NOTABLE OPINIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1924, Page 3

NOTABLE OPINIONS.

AN URGENT NATIONAL DUTY.’

■•'Ye must seek to recreate in the mind- of men and women that miaul of daring and ol public .service which was eouiimili during the war, but laded away with I lie return of peace. It i- a pitiful irony that, though we sue .reeiled ill organising the production ol vast quantities ol munitions, we have ■n lar tailed to organise the production i I houses. For house-, too. are munitions ot war, munitions with which to •destrov slums and overcrowding, disease and infant mortality, dirt and misery and ugliness. The housing shortage constitutes a stale ol national emergency to-day no less grave than the shell shortage in ItM-i. lo remote h i- a stern and urgent national duly.’ Hugh Dalton in the "New Leader.

A QUESTION' HE DIGNITY. •*'The Japanese have made such astonishing strides ill the last, two or throe decades that, in o material sense, at all events, their civilisation js on a level with that ol Ihe \\e-t. 'Their rapid advance i" the -tains of a great world I’nwer has made them ex-

it | renlelv sensitive to ally attempt- m the West to belittle their prestige, and I ii is only in tin* nature ol things that they should regard this deliberate act of exclusion a.- an till rout lo tlicii I dignity, and as a metho»l. of 1 ilas-ilyiog them again on a level with j Hu* still undeveloped Asiatic races. . . I; || appear- to he the ease that for tin* \ moment the people of Japan are more i concerned with this aspect ot the "iat- ! ter limn with the main economic probi 1,-m rni-e.l l.y tlie lari Unit, with an

expanding population in a community which i- steadily putting itself on a complex industrial basis, nut only the Pniled States, hut Canada and Australia are now practically barred to them. --London "Daily News.

BETWEEN THE EXHIBITIONS. What is Torvism!' What pan does it dilions of the'people in the times o •the two great Exhibitions ol ISol and i()0|. i„ the middle of the nineteenth century and at the end of the first quarter ol the twentieth— the difference Seems like the whole change Horn deep night to broad day. '1 bus much for Ihe past Wlmt now of the present and the future Y Can we say that l bore are no new worlds to conquer.-' Dare we even say that there are no provinces of our duty still to redeem r Far from il. We 11 tivn and complacent answer to the smaller inquiry, much less to the larger. The quest for sot ini improvement f„ r a higher system of international relations must he in the essence of its impulse as over-lasting as the life of the human rnce."-Mr J. 1-

THE COOK AS CIYIUSER. •‘The eivilsation of France •> . , j.;..,. The civilisation of 1 h t> " lOi 'd is'i-sr aak iu g peonies is based upon tea and ham-nnd-egg- alias eg - ~,'d-l aeon, machine-made bread. and tit,,, foods. Tl- trail ol Empire marked by corned-meat cans and stewed tea leaves. In the res rieted am. indigestible British dietary Ims part of the secret of oitr success as a col nt-in,.. race Pioneering has no terrors .01 those who have survived twenty years of ..rtho-lox British breakfast-. On Order of Merit would be fairly earned bv anv man or woman who should >«'<- iced in raising the standard of dietetic knowledge aml of cooking m the avelatre working-class household. —I he •‘Glasgow Herald.”

MEA-O'PING YOUNG ‘•Children are not machines. and ouerht not to he siibieeted to tests by people who have no sympathy with

them. Tests might be calamitous m some eases. 1 want to know somethfhg about tho men who make Hie tests; what, for instance tliev have bad for breakfast. The men who make the tests must love children. These men do not love chi.ldren at all. but they frighten them. Scientific men do not know anything about children at all: they are unsympathetic towards them. Tho children who do badly under tests are generally the best children. It is generally the scientific child who does not do himself justice in examination” Air Berry. Director of Education, Rhondda, criticising mental tests. BRITAIN’S FINANCIAL FEAT. “Con the nation afford a National Debt which absorbs C 305.000.000 in interest. with a sinking fund of £45,000000. making a total of £350,000.000:’ Alone- among European nations we started three years ago. not only to balance our Budget but repay our National Debt. The financial position of Free Trade Britain is still the envy and admiration of the world. Great Britain has shown a financial courage unequalled in history, and our people have borne with patience a depth and length of depression hitherto unknown in an industrial State. The burden is indeed heavy, but we can stand the strain if prudence guides our actions.” Sir Godfrey I*. Collins in tin* “Contemporary Review.”