The Review of Revlevts. 



July I, 1906. 



living (for no man will want to legislate higher than his own morals), men with tender civic consciences, 

 quick to detect civic wrongs and inequalities, and bold to speak of them without favour and with no 

 thought of personal consequences; and, back of it all, the individual seized with a desire to do the 

 best for his fellows that he possibly can. In addition to this there must be the extension of educational 

 facilities, so that every'one, poor as well as rich, may be able to gain the highest intellectual attain- 

 ments possible to fit him for the service of mankind. It is the illiterate who are anarchic in methods of 

 reform. 



This is the ideal I intend " The Review of Reviews " to work out here, an ideal identical with that 

 of Mr. Stead in England. 



" The Australasian Review of Reviews '' will stand as the English " Review of Reviews " does, for 

 everything that pertains to national uplift, and international amity. 



How can it be attained? By the co-operation of every reader of '" The Review of Reviews.' Never 

 was there a better time for the formation of a brotherhood of those w^hose common desire is to help on 

 the common good, a brotherhood not hedged bv State boundaries, but embracing even' man and woman 

 in Australasia anxious to serve their country. With this end in view, will every reader enthused with 

 a desire for social service write to me, that such a bond may be created, and a great Social party 

 formed, tied to no political party, and by no narrow theological creed, a Social party whose aim is 

 the betterment of Australasia. Proposals for common good would be considered as they arise, and 

 without any concern as to whence thev happened to originate. In this party shades of opinion would 

 be merged, and for certain great principles everyone could work. 



We need to create a nation of patriots. Wrong ideas of patriotism prevail. The idea has been 

 persistently drilled into the minds of the voung people that the patriot is the man who wants to fight 

 with arms, and often to fight without reallv knowing why he is fighting and shedding others' blood, or 

 his own. Somehow or other the man who loves his country so much that he wants to clean it up, 

 to make it synonymous with the Kingdom of God, gets left out in the cold, or out of the defijiition. 

 But the patriot is he or she who is willing to die, .^r live, in the service of his country, whether against 

 external or internal foes. 



" The Review of Reviews " will thus be not simply a journal which will give the most world-wide and 

 complete view of the world's aftairs, the journal absolutely necessary for every Australasian reader (this 

 it will be), but a journal with a lofty ideal, a text-book for social sen-ice necessary to every striver 

 after the common good, also acting as a bond to bind together every progressive thinker. 



I beg therefore every reader of " The Review of Reviews," with a desire to assist, to write to me 

 that we may create a force that vnW be potent .it every election, whether Parliamentary or Municipal, 

 throughout Australasia. 



Most would I urge everv voung man and woman (for in them the hope of the future lies) who (i) 

 sees the needs of the time; (2) realises the responsibilities resting on every member of the State; (3) is 

 prepared to sacrifice time and private pleasure to go. into Municipal or Political life as other men and 

 women go out on missions to foreign lands ; and (4) to listen to the call of God and to reply, " Here 

 am I, send me," to write to me. I want to get into touch with someone in every town and district in 

 Australasia who has a passion for social sen-ice. If such will join with me and work (as well as those 

 who are older), we shall, with the prospect of many years of active sen-ice for the common weal, have 

 abundant time to see the fruition of many of our desires. In the course of 15 or 20 years we should 

 be able to purge politics and advance the cause of the common good tremendously. 



At the request at various times of many of our readers, but with the very greatest of reluctance, 

 I am publishing a portrait of mvself. I shrink in one sense from what may strike some as vanity, 

 but requests have been so numerous that I have consented. Will my friends and acquaintances take it 

 as a greeting to them (especiallv the thousands of social reformers in New Zealand whom I intimately 

 know) ; and those whose fares I have not yet seen, regard it as an introduction to an acquaintance that 

 shall develop, through working in the common cause and for the people's good, into a lasting friendship ? 



If any who are interested in our programme will please write to me at our address, "' Review of 

 Reviews,' Equitable Building, Melbourne, I will send a pamphlet, ■ How to Help," showing how each 

 one may assist in making Australasia all it ought to be for Australasians. 



Melbourne, 8th June, 1906. W. H. JUDKINS, Editor. 



