TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 9817, 22 February 1936, Page 8

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

London Transport The London Passenger Transport Board is to take a census of passenger traffic on underground railways. London’s traffic is the greatest in the world, and its omnibus, train and tube system the most extensive and best organised. On July 1, 1933, practically the whole of London’s passenger-carrying undertakings were merged in one body, known first as the London Passenger Transport Board, but later and briefly as London Transport. The new board controls 5783 buses, 2560 tramcars, 3156 railway passenger cars for the operation of 227 route miles of railways. These services carry in a year more than 3,500,000,000 passengers. There are about 700 railway stations in greater London. The trams have a total length of 356 miles. Taxi-cabs total 8200. New Deal for the Nations " The yellow race should not be imbued with antagonism against the white race. But it will be thus imbued if we are unwilling to envisage a new deal internationally as well as nationally. Germany will be dissatisfied until she regains what the exile in Doom has called her ‘place in the sun/ The tension in Europe will lead to new disasters unless the imperial urge of Mussolini has the opportunity to spend itself on African soil. Japan will see red until her crying needs are acknowledged. “ The four Powers possessing the world—Great Britain, Franco, Russia, and the United States—must realise that mankind can no longer be governed by the adage: 4 He that hath to him shall be given; and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which lie hath/ Just as social peace cannot prevail without some adjustment of the capitalistic system, so international peace cannot be preserved without drastic territorial readjustments. Great Britain, France, Russia, and the United States must receive Italy, Germany, and Japan on terms adjusted to present world conditions.”—Colonel M. E. House, the late ex-President Woodrow Wilson’s personal adviser. Why Quakers are Effective “What has most impressed me as characteristic of many minds trained under friendly influence is their plain exactitude in observation; their instinct and faculty for seeing things as they are; their quiet courage in exercising the powers of perception and of judgment; and their ‘healthy, sound simplicity’ (to use Wordsworth’s phrase) in vision and in measurement of value,” writes Sir Michael Sadler, in the “ Friend.” “ This power of truthful observation, this sensitiveness to what is real, may in part be physiological, and due in some degree to inheritance from a selected stock. But it is fostered by the influence of the home and of the home-circle, by the tone of the conduct of business in meetings of the Society and by tho spirit immanent in Friends’ schools. It is identical with one chief quality of the scientific mind, viz., the power of exact and independent observation. Its manifestations, however, in the sphere of the affections and in family relationships are not less significant than in the observation of Nature. Minds of this order delve deep into life —that Life of which all human society is a manifestation and which may perhaps 4 roll through all things invisible, it liveth to the heart/ ”