TIMELY TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 7 August 1934, Page 4

TIMELY TOPICS

THE ONLY WAY OUT. Says 11. C, Engolbroeht and F. C. Hanighen in ‘‘Merchants of Death”: ‘‘The world will never cease being an armed camp until the basic elements of our present civilisation have been changed. The same holds true of the armament industry...” 'A world which recognises and expects war cannot get along without an enterprising, progressive and up-to-date arms industry. All attempts ’to . attack the problem of the arms makers in isolation —by nationalisation or by international control —are almost certain to fail. The arms industry is plainly a perfectly .natural product of our 'present 1 civilisation.' More than that, it is an essential element in the chaos and anarchy which .•characterise our international politics. The skies arc again overcast with lowering war clouds, and the Four Horsemen are again getting ready to ride, leaving destruction, suffering’ and death iin their path. Wars are manmade, and peace, when it comes, will also be man-made.” <s. <?> <?> ■s> NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

“The person suffering from a nervous breakdown has not succeeded inreconciling himself with his environment, that is to say, with things as they arc around him. For, let it be quite clearly understood, only a small percentage of nervous cases are due to overwork. Most people seem to think that is what they are all due to,” writes Mr .T. Monaghan Graham, M.A., in “Health for All.” “In neurasthenia and nervous breakdown the people concerned have found the stress of modern civilisation too great. They have not kept pace with it. They have fallen out in the race, and that spells disaster. It must not be thought that" we are all either to succeed in reconciling ourselves with our environment or else to fail in the process. The majority of people vacillate between success and failure. The most successful are those who arc known as ‘extroverts,’ active people who, rather than think morbidly about their failures, ‘take the bull by the horns’ and accomplish things.”

<s. <s> <j> <i> <s> WORDS OF WISDOM. If a man loves the labour, of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. —R. L. Stevenson. <S> <S> <S> & 4> TALE OF THE DAY. “There goes a man who thinks in millions.” “I wouldn’t have taken him to be a financier.” “He’s not. He’s a bacteriologist.