The Dominion. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1935. MAKE IT SHORT AND BUSINESSLIKE!

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 6

The Dominion. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1935. MAKE IT SHORT AND BUSINESSLIKE!

The session of Parliament will be short, and, it seems, undistinguished. Legislation dealing with national superannuation, health insurance, housing, labour conditions, and the rehabilitation of urban mortgagors is “under consideration”; it is “proposed to consider an extension of useful public works; and the Governor-General’s Speech sketches a short programme of amending Bills. There should be no difficulty in finishing well before the end of October if only members will be as sparing of their eloquence. “Election” session notwithstanding,.there is not the slightest reason why the time of the country should be wasted, and the patience of constituents sorely tried, by a welter of needless talk. The Government will propose and the Opposition will oppose; but when the proposals are modest the opposition need not be other than brief. Point counts much more than discursiveness in political debate, although a listener in the galleries would seldom think so. Is it too much to hope than this session may prove the exception ? 1 hat members will say what they have to say and be done with, vote, and pass on to the next business? Putting the thing on its lowest plane, tedious prolixity loses more votes than it wins.