Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1912. EDITORIAL NOTES.

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Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1912. EDITORIAL NOTES.

WB recently adverEalv criticised the assertion of the Principal of a Wellington Girls’ School, who, in her evidence before the Education Commission, expressed the opinion that the morals of Haw Zealanders are not so good sa those of other; countries in which religion is taught in the public schools. We ere glad our opinion is upheld by the Chief Justice,. Sir Robert Stout, who in bis evidence to the Commission said: —“So far sa obedience, respect far law and order, and civility were concerned, be tbcug t that children now did not compare unfavourably with those of the last generation. His opinion was that since t-ba secular system of educating had been established there had been a steady decrease in crime. It was al«o his opinion chat there had been a decrease in immorality, bnt the decrees in crime was very marked. This could bo clearly shovrn by | means of figures. In 1887, ten years | after the Education Act came into S force,the number of distinctly con- i

■vioted persons under twenty years of age received in gaols was 220, and the proportion per thousand of the grown up population of all ages was 8.69. By 1892 the number had dropped to 148 and the proportion toY.18; by 1902 they were down to 109 and 1,87 respectively; and last year they were 85 and 0.83 respectively. The persons of all ages received in gaols in 1887 was 2639, and the proportion pet IG/000 of mean population was 44,25; by last year the number had gone up to 2877, but the proportion had dropped to 28 85. The proportion of New Zealand born convicted ptesons had dropped very greatly. In 1887 it was 69,24 pec cent, of the whole popualtion, and in 1911 it was only 81.44. Illegitimacy had also decreased in proportion to the total number of births, and the New Zealand figures were lower than those in Tasmania, Victoria., New South Wales, and Queensland.” We may fnrther remark that nest to the Netherlands, which is the all in the Illegitimate rate, comes Switzerland, and the education system there Is.also free, secular and compulsory, and a law also exists prohibiting clergymen from becoming candidates for political office.

THE Labour agitator poses as a worker in order to escape work, and the (Socialist prates of benefit to ' humanity with a similar object. An American writer has given some definitions which will be appreciated by those who have studied these freaks. He defines Socialism as follows:—"(1) Sincere, sentimental, beneficent theory, which has, bat one objection, and that is, ife will not work; (2) a plan by which the inefficient, irresponsible, ineffective, unemployable and unworthy will thrive without industry, persistence or economy; (3) an earnest effort to get Nature to change her rules for the benefit of those who are tired of the game; (4) a social and economic scheme of government by whiefi man shall loiter rather than labour; (5, a survival of the unfit; II (6) a device for swimming without ■going near the H2O; (7) participation in profits without responsibility as to deficits; (8) an arrangement for destroying initiative, ; invention, Creation and originality; (9) resolutions passed by a committee as a substitute for work.” THE politician who has earned fame by'promoting the postage of fish and guarding-the morals of the Post and Telegraph Department, has again shown that he- does not understand the effect of a restrictive tariff. Mr Ell seems to think it is the duty of the new Ministry to undertake a revision of the tariff, this session, but whaa ha had the opportunity he loft the matter, severely niece, When the Ministry do undertake the work wa trust they will bear in mind that Customs, duties | should be imposed for revenue pur- | pciss only, not for the purpose of | enabling a few to make profit. at the | expanse of th« many. Mr ■Ell alleged tuiat it had always been the policy of Massey’s pasty to maintain a “strong Customs revenue.” Bie o r :U experience should -have convinced him that a restrictive tariff rjoea not ensure a strong Customs revenue, but the very reverse, because the higher the tariff the fewer the imports and 'the less the revenue. Under present conditions what should go into the Treasury goes into- the pockets of the monopolists who own the factories, and ao more goes to the workers who, iouead, suffer with the -rest of the | asas inanity. j The Tageblat is officially informed « aa ‘lnternational Postal Ooa--1 -.-’a wii? be held in Madrid to con- \ i a foreign postage rate. The backwash caused by a steamer on Lake Constance upset two pieanms boats yesterday, and eleven were drowned. Daring the year ended June 18th. 7734 buildings were completed in j B di'-.3T metropolitan area, the cost | being £4,495,017, which ia a record. The Farmers’ Conference at Sydney passed a resolution In favour of makThg the Association embraoive of the whole Commonwealth. The Federal Government has communioated with Britain objecting to the Panama Canal Bill, aa a departure from the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. Owing to the hardening of the rao ey market, the Victorian State Savings Bank has increased interest on Credit Fancier loans from 4>£ per cent to 5 per cent. News from Mexico City states that Mormons are suffering at the bands of both the rebels and Federal forces. The former are seeking to compel the surrender of arms and ammunition, but the Mormons refuse. The Mormons have appealed for aid to their fellow religionists in She United States. Fighting is likely. (It is feared that Lionel Field, aged 21 the son of the sfeatiomnaster at Waiwera South, baa been drowned in the Fcmahaka river. He left home on Sunday evening to proceed to his place of employment at Upper Olydevale, br.t did not teach there. His horse has been found on an island ia the river, which was dragged to-day. About two months ago another of Mr Field’s sons was killed at Palmerston North through a motor car accident, A heavy strong washing Shirting Grand Drill at Sale Price ia advertised by Oollinsou and Onnninghame, Ltd., tlie Big Drapers of Palmerston North. This Is a'splendld Una for otrong wear, and being fleecy backed makes it warm. The colours are Plain Greys, and Grey with strikes, and the Sale Price is i Carriage will be paid on all parcels | over £1 to the nearest Railway Station which includes any article { of Brgglery you may require at our f

An old Beaoonsfield identity, Mr T. Weatherley, is at present in Palmerston Hospital, being treated for a paralytic stroke. The Novce Yremya, commenting on the Ehotan incident, where Chinese massacred Russians, insists on the despatch of troops. Ten sailors have been sentenced to death at Sebastoopl for meeting the cruiser Ivanglatov’s oiew to seize her. Five were sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. The committee of the 1915 Exhibition, to represent the Empire in miniature, has selected Earls Court, on the raising of a guarantee fund of £20,000. Lord Strathoona guaranteed £SOOO, Shortly after mid-day yesterday the train from Maugaweka to Utika was delayed by a slip which fell oa the line. The engine .rods were slightly, bent, A The line .was cleared after two or three hours. Chiabanu, a postal official at Bucharest, who was the bridegroom, and thirteen others, including bis bride, died at the wedding banquet. Carbolic sold was served in mistake for wine. At Faildlng on Monday evening, the secretary, Mr R. A. McFarland of St. Paul’s (Presbyterian) officebearers, was the recipient of half-a-dozen nicely bound columns on the occasion of his recent marriage. How is this for (coincidence? We have mentioned that the three-year-old twins of Mr P; Rutherford, Stanway, recently sustained fractured limbs. The father of the twins when a three-year-old broke a leg. The quantity of butter in cool store throughout New Zealand on July 15th was: Auckland, 13,488 boxes; New Plymouth, 6774; Fatea, 3072; Wellington, 2345; Lyfctefilon, approximate, 3838; Dunedin. 2794; total, 89.008; total on July 31e6, 1911, 4717. A party of motorists started from Rocgotea last evening for Greatfoid, vJa Bandon. They round, however, that progress was possible no further than Makowhai, owing to the flooded state of the reads. A detour had to be made by way of Mt. Stewart. Yesterday a young man named George Oroal was drowsed in the Eirikiri River, Auckland, close to bis homo. His boat capsized 300 yards from the shore, ,'aad the accident was witnessed by several people Orcul sank before help could reach him. The dead body was recovered later. The Cabinet has decided that .Mr O. B. MaoOormick, a Judge of the Native Land Court, shall act as Resident OommiEßScser in the Ocok Islands Captain J. Ewan Smith is to be detained meantime la Wellington He will bs occupied partly with matters relating to the Cook Islands and partly in other duties. The Land PnrchaEo. Board has reported favcurably- regarding the purchase of the Mount Nessiog estate la South Canterbury,' and the Government will acquire it for closer settlement. The ssiata consists of 6000 acres of freehold and 30,000 aoies of grazing oountre. Mrs Taft gave the first dollar towards a fund for a Women’s Titanic Memorial Arch, which it Sa proposed should fcs erected at Washington, A committee of one hundred hso been appointed. Men will not be allowed to oontribeto, the intention being to make the memorial a “Wmssn’s Tribute to Mankind,” because “men stood buck” while women were saved. At the inquest o'; Napier on Ernest Turpin, who was killed on May 10th, through a trsosion engine crashingthrough a bridge near- Havelock, the coroner returned- a- verdict of accidental death,- adding a rider that it phon’d be made unlawful for a local body to build a heavy traffic bridge without first submitting the picas and- npociSoatioas to the Public Works Department, and such bridge must be passaed by an engineer la tbe north of Auckland, and apparently .other parts of the Dominion, particularly in the Taranaki Acclimatisation District, a grant quantity of gasse Is shot by Maoris and others who held licenses, for people in ether parts In return they ’either receive ell 'their ammunition free or else are paid money. The Hawera Aco’.tmatiieation Assoiatlon are endeavouring to make this punishable, ami in order to prevent the practice it baa forwarded a remit to the General Conference to be held at Wellington on August Ist, “That action toe taken against; license holders,' particularly natives, who shoot for others hotels, etc:, ammunition being given for game, and in many esses money. ” The same association also asks t at alt licenses including game, fishing and deer stalking,- be issued by secretaries of societies. - A return prepared by order of Mr F. M B. Fisher shows that the following amounts have baaa paid during the three-year period to the papers mentioned for advertising Auckland Star ' £1253 Auckland Herald £1243, Auckland Weekly News £413 Auckland Observer £441, Weekly Graphic £2fi3. Times £1385, Christchurch Press £1354, Christchurch Spectator (weekly) £586. Christchurch Weekly Press £260 Christchurch Evening News £B4 (“Christchurch Star £B3, Dntoedin Evening Star £1320, Otago Daily Times £l4Ol, Otago Witness £357, Wellington Evening Post £1903, 'K’w Zealand Times £1824 Dominica £126, New Zeeland Truth £1!8, New Zealand Free Lancs £659. “In view of the extraordinary condition of affairs revealed by this reraru,” Mr Fisher stated yesterdpy, “I have issued instructions to the Advertising the effect that advertisements are to be inserted in those papers from which the Department! com. rned are likely to get the most benefit, and that the Depaiment is to be run as a commercial and not as a political institution where large sums have been divided between certain newspapers to the exclusion of others. The amount is to be split up withut the aggregate vote being exceeded, and the distribution of the advertisements is to be absolutely 'lmpartial. ” t Every day something new, cheap end reliable is being exhibited at Messrs Lloyd & Co. ’s great sale. This week ia going to be an epoch of a huge clearance. Three special 10s Gd lines are worth your while to look at. Girls’ tweed coats, sizss S 3 to 48 ; handsome silk blouses and a smart range/ of boys’ overcoats, ail to clear at !0- (id ; with hundreds of other bargains in ladies’ and men’s wear very cheap and very good.*

