Tárogató, 1943-1944 (6. évfolyam, 3-12. szám)
1943-10-01 / 4. szám
14 TÁROGATÓ increasingly important contributor to man’s diet through the production of sugar and possibly other substances. Already wood is a valuable source of vanilla flavouring. “ONWARD.” CANADA PRODUCING TIN Tin has been added to the long list of minerals produced in Canada, reports the Department of Mines and Resources. Prior to the war there was no production of this metal in the Dominion, but in recent months the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company has been producing small quantities of tin on a semi-commercial scale at Trail, British Columbia. The tin is obtained as a by-product in the company’s lead-zinc-silver operations, and the output meets approximately fifteen per cent, of Canada’s present requirements. Tin is used principally in the making of tin plate for the manufacture of tin cans and other containers. The huge quantities of materials now being shipped in tin containers makes it an important wartime metal. —“ONWARD”. POINTED QUOTATIONS Truth is all around us, but only the man who persists in digging many expect to discover much of it. The truth-lover will naturally be a truth-seeker. What has been told us in confidence was never meant to be repeated in public. The wise man saves himself much sorrow by holding his tongue. It is just as easy for an auto to travel one hundred miles an hour as ten if it has the power; it is just as easy to serve God with the whole heart as to follow Christ far off— if we only have the power. In writing our own history we are also writing the history, in part, of those whom we are influencing. Who wants his faults reproduced in the next generation? Then we had better walk carefully. —“ONWARD.” n. __________________ FAITH “These parachutes are wrapped with the greatest care”, said the istructor, addressing a number of airmen, “ninety-nine cases out of a hundred we can guarantee that they will open within twenty seconds. But if one of you happens to get a parachute that fails to open, just bring it back and we will give you a new one.” There was a laugh at this. “You see”, concluded the instructor, a philosopher as well as a humorist, “jumping from a plane is like religion. You can talk about it and read about it and even think about it, but you never know if it is really souncl till you try it.” v—The Children’s Newspaper. THE ONLY WAY TO PEACE If you want more world wars, each worse than the one before, then have done with thought, with principles, with faith,-and you will get your wish. But if you want the world rid of wars, rid of poverty and want, and unemployment, and fear, and all other enemies of mankind, then strive in every way you can to deepen your thoughts, your principles, and your faiths, for only thus will right action follow and the peace be won. —W. E. Elliott. “Canadian Girl.” JAN CHRISTIAN SMUTS “The Axis cannot possibly win this war; the cannot even bring about a stalemate. The war will inevitably end in their colossal crash and with their fall will arise the opportunity of rebuilding this world of ours on fairer lines”. This prophecy was made to a cheering crowd in Johannesburg on 28th March, 1942. It was spoken by a man who was once among the staunchest foes of Britain. To-day he is one of Britain’s staunchest friends, and the experience he gained in warfare against Britain he now devotes to South Africa’s fight for democracy, world-freedom and the Empire. General Jan Christian Smuts, Field Marshal in the British Army; Prime Minister of South Africa; soldier, philosopher, statesman, humanitarian, leader, student, firm optimist and believer in the world’s future. One of the Empire’s, perhaps the world’s, greatest men. Young Jan Smuts, second son of a Dutch farmer, born 30 miles north of Cape Town in the year 1870, showed no signs of greatness or leadership during the first 30 years of his life. He was a brilliant student at school, it is true, but was shy and diffident, made few or no friends and was physically nondescript. At Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he took his law finals, he was almost unnoticed by fellow undergraduates and few legal men
