ILLS AND THEIR CURE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 58, 10 March 1937, Page 17

ILLS AND THEIR CURE

{' !io Editor.) Sir,—Why is ifr that all articles are getting dearer to buy while machinery is producing more than the people can afford to buy? When is the world going to awake to the fact that man does not live by bread alone and that "man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn?" What is it that fills our hospitals, gaols, and asylums? Is it not because the vast majority of people do not stop to think and ponder on the cause? When will women realise that, man alone does not rule the world and that she should take an interest in everything affecting humanity side by side with man? Everything concerning the welfare of humanity should be openly discussed not in societies where each sex talks separately making conditions to hurteach other, and therefore hurting themselves. When will people realise money is only the means of exchange and not the goods so that as goods are plentiful more money should be distributed and mankind work less hours so as to be able to use the vast number of articles that shops and stores are filled with. Look at the vast money spent on education, does the result fit? Is our system real education, which is drawing out what is within, not filling the mind with indigestible knowledge? To really teach one must start with the known to get to the unknown. Then why start little children with a lot of ridiculous sounds which express no-, thing they have heard before they came to school? It is not the number of books one reads that gives knowledge; it is what the brain is able to absorb and store in it for future use. The child's brain may be very active, but it must not be overworked beyond the body's strength. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and "all play and no work makes him a fool." When are parents going to realise it is their duty to take real interest in everything pertaining to their children's welfare and not leave it to others who do not really understand their child. It is no good one complaining of what others do if we I do not do our own part to make things better? Fear, ignorance, greed, stupidity, rule this world, instead of love which casteth out fear, for if we do not love and help our brother man to be happy how can we love God who shines and works through man? See good in each one and evil flies away,—l am, etc., (Mrs.) JESSIE HOUGHTON PROBYN.