OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17009, 6 April 1923, Page 4

OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

N EG AT IV K. M.v policy is to bo a negative one. - r Bonar Law. TRADITION AND A FAITH. Gur national history i- a tale of the ea. li we coast* to be inteiested in die blue water around us England wii! 30011 sink tv> be a verv insignificant State. It WHss 117 years ago that we obtained as nearly a> possible tlm proud boast that " Britain rules th, waves. and that in our own interest. ,\» must keep as a tradition ami a tact. General Lord Horne. IN. OLDEN DAYS. When 1 became a soldier forty-five • ears ago. file in the Army was lather unpleasant and so-called crimes we?.am! for my first “ crime " 1 v.as locked up for three weeks. I wain charge oi the escort ol a desertei wiio gut away, and was not seen again for tu » yeais. I think I have created a record of being the only Field-Marshal t< be locked up. Afterwards 1 resolved to do better, and one of in*, mottoes is to live up to tha opportunit\ oi being always read-,* for the next job.- Field-Marshal Sir William Rob NOT \N ACROBAT Had I been endowed with the of a quick change arti-i I might stdl l ave been Lord Chancellor. \ i'•count Birkenhead. DUTY OF THE CLERGY. It is the business of tlie clcigv to preach the Gospel and speak the truth, and not to separate the Church from the best intellect and tbe best conscience of the nation. Dean Inge. LEARN TO THINK Those works are ranfi valuable that set our thinking faculties in the fullest {•lteration.— -Charles C. Colton. A POWERFUL ENGINE. The novel, in its bc't form I regard av one of the most powerful engines of civilisation over invented.- Sir John Herschel. LIBRARY LESSONS. Tell me what nooks you read when • you arc alone, and ! will tell you I which nay you are moving, upward or ! downward. — Henry van Dyke. SEI. F- DESTR UCTU >N. Liberals are denied the pleasure of destroying their opponents because they are destroying themselves'.—Ladv Bonham Carter. (OMBA Tl NG DI SEA SE. There are two diseases, syphilis and tuberculosis, which are very prevalent and which we would do a great deal k en«i. If we do not put a stop to syphilis*. then we are committing a crime against posterity. Whatever is necessary to get rid of it must be done. Tuberculosis i s not so easily dealt with, and one wonder® whether the medical profession has not just iclied upon polemical discussions without sufficiently pushing matters. .Surely 25.000 medical men can concert some method that- would at lea>t put an end to tubercle from milk. and. if they ca* do that, then they will be aide to get rid of a great deal more of that which comes from infection.- Sir William