BIGGER MEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23829, 3 December 1940, Page 9

BIGGER MEN

i NEED OF THE NATIONS , "As we look abroad over the world •ituation to-day," said Mr. J. W. Shaw, addressing the Rotary Club luncheon yesterday, on "Getting a Line on .Ourselves," "I think there is not much doubt that we must come to the conclusion that what has broken down is humanity. .Man is not big enough for the situation in which lie finds himself. "6 havii developed tremendously on certain lines, but we have not developed the man big enough to use the powers low placet! in his hands." He said if Could produce bigger and better Jneii then the structure of society could Op left to look after itself. The world was in this condition today, .Mi- Shaw continued, because men, including themselves, were not big plough. The problems were bigger than jtliey were able to face. Jt was always !« a sy to see where others went wrong, 'but, after all. their first concern was *°r their own lives. There was only one Person they could make bigger and l^ er ' a "d that was themselves. Jhe speaker went on to suggest a Variety of divisions of mankind, the application of which, he said, would enab| e them to "get. a line on themselves." There were the divisions according to whether they were oldest or youngest in a family; according to whether will, mind or emotions, were predominant; there were those who C °+ "take it" and those who could there were the workers, the snirkers and thejerkers; there were the givers and the getters; there were those sought to fit in to society and u 16 natural rebels. If they applied these r " suggested, they might fi sorr >e idea of their contribution to we community. .