THE REAL PROBLEM.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 4

THE REAL PROBLEM.

. Imfliense amount of thought is devoted to such! incidental problems ftS ihe withdrAwAl bf foreign volunteers from Spain, German desigUs in Central fiiirope, Italian designs in the Mediterranean; but the refii prbbleia that embraces them all, liow tb rescue the world from itS pblitic&i ob$ession, seems Mardly tb he considered at ali," WriteS Gebrge Glasgow in the Gbntempqrary RbvieW. -"Yet the apj^ai'eStttly deetructive exp^dient o£ ridiCuling the political pundits, bf reducing the whole pbliticAl graft tb ahsiirdity, seems to be the bhly prActieal and in the eiid constructive thing for the sensible people tb db. ''The bhdrge that SuCh A devicb woiild be ihereiy destruCtive harcUy lies. Is it ihefely destructive, whefi a hoiise is on fire, to destroy the flre by Water T If Some human agenCy could ohly inspire the human racb, ihstead of always saying, 'The Government ought to do something hbdut it,' tb sfiy 'The Government ought to stop doing things,' and if thb shme agenoy could tufh men's minds ihto other chaimels, religiouS, philosophical, or What not, then much of the madness might be allayecL "It is bne bf the readiest protests of the human spirit tb fesCnt those wiibse Criticisms ar& destruCtive. Tb despair ie tb refuse help in the coihmoii cause Ahd in the always preSSihg need of iiiiproving the huffiftil lbt.' Of cbursb, it is Said, the LefigUe bf Nations was a difficult entetprise. It could subceed ohly by the coHective faith of peoples in the mass. Thbse wh& help tb Btrehgtheii such faith ai'e dbing th|i| bit, Thbse Whd §c^ rhftTttr 111^ jV"