THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 18, 26 February 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

THE "PEACEFUL BACK ROW." If the Quaker would go to the front and prove his doctrines by actual experiment upon rude,'coarse tribes, the world might take him seriously, but his clamorous adherence ito the peaceful back row of things prevents his gospel having a fair chanced—The "Bulletin." THE STAND-BY. i • ..•' ■.IIN wdin i ' The man who is absolutely • day in and day out, who never' trains,; who so arranges his unforeseen delays cannot; life out of gear, who has neither nbr' : reason to offer for his absence a,t cal moment, who is always there—this man has greatness and high advancement within his reach. depended upon. . He .is,: a ;stand-by "Evening News" (London). ; >i Y7 ; , "APPARENT DUPLICATIONS .' j No law can be in a satisfactory state, allows a substantial record' o£-even "apparent duplications," a euphuism that is supposed to cover a number of faulty acts which an adequate electoral law would efficiently provide against. But what indubitably was disclosed was that the Federal law provides an easy, mejans for double or tripie, or : even more, extensive voting, if an effectively organised system of knavery is oncS established.-—"Daily Telegraph." ANXIETY FOB POPULAB APPBOVAL. Any man in responsible office—particularly a man set for the and punishment of crime—who is haunted by a consuming . anxiety for popular approval) is like a runner holding the stop-watch on his owh perform-, ance. We know what would happen if . he was timing himself at every quarter. —"Evening Post" (New "York). CANONS OF ARBITRATION." | Many workmen and many employers still remain uneducated and undisciplined, but there is no doubt that every ten years sees the main principle of the law more firmly rooted in the.generaLjgublre intelligence. And it has to Kgßßfofcifc? ted, by the most rabid Tory, whole the most responsible* leaders !of ■ Labour have most loyally upheld the canons of arbitration. —' < Sun'' (Sydney.) - . ; ...■ TOTE BETTING. v j If the proposal to raise money by a tax on betting through the totalisator is to be rejected on moral grounds, therefore, consistency will require wholesale readjustments of our revenue-raising system, which would make the burdena of \the righteous rather heavy. Aind' the one thing that morality can never consent to be is inconsistent.—"Daily: Telegraph." j A GBEAT MAN. ! A great man, a great fighter, a tijue democrat, a real statesman, Mr Cha|m/berlain won his great jjpsition while he fought actively and incessantly in uhe House of Commons and on the platform, in office and in opposition, for the causes in which he believed with a passionate sincerity. He enhanced that position and added to the universal tribute of respect paid to him by the invincible couYage with which he faced a stroke of fate which might have overwhelmed 'a less gallant soul. —"Daily Express." ANTARCTIC TRAVEL. . Australia has certainly done handsomely in the way of financial and moral support in the organisation of Antarctic ] ■travel. The Mawson expedition must certainly be seen to a successful close. It promises to add something to human ' knowledge. It has been by no means ] lacking in the display of high courage J and persistence. But\unless some exceptional feature develops in such ex- ' ploration, Australia may well remain ' content with what she has done, and turn lier attention to lands within her > own jurisdiction and bound by her o"vyn ! coasts. —"Age." 1 t VALUE OF TEE PHONOGRAPH. i The phonograph can show as well as the best of foreign teachers what pronunciation should be, and it has the * nterit that it can always be consulted. 1 Our educationists get prejudiced against phonograph and kinematograpii by seeing them turned to vulgar use, but j that is absurd. These mechanical inven- j tions in the right hands may be a j valuable addition to the educational < machinery, aud the best they, are ; capable of should be got out of them. — i "Manchester Guardian." I