Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 22 July 1938, Page 4

Timely Topics

“In the Great War between August, 1914, and November, 1918, about ,2,GC0,0C0 Englishmen, Scotsmen and ' Wei shmen ROADS DEADLIER were killed THAN BATTLEFIELDS, or wounded,” said Mr

;F. W .Hirst, vice-president, moving | the adoption of the annual report of ; the Pedestrians’ Association, in Lon- | don. t “Since the end of the War even 1 more have been killed or maimed on | our roads. Even the militarists who ? are crying out for compulsory service t should surely co-operate with the PeIdestrians’ Association in trying to re|duce this annual wastage. I would f appeal also to the Government and it 0 the House of Commons for reme- | dial legislation on the ground that | (with the present rate of expenditure taxation) we cannot afford an ? economic loss which at a moderate es- | timate. even excluding the cost of | police, amounts to at least £20,000,000 ?a year. i “In one year over 30 per cent, of I the pedestrians killed were children | under 10 years of age. We all know | that it is the speed that kills, what- • ever the hardened automobilist may Isay. If I were a dictator I would $ introduce a speed limit of fifteen to | twenty miles an hour for all villages, | and (a speed limit of forty to fifty ? miles an hour on the open road.” I 'si , Eg! 19 Si

[ “Europe has been brought face to 'face with decisive history. Hitler has i taken a nation, its 7,000,00 souls, its mines and factor“THE ONSET OF ies, its army. We CAESARISM.” have each been startled, in rectory and villa and East End backroom, even the least political of us,” writes Dr. Havelock Ellis, in “Reynolds News.” “We begin to see some of the immediate results of this event,” adds Dr. Havelock Ellis. “They increase our anxiety, we watch the shadows of the big bombers draw nearer to our roofs, over the heads of our children playing in the garden and street. Memories stir of the old Junker threat, we wonder if it is possible for the name of our ancient nation to be blotted like Austria’s from among the earth’s peoples. “All this is natural, necessary; it is ■this stirring of millions that shakes down Governments, however strongly based. But these events are only jin the immediate foreground. Behind, rearing up in such vast outline that it is seldom glimpsed at all, is a far profounder issue, so terrifying and fateful that it changes the meaning of our entire epoch. No life escapes its dominance. It is the onset of Caesarism.” '