“THINGS IN GENERAL”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 4

“THINGS IN GENERAL”

VICTORIAN PREMIER'S VIEWS The Premier of Victoria spoke to members of the Melbourne Rotary Club last week on “Things in General.” At the outset ho expressed the opinion that tilings would never again be as they were before the war. We all thought the war was going to be a wonderful tiling for democracy, yet to-day there were more dictators than ever before in the history of the world. The depression, although an ugly thing, was not, he considered, an unmixed evil; no doubt it was chastening us, and as a people we would be better because of the trouble we had been through. He then asked for the sympathy of the people in his task of “controlling the ship of State in times like these, when things of the most vital moment were beyond our control and in the hands of people who lived elsewhere.” If we were going to emergie successfully, he continued, wo would have to present a united front; wo should not be quarrelling with one another, but should be closing up the ranks and seeing how we could help each other. Never was there a time more than the present when there was necessity for the qualities of service before self