CHAUTAUQUA ECHOES.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 19 March 1919, Page 4

CHAUTAUQUA ECHOES.

Herbsaianisnis. ,"N<> community can bo scientifically developed unless each individual is loyal to the community in which he resides." > "The world dues not know that you have a Eotorua. It does not know that you have an aboriginal liar superior in intelligence to the. American Indians. Why don't you tell the world ~r (host: thing.-'?" "Community building Was nation building. It concerned the place we .;.;!;•*! home. A community could only (levelpp b.v commercial, agricultural andethical cooperation.'' "After visiting Australia and New Zealand I am our and out for the individual ownership of railways. Such ownership opens up the country and builds communities. This is impossible under Government ownership. A member of Parliament builds a railway and ii it fails to show a surplus after the first year or" running his political head is excised. Good and expeditious trans-: ' nbrtatioii is tiie only means of accelerating settlement .and" the building'up „C communities." ••When we do something-for another , „ : ..,. ~.<• -,1.i something for ourselves, ' mil helice the whole community bone- •• Australia is the greatest wheat-oVodiii-iiig country in the world. Its j.ioduelive resources are boundless, i'.ul Aiisliiiliu has no! the rivers to deeclop* electric power". New Zealand. Aith its hvdro-clcctric power possibilb Acs shoidd grow all the Australian rt-honl and send the Hour to the mar- \, is of the world. I "predict that the ],,;■■■ is coming when this -will take

'■■■) have seen a smaller place than '.L'lt-.te'rton with four woollen mills".;Iver-- hundred additional workers :iein.'.s u'n addition of 500 to the popjiaiion of any community." ■''Y.'iiu- should Nee,- Zealand wool be u.r.t to' England and America and be c;v on.-k in the 'manufactured article; ;'h:.- Is tiii economic Valine that contriThis is an economic fallacy that eontri-. : 1: ,;,.: ■,.-," (he high cost of living and the "I'lte Kaiapoi blankets manufactured in New Zealand are equal in quality to blankets manufactured in any other part of the world. But you don't lot the world know this." "Your hides are just as good as the hides of any other country. You send them to England and have them returned in leather. You should have your tanneries and your woollen mills.'.' '"'New Zealand has the capital and brains. With its natural resources and geographical position it should develop into one of the biggest populated countries in the world.'' "The country and towns must work hand in hand." "It is idle to talk of brotherly love and sympathy if all do not meet on the same level and part on the common square. It is the only way to solve the industrial problem." "Idealism of service builds a community and a nation. The lads of Kcw Zealand who fought at Gallipoli and other places in the cause of humanity served their fellow-men with as true a service as the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Calvary. Have these visions been caught? The visions of sacrifice.''

Bradfordian Aphorisms. "The teacher who taught solely for a .salary, is not worth a salary." "The teacher who got results could alwavs command a salary. Teachers must become the friends of their pupils before they become their teachers." ,: "One man is put to look after a' bowling green. One man is given fifty children to teach." "Formation is better than reformation. I would rather be a school, teacher to form the ideals of the people than a pettifogging politician'who ran about the country trying to reform the' people." "If there was one teacher to every ten children the people would-en- out about the increased taxation, yet these same people would spend more on things which Were cot fundamental. "Patriots will see to it that ideals possess the teachers." '■'Some people will give more to build a mutton cannery than to build a university. Tliat shows that they think more of mutton than of intelligence."

••The country needs intelligent men and women more titan it does mutton." "This old world stands in greater need of being fed with ideals than with bread-and butter." •Make sure that the boys and girls get ideals." "The world suffers more from inefficiency than anything else. The 75' per cent man won't do. We must have hie 100 per cent man.''

"Place in a conspicuous place in your school the words: 'Almost right is always wrong.' " "'You furnished the cash for the war in which the Anzaes died. The goal has not-yet been reached for which .the Anglo-Saxon speaking races entered the war. It will nor be reached when peace is. signed. The world re-building goal will not 1 ■• reached for another fifty years. You must still pay to secure the ideal? set ont to acconi-' pi;sh." r ; ■•I would rather harness the power in children and send them .out into the world with ideals than harness the water power of the country for commercial purposes." .....