OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16988, 12 March 1923, Page 3

OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

I urge, as a step towards practical reform, that newspapers should he allowed more latitude. - Air Edward 801 l (of the Law Society); HEAL AS WELL AS TEACH. Christian ministers should heal the sick as well as preach the Gospel.- Dr Samuel Benson, of New York. WOMAN’S EMANCIPATION. The Government should take steps to secure the admission of women to the universities. Afiss Clough (Nownhnui College). BE FAIR. When statistics are taken of drinking amongst the working classes, similar figure* should Ire taken relating to tbo young ladies who drive up in motor-ears to the lounges of big hotels and smoke cigarettes and consume cocktails ami liqueurs. - Lady Al’Kenzie. THE F INAL* QUESTION. At the end of life we shall not be asked bow much pleasure we bad in it. j but how much service wo gave in it : not how full it was of sacrifice. Hugh. Black. MINISTER’S STUDY FIOVIiS. The recovery of the pulpit is bound up with the practice of the closed study door for four solid hours on five mornings of the week. Some other things may have to be abandoned. But what shall it profit us to be the busiest men in the community it wo are tailing down at the very heart and centre. <>t our appointed task? Richard Roberts. PRODUCE. Our paramount interest now ' s to make the host possible use <h the existing machinery of production. Ihe ideal system will come in time, hut it will on 1 v be retarded if we try to make short cuts. Ri. Hon. G. N Ban-.cs. AIDWORK FOR PEACE. It jh of no use wishing for peace, -ami sifting down and waiting until it comes. Peace must be worked for. iuul the work is as hard as that which our beloved dead put into ihe war. if we want peace. we have to do two things: first, believe that p.-av- is possible. and second, work to make it !- sible. Those who believe that another war is coming to curse the world aic. bv that belief, helping to make war possible.- Jliss -Maud Hoyden. UKI.IKYI-: TN YOI'TH. 'l7, l,a an optimist is to la- a believer in vonth. il IS. alter all. the >onng iijj.r?.; them. Doubtless they .occasionally have their weaknesses, and among Un;m sometimes is a very import ert appro via r „| t l,e virtues of their- seniors. Inn those weaknesses are always amiable - - thev alwava give me at least a great feeling of pb-.-M.re. m>y;J v. >.h a -lie .* tmu-li of ps.tl-.0-. far I r.alTonr. K,(., T.KACVK OF NATION'S. I am one of those v, ho attach Inch h, p- to“ln ..-an ; N’—■ - : '• »* an essential part of the maehme.y ol i (-ivlli.se tea. If ii succeed -. er.-ihsa.mn ii. -;,fe II il fail- and I speak -H- ---; vi-edly civilisation is doomed- 1.1 Hon it- I Joy-1 (ieorge. onk ok t.ifk's n:.\( K.mi-' 1 am speaking rpiite serioush "’he" | snv that in my judgment !»■ gross am. 'vraiah' "might good purposes , ihe debited, and the fm/on. and worthless, the transUory and nnp odmtive purposo*. to which it > devoted, i- one of the. iragea."- ' ' - modern Kuglish life.- U- Hmi H. H. Asquith. _ t THE SEEDS OF AVAR. 1 It, is not moral .disarmament *!>:/ «-« i need, but a, new sort ol aghi[ng. inn ... i It i- whenever the light againis shirked that- tin- seeds me > V ! . ir .. Savagery m all it-* > o| t“ s onlv's llishm-ss developed ...gi—ny- ■ selfisl -in all k-i forms in tin on V ultimate menace to pes:cc. Dean Luirnugbs. IvEK'P ON SAYING. From the first moirom when he asumo- control of liis budget, ihe youth ought t'» com me m-e saving, and ho No matter how small hm jevciiuc. he ,mailt to save. Ii savin a inn.lve- deprivina himself of eiemettes eiiiemas, fancy or butter upon hi- bread.

still he onplit to save, lie empln to perform a. iniraele and save. lie ma* b„ able to save only a very Indie, a trifle a mere notlnng he nught to lV( . It, is the habit of -aring that i-r. unt.s not the sum saved. Arnold Bennett. GOSPEL OF GRAC'E. Religion is not a matter moroly of- • feeling good,” even in the presem*' oi Nature. We want Co get all the mustiness out of our .temples, and out of onr hearts, ami out of our worship.- \\ . F. G-ilroy. ( '(>-OPER A'l’rVE FFFOR r. » rim Empire Settlement Act lmriug been placed on the Statute Book, the * need for co-operative effort became very apparent. Alillions of acre? ol prairie and forest lands oversea await pioneers and tillers of the soil, parts of 7 whic-ll will become fertile fields with comparative ease, and give employment to inanv in.a short space of time. —Mr c WritrliK , A l-TSCAr. ANO.MAI.Y. The j»ri vilegef 1 position ol co-opera-

Live societies in their assessment is becoming acutely emphasised owing to the lai-fc that they are extending their activities further beyond the scope of mutuality by repeated appeals for the custom of the general public and the undertaking of public contracts, which demonstrated more than ever that their comparative immunity from taxation under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts was one of the most 'Candaloiis anomalies of onr fiscal system. Walker Clark (Halifax). WO A! v N AND THE UNIVERSITIES. One very specious argument used l»y those who oppose -the adnii>siiui of women to the full privileges of.• university education was. ‘Let there be one university in the British Empire for men only.” That had an immense i fDct upon people who did :u t live in C r.ihridge. and upon members of IV e minent : and no doubt mam present would remember a letter in' the p »%■>«* some time ago from a gent]* «•-•'. •• ' wa.s still young, who went do*vn in ILK:, in which lie wrot-r*. “ Tlie v: »t charm <»f Cambridge to nu* ,\va* that there were no Avomcu I heir. “ It • *•> tine to tin* pioneer work of the < i - ' ridge women’s epllrgc 'which ". r ;ir c*l i fii'tv-three venrs ago to *aohi<we tie* '»n- ---; s-ible and di I actually achie* - L •'(* that the world looked on in admiration that ono afu r another tS:•.* nniv'rsities oper.pd their doors to vr=men on equal terms. Airs Adams (Girton College).