PUBLIC OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1929, Page 6

PUBLIC OPINION

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONSHIP. “In a comparative /estimate of the advantages hold by each of the great industrial countries in an age of intensive world competition, probably no single factor of strength or weakness should be allowed to outweigh the relations between employers ard work-people. If, as we firmly believe, those relations are in i.liis country. grounded in reason and mutual respect to a degree for which we can search elsewhere in vain either in the old world or the new, then on a long view there is no cause to despair of the competitive future of British industry.”—“Tlie Round Table.”* SAYS MR LLOYD GEORGE. “The very hour the Ministry decides to become a. Socialist Administration its career ends, for it has no authority from the nation to eml ark upon Socialistic experiments. It could only then.be kept in powei 1 by Tory votes or . Tory indulgence. Jt will he an interesting Parliament, but there will be no .more edifying spectacle than that of a Socialist Government engaged in strengthening and perpetuating the economic system tlieir party is pledged' to destroy.’ Lloyd George. ' •'/ ;!:;/. M/T-teTri-AMERICAN FEELING TOWARDS BRITAIN. “ The people of the United States.are divided in feeling tow’ards Great Britain. There is a strong current of affection for the Old Country, and perhaps this is the dominant feeling, but in certain quarters there is a dislike, suspicion, and even hatred. I found that a good deal of vague talk was going about as to possible Ifuture conflict between Great Britain and the United ■States. On one occasion I was asked in public what 1 thought about it. I said in reply that a world in which that thing could happen would he a world in which I have no wish to be alive. This was greeted with tremendous applause, but had I said it before another kind of audience in another place, tlie response might have 1 been, different.”—Principal L. P. Jacks.

DISCONTENTED RADIO LISTENERS

“ There is always a number of grumblers at any public service; and the 8.8. C: is not without its share. I n spite of the fact that people who find fault are always more prone to write letters than those who are pleased jand v satisfied, the number of complaints or criticisms received by the 8.8'.C. is very small in comparison with letters of praise and appreciation. Their programmes are admitted by those who conduct broadcasting in other countries (not excluding America) to be, in breadth, 'quality and variety, unrivalled by the work of any other broadcasting, organisation. By these experts, the cause olf this is almost universally attributed to tlie fact that the 8.8. C. has a monopoly and that it is wisely used.”—“Radio Times.”

7 OUT OF DOORS'. “You have noticed how colour is brought to the cheeks by exercise i” the open air, how the functions are quickened, and the spirits lightened—there is an exhiliration to be imbibed such as no artificial thereapy can promise. Pure atmosphere contains precious elements of nourishment, as necessary as the daily portions we attack with knife and fork. Invisible, it yet sustains and purifies—it is the one item of our dietary to be taken without fear of surfeit,” says Reddie Mnllett, in “Nature’s Way Monthly.”, “Not a soul has truthfully said that fresh air had undermined his strength. Cows, grazing in the fields, give better milk than those ,■ stall-imprisoned; the latter inhale less nitrogen, and thereby" suffer. Get out of doors, then; let the' kiddies c)raw from the illimitable fount of health.”

THE NEW SCOTTISH PRAYER BOOK. “ So much attention has been directed to the revision of the English Prayer Book, and its failure at the last, stage tov secure authorisation', that the existence of a revision which has been quietly going on in the Scottish Episcopal Church, has hardly been noticed l . About twelve years ago the work began, but when the English revision was nearing completion, it was thought desirable to suspend operations until comparison could be made with the finished English work. This has now been done, some' modifications and additions have been made as a result of it, and the finished work is now ready for the "printer. The Boole is expected to be ready to' be taken into use on Advent Sunday next, and thenceforward for two years either the present Book or the revision nuny be used according to discretion, but at the end of two' years the’ present book passes out and the revised version alone is to be allowed. Time sufficient is thus given for the change over, and the cumbersome method devised for the English Book, of ■printing the whole of the old, as well as the new, within one pair of cows, is avoided. A striking thing ajbout this revision how--ever, is that' it has been carried through -with nothing like the bitterness of opposition which the' English effort met.—“ Yorkshire Post.”