Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 8 January 1938, Page 6

Timely Topics

“THIS BRIGADED HOSTILITY.” ‘"lt is . the singular distinction of Signor Gayda,” says the “Daily Telegraph,” of London, “as an interpreter of foreign policy, that his eloquent lips are never sealed; and it is difficult, therefore, not to read without a certain pardonable roscx've Herr von Ribhentrop’s statement, at the signing of the Rome Pact on Saturday, that this act is ‘a guarantee for worldpeace.’lt would be easier to believe it if Bolshevism today wore the only formidable enemy to world-peace; but recent events have strongly suggested that peace at the present time has most to fear from the embattled and allied enemies of Bolshevism. This country will welcome the statement of the Japanese Foreign Minister that lie would take ‘profound measures' to ‘deepen’ the understanding in London of what has been done. But the measures which will banish all uneasy conjecture will have to bo very profound indeed; for. in the present disturbed and anxious state of world affairs, it is impossible that other nations should not speculate on some of the obvious possibilities to which the Tripartite anti-Comintern Pact, concluded at this juncture, opens wide the door.” Words That Tell A Story HOBSON'S CHOICE. —What i s offered or nothing. It is said that Tobias Hobson, an English stablekeeper, whenever a customer came to hire 'a horse, made him take the horse nearest the stable door.

Do You Know a.) Which is the “City Of The Seven Hills”? (2.) What and where .is the island of Iona? 13.) What is a harrier? (4.) W T hen was National Health and Unemployment Insurance introduced into Great Britain? (5.) Who was the first Labour Prime Minister of Great Britain? (6.) Whence did the flying-beat Centaurus derive its name? Answers to the above • questions will be found on Page 3.

Words Of Wisdom ! A CONSTANT fidelity in | small things is a great and | heroic virtue. = —Bonaventure. i

Tale Of The Day. Bill—You know, this is the shortest book I've ever read. John —“That so? Dill — Yes, it contains only one word. John — What's the book called? Bill~“Who' s Who In Italy.”