Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 15 December 1937, Page 6

Timely Topics

THE ISOLATIONIST,

“Shall we creep Into the isolationist shell?” asks Mr, Geoffrey Stone in the “Nation,” of New York. “Democracy will never be the same if we do. Shall we arm to the teeth, match ship for ship, cannon for cannon, with the aggressor Powers? A militaristic, regimented, g'oosesfep influence hitherto absent from our national life would make its appearance. ' Shall we support the League or some other agency of collective action? This, too, requires a wrench in our traditional way of thinking. Why must we choose? Because we are no longer free, because we are not isolated, because forces beyond our control are forcing us to choose. In the context of our time isolation is an unreal, <a classroom solution. I think the, road that offers the least change, the best chance of peace, the greatest possibility of preserving the free institutions that, with their frequent lapses from the ideal, remain our proud possession is the path of international co-operation. Democracy depends in large part oh the freedom of the market, which is international.” | ; ! I Words Of Wisdom i WHO shoots at the midday sun, | i though ha he sure he shall never j i hit the mark, yet as sure he is i , j he shall shoot higher than he \ j who aims at a bush. —Sir Philip Sidney. \ Tale Of The Day Harrison : “When I was on the midshpiman cruise in Europe, 1 saiv a. bed twenty feet 'long and ten feet wide." Johnson: “Sounds like a lot of bunk to me.” ]