PUBLIC OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1932, Page 6

PUBLIC OPINION

BRITAIN’S PEACE INVESTMENT.

“The British contribution to the League of Nations tins been increased this year by £52,000. Foreign Office travelling expenses have increased by £12,000,” says the “Daily Herald” (Liondon). “There will presumably be the usual howl of protest from the anti-League Press. Their public will bo told once more that the taxpayei s money is being squandered on perilous adventures in Geneva. The fact is, of course, that this sum of £64,000 represents the cost of our participation in the Disarmament Conference. On disarmament, £64.000 a year; on armaments, £100,000,000 every year. Sixty-four thousand pounds spent in an endeavour to get- some reduction oi that annual burden is astonishingly good business. 4‘ OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST. “Qualities which go to ii'J-kc the best salesmen were sympathy, friendliness, geniality. It is said flint 'You want an optimist to sell your goods, and a pessimist to keep your books.’ Some people say a good salesman is born, not made. That may be true ot a limited number of geniuses, but the liumhei is not enough to go round, and there should be ample scope for educationists in (raining tlio average man or woman who falls short of genius.’’-Mi-ll, Ramsbofham, M.P.. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of I 1 ducal ion.