This, That and the Other

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 17 June 1933, Page 13

This, That and the Other

BY “Countrywoman” LOVE. AND THE EASTERN MENACE. “All the world loves a lover," so ’ti.s said, but I think, to reverse another adage, the love inspired is often akin to pity-—something the feeling with which wc regard a happy and innocent child, with all the world before it'. Like the measles, love attacks most of 'us at least once, but unlike the measles, does not always render us immune to a second attack. Thrills it may afford, but I shall always maintain that being in love is not the state of unalloyed bliss that the story writers wdiild have us believe. Like most, things in this world, there is “more to it.'" Doubts and difficulties appear, after the first fine careless rapture, often there is a lurking suspicion that our idol may prove to have feet of clay; or, worse still, that -we, ourselves, may prove unworthy. No, looking back, I think the really happy days are tnose spent heart-whole and fancyfree, or the later years, with “all passion spent."’ **** . ’ *

That there are other wars than those conducted on the field or in the air, is being seriously brought home to Britain by way of India and 'Lancashire, whose cotton industry is seriously threatened by the flooding of the markets with cheap, and not always inferior, Japanese cotton goods. Many factors, . such as low wages, plentiful labour and raw material within the country,, and depreciated currency combine to place Japan in a favourable position to compete. Her denial of the practice of ‘ ‘dumping" (that is, selling below cost) is probably justified, although the action of several boy factory workers of tender years, who set fire to the factory because they found the conditions intolerable, does not point to an ideal state of affairs. The remedy, of course, as far as all British subjects are concerned, is consistently to buy British. That considerable will-power and courage is required to refuse an attractive, artistic article of good quality at a tempting price on account of its country of origin, I readily express; but if industrial suicide is to be averted, it is virtually necessary and a moral duty that everyone of us should, even in small matters, take the long view. The “yellow peril" has before now proved a real menace’ to the peace of mind of both America and Australia, and if report speaks truly, the latter country is now being subjected to. a new form of Japanese invasion. The livelihood of the fishermen on the Victorian coast is in jeopardy owing to the arrival on shores of some twenty-two mil.es of.’Japanese giant crabs of a light strawberry colour, some of them measuring two feet - across, and in layers several feet across. Just why nature herself should decide to take a hand in the game, it is hard to guess, but when the yellow peril turns pink, and the very crabs begin side-stepping their way into the Empire, it is easy to sympathise with ttie Australians’ desire for launches with heavy rollers attached to crush the fishy onslaught.