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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1927, Page 4

“ A PEACEFUL EUTHANASIA.” “ AA’hen man shall he brought to acknowledge (as truth must finally constrain him to acknowledge) that it is by his own hand, through his neglect of a few obvious rules, that the seeds of disease are most lavishly sown within his frame and diffused ovei communities; when he shall have required of medical science to occupy itself rather with the prevention of maladies than with their cure; when Governments shall he induced to onnshier the preservation of a nation’s health an object as important as the promotion of its commerce or the maintenance of its conquests, we maj hope to see the approach of those times when, after a life spent almost without sickness, we shall close the term of an unliarrassed existence bv-a peaceful euthanasia.” —Sir Robert . hillip, M.D., President of the British Medical Association.

THE DEAD AVAIL IN INDIA. “ft is a familiar reproach of Gandhi's that we have failed to give India 11,0 benefit of AVestern civilisation, while preventing Indians from civilising their own people. That, ii.n a measure is true. AA’e keep order, wo provide railwavs, (locks, irrigation and other public works, we fight famine and lilaguo, but we do not, and dare not, enter into that vast region of the eoillmon life in which religion rules or religious susceptibilities may be offended This has brought us up against a dead wall, so far as we are trying; to give the masses in India the benefitof the Western wav of life, and Indians under our rule have not the sense of responsibility which might lead them 1„ do (his work for themselves. Between the two of us the masses oi India remain in much the same state of life as under the Mogbluls, and some evils are oven aggravated by the enormous increase of the papulation that has followed under our protective hand. How is India to lie got out of this rut, and a real impulse given to social reform ?”—Mr J. A. Spender, m the “Westminster Gazette.”