THE WORLD'S' PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 140, 20 July 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S' PRESS.

CITY VERSUS COUNTRY. . Every additional acre brought under cultivation in the country increases the (iGniand for all Mads of labour in the city, and the needs of that labour provide more and more demand for the products that the settler ha& td selL There is iio ?ause, therefore, to be apprehensive s«beut the- city overgrowing* itself. . Pooulation iB attracted to the places Where the opportunities for earning a livelihood are best, and if it Jlows cityward there is no better 'probf that it" is -join? where mostwanted. Tbat is as .safe a conclusion, as to infer thit, wherever water is running, its djree- ! -lion' is towards the . lowest levei.—« '•Daily Telegraph." ' • THE TRIUMPH OF MILITANCY. This, then, is thetritfttiph: of militancy—to have rurneS : thfe ciause it espeirsed, dragged civilisation r .ofrom its moorings, ,and exposed r; to unknown and incalculable pfsrjLls. Some of the '' militants'' ihust'still be sane; W< ask them to ponder -these 1 elear facts and to refrain,- even at ; the, eleventh hour, from the last stage,of.,a'lamentable disaster. With those, who are cither mad or bad, with those who continue the madneßs of violence, only one oiiurse is possible. - A :new law, which could be passed immediately, is needed, under which they jnay ,be deported or kept, huager 'strike or io,-to the penal servitude so fully earned.-s-' * Express.'' URGENT HEALTH REFORMS NEEDED. The need for an amended Health Act lias long been enforced. Successive Governments have had the question '' under consideration;" but it has been impossible -to move them to the most tedious obligation to which the energy of Government may be applied. There were no votes to be caught by passing sueh useful legislation. • We are now in danger from one of the most frightful scoorges (venereal disease) known to humanity, merely owing to the indifference and inertia of an Administration that during five years has' grossly neglected a most urgent ■ reform.—? >' Age." . . - WHENCE CAME THE POLYNESIANS? Also, he (Professor G. Elliott Smith) finds that certain of the inhabitants of Folynesia are true Caucasians, and are descended from a Caucasian stoek once settled in'the basin of the Mediterranean. Observers who had an opportunity of seeing a boat J s crew of natives, from the Friendly Islands, who visited Sydney last year, might easily believe that those light-coloured and splendidlymade men were of genuine Caucasian stock. But these areohlya few of the points that emerge the great mass of interesting &rthi'dpolGg)«rl material that awaits by the eminent British scientist* wh/>'ar# about to visit Australasia.^' 1 Telegraph." . i . ; <