OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11894, 1 January 1917, Page 5

OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

A Newspaper.—-The seconds-hand in the clock of history.—Schopenhauer. A Hat.—The indicator of freedom— Ebers. No reforms will help as long as humanity remains wild. —Count Tolstoy. It is the struggle, not the victory, that constitutes the glory of noble hearts.-—Sir Arthur West, The man of success is the man who gives careful thought to organisation. —W. If- Lever. Tho opportunity of a lifetime jnust. ho seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.— ("airice E. NewlinThere is everywhere the working of the everlasting law of requital; man always gets us he gives.--J. Foster. No power can bar a people's will, A people's right to gain.. —John O'Ragan. You had better make up your mind to accept what- you cannot alter.---J. It. Miller, D.D.

War is that miserable desolation that lends a land before it like Eden, and leaves it behind like Sodom and Gomorrah.—T. Adonis.

Goodness, like the River Nile, overflow.- us banks to enrich the .soul and to throw plenty into the country.— "Collier's.

A brier is a brier, though it be in a paradise; and a iily is a lily though it grow in a wilderness. Heynolds.

Materialism is one of the dangers of civilisation. —Prime Minister of Australia.

It is no use to waste seed corn unless we have reasonable security that wo shall lie able to harvest, it.—Milt. G. Patterson.

In this life oi ours pathos and eomcdv are always neighbours, and he who really sees life 'see* both.—W; G. Edward Bees.

A groat war leaves a country with Three great armies---iin army of mourners, an army of erip;/;cs, and an army of thieve. —Michael Jermin. All my own interests lie in Free Trade, hut so a.s I live I nevor will have any mule relations with Germany in any shape or form. —The iiilo .Sir A. Mark/iam, M.P. Women liavo far quicker, finer intellects: than men, although their brains are smalii-r; hut then quality is ni n rc important' than mere quantity. —VL H. lJudson.

There are things which are bigger than trade, bigger and deeper than business, which go to the very roots of human life, human liberty, of everything which makes life worth living, everything that constitutes the self-re-spect of men.—-Mr Llo.\d GeorgeI look forward both for social and for economic reasons; to the multiplication in the highest degree possiluc et the numbers of the men, whether farmers on a largo scale or .small holder;-., who owned the land they farmed. -Earl of Selhorue.

It :s impossible to conceive of anything like a Federal Parliament legislating industrially for tho whole .Empire, for each of the Dominions would insist on its own indus'rial conditions, -—■ Professor J. H. Morgan.

There is uo sort of national agricultural education brought home to the farming community ol this count)y. What is wanted is nourishment. <.f the living sciences rather than dead languages.-- Sir Geoige Red, ALP. In this tear don't let us subordinate tho winning of something which, involves human liberty and honour and the self-respect, of civilised mankind to any trade.---31 r Lloyd George.

For generations to come men will enjoy liberty and freedom which they ceo ill not have enjoyed if this contest had ended in a victory for Germany and the defeat of all the ideals for which we aro fighting.—Sir George Foster.

Day by day at tho present, time we aro consuming in goods more than we produce, and not, only have we to make up cur own deficiencies irom other countries, bua we have ; to make up the deiiciency in the production of our Allies. —Mir M'Kenna. The theory of racial domination, whether it were Prussian, Magyar, Turk, or Bulgarian, must be replaced by a programme of free and untrammelled development for every race. The super-nation must follow tho super-man into the limbo of history. _J)r R- W. Seton-Watsou.

The farmer has no chance of doing his share towards winning the war unless he will make up his mind to employ women labour to the utmost. The sooner ho realises this and gets over his prejudices tho better, and the sooner will ho show his true patriotism by actiou.-Mlr F. D. Acland, M.P.

Every schoolboy learns to take his turn with other boys at. what he likes or dislikes by "drawing lots." Chance is as much a factor of human life as are the personal passions and emotions of each of us. Mr W. E. Hume-Wil-liams, ALP.

What we want more than anything else is proper trade organisation, but we do not want German trade methods it this country, with their most palpable dishonesty of purpose.—Sir Robert Hadfield.

Tho Government never undertook that no married men would be called to tho colours until every single man had been taken, and the married men's grievance will only be a real one if ii> can be shown that the Government are not doing their best to get the single men into tho Army.—Mr Walter Long. Difficulties in the way to success may not be pleasant, but they are useful. If wo could become rich without deprivations; educated without long, dili-gc-iiU' study; if we could preserve* health and strength by disregarding tin.; laws of hygiene.; it we eonld play a piano or paint a picture—in short, if we could get what wo want without overcoming difficulties, our character would have no strength, our morals would soon decay. It will help us to n'aster difficulties if we keep in mind that, like riches, they aro a means to an end. The aim of life should be the development of character, personality. Tho best thing about having, solved a difficult problem is the added strength it gives to one's character. Practical education, tho most useful to the majority of folks, consists not so much hi having mastered this or that, in having read this or that book, as in the fore*-* of character that comes to us from doing these things. Books are tho means, character the end of education. Keep tho end in view and the difficulties wilt lose much of their force.—Frank Hartman. I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair. Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air, Beat upward to God's throne in loud access Of shrieking and Teproach. Full desertness In souls as countries lieth silent-bare Under tho blanching, vertical eyeglare Of the absolute Heavens. Deep-hearted man, express Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death, Most like a monumental statue set In everlasting watch and moveless woe Till itself crumble to the dust beneath Touch it; the marble eyolids are not wet; If it could sweep, it could arise and go. —-EH&abeth Barrett Browning.