PUBLIC OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1926, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION.

THE TONIC OF HARD TIMES. “Tho tonic of hard times may be most beneficial if our young people are so trained as to react to the healthy stimulus, land the training which is being given to-day by the parents will have a great share in the making ot tlie British Empire of twenty years hence. First of all, we must as a nation grasp the truth tlhit we are living in hard times, which call for serious minds and strenuous lives. The old British doggedness and determination to win through ‘off one's own bat,’ to dare all in tlie great adventure, and to uphold the glorious traditions of the British Empire, must be handed on through tlie generations if the Himan race is to continue to progress. - •‘The Yorkshire Post.”

PLAYING THE GAME—BUT where:-’ “If commodious playing fields, organised games and gymnasia were provided out of public funds for the secondary scholar, usually coming front a roomy house in a salubrious neighbourhood, an elementary sense of justice demanded similar provision for the child of the mean street, whose only playground was the gutter, whose daily environment was the sordid savagery of the slum. The children of the workers should be provided with opportunities for developing the spirit of true sport, which would enable them to win or lose with equal grace, to carry out through life all that is embodied in the old public school cry, ‘Play up! play up! and play the game !’ ” —Mr Fred Barrailough in the “Daily Telegraph.” THE DANGKBOUS AGE. “The sober fact is that the most successful sort of person finds the middle of the journey the most perilous.- It is then that the lights are changing. It is then tint even success lias lost its morning glory, the dust lies thick upon it, which the evening sun has not yet transformed anew into dull but beauteous gold. The larder may he full, but the appetite is sated. Fame no longer blows a silver trumpet but heats a muffled drum. Faith no longer is a winged angel, hut 'a pilgrim leaning on his” staff. Life no longer whispers its secrets, for we know all its whisperings are common gossip. Me have gone too far to turn back, but- romance no longer makes the future alluring.”— Dr F. D. Norwood in the “Christian World-”