IN PASSING

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6864, 20 March 1929, Page 11

IN PASSING

Minds arc like parachutes; they only - function when they are open.—Lord Dewar. Ten per cent, of the world’s crop is lost annually ibrough insect attacks. — Professor Doris Mackinnon. Panatics are always manifest where „ twO'- or three are gathered together to do good or harm. —Jack Jones M.P. The idea of evolution, best studied in connection with natural history, has done more than any other idea, for the emancipation of man’s mind. —Professor J. Arthur Thomson. Bunyan appeals to 'every age, to every clime, to every creed, to every sect, and every condition of mankind. That, is why “Pilgrim’s Progress” will iast for ever. —Mr Lloyd George. Not in the clamour of the crowded street, ftot in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But }n ourselves are triumph and defeat. —Longfellow. We live internationally and nation-

ally in a harshly and merciless competitive world,'and our power to find employment for the. working classes depends entirely upon our capacity to maintain the export trade' of the country.—Earl of Birkenhead.