TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19430, 3 December 1934, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The New Cunarder.

“ The neAv Cunarder Avill be more to the British people than a marvellous neAv liner, triumph of engineering skill. She Avill be the sign and symbol of material revival,” says the Sunday Times. “While her hulk lay rusting on the stocks, the hands that should have been busy completing her hanging idle, she Avas the symbol of depression; ' our economic ills weighed heavily on our shoulders. “ When Avork on her Avas resumed it Avas like a parable of returning confidence; the nation lifted up its head. The launching ceremony is the justification of that act of faith and harbinger .of better tilings to come, the nation’s rallying-point, promise of returning health and strength.”

Our Own Tinies.

“ It is the time through which we have ourselves lived, and the time immediately preceding that —that most directly influence the events in Avhich Ave have to play our part,” Avrites Mr Ramsay Muir, in the preface to his hook, “A Brief History of Our Own Times.”

“ If Ave could hut sec those two periods Avith something of the academic calm, and something of the balanced judgment that can he attained in the study of more distant periods, avb should he greatly helped to understand and to deal wisely Avith the problems of our own day.”

/] Test of Friendship. “Why it is that people avo have known and trusted for years, whose society we have sought and treasured all our working lives, appear to become quite other people altogether if we li‘y file dangerous experiment of going away alone with them on a holiday?” asks the Nursing Mirror. “It does not, oY course, always happen. The. holidaymakers may return home faster friends than ever. “The fact none the less remains that their friendship has been put |o a most severe and searching test; and it can, perhaps, he laid down as a general principle that if two friends can go alone on a holiday together and return at the end on as friendly terms as when they started they can feel confident that feiv of life’s many vicissitudes will afterwards prove strong enough to part them!”