PUBLIC OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1925, Page 4

PUBLIC OPINION.

THE MODERN PACE. “The man who lias learned to transact more business between breakfast and lunch than his grandfather got through, or had any need to get through, in a week, is not likely to he content with the sort of enjoyment that used to satisfy Isaak Walton, and the man who wrote about the “Harvest of the Ouiet Eye,” when he turns his hack on the scene of his labours, and goes to bis place in the country for change and rest. He carries with him the high blood-pressure which he has acquired by the overstrain of his occupation. The excessive stimulation has become a habit and his pleasures must be .stimulating, or ho has no use for them. So his leisure aggravates the mischief of his working life because it is deficient in leisiireliness.” “Birmingham Post. - ’

DOCTOR AND Pa'UivAT. “We ought to do our best to induce our patients to return to a simpler life. We must not only point out more clearly and insistently the importance of hygienic rules for the conduct of the bodily functions hut in the sphere of the intellect, and especially of the emotions. we must urge moderation and simplicity. It is difficult tor any clearthinking doctor to avoid the conclusion that the hustle of modern life, tho pace at which we go, the nerve strain involved, and the expense of spirit entailed have become a large factor in Liie incidence of disease, and ol diseases of a different type from many with which we "ere formerly acquainted. We have new diseases for old. hut the doctor [unction remains the same: To ,studv closely his patient, and to husband and exploit to the best end all his resources.” Sir Thomas Holder-.

MORE PROBLEMS EDR EUROPE. “What are the real problems of European peace to-day? I hey are t"o. What is a recovered Germany going to d.o ? What, is a recovered Russia going to do? I exclude the problem of Italy, a rapidly expanding people now denied the right to emigrate to many of the empty lands of the earth, because tlmt is a world rather than a. European question. Since 1919 Germany and Russia, potentially the two inOfct powerful nations on the Continent, have been prostrate mi their hacks. The Allies have been able to deal with Europe almost without consulting them. Thev are now just getting on to their knees. When they recover their lull independence and strength and conic hark into consultation on equal terms, "hat is their attitude going to he?’ Air Philip Kerr, in the “Observer. WHERE CHEAPNESS is UNDESIRABLE. Cheapness and dearness alike are detestable when the conditions ol cm’ loymvill are unfair. Tin- community has no right lo ask l'or cheap bread or oilier commodity at the expense of its prcdm-el's, while on the other baud neither has the individual as such nor in association with others collectively the right, to exploit the community. Brotherhood in industry, as in till other walli.s of life, demands that general well-being shall dominate all other interests. The well-being ot the eniiimunitv pre--supposes the well-being ol all its units, and the well-being ol its workers should contribute to and make permanent’ the well-being ot all.’’—Alt' Robert Yeung, ill the “Brotherhood World.”

THE MORAL DISARMAMENT OK HER A! ANY. “It is not the state of Germany’s armaments, either as they exist or as they could possibly be expanded, that constitutes the ‘menace to peace.’ if there is a danger it is in the mental attitude of the German people, which this Note will go a long way 0> misdirect. If Germany harbour- thoughts of revenge no forcible di: armament can prevent, i hough it ran ol iinnsr postl>niio, all ultimate day ~1 reckoning. Germany is too big and too powerful economically to lie held down for over. Whether she had to wait for an tilTiance with a recovered Russia or for the disioVery of some still me,re ghastly form of chemical or bacteriological warfare she would by some means ultimately recover her power to strike back. In that sense there, can he no security, save in the moral purpose of time German people to live at peace.” -“.Manchester Guardian'’. l-'l It ST THINGS IN (HINA. “First- things come first, and when red riot rims loose, the first thing t« lie done is to stop it. Rioters do not become sanrlificd by striking at the same time, and the Powers are not inhibited from protecting life and property at Shanghai because of industrial grievance in the background. China cannot long In- denied the fiscal autonomy which India already enjoys. There will have to he a general readjustment of a relationship In-tween the Western Bowers and China that has outlived its day. China is no more proof against the contagion of national consciousness and self-respect than the other great countries of the East. The task - of tho Bowers is to give the new spirit direction anil 'an outlet.”—London " OJiservor.”