EDITORIAL

Gun Flash, Issue VIII, 15 February 1943, Page 1

EDITORIAL

“Foreign travel broadens the mind”. How many of us are giving 1 a chance? We’d all. sooner be homo with our folks - grunted,» but we can’ be at the moment. So x let’s bite on the- bullet and accept that, and, having accepted it, don’t for Heaven’s sake let our; .inds dwell o: whore we’d rather be than here. For in doing so we. are v/asting tine i idle/ dreaming’. Let each-one of ush-fet 'from . “the unforgiving minute sixty seconds worth of.distar.ee ru* ”• \ .

, At present we’re getting'.foreigh travel - perhaps of a limited kin but. it is foreign travel, and, ../hat* .'more, t it* .all ”on the house” « maybe it wa'an’t. in a de luxe cabin suite, but we. got here, and 'there* lots to learn and see - native life and customs - French life /and cus- ; toms. Don’t blot us ,get the attitude of the Victorian British Diplomat j “Speak English or don’t bother* to speak at. a«?l”. How many are attempt/ to learn even u smattering of' French? Are there any of -us rude enough to laugh like street corner louts at people who speak with what appears to be a torrent of French? Hoy/. many have -bought bdoks and found out th< principal industries and products of l‘%w Caledonia; its places of inters eat, its population? How •iany of us have -pacific maps and -foliow. ;f the news etins intelligently? ' ’’Faile ”e *re marking time, arewe *. wasting time? Lot’s got stuck into it and get full personal value in knowledge for our country’s expenditure, of monoy in sending and keeping ivz here. We’ll be th:, better nor. for- it. ? v