Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 25 January 1939, Page 6

Timely Topics

| “I believe that I speak for the Christian people of this country in giving immediate expression to the feelings of indign'ation

PROTEST.

with which we have read of the deeds of cruelty

■ and destruction which were perpetrated recently in. Germany and Austria,” | says the Archbishop of Canterbury, in a letter to “The Times.” “Whatever provocation may have been given by the deplorable act of a single irresponsible Jewish, youth, reprisals on ■such a scale, so fierce, cruel and vindictive, cannot possibly be justified. It is most distasteful to write these woi'ds just when there is in this country a general desire to be on friendly terms with the German nation. But there are times when the mere instincts of humanity make silence impossible. Would that the rulers of the Reich could realise that such excesses of hatred land malice put upon the friendship which we are ready to offer them an almost intolerable strain!”

I® ® S » “Today, 50 years since the foundation of the Pasteur Institute in Paris,' and 43 yebrs after Pasteur’s death, all branches of the medical profession throughout the world . not only admit the debt to the Master, but are -aware that the foundations of their arts and scientific practices are to be found in his discoveries. ““Life comes only from life’ was the dictum of Pasteur, and this led to the cause and methods of prevention and cure of virulent diseases. From these followed the germ theory of disease, and the principles of preventive medicine. Turn where they will nowadays, the surgeon and the physician will face the dominating figure of Louis Pasteur, but outside the hospital ward and the sick rodm his supremacy is no less assured.

OUR DEBT TO PASTEUR.

“The wider application of his discoveries has made it possible to transport foodstuffs in a fresh condition from one end of the world to the other, to the effects bf climate and insects, and to bring prosperity to millions of people in one place, with a higher living standard to millions In (another. “The work of the Pasteur Institute today is dominated by the method attd the spirit of its fbunder, as if he still were engaged in its control. His monument is that institute, 'but his abiding contribution to humanity is to be found in a cleaner, safer world.