"AS OTHERS SEE US."

Press, Volume L, Issue 14917, 16 March 1914, Page 9

"AS OTHERS SEE US."

V « _ AN ARGENTINE PROFESSOR'S VIEWS. (ynosi oto owv cowiespondext.) SYJ>NEY, March 9. The "Sydney Morning Herald" givea some interesting oartracts from an address recently delivered in Buenos Ayres by Professor Ernesto Quesada, Professor of Sociology in tlio Argentina University, who a year or so ago paid a visit to Australia and New Zealand, studying the people and their Troys. '-The Australian," be says, "is profoundly in lore with his country. Ho considers it tho joy of the world, par .excellence. Everything bore seems to him to bo infinitely better than it could possibly be in any other part of the world. Ho lets liis local patriotism run so far with him that ho will not allow that anything in his own State can possibty suffer by comparison with what another State posfeesses. So tho raoeoou<sa in Melbourne is infinitely finer, in the eyes of the vJlelbourno people, than any tnacocourso in any otlibr Australian city." The Sydney people, those of Adelaide and of Brisbane, those of Wellington, are fully convinced that they have things witn infinitely •superior qualities to what the others have. It actually extends to their official publications, because tho statisticians of each State are pleased always to coirtpare their own figures with thoso of tho other States, and such oomparison ahvavs results in favour of tho Stato which makes it. Our ruling passion, says the Professor, is horseracing—"and such an interest is taken in it that even the State has arranged a:i institution called the totalisator, so that tho Government may reap its share of gold from t"io sport." He waa impressed by tho air of general prosi enty. "This is noticeable even on tho faces of tho people, who look immensely satisfied and content. Even the working man. the most modest working man, looks upon public property as hie own. He has a profound soiiso of being a part-owner of it. In tiress and outsicto appearance it is sometimes hard to differentiate between master and man; but whether it is from master or man, ono always meets with the same courtesy and the same good nature All have the same ideal of a white and liomogencous Australia, united and prosperous. Here life has reaehod the highest degree of comfort; and the Socialist party has proved that its Socialism 15 i> jt of tho anarchistic or nihilistic order, but that tho democratic objective is the national well-being of the continent, arrived at in a practical way." But if Professor Quesada has many compliments to pay us, he also offers ecme candid criticism. He was shocked, for instance, to find that children were very scarce and that so little attention was paid to immigration. "At this rate," be remarks, "the territory will take a long time to become populated."