NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 290, 14 September 1940, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

“NOUGHT>SHALL MAKE US RUE." For many days ' two : quotations have helped to keep courage high, writes a correspondent to the “Daily Telegraph.” May I remind your readers of them? The first is:— Come the three corners of the world in , arms And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to herself do rest but true. The second quotation is: — For how can me die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of their fathers and the temples of their gods? To those two tracing thoughts I would add ’Mr Churchill’s, “This was their finest hour.’ ’ May we prove worthy of such high words!

MAP-MAKER’S BUSY LIFE. “A map-maker’s life is a busy one in these days,” said Mr Percy Howes, who is a map-draughtsman, in a recent broadcast talk. “When a frontier changes overnight out come the old maps of the territory concerned, pens and brushes are snatched up, and we set about making the changes—these days as quietly as possible. It’s been some job with the changing frontiers of Europe these past two years; we call Hitler ‘the border-line ease.’ Let’s hope we’ll 'soon have a settled Europe. I’ve been drawing maps for 31 years, and poor old Europe has been coming or. to my desk for some change or other practically all the time. This war is moving so swiftly noiv that I doubt if the surveyors will be able to get to work until it’s over. Meanwhile you dot in the immediate alterations on tile old maps.” MAINTAINING MORALE. “When things are going easily with us—when we are on top of the world, either as individuals or as a nation — wo British are not in the least tough or aggressive; we are easy-going, unsuspicious, off-putting and, I’m afraid, slack,” said Mr W. A. Sinclair in a recent 8.8. C. talk. “We do rise to an occasion; but it, has always happened in the past, up to now, that after wo had risen to the occasion and dealt with the immediate danger, then we slipped bac-k again into our old casual, rather slack ways. We must pot let that happen agdin. This time we have had a bad fright—all of us—and I hope we have learned from it. The nation, the whole nation, is now mobilising its enormous resources of morale to deal with the present situation and these must not ho demobilised when the war is over, for they will he needed still. After the war living is not going to be easy. But, on the other hand, there is going to be more to live for, provided people here can tackle their peace-time difficulties with the same courage they are showing now.”