THE NATION’S COMMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1926, Page 3

THE NATION’S COMMENT

BOTH WISE AND FOOLISH SUITER

“We can see daylight at the end of our difficulties; and, if some pait <. British trade has suffered, a large part has benefited, and the whole will eventually benefit from a stable currency. In France, oil the contrary, the process of stabilisation is likely to encounter most of the difficulties that we have experienced, anil nearly all must be aggravated by the delay 'in facing them. But we, no less than the French, have failed to find the just mean between the extremes of deflation; and, if the foolish virgin suffers from her thriftlessncss, tie wise alsr suffers from her excess of virtue. “Westminster Gazette.”

THE' NEED OF NATIONAL DISCI

BLINK. “The greatest danger of the times is the rejection of discipline, the refusal to obey orders, the demand ol the drummer hov to instruct the field-mar-shal. Trade unions have more than justified their existence. Their disappearance would he a national calamity. But the most useful institutions been mischievous when they attempt to extend their activities outside their proper spheres. Equality of opportunity, equality before the law', as time goes on, an ever-increasing equality of ineome, all these things are possible in an ordered society. But the equality that means the constant repetition of the falsehood that Jack is as good as his master, and the demand that every man shall do as he likes, is insanity Discipline is the note of every happy and prosperous community; without discipline stability is impossible. ’ “Church Times.”

CREATE. DO NOT destroy. WEALTH. “It is time the British workers began to realise that they themselves have it in their own power —if they will— to put an end. once and for all. to the insane and interminable quarrels between Capital and Lalxuir, and they can—if they will—themselves form the biggest capital organisation in the country with their own capital. But to do this their present policy must l>o completely changed and, instead of continuing to fight Capital, and hindering and obstructing the development of trade and industry, they must agree to use the great power and influence flier "possess to facilitate and foster the production of wealth. They must realise that wealth is created, and learn to think and work constructively. and not destructively. The wastage of wealth which results from the present methods is colossal and makes it practically impossible for the business community to make head-way against the continually growing competition of other nations.”—Mr J. H. Ehnrrock, a. financial expert, and chair man of the Liverpool Board of Elder, Dempster and Co., Ltd., the West Afri. can shipowners.

THE CITY AN7> ITS CITIZENS. ‘'Civic life is the expression of a

spiritual purpose. There is no communal life without co-operation, and there is no co-operation, without purpose. To judge the citizens by tlieii city is natural, for it is to judge people by their fruits. God made the country, and man made the town; hut the truth of this 'old adage is more profound that many will admit; for nothing is more worth our study than mail, the architect- and the destroyer, who has defiled much, yet lias the power to worship and adore “all beauteous things.’ / and, above all. to create things that are lovely and of good report.’ Man has made the town in Ins own image. He is mean and selfish; people are condemned to live in cheap and ugly'dwellings. He is. pretentions; gaudy and ungainly buildings are erected. He is magnanimous and sincere; good architecture flourishes.”— “Yorkshire Post.”