THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 28, 10 March 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

IMMIGRATION TEST. • • Now comes Secretary Wilson with-the simplest of all tests (immigration tests),. - a weighing.machine, a tape .measure., and a dead-line fixed mi 35 years. By pre-, scribing a minimum height of sft 4in the country is safeguarded against undesirable aliens of a stature so dangerous as that of Napoleon Bonaparte.—"EveningPost" (New York). "HUSTLING."

The British business man who is re i proached for-his assumed slackness may! take heart of grace from the remarkable discovery which Mr George. Birmingham '. has recorded in our columns, that even in New York a people which is "popularly"' supposed to be supreme in the art of ■., ' "hustling" asserts its right .to a reasonable degree of leisure and pleasure.-—' "Daily Mail." ' ' - EDUCATION REFORM WANTED. ' "V Does any man suppose otfr-youngsters'" can pro£t mentally from school work in the dog-days, or better their physique by-,-drilling? It is time we set.,our'feet in paths of common, sense, .The k , system ~ (Victorian)'needs revising, and it swoiuld' 1 be rearranged at' once" in scientific c'onS '-' formity with;the prescriptions of the sea- '- sons. —"Age." . -

SUBMARINE RESCUE EQUIPMENT. , .".. i» Evidently we have not enough sqb-j----marine rescue equipment, and, however, niggardly the Exchequer may be in pro-" vidirig for naval needs, the presence of the necessary ships and tackle wherever submarines carry out exereises is the first demand that should-be satisfied.' Disaster must come, despite all human foresight. Preventable disaster points a desperate moral.—"Express." LIVING WAGE:

Mr Justice Higgins 's principle is right enough, but it needs putting into.practice /more drastically. .-._ In time, probably, a long-suffering hut exasperated' attend to that* for itself by ordaining that as the law purporting to prevent strikes seems rather to encourage them by promoting aggressive unionism, it is an absurd and expensive sham, and must be done away with.—' "Daily Telegraph" (Sydney). FEDERAL MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES. Whatever method be adopted,,it is certainly desirable that a strict oversight should be kept over the-many new manufacturing enterprises established by the : Commonwealth Government. The exact facts respecting their operations .should be made public, for the value of such 'political 'adventures from an experimental point of view will be lost if the pub-' ifc be deceived or kept in ignorance ; ; ofr the financial results.—'' Australasian.' '• HOME r RULE STRUGGLE. V rThe situation is one of the most critical that a Parliament can play in,.; Our: o|wn local troubles, darkly as" they loom tp us, are but as a grain of.-sand on the seashore to the great 1 struggle jthat must b|e shortly fought to a finish in ' England; , One'piece of comfort we Australians mUy, fairly take to ourselves. It* is that the skeins of destiny are in compeijent haflds," ; a'nd j that, our countrymen mey be r dej,; j pehded upon to vindicate fittingly '-mis;'. dignity of the historic Parliament an^: 1 tjhe rights of the Democracy.— < * Age.''_' ;. Oracle enough. ' It may be a "miracle" to escape being run over by a skidding omnibus; it. may be a <( miracle" that one should find, oneself within a few feet of peril. Meanwhile, for those who cherish faith and acknowledge in their own souls the omnipresence of a God to whom all things are possible, the beginning of a new day i 9 proof and miracle enough.—"Express.'?