The Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY. SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11445, 26 January 1918, Page 4

The Rangitikei Advocate . TWO EDITIONS DAILY. SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918.

ONE of 'the most practical suggestions for A Valuable Suggestion. the fostering of a spirit of Imperial unity is mentioned in “United Empire. ” The writer quotes from a Queensland grammar schoolmaster, who says the life and sympathies of teachers become narrow and parochial owing to the sameness of their surroundings. “At some of the Nov/Zealand High Schools, for example, the majority of the masters attended, as boys, the same High School where they are now masters, proceeded for a year or two to the adjoining University College, and have then come back to teach for perhaps the rest of their lives at their old school.” It is the same both in Britain and in all the Dominion 8 and colonies of the Empire. Therefore, he asks, “would it not he an incalculable gain to mister and scholars, would it not preserve from the rust of routine and keep fresh the . enthusiasm of youth, if a mister could, with no more difficulty than that involved in distance, pass

pass from teaching iu Quebec to Manchester, from Melbourne to Capo Town, to Edinburgh or Loudon?” At present no machinery exists for the purpose. We are us yet too parochial. While there are some Educatioii Boards iu our own Domir.ion which throw open their schools to the candidature of all New Zealand teachers there are others which reserve all posts for applicants within the borders of their own territories, and wo are not prepared to say which is right and which is wrong when the base of appointment and promotion is restricted to our own little country. To carry out the proposal put forward it would bo almost necessary to federaliso the educational systems of the Empire—a not impossible proposition. It would be worth the trouble and the cost. Now blood would always be circulating through the schools, a process of elimination of obsolete methods of teaching would always bo going on, and the widened horizon and. the more Imperialistic sympathies cf the teacher would have more olt'oc t in cementing the Empire than agreements or favouring tariffs.

IN Russia at present more than one Utopian dream Printing Money. has material-

ised for the teaching of humanity. Thero are people, and a big number of them, too, who think that for the creation of money the State only needs a printing press and some piper. Then everybody could prepare to get rich. In Petrograd this theory is now in practical operation. The Government is printing paper money es rapidly as their'prosses can produce it, rising to 55.000,000 roubles per twenty-four hours. The Budget for the current year amounts to 27,000,000,000 and of this it is considered unfortunate that the presses can only turn out 1-1,000,000,000. It is evident, therefore, that to overtake the liabilities it will bo necessary to Instal a very much larger number of presses and employ half the population at the industry. And apparently the dream of universal wealth has come true. Workmen in Government employment are earning £IOO a month, and any kind of workman would bo very seriously annoyed with you if you offered him less than £ r d> or £SO per month. But appearances are sometimes deceptive. Before the great moneyprinting industry commenced the rouble was worth 2s Id, but its present value is only a few ponce. A year or two of this will bring about a most singular condition. The country will be full of money that will buy nothing. For the Russians the situation will belike that of the Ancient Mariner: '‘Water, water everywhere, but never a drop to drink."

AS peace appears to be drawing

nearer on tire Australia's Peril. basis of no

an no xat ions or indemnities alarm is being experienced .in Australia at the possibility of New Guinea being handed over to the Germans by tho plenipoteniaries, who will decide the general terms of settlement. Tho feeling found somewhat forcible expression in tho words of the Lieut. - Governor of Now South Wales, yesterday, who very strongly objected to Australia again being condemned to a land frontier with Huns for neighbours. He was, .of course, re’ forriug to the Australian and Gernnii teritories - of Now Guinea, into which tho south-east portion of tho big island is divided. Before the war commenced there was only a sort of dull fooling of resentment that the Huns should' have been allowed to establish themselves in the vicinity. Fears ranged further aliold, Japan being regarded is tho Power most likely to make a descent on Australia. But the revelations of German ambitions, the fact that it was their declared intention to conquer the country, the proofs of the Hun utter lack of international morality or humanity, have brought the eyes of tho more patriotic around to another point of. the compass. It is a tragical circumstance for tho sane and sober elements of tho Australian public that the country contains so many of the asinine type who flaunt their hostility to patriotism, who boast that they have no country, who glorify tho Germans and howl tho “Red Flag’’ while omens of death or slavery to one of the most brutal and tyrannous races of all time are plain on the horizon. If the terrible evils of a British defeat would fall only on those howling throw-backs it would constitute one groat Compensation to tho Empire. !