The Evening Star. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1919.

Evening Star, Issue 17149, 16 September 1919, Page 4

The Evening Star. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1919.

Thb Otago University Council yesterday afternoon, without disA Superfluous cnesiou, resolved —"That Honorarium. t.'K Government be asked to introduce legislation fli.pmvcrmi: the council to pay an henorlrittm to the Chancellor, and tJiat the governing bodies of other •university colleges be approached with a view- to securing their co-operation." The motion, which had been informally approved by the council last month, was fiibmitted yesterday by the Vice-Chancel-lor. Mr John r.rb«t,=. CM.G., after the Chancellor had retired, and only one member iMr T. K. S-idayl dissented from it. '• I have spoken before on this subject," h9 said, "and .1 n«ed not detail my reasons." Quite ao. The reasons are. Ob vioua. As a member of a Parliament that haa on several occasioiis loniidered all the argument* tor and aguiuit a similar movement, and has always checked it, Mr Sidey probably knew that- the council's decision will not alter the settled opinion of the Legislature, on the. subject. In some respects it would be a pity if that opiaioa were to .be altered &e a result of

co-operatiwj action and pressure by tne governing councils of the New Zealand University. ■ .

It may be contended that, on the general and very just prineiplie that even tho laborer is worthy of his hire, the chancellor of a universetv is entitled to an honorarium to oover at, least all the. expenses ho may incur in the course of excellent service to tho State. That is indisputable in the common hurly-burly of administrative service; but there are some institutions and some services that should be kept out of the too prevalent scramble for rewards. The position of chancellor of a university is one. As was so lucidly 'explained on another occasion by Mr J. 0. Stephens, it would be contrary to principle to appoint a salaried official without advertising the position!. We should be sorry to see an advertisement having for its object th'o appointment of the best qualified person to discharge the duties of chancellor of a university. Wo say that quite bluntly, without any intention atsllof wounding the feelings of the very .earnest men who at the moment lender .splendid service to the Dominion as the administrative heads of our universities. And we at once and very definitely place outside the prevalent scramble for rewards, and even the pos-' sibility of ever scrambling for rewards, such men as the present Chancellor of the Otago University. But we may not always be so fortunate in the personnel of university administration. Indeed, one of tho most valid reasons against introducing any form of payment of an honorarium to tho Chancellor is the fact that the Dominion has had men of the type of Dr Cameron, whoso service has been given freely and thoroughly, and to admirable effect and abiding influence, as the labor of the scholar's love of national progress in the graces as well a® the utilities of the life of a- community in tho making. Past experience in connection with other institutions: has shown that the payment of an honorarium to the chief administrator in an honorary capacity has encouraged a scramble for reward. Tt is unnecessary to note and locate the occasions; everyone knows of them, and deplores tho results. Let us, in a few of the best things wo liavc. continue to enjoy tho splendid results of loyal, thorough, voluntary service, such as Otago has almost always enjoyed from her University Chancellors. It 'is to be hoped that Parliament will recognise, and act upon clear recognition, that the Otago University Council's decision yesterday was only th« out.-ome of an intense and fully-earned admiration of the Chancellor's work for the best and highest interests o f tie State.

Thf cables cdviso that a new publication, entitled ' The Mr Lloyd George's Future,'was pubMessage, lished and eircu-

la ted broadcast throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom by authority of tho GoI yernment. 'Hie dominant feature of the i initial number is a message to the nation i from the Prime Minister, which, judging i from the too brief summary that has : reached us, is worthy of the ruaa and in harmony with the thought of the hour. Mr IJqyd George, perhaps more than most others of his contemporaries in the domain of statesmanship, has so ri-rmly and fearlessly established his reputation as an accurate forecaster of those, coming events which cast their shadows before that it would be unnecessary and superfluous to question now and here the probability cf the general accuracy of his reading of the signs of the times. His latest message, thovurh cast in fresh form, is not new in essence; it is largely a reiteration of several that have preceded it. Like the more recent of these, it is emphasised \ and underlined by tho well-nigh universal cry for light, guidance, safety, and peace. For the world needs peace. "Millions of gallant young men," says the Prime Minister, "fought for the new world, and hundreds of thousands died' to establish it." Wo have not established it so far. This, however, does not constitute the gravamen of his charge. Mr Lloyd George is well aware that the 10 months which have elapsed since the signing of the armistice hardly constitute a breathing-space, much less sufficient time to remake the world.

