NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 February 1921, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Prime Minister of England lately delivered, a speech which ought to have made all people think. The great war -cost the world £40,000,000,000; £15,----"000,000,000 of destruction; 10,000,000 ■of young lives; and made an equal number of cripples. W^at is needed to remedy the ravages of war and bring about- a recovery in the economic conditions of the nations is: (1) Peace, hi the fullest acceptation of the form-— international, social, economic; (2) public economy in so far as that may be compatible with national security and -national efficiency; (3) private economy. There has been an orgy of expenditure in every country in Europe, and in ■America. That must be stopped. Sir Robert Home says hard work is not the -fate of the slave, but the privilege of '■humanity. How true, yet how few m terrible days of ca' canny believe "these words. If everybody in this country would work his and her hardest we '-could get over our difficulties. They will never be got over, e,g. ? hy .passing housing legislation if men who are willto work in building houses are not allowed to do so. /