The Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1918.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11611, 10 August 1918, Page 4

The Rangitikei Advocate. TWO EDITIONS DAILY. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1918.

THE Manawatu County Council, at Sanson, on WednesA Good day, informally disProposal. cussed, on the initiative of Or. Boyce, a proposal tor the better housing of the roadmen, which, if adopted, will certainly tend to the establishment of more cordial relations between employing Councils and their employees. The suggestion was that roadmen’s cottages should he built at points contiguous to the sections of road which it is their duty to keep in repair, and that a tew acres of land should be purcnased in the vicinity of the houses, upon which the tenants would be able to keep a horse and a cow or two. The rent would, of course, pay fair interest, and the local bodies would have no difficulty in a ttracting married men, with families, jto tneir service, whose prospect of permanency of occupation, would ensure their having a strong inducement to do good work. The proposal found very cordial appreciation from the other members of the Council, and inquiries are to be made with a view to the adoption of the scheme at an early date. We believe that the adoptioh of this proposal, or of one very similar, will commend itself to many other County Connells. IFis one which is verv adoption. There is a growing sentiment among employers in favour of an intimate studving of the conditions under which their employees live and work, with a view to softening the ascerbities of the relations [of capi.

tal and labour, and bringing them into more friendly sympathy with each other. The scheme outlined above is one modest contribution to the object sought, and there are unquestionably many others in all classes of the county’s industry which will be revealed to those who seek.

IN the face of such savagely horrible outrages as Punishment of a the sinking of the Nation. Warilda it seems to

us a crime or scarcely ifss magnitude on the part of British and Colonial statesmen to advocate t receiving Germany into the fold of civilized and kindly nations after the war. If such tragedies were only occasionally enacted we should be inclined to attribute them to men who were lapses from the normal—savage monsters with few equals in abnormality in,.the whole [earth. But every day brings new horrors, such as the sinking of ships hundreds of miles from land, destroying the moans of escape by shelling boats, and acting generally with the most cold-blooded and callous savagery. It is plain, therefore, that the whole nation concurs and rejoices m these crimes against humanity, and, humanity must see to it that the nation receives its just punishment. On the defeat of the Germans, which now seems to be as sure as any humanly directed event can be, when the diplomatists get together, in spite of Paris resolutions and threats of after war economic penalties, we shall almost certainly see Germany admitted to trade with the world on equal terms. It is, therefore, necessary tor the rank and file of the nation to impose punishment upon the German community, leaving diplomatists and Governments to their own devices. And the only means to inflict that punishment lies in the adoption of a general boycott of German goods. There are many societies being formed for objects to be pursued after the war. But none which can benefit Empire trade and, at the same time, exact a terrible retribution for crime as a grim and dogged boycott. It is essential, therefore, that a society should be formed in every town and village in the country to include as many ss possible, [not only "pledged to refrain from the purchase of German and Austrian goods, but to boycott those who desire to sell them. We must get it as part of our mental stock-in-trade that all who have heretofore purchased German goods have helped the Germans to kill a New Zealander, in the present war, and so make, up our minds that we will never again commit such a crime.

DURING the past %veek there have been few incidents, Anglo-Saxon more remarkable Reconciliation, and more potentially significant than the interchange of messages between King George and President Wilson. The reconciliation of the two great Anglo-Saxon peoples may now be declared complete. Almost as significant as an indication of renewed cordiality between the nations was that splendid ceremonial march of Ameiican Iroops to the Palace to greet the King. In fact, it appears to us that the feelings of amity with now actuata the two are in every way more cordial than at any time when they were politically connected. “We thank God that we are now fight lug at your side ” was the declara tion of one enthusiast. It is a 3 most gratifying instance of how affinities in blood, and a common history, extending back in England to the Roman occupation, have triumphed over memorials of transient, through acutely bitter experiences, and even over educational influences which have tended to keep alive in America a one lifelong hostility towards the Mother Country. For American school books, and much of American literature have nurtured resentment against Britain. The school books are, however, now to be rid of mnch’of this kind of pabulum. What will take its place will be how both nations fought side by side on the j cold-soaked soil of France and won the liberty of the world for the world for all time.