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Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1921, Page 2

I infill'; will he :> general chorus of agreement with the resolution of the Australasian Labor Conference at Melbourne, reported in Mondav s cable news, that the settlement o ! internation *1 disputes by warfare is barbarous, and is responsible for untold suffering and misery.” So ar so good. Then the resolution goes on . declare “in lavor ol the settlement of all such disputes by international arbitration.” I lie tail is the most important part of Hie motion, endorsihg in fact as it does the need of a powerful body such as a League of Nations to enforce peace before war; for it is hv force only, that, is the display of a superior fo that ihe peace can ho kept. Another "'ay is by useful international treaties which secures pence between the oontiacting paries, and gives to each of them greater potency, should one or the other he assailed. The fret that

two or more nations are in ,■hise compact for purposes of peace, makes their , position more secure, for a |e ss powerful nation or combination of nations "’ill he less likely to take the risk of dJ belligerent, action. Some have international arbitration provided for in advnoeo as it were before tbe trouble ai isies, and that happy condition HNikes security doubly sure. Hut ,)0r having pronounced thus whole-hear-tedly for arbitration, why not agree to take the self same medicinal itself in ' "idustrinl and commercial wars it "ages on employers or communities, if arbitration is a safe and sane method !o '"'thniiil defensive matters of exlPrnal origin, is it any less safe and snne to Ik* used just as compulsorily to settle troubles of the nation of internal origin? Is it not a ease of the same sarn-e being a.s useful for goose and gander alike, and that being so. Labor should revise its methods ; ,ml ii s ~ttitude and seek to make arbitration nniversnl in the settlement of all'disputrs wl'Miier within or without, and »■> save * ‘the untold suffering and misery m which by the way the working classes i,rp th '' ffreatest sufferers of ML”

In connection with the work of the Acclimatisation Society a good deal of ; l, °> ,, * ntif>ns arc con trod round about ba <c Kaniori. It is a seonio resort wo WI,M u "P ] ' t Pr»iul of, vet oossessiim so soouro and stable an asset wo make all too little use of it. As Keats put 't: ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for cier; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” Yet the ' a l e beauty spot, admired bv each and every visitor is almost eonimonplaee to f ,p<> Ple. so little notice is laken of it by our own folk, or so little attention is "devoted to its advertisement and ! 'v.der use. That it is c apn,ble of hehm used to advertise and extol our scenic glories was evidenced bv .‘he correspondence read at the late meeting „f the Acclimatisation Society whereat . letter was received from a large tourist agency in Auckland which picked out a photograph of Lake TCanieri as the most remarkable scenic picture shown at a public exhibition in the Queen city, and asked the Society to purchase it for advertising purposes in that city. The Society readily assented to the course suggested, so that if we here are slow to recognise the merits hi' Lake Knnieri outsiders are not. This interest so appropriately displayed from Auckland where scenic resorts are tuoiu'd |p perfection, suggests romp*, ‘

tiling more concrete should be done to advertise abroad the beauties of Westland, The time is growing very opportune. In a year or fifteen months we will have the steel link forged between the East and West Coasts, and there will be the tendency for more travellers to come west and enjoy the natural wonderland hereabouts. Spots such as Lake Kanieri well advertised "‘tnild assist greatly to that 'Mid, and it would seem that the time were opportune for Westland to start a publicity department of its own to boom its striking natural features which would bo the delight of all the visitors.