TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19815, 20 February 1936, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The Force of Morality “ I came across, the other day, a quotation from Lord Courtney which seems to me admirably to express the faith that will not fail ' us: ‘There will be many who tell us we are dreamers . . . dreamers of fine dreams; that the world is governed by force, has been so governed, and ever will be. It is they who are misled. The force they speak of is physical force, which comes and passes; those who f’-ain the earth by it gaining but a transitory honour. The force which really governs the world is the force of' morality. It is this moral force on which we build; it is through moral force we shall win the victory.’ I am convinced myself that Lord Courtney will be proved right.”—Mr Anthony Eden, M.P. Ocean Current Experts at the biological station at Departure Baj r , Vancouver Island, are continuing their tests to determine the influence of the Kuro Sivo or Japan Current in the North Pacific, and one of their unfailing guides has been the drifting westward of Japanese fishing gear. Japanese fishermen use glass floats for their nets, and a large number of these have been picked up on beaches along the coast of British Columbia after drifting across the ocean thousands of miles. In some places these floats collect in hundreds and last summer were gathered by settlers in pailfuls. A lifebelt that was dropped from the Norwegian tramp steamer Berynge rforth of the Philippine Islands in November, 1932, was picked up 20 months later near Xootku on Vancouver Island, and it is calculated that the belt drifted 1 about SOOO miles, or about 13 nautical miles a day.