producer It takes six yearn for a coconut tree to mature and British investors, afterthe way they were swindled fey company promoters'in 1909 and 1910 are fighting Bhy,;.of' coconut'as an. investment.—l amy.-etc.,'; . ■ • . ;■;.:£■. :f y; SINGAPORE.