New Zealand Opinions

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 January 1917, Page 1

New Zealand Opinions

9 AS EXPRESSED EDITORIALLY. "The# advent of the 'Good old summertime' brings the usual crop of bathing fatalities, and the subject of efficiency in natation and rescuing the drowning is tiresome from the fiact of its comparative futility the undiminished mortality is so serious a less to the community til at no apulosyi is due for reviving a wellworn tojiic. Public indifference to the palpable need for making swimming subjcct of tuition, to be enforced wherever .practicable—that is almost everywhere—is truly amazing. Swimming, contrary to the popular notion, is neither an art nor ia special gilt.' The human being is naturally adapted for self-containment and propulsion in the water, and this adaptability needs but to be put into practice in infancy. Yet, the 'highest creation in all living things—man, the master —is allowed to drown as would helpless creatures of the lowest order of the animal kingdom"—Opuiu.kc Times. "Wo have to expect bigger tilings, and shall have to talk in bigger tigures. It is small folk who think that what wins good enough ten years back is good enough now." —'Eden Gazette. "With large prospective payments still to bo made by the Imperial authorities on account of the supplies they are purchasing f'roin our producers, the. current year should witness a still greater increase in the funds at tho disposal of the banks. The needs of the Government are, of course, great, and a new War Loan is almost certain to be floated during the year. There should, however, be no difficulty in raising the money required, because a very large percentage of the war moneys raised here are reserved for expenditure in Now Zealand, and thus moneys subscribed for ar Loan purposes come quickly into circulation again. Supplemented as they are by the moneys received from the Imperial Supplies Department (now representing payment of fifteen millions [ since March 3rd, 1915, and which with the practical purchase of the wool clip and the cheese output will be substan--1 tially increased) these payments will I largely augment the sums on deposit [at the banks. The trouble witli the banks will be to know* how to employ tho monejys at their command to the best possible advantage. There should be no difficulty therefore, in the way of advances to legitimate trading enterprises offering sound and reasonable security."—Manawatu Standard.

"Ally improvement in Gen-m ally's military position 'must bo at the -expense of her economical position, since what she requires is larger armies, and these can 011' vbe obtained by depleting still further the ranks of her workers and producers. To improve her economic situation, Germany needs to bring the war to an end. This can be effected only by successful military operations, and since these appear to bo impossible, she must be forced sooner or later to sue for peace. The great alliance need; to win no decisive victories in the field. All that needs to be done is to continue the blockade of the Central Powers by land and sea, and in course of no. very great time those Powers will collapse through exhaustion of their supplies of men and food."--Manawatu Times.

"The religious objectors appear to give the Military Appeal Boards more trouble than iany other class, especially when those worthies are unable to explain the tenets of their creed, or as one objector did recently, throw the in'inciples of his refusal to figlit on the broad principles laid down in the New Testament! It seems to us that those who bring forward specious pleas of this sort, pleas which aire devoid of Biblical support, should be given short shrift, and we are gLad to see. that the Boards have adopted this course. "When the bourse is on fire it is no time for the firemen to indulge in a disquisition regarding wages or order of precedence; they cannot ait such times engage in polemical discussion or in arguing 'regarding terms of recompense while- the flames are gaining the ascendancy."—Christchurch Star.