PUBLIC OPINION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9954, 16 September 1910, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION.

. FROM YESTERDAY'S NEWSPAPERS. (By Telegraph.) THE DENTAL REGISTER. It would bo u retrograde step now that the status of the profession has been properly determined tn permit tho registration of unqualified persons, from whom the puhlic may reasonably expect to be protected, and it would be exceedingly unjust to- the students who are qualifying themselves in the manner contemplated by law. It is satisfactory, therefore, to know that the Prime Minister has expressed a strong opinion that no "short cut " to registration as a dentist should be sanctioned. —" Otago Daily Times." A LABOUR CRISIS. Perhaps it will help to a better understanding of the news cabled from London from day to day lately regarding the upheaval in the shipbuilding trade if we explain that the struggle now in progress is at least as much between the leaders of trade unionism and undisciplined groups of workers as between unions and employers. The whole question hinges upon whether trade union organisations can maintain sufficient discipline among affiliated unions to guarantee the performance of obligations entered into by collective bargaining between the. executive of an organisation and employers. —" New Zealand Times." NO-LICENSE CAMPAIGN.

The egregiously false step which their leaders took last year in their attempt to arrange a legislative compromise with the liquor trade, threatened the party with irretrievable disaster, and though this calamity was avoided, t'lt* final decision was only arrived at :.'i or months of controversy, in which the party was fighting itself instead of the enemy. A modest* stillness and humility, a thankful acquiescence in the good things that remain, misrht have been expected to characterise the prohibitionists after their hairbreadth escape from destruction, but no such note was discernible last night. l£ was an unmistakable war-noto that was sounded.—"Evening Post." KING OR EMPEROR. Tho amount of dignity and authority that attaches to royal 'titles is almost entirely a question of sentiment, and for purely sentimental reasons we do not think that "the dominions oversea" desire to regard the King of England as an Emperor. The truth is that tho title Emperor, which is familiar to us chiefly through its continental associations, connotes too much of the despotic or autocratic system of rule ever to be acceptable to us.— Auckland " Star."