Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 29 September 1938, Page 6

Timely Topics

“Come good or ill, form the resolve that, so far as you are concerned, you will do your utmost to make all things

■COME GOOD OH ILL . . . '

work together lor gcod,” says Sir James C. Irvine, Principal

of St. Andrew’s University, in an address to the graduates. “It will involve self-sacrifice, but the unselfish life is the only happy life; equally it is the only truly successful life, for ‘success is a measure of a man’s capacity to make other | people happy.’ It is my belief that ; this attitude of mind can be cultivated, 1 und surely a plan for individualism ,of this type )s soreiy needed today. |ln an age invaded by materialism, in 'a time when the world is wracked by I dissension, and threatened with the i insanity of strife, we often wonder if f effort is worth while, if knowledge is i worth seeking, even if faith is justi- [ fled, and if idealism is but an idle \ dream. It is never easy to resist the i creeping paralysis of despair, but [make the effort and replace despondency by buoyant hope and gallant [determination. Even if the world is I i not yet ready to believe that service [can be both wholehearted and dis- • interested, you can prove by your [own deeds that such can be the Case.” i 'Si to & &

“While idle lands and idle hands demonstrate the failure of statesmen, economic and political considerations

A PRACTICAL VIEW.

are allowed to override humanities. It seems hopeless to

look to any Government Board to 'approve any Empire development schemes which have the slightest element of risk about them. Yet nothing can be accomplished without risk,” writes Commissioner David Lamb, of the Salvation Army, in “The Empire Review.” A people who lack creative ability are doomed. Sooner or later they starve and deteriorate and then ‘go out.’ In the transfer and resettlement of large numbers of our population lies that creative energy which will galvanise into life and healthy activity languishing trade and commerce. It 'is obvious that new settlements in hitherto unoccupied areas would at once set up a demand for all kinds of human' requirements. It is also obvious that markets cannot be created where they already exist. Unless markets are created where they do not exist we shall get no nearer to a solution of the dreadful impasse to which the world has been brought.”