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Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1925, Page 2

A I’ltoeosAi, by the French -Minister of Finance that iiiler-Alliod war debts should he pooled and divided between the participant nations pro rata, according to their national wealth, comes rather belatedly. Britain throe years ago proposed a mutual cancellation of these debts by which she ’would have made much heavier sacrillces than any other nation. Within the last week or two, her Chancellor of the Exchequer lias announced that she still desires to collect only so much in reparations ami in repayment of the sums due from her Allies as will between them balance the amounts she is paying to the United States. Britain. that is to say. is making far greater concessions than she could he asked to make under any pooling arrangement.. If on the publication of the lialfour Nolo, France and the ill her European Allies had taken up the Itrilisli oiler, combined representations miglil have been made which possibly -might have induced the American Cover to ado] t Some other policy m the mailer of inlcr-Allicd debts Phan that of collecting all it can lay its hands upon. To speak ol a pooling, iirriiiigciiicnt while Ainorica maintains her 11 rosent altitude is, of course, merely In heal the air. Evidently, however, Britain has gone to an extreme limit in making eolieossions. and if |iii'lher concessions are wanted by France if is from Ihe I'nited Slates that they niusl he sought. ,M. ( lemeliloTs ini imal ion I lint Fram <: onnnol abate Ihe total ol I’epara I ions ago in I (I'criiianv unless she receives a ipiid pro I, IK, m• 11 lenient of her war debts, is rather in 11 “I a blank < barge. Fuller the I Jaw oh not I b'llieul , In w Inch Franco is a parly, the icpaialion parmoots 1,, he malic b\ Ccrneiiiv dll ring the next live year, are fixed, and the .'.rrciil-csl ol these annual I fiyineiiPi would hardly reprcs.'iit. iiilercM. and linking fund on one i bird ol Ibe ioi mer reparal,ions total. Anv nei'.i * in Cerniany’s annual payment, is to h<in l;i ii‘f uitli ;» j2r«*,sjx > ri \ y In these ei re,mist a nee-:, a refusal hi France to abate the total claim again;,! Cerinaiiy would he of only nominal 'l’m.; i<» •<)*./ nil inn of tin* < I i;» n •«> n< I „f the Bevil. Mother Clare by the Romail Catholic eonimiiniU yesterday, wa-’ a lifting recognition of servin' laithlul'y ijerloriue’l. J In- Order ol M'-iox to which Mother M ay Clare has been at|;if.,i(.|| for so long a lime, is of course notable for the calls on its votaries ill Ihe matte! of acrviic. Faithful sorV i,.,. is live highest form of work, whatever may he Ihe (ailing, and carries with it 'that loyally of devotion to dutv which is the crowning factor to life’s work. A life can he best spent in service, and serv ice to and for others is the noblest < ailing of all. It may he pursued in various callings, though in the religious it demands sacrifices and negations which in other walks of life are not so extc ting. For sixty years cl religious life the llevd. Mother has been (1 -voted to her duties and her calling. As the foundress of iho In a! Convent, in 1878. an institution which lias been well maintained over a long period ol yours, and nourished 'greatly, the llevd. Mother lias a memorial which stands fur a pleasant reminder if her service veil doing 1 esterday s

tribute "as another reminder, a most pleasing one. of the appreciation of her work to the community with whom she has been so long identified. The accruing benefits from a life so well spent are not (n be guageil fully just' now, ’five young over whom the llevd. Mother must have exercised a powerful jnlluenee are still growing up and passing out into Ihe vv orld. 'I lie value of her serve e in the cause of true liumunitv will bind ii- expression through many lives, and in that way I here "ill Is- tor long vears many eheri.slied memories of a worthy lile. Regarding the service of the llevd. Mother as being of .such civic community value, and appreciated bv the outside public as well. vit> may be permitted on tin' notable occasion to express publicly the feelings of goodwill towards the venerable lady wlmse life work has been performed here, and who will spend tlie evening of her days with i:s. .May the period of rest so veil earned he a happy one and crowded with the pleasantest recollections of serv ice well and faithfully spent for the good of humanity.