POLITICS AND EDUCATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2147, 3 July 1920, Page 2

POLITICS AND EDUCATION.

CONSIDERABLE interest wa- taken in the election of.a school committee for Lyall Bay ( Wellington) this week. The Labour Parly was out with a ticket to secure the election, but they only succeeded in getting one member elected. The Post, commenting ou the election, sa.\s : Organisations brought into being for industrial and political purposes arc being used m the domain ol education. There has been sull'mienl said of (his movement already to convince the man who is open to argument that it is most undesirable that politics should be dragged into local school government. The Labour Parly has no more right, as a. parly to claim representation on school committees than lias the .Relorni League. To seek to obtain the whole of the representation, to the exelu-

,-,iou of all who have nut joined the parly and hound themselves by the parly pledge, makes the attempt more deserving of condemnation. \\ e cannot advise electors for whom they.should vote, for our view is that .-,uch questions must be decided according to the record of candidates in public and private affairs: and this record is best known to the residents in the locality. But we do urge all electors to attend and exercise their voting powers. Ou the Labour side there are undoubtedly men who have given good service as citizens, and will do so again, but lheir idle to votes rests upon their citizenship, not upon their subservience to the Labour organisation, and such subservience is in no way a recommendation.