Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1912. EDITORIAL NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10404, 18 July 1912, Page 4

Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1912. EDITORIAL NOTES.

THE complete disorganisation of the party which so long masqueraded under the title of "Labour and Liberal” was a natural sequence to its ejection from place and power. All that gave the party cohesion was its power to utilise public money and its ability to grant favours to supporters, and when this power and ability were lost the party naturally fell to pieces. The necessity for possessing plenty of cohesive material was the main reason why loans were raised every year and imaginary surpluses ware proclaimed. It is now a played out party with no unity, no common interest, and no hope of ever again obtaining the ascendancy because it is no longer in possession of that which enabled it ot cling to office. It never had any principles, and possessed no originality. Nearly every measure'it passed would have been a disastrous failure, but for improvements made and safeguards insisted upon by the then Opposition. Their energy was chiefly exerted in borrowing millions from anywhere and anyhow, and the country thereby Battered greatly because most of the borrowed money was not spent on ■ reproductive works, and the work done was also S far too costly. The country has at last got rid of an incubus which burdened its producers, retarded its progress,, and prevented- It from gaining fall advantage which should Slavs been obtained, from improved markets and improved means of reaching them. It will be long before the people again allow themselves to be so deluded as they were during the last twenty years. ON the subject of the education of girls, Dr. Truby King has been making some sensible remarks. The doctor is well known ia connection with the Society for the Health cf Women and OhUjfren, and he is evidently a keen observer and a thinker. He says that "the British Medical Association has been affirming the duty of the State to frame an ideal system of education for girls and the inversion of the present Kasim that girls should be trained to maintain themselves and net to prepare for potential maternity. Too much attention, he believes, is given to the iatellectnal development of girls, with the result that their health frequently suffers, and they are unfitted.for domestic life.” We may note, however, that many women show that up to a certain point they are quicker than mea, and' more persistent in application. But, as Dr King points out. woman’s Baain' duty is not in the direction of becoming independent of man. His remarks support our contention that our system of education is not working on lines which will give the most beneficial results.

IT is only to be expected that with a Presidential election is progress, the American Eagle will flap its wings vigorously and scream loudly if any nation ventures to hint that it has some rights of its own and that all the nations are interested ia a world work snob as the Panama Oanal. But the Americans who are now striving to discriminate against others who require to use the Oanal would ba among the first to denounce Britain had she, as practical owner of the Suez Oanal, discriminated against other nations or in favour of vessels owned by Britishers There is not the slightest feat that the Oanal trouble will give rise to anything but loud talk. It was inevitable that a great work in which all humanity is interested could not be completed without some friction or soma unexpected results, but as the election fever cools down the Yankees will apply to themselves the advice given to Britain years ago by their own post, Lowell: “We own the Ocean, tn, John; Yon mustn’t take It bard. If we can’t think with you, John, It’s just your own back-yard. Ole Uncle S, sez he “I guess Kf ihet’s hfa claim, ” sey he. “The fencin'. stuff T 1 cost ' enough To bust up friend J, 8., Ez wal as Vou an’me, ”