THE WIDE WORLD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18500, 12 September 1934, Page 9

THE WIDE WORLD

Points of View

Somo Newspaper Opinions.

FOOD IN GERMANY

London Observer; The Nazi Government is suffering the penalties that inevitably fail upon those who substitute political for economic motives in ecflpomic life. A serious food short the German people, and caiuseMliisgiving to their despots. It began with a potato famine and potato rationing, duo palpably to the restriction of imports; and p'otatoes are tin even bigger element in German food than in that of most countries. Food and revolution are notoriously relnted.

OLD ARGENTINE CUSTOM

London Daily Express: Every lime an Argentine grain ship unloads. Argentina Is breaking her word. By the Loiultfn wheat ‘agreement, which tho Argentinos signed, their export quota for the cereal year ending July ill is 28,000,000 tons. They exceeded that quota on June 7. You can chalk up four broken pledges right away. Four Argentine ships, arc *in London docks po.w ,with close on 500,000 cw-ts: of .Argentine wheat aboard. Tho Argentinos break their wheat pact with 'us without asking anybody’s leave. But when we ask them to modify their meat pact with us, the answer is “Nothing Doing.”

“SEE THE SON OF GRIEF AT

CRICKET”

London Sunday Referee: Tho great world outside the English-speaking peoplo know it not. For them there is no respito such as cricket brings from a world of trouble; no long days of abandonment in the sun to Ihc changing fortunes of bat and ball; no sweet music of willow and leather. For ourselves, wo welcome the change from linrthou to Bradman, from Stalin to Sutcliffe, front Hitler to Hammond. Tho game of cricket is certainly more English than the game which is played at Geneva—more English, and in the long run, perhaps, of more value to the English people.

THE NATIONAL FRONT

Truth (London): The cause of National Government has been materially strengthened by the publication of a manifesto signed by over 100 (Jonsorvativo M.P.’s who deplore the idea of a return to party. The signatories aro representative of all typos of member and all types of constituency—but it is worth noticing .that" young men holding industrial seats figure very largely among them. Those aro the men whose merit it is to have won something for their cause againsi great difficulties and sometimes over terrific odds. They won on the National appeal, and they know that their gains can only bo held in tho cause that won them.

BRITISH DIPLOMACY

Le Soleil. Quebec: British diplomacy has forced tho Germans to climb down. A week ago Germany maintained still that she would carry out. a moratorium on outside debts, and that reprisals by Great Britain would not affect her, since she would , use other reprisals in return. Later it was officially communicated that Gorman aud British delegates had agreed on the question and that the service of interest on the Dawes and Young loans would be assured to British lenders. The Third Reich, in spite of its air of independence and its boasting, could not. hold its own ngninst British diplomacy. HAIL TIHJ HORMONE!

Hamilton Spectator (.Canada): After insulin the anti-hormone! Once again a Canadian scientist has made a great discovery. Insulin relieved whore it did not cure diabetes; the anti-hormone may paint the way to the more effective cure of diabetes, goitre, Grave’s disease and other illnesses caused by the malfunctioning of the glands. . . . Hormones carry on what Sir Arthur Keith calls the postal service of the body. The nerves are the body’s telegraph; they send messages to and from the brain to every part of the body. The hormones carry little packets from the glands along the blood stream to wherever they are needed. Like good postal servants they make no mistakes. The right package is always delivered at tho right place.

THE COST OF SICKNESS

J. H. Chamberlin in the Review of Reviews (New York): Some 25 or 30 different experiments arc being carried on in different parts of the country in an effort to-reduce the. high cost of getting sick. Indeed, some can hardly be called experiments, having been in successful operation for many years. There is an undoubted tend ency to-day toward collective action on 'the part of doctors and patients. Doctors may get together to reduce overhead and provide more comprehensive service. Most are associated already with hospitals or other groups. Tho consumers themselves may organise, or' there may ,bo combinations of both. Tho main idea is group action. What is causing all the stir in the profession is the question, Who is going to be boss, doctor or patient/? What is most obvious is that both will have to work together.

SUBSIDIES IN BRITAIN

London Times: The present calendar year has already seen new commitments to help milk production at a cost of £3,000,000; a contingent promise of £2,000,000 to tramp shipping; a continuance of the subsidy to beet-sugar at a cost of nearly £6,000,000; changes in the situ duties which may cost about £3,000,000; assistance to the hydrogenation of coal, which, if successful, may cost, on the scijle contemplated at present for the process, i£1,000,000 a year in loss to the revenue; a grant to complete the Cunardor, though may .properly 1)0 charged to capwl account; and now a temporary subsidy of £3,000,000 for beef. Subsidies are part of the price which must be paid for having allowed Bditi&h agriculture, through no fault of its own, to fall fast and far, and they are very small as compared with tho cost of allowing tho complote and infectious collapse of tho most important section of a basic industry.