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PAG TWELVE THE ~ANADIAN STATESMAN. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO THURSDAY, OCT. lOth, 1946 Editer of Statesman Te SP.ak ln SeIes en Joumaflsm ut Montreal A new departure in training for journalism has been initiated at the D'Arcy McGee High School, Montreal,. where a course o! lec- tures has been arranged under auspices of the Catholic Aduit Education Cammittee. The scheme 8s evidently one leading to pre- Paration of High School students to take up newspaper work on graduation or for further studies in accredited university courses 4 in journalism. In a recent letter ta the editor of The Statesman, tue Education Committee extends An invitation ta participate in the series of 25 lectures. He goes ta Montreal an' October 2lst ta speak on ."The Weekly Newspaper and its Unique Force in the Journalistic World." Designated for lectures are the foilowing: The History of Journ- alism--George V. Fergusan, for- mer managing editor of the Win- nipeg Free Press; The Press and the Public-B. K. Sandwell, ed- itor-in-chief of Saturday Night, Toronto; What. is News?-R. W. Latest JUST ARRIVED Large shipment of Children's Oki-Suits Corne ini and see hiow warrn and comfortable they are Couch, Johnston & Cryderman A Mullikin Automatic lung, one of the flrst of its kind in Canada, was presented to the Children's Memorial Hospital in Montreal, by employees of the Montreal ter- minais of the Canadian Pacific ,4lway, who planned the camn- paign among themselves to flght polio and raised $1,200. Pictured Keyserlingk; Co-operative News- gathering-(ta be announced); Technical Limitations on a Daily -G. J. Fitzgerald, news editar of The Montreal Gazette; Sacred Cows (or Publishers' Taboos)- Leslie Roberts, jaurnalîst and au- thor; The Weekly Press-Geo. W. James, editar and publisher of The Canadian Statesman, Baw- manville. Under the tithe of Speciflc Con- sideration of Journalism, Ewen Ir- vine, associate editor of The Mon- treal Star will discuss the editor- ial (influence of editorials on peo- ple and vice versa); Grattan O'- Leary, associate editor o! The Ot- tawa Journal .will speak an Par- liamentary Reporting; Mrs. Helen Murphy, women' s page editar of the Montreal Herald and presi- dent of the Montreal branch af the Canadian Women's Press Club will talk on Women's Interests; and A. W. O'Brien, sports editor of the Montreal Standard, will have for topic Sports Writing as Preparatian for General Newspa- per Work. P. A. Surrey, photo editor of the Standard, will speak on Pictures in the News. The ed- ucation editar of the Montreal Ga- zette, Mrs. Elizabeth Norrie, will discuss Educatian; and Campbell Carroll, publicity director o! Can- ada Steamship Lines, is ta speak on General Reparting. The related topics, Radio and the News, the Technique of Pub- lic Relations, and the Econamics o! Publishing, wîhl be considerel3 by Miss Elizabeth Long, assistant talks supervisor and director o! women 's interests, CBC, Rielle W. Thomson, manager of the infor- mation) committee o! the Cana- dian Pulp and Paper Associabion, and John E. Langdon, former eas- terri editor of the Fînancial Post, and presently of McLeod, Young, Weir & Company, Ltd., respective- ly. A gas-fllled electric cable that floats an the water has been in- vented. at the presentatian ceremony are, left ta right, J. R. Kimptan, gen- eral superintendent 'for the C.P. R.'s Quebec district and honorary chairman o! the emplayees' com- mittee, who made the presenta- tian on behaif of the emplayees; Edgar Eaton, car foreman, Glen Yards, chairman of the employees' H. G. Welis' Last Words By Lewis Milligan The death a! H. G. Wells has called forth many articles in the press estimating his literary achievements and more especially his influence upori the scientiflc, political and social mavements of his time. There can be na doubt as to his genius as a writer. He was a master in the handling o! words and juggiing with ideas. No writer since Dickens, with the exception of Arnoald Bennett, couid so entertainingly depict English characters, particularly of the iower middie-classes, of which he was an offilring. But it was as an imaginative writer in the reaim o! science, and as a sincere and enthusiastic advocate of So- cialism that he wielded his great- est influence. Wells was a materialist-in his autobiography he cailed himself an atheist. For hlm there was no Gad or things spiritual. There was nothing beyond what could be seen and handled, and Wells be- iieved that man could by his own will and skill determine the shape of things ta came. In a measure, this is quite true, for what men do in the present largeiy deter- mines the shape o! things in the future. There has been no lack of wili power, skill and planning in the past flfty years, but the re- suit has not been what Wells an- ticipated. Things are in pretty bad shape in the world at the pre- sent time, and Wells, in his last book, had abandoned ail hope for the future of mankind. The title of thîs book, "Mind at the End of its Tether," is very significant, and in îtself is a con- fession by its author of the fallacy of his own Godless theiefo the betterment o! mankinçi. "-in his earlier writings Wells was an idealist and even a visianary in his hopes for humanity," says Dr. Carnegie Simpson, in an article in the British Weekly, August 29. "He planned Utopias; and he con- fldently and even enthusiastically beiieved that thraugh human ef- fort, equipped by education, and particuiarly, appiied science, such dreams could be realized. But what is his view o! man and man's world in this ýast testament which is ta be taken as his 'con- clusion'? It is that homo sapiens -'as he has been pleased ta cal hîmself'-is 'played out?' The world is 'a jaded world devoid of recuperative powers.' Any 'opti- mism' as to the future must, 'in the face o! aur universal inade- quacy,' give -place to 'a stoical cyn- icism.' There is 'no pattern af things ta corne,' instead we have 'the outline of the mare and mare jumbled movie on the screen be- fore us.' Our world is 'like a con- voy hast in darkness on an un- known racky caast, with quarrel- ing pirates in the chartroam and savages clamaring up the sides o! the ship ta plunder and do evil 85 King st. E. committee which raised t h e .mnoney; Miss Dora Par-ry, superin- tendent of nurses at the hospital; Dr. J. E. de Belle, general super- intendent of the haspital; J. de M. Marler, member of the executive committee o! the hospital, who ac- cepted the lung on behaîf o! the hospital. as the whim may take them."' That was how Wells saw the shape of things that had corne when he was preparing to depart froni the world. "What are we ta make of this," asks Dr. Simp- son, "coming from the most rep- resentative preacher of the scien- tiflc gospel and, açcording ta many, 'the greatest prophet of our Urne?' It cannot be dismissed- there are those who would like ta dismiss lt-as the weakness of an aid man and perhaps failing mind. This will flot do; Wells was flot so aid as that, and noa one has sug- gested hie became senile. He him- self put it forth as his 'conclusion,' and as such it is ta be taken ser- iously. Certainly, it is far remav- ed nat only from the Utopia- planning idealist proclaiming sal- vatian through applied science, but aiso f rom the optimistic char- acteristics of the scientiflc out- loak of haîf a century ago with its confident and even cocksure faith in 'progress,' and s0 on. Does it mean that everi Wells himself was, in the end, forced ta see that the gospel of secular sci- ence, ini which he had placed such hopes, is riot able ta save the world? " It may have been, as Dr. Simp- son suggests, that Wells believee1 there was nothing else that could save the world. At least, he of- fered no alternative ta science, and hie held out nho hope for the future of mankînd. The world was ail a meaningless jumble of things. Marn could not save him- self, and there was no one else ta save him. "If thîs or anything like this is what it mearis," says Dr. Simpson, "it is at least, a tri- bute ta Wells' intellectual honesty that, as he had long denied and even derided the gospel which re- lies on God and revealed religion, so now he discounts and even dis- cards the gospel which relies on man and secular science."~ Dr. Simpson does flot argue the matter further; hie concludes with this question: "Does a philosophy based only on mani and on mater- ialistic secular science, ta the ex- clusion of ail that religion calîs God, and morality cails eternal values, lead in the end ta the dis- illusioiment about humanity and even despair about the world which he depicts? . . . In what- ever termas expressed, the issue is plain, and it is a vital issue for the thought and life of aur age." Divîded Christians have no an- swer for a divided world. The splît home is a destructive thing-like the split atom. We must go beyand aur duty ta reach a different world. Anyane wha is proud is lonely. We learn fromn a recent news item that the custamer who does- n't care ta consume his sandwich ta the tune of "The Gypsy," can naw purchase three minutes of blessed silence by dropping a nickel into the juke box in a pres- cribed manner. Now we knaw the world is getting better. GUARANTEED RADIO SERVICE Phono 580 Solina Visitors: Miss Annie Patter, Toronto, at home. .Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Brown, Mrs. R. J. McKessock, Miss BRuby Dew- ell, Oshawa; Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Tink and family, Base Line; Mr. and Mrs. Percy Dewell, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Chapman, Hampton, at Bruce Tink's. Rev. E. C. Linstead, Hampton, Miss Nora Werry, Kedron, at A. L. Pascoe's. Misses Fanny Smales and Bar- bara Stirling, Toronto; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smales, Oshawa, at James Smales'. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Anthes and Jean, Miss Ella Mîlison, Mr. Jerry Milîson, Toronto; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Milîson, Bancroft, at E. Millson's. Mr. Bill Westlake, Oshawa, at J. Yellowