TIMELY TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 13 July 1936, Page 4

TIMELY TOPICS

! THE EARNERS OF PENSIONERS. | “Some oi' the most worthy citizens of the State,” said Mr MacLaren, M.P., in the British House of Commons, “have not been gi’eat social successes, and, indeed, in a life like ours, when men attempt to do something of a scholastic, or of a philosophic, or, in deed, of a scientific, nature, when they are scholars and keep aloof, because of the calling of their vocation, from i the mere purposes of making money in ■this life, what do we find? They give ■out, their raw material passes. I can assure the Chancellor that I could give him the names and addresses of people who are worse off than men on . the dole. Here is the ' awful tragedy of it, that these people have to keep :up outward appearances and to make things look bright outside, but we : know their inner lives and the suffer- : ing they undergo. If we have regard for the intellectual accomplishments of those who have contributed so much to the State, they should not be allowed to pass the end of their days lin this way. It is not so much charity as the redemption of a debt which intellectual people or intelligent people owe to these men and w omen.” y -m 11 ® Words of Wisdom. We attract hearts hy the qualities we display: we retain them hy the

qualities we possess. —Suard. IS H H SI Tale of the Day.

The farmer had watched the motorist working on his second-hand car for about an hour.

“What are you looking at?” asked the motorist, “Is this the first motor car you ever saw?”

“No,” was the dry reply, “hut’s venj much, like it.”