THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 252, 27 November 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

THE CALL FOB SELF-EFFACEMENT. , On the whole, the mind of the country has mobilised and concentrated well; it'nas met. with credit the call for selfeffacemont as well as self-sacrifice, and in a time of falling skies and shaken certainties men of all sorts, whom many really profound differences of temper and conviction hold apart, have made their contributions freely and unhesitatingly to the cause of civic comradeship. —'' Manchester Guardian.''

A GOVERNMENT OBLIGATION. It should be an obligation upon the Government to guarantee the homes of our soldiers and sailors, not. out of subscriptions, but out of State funds. The Prince of Wales's Fund ought to be used to help the A-ictims of the industrial dislocation ■■ which has been caused by the war. There is another point in which the administration'of the fund could be improved. The Soldiers and Sailors' Fa'milies Association is very far'from being an ideal agent for distribution. It is not representative, it smacks too much of philanthropy, and it is in numerous districts intimately associated withpartv politics.—"Daily News.'' AMERICA NOT TO BE FOOLED.

But the Americans, although amiable, were not befooled, and they do not now forget. At heart their leaders realise full veil the truth of Mr Cmirciiijl 's words a i'cw weeks ago, that if Britain went down before the Prussian blows, it would be the turn of the New World next. Not that Germany would attack the United States, he added, but there was the vast poaching ground of the Southern Continent. The Americans know it. Only a little while ago their own journals were proclaiming insistently that if the navy were not seen to, within 10 years the Monroe Doctrine would be the laughing stock of Germany. —"Australasian." NO EMPTY PATRIOTISM.

Patriotism is an excellent thing, but it niust not be allowed to become a-mere affair of the mouth in the case of our war upon. German trade, and while we condemn German militarism and German barbarity it should be our business to see that we each play our own individual part in the campaign.—"Evening News" (London).

AMERICA AND BELGIUM. We feel that such a condition of distress, suffered by a nation like Belgium, lays upon the people of a country like the United States a clear and imperative duty. There are, in this terrible war, many just claims upon our help; there are suffering non-combatants in Germany and Prance as well as in Belgium, and there is the call of distress from the battlefields. None of these calls should remain unheeded; but in the'case of Belgium something more should be done than the mere piling up of a modest contribution or one or two hundred thousand dollars. —-"Evening Post" (New York).