PUBLIC OPINION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2517, 2 June 1909, Page 2

PUBLIC OPINION.

GIRLS AND MOTHERS. Men like Dr Batchelor and Dr Truhy King have proved themselves capable of infinite public service in diagnosing the disease and indicating the cure. It would pay the State a thousandfold to retain men like these to carry on an educational propaganda amongst the prospective lathers and mothers of the coming race. Our young people are not vicious, but they require a high example and a guiding hand at perilous periods when temptation hovers and there is none to show the way.— “New Zealand Times.” A QUESTION OF HOLIDAYS. It is evident that something will have to be done to popularise Empire Day, unless it is gradually to fall into disuse. At present it is not universally observed even by the schools, and this strikes at the very roots of its prospects. If tho children grow up without any redlettering of the 24th of May they cannot be exnected to associate it with the Imperial idea. —‘New Zealand llova.d. CONCILIATION. The fact- that the Judge of th- Arbitration Court can be spared from his special duties for a second time within tho course of a few weeks to act temporarily as a Judge of the Supreme Court implies a distinct tnbute to the efficiency of the new system of conciliation which has been introduced in terms of tlio amendment of the law that was effected last year. —“Otago Daily Times.” EDUCATION OF GIRLS. Dr Batchelor has done good service in bringing the question once more before the public, in whose hands, after all lies the power of effecting reform. The present methods of educating and training girls would soon be -altered u the people demanded the change. It is of no use to throw all the blame upon the Education Department, borne must rest upon these parents who permit', and even require, perhaps through ignorance, the continuance of tlic present system. Something is already burner done by the society founded by Di Tnibv King, and by the spread of technical" education. But. the- work of reform cannot ho carried out by adjuncts to the education system—it must begin with the system itself.—Cbnstchurch .“Press.” EMPIRE DAY. Tho Empire was not built by flagwave rs, it was built by workers, the -pioneers and the. men of brain, onto - prise and concentrated endeavor who followed tho pioneers. Theio is a, cun trer of those things being forgotten, there is a fear that some of our writers, educationists and public men, with the best but most mistaken motives possible, are misleading the. upspringing generation as to what patriotism means Patriotism means sticking to tlio jo in hand and doing with all thy might that which thy hand findeth to do. “New Zealand Times.”