PUBLIC OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1927, Page 4

PUBLIC OPINION.

COAIPULSORY INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION. “All things considered, the exercise of compulsion in tihe prevention and settlement of industrial disputes is a task honeycombed with difficulties. In certain special cases, such, for instance, as in dealing with sweated industries, some measure of compulsion must be considered as both practical 'and essential. In other cases, as in dealing with disputes in public utilities. the experiment may be worth trying. In those countries where the voluntary principle is not held in any great veneration, the compulsory treatment, not only of especial disputes but of disputes in general, may possibly give good results. Compulsion in its various forms lias had notable successes, limited as though they may be, and in certain instances its sparing and cautious use has proved valuable. Nevertheless, as a method it can hardly be classed las inherently sound since it is precisely where it is most needed, namely, in dealing with the large-scale strikes characteristic of modern industry. that it most conspicuously,fails.” —“lnternational Labour Review.”

GENIUS AND MATRIAIONY. “Ordinary marriage is child’s play to marriage with a genius. It is a job for a fully grown woman. A woman who has no stomach for the job. who does not- know or does not care that she is being called upon for a supreme test of her womanhood, had better not undertake it. Having undertaken it in error, she can either throw it up, or hang on, outlive her genius-hus-band, and get her own hack, in a biography. The only thing she cannot, in any circumstances, do is to turn a genius into a husband. Even ordin-j