PRESS COMMENT.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1925, Page 4

PRESS COMMENT.

It b, not. necessary to increase the expenditure upon public services ninny xerviies in exact proportion to the amount, of work undertaken or the in- . reu-'c in the |opulatcn served. For instance. New Zealand'.' population has j i:, I'l-aseil le something like a third ■din,, tpl!. Pm we still have one Posl-iiiaster-Geiieral. one Permanent Serrel;ione chief engineer of telegraph-. The point Is that more extension of the scale of Operations does not involve an increase ol the administrative stall', nor does it even Meees..;*.ri!v involve a corresponding increase in the iower ranks of a v.r\ice. nor is the c.iiivci'si,' the case.- • ‘‘Lyttelton Times.” The in.sl riicturn lor medical students, mir ,-s. law -Indent-, social workers, and ethers i- provided in America l»v the e-la.hli'-hment of a chair of psychiatry. and tlm el.ee as-ociatiou of a psychopat ie ward or hospital with the medical schools. As Dr Ealcoucr points oik. tin* Plunkd Society in New Zealand has done ] riceless work in :u----t.einling to Ilie physical hygiene of children. A duplication of it. which should give heed to mental hygiene, would have the close-1 eorre-pondeiieo lo the Canadian National (‘oiinnil lee. and should have unusual benefits for the community. ’Dunedin “Star.” There is an insisieni demand right throughout the Dominion for efficient administrators, for men of diameter as well us for men of ability. 11 has been well said that there i- little mo in having first-class brains if there is only sivoiul-class cliaracter behind them. The Dominion is surfeiled with party liueksters and hide-bound politicians. The traditional adage: “Old mi n for council ; young men for war,” has become the philosophy of a bygone day. (’hanged conditions in national life and aspiration demand clear vision in mlminist rators and sufficient youthiTilness In lake them forward courageously to the true goal of community welfare, Christchurch “Sun." It is quite a favourite trick on the pari of Labour members to make much of the number oi' taxpayers who have to pay income lax on big revenues. They invariably forget to tell their audiences, whether inside or outside the House, that the very great major-

11y ol these heavy taxpayer.- are companies, and that there ale eery few individuals indeed who have to pay on incomes so big that they are brought

within the range of the maximum rate ol the progressive fax. This is hy no means from want of knowledge of the fuels, which have time and again been brought plainly before them. It is simply a dodge of suppros-ion of the truth designed to create an entirely fal-e impression among the wage-earners who listen to them. “Hawke's Buy Tribune. ’’ The Leader of the National Party lias stated that its ohjoet at the general election will lie to “bring into one progressive party all those who support tile formation of an efficient, stable National foivornment, composed of the host brains and of the mod suitable j men in Parliament, who will place na- I tioiial interests before those of party."' That is an object which must appeal to the electors throughout the country who support the Reform Party as well as to those wlio are encouraging the National Party by their offers of help, tuid it is tin object the attainment of which should not he jeopardised hy factious CHiarrellings between the members of Parliament of whom the “progressive. party" nm-i lie composed.— "Otago Daily Times."