THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 41, 25 March 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

AGGREGATION OF LARGE HOLDINGS. The aggregation of large' holdings of agricultural land, used only for pas : toral production, is opposed to the public, welfare, and the private rights of the owners must yield to the public necessity. An owner is not robbed. He may escape the tax by subdividing or by 'cultivating his- lands—lt is easy for him to change' one asset for another, and then there will be no penalty for him.—'' Sun,''' (Sydney). THE BACKYARD PATRIOT.

The backyard patriot who is'prepared to strain every nerve to prevent the progress of any city or town or district in New South' Wales lest Sydney should thereby lose a few shillingsworth of trade,. though .the State may gain to the. value of millions, .is almost' as uniquely our own as the platypus. He is a traitor both to Australia and to his native State;, yet with cheerful complacency he manages to go on regarding himself a good citizen.—r<'Bulletin. '' ' OUR GER3SIAN FRIENDS.

. Not only can we afford to sympathetically follow European colonisation generally; from our origins and circumstances, and with a thoughtful view to the vaster racial problems that threaten to yet peremptorily present themselves for solution, we look to Germany" to play a great part with us and other nations in the future. In the meantime every German wjid seeks a new home apart from the hard or uncongenial conditions of _- the struggling- German colonies, may find it, together with a weleome and perfect equality, in any of ♦ the far-flung . -countries.— '"Daily Telegraph" (Sydney).

WHAT SYNDICALISM PROPOSES. All trade union leaders know that Syndicalism proposes to.scrap trade unionism and substitute: Anarchy, and the Labour Party's congress at Glasgow passed a mild resolution implying indirectly an utter, want of faith in the new policy, but how many trade unionists have-*the courage to come out into the <>pen and denounce Syndicalism for what it isf— "Evening News" (London.) ENGLISH BATINO.

To transfer the whole of the burden of rates to it would mean too sudden and violent a change in the present (English) incidence of rating; and one injustice is not really to be remedied by another. But it is quite possible, and, indeed;'essential, to make the change gradually; and that is the task which the Government are now pledged to undertake.—" News and Leader.' ' "COSMIC quTUPS."

Between social explosions .they tellectual revolutionists) are a lot of sehoolboys. They hit each other with bladders, they make faces at each oth«r, they scribble each other's names on. the fences, and when . they have drawn a crowd of curious citizens, they trip down the sidewalk with their arms over each other's shoulders. Sometimes they have mock trials, with Mr Chesterton" as judge and Mr Shaw as foreman of the jury. Sometimes Mr Belloc writes a burlesque novel and Mr Chesterton draws ludicrous cartoons to illustrate it. Sometimes Mr .Chesterton writes a book about Mr Shaw.. Sometimes Mr Shaw writer a vaudeville to accompany a serious play by Mr' Chesterton. It is hard to imagine them .as enemies of society. One would rather think of them as a band of cosmic cutups. —"Evening Post" '(New York};'