THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 24, 5 March 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

SAVE THE LA&D FROM DECAY. ' If we want to rescue the land front decay, we must make, newt reasons ftfr ' that clinging t<? " the soil. tphieß , tin'guisHed rural England for so. many ,centuries. It canndt be dbtoe l>y tenantry under a couUty coUrt'cil,'- or' ify troops of Goyerninent officials, or by secret land, enquiries With tainted toports,' or by , ajimnimum.wage, or by fairy-tales of pheasants and deejv ao«2 mangold, (Ownership" ft thV true. Solution. It ha» been'adopted,,t>*jr the aid of the British taxpayers' money h in Ireland. It will be, adopted jo Unionism effected- tT'fc one",, reform, and it will effect' the' ctifi\jr'' '' ' ' *. ' AMfe^&AH' AMITaA*FIOK-TSttLMIE S." 1 -it> Thif narroir l majority of vtfteS,'- v <ast* byftJstt-.Foreigfi Relations! Commit- ". .tee- of the Senate,v defeated the), hope - that would be for ever made impossible between!. the; Usited States and Great' the United States and the ■* cofmtrhw— Japan,' Italy,- Spain," and v-othfc i-s--ith3£ 4 . havejnegotiated; similar.*- treaties/witK the /Washington J&overpme^t r Stil Vit is soihething to have ratified even tiejp-. limited arbitration treaties, and the ratification 1 will, no dotfbt-/ simplify, the • settlement ofmany.outstanding minor . issues.-^-''Daily (Sydney.). CO-PARTNERSHIP. .

The employer surrenders this share ia., v, order *to avoid or *' lias:" sujir ; stance in industiiaJ. i sa6<3' tl the v ein- s '' ployee accepts it in lieu thetical advantages shat he may gain by strikes and grwifest glory, of the (the'co-partH|Br-ship)..: is thatitis essentially neritfy practical. Itr ; has' bfeen tried -<m numberless isolated;, instances •in Biafc- • ain, Europe, and America, and ia e*ery s case With astonishing success.-^' 'Age.** THAT LIVING WAGE. '' . • Mr .Justice. seydon. fwxnd that ; 8/.- was a living wage.. The . iresult '■that workers now receiving less thait r ~ that sum are clamouring increases. Probably they will get them.; and; that will irnean that the increases will have .• to b4 paid for, and. that witt mean, that thecost of* living will immediately• in- , crease all round; ' and all these things meaii that :indils4arially we are ,mpvinj|. in a vicious v-circle. — 4 * 'Australasian, . falsi* toM E treaty obligations when-it sougftt to lay - charge* tfn foreign shippisgwhileAmerican [coastal shipping paid notMngfor the use of the canal. Its action caused just iresentinent, not only iu Great'BritamJ but irf Germany and other trading President Wilson, however, iiQjW rflGcidcd to use all Kis y , to keep bis country to the - honour, and foreign nations Will, therefore be able to congratulate the United >. - States, without any mental reservations,; on the completion of the waterway that links the Atlantic and Pacific ' * Australasian.''

IN PRAISE OF CLUES. Clubs, to be sure, at best go but a little way towards what is needed, in a, - big jcity, for restful and cheeripg. ret laxajtion. As the practice of dropping in ojn one's friends is almost it lcjecomes extremely desirable .tfyaf therje should be some source like that of 'the homelike restaurants whicl abo And in the cities of Germany ah< other Continental countries. —"Eveni#| Poslj" (New York). . - v RECRUITING THE CRIMINAL CLASS. ' ; We suffer deplorably in this country from the marriage of the physically and" : mentally unfit. Thus we breed, in recurrent stream, consumption,, mania, insanity, vice. Thus .wo recruit : . the 'criminal classes. If- it beadvisable to ensure to every, willing worker- tho } means foir maintaimng. ; decent surroundings, any reform,havijag that. object must b,e yaiu so, long, as there are no restrictionsv oh' thrt. riage of the unfit.—'' Daily V "•