WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

Evening Star, Issue 14519, 20 March 1911, Page 1

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

To the principle of an Advisory Council the country is no doubt clearly pledged, but we hold that neither Sir Joseph Ward nor anyone else has a right to modify and enlarge that scheme in the way now proposed without the country's being first consulted through its elected representatives —Marlborough ' Express.' * •>:• * Prison reform and the "scientific" treatment of the criminal are very liable to aggravate the disease where the "' reformer" loses his touch with fi'.tts and allows himself to be moved by a vicious sentimentalism.—The 'Dominion.' * * # The loyalty of the school children of. New Zealand'will be best stimulated by the general training they receive, not by the tree distribution of more or less trumpery picces of metal on the fortunately rare occasion of a Coronation. We regard the £7OO or so which the Government propose to spend on this purpose as entirely thrown away.—Christchurch ' Press.' * * * We want our manhood to defend hearth and home if occasion arises; but a military caste we will not-tolerate in theso sunny, peaceful lands, where the pursuit of p?ac? invite men to live useful, happy, and progressive lives.—Daanevirke 'Advocate.' * * * We shall neve;- get the City Beautiful by merely talking about what a line thi.ig itwould be, but by setting to work in a practical way to 'make it so.—' New Zealand Times.' * *- * Our Premier does well to insist upon the desire of the seli-governing colonies to control their own affairs, while participating in the general scheme of Impelia.l defence and co-operating closely with the Motherland.—Auckland ' Star.' * -K -i. There arc* the days wh?:i the children not only teach their gran.lmoihr:? to stick eggs, but also how t-:. make timciettes. It is therefore not surpri.-.in.;. nuw that infantile wisdom has icached such an altitude, that the State, the Frankenstein monster of our modern civilisation, should calmly hold census paper examinations in it-' schools, for the purpooe of educating the children, in order that they can teach their foolish parents how to till up the census papers lor 1911!-' Bruce Herald.* * * * One of the greatest evils of the political sy.-'em in New Zealand is the method of allocating public works expenditure, which is more and moro dcgiading politiis into a gigantic game of gran.—'limaru Herald.' * # * Australia is compelled by .-ties,-, of circumstances and inclined by national spirit to adopt, if not. Admiral Henderson's scheme in (oto, a vigorous policy oi de fence, coastal and internal. The Asiatic menace is regarded as very real by Australians, just as the German menace is by Britons, and perhaps with even greater juM-ilica.tiou. efnee the antipathies are mure pioi.ounced.—Wellington ' Tunes.' * * * The. administration of a service involving incidentally the contiol of nearly 13,001) individuals is certain to cause, heartburnings and jeidousios, but -.ve have convincing evidence of the popularity of railway work .vi far as New Zealand is in the keen competition that prevails to get into tho service when any vacancy occurs.— 'Southland News.'