Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 12 June 1937, Page 4

Timely Topics

DRIFTING WITH THE TIDE. “We seem to be moving, drifting, steadily against our will, against the will of every race and every people and every class, towards some hideous catastrophe (says an English paper). Everybody wishes to. stop it, but they do not know how. We. have talks of Eastern and Western Pacts, but they make no greater security. Armaments and counter-armaments proceed apace, and we must find something new. Worry has been defined by some nerve specialists as ‘ a spasm of the imagination.’ The mind, it is said, seizes hold of something and simply cannot let it go. Reason, argument, threats are useless. The grip becomes all the more convulsive, Bui; if you could introduce some new theme, in this case the practical effect of a common purpose and cf cooperation for a common end, if you could introduce that, then indeed it

might be that these clenched fists would relax into open hands and generous co-operation, that the reign of peace and freedom might come, and that science, instead of being a fharaeful prisoner in the galleys of slaughter, might pour her wealth abounding into the cottage homes of every land.”

BBSS Words That Tell A Story A HORNETS NEST. —To poke your head into a hornet’s nest is to get into trouble by meddling. The bear is very fond of honey, and often gets stung by poking his snout by mistake into a hornet’s nest in search of his favourite dainty. a■m a ® Did You Know (1.) When was Magna Charta signed? (2.) When was the Dominion of New Zealand established? - (3.) When was Khartoum taken by Lord Kitchener? (4.) When did the Jamieson Raid take place? (5.) When was a Constitution granted to Canada? (6.) When was the Suez Canal opened? Answers to the above questions are given on Page 3, I. H B" B Words Of Wisdom Love of good has always been the beginning of happiness.— Molina. T ■ m •» s b Tale Of The Daj 7 “Look! A lion’s tracks “Sure enough I You go and see where he went; and I’ll see where he came from ? ”