THE WIDE WORLD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18191, 12 September 1933, Page 9

THE WIDE WORLD

Points of View

®om» Nowttpepcn Opinion..

A BIT OFF COLOR Winnipeg Tribune: A telegram notes the observation of an ■astronomer that. Ilie earth is a. blue planet, seen from a distance. It ’s not so rosecolored from a close-up view. GERMANY AND THE JEWS Israel Cohen in The Quarterly Review: There is probably no country in lh" world to the advancement of which the Jews have eontributed so much by their productive and even pioneering services and by lie high slumlord of their intellectual achievement as Germany. NEED NO BLUE BIRD j Ottawa Journal: While no “blue eagle” soars through this land, let us not disregard the fact that here, i as well as across the line, there arc plentiful evidences of bet ferment • • • They are something far different, from the noise of the professional optimists and those other things with which we sought to ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity some two years ago. CONCENTRATE j Toronto Globe: A busy scientist has discovered that the mere counting of sheep is not sufficient to induce sleep. The thing is to concentrate on the individual animal; no doubt noting mental peculiarities as revealed by its method of taking the jumps, its promise in association with mint sauce, and the garment possibilities of its fleece. By this time the second sheep should be approaching. LAUGH AT IMPOSSIBILITIES Montreal Star: This is not a time for government by college -debates. We cannot be talked out of our troubles. A full Hansard will not make a fat Budget. It Ls a time for swift, strong, courageous and popularly supported action. Drastic things | must, im done. Economies must be put I in force that; “polities” will dub, j with a. cynical sneer, impossible. | Daniel Webster once said: “In the j shadow of Bunker Hill nothing is im- J possible. ” In the shadow of national j ruin we can turn to the militant I .spirit of the old hymn, “laugh at im- | possibilities and cry it, shall be | done.” A BOON IN REPTILES Manchester Guardian: To judge bv j an interesting little report just issued 1 by the Imperial Institute Advisory I Committee on Hides and Skins, rep- | tiles should now be reckoned as one 1 of the biggest boons ever offered to 1 ■the leather trade ... In September I of la.st. year over 600,000 skins, mostly from lizards, were shipped from Calcutta alone. All over the East the collection and export of once worthless reptiles are now being organised on a commercial basis—and the question arises, Will the balance of nature be upset, to the detriment, of man? It, might happen iu two ways. Rats might increase as rodent-eating reptiles were diminished; or the leather mediant might ruin their new trade by wiping out the basis of its supply. PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE London Times: It is not. in Mr. Roosevelt, more than in other mortals, to command success, but he richly deserves it. “1 cannot, ” he said, “guarantee the success of this nationwide plan, but the people of the country can guarantee its success” and so saying he makes appeal to the primary virtue of civilised man, his capacity for living and working with other men in faith and loyalty. Failure, he says, would mean “another desperate winter,” and he might, with truth have added that it. would mean the return to Washington of a Congress eager to reassert itself and ready to ordain the extremes), forms of monetary inflation. It is no longer the President, who is on trial, for he has given of his best. It is upon the American people as a whole that the eyes of the outer world will be turned. WORLD RECOVERY AND THE NEW DEAL Toronto Telegram: Because of the much-publicised experimentation going forward in the United States there has been a tendency to accept the view in Canada that the movement, toward business recovery hero is nothing more than a by-product of developments in the neighboring country. Such an impression is almost entirely—and demonstrably—incorrect,. In Canada the first important stirrings of recovery came in March. At a time when all tho banks in tho United States were closed the upward movement had taken quite definite form here. That was before any of the astonishing Roosevelt policies had been enunciated. Commodity prices, security prices and industrial activity all advanced by greater proportions in Canada than in the United States iu the lirst three months of that recovery.. OUT OF THE CHASM.

Vanvouvcr Province: A return to the conditions ot' the past does not offer very much hope for humanity because out of these past conditions grew everything we have been deploring for the past three or four years. Fortunately,we can not return to the, conditions of 19M or 1920 of 1929 or an/other year.' Our faces are toward the future, and if we are crawling out, of the .depression it is on tlic 19355 side that we shall emerge, with political, economic, social and even physical conditions more or less marked and changed by the tires we have endured, We shall not be the same as we were before these tires came upon us. nor will the world be the same. The task ot' reconstruction, once the depression’s rim has 'been, reached, will have to bo taken up with modi(led people and modified materials and under modified conditions. Out of those new factors the new world will have to lie built,. A TIP FOR SPRING. ’When bud a are bursting. Birds are singing. And the warm sun is shining What a dismal contrast To feel fatigued. Not utiusual in spring, however. When winter lias debilitated the system. Now is the time for Marshall’s Fospherine, The mighty nerve tonic, Gives new vigor and vitality. "Marshall’s” is very economical. 100 doses 2/6. All chemists and stores sell " Marshall's,” There’s nothing "just, ah good.”—3

