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The Mainland Day by Day
* From Our Special Correspondents. , V
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« MELBOURNE
* ' Friday.
University Social Work.
There are signs that our universities
are producing more mature young peo-
ple than they did when wo were boys.
One hates to admit it, but in this-re-
spect tho world appears-to improve. A
settlement in the poorest of the streets
near thc Melbourne University is to be
omened and conducted on the lines of
the famous English University settle-
ments in the East End of London.
Young men with a capacity for social
work will live in the building, which
will be made as suitable for a settle-
ment centre as funds permit, and lec-
tures on boxing, health, and general
fellowship with "the older residents of
the quarter, and a course of games for
the children are expected to bring an
improvement in the slum-dweller. But
the effort will certainly make a man
of the student who puts his back into
this none too easy job.
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Art Purchases. ]
The acquisition of pictures hy Tonks, I
of the Slade Institute, and the late1
Ambrose McEvoy, has given great sat-
isfaction to circles which had been
energetically expressing dissatisfaction
with the Felton Bequest Committee's
purchases of previous years. "The
Green Hat" is an Ambrose McEvoy
study of a very graceful woman, and
the Tonks,picture has some remarkable
drawing in it. Both pictures are char-
acteristically the work of the men
whose names appear on them. The
trouble in the past has been that a fam-
ous artist's pictures were often bought i
simply for the name, without the slight-
est regard for the fact that a great]
portrait painter's attempts at -flowers!
might not be artistically worth study-
ing.
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Golf for All.
Nothing sliQivs the wealth of a city
like its golf courses. Ii" you would
know what to put your boy to, travel
round the golf clubs and get from the
secretary of each a list of members
with their occupations. Sandringham
course is now surrounded by so-called
cottages, bdilt by persons who are so
keen on golf that they cannot spare any
of their time to walk to ánd from tho
station. Oakleigh boasts fine links,
and the two newest are at Heidelberg
and at Cheltenham. The Victoria Club
has built at Cheltenham the finest
course and the most palatial golf-house
in oui' State, and it is entirely fitting
that the Prime Minister should snatch
an hour from political toil to open to-
morrow this monument to the value of
protection to thc Victorian manufac-
turer.
. * . .* i
The Unemployed. -
Possibly because, on May IC, winter
is oflicially here, and fires are lit in all i
Government offices, notice is at last j
taken of the army of unemployed, j
which has swollen to big proportions
each year. The same trouble comes
each year. Wc put' a plaster on the
sore after it has. become impossible' to i
ignore it, yet a few thousands spent in |
necessary works at this time would do
much to obviate the suffering of women
and little children, and more than one
member of Parliament has a complete
plan for winter relief work in his
pocket. If Labour does come into office
now that the Ministry has resigned, and
thc Labour leader been sent for, it i
will have a good opportunity for
showing that practical side which it is
said by its enemies at present to lack'.
Tho whole burden of the poor is on the |
charity organisation, and a' few indi-
viduals who have no system of funds |
to back them in their efforts.
SYDNEY,
Friday.
ls It the End of Lang?
There is a growing feeling, particu-
larly in A.W.U. circles, that as the out-
come of the proceedings at the Can-
berra Labour Conference Mr. Lang
must soon step down - voluntarily
or otherwise - from the Premier-
ship. It would not bc sur
Srising, therefore, if, after the
uno conference, somebody were np
pointcd, at least temporarily, in his
place, until the quarrel he hus with Mr.
Loughlin can be settled. Possibly such
a "man might be found in Mr. W. F.
Dunn. When Mr. Dunn subsequently
stepped down in turn to hand over the
reins to Mr. Loughlin, a niche might
very well be found for him as Agent
General in London. Meanwhile, Mr.
Lang sticks to Mr. Seale, whom he has
described as "constitutional president
of the A.L.P."-despite the decision of
the Federal Labourites to the contrary.
Naturally the Lang camp has to find
some guns, under shelter of whose bar-
rage they may make another onslaught
on the stronghold, and so they aro
pinning their faith to the supposition
that the Seale faction will form a new
party. Obviously the breach between
the two warring sections has been very
much widened as the result of what has
happened at the Federal Conference,
j In the interests of Labour throughout
the Commonwealth, however, the latter
body is busying itself in trying to heal
the breach. While administering a
sound spanking to Mr. Lang, so to
speak, his bosses are telling him they
are sorry he is such a naughty boy, but
that his actions have compelled them to
do it. Mr. Lang will have to prove a
much bigger and stronger man than he
has been in the past to get himself out
of this muddle.
» . »
Extraordinary Incident.
A most surprising incident occurred
at a political meeting at Manly last
night in support of Mr. Parkhill's can-
didature for Sir Granville Ryrie's'
former seat in the Federal House
Warringah. Mr. Parkhill arrived very
late, and hundreds of people, after wait-
ing for two and a half hours to hear
him speak, left very disappointed. After
the meeting had been kept going with
scratch speakers for a while, a member
of the audience jumped up and asked
what time Mr. Parkill would arrive.
He was ordered by the chairman to sit
down. After an interval of an hour,
during which time other scratch speak-
ers were endeavouring to keep the pot
boiling, the same gentleman again got
up, and once more inquired Mr. Park
hill's whereabouts. This time he was
summarily removed by the police. Un-
fortunately for the chairman he proved
to be none other than Mr. Roland Green,
the one-legged soldier member of the
Country party, representing Richmond
in the House of Representatives. So
there is no love lost between the Na-
tionalists and the Country party.
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People's Aerial Derby.
The people of Sydney held a little
aerial derby of their own to-day. There
was an epidemic of smiles all through
the city. Bewitching girls smiled at
elderly men-even came up and tapped
them on the shoulder-but nobody was
shocked. Twelve hundred collection
boxes were rattled under the noses of
the city's population in an endeavour to
extract a nimble shilling to swell the
funds of needy hospitals. Briefly, it
was "Hospital Friday," which had been
postponed owing to rain from the previ-
ous week. The aerial derby simply
consisted in the release of toy balloons
filled with hydrogen, and bearing tabs
attached to them-which mounted into
the blue, and were carried by the wind
until they burst, whereupon the tabs
fell to the ground. Al! you had to do
was to pay a shilling and buy a balloon.
You were given a ticket corresponding
to the number on the tab, and prizes
were given for the tab picked up
farthest away from Martin-place. In-
cidentally, the person who-picked it up
also won something. For Sydney it
was a new stunt, and proved quite
popular.
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