TIMELY TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 23 March 1934, Page 6

TIMELY TOPICS

POPE CONDEMNS MILITARISM, Tim “excessive militarisation 1 ’ of the physical education of youth, and particularly of girls, was condemned •by Pope Pins XI in the first interview he has given to a ."journalist since his accession to the Papal Throne. Speaking to the special correspondent of the “ Tntransigcant” on the subject of peace, his Holiness said; “What is needed is not exterior peace, which merely settles the apparent relations of nation to nation, but that peace which penetrates hearts, leading them little by lit lie to sincere sentiments of fraternal charity. Of all the excesses which wo observe today in the world, one of the most disquieting is that which, under the colour of real patriotism (which is commendable), exalts the nation to the point of placing it above everything. One of the most striking examples of lliis exaggeration is the custom which has developed .in certain countries of stepping beyond the bounds of reason in excessively ■ militarising what is called the ‘physical education of of yon Ur. ’ Nay, more, have not girls been educated in similar fashion, which is .utterly contrary not.only to the designs of flod but. even to human nature?’’

<♦'> <♦.• <3N TONE OE TRADE. To envisage the immediate outlook for industry in Britain as anything in the nature of a “boom” would bo blind folly, write Lord Nuffield. Conj ditious are definitely improving; money jis circulating more freely; and the country is crawling out of the Slough of Despond on to firm ground. Rut world conditions are far too fluid and unstable for there to bo a sudden recovery that will atttain unprecedented heights. In planning for business during the spirit of enterprise must be mixed with well-judged prudence, for the welter of disorganisation through which wo have passed in recent years, has been too severe to enable complete recovery to be effected in one single bound. That we arc on the right road, however, there is not the slightest doubt in my mind. The sales executive of my organisations all report a healthy atmosphere of resiliency. The public are responding and reacting to selling efforts in a way that is markedly different from .the dull lethargy that was experienced last year and the year before. That j mysterious somolhiiig usually slyledj the “tone of trade r is very much on j the up-grade. <?> ,v> <•?> O' ! WORDS OF WISDOM. I Tan good be, yet no (liver? Can The stream flow on, yet own no source? — : Sir Lewis Morris. J <S> <?><s• <s> <?> j TALE OF THE DAY, j “My dear girl,” said her triend,; “anv woman ivonld be satisfied with 1 * . ~ 1 whal John says he gives yon. j “ i-to would I,” said the young wile. .