The Guardian. TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1928. NOTES AND COMMENTS

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3231, 26 June 1928, Page 4

The Guardian.

TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1928. NOTES AND COMMENTS

Printed at-Leeston, Canterbury, New Zealand, on Tuesday and Friday afternoons.

COMPETITION IN BUSINESS.

"Because the modern 'business man* lives in a roomy house, and works in a comfortable 'office,' it is inferred that he has no burden to bear and no struggle to wage. But if the democracy were only as fair as it is clamorous, one word would suffice to dispel all envious vision," says Dr. Frank Ballard, in a survey of twentieth century Christianity. "The 'working man' who rightly or wrongly grumbles at his 'wage' does not know what the word 'competition' means. But his employer docs. He knows all too well that transactions involving thousands of pounds may ;just turn upon the question whether he can 'cut out' some rival through a fraction of a penny difference in price. And if he cannot, whence are to come the wages for his

employees? If the miner, or the artisan, did but study carefully the financial sheet in any of our great dailies, and think what it really means in constant worry, he might learn more charity and -patience. The point here

is that this element in the modern environment is constituting one of the real hindrances to the Christian ideal."