PRESS COMMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1927, Page 1

PRESS COMMENTS.

SIMPLICITY IN DRESS. Paris has just, issued her edict about the fashions l’or the coining European winter. The prevailing note for frocks, as for furniture, is to be one of “sophisticated simplicity.” This modern simplicity is so complicated that it becomes too costly for any hut tho well-to-do. In more senses than one ihe ornate has become cheap. It is now more economical to imitate the rich flamboyance of the Cavalier than it is to adopt the sober habiliments of the Roundhead. 'To give the sense of the doimirenoss of a Patience when the wearer possesses none of the attributes of a Deborah or a Patience, must, wo allow tax the ingenuity of the dross designer to the utmost. It was a staggering achievement suddenly to have given us the impression that all women possess velvety, slim silhouettes. To tone down corporal contours is, however much loss of a Herculean labour than to super-imposo upon a restless and possibly flighty character the stamp, of a nun or a Quaker. It is for this that the costumier charges so highly. “Dally Telegraph” (London).

A SERVICE TO THE EMPIRE. The return of the Prime Minister Horn t anada brings to a close a visit which by general consent lias been a signal success. Formal ceremony counts lor less in the public life of the New World than it still does in that of the Old. and the chief business of his visit has lain in an exchange of views. In the speeches he has delivered in the various provinces lie has dealt with many topics, and lias shown himself keenly interested in the very different 1 problems they present. Every one must join in his own regret that the particularly British province of British Columbia had in the end to he.left uiivisited. There is no place, where he would have been more eagerly welcomed. or where even his party affiliations would have been more generally accounted to him for righteousness. But lie has made a wide survey of the great Dominion, and through the sacrifice of rest has been considerable for a man so heavily burdened with work, it may he hoped that what he brought away with him in the way of mental stimulus will more than offset the loss of holiday.—.“ The Times.”

TRADE UNION JONAHS. The influence of the trade unions in the past few years has been minimised. on the one hand by a stereto typed policy, and. on the other, by unreasonable suspicion. Greater freedom for local negotiation and the realisation that employers do not all suffer from a double dose, of original sin are required if the trade union is to ltecomo a really effective instrument for improving and maintaining workclass conditions. And there must also ho the courage to throw the Jonahs overboard. The Miners’ Federation will recover a great deal of its prestige when it buys Air A. J. Cook a single ticket for Moscow. —“The Church Times.