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Observer, Volume XXXIX, Issue 48, 2 August 1919, Page 3

, . If only, to serve as a check upon future Ministries, there ought to be :i thorough investigation of the financial cost to the s «ountry of the policy of "travel" which seems to have dominated the present Ministry for so long a time. Perhaps, as from this travelling, .combination has come the appeal to the public not to travel at all unless absolutely compelled, in order to ease the coal shortage and its effect upon the railways, this strangely cynical will prompt a demand for an overhaul of the Ministerial travelling bill'for, pay, the last twenty months. —Napier "Telegraph." * * * Mr. Semple is one of a small body of individuals in New Zealand whose strange mentality .causes them to insult the intelligence of thousands of patriotic citizens. It is the veriest nonsense for this politician to tell us there is no "real" peace! The class war that he, speaks about is being engineered by irresponsible agitators, who seek power and notoriety at the .expense of the multitude.— Masterton "Age." * * * The great benefits arising from the new forestry policy will be permanent, and not only permanent, but steadily developing and increasing with the gi-owth and development of our forests as the years roll by.— Wellington "Times." * * * Policemen themselves want the most nourishing of food that their physical capacity may be preserved. They want contentment in their homes to maintain their mental alertness. They want freedom from financial cares, so that their normal character may never be impaired. And they are asked to do it on eight shillings a day—while builders' labourers and others are doing it grandly at something not far short of a pound.—Melbourne "Table Talk." * * * The Dominions have developed towards nationhood at a great pace during the processes of the war-mak-ing and peace-making, but the pace has been too rapid and two spasmodic to enable them to form an accurate estimate of it or of the position to which it has brought the Empire. — Wellington "Post." * * * So, if red revolution is required the way to get it is for the obligarchy of Labour to state frankly and freely that their objective is what it is— to throw into a common pool the results of the enterprise, and the thrift not of the so-called bourgoise, but of the members of the proletariat. No man must have a savings bank deposit more than another, no man must draw a higher wage, no man must own a cottage or a plot of land. If he has ability and uses it he cannot get a reward above the man who has it not. What a world it will be, especially if the code of marriage of the Bolshevik, as just printed with approval by one of our Labour newspapers, is. to top off the whole social system. It may be an easy world to live in for then there will be no need for the Ansteys or the Brennans or the Finlaysons to be paid to be on top.—Melbourne "Punch."