PUBLIC OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1930, Page 7

PUBLIC OPINION

FORGET ABOUT HEALTH

“The best way of gaining health for yourself,” says Lord Dawson, the famous physician, reports the “Yorkshire Post” “is to forget about it. Wo do not always say that to other people, but it is so with.one’s own health Learn life a<s it is, and not as it should be. The thing is never to criticise, but always to seek to understand. If you do learn to understand the point of view of others. I can venture to make this promise, that the longer you are in contact with human nature tlm more you will adnr're it. And when you are up against the real thing—fhe real difficulties, not only of health but of life, you will often turn round and say to yourself: ‘lf I had been placed in that position. I don't think l would have done so well.I’’ 1 ’’

CUTTING THEM OFF AT THE METER.

Each country should add a simple rider to its Kellogg treaty wit hthe United States, giving its Government the power, if and when necessary ,to prohibit the export of mineral products to any country that breaks peace with any other member of tho Pact. The very existence of any such power would be in itself sufficient automatically to enforce submission of the matters in dispute to the International Court of Justice. What may be called the ‘mineral sanction’ would not involve a general upset of the world’s commerce and finance; it would n°t seriously affect the prices of civil necessities, even in the country that it penalised; trade in all commodities except in minerals would continue with all countries, and even in minerals with all countries except one, (for export would he safe to all countries that adhere to the multilateral treaty no one of them would re-export to the refractory nation. An agreement of this sort requires no military or naval machine for its enforcement.”—• Sir Thomas Holland, Vice-President of Edinburgh University.

A DEPARTED DOGMATISM,

“The time has surely . arrived for safeguarding duties to he imposed at the discretion of Parliament in all cases where expert investigation has convinced the Government of the day that a net increase in employment will follow their introduction,” says the “Glasgow Herald.” “Provided the investigation in question is adequately and carefully carried out, we see no objection to such a course, and we imagine public opinion will be found generally to- favour it, the more so as Mr Baldwin has unequivocally pledged ln'mself against any taxation on Ifood The onlv dogmatism in 'regard to tariff matters has gone! The tendency of the day is to remove them from party politics and to treat them on a purely empirical basis. Mr Baldwin’s proposed procedure, far-reaching though it is, accords too much with that line of

development to arouse serious opposition.”

“A NATIONAL CRIME.”

“Disestablishment, as ite has been formulated, implies a wholesome alienation of proporty, a disregard of personal and corporate rights, and a violatioen of all the most sacred associations and feelings, such as in the words of an eminent statesman (Gladstone) would leave England ‘a lacerated and bleeding mass.’ Of any such scheme of Disestablishment I say deliberately having carefully weighed these words and feeling the tremendous responsibility of overstatement, that it would be not only a national disaster, but also a national crime to which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the history mf England since England became a nation. I believe that a moral blow would be inflicted on this country

’■n'Vr which it would reeel and stagger U'r many generations to come, even if '*■ « ,T er recovered in it.”—Bishop Lightfoot .

THE HAPPY PRICE MEDIUM

“What has to he realised is that high and low prices are loth disastrous, but there is an intermediate price, the standard or economic price, that gives the best result to the producer and the consumer and to the nation at large. To secure the success of agriculture it is therefore necessary to destroy the element of gamble and to secure the farmer’s position by stabilising the inn'll articles of produce at the standard or economic price. Price-fixing romm/tetoes are required for this purpose.' Prices once standardised at an economic level, production would go rnturnllv on, for the farmer would •realise that the more he produced the Iwsov h ewould do ; he would turn h!s mind from markets to production. He could go straight ahead; be would produce wealth.”—British Rural Credits Association.

FREE TRADE WITHIN THE EMPIRE.

“Free trade within the Empire is a great ideal to which perhaps this Empire may some day aproach, but for which no part of it is at present ready. Aliilst there is room between the Dominions and us for more extension c if trade and a far better organisation and distribution of trade, -there is no possibility until not merely’ the mind' of our people at home, but the minds of our people at home, but the minds completely changed, or breaking down the tariff boundaries within the ’Empire, It is therefore an ideal which we may keep before us. Bpt' it is not an ideal which is within the power of any in this party to achieve in this country at the present time, if ever it is to be achieved at all.”—Sir Austin Chamberlain in a speech at Birmingham in attacking the new United Empire Party.