The Daily News. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1911. ARE WE A BAD LOT?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 223, 3 January 1911, Page 4

The Daily News. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1911. ARE WE A BAD LOT?

i a.;iv Zealanders should ob a ' n a ''f r ß® j -;.piy of sackcloth and as h ® s aud j llße hj:. New Zealanders are Jand iMuural. They talk mor ; than and their work is badi ' J P ast 5 i like to gather where baV f no ' mvn, and they are a badi^ 0t wu"c'y- '! Ujrf is, in sliort, what a j,f rson s 'fe"' ll g Kmself "Colonial Scot" tel' BrUlshers in the "Scotsman." This \vii| el ' "' lO 80 iucrcilcssly slates New Zeali| ndels ' be " ioiigs to a fairly comprehensij 6 s^ 00 ' 0I " unskilled impressionists, and,' as i 3 usua ' with the class, sums up a w?°' e lla '' orl in an examination of a few p eo P le °* it> A great paper using a colum" or . 80 of concentrated bile gives it a kind °* authority, and no doubt "Coj onial Scot " ;is ;m apostle of untruth. \ ' lave a '•'•asonable number of discipl s ' 'i.iiibis that "swelled head" be ound in VVeUington as easily) as n ® las S oW » ! hat immorality may exist 18 ea9 ''y ' n iivistchurch as in Beijlin,' tbat firc :i i'o some unskilled and bp; stful P eo P le in Dunedin just as in iPari 1 01 St. Petersburg or New Yc ; k ' and the disgusted "Colonial Sco' have heard loud talking in Viei! a if be . had happened to condescend i, P a ilying visit. We believe f l6 cb ' ef rea " son for tlie criticisms of f)i n ® v ' s ' tors * 8 due to the fact that cri;f ism is mueh (■a.-ier than any other exe J' cise - It is perfectly evident fro f be P ub^s ' le d Simple of critical writin|'.W urned out c itshmg tourists that any s l Xam P' e of sins mentioned is used til an allc g ation ngainst a whole nation >f ver^boi ty is ' familiar with the YeT yf°™ m ™ comment: "I saw more dr.f kennes3 in an hour at Pukapuaka tin 1, 1 saw in six months in London (or ]'i| ls or (;ilas 8 0W > etc.)" Unhappily eraves to liear or read evil of its J'" ow man—and "dirt sticks." When (J avera 8 e critic attacks a whole count I and its P eo P le ' the man who thinks w«T s to know what sort of people he cho J as his com Panions. Many visitors t>if eW Zealand are dreadfully offended th'l there 15 n0 gen ' .nil disposition amc'f the P eo P le to bow down and worsluf tllem ' Tlle best food for criticism of J e virulent kind is failure. The only ff U a com P ctont critic has to make a # tch -P otch of New Zealanders and to aj y his abuse is un " vntrovertible evideT that New Zea ' lenders are as a wlf e failureS " Pe0 P lc like "Colonial Scot J assume that they ■•re themselves abc I criticism ' Before •iiich criticism can | of any assistance io the people it wo<# have to be P roved <uat the writer wai'f 01 in,moral himself > i.hat he had not gc;| swclled head " that he was a fine world! and not " s,i P- 9hod " that he never boil" 1 ' that he was as iull of virility an« g0 " as tho bcst of .he men who cri® d ' and that hc has Always given evefc dy and ,i "square deal."* trouble k that virulent writing .'# ut an - ybod y is seized with astounding Tllcre have been as bi|T attacks a " ainst all Britain in colonif 1 " there have • t i. i /;■ of things colonial s)Pen violent abu'W ~ ° „ British papej. Tbe bl Sg er liK .he larger the rj in = P ubl f A P eculiar ..hose is that « Se h, g h " handed crit,cs n,ver achieve deCCnt results - " A C olonial Scot" M S " 0t sot . ns the stand " ;ird of modesti | r hard Work or lnoral " ily; he merel'i-'| Sa "' S we don,t P ossess ,/ a i?J'W r Fraser, looking for ' ln'm. A ITV ~ . , ® . if t. V' blames without being for a b_« „ ° , , ' ,l ß?ures for the canker at to (!,, heart of t§ rose ' Xt 13 an l,ncomi'i ri ible and^W°' C unnecessar y busi- ,! life of scold in:;. A scold to live M 3 ■i- iuiio • tha,'* 10 " 11U3C " 18 i i human being who be-' i-riM. hj, andaß , , ° . , Ms constant watching. It ! jii-viN that 7 " , ° i ; '■ possible h years or so the | . jj"; Zeaftand should have dei I ''.'npd°chn)^ erS ® vafy e3Sentia,, y ! • ' s 'wom those of the Home I Li common . -Jm ■i-nnle lm P oss, ' ) ' e to believe ' 44 critics are not ashamed of : ial I'Oisoi) jgi L , Ofiften their bile is made pub--1 ;u'!n»elves. 0 » 1 , i . H writer who has lived the in'. \o pi)i» | land and has himself been '■ "t'L-ssful 'iß boccime a complete scold, 'm' we havB bad mall y samples of writi"!' of theß" aky k ' nd lronl to " ; w ' lo j vi jj Bhrough this country while i v Bom a bout of ••merriment" ! b a flfW' OUS attack. One comfort: j .j., Zcalander is too busy {, m „ irr^l ß o, 't the advice and scolding | ( p'opipß^ o are no ' hcl P in « nia ' ie I v , „ Hi. The critics don't matter, j ■ j b 0: Bon-builders do. A Scot, colori'i or should have sufficient , . t/aB a ' with facts. He should be , , ,i"lw us the percentage of im-'i-il f„ o F thc boasters, loaf- | j loor workers. ITe should stay ! . , nd "ive lis the boon of his kindi v. : ' !i lis, :i i ce and example. Ho should s> nre.sci 1 I . I'oster T'raser and other urcat i 'j. l : iier iiv ■' I , &rmers in the flying column of ! Id live in the core of this rotten r i' ; IK S aif Jradise and cure the vot. He !i Jather the flying column, and get ! ;, lto 1 t,lc CW ( ' a ' itnr '' Parliament, j | ' .t would show the people how to j \ moral and brainy, clever, indus- ! ; I honest, virile, quick and ener- .. '"'ls "Colonial Scot" or the army of , ' f critics whose bile has been pour- . ii' a whole country because a few '.''ij (n't hope to live up to the tourist's . , " V>f how the Dominion should be

goes to the largestßcity available returns with. swolleiHuikles mid a sion that he lias had '> good time." wealthy person makes such vast ai tricate preparations for holidaying ho becomes a nervous wreck and li come home to get well. The holida excellence is to rush round Europi America as fast as trains und stei can carry one, and to return homo an impression of flying houses, t\ three theatres, waiters who want and the London policeman. The m man is so determined about his hoi that he plans them like an intricate It is as much a business as selling ery, or ploughing fields, or planting toes. Another curious phase is tha holiday-maker seldom knows the cot in his immediate vicinity. It is po that there are Taranaki people who climbed the Swiss Alps but have sat on .Mount Kgmont, and those have sampled Rome and returned fi much more tired than if they had 1 about their own paddock for a m To achieve mental fever in ararng holiday is bad business, and to through space seeing nothing is wickedness. One London physician was probably bent in the intellect) asserted that nothing would do a working-man so much good as lyi bed for three weeks. It would be esting to watch a man trundling hundredweight in a barrow after weeks of this ''rest" cure. The fa mains that nowadays an increasing portion of people "knock off wor carry bricks" and call it a holiday.

CHEERFUL FOR AIRMEN. If flying has come to stiy—and doubts it?—it is bound to have its on human types. Scientists are al prophesying that the airman of "to row" will have no legs to speak of, elastic heart, a colorless face, bin eyes that see sideways and most < ways, and so on. One cheerful pr< mentions that there is a great inc of blood pressure at high altitudes, that the breathing is castly more r He goes on to say that as the hi heart is now constituted persistent I pressure hardens the arteries in a years, and of course eventually dw its owner in the cemetery. But anc great person who says he knovs about it, comforts the world by i that when everybody flies goo( Nature will adapt the human macli the new environment, and that tin organs will healthily assume the si: shape necessary. It sounds very for, of course, Nature is persis evolving new creatures from old work accordingly as she varies B vironment, But though the got Mother may make a land anim of a seafaring beast and change w into cloven hoofs, she has never a anything living to meet therequiri of a machine. One nevwL-ard, animal evolving from the web stage to the toed condition in ord< it should ride a bicycle, or its lui ing enlarged so that it might tab oxygen while motor-earring. One that the shrivelled legged human the ferret face and the bird eyes happen for some time. Nature, t present, cannot see much use for hit teeth and hair. It is hoped that vei have a municipal aeroplane sen i« New Plymouth by the time she rW of our legs. i

BUILDING A CAPITAL. [ A State hotel, a State general storf a State "credit instrument of exch« are included in the list of prelim works to be undertaken on the si the Australian capital at Yass-Cajl After the Federal Parliament had I £4jJW) for works at the eajil schedule of"expemtiture - \riuTpfepfl the Minister of Home Affairs, 11 O'Malley, and this was approved I inet recently. Mr. O'Malley pro; I have the works begun as soon as pi and expects to expend the vote I end of June. His first undertake be to acquire a property of 17(■ outside the city area and ere<* offices and quarters for the stafl Department. Portions of the ■ not immediately required will bcH Mr. O'Malley anticipates means the land will pay for itseH maintenance of existing bridges and the formation of will he undertaken at once. plant, capable of almost sion as the needs of the Will be. provided, and the tends to erect brickworks tlie ibricks of which the built. The commercial State will cover a much this. A hotel will be on, and the Commonwealth a general store, which butchery and a bakery, O'Malley describes as "a ment that will encourage the employees, be useful for poses, and act, as a credit exchange." From the mental and physical zens will be cared for. apart for religious will be made for will be established and secure ample room grounds. Suitable lands for working men's vernment will erect married men and single men. Altogether pears to have made the construction of a model