NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1926, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

SHAKESPEARE THE JAIAIORTAL. “Shakespeare had done better wt at Plato set out to do; ho had stripped the i just man of all the rewards of justice, 1 had given them to the unjust, and then 3 shown that tho just life was still worth t living.' The second impression was that in spite of perplexity about the ultimate order there was- the perception of its goodness, though the revolt of evil might break it up. The third was Shakesj)cure’s apprehension of the trngB ic fact, which.for him was never really disaster, of the struggle between good v and evil and the way in which good , submitted to evil for the purification „ of the world. In this apprehension they were on their way towards the ’ same apprehension of that mystery in the heart of God which Christians rpohe of as the Atonement.—-“ Bishop of Alaur, cliseter, in the “Guardian.’’ j THE C’AKE THAT CAN’T BE ' EATEN. ~ “Suppose you go to a theatre this evening, and to-morrow you have nov thing left for* your money except a L pleasant but fading recollection of last n night. But invest your money in a u book atul you have entertainment for s every evening all through the week. AATien you have finished it, the hook is still yours, and after an interval you ~ can renew your last pleasure by ,-ead- - ing it again. It is true of every other •_ enjoyment that you cannot cat your ,f cake and have it; the proverb is false 3 is your cake is a book.”—Air Adcock, e editor of tho “Bookman.” n t saving the children. v “Thanks in no small measure to the ,) Save the Children Fund, child welfare n work has been organised since tho war l to a degree that was not known betore. ~ Tho war certainly increased the need I for work of this kind, but tho need ,l.as o been recognised far beyond {hose couno tries which were directly smitten by the war. To-day it is not only ill European countries that a new era of e health lias been inaugurated for (•hiit dreii, hut the cities of India have their baby weeks, and more recently the Government of' Peru has established a f national council for the protection of K childhood in order to secure better t housing conditions, greater cue in sick- .. ness, and generally a higher physical r and intellectual standard among the e children of the country.”—“St. Alarr, tin’s Review.” " n STILL THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK. r “Give back any part of Iraq to the 0 Turk, and we know exactly what will happen. I care nothing for Alosiil; n and nothing or oil. Tt was always 0 strongly opposed to our advance up [. to the present Iraq frontier, and even to the creation of the co-ealled Iraq : kingdom. But now that the advance I has, unhappily, been made, 1 know lor >i certainty that we cannot withdraw | in fate of the Turks without exposing thousands of helpless villagers to I exactly such treatment as recent investigators have described. I know ,wliat people will say about ‘humanity j, | with an eye to oil.” Let them say!”— ■ Air Henry H. Nevinson, in the “Daily - j Herald.”' • | “A GIRDLE ROUND ABOUT THE - ; EARTH.” ’ i “The Tower of Babel 101 lin the Bible story because of the confusion ■ of tongues; the telephone is the now lower of Babel, which by gradually bringing together all the tongues of the world on a common instrument » will perhaps some day bring about a common language. It' is made by ' countless hands. ft, was the idea of I one man, who lived to .see its almost universal use, though when he first l made: it people thought it a toy. .Many minds of many nations have improved , it, till now it ,is, with wireless, the 1 veritable Voire of tF:o Human Race.” t —“AI.v Magazine.’! i i NATIONAL HEALTH BY • j PREVENTION. “It is the business of the State to • care for the health, of the community, I and the duty of the medical profession - to regard the heatlli and recovery of the individual patient as the supreme ■ consideration. But it is true that ‘postponement of the event of death’ "may mean, and in many cases must mean, an increase in the number of , cases requiring medical attention, that the prevention of ill-health is even more important than its cure, and that for the establishment of a healthy rntii- | inanity the saiiitaiy side may he more I efficacious than the medical side of medical science.”—“Tho Times.” AGAINST THE LOCARNO SPIRIT. ' “ The Protocol does not come into I effect till Germany is a member of the , League, and she now will not become, a member for six months. That is a : long time when things are changing from day to day. II it affords space enough to win agreement it also affords space enough for further intrigue. It is now more than ever evident that the admission of Germany to the League and to tile Council ought to have taken place in isolation from every other consideration, whether of the enlargement of the Council or of changes in the occupancy of the lioii-permaiient seats. The throats that have been made to leave the League have been totally contrary to the whole conception of the League, and the performance of its functions.” —“ Daily Telegraph.” TWO PEOPLES CONTRASTED. “That some general judgments on France and the French have currency in England is, nevertheless, indisputable. Certain of these judgments are the converse of corresponding French judgments on England, and ■ the two tend to confirm each other. If the French have found us to he arrogant, taciturn, prudish, and hypocritical, wo have retorted that they are a ‘ gay and frivolous nation, addicted to dancing and light wines,’ When they have told us that we are snobs • we have replied that they arc iconoclasts. Jf we are a nation of shopkeepers. they are infatuated with dreams of military glory; if,we are irrationally attached to our uncodified laws and our primitive weights and measures, they sacrifice practical ends • to the god of system. But we find it difficult, if not impossible, to observe consistency in our judgments of the French national character.”—Sir Alnurice Ames, in the “ Empire Review.”