THE GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 62, 7 December 1918, Page 7

THE GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH

• Sir,—While it cannot ho disputed that the Minister of Education and the Minister of Health indulge too often in grand rhetorical flourishes and flights when they should "buck, in" and get something actually accomplished iiv their, respective Departments, I venture to. suggest that the Premier and tho Minister of liimnce are tho culprits 'in chief. What can the Minister, of Education or the Mini* ter of Health accomplish with the paWry ; doles so grudgingly dealt out to them? The Cabinet, Ms a whole, has never shown anv real appreciation ot the problem" of-national education'and ot national hvgiene. As for tho Premier and Minister" of Financo ■ their' one concern seems tabs to provide facilities- in he shape of cold storage, shipping, etc., etc., for the profiteering middlemen of the Dominion. Under such auspices what can tho Minister of Education and the Minister of Health hope to rclueye in setwrin? efficiency in their nc'pectjve Departments? . 'You urge the. Minister of Education to have done with,rhetoric and word chopping, and do something. What can he do till the Premier and Minister of Finance arc. brought to m - ise and duly recognise the fact that education is the State's chief concern? Perhaps the only ttiinjf that he ami tho Minister of Health can < V.'^ti',?! quit the best interests of their-Depart-ments" and their own tMgmfy-is to resign and go to their constituencies and Sen clean breast of it .'egarding the Cabinet's obvious indisposition to gnc the ncoplc of the Dominion a square deal in the matter of education and in thai of public health.-! SPm . December 5. ______