Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 20 July 1938, Page 6

Timely Topics

i Jl [ ‘‘A modem clergyman concludes I that wo have suffered from false | standards of value, our criteria has f ' been fast maI FALSE STANDARDS chinery, tall > OF VALUE. buildings, bank ■ accounts, and 9 t stocks and bonds. In the terms of ! Wall Street, we have undergone a •‘slump in everything frbm sex to ? citizenship.’ (says Stanley W. Sutton, i Commissioner of the United States i Superior Court, Juvenile Depart;ment). t “We have had a bear market in I true character values. There is now •a very definite tendency toward em- ; phasising the human equation. Whei ther cne approves of all the pres- | ent-day social betterment trends or ‘not, there is the underlying encourf aging fact that human welfare is receiving an acknowledgment and con|sideration not recorded in any other ? decade of. modern history. • i “Socially minded persons are conIvinced that gaol and its association twith adult criminals, sex offenders 0 $ and frustrated lives is not the adequate programme for youths’ adjust - |ment. Neither is it feasible to tear ?down gaol bars and plant lilacs or 1 hollyhocks. Minors must be detained when necessary in a wholesome • i environment, given fact-finding exj'aminaticns and their difficulties ret viewed by trained and understanding * officials.”

.'1 IS [§! Jg “Weather is one of the world’s mysteries. The study of its phenomena has not proved its secret,” states “The Times.” RULING THE “Where even the WEATHER. changes of weather are most constant there is no certainty. The monsoon may be early or late, and the rains heavy or light, and none can say why it should be thus one season and thus another. What makes this weather of today, and where was it made? The learned know much of the nature of climate, 'and what conditions produce one sort of day and what conditions produce a day of a different sort; but the mysteries of the manufacture of drought and deluge have not yielded to research. Drought has been with us now many weeks. Recent rain has lessened the fears of the farmers, but not removed them. Those depressions from the Atlantic that are mostly dismal heralds of unwanted storms would be kn incalculable blessing if they brought ‘the gentle rain from heaven ’ to still thirsty fields and meadows during the rest of May.”