NOTABLE OPINIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1924, Page 4

NOTABLE OPINIONS.

PRESS AND P CLP IT. "The inlluetiee of the Press goes on continuously seven days a week, whereas the Church lias to lie content with three hours on Sunday. An American friend of mine holds that the writer must always have a greater influence than the speaker. 'Y’ou have heard of something going in at one ear and out the other,’ lie says, •Init you never heard of anything going in at one eve and out at the other.' ” —Mr Frederick A. Atkins in the "British Weekly.” THE CHANNEL TI'NNEL. "The labour required for the Channel tunnel const ruction would lie about 2d,0!)0 men for six years, but the subsidiary works referred to will cause a demand which will absorb large but unknown numbers of unemployed, and above all after the completion ol the tunnel there would be the general revival in trade and industry ill this country which always billows from iniproved communications. It is probable that the success of the tunnel will he so great that other Channel tunnels will lollow, and jio-sihly a motor road or roads to France as well. . . . Eranee, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland are all anxious to see it built, and this country is only waiting lor the Government to move. Ii is the .greatest remedy which can be projmsed lor Hie settlement and restoration oi this batiered and distracted Europe."—Sir Arthur Kell, chairman of Ibe Parliamentary Committee, on the Channel Tunnel scheme, writing in the ''Morning Post.” AM KB I( A’S SKI.E-Sl EEK I KXCY. " Europe should billy understand that America is dependent upn-i Europe lor absolutely nothing. I hei * are a few rare minerals which have not yet been found on the American continent. but these are not essential to uni- health, happiness or prosperity. Rubber is not raised as yet in th forty-eight States ol the hut it doubtless could h.'\ and surely Latin America could easily rujiplv all the rubber, sugar, and other tropical demands of our nation. There is no-

thing so dangerous for a family or an individual as great jirosperity and a feeling of self-sufficiency. When a family or individual readies such a point it is the beginning of the end. lienee Hie saying: 'll is only three generations from shirt sleeves lo shirt sleeves.' The same |>rinci pie applies lo nations. Whenever Europe is in a mood to he helped, and all o|M>ort unity lor real service presents it sell, we must aeeejit it, even though it means a temporary sturihee for us." —Roger W. Dabson, in the New York ' Saturday Evening Post."

Stil l. lIENGER. '*(. ritie- are very like liiostpiiloe:-: tliev will have your blond. I knew a lady who. alter an ojieralion. came lo with the word-, I don't want I ' bo a solf-sllppol I iug. indonoml'Oit, oonuomio agoiii ; I want to be loved.' The liientry 'times to under the knives of I lie erilies with the words, • don’t want to be a double-barrelled, eo|)|ier-|ilated literary artist, I want to be read.’" —Mr .l"hn Galsworthy. PLEA EUR SEN ( ERE. ■'Exercise in tbe open air and un.—llim■ i' mui'li more iinporltml than the naiure oi houses. Get the children's (billing <>(!' to the ulmost ex1, | lt . Why -lioitbln’t the city diil'lren li|| ibe empty trains that return to ill,, on) -Kilts alter bringing in the ,iiv men in Dm morning, and return in th" empty trains which come 1" lake tile city men hack r Bungalows could 1,,- built cheaply. Wouldn't that be hotter (bail stewing in slum solan ds.” Dr Leonard Hill. Hie phy.-iologist. at a meeting of the l-tm-liglit l.< ague. I 111! IP H).M IN HEM' " RAC V 11- 1110, rao\ 1- coining to its ow u with raoitl strides. A tailor and a larger pro.port ill tl'eir social relations is opening h-'l.nv our ' l w-. Ihe 1d,1,0n- , on-lit ions under which multitudes ol men and women and children ai r ,-, ndcmii' <1 to live tire arousing slmine and strung re elit leeiit. A deeper and an inlen-er sells,• ~, jus liee ri ilie part "i man to bis lellowjs I eiug awal.'elie,i in human In-arts. And in the midst ol all this movement. and quickening it with aj new soiise ot power, exact and eXJieriinelital s-eieliee is giving to tile world | a mastery over natural Inn as and I mat erial tilings of which their laliierliail never dreamed.” —The Rev Dr ( atliels. RDI'MKRGEE AND GERMANY. ”I''ranee is profoundly pacific mid entertains no sentiment ol haired towards Germain. At the same time wo cannot repudiate our rights, which June l.een recognised by olir .Allies and which are necessary to tin* pi'"--peri tv and development ol our coming. Any snob act of repudiation would not only ruin the luture of Eranee. but would givd ground for doubling the power of justice. Wh'al

i>B moil*, ia tho suite (*! fcoiininic- i'volmioii <»i 11 u* workl, ii would inevitaldy have a very serious

repercussion on the other nations ot I lie world. The re-eslablishimuil of a normal financial situation throughout t| .. world is dependent oil the economic re-establishment ol E ranee, which, in its turn, can only lie brought abuttl •i\ payment of the German in-d.-mnitv due lo us. YYe do not wish

in any wav t*. tnici.romise 1 lie economic existence ol Germany."-- President

THK (TP AM) Till-’. I.ll’ IN AHT. • How eitii the (oivenmient help art and arehii-'Oture. I’erluips the only pas-ible way jus t now is that il should lie the patron. leaving the architect free and spontaneous. to do his untrammelled host, and oven then there are many -lip- between the clip ol idea and the lip of accomplishment. Nevertheless, when we look on the eld buildings which delight tis, this thing is perfectly certain—that oith.-r the public or the private patron lias been an o-'-ential .dement in the development ol art. I candidly confess that I would like the public patron to do more than it has done. I should like to be assured that ilo public building, however hitieht-e »»r small, is to lie put up in this country which would make men and women of good taste ashamed to take a si ranger to look at and sav •That is a public building.’"—’lhe British IViuie Almi-ter .Air llam-ay .MacDonald).