Don't Get the Jitters!

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)

Don't Get the Jitters!

I"* HE tendency to panic at every fresh war-scare is perhaps an inevitable result of tlie terrible tension under which the peoples of the world are living nowadays; but the fact remains that levol-headedness and coolness in the face of every emergency have been an invaluable asset to British' men and women in the past and must continue to be so in the future. Recently a large shop in the West End of London distributed among its customers a handbill pointing out the followiug pertinent facts: — , * William Pitt said: "There is scarcely anything around us but ruin- and despair." ' . Wilberforce in the eurl.y USOO's said: "I dare not marry, th'o future is so dark and unsettled." ',' i-. '■£.. ~i■< , The Duke of Wellington, on the eve of his death (1851): . . thanked God he would be spared from seeing the consummation of ruin that is gathering around." Disraeli (1849): "In industry, commerce, and agriculture there is no hope." Lord Shaftesbury said (1848): "Nothing can save the British Empire from shipwreck." Wo got through then, so why not still —if we simply resolve to put our back into it and stop jittering 1