NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 November 1924, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

TO THINK AND TO LIVE. ay CABLE— PIiJSSS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGUT AVASHINGTON, Nov. 14. In proclaiming November 17. to 24 as the African education week, President Calvin Coolidge described education as America’s noblest contribution to civilisation. He said a broad liberal culture was necessary to enable men to think and to know how to live. An educated fool was a sorry spectacle, but was not nearly so dangerous as a rich fool. ‘ ‘AVe want neither in this country,” said the President. “We want the educated to know how to work; and the rich to know how to think.” FRENCH POLITICS. PARIS, Nov. 15. The Government secured a narrow majority of 161 votes to 135 in the Senate providing for the reinstatement of railwaymer dismissed after the strike of 1920. The Opposition insisted that reinstatement must be optional, since the Government lacked legal power to compel private companies to reinstate men. The Premier (M. Her riot) demanded unqualified reinstatement, leaving the Government free to secure the best arrangement in negotiations with the companies. The fate of this section of the Amnesty Bill was regarded as critical from the Government viewpoint. RACEHORSES TRAPPED IN FIRE. SA 7 DNEY, Nov. 16. Trainer Booth’s stables at Rosehill were destroyed by fire and six racehorses were entrapped and had a narrow escape. Stableboys released the maddened animals, some being scorched, but none seriously injured. A large number of horses in adjoining stabies were also turned into the paddocks, and it was difficult work afterwards securing the frightened beasts.