SOME OPINIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1932, Page 3

SOME OPINIONS

OVERSEAS WRITERS’ IM r PREsSiON. '

the PUBLIC TASTE IN BUYING

• “It is probably true to say that for one ,person who visits a museum or gallery -a thousand enter a shop to tmy r Clip 'arid seuce-r; hence the imliiensb infportaiice of r giving a right direction to the taste-' of boys and girls while they are still at school is evident, and' we hope Unit the p. oblem will be faced in the public, secondary, aiid elelnentary schools ot making the understanding and enjoyment Of beautiful things an essentia) part’/of tine day-to-day life of tits', school/ ' . ' . . - *' . / ’ '

' We are impressed, by the freshness, spontaneity, and i-inventiveness oi young children in' the matter of e'e'sigii-, and with this results that ear. die obtained by traini -g and developing' -these faculties under a sympatheticapd understanding- teacher. We 1 feel 'that here is an almost ' nnworted; source of designing capacity which ’might ba of se vice to industrial art.” —The British Committee on Art anil Industry.

MILITARY SPIRIT IN GERMANY

’ “That the military' spirit is growing amoilg the German people is the ■fault of the ' everlasting 1 military a-ud financial pressure o-n Germany from 'without.. The- German people them'fielves a-re deeply dfcquieted' at this ’(development, which,'‘ indeed, was pre'dicted by otif nationalists. Of all tire fine principles of liberalism and de-rno-’riia'icy, -yhieh President Wilton declared to be thfe fiila!] him of'the war, ’nothing lias rern'aihed for Germany •but the liiirdsHips arising out "off the ’fFY-eaty of Vercailles. The success of th© Nazis is caused Very largely by ithese'. c-irciM^taTU-es.”—Extract from jet letter written by “a German mod- ■ irate.” Herr Hans Sohfhidt-Hayn, a' published in the “Manchester Guard i<an 'Weekly.” ’

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

, “Tlie general condition's of life today, abort from-the more kindly cfimi--11 al code, haye removed many of t’rii? ‘excuses' wliicli'men oiice had foi-'tdkr'fi To crime, lint, do what we will, there remain 'with us,' the' tint arc abies, the human beasts 'Of pfhy. These” have Jto be; reckoned l witli, .since reasoning with, th6m is plafiily futile. Severity is not 1 the modern desire. , ’ "17' y one contends ' that all , killers should he executed, and daily observation reminds us that whenever iti is reasonably possible, ’our courts pre-l fief "to show* mefcy rather than harsh-, ness: We have, in short, gone quite as far 'along tlis road to leniency as jSeems likely to profit ms many (i ’long' day ; td come:

’ A" bfMthing-tinie .'is needed to let the outlaws catch up with thei rest, before ’Milieus is 1 nnv nloffe talk of Wshiiigf ’-further ahead l . Society has itself to’Consider, as well as’ its declared enemies. Against these it hr? noth the ’dtaty ! artdt the right to p*-o-toct itself by all ; the' means in i* ’bower.’’—“Sydney' Moriiifig Herald.’’ 'ML MS IN NATIVE 1 COMMUNITIES

■ “The success of our government of subject races demends almost entirly f-n the degree of respect which we can •inspire. . Incalculable is the damage toat has .already‘ been done' to •the r vestige of Europeans in India ! and the\Far East through the, widespread ex)li)ibition ,of jfilfira-sensaitjional and disreputable ' pictures, hind. it"behoyes: ns, therefore, while there is yet,, time, to see, that the same harm shall not he ‘repeated in our ! tropical 'African Efmptire.”—The 1 British. Commission 6n 'Edtic'atioiiiail and . 'Cultural Films.