WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

Evening Star, Issue 14318, 17 March 1910, Page 1

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

DAYLIGHT SAVING. Daylight saring is a matter in which the Government should proceed carefully, for the confusion arising from hasty legislation might ho disastrous.— Christchurch ‘ Press.’ THE CANDID FRIEND. Candor regretfully compels the assertion that as a body of Lahorites we Now Zealanders are in political practice, if not in intelligence, behind our Australian compatriots. We are too parochial; we are too insular in our leanings. We need organising into a concrete body, with our Little Pedliugtou ideas—mainly duo to circumscribed environment—eliminated and broadened so that the general body will strive for the welfare of the whole Dominion, and more often cease quibblings over minor affairs which, as sure as night follows day, must be righted when wo enlarge our outlook and work as suggested.— ‘ Weekly Herald.’ WANTED: LIBERAL EDUCATION. Tho education which begins in the school, continues in the university, and is perfected in the world by travel and experience is surely more fascinating than even the visions of poets or the pictures of the chronicler, besides being more likely to bear the fruits of substantial benefit. What we want is a liberal education, with all the elegancies as well as the prosaic elements, and that the youth shall be taught persistently and consistently that commerce is the great pursuit of life.— Wairarapa ‘ Daily Times.’ THE TIDE OF TRADE. If tho tide of trade rises to an abnormal height of prosperity, we may expect an unusually strong ebb towards depression. The old warning that in time of peace we should prepare for war applies in this case, and if nations aud communities and individuals acted on this sound advice there would be less reason to fear times of trade depression and unemployment, because preparation would have been mado to meet them.—Christchurch ‘ Press.’ THE NEWCASTLE STRIKE. The strike has come to an end, and miners and mine-owners, the State and the whole Commonwealth, are all to bo congratulated on the rest. It has been a cruel and a wasteful business, and on tho part of tho men a w'ofully mismanaged business from first to last. . . . If public opinion had _ sympathised with the strikers, the mischief might have spread further; hut it declared against the men, and thus the one condition that was necessary to their success was lacking. The terrible price which they have had to pay will not have been sheer loss if they have learned that arbitration and not war is the way to settle these troubles, and that a Wages Board or an Arbitration Court is the ideal tribunal, and not a Strike Committee.—Wellington ‘ Post.’ TRADES UNIONS AND DEFENCE . A. fcrr.’g- in p-.ia either Australia or New Zealand would indeed be a disastrous matter for the working class and everyone else. At tho present time Australia and New Zealand may bo termed the paradise of trade unions. If Japan or China, or a combination of both, got possession of them in some cataclysm of war, the trade unions would find themselves thrust outside the wall, with very little opportunity to earn even a living by the sweat of their brows, to say nothing of award wages and statutory holidays. If unionists do not want to fight for their country, they might stretch their intelligence far enough to consider whether it might not be “good enough ” to fight for the continuance of their unions and freedom from foreign control of their on labor market.—Wairarapa ‘Daily News.’