ARE WE DRIFTING

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 18 June 1937, Page 4

ARE WE DRIFTING

TO HIDEOUS CALAMITY? A NATIONAL PROBLEM. QUEST FOR SECUIBTY. "Wo seem to be moving, drifting, steadily against our will, against the will of every race and every people and every class, towards some hideous catastrophe. Everybody wishes to stop it, but they do not know how. We have talks of Eastern and Western Tacts, but they make no greater security. Armaments and counter-arma-ments proceed apace, and we must find something new. Worry has been defined by some nerve spcialist as 'a spasm of imagination.' The mind, it is said, seizes hold of something and simply cannot let it go. Reason, argument, threats are useless. The grip hecomes all the more convulsive. But if you could introduce some new theme, in this case the practical effect of a common purpose and of cooperation for a common end. if you could introduce that, then indeed it might he that these clenched fists would relax into open hands and generous co-operation, that the reign of peace and freedom might come, and that science, instead of being a shameful prisoner in the galleys of slaughter, might pour her wealth abounding info the cottage homes of every land." —Exchange.