TO STAMP OUT THE FIRE.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1928, Page 1

TO STAMP OUT THE FIRE.

‘•There will be :< combined movement among many peoples bringing enormous pressure upon their governments to stamp out the tire of war b'elore il spreads, and the League of Nations will he given the authority it now lacks to act on behalf of a majority of nations and to isolate any conflict arising between two or more states. Despite the many dangers ahead, and an inextricable tangle of races and rivalries, there is a good chance that the middle-class mind of the common man, so much despised by high brows and low brows, will save ICuropean civilsation and things worth while by a sanity, good temper and spirit of co-operation, which in the younger generation are replacing old fetishes of national passion, while they are groping towards a more spiritual understanding of life’s enormous riddle, and believing more and more in the common interests o* humanity, regardless of race. That is the new note one hears vibrating faintly in wireless waves above all political clamour. It is reaching out to receptive and sensitive minds in evorj rountrv on earth. It may change the history of the world and prevent'those evils which otherwise will destroy our heritage and Hope.”—Pir Philip Oibhs.