NEWS AND NOTES.
MAN NOT A ROBOT. “Modern educationists have to realse that in the mechanised life man s not a robot, but has a soul to put Ujto his work,’’ said Mr C. Sydney jones, High Sheriff of Lancashire, .peaking recently on “.industry ami education.” “One of the great dutos of education to-day was to give .\sion to the people. However clevu- our mechanics might be, we should lot be able to hold our own in the vorkl unless we had that soul which mly came irom the intellect and the pirit.”-—“Liverpool Post.”
TRADING WITH RUSSIA. “It is no secret that Russia is lading in capital, and that she requires cans or credit in order to purchase nacliinery. What, however, is not toted in official circles is the fact that mtis-h finance is actually advancing arge sums to finance Russian reliiirements in machinery. "But, as nis finance goes to Germany, it is lerman industry that obtains the irders from Russia. 1 It appears to ne that the impression created would ie very different if it were stated. •Russia expects us to advance her lie money to purchase our goods. This ve will not do, but we are willing to Uve that money to Germany, who may •dvanoe it to Russia to finance pur•hasers of machinery and other goods rom Germany.’ ” —Mr J. T. Brownlie, a British Labour leader.
THE POWER OF SERENITY. “The maintaining of serenity is the naintaining of power, while the loss if serenity is the loss of power,” vrites Helen R. Crane in the “Science n Thought Review.” “A serene man rings peace and joy to those with vlio.ni he makes contact. He may not itter a word of the philosophy which 'ia v s enabled him. to attain to this poise, nit his very' presence is a blessing and i healing. His fellows forget their juarrels and worries and a.nxieties v’hen in his presence, and he, verily, ; ; a source of healing, for he is joy, ■nd his joy is contagious: and it is a '■'act which is demonstrable by seien--1 isjs, that pain and misery cannot ibjde In the mind and body of a man with a sustained joy-oonsciousness.”
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