OVERSEAS OPINIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1931, Page 7

OVERSEAS OPINIONS

NO EASY TERMS. “It is 110 use Imping to avoid defeat on easy terms. \v e will not do it by going on 111 our old ways. We will not ao ,t by lokling our bands, or by wringing our hands, or by shaking our fists at one another—by tiuployers sajing that they are crippled by high wages and by trade unionists retorting that the employers could afford high wages if they improve their organisation. Suppose that we try instead a change of heart/ Suppose' that each of us goes just slightly mad—begins to look at things in a way different from any way he has ever tried before.”— Sir William Beveridge. EMPLOYERS—TEACHERS. “it is certain,” says the “Times” (London), commenting on the report of the Goodonougli Salesmanship Committee, “that if the country is to maintain its place in the trade of the world it must devise means of attracting the best brains both to commerce and to industry and of providing for the better training of all ranks. The broad conclusion reached after a perusal of the report is that the committee have done good service in exploring the matter, and that the remedy for tho weaknesss they have discovered lies in the co-operation pf associations of employers and panels pf teachers.”

A RACE OF GARDENERS. The English are a race of gardeners in a far more comprehensive sense loan they were ever a race of shopkeepers. If the regular city man can be said to have any recreation beyond his dinner, it is his garden,’ wrote Charles Dickens in the late tnirties 01 last century. The whole talk 111 trains bound for the suburbs is of plants that do well and plants that do not. Right into the heart of the city’there have crept strips of blossom. They lodge in 6 very available nook and cranny, and peep out of earthen pots in areas and wooden boxes on window ledges.—“ Truth” (London).

POLITICIANS AND THE CRISIS “The politicians,” says the “News Chronicle” (London), “have on the whole risen to the emergency. It is for the nation now to back them up by its willingness to shoulder the necessary burdens. There is no need for pessimism as to the future. Every nation has been caught in the blizzard, even the United St_.es, which has for so long basked in the sunshine of unexampled prosperity that it seemed as if she would never know bad weather again. Great Britain may well be one of the first to emerge from the depression, for the very reason that she Ims been, after some characteristic hesitation, one of the first to face up to it honestly und fearlessly.” > THE BUSINESS MAN’S MORALS. “The business man’s-morals are frequently condemned,” writes. Sir John Rowland in the “Yorkshire Observer.” “The truth is that business men" are better situated to understand the force of the old saying, ‘Honesty is the best policy,’ than most of their critics, nnd to an astonishing degree they apply the precept to everyday tansactions. To my mind the only business man who is consistently dishonest is the one who pretends to give more than value for money. His deceit would seem to be obvious. Yd, frequently enough, the public showes greater confidence in his good faith than in that of the man whose intention is only to make a fair profit. Enduring business in founded on sound economics. Business is no more philantropy than it is a fraud.”