, Mariners are mglng the necessity for a lighthouse at Three Kings. The Atna, Hauroto, Tahiti, Aorangi, Ulimaroa. Victoria, lonic and Mamari should be within wireless range to-night. A Beaoousfiela resident, Mr W. Marston, has blossomed forth as a water diviner, and is meeting with great s access. The second term in Shorthand at Marton Technical School commences on Friday. ,New students are advised to start on the first da}’. " Qreymouth Chamber of Oommerce has passed a resolution congratulating Mr Massey on his intenton to introduce legislation to deal with labour troubles. The Minister for Railways, Hon” ,W. H. Herries, was waited on at Wellington yesterday by Mr E. K. Simpson,. Chairman of Rangitikei County Council, and the representstives of.a conference of local bodies interested, to ash leave for the local bodies to connect the Sacdon tramway with the Government railway at Marton, Mr Newmaa, M.P., said the Government had refused to do the work, and therefore the Real bodies asked permission to do it themselvess. The deputation nrged that the interests cf Foxfeon and the whole of the settlers would benefit by snob a proposal, and that the railway revenue would not suffer. In 1910 the Petitions Committee of this House had referred a petition on the subject to the Government for favourable consideration. The length of the connection proposed is five miles and the ratepayers are quite prepared to raise' a loan for Its construction. The Minister, in reply, said he would have fresh reports made by the department on the eubjict, aad endeavour to visit the locality before giving ang'caawer to the request. : ' ■' A wealthy Poland landowner named Masnv had a j arrow escape from being buried alive at Zuravioa, in Galicia. He had fallen down In a fit three days before. and as there is no doctor in. the neighbourhood, a veterinary “ssrgeoa was called in, who propounded him dead, -and gave a certificate of death from apoplegy. A large number of his relatives were present at the funeral, and, in accordance with the local custom, after the coffin had been lowered into the grave and the final blessing given fay the priest, they began themselves to shovel in the first spadefuls of earth. This apparently roused the supposed dead may from his trance, for fains cries for help were heard from the coffin Most of the bystanders ran away in a panic, but the more sensible immediately helped the priest to open the coffin. Masny was quite conscious, a&d, after he had been given a restorative and been helped out of the coffin, was abla to walk home with a borrowed overcoat over his grave clothes. .