FASCISM IN FRANCE London Daily Mail: It is a sigu of the times that a Fascist movement is beginning to develop in France. She is wearying of the instability inherent in democratic polities, where power is exercised by coalitions of groups. This is a system which in most Continental countries has given too much scope for the careerist and has caused endless confusion. Frenchmen see a-very different, order of authority at work in Italy, and if appeals to many of them. If is virile and economical. It gets tilings done, and does not waste time and energy on ceaseless commissions and committees. ‘CANADA REJOINS THE,EMPIRE’ Chicago Daily News: Canada’s Hot a lion of a £IS,f)(HI,IJIJO loan in the London money market promises to have an important .bearing on the future relations of the United States with its northern neighbor as well ns upon the evolution of the British Umpire. Coming us it does only a few days after Canada, formally joined the sterling bloc, it can be const rued only as a definite attempt on the part, of the Dominion Government to gear Canada's economic life with that oi Great Britain, instead of with that of the United States. THE AMERICAN NAVAL PROGRAMME Baltimore Sun: It is a pour service to American realism, this studied effort to stampede the country into a great naval building programme by minimising the purpose of navies as lighting forces and emphasising, if not exaggerating, their part in industrial recovery. “Recovery’’ of a sort might be presided by expanding the machine-gun industry until every rilu-en. was on a. two-gun basis, but La’the end ive might wish wo had paid the dole instead. ~ 'fliere is still time for the American people to pause in adding up the profits from battleshipbuilding and ask them,'-elves what

they intend to do with the product of this enterprise in recovery. But they will have to hurry. ADVERTISEMENT A GUARANTEE London Daily Telegraph: The development of advertising has been parallel with that of business efficiency,' merited and vision. It engages now the best of brains, talent and taste, realising to the full its function ■as one of the indispensable links between producer and consumer, so that good and consistent advertising is today in itself a, guarantee of quality. The process of cause and effect is simple. If goods advertised and sold are found lo fall sliorl of the promise, they will not he bought again. Only goods that, give satisfaction to the buyer are bought in increasing volume; only such goods can pay lor repeated advertising. THE LONDON SEASON The Sunday Referee: The present London season is surely one of the most brilliant within living memory. Foreign personalities have touched our native elegance with the exotic, and in the drawing-rooms and hotels the ends of tiro earth meet. But even so, English, the world language, predominates. One hears it spoken in polyglot accents at all the large receptions, with an entire lack of selfconsciousness and a volubility which . pay tribute to the warmness ot an English welcome. The praise of England is none the less pleasing because one hears ii sounded so olten in strange idioms. Baring at Ascot, the history of London, Lnglish cookery and social etiquette—praise of all these from our guests is a healthy contrast to our national habit, of seif-depreciatio.il. For the Loudon season in June is a glorious pageant, weather permitting, with its racing, yachting, and cricket, Us mellow social traditions, and the easy restraint, of its men and women. And it L an epitome of our civilisation.

AMERICAN PUBLIC DEBT Providence Journal: It is clear to men conversant; with sound principles of public linance that the Administration must soon tackle this problem ol excessive short-term indebtedness. When nearly two-fifths of a public debt approaching twenty-three billion, dollars is in the form of short-term securities, particularly in ’a.- period when tin' nation is oif the gold standard and the country’s business future is shrouded in the uncertainties of the present Roosevelt economic, ex periiueiM at ion, men who still have faith in what the past has taught them can but regard the present condition of the public, debt with serious misgivings. COST OF DELAY Now 1 York World-Telegram: Perhaps tin- repeal organisations are accurate in their forecast- that all ot the -tO or II States voting in 1033 ; will ratify the repeal amendment j With Tennessee the score was 10 to Li a nd by yesterday’s vote Oregon made it 20 to 0. And what are the ' dry induing about it. A few have admitted defeat, but most of them courinuo- their old obstructionist, tactics, cooking through political evasion and legal technicalities to prevent action bv Stales on the amendment and thus delay the inevitable. If they succeed in postponing iiual rutilieution beyond Uhrist mas—-which now seems most improbable—they will perpetuate the increasing chaos of non-enforcement and will burden the country for another year with the 220.000.000 dollars of special taxes wdiielt would bt lifted by repeal.

ATTEMPTING A MIRACLE i Evening News: President Roosci volt it is stated, has determined to cleanse the United States of its gunmen and gangsters. If it can be done lie will do it. It is a great tribute to his personality that the American people ure already looking to him to perform the miracle, Mo call it Ja miracle because to destroy the American gamester, as opposed to merely driving him underground for a spelt, calls for nothing short of a comprehensive remodelling of tV American - police and judicial systems.. To take these mil of polities means fundffmentallv changing the constitution of every State in the Union.SUBSIDISING IRELAND Daily Telegraph: The figures giv en bv' Mr. Douglas Hacking in the House of Commons should be ominous for ' the future of the Irish sweepstakes, (treat Britain has sent over I,OOIV 1100 to the Irish Free State and has received back a little more than £ll,0(10,000. As an investment that, is about ns unprofitable a.s anything mmhl be. Nor can it be contended that Great Britain has been unlucky. She has obtained her fair proportion of want, the sweep promoters pay out. The remainder is absorbed in one way !or another in Ireland. When, the public has grasped the fad that from the moment it buys a ticket praeaoullv one-half of what it pay s ;,rs irretrievably gone to a country whosT Government is a defaulter the consideration of self-interest may cause to dwindle further the diminishing revenues of the Irish Sweepstake promoters. «.