DAY BY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13817, 23 July 1918, Page 4

DAY BY DAY

I The view recently expressed by Captain I'efsillS ill lhe Heflill TageThe blatt, Dial Urilain is a tonsil Last lighter who always wins, is Battle, shared by a good many people in Central Kurope. l-'or example, lhe Arheiter of i v'ii'iin ■ .!r w .i very wide <-.--.,•'ii-I.m i I'l't'in lhe Uiiii.sii Alan power Mill. "Wlicn lhe war began." it sad, "we did not ive',en wild Hie British Aimy. The Central Powers took iulo calciilalion her colossal batlle ||ee| hul no olio then dreamed of lhe possibility Unit Hritain would summon to the , colours citizens up lo :>O. In reality. however, Ksurlnnd has only shown (lie same toughness and the same spirit of ■ self-sacrifice as in her great, wars Louis XiV. and .W,,,,.: ~„. |f lhe Anulo-Saxon is mice a! war no slicrilice is too great for him. no price !••" hii-'li to attain his object." The Vienna paper recalls the old mockery of the Knglish as "a nation of sbop'keepers," the "ice-cold liaberdashers I "I" the Thames." and contrasts the Knglisiiman of the Hermans' scorn with the real Hriton, who has lurned out to be "as ready to hear burdens as lhe Herman," than which, we are to presume, praise emit.| no! further -p, "Does anyone," it j s finally asked, "still I helieve that ; f will lie an easy mailer 1,1 compel this inirepid opponent lo capitulate?" An organisation has been estah. lislied in Sydney, under Honesty the name of "The v i :iland anls," its ohjecd iieinaEfficiency, "to serve the commonweal, and especially to promote and maintain honesty and efficiency in public and commercial life " Already there are 200 n, •rubers, ehieliv professional and roomier. | men a s a guarantee against the e.- -„■„- j n () ' f parly bias, it is explained, , • constitution states that no member i Parliament, no candidate for Parliaim |. a ml no office bearer in any political organisation shall be eligible for an executive office. The Vigilanfs intend lo examine public questions of all kinds, pavinc particular attention to the faults in public administration, and hopes to combat lhe general apathy of citizens, and to galvanise the community into taking its obligations and its responsibilities seriously. The -necessity for some such organisation must he' urgent, for lhe Sydney Telegraph uses the following omphalic language: "Some means of exercising a check Upon the audacity of elected persons under machine politics must be devised before the growth of political biHefdom and Ministerial don't-care-a'-hangisni in regard to the expenditure of other people's money brings the comnmnitv to lhe end of its resources." ,