OPTIMISTS' CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 142, 18 June 1938, Page 7

OPTIMISTS' CLUB.

ADDRESS ON TOLERANCE

EXAMPLE OF BRITAIN

The weekly luneheon nf the Optimit-' Club held in the Y.M.C. \. yesterday, was presided over l>y Ihe president, Mr. A. I. Dow. Mr, .J. ]•', lieeihen pave an address on ''Tolerance. 1 ' Dealing first with tli" interna) ioiml I sphere, the 'peaker le-ei ibeil <-'reat I Britain as an evample nf tolerance. I llrit isli statesmen niiulit a<t illopieallv. lmt they were re.ili.li" and their attitude had ennirihiited greatly to the stability nf the Krrtptre. he said. The 'speaker app aled fnr a better, tinderst a inline nf tli.' \ i.M\ point nf people ill Mieli eihint l ies as i j'erinan V and Jitts- ' sia. Ihe lini ■ 1111 m-• I• - "I those conn 'tries were striving:, aeeonliusr to their I beliefs, for the uplift of their peoples. I Mr. Heeeheii 'lepiv.a'ed the laek of !en operat ion between the political parties in New /e.il.uii' and the bitterness sometimes in tm 111 <•••< I ii.i i pn|it i< *. It Was Jli- belief tlrlL il (1.1-- ill 1 Veil LTeW it would threaten the e. tit imied existenee of dernoerat n- .vei nmerit. The need for t "Is" anre in business was al-n stressed iiv the -peaker. Any unfairtie-- nn the part of ,:n employ ei inivht lead to iiii iei itess and a eon-iiiM" or niieoii-ei.iii- I.ok ii"' •.ii- >tiera t ion on th" part of I employe... which often did -el i'.u- ha 1 ii to ,i 'iu-:i.e--.