PUBLIC OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1927, Page 1

PUBLIC OPINION.

Til E NEW CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY “The movement towards combination is proceeding with accelerating velocity. Almost every day brings its tale of amalgamations and consolidations, so that oven those who have been most enthusiastic' in urging the advantages of large-scale enterprise must be almost aghast at the swift rush of events. Like a snowball rolling down

a steep declivity, the movement gains in weight , volume and speed as it progresses and to continue the simile, while it is comparatively easy to roll a. snowball from the mountain top, it is a task of immense magnitude to control the progress of an avalanche. Hitherto the control of great industrial forces Ims been left largely to chance: it has been too readily assumed that those who possessed the faculties that enabled them to create consolidations were best, fitted to administer them. What is needed is the development of a type of administrator fitted to the requirements of the new conditions. Men are trained for administrative imsts in other walks of life, but for business there is a touching faith in the ultimate and inevitable emergence lrom the fiercely competitive arena of the individuals who are best qualified to act as administrators in the broadest sense.” “Times Engineering Supplement.”

THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. “l'n that groat act of worship we reenact what our Lord did in the crisis of His Ministry. We take Bread 'as Tie took it; we hless it, as Ho blessed it; wo break it. as He broke it—saving the very words by which He connected this symbolic action with the death to which He had condemned Himself when lie lot Jiulas go about his treasonous work. Then we receive. as the first disciples received, the Bread so blessed and broken. . . There is here no miracle in the sense of something without analogy in ordinary experience; but there is here the supreme instance of that endowing of matter with spiritual significance and quality which is the perpetual achievement of all art. As ilie water fetched by David’s mighty men was hallowed by their heroism, so the wine that Christ blesses and gives in token of His dedicated life carries with it the power ot that lile, and theiofore truly, though spiritually, is to ns His Blood, for that is what the word Blood, in a sacrificial context, con-iu>tes.,’--T)r Temple.

DEAN INOE ON RICH MEN. •• As for the tendency of wealth to How into a few pockets, this is a partial failure of industrialism, ft is not a religous problem—-it is not- the millionaire. as a rule, who things that money is everything, hut tire man who would like to he a millionaire. It is not a very important problem, ior the rich are a small body, and if they have robbed anybody, it is usually other capitalists .not the poor. And it can he solved without revolution. There is nothing in our institutions to give us an uneasy conscience; our troubles aie due, as Robert Browning says, to 1 the corruption of man’s heart.’ ’’—-Dean Inge, in the “Evening Standard.”

HOW TO BE A BORE. “ For those that like positive and affirmative rules. T give the recipe for making a bore’s head. Chop a cupful of trite conversational chesnuts into small pieces, shells and all. Add a quart of dry facts, from which the juice of humour has been extracted, and a cupful of dates, stuffed with stnisties. Stir in—very slowly—a pint of personal anecdote from which all imagination has been strained. Flavour

with the essence of complete indifference to anybody’s taste hut your own. Pour into a mould stamped with your own image, and turn on to a platter garnished with plenty of thyme. This dish has frequently appeared at social functions of the Rich and Great. I have given you the rules—it is for you to avoid following them.”—A writer to the “ Contributor’s Club ” of the “ Atlantic Monthly.” THE ORATORY OP WOODROW WILSON. •’There was no indication in the early days of Woodrow Wilson, that lie was desirous of entering practical politics. It is my belief that it was the public recognition of his oratory that led to that step. Mr Wilson was comfortable in his speech, hut dignified. He was not as certain persons have said, a hale fellow well met and given to mixing in popular games. It was under the influence of politics and public life that he put on the ‘high hat ’ and ‘high hat’ manners. It was not in accordance with his nature to popularise himself. He was forced to do this, hut I know it was against the grain. It was his gift of oratory—the vigour and beauty of his language—that led him into public life.”—Professor G. M. Hunter, of Princeton University (TT.S.A.).