WEEK’S SAYINGS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1932, Page 6

WEEK’S SAYINGS

FROAI HERE AND THER-1-

NOT GOOD BUSINESS

“The habitual and persistent criminal is not good business. He is, 1 think we are agreed, anti-social and uneconomic. He himself adds nothing to the life of the Suite, but causes his neighbours anxiety and loss of property and life; and, finally, he imposes on the At ate a painful Burden —the supervision of control, which is uneconomic in its character. But the habitual criminal is otten not. born but made. His persistence in crime is far less due to inherent vices Than to the circumstances of his life, and it may well be that a mistake in early treatment rather than inherent vice has turned him to a life of crime. In such a case the argument as between humanity in penal treatment or severity in penal treatment becomes superfluous, because you may reach a condition where neither humanity can reform nor repression can deter,"— Mr Oliver Stanley, AI.R., Under-Secretary of State in the House of Commons. TARIFF AND GOST OF LIVING. Our proposals have been very carefully chosen in such a way that we think we are safe in saying that they will not raise the cost of living more than a few points in the index number, put ] wash to warn the House that the present cost of -living is artificially low. that many articles are to-day being sold .it prices which are well below the cost "of production, and that inevitably, and "Very likely before very long, the Cost of living must rise as the. cost ol primary commodities rises. A' hat our proposals will do will be to arm the people of this country with a higher income so that they can meet that increased cost of living when it comes ; Tha.t .will be the result of our proposals.”—Air Chamberlain.

BUYING AND SEELING. “YVe must not look upon the whole of our inter-imperial trade H'om a purely selfish point of view. Nothing hr. more foolsli or more narrowminded than for people to imagine the- , .ra vgo Oil selling and should never buy; always go oil exporting and need never 'import.’-—Rt. Hon. Walter Runeiman, ALT’.

RACE COMPLEX. I seems to be a universal fact, that mi norite*!, especially when their individuals are recognisable because of physical differences, are treated by the majorities among whom they live ns infer ions. The tragic part of such a fate, however, lies not only in the automatically roßlrsed disadvantages suffered by these minorities in economic and social relations, hut also in the fact that those who meet such treatment. them selves for the most- . part acquiesce in this prejudiced estimate because of the suggestive influence of the majority, and come to regard people like themselves as inferior. This second and more important aspect of the evil can he met through eloper union and conscious educational enlightenment among the minority, and so an emancipation of the soul of the minority may he attained.” Albert Einstein in a message to American Negroes -in the February “Crisis,” organ of the National Association tor the Advancement of Coloured Peopic.