THE WIDE WORLD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17820, 1 July 1932, Page 4

THE WIDE WORLD

Points of View

Some Newspaper Opinions

IN THE VAN Winnipeg' Tribune: Britain is loading the ivav to economic recovery. This .is simply living true lo her record. Britain is usually in the front van of movements good for humanity at large.

CUT THEM DOWN .Chatham News: Protest against over-government in this country finds sympathy in the press. A few days ago it was announced that the Saskatchewan Legislature would be reduced in size. The move is endorsed in all parts of Canada, where the feeling is strong that nil legislatures and the Federal Government, itself could stand some of the same sort of paring.

IRELAND’S CHOICE Leeds Yorkshire Post: The issues are narrowed down to a single question. Docs the Irish Free State wish to remain within the Empire or not? If the treaty is repudiated by unilateral action, the Imperial connection will rest on no foundation, and the people of the Free State must take the inevitable consequences.

WEST TOUR FOR EMPIRE DELEGATES Ottawa Citizen: It is stated in Ottawa that preliminary arrangements are under way for a tour to the Pacific Coast of the Imperial Conference delegates. The Premier is said to be most anxiou’s that none of them return to their homes without having the opportunity of becoming really acquainted with the Dominion.

FRANCE AND GERMANY J. L. Garvin, in the London Observer: What Europe needs above all is an improvement of the whole moral atmosphere by some signal example, for the first time since the war, of constructive conciliation as between France and Germany. To talk of mechanical disarmament first, without, positive measures to restore trust and goodwill, is like harnessing Pegasus to a donkey-cart on the plea that you have broken the wheels.

BRITAIN’S TRADE Spectator (London): It is a notable achievement for this country to be paying its way, even at a cost to the individual which should not be minimised. But it is idlo to suppose that we can regain prosperity, or retain what measure of it we have,. in a world where conditions are drifting daily from depression to disaster. We live on international trade, and international trade in Europe is rapidly evaporating altogether.

WAR PROFITS Providence Journal: A poor Indian crop and the necessities of war in China and Japan have resulted in demands this year upon the American raw cotton market far in excess of the requirements in that part of the world both last year and two years ago. While one naturally, regrets that'an Oriental war has been the means of affording a much-needed enlarged outlet for our raw cotton, nevertheless the fact is clear that the Far Eastern situation has brought some tangible relief to our economically harassed Southern planters.

DEMOCRACY AND THE PRESS London Daily Telegraph: Dr. Temple, Archbishop of York, has found that in practice our democratic, state often tends to dissuade a man from loving his neighbor or thinking for himself, and be blames tho newspapers, or rather the singular and appalling weakness of Englishmen for reading only papers of their own party. We accept meekly the admonition of His Grace that he thinks it a moral duty to read the other sido as well. But his practice is not based on a very profound study of the relation of newspapers to public opinion. In a good newspaper he would find that advocacy of its own principles is not permitted to exclude the facts which toll against them and tho adequate presentation of the case for the other side.

THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE Trinidad Guardian: An opportunity is about to present itself which may never be ropcatod. Ottawa will be tho great opportunity to put Empire trade on a proper basis and to provide a common standard • and stable mediums of exchange between Dominions, Colonies and the Mother Country. If Great Britain had adopted the policy she is adopting, now, immediately after the war, economic ills might never have attacked us. .Failure to do so has driven the Empire into tho slough of despond. We arc dragging ourselves out of it slowly and painfully. But it would be well to remember a grave word of warning. “If practical results are not achieved it stands a gravo'risk' of being tho last Imperial Conference.” '

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE UNIVERSE Sir Oliver Lorge in the Hibbert Journal: If we are raising stones to form part of a structure, it takes the same amount of work to place them in positions of ugliness as in places where they will add to the beauty of the whole. This is the result of design. Can we not see evidence of similar design in a bird’s feather, an insect’s wing—aye, even in a crystal structure? The design is deep-seated, not obvious as it is in the work of a human artificer. The things as it were make themselves —measures are taken to that end —a still higher feat of architecture; but they positively shout that mind has been ultimately responsible for their organisation

‘ ‘ OURSELVES ALONE ’ ’ London Times: In these troublous times men everywhere are learning, often in bitterness and despondency, that even a nation cannot live to .itself alone. They see world-wide economic and financial crisis: international conferences one after the other convened, adjourned, and reassembled; harassed statesmen flocking together, parting, and arranging to meet again. It has become a commonplace on the lips of the experts that the world’s troubles can only be cured by a world effort; that it is useless to apply anything short of an international shoulder to the mire-bound wheel. It begins to be clear to the most ordinary of intelligences that uncompromising concentration oven on a national self can only result, as for the individual. in damage or ruin to the very self which it was meant to cherish.

QUID PRO QUO Liverpool Evening Express: If Britain decides at some future date to tax foreign meat and give preference to the Empire, then. Britain must demand a quid pro quo in return. There is a suspicion nowadays that the component countries of the Empire are anxious enough that Britain should buy from them, but they have, as yet, not made it abundantly plain that they are anxious to buy British goods on favorable terms. One of the reasons for the National Government’s departure from Free Trade’ tradition was the hope that by making unfair foreign competition in the home market difficult a stimulus would be accorded British production. Unfor-, tunately, no manufacturer can afford to produce without some definite incentive. and if the Ottawa Conference can arrive at a system of definite Empire trading agreements it will materially assist the British manufacturer to look ahead.