PUBLIC OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1929, Page 5

PUBLIC OPINION

AAIERICA AND JAPAN. “ In regard io recent American-Jap-ancse relations, it is sale to say that there has never been a more harmonious epoch than at present, with the possible exception of the brief periods preceding and 'Following the RussoJapanese war. There is, of course, an immigration problem that is still left without a final solution. Moreover, there are not a Few sentimental adventurers in both countries who dream From time to time of the outbreak of a dramatic quarrel between the two nations. But lam confident that good people in general, the-loaders of the intelligent class in particular, are not in tho least affected by such wild 'fancies. The so-called Japan-Amori-can war scare is nothing more substantial than suggestions of yellow newspapers or story-material For certain novelists who are altogether irresponsible with respect to the national policy or current international , affairs.”—Tamaki Hanegaza, -in '..the “ Revue Diplomatique.” THE RE-MAKING OF CHINA. “ In order to work through to a successful solution of the many difficult problems of the reconstruction period which lies ahead, China will need ’ all the help she can get, whether tfi;om her own people or from foreigners. Tho problems are so complex and;, so many, the difficulties involved in their successful solution are so great that there is urgent need and ample scope for tho very best brains and the niftsfc disinterested service. China to-day, in fact, presents a real challenge not qitly to the Chinese themselves but to the forward-looking and sympathetic people throughout the world—the people who realise that China has a great contribution to make toward the development of world civilisation 4ml who sincerely want to see China’s domestic situation and international relations develop along lines which will insure peace and progress at home and mutual fairness and friendliness abroad.”—General Pai Chung-llsi.

A PARABLE FOR CANADA. “ We in Canada are like a certain man who prepared a great feast. Wo, too, have sent our servants into the streets and lanes of tho city to invite the poor; we have received the maimed and the halt (we have debarred the blind, but in their place have admitted the feeble-minded—witness tho record of deportations from Canada); wo have gone to the highways and hedges; but, alas, our house is not filled. Alany have come and have tasted 'of our viands and have bid us farewell. Wo should like to suggest that we may have valued our hospitality too lightly and that our guests would remain longer were the company more select. Tho census of tho three prairie provinces taken in 1926 provides the latest data regarding the m’ovcment of our immigrants. During the five years, 1921-192-5, the total immigration to the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, arid Alberta was 179,312. .In 1926,’ only 90,486 of this immigration remained in these provinces, a shrinkage of 50 per cent.—Professor McArthur, in tho Canadian “ Queen’s Quarterly.”THE RULES FOR SUCCESS. “ The older one grows, the less confident one becomes of the universal application off the old adages about success. Unhappily, no man can reach middle life without becoming familiar with many cases of thoroughly deserving intelligent men who have followed all the advice of their mentors, who have neither gambled nor drunk to excess, have been early to bed and applied themselves to the mastery of business details; reading good books in their hours of. leisure, keeping good company and leading industrious lives, strictly honest and strictly truthful, respected by all who know them—they have, nevertheless, completely failed to make any mark in business. —“Times Engineering Supplement” (London).

A MARVEL OF THE FUTURE. “ Thero is no reason except one why a c'opy of to-morrow’s “Times” should not lie flashed by wireless, to print itself on a hilltop in Kent, or in a farmhouse in Devon, or in a hut on the top of Ben Nevis. The reason why it cannot he done is that nobody can afford to do it. In twenty years, it will ho cheap to do it, and the newspaper revolution will have come. It is well worth while thinking about. . . . M a picture can be sent over the wires, so can the image of a printed page,” adds the writer of the article, in “ My Magazine.” “ No effort of the imagination is needed to see that a newspaper could prepare all its pages, advertisements, and everything included in one town in England, and telegraph pictures of them in a few minutes after their completion to any other town. If that, helped by further developments 'of photographic printing, proved a profitable or economical and speedy way of distributing a newspaper, it would, and certainly will, be adopted in tho future.—" My Magazine.”