NOTES AND COMMENTS

Grey River Argus, 23 February 1933, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By a Stocken Correspondent.) It is better to work for the prevention of miseries than to multiply places: o.‘ refuge for tlu> miserable: —Diderot.i Our poli; icians might make mental note of the above. •‘Man is <listinguished from the lower animals by his capacity for making false generalizations. —‘Gieorge I liot. The last war was mado by monarchs, statemen warriors, who were all Christians, every one of them. —Lloyd George. The Universe is a book, and ’.. t- have -only read the first page, if v. e have not been out of our country. —Anon. People will not always Like advice, as the following story shows. Ohl Mac had the fin his doctor said, “hot gruel and whisky every night. Mac.” A week later the doeitor came to ask Mac how the treatment went. “Well doctor.” «aid Mac.

* ‘ I ‘in a wee bit behind with thp gruel, but two months ahead with the whis It is what a man thinks, not what he says, that is of importance, and it is better ,to have intelligent dissent than unitelligent agreement. The aims of the individual and of the race can I only be satisfied in thp creation of a more perfect humanity. But the fruits of our physical discoveries have been devoted to various means of blowing up our own species in ever larger numbers. Lot men gratify their lust for war and pleasure, and, unfortunately, science will bp a willing tool! Modern | man is thp animal most throughly strayed from his instincts.—Nietzche. A memorial to the animals killed in the last war, was to have been erected in Hyde Park London. There were 364,130 British horses killed, besides the elephants, mice etc. 1 Alice were used to test the efficency of poisongas. The timiditv of the mice must

have percolated into the toilers according to the sufferings they endured for the last decade. I suppose some day and somehow and somewhere, the ugly face of stu. pidityj will be hit between the eyes. We forget that every good worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. Every revolution is the offspring of language. Through it Demosthenes was able to rouse the Athenians to take up arms against Alexander. The post-war years have witnessed the removal of many layers of cotton-wool from thp bandaged figure of truth, which now begins to look more like itself and less like a first-aided casualty. The first casualty in war is truth! Tt brings to our minds the Cockney, who said to his pal Bill Forbes: “Did you toll “Arry Awke, I was a liar?” “No.“ said Bill. “I fort he knew it!” Thp only good thing about getting money is that it may help us to forget

all aboujt it. Life is measured bv thought and action, not by time—Lubbock. Keir Hardis said something similar when stating:—Time was measured by heart-throbs not by moments. Wo are still being told the same “ohl tale” by the politicians, of wage reductions being tin- salvation (?) of society. “Work on! My medicine work!” Thus credulous fools are caught. But. as an ohl proverb assures us. in vain is the net spread in fi.ll sight of the bird. It’s time the workers went in to bat. They have been fielding long enough now! The most universal phenomenon is change. The exchange seems to be a bit of a lt was Copernicus and Galileo in ,Ji<» sixteenth century who destroyed .the idea of a first earth. Since then we have learned that our earth is an insignificant planet spinning like a top at the rate of a thousand miles an hour, while travelling round an insignificant sun at the rate ot eighteen and a half miles a second. Modern Science confirms the majestic lines of Shelly.Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay. Like the bubblps on a river. Sparkling, bursting, borne away.