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Observer, Volume XXXVII, Issue 49, 11 August 1917, Page 3

The Second Division League demands, we believe, a separation allowance of six shillings a day to the wife of a married man called up, but we submit that in very many cases a widowed mother of a single soldier is in greater need of assistance than a young wife who, unless she is hampered by children, should be better able to fend for herself than an elderly woman. — New Plymouth '«Herald."

Let us get away from fads and the unsupported testimonies of faddists offering no public benefit, nothing but harassment of individuals, and let us get on with the business of the country. This is not the time to talk of the faults dip our neighbours or of their occupation. Nor is it the time for trying to compel the adoption of new habits of food or drink. Nor is it a time for the Legislature to submit to tbe insistance of unsupported clamour. It is the time of all others for sound finance, for equal justice, and for honest independence of mind, under the guidance of reason in the light of proved fact.—Wellington " Times."

What now is our best course 1 It is a clear recognition of realities, a return to the freedom of dignified criticism, a setting in order of Germany's house, that it may no longer be an abomination in the eyes of the world., Democracy rings us round. The responsibility for the peace which will be concluded must be borne not »\v one Prince, nor by one family, but by the entire nation with unbended neck. Democracy is irresistible, and its help may to-morrow become urgently necessary to princes. Germany's people can only couclude this peace when they have reached a full realisation of the facts, and this they must and will do.—Berlin " Die Zukunft."