Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 3 January 1939, Page 4

Timely Topics

Conditions throughout the world being as they are today, one is scarcely surprised (says Callisthene_ in , “The Times”) when .LIFE IS LIKE men ask whether the | THAT. whole game of enter^g^;' prise and effort is I !really worth the candle.' - . ; One can understand the frame mind of the man who questions whether perhaps it is not wiser—and I even more agreeable —if, having ac- | cumulated a competence, he is, justified in retiring to some inexpensive haven and live out his life' simply . - and quietly. To us this .seems > pea- ' simistic point of view, a lazy man's , | way of looking at things. It suggests Ito us a want of courage in/ standing [up to the difficulty, whatever it infay I be. If one is discouraged, by the set- ~ {backs, is not strong enough to snap f his fingers at them and make the best. !of them, he is wire to retire graceT fully from the scene and turn his back {on the greater game. I Man’s environment appears tp,; be I, changing faster than the average : individual can change hiiftsell to fit it, which accounts for the frequentlyheard plaint “Things are getting too ! much for me! ” Because life is like that; because life is constant , movement and change, difficulties . must constantly arise which ' lend ‘*a touch lof interest to the picture of life which every one of us is trying to. paint or to fashion. '.a « «

r i v 1!; “I have the feeling that forceofdr- , cumstances will compel us in the not : distant future to face the question . . of propaganda * WHEN PROP A- squarely .'and honGANDA COMES • estly”,.; 1 Sidney Rogerson. in “Propaganda in the Next ,War.” “When (that day comes W shall. act as we have never failed to do in. the past and carry through a minor revolution overnight without any- o one losing his sleep. Haying fundamental change,. we as if nothing had happened the last ten years we. a form of party hi4, ; ■ stood for two hundred ycurs, |tbihdoned in the same night a, fiscal .pOl*. ’ icy which had become traditiQnfl«!.' ‘*j jdttisoned die gold \ was our pride, and consented to the ' abdication of \a king. - So whtn.ve agree that propaganda control is necessary, we shall impose it instantly, and label our control machinery ‘democratic’ or ‘ voluntary ’ in large