Sayings of the Week.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 21, 23 November 1910, Page 3

Sayings of the Week.

An Antidote to Muddle. ▼ 0E was pleased with the healthylooking children he had seen I I everywhere. If Australia reared J children of that class it did not matter if it did muddle its politics.—Jfr. Greig, of the Scottish Agricultural Commission. * « « «■ The Friend of the People. The Prime Minister is abused in the Press and on the platform, called the enemy of the worker and the friend of the private capitalist, and the friend of the commercial class as against the mass of the people. Sir Joseph was. and during the 18 years he had l>een in Parliament had always lieen. the friend of the worker. —Ur. KU. M.P.

The Best Education. Let me say that the educational value of a trip round the world is very great, and it would lie a distinct gain to our country if our leading citizens and men occupying public positions took the trip oftener.— Ur. It. H. Abbott. Auckland. Church and State. He had noticed that certain religious people, notably some of the clergy, were coming into the field of politics and seeking to influence the. State to put a stop to things they regarded as sinful; but even if they succeeded in their efforts they would bring about a reaction which would bo the very worst, possible thing for the churches which they represented. —Hon. J. Rigg. God’s Own Country. Thirty-six years ago. after having been offered several professorships. 1 accepted one in New Zealand, for which I have been everlastingly grateful. The climate is superb, and the view of everything is from a distance, and. therefore, you can take a calm look at scientific subjects, Isith physical and social.— Professor Bickerton. Beating the Lords. It was commonly supposed that the British House of Lords was the most conservative. aristocratic, and high-handed of the Second Chambers of the British Empire. Nothing of the kind was the case. Some Upper Houses in the colonies had been more high-han<Jed in many of their acta than the English House of

Lords, as would speedily be gathered by a study of the measures rejected in Victoria since IB6o.— Hon. W. P. It ceres. .... Parliamentary P.N.’a. He dreaded the future of some of the superannuation schemes. He had a growing feeling that in the future they might have to inflict on a number of Civil servants a great disappointment if they were not very careful with the schemes. It was absurd to go on conferring promissory notes by way of statute, and he was anxious that the country should never lie laid open to a charge that they had repudiated anv liability.— Mr. T. K. Taylor, M.P. The Old Story. After seeing some of the primary schools and grammar schools, he was

satisfied that our schools more than hold their own in coni|>etition with the best work i n Australia.— Ur. C. -I. Parr, Auckland. Seven-year Houses. Condition* governing the erection of residential buildings had now reached such a- point that respectable builders should intervene in the public interest. He would guarantee that buildings were now lieing erected in the suburbs of Wellington which would fall to pieces ■within seven years. The publie were protected by local authorities in such matters as drainage and lighting. Why should not an equal protection be afforded in respect of the buildings in which they had to live’— Mr. W. H. Bennett, of the Builders’ Association.

How it Happened. The intent of the law was expressed iw words so plain that any man could see what waff meant, and it was merely play ing with words to use it as the clubs fiat done. The clubs said it forced them U license bookmakers, but he held that in S» per cent of the cases they could have refused licenses had they wished to do so. At the very first the clubs’ attitude was one of deliberate obstruction. The next scene in this miserable business was that any blackguard who liked to offer a club £2O. even if be had only come out of gaol the night before, could get a license with case.— Hon. Hr. Findlay. A Lesson from America. In the leading universities of the States each professor is given absolute freedom to direct his classes in his own way. The American universities insist much more strongly on the actual training that is given to the students than on high examinational results. — Processor Wellisch. Vale University. Slow and Steady. We have far too many of these great forward movements, which often end in rack and ruin. The Church would show more wisdom by going on quietly, steadily, and sensibly.—/ftr. »/. Patterson. Wellington. The Old Complaint. It is a disgrace to Presbyterianism that tiie minimum ministerial stipend is so low.— Rer. R. Wood. Rough Football. As an old football player in the olden days—until he was 30 years of age —it seemed to him entirely inept to merely punish a footballer guilty of an assault by disqualifying him for several games or for a season. What ought to be done was that the referee should, when a man was guilty of an improper practice on the field, declare his side to have lost the game.—N7r Robert Stout. A Big Difference. On a P. and O. boat, eight firemen could man the stokehold, and these men received an average wage of 24/ per month. On one of the intercolonial boats the wages paid to the men in the stokehold aggregated £6O |>er month. For a long time members of the Federated Seamen’s I nion had been concerned very deeply by the en< roach me nt of cheap Asiatic labour in these waters, and unless some immediate action was taken he feared to think what the consequences would Inn— Mr. C. H. Poole. M.P. The Queen of Streets. After comparing our city values witK those of large and flourishing centres elsewhere—which I made a point of doing—l have come to the conclusion that Queen-street is already one of the most valuable spots in the world, and both the capital value and rentals are right up to the level of the picked business sites of other flourishing towns of considerably more population than Auckland— I may even say on a level with such London centres as Bond-street. Regentstreet. ('heapside, and the best portions of Oxford-street. — Mr. R. ff. Auckland. • • • • A Secret Society. It- was said that Freemasonry in Australasia was not antagonistic to the Roman Catholic Church, but was friendly to the convents and willing to help the Church. He said, however, that it should not be a secret society. People should not bind themselves by a secret oath, and therefore a sincere Catholic could never be a Freemason, or bind himself to obey its orders and heads without knowing what they were. — Archbishop Kelly.