NOTES AND COMMENTS

Grey River Argus, 1 August 1934, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(Stockton Correspondent.) It is a high privilege to make a human brain ferment —with facts. Because, where knowledge is neither existent nor possible, the fool and the philosopher are on an equality. The diamond set in gold is beautiful to the eye, and, in a world of I abstraction is as much the property of the one who beholds it as it is the property of the owner. But we can’t live on abstractions. Criminals will one day have injections of something that will make them useful citizens. Maybe injections will also be found suitable for people who live the life |of the parasite and other non-produc-ing barnacles burdening the planet. I A new valuation of life must be had and men and women live to make earth [a garden of blossoms and a theatre of I joy rather than to get rich by making [others poor.

Some people talk about economics |as though the study is in some way a |mystery. Science knows nothing of [mysteries, although a scientist may use the term as a figure of speech. What the world presents us with is a series of problems culminating in the jfinal problem of all —that of existence. If opinions were subject to an intellectual vagrancy act, the opinions of some of the defenders of capitalism ■would be locked up for having no visible means of support. Most people have minds like putty—they retain the impress of the last hand that grasped them. It is wrong to say that nature is full of imperfections. It is equally wrong to say that it is full of perfections. Nature simply is. It exists and admits of no comparison with anything else by which it can be declared either perfect or imperfect, good or bad. Surely, if we only exercise our reason and use what • knowledge we have, we might make a garden by co-operative effort where we have hitherto made a wilderness? It can be done. It might be done. It is for the workers to say: “It shall be done.” Then all the superfivialities of the master class and their henchmen will be done. The sooner the better for human kind. The workers cannot be slaves and be free!