YOUNG MAN’S LAMENT
NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER.
A young man recently was bemoaning what he believed to be the fact that till the world’s frontiers were gone — that there was no place left where a man could adventure, discover and explore, notes the “Christian Science Monitor.’’ “A man can’t go out and wrestle with nature any more,” he said. "Everything has been done for him. The whole world has been conquered.” A day or so later we came across a report telling of the feat of engineers in throwing the longest suspension bridge in Africa across the Zambesi River, below Victoria Falls; of the construction of a modern railway into the fabulously rich Altai Mountains of Mongolia; of the building of Norway's picturesque Midnight Sun Highway, to take tourists to the Arctic Ocean; of the completion of a 260-mile pipeline from Colombia’s inland 'oil fields, over one of the ranges of the Andes, under the turbulent Magdalena River, and down to the bine Caribbean.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1940, Page 4
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164YOUNG MAN’S LAMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1940, Page 4
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