SAYING AND WRITINGS OF THE TIMES.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1926, Page 3

SAYING AND WRITINGS OF THE TIMES.

A GOOD EXAMPLE.

1’ or 31 years there has been no genei al dispute in the boot trade. 1 think - that Is absolutely unique in negotiations between employers’ and workers’ organisations. This trade is not a tiado in which the possibilities of dispute between employers and employed aie smaller than in any other trade. It has to face a fairly intense international competition as an exporting industry, and also it has to face competition, because boots and shoes are imported into this country, so that in neither the external market nor in the home market lias the trade any peculiar adioutage Which would give it, .so to •speak, a favoured position among other tiades, and a guarantee of pence and good understanding more than any other trade could hope to have.”—Mr T. Shaw, M.P. “ N °T ONLY TO AMERICANS.” : . 1 ‘

r Jo all the young people of Amerlt‘l ' 01t t think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward >ou. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover uhat your life work is, work in which you can do most good, in which you van he happiest. He unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.”—Dr. C. \V. Elliot.

“MARRIAGE OR A PROFESSION.” •Much as the mass of women must be reproached for not preparing sufficiently for their profession, for doing their _ duties automatically, without a, D inner feeling of being connected with them, for being glad to shake off their profession when marriage allures them, one must also state, on the other hand, that leading circles seem to push women to the conception that tor tliem profession is only a transitory state in their lives, so that a thorough training is superfluous. Do not tho dismissals of married women teachers, tho legal regulations which put down marriage as a cause for dismissal, make women believe that for them a profession is no affair of their whole lives?”—Gisela Urban, in “Time and Tide.” BRITAIN’S MENTAL CAPITAL. “ America is inclined to draw more and more upon British mental capital, to take the refined oil of British capacity and British moral tone, for

America (which, of course, is the newest mixture of races in modern civilisation) frankly realises that the social •onsciencc, the social stamina of the British race, is in a higher state of development than that of any race she has imbibed and compressed into a new nation. America is seeking to stiffen up her polygot society by greater injections of British ‘tone.’” Mr H. G. Sawnrd, in the “ Daily Chronicle.” MAKING DEMOCRACY A SUCCESS. “ Wo do not want to treat the problems of the universe either in the spirit ‘ of a- too academic philosophic training, or in the spirit of an electioneering placard. Narrow formulae, couched in very inaccurate hut very plain language, are the danger of democracy, and we are all anxious to engage in tho not necessarily easy task of making democracy a great success.”—Lord Balfour.

THE ROMANTIC ’NINETIES. “I have called the ’nineties ‘romantic,’ not merely because it was romantic to have lived in them, or because they included so many romantic figures, hut because their representative writers and artists emphasised the modern determination to escape from the deadening thraldom of materialism and outworn conventions, and to live life significantly—keenly and beautifully, personally and, if need be, daringly; to win from it its fullest satisfactions, its deepest and richest and most exhilarating experiencesThe will to romance: that, in a phrase, was the motive philosophy of tlic ’nineties.”—Mr Itiohnrd 1© Gallienne. 100 PER CENT CO-OPERATTON. “The leal way to lower the cost of production was by increasing efficiency, and that could not be done without that co-operation of employers and workers. The initiative must he taken’ by , the employers. They were the captains, and it was their duty to lead. Having secured 100 per cent, mechanical efficiency they could then ask the workers for 100 per cent co-operation. To get true eo-operation they were hound to give tho workers a direct interest in the prosperity of tho business in which they were engaged. The first necessity was an agreed living wage, the second a minimum wage for capital, and the surplus should he divided among all concerned.”—Mr B. Seebolim Rowntree.

THE LIBERAL CORPSE IN BRITAIN “ What is wanted above all things at the present moment is all the faith and courage of the whole Liberal Party to gather up the forces of goodwill in the country and to thrust upon the Government, by criticism, appeal, exhortation, a humane policy which will end the fatal drift to which it seems committed. That is what the Liberal Party ought to he doing. That is what it would he doing, hut for mischief-makers who have scented an opportunity for raising again old differences, for rending the party, and utterly destroying its power for good at the moment of the country’s need. “ Daily Telegraph ” (London). A decadent stage. “The President of the Theatrical Managers’ Association says that in the provinoes they are losing money by putting on London plays. He adds that: ‘Modern plays daily become shorter and more unwholesome. One manager in Birmingham has alieadv declined to hook certain London plays. London grows daily more frivolous. The provinces havedietter taste. It often happens there .that certain phrases have to he expunged from the London version of the play, and that local watch committees complain of certain costumes as being indecent which have not aroused any public antagonism ill London.’ ” —The Bishop of London.

CRITICISING THE MINE-OWNERS “It is quite true that so long as the miners dig themselves in behind their refusal even to consider a wage reduction, nothing that the owners say or do affects the immediate situation but wo would remind them that when the miners do accept the inevitable, as they will sooner or later, the Mining Asociation will bo left very naked and friendless, unless it modifies its attitude to the principle of arbitration and to the Parliamentary measures affecting the administration of the coal mines which were recommended by the Royal Commission, not 1 Krause they desired to middle with the owners’ conduct- of their business, hut because they were convinced that certain changes were required in order to raise ' the standard of the efficient working of the mines.”—“Daily Telegraph.” London. MOTORS v. BOOKS. “When all long distances were traversed by rail, the station bookstalls did a big business in fiction bought to while away the tedium of the journey. But the only publics-

tion the motorist-can use while he is motoring is his road-book. And at

the end of his' day, when lie lias reached his hotel and finished his evening meal, ho finds himself too tired to keep awake over even the lightest novel. Moreover, many people who used to stay at home at week-ends and occupy their time largely in reading are now tempted by the possession of a car •to go afield, and during these little holidays they seldom open a book.’’— Mr Herbert Hoswill in the “New York Times Book Review.” i

IF EGYPT CATCHES FIRE. ' “What nro you going to do if tho whole of Egypt, from tho Second Cataract to the mouth of tho Nile, breaks into flame? The answer, of 1

course, is that we shall continue to preserve order. Nothing' could more quickly or effectively defeat the aims of Zaghhvl and his followers than an appeal by them, direct or indirect, to physical force. An ineffectual insurrection; —and ineffectual it certainly would Ire—could lead only to a reaction among the middle classes who now partly share and inflate the aspirations of the extremists. Further, it would consolidate in our favour the large population of non-Egyptian origin—Greeks, Italians, Frenchmen, Germans, Armenians Slavs, Levantines and Jews—who live under the Capitulations.”—“The Spectator.”

THE DEAN ON THE OUTLOOK. “T do not wish to he misunderstood

as denying the possibility of temporal progress. There will undoubtedly be pleasanter times to live in than the twentieth century. Civilisation is at present in very rough water; after a time it will probably enter a. calm channel, when most people will, for a time, be more or less contented. Accumulated experience may enable mankind to avoid some dangers and some mistakes. Science will put into the hands ■ of our grandchildren the means to diminish the amount of irksome toil,

though ,it will also provide the means of mutual extermination on a hitherto unexampled scale. It is just possible that our successors may care enough for posterity to bring about, by selective breeding, a. real improvement in the human stock. These reflections give us a ground for reasonable, if chastened, hopefulness. But they have little or nothing to do with the Christ- j inn faith, which makes no temporal promises.”—Dean Inge in his new hook, “The Platonic Tradition in English Religious Thought.” SETTLING UP WITH TURKEY. “Above all, the ground is cleared I for the restoration of political friendship between this country arid the I Turkish Republic, which would have been gravely compromised and impeded by tlic perpetuation of a sterile dispute.. The political realism and good sense which the statesmen of Angora ha ve shown in recent negotiations augurs well for the future of political and I economic relations between Great Bri- I tain and the Anatolian State, tho international position of which must he strengthened by the conclusion of an equitable treaty, guaranteeing one of I its frontiers.”—“The Times.”