TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19450, 14 December 1934, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The New Deal.

The Employer-Employee Relations, published in New York by the Bureau of Personnel Administration, commenting on “applying New Deal objectives,” says:ln brief, the New Deal objective is scientific humanism —based on ‘ security of the home, security of livelihood, and the security of social insurance.’ This means that man, service comes first. It means that we must pull ourselves out of our narrow, canalised thinking and learn to think and act cooperatively, to co-ordinate our little part with the larger whole. 4 lt means that the Now Deal is attempting to bring agriculture, mining, manufacturing, banking and credit into balance, believing that only through planning our political-eeonomie-social life as a whole can we hope to go forward and build a stabilised order. “Future business policies must be in harmony with this major New Deal objective. They must he organic—concerned with the harmonious relationships of all the vital parts of the business — finance, administration, production, marketing, personnel, consumer satisfaction. They must consider investor, management, labour and public interests.

“ Above all, they must build upon the democratic principle of representation. In the words of the President: ‘Happily the times indicate that to create such an order (an economic constitutional order) is not only the proper policy of Government but is the only line of safety for our economic structure as well.’”

Newsreels —Censorship

“In the majority of cases there is nothing in the items of a, newsreel to invite the censor’s attention,” writes Miss C. A. Lejeune in The Schoolmaster. “ The civic ceremonies and military pageants beloved of our topical camera-men may be dull, but they are not ostentatiously harmful, and the bows and bleats of prominent personages in all walks of life seldom give the public cause for alarm. a jj u (, within recent months there have been an increasing number of newsreel ‘scoops’ that smack of the American tabloid, and come into an altogether different, category from the ordinary newsreel item. Since the flagrant case last winter of the Californian lvnchiu" - , the scenes of the Morro Castle disaster, the third-degree ,; v t i, c police of Hauptman in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, and the recent pictures of the Marseilles assassination might all he charged, to say the least of it, with lack of good taste.

“There is always a morbid curiosity among certain types of people about certain types of crime, but that scarcely supplies a valid reason for pandering to if. Nor does it adequately justify the exhibition of these pictures to children, who may see them in the ordinary course of the programme without any idea of their contents.'' •