Life — November 20, 1913 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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New Zealand and Prosperity Lire Puntisiixe Co., ntlemen:— Your interview with New Zealand in your issue of the twenty-fifth, as well as many similar articles appearing these days in various periodicals, is quite misleading. It was our misfortune to visit New Zealand last winter, and we had an op- portunity to learn something of the actual results of the “advanced position” and “progressive” (?) methods of govern- ment so widely advocated these days by lead-pencil theorists, and we wish that those so anxious for all these socialistic theories might be obliged to go to New Zealand and live. The net results in New Zealand, as we saw them, were to place a complete em- bargo on all progress and rob the indi- vidual of all incentive to put forth his best efforts. Truc—it has placed all on a level; but that level is of such a low order that the result is disastrous to the progress and well-being of the country as a whole, and the condition of the people is such as prevailed elsewhere in the world fifty years ago. In other words, New Zealand seems to be “pro- gressing"” (2) backward. We have visited, as tourists, nearly every country in the world, and we were a people supposed to be civilized where living conditions were so crude, out-of-date and uncomfortable generally for the tourist as we found them in New Zealand; and the people in general were the most crude, mediocre and backwoods lot. In fact, these con- ditions are far better in Japan and in many other countries that we usually con- sider as being far less civilized than New Zealand. As regard labor conditions, after never among You Don’t Like To Pump Tires; Neither Does few Your Chauffeur { | | Install a | EL Lr.oG 6G ED Pump | Then you simply connect tube to tire and | throw lever—your motor and the Kellogg do the rest. ] Then you eliminate all “guess work” that | your tires are up to the proper pressure—and thereby save your tires. | It’s an honest fact there’s no tire pump “just as good” as the Kellogg. Standard and regular equipment on many of the best cars for years. Attachments furnished for nearly every car. Ask your dealer or write for free book—“Air on Tap.” KELLOGG MFG. CO. 20 Cirele St., NEW YORK 1148 Brosdany Rochester, N.Y. 7 (&2 SAN FRANCISCO Fuse’, em dus atarket Sty cucace M12 SS. Muchigan Ave, The Heppelwhite Pr ttern Ae “'Heppelwhite !” exclaimed the Old Gentleman. ‘You can know him by his dancing lines, He breathed into his art the spirit of classicism and created forms of which none can tire.’” From “Chats About Silver,” sent free upon request V THAT better gift can one make to- day than a Heppelwhite Service with the quaintness of the quaint old maker’s time set upon it like a grace? Reed & Barton, during nearly a century, have re-created the silver fashions of many periods in many patterns, blazing silver trails in the field of exclusive de- signs. No silver can be too elaborate, or too simple,to be found in the Reed & Barton compass, which includes gold, bronze and pewter forms as well. Send for ‘‘Chats About Silver,’’ filled with word and brush pictures of old, quaint times. Offered by Leading Jewelers Everywhere Reed & Barton enweeztt Taunton, Massachusetts 5th "Avenue and 32d Street 4 Maiden Lane New York Chicago Boston San Francisco ars of government by the Labor society in general, and the sick, lame and 4] little or no 1 very low interest. party and “labor laws”, there seemed to us to be more strikes and labor troubles generally than we know anything about here In New Zealand as soon as a business becomes profitable and successful the government claims it and takes it over, and thereafter the same business is con- ducted by the government directly or is split up and sold to small holders with capital—the government furnishing the capital on long time and The prosperous, suc- cessful man is treated as an enemy to the lazy are petted and nursed to the point where the successful man finds himself better off if he drops back in the line of march. Consequently “there is nothing You lead-peneil theorists forget that it the dear people” that make the wheels of progress xo round—but here and there is a bright individual who “does is not “ Very respect E. A. Gowrax. Mixsetoxxa Brac, Mixy., September 26, 1913. comicbooks.com ly,