PUBLIC OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1930, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION

AT THE END OF THE ROAD

“We have nearly come to the end of this world’s journey. We have lived in our age, so- we will let this new one alone,’’ wrote old Mrs L. Watt, aged /u, in a rcoent issue of the “Daily Herald.”. “It is not our business, or we should have been born to take our part in it. To all old women I say: ‘Don’t scrub floors fon is 6d a day. Just ask your generous employer for a nice sewing job, and let her get on with the scrubbing. This world values you at your own price! Shane on such employers who can jazz whilst an old woman scrubs. To old men I would say. ‘Thank God your young life was not wasted in the Great War. o pack up your troubles and keep smiling. Old age need never be sad or lonely whilst it is spared reason to think, eyes to see, ears to hear, and a soul to give thanks!” There is always a greater trouble than our own if we look around. if iife seems hard let us be brave and count our blessings one by one. This is a ‘decent world.’ ” T'lE CIV DDE OF THE NEW , OHTNA.

“The Nanking 0 svernnKiit is no long' l !' anti-foreign, and if lias not Iv’en slow to ask advice from abroad. There are to-dav a number of American and German ext efts - in'law, enginering, city-planning, finance, military r'a'Vrs, etc. The; appointment of Sir Frederick Whyte as Chief r?onor !•(• A dvisar has given much satisfaction to China and Britain. The infant Central Government is the hope of China’s pence: and in its secretariats are to be found many good, men and true. Tn 1927, at Nanking. -British warships fired on the city and took awnv foreign residents fleeing from the Nationalist Army. In 1929, British warships, anchored off Nanking, fired a salute in recognition of the National Government. Such a salute represents the wishes o r all that the Government may be st.ablised ,ynd carry on the. sorely-needed tasks of reconstruction.”—Lady Hosie.

BRITAIN WILL BE REMEMBERED

“If the British Empire were to perish to-morrow, or in a hundred years time, as other majestic empires have perished, doubtless it would be remembered for its achievement at home of a wonderful metropolis set in an area of subservient squalor; of a Court at once ornate with mediaeval pageantry to impose a sense of exalted superiority, yet sentimentally beloved as human alike with the rest of us, and the dearer the oftener it put off its robes and was driven about in mufti; of a genial, humorous, grumbling, and on the whole contented populace; with many noble buildings, schools everywhere, great universities for the more fortunate; abroad, for signal achievements in discovering and colonising distant lands, driving roads, building bridges, piercing wildernesses with railways, stamping put slavery, substituting order for chaos, and all by the courage of men who, grappling with risks and dangers as occasion arose, had to ignore that any mistake would be visited upon them by governmental renroof, dismissal and the ruin N of their careers.” —Professor Westermarck.