Tho Prime Minister's charge would rather seem to be that what is lacking among those of us who are left is the spirit and determination that are imperative to make of the old world a new and infinitely better one. As far as the great majority were concerned, no words that can be said l about the old world can be too hard fvr it. "It was a world of toil, squalor, penury, wretchedness; of slums, sweating, misery, and nameless horrors," where

City children soak and blacken soul and

sense in cifcv slime. There among tlie glooming alleys Progress halts on palsied feet, Crima find hunger cart our maidens by the thousand; on tho street j There the master scrimps his haggard sempstress of her daily bread ; There a sordid attic holds the living 1 arid tho dead; Thero the smouldering fire of fever creeps across the rotted racer And the, crowded couch of horror in the wajTens of the poor. It was 33 years ago that Tennyson wrote the above lines. But, if Mr Lloyd George's witness be time, the present day has not the right to call "shame" upon its predecessor. ' - Is it to maintain a world where such things are not only possible, but inevitable, that our young men have died in their millions'''' cries Mr IJoyd George. The hops of every sincere soul responds fervently to his aspiration. Tt was at the close, iit one sense, of an even more cruel and heartbreaking war than the one from which, we have hub barely emerged that a m-a.ii of th-o people—Walt Whitman—looking into the future, wrote : What whispers are these, O' lands, running .ahead of you, pas-sing under the seas? Are all nations comjgaencing? Is there going to be but cne heart to the

globe? Is humanity forming en masse?—for, lo! tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim ; Tlio earth, .restive, confronts a new era.

The perform'-d America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me; The ufiperforrn'd, more gigantic than ever, advance, advance upon me. Our faith i= that to poet and statesman alike more has been revealed than, is to be found in tho philosophy of ordinary mortals, and that out of our present martyrdom we shall ultimately attain to a firm and sure peace.

Mr* Paiilin's forecast: —S.E. to S.W. winds, with he#vy eloctric&l rain showers.

Oago's demands for coal are still largely met, by the supply of good soft coals from our own pits. Even with the reduced output the people can always get •coal of one.sort or another, though they may sometimes have to -wait a day or two to 'be supplied with the particular kind they prefer. As to hard coal, the supply i« verv keenly restricted, but so far none of our industries has tod to stop for want of coal. The arrangements by the Coal Committee seem to be wise, arid to bo accepted as such by those immediately concerned.

Through the recommendation of Lieu-tenant-colonel Marshall Macdonald and Major Stout, who have been superintending the collecting of material for the medical department of the war museum, the whole medical portion of this museum will be housed in the Otago Medical School under the care of Professor Dionnan. In announcing this- to tho University Council yesterday, Dr Macdonald wrote that some valuable exhibits had been obtained, including some SCO X-ray plates, samples of splints and surgical apparatus, plaster casts of deformities, and some 50 excellent water color drawings of gunshot wounds (by Mrs Lowe, wife of Captain Lowe, N.Z.M.C.). In addition (the doctor intimated) Professor Keith (curator of the Royal College of Surgeons Museum) had kindly granted 200 pathological specimens, mostly English war, but also including some specimens of general pathological interest. The council expressed great appreciation of Dr Maeclonald's service in securing the collections for Danedin.

The steamer Rosamond has brought: to Dunodin a consignment of Fiji bananas that will be very much welcomed by the trade. Portion of the consignment was carried in the hold, to ensure against deterioration by weather changes.

Some remarks on the Northern Union League game were made by Mr F. H. Campbell at a social reunion of members of tho Otago Rugby Union last evening. Mr Campbell said he had witnessed a League game at Christchurch recently, and was of opinion that it could only be played as a professional game. It was not a game suitable for amateurs, and there were some points in tho game which he thought absurd. The Otago Rugby Union were to be complimented upon the -fact that Dunedin was the only large centre where the League game had not obtained a footing. He thought it was a great pity it had ever come to New Zealand. However, he did not think Rugby had anything to fear from it; and. so long as unfair play was kept down in Rugby, they would have the public with them. Ho was of opinion that Rugby would yet be of a higher standard than in years gone by. Our Christchurch correspondent telegraphs: At a meeting of the Council of Churches last night the Rev. J. J. North made an impassioned outburst against the increase of gambling, and strongly condemned those responsible for sanctioning the extra trotting meeting during Lord Jollicoe's visit. Another speaker, referring to Lord Jellicoo's trotting meeting, said that according to the reports if was not onlv a Judge of the Supreme Court who was present, but also a prominent Nonconformist churchman and ex-Mayor of Christchurch, whose action he characterised as disgraceful. The following motion was carried:—"That, we communicate -with kindred bodies m tha centres urging (1) organisation of stern resistance >"n aiiv attempt, to enlarge the gambling facilities by increasing the number of totalisator permits; (2) hostility to telegraphic betting on tho totalisator and also double betting retrograde proposals tluu would greatly increase the amount, of totalisator gambling ; (3) support to evcry movement for tho elimination ot bookmakers." . . The now drill hall and gymnasium, in the university grounds is to be called the " Maheno and Marama " Hall, and itwas announced at the meeting of i ho Umversitv Council veslerday that tho GovernorGeneral would bo here on October 1 to l.iv the foundation stone. » The council hope to have the building completed by duly 3 next year. A largelv-attended meeting of North arid East Taieri landowners and occupiers was held in Mosgiel yesterday afternoon, when the question of the proposed Bill re drainage of the Taieri Plain was discussed, and it was decided to canvass the districts named to obtain signatures to a petition in opposition to tho proposals contained in the Bill, which were imanimouslv condemned. Tt is understood tha* a canvas? of Outram is already being made with the same object in view. "One could never forget the dramatic entrv of the German delegates to the historic coremonv of the signing ot the t eace Treaty in the"glittering Gallery of Mirroi* at Versailles," declared Mr E. Riley, ill the course of a vivid and entertaining lecture at St. Clair last night on the 'Peace Conference Celebrities. 1 Had , often seen," he said, "men jaundiced c j bodv. but this was the first time 1 saw j men jaundiced of soul. They realised the bitterness of their task. 1 hey knew tha, the 150 delegates would in signing tho Treatv of Victory achieve an 'immortality of fame." while they themselves, as too;« of a, conquered empire, would in signing the Treatv of Defeat gain an ' immortality of infamy.' But they signed; with a tremendous effort at resisting the tide of emotion that so obviously threatened to enrridf them, thtv signed clearly and firmly the 'fateful'document-* great volume in Japanese vellum with a rubric. Ot all the vast concourse that tilled famous places wide avenues, ample parks, and verdantterrace-, that memorable sunny afternoon onlv two men were miserable—Dr Mueller and Dr Bell." Our Christchurch correspondent wired last eyenins? :—lt appears that many of the EHeug.a's draft for Otago and Southland were shut off from the Monowai at Wellington on Saturday night, owing to lack o* accommodation. Even the local officials expected tho full South Island draft to come down, and no word was received of anv change in the original arrangements. The consequence was thatowing to lack of foresight, or sheer carelessness, at Defence Headquarters, scores of people spent a miserable .Sunday round the railway stations while those for whom thev waited were still in tho grip of " red tape " at Wellington. A particularly trying experience was the lot of one. young woman. She left Dunedin at short notice to meet her husband at Lyttelton after a three Years' absence. Following two tryin,"- days in the train, she went down to ciiristchurch Station at 9 a.m. on SaUirdav and waited there in tho heat till 6 p.m.. onlv to fiud that her dreary wait had been' in vain. Tho balance of the draft will come south to-night.

Complaints are feeing ma-do m the south regarding the 'luck of shipping • facilities afforded to Invcrcarg-ill. A gentleman connected v,-.ith the import trade on a large scale in funned a 'Southland Times' representative that the people in the district were indirectly losing quite a considerable amount- of money as the result of the shipping curtailment. At 12.24 "p.m. yesterday the City Fire Brigade received "a call from the Union Steam .Ship Company in Water street. On arrival it was found a false alarm had been registered. - The Taratu Coal Company,_whose mines are within two miles of Kaitangata, are making preliminary arrangements for opening a third mine on their property by laying a branch line from their railway. It is hoped to have this third mine opened up in time to reinforce the supply to the public next winter. l'here was a very large atendance this morning afc the Y.W.O. Association's rooms, when the question of proceeding with the new kindergarten at, the North end was discussed. Tho president (Mrs R. Gilkiscn) was in the chair. It was unanimously agreed to accept the tender (£2.044) of Mr .J. L. Lawrence. The. building, -which -was designed by Mr H. Mandeno, and a full description of which has already appeared in our columns, will tako over five months to erect. It was loft to the executive to make an effective. and thorough appeal for the a-dditional funds required to complete the school, the laying of the foundation stone of which will mark the inauguration of th& equipment campaign, which (judging by the enthusiastic 'one that prevailed this morning) will he vigorously prosecuted from start to finish. . • -,

The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr W. H. Hassgar) heard the clothing trade dispute here to-day. He goes to Invercargill to-morrow to take tho cheese and butter factories and the sawniiliars' disputes; returns to Dunedin on the 32nd inst. for the biscuit and confectionery workers' dispute, and then goes through to 'Christchurch, returning here again for the journalists' dispute on October 1. The City Corporation have asked the assistance of the police in enforcing by-law No. 27, in reference to placing ladders on footpaths and against buildßngs for tho puiposo of carrying out renovationa. The point is that a permit is necessary before this can bo done.

Throe boys were charged in the Juvenile Court this "morning with stealing a bicyclevalued at £5, the property of John Henry Allen. Two pleaded guilty, and the third. (represented by Mr Irwin) not guilty. The serior sergeant said that the lads were mates. One of the boys who had pleaded guilty took the bicycle from a p-Daco where he had previously boarded. Another offered the machine for sale to a dealer, while the third lad waited outside. Tho dealer became suspicious, and informed the police. ■ After a "lengthy hearing the charge against Mi- Irwin 3 client was dismissed. Of the other two, one was admonished and discharged, with the recommendation that ho receive a thrashing; and the other was convicted and ordered to come iip for sentence if called on. _He was further ordered to receive a thrashing. John Bennetts, greaser on the s.s. Kirmara., was brought before Messrs 1). A. Do Mans and A. Cable, J.P.s, at Port Chalmers this morning, and charged with wilfully disobeying a 'lawful command. He was convicted" and fined 20s with costs A few weeks age a branch of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers' Association was formed at Portobella. Activities are to commence with a ball to be held in the Coronation Hall on Friday night. It is hoped that many returned soldiers from town will make "the journey to assist the committee in their initial effort.

In this issue there appears a tabulated list of the reductions in the output of coal from New Zealand mines. Some ma-y wonder why Kaitangata is omitted. That is by accident. The output at Kaitangata is reduced. Other mines not named in the list are Christie's and Waronui. The reason of their omission is that the miners at those places are not going slow. We mentioned previously that, tho Waronui men were working at the average, and now we can add that Christie's men are doing tho same. So far as we can learn, affairs at the mines that are going slow are. much as they were a week ago. but not in the least worse. Incidentally we may state on authority that the average wage of the New Zealand coal miners is 23s and some pence per day.

The City Hotel is quite the foremost in the Dominion. Hiprh-olase accommodation, and the new bar is par excellent. Plenty of room, and the suiroundmg-s are quite ar-t-isitio.—[Advt,] A rededication service will be held tonight at Knox Church, at, 7.4-5.

The Dunedin Operatic and Musical Socletjannounce that the fust, rehearsal of 'The Country Girl' will be held in Club House, .Moray place, to-morrow evening-.

Top of the list for quality, flavor, purity, and mellowness—Watson's No. 10 Whisfcv.— [Advt.] Stopped Again! This wretched old Ticker is always "Going Crook." Samuel C. Rusbatch —hVll put it Right. Rusbatcb. ond 00., Watch Repair Experts, 118 George street.— [Advt.]

A public meeting of St. Kilda residents is to bs held in the Coronation Hall next Tuesday to protest against the 'Government's attitude -regarding the srofion of the St. Kilda and St. Clair beaches.

Goods made at -the Dunedin Hospital and the ITontecillo Home by wounded soldiers are on view and for sale at Mr Edward Cameron's store, 184 G&orgo street. "No Rubbing" Laundry Help, like all other manufactures of outstanding merit, h-<i3 lots of imitators: coatequently. it becomes necessary to warn housewives' to be carofu'i. when buying, to mako sura of getling- the original and genuiue, "No Rubbing-," sold at la packet- by 'all grocers. Manufactured only by the "Household Nee-cecity " Co., Ltd., Auckland.—[Advt.]

Watson's No. 10 is a little dearer than most whiskie-3, but is worth tho money.— [Advt.] A musical recital, which has been organised by Mr Cecil Hutton, will be given in St. Mary's Church, Morning ton, to-morrow evening. The programme is a very attractive and will include organ solos by Mr Paget Gale and vocal solos by Mxs I/awson Broad, Miss B. Pridbam, Miss Bachelor, Mr T. W. "Bobbie, and Mr A. Ma-itland. Anybody whose capital is closely invested, but who desires to subscribe to the War Loan, should note the Government Insurance Department's advertisement in thisi issue. Fuller particulars may be obtained on application to the branoh office, Dunedin, or to any of the department's travelling agents.

The popular Grand Hotel now ranks with the best in Australasia; easily foremost in Dunedin; where the best people assemble.— [Advt.]