Tárogató, 1944-1945 (7. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1944-07-01 / 1-2. szám
TÁROGATÓ IS adians should listen. May it never be said of us that we camped under a certain tree, for the tree was damaged!-—"The Explorer”. FRIENDS There are few strangers in the world now. The great migration of wartime has turned the stranger into a friend. The old barriers of distance have disappeared and strange men are meeting strange men. Black is meeting white; yellow is associating with brown. Never has the world been so mixed up. London alone provides a review of the nations. There one sees not only the Britisher but the American, the Australian, the Pole, the Frenchman, Indian, Czech, South African and many, many others. What a foundation for post-war friendship. Unless men know each other they cannot live and work together. Today they are talking together, working together and living together. They learn about the lives and dreams of men everywhere. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and Chiang Kaishek have broken down barriers that would have seemed impossible before this war. Their friendship is new and striking. Their example should be an example to all of us. We shall not turn a man down because he is a Jew, a Catholic, a Protestant, a Chinese or a Pole; his skin does not need to be the same colour as our own. All through the world this new vein of friendship must be kept alive praying and planning as Clifford Bax says: Earth shall be fair and all her people one, Nor till that hour shall God’s »hole will be done. Now, even now, once more from earth to sky Peal forth in joy man’s old undaunted cry— “Earth shall be fair and all her folk be one!” "United Church Observer”. BRITISH AID TO RUSSIAN PEOPLE “... M. Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador, and members of the Russian Trade Delegation met the Directors of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation to celebrate the achievement of sending £50,000,000 of goods to meet the needs of the civil population of Russia. Britain has combed the world for these supplies. Indeed, the traffic may have passed under the eyes of many of you who are listening—the lead from Australia, wool from New Zealand, nickel and aluminum from Canada, rubber and fine teas from Ceylon, jute from Calcutta, sisal from East Africa, hides and industrial diamonds from South Africa, palm oil and kernels from West Africa. The variety is astonishing and the resources of an Empire which can produce it a sure guarantee of victory.”—(Sir Francis Joseph in a B.B.C. Overseas Talk) —“Onward”. THE OPINION OF AN EXPERT The important place held by Canada in supplying medical services to Free China is not adequately understood. According to a study made by Dr. Wilder Penfield, of the Neurological Institute of Montreal, there are in in Free China fifteen thousand civilian hospital beds. They include Government, private and mission hospitals. Half of these, or seven thousand five hundred beds, are in hospitals operated by the various missions. And nearly one thousand of them, or twelve per cent, of the total, were supplied by The United Church of Canada. In addition, there are some Roman Catholic hospitals in South China. The Honan hospitals of the Church of England are in occupied territory. Concerning the large United Church hospital at Chungking, which he studied in detail, Dr. Penfield reports as follows: “Judged from a scientific and academic point of view the medicine is sound—the teaching, well done here, as in West China Union University.” He adds, “The teaching of medicine and allied skills at this stage of China’s westernization .... is so muche better than any other sort of introduction to our civilization that one must enthusiastically applaud this effort of the Church in China.”-—J. H. Amup. SPIRITUAL RECONSTRUCTION Realists demand that in plans for reconstruction, the fundamental character of human nature should not be neglected. The plea is both useful and necessary ,but, obviously, it leads to further questions. What is human nature? That is too large a problem for brief discussion, but this much may be said— current experience combines with the witness of history to confirm that under the constraints of living faith, men undergo swift and sudden transformation. Russia and Germany mm HHHHH
