Manawatu Daily Times The Diplomacy of Peace

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6850, 4 March 1929, Page 6

Manawatu Daily Times The Diplomacy of Peace

\yiTH flie close of the Coolidge Administration in Washington

to-day, the Secretary of State for the United States, Frank B. Kellogg, will retire from public service and return to his home in St. Paul, to be among old neighbours and friends. He will be welcomed there, and honoured for his accomplishments as a diplomatist and champion of peace and world brotherhood. He will lay down his task with the realisation that the long years of his service to State and nation have been unselfishly and generously given, and that in the lengthening shadows of the afternoon he has been able to render to his own country and to the friendly nations of the world a really valuable service.

To-day, in every country, Mr. Kellogg’s name is identified with the constructive undertaking to outlaw war. He will not be remembered by so many as a member of the United States Senate or as Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, in both of whic.l offices he served with distinction, as by his -ater accomplishment as a diplomatist of peace.

Again it has been proved that opportunities for constructive and acceptable service come to those who are willing and r.-ady to serve. They are not chosen by popular acclaim or prepared by metlnds of secret training in the craft of statesmanship. His training m the school of diplomacy was no more intensive than that received by hundreds of men with whom he associated for years, except during the period of his service as Ambassador in London. But from his experience and observation as lawyer, legislate" and diplomatist, and later as Secretary of State in the Cabinet rf President Coolidge, he gained, apparently, a v.sion of that higher service which he has been able to offer.

Those who emerge thus and champion a conspicuous humanitarian undertaking arc not opportunists, merely. Their insight must probe beneath the superficialities and discern deeper things. The proclamation which is designed to emancipate the world from war must await, it is true, the time for its enunciation, just as that emancipating American slaves toom bondage awaited the hour when it could be received and understood. But each, in its turn, required a leader and champion with the vision to discern the hour and the courage and statesmanship to formulate and defend it.

A youth named Jack Comer, of Okau, 18 years of age, was admitted to the Palmerston North hospital yesterday suffering from the effects of taking corrosive sublimato tablets in mistako for laxative pills. Inquiries at the hospital last evening elicited the information that the inmate was making satisfactory progress. “I think that now Palmerston North has attained the status of a city, wo are entitled to much better swimming facilities than these. I hope by this time next year, we will have better premises and that the proposed tepid baths will be an established fact,’' said Cr. W. L. Fitzherbert, in opening the Manawatu Life-Saving SubCentre's carnival on Saturday evening.

The late Mr. George Parr, a prominent Hamilton resident and a member of the Auckland Harbour board, who died ou Monday last, bequeathed to the borough ins home and three acres of land on the river bank as a convalescent home for child patients from the Waikato hospital. The property is valued at £3OOO.

A new nine-roomed house at Mount Wellington, Auckland, was destroyed by fire at mid-day on Friday. The owner, Mr. C. V. Clare, was having a meal when two explosions were hoard in the locality of an electric switch in a cupboard. Furniture valued at about £IOO was saved. The houso was insured for £2OOO and. the contents for £llOO.