THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 92, 25 May 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

* ■ ■ : ' ! ! AUSTRALIAN BUTTER. Apart from the ; xlanger of imposition —and' even experts cannot always detect the difference between butter arid first quality margarine—our dairying industry, nurtured with so much care, and the friend of Australia in her period of commercial eclipse, deserves ~the consideration due to one ofj our' niost valuable products. We can hardly imagine, even if the proposed Federal standard should reach the stage of recommendation, that the Cook Government, so closely identified with the producing elements of national progress, wtiuld consent to a measure capable of inflicting on those interests serious harm.—' i Age." MAKE THE ARMY DEMOCRATIC. 1 If the Army, as it is officered to-day, is a Tory institution to be brought in ,o coerce the House of Commons when the Liberals are in power, we will break that institution as we have broken the House of Lords. We will make the Army democratic as-we have made Parliament democratic. And the • Army will not be the loser by tiie ehange. The greatest army of modern times, the army of Napoleon, was an army officered not from the Carltoh Club, but from the ranks. Let our BrigadierGenerals remember that fact when they hear the voice of Mr Balfour urging them to break their oath of loyalty to the State that employs them. —"News and Leader." AERIAL MAGELLANS. The one possible charge against Chis self-consciousness of the flying age could be sustained by our present airmen; the tribe that follow in the wake of Kipling and Wells write gloriously of the aiisworld of 1950, but the explorers of to-day, the real Drakes and Masellans, are* left for historico-realists of she future to celebrate. —"Evening Post" (New York). MACHINES FOR THE FLYING CORPS. The public and the relatives of all Army airmen have a right to know the answer to several questions. On wliat machines were these officers flying? How old were the machines? Had they ever been repaired, ami, if so, by whom? Had their efficiency ever beeii called in question? How many old-ami dangerous machines are. still being used by our Flying Corps? The facts are disquieting. We have an absurdly small., and inadequate air service for. our , naval and military services.- Yet we have a tale of accident and death far greater, in proportion, than that of France and Germany.—' 'Express.''