THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 125, 2 July 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

ANTE-POST BETTING. If the public are fools enough to engage their money in ante-post betting in the autumn or winter on a race to .be run in the spring, they deserve to lose it. If the horse (The Tetrareh) ihafl. been kept in the race up to jfche jftst minute there might have been some cause- of complaint. He has be6a scratched when the chance was seen to be hopeless, and any premature announcement would only ha;ye ma.de matters worse. ; —' • Evening 'News'' (London). : ! | THE BOY SCOUT. But the State, does, not nonwin itself v?ith the Boy Scout, and thos3 who most ad wire the movement niay well wish it freedom from the sterilising grip of officialdom.' The Boy Scout will flourish best so long as he is- the product of private effort. But he must be supported by the contributions of the well-dis-posed, and he has ah obvious and pressing claim on their generosity. —"Express." SUFFRAGETTE TACTICS. It may sound inhuman to delicate ears, but public patience in England must be exhausted. "Women should have no excuse for hunger-striking by reason of the food furnished. They should be supplied with good nourishing meals. If the food remains untouched, let it be frequently changed. Beyond this, the authorities should absolve themselves from responsibility, despite the - consequences to the misguided victim. If women in pursuit of an ideal, no matter how worthy, persist in starving in the midst of plenty, then they must be regarded as having deliberately sought death. —"Age." , CANADA AND THE HINDUS. As the protests sent to the Canadian Government show, the Canadian people, or, at any rate, a very considerable section of it, is strongly opposed to the entry of any Asiatics/ yrhether they be foreigners like the Japanese and Chinese, or British subjects like the Indians on board the Komagata Marti; The action of Gurdit Singh also indicates that there are many, leading Indians anxious to bring to an issue the question of thjir rights as British subjects in other portions of the Empire. In' fact, -the future relations of the self ,white portions of the Empire to the dependent coloured portions are being steadily forced to the front as ma&ters Urgently in need of definite settlement.—'' Australasian. ' ' . •••'. ...