WIDE WORLD NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14820, 20 October 1920, Page 8

WIDE WORLD NEWS.

Sir Jolin Bethel]. MP. for Eaat Ham, has devised a scheme for the benefit of orphans of soldiers and sailors killed in the war; and it h&s aroused much interest. There ate ill East Ham about 700 war orphans, and Sir John is endeavoring to ensure employment for these when they leave school. With this in view, fie has- arranged for the East Ham branch of the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilised Soldiers and Sailors to ajv point. a Child Welfare Cbmmitteej and he-is paying the secretary of the committee to devote most of his time to the work. Members will keep in touch with "the children, and those who make substantial progress at school will be assisted, to further study.

tlf ever Sir Thomas Lipton wins that elusive America. Cup. one of the rirsb j things ho will do with the famous trophy will be to take it to Sing Sing, the State prison on the- banks of the Hudsoil River, 30 miles from New York City, and show it to the inmates there. He* promised them this fa.vor when he visited the penitentiary as the guest of Mr Leon Weinstock. vice-president, of the State Prison Commission, and the convicts capped the climax of a rousinrr reception by presenting to him a hand-painted testimonial. It was inscribed:—"To a good loser, Sir Thomas j Lipton, from some good of tne Mutual Welfare League of Sing Sing.

Under the heading "Telescopic Statues" a writer in the London Daily Chronicle says:—The proposal to remove the statue of the Duke of iork from its pedestal. 124 feet above the ground in Carlton Gardens, and substitute for it one of Lord Kitchener, is scarcely one about which the> Ttiau in the street will enthuse. There .nay be something to be said for thus elevating; our famous men above the earth, hnt the average person would prefer them to be more accessible to ordinary naked-eve vision. Perched on the iop of a 124 ft column, it hardly matters what the sculptor's conception may be, or how lie- carries it out, for only those who examine it with a telescope can appreciate or criticise it. Let the Duse, who has no important- place in history, stay among the clouds. And let us have a stone representation of Lord Kitchener which can be seen without optical assistance or a crick nv tr<e neck. '

Not long ago a South Londoner tabulated a list of the hundred and one uses to which old newspapers might be put. Many of them were his own devices. Worked up into an article the information was forwarded to a t r; m (> iournal. Weeks passed, and at last the writer complained to a friend who knew the editor that his contribution had not appeared. The' friend made inquiries, and learned that the journal had received a communication, which by a word in the title might be assumed to relate to paper. ''But.' said the editor, "as we could neither read a word of the article nor decipher the we put the paper to one ot its oldest and best-known uses—lining the waste paper basket. * * * *

Savs a London journalßromley, in Kent is greatlv interested ill the Dominions' Trade Tour Exhibition, ior Mrs Pamflett, who is travelling with it, started there three years ago a sma.l factory for the manufacture oi auBritisii dolls. She Invented a doll s head which is practically unbreakable sipd. giving up her school 111 the middle of the war, made preparations tor seizing a trade of which Germany enjoyed almost a monopoly up to 1914. it toe exhibition should, as, is hoped, result in h,pre orders for Britislvmade dolls, the small factory in Bromley may become a hi- one. ' For that consummation, devoutlv to be wished, thanks wiU be due to the skill and energy ot an enterprising

The Petroleum Times. London, w a. recent issue, says: In spite ot all tlie pessimism we hear as to the inability ot the oil-producing fields ot the I lilted' States to even meet- her own requirements in oil. it can be asserted with safety that the produciton of crude oil in America has now reached hgures which far surpass all previous records, and if onlv the same success continues to attend oilfield operations as that which has characterised them during the first half of the present year, teetotal crude oil production of the States for 1920 will, exceed 4f10,n00.000 barrels, or approximately 60.000.0U0 tons. . . We have reason to believe that numerous new areas of production will in the not distant, future be opened in the States, and the present widespread "wild-catting" in search of new prcduction justifies our expressing thfr ■opinion that the results will be particularly satisfactory. Largo as Aiuerica's oil output has been in the past, there is not the slightest doubt that, bv a continuance of fho present activity. a large gain, will bo registered, not merely for the present year, but for a. lon< r time to come. As in the past, the United States is showing its capability to "deliver the goods. ' * * * *

The demand bv the working man in manv parts of Great Britain for tho best' In nib and mutton is sucli that itmay bo left to the so-called "middle classes" to consume the vast Government stores of New Zealand nnitton. British Government mutton is srui glutting the New Zealand cold stores and New Zealand farmers are tilled with gloomy forebodings regarding the prices they will obtain for their mutton in the immediate future. "Tt is estimated that the great stocks ot British Government mutton in New Zealand will not be cleared for another twelve months." said a large London meat importer.' "This is practically all H)l9 mutton, killed during the first six months of last year. I understand that arrangements are to bo made so thateach steamer coming to t-liis country from New Zealand will have to bring both new and old mutton in specified proportions." # .

Dealing with the anthropological section at the recent meeting of British Association. Professor Carl Pearson, of University College, London, said that the whole period of the war produced the most difficult problems m folk-psycliology. There were occasions innumerable when thousands ot and heavy expenditure of money might have been saved by a- greater knowledge of what creates and what damps folk-movements in the various races ot . the- world. "Egypt. India, Ireland, even our present relations "vvith Italy and America. sln>\v only too painfully how difficult 'we find it to appreciate the psychology of other nations.' said Professor Pearson. "The Governmentsof Europe have had military and financial advisers, but there have been no liighly-trained anthropologists at their command. You have- only to study thft peace of Versailles to nee that it is eth-nologic-ally unsound and cannot be permanent. It is no good asking why. Our well-meaning rulers did not consult our well-meaning anthropologists. I will not- go so far as to say that it _t*ie science iu all European countries, had then had its due authority recognised, there would have been no war: but T venture to say the. war would have been of a. different character, and we should not have felt that the i ate oF : every European society and of European culture hangs in the balance, as at this, moment it certainly does."