PUBLIC OPNION.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1927, Page 3

PUBLIC OPNION.

•CAN SPRING BE FAB BEHIND--" ••When the glon of autumn fades, and the leaves perish, wo feel that the devastations of death have sivep* over the land. The desolate days mat follow, with fog and frost and hitter cold, we call ‘the dead season.’ or. ‘the dead of winter.’ and the snow comes as the white shroud ot its burial. But there is no absolute death. Underneath the snow the roses and butterflies of siiinmer are asleep, and the primroses and daltodils. tulips and crocuses, are already rising to the light, persuasive preachers of the resurrection. This is the zest of January as its breaks with the laughter of life upon a worn and wasted world, as it conics to us with the gaiety of youth when time has grown old and grey. There is not only a wind on the heath, brother; tlieie ine birds singing in the glade. Iho robin is among the hollies, c.uniting his canticle, the wren lifts up his happv lvric, the thrush also, and the starlings are sending their blithe and cheerful music down the invisible Mays of the air.’’—Rev. John Alaeheath. ill “The Round of the I ear.’

VOCATIONAL TRAINING. | “ The bogey of vocational training need have no terrors for us. It is mi- j possible to turn schools into workshops! or counting bouses, but it is possible and desirable that school studies and methods should take increased note ot tlie fact that hoys and girls in the senior grades are destined to earn a liielilmod in the near future, and that their minds will be stimulated if they |i net their school studies directed tnuards practical ends.”

CONQUERING CANCER. “ Vie hope that research may discover the cause, or causes, of cancer, and enable us, perhaps, even to prevent it or to rescue its victims by some other method than that of operation. Cancer is the most formidable calamity afflicting mankind to-day. Ibe enemy grows vearl.v in strength, and though we are defeating him in some of his strongholds, be is gaining on us elsewhere. . . Victory will not come through the gates of a dream. It will he won from a stubborn and relentless enemy by an army of ardent spirits, who think no toil too heavy if spent in the service of humanity. ’ —Sir Berkeley Afoyniiinn.

encouraging the workman. “ Tlie workman is no angel, and has never professed to he one. hut lie has had quite a wrong idea in relation to production. Below all the political! propaganda and agitation of the pros- j cut day lurks the simple elemental j feeling among uorkmen that il the\ j produce more something happens, j eithertoprove.it them getting thenproper share of the results, or to increase the volume of unemployment. The workman must he got to understand that M’heii. by sheer intensity and direct interest, be produces more, be will not only not have bis rates reduced, but will be encouraged by better rates which greater productivity make possible. Without these elements there can he no industrial peace, and if in the workshop employers and workmen begin to envisage the problem from that angle we shall’ come to the ideal position in industrial affairs.”—Frank Hodges.