OVERSEA OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1932, Page 3

OVERSEA OPINION

ON A VARIETY OF BUB.JKCTS

WHERE LAW HAS BROKEN 5 DOWN

i‘lt r is dangerously easy,” 'says the "Manchester Guardian,l’” : '/-‘to deduce '.the general from v the paYtiCiilaf, and' to fasten' on to the ,pt u . the Lindbergh baby a moral ’.tfrat is ’ beyond its scope ; but', like an inverted Dreyfus case, it was withodT'-’question served dramatically “to illustrate the defects of American “civilisation. There have not, it is true,“been wiinting other illustrations as fOrciffid and’ sometimes oh a scale.”Everyqhdi' knows that a negro carihot bc' sm'e of a just trial in many parts' ,t 'of !! the 'Uftitbd States, and' that' in" 1 Kentucky, ' lor" instance, and CarotinW 'industrial conditions hre tolerated ’tWt ate ’extremely brutal and tyranrii’c&l! 1 "At' the same time,' p.utting aside eriiotiondl reactions —horror at the ; dalilSushess of the crime, pity for Hjolorie hand' Mrs Linubergh—it remains true' that seldom even in America has 'VtHe breakdown of laVv arid order ‘in face of organised cririie been made so obvious ad’in the

course of events since -Colonel Lindberghs baby was first kidna-pped till, weeks after, its dead body wa» found by chance near to his hodse.” " THE PRECIOUS AIETAL.

"Roughly calculated; an ahnual preduction of gojd equal to 3 p'ed r ''cdrit. of the accumulated stock pf'*^oßt H "Will' be required for the future to "'ensure that, without disturbance of the ‘ gfirieral price-level of commodities, the world may" advance at a rate of’ progVe&k correspohding to that of pre-war J ' ‘days—namely, at about 3 per cent.;' per’arinuni. ’The 'world’s/ gold production ‘ td-day is .actually aboiit tfvo-thi'rds of 'What w« •have found to be normaJjjy •'FeqV'is'ite to keep the lievel of ,prices'; cdfistaht.* The deficiency ; is so enormous ' that / ' Ordinary discoveries of: new gold nieriir little toward its repair. Thfel world Tias ' been explored more thoroughly' In sbardh of gold, than for any othcF of "Nature’s rt sources, and the prospecis- tif" peW dkcoveries, especially in ;; '"pfdxiihity to ample supplies of cheap' laboifr/" are therefore not very grieSt/’A' gold, economising ‘policy will., therefor, be necessary.”—Professor "Gustav Cassel, in the cduVse’ o’f ’ the fftst of three {bodes Memorial Lectures r pn ? I‘Thc Crisis' in '-the World’s Monetary// SyV Tem.” ' ''' ■’ ’ . ■ ! . ..Jr-

' ART AND ITS MONEY VALUE: -‘'Now art is not a known quantity,' saW the ‘‘Stiidio;” dealing with the gen. er^l T question.‘ “It never . has been 4 Known quantity. It never will'be t ’ > > f " > ■*. ,T, tyfil known quantity. .It cannot be reduce'. to £ s. d, How much is a sonnet of Shakespeare worth F How sHoudtL ont ‘begin to appraise the smile.'of//Mona Lisl:?' These things are beyond'/prict hifdj/ Hav.e jab .price. IVd,"sQuhd/ economic,, system .can attempt sj)iritua. t '.values' intd inbpeiiary,l/^lß :: mußt‘l|i?iye; a more definite and concrete/, basis pi .which to work, dealing" /with a picture )ri a lower plane, uriemotipnaiiy,- as'iv it were .so much soap pi' steel, in terms of a known, wish to accL*un'e; and a xilown capacity to.'...prod^^.’C;

THE CLOGGED MACHINERY. “Every country in the' world is non trying to sell its products-auid eveiy country in the. world"is^"trying not to buy the products "of other countries bj all kinds of restrictions—by r tariffs, by impart duties, and,/ perhaps worst o all, by quotas’.”-4Lord Siiqwden.

THREE GIiGUPs

“The vast population' of this earth, arid, indeed, nations themselves, may readily be divided into three groups There are the few who make thing' happen. The ’ many more who i '\vatol. things happen, and the overwhelming majority who: have no notion ‘of’ Ehai happens.”—Dr. Nicholas MiiiT.ay' Butler.

WHY WORRY OVER mEI/AND. “The'danger of the presenf/“sftuation seems to me not that the Iris’ Free State will openly demand “total separation from Great Britain’ afreFjti other members of the Commonwealt' of Nations, hut that Great'Britain wil 1 openly demand total separation Trom the Irish Free State,” writes-MP'Rob-’ ert Lynd in the “News : Chronicle.” “I dd ; not see how this -could happen without grave injury to the peoples ol both countries. By’iiiteifejfihf {’tvitn trade it would to some exterit''irierease unemployment in GrOat BntaiP,'add ii* Ireland it would make {the famine, poorer without making him' ai% 'freer. I doubt whether Mr de Valera''Realises how rapidly English opinion, especial!;, in Conservative has/’swunp round to the view that, if ‘ the Free State Government chooses to 'break the treaty, that is-chiefly its oWir iffair, and that if the Fred' State/' likes to ‘sebede’ from the Commonwealth in this fashion'/no protest’ need be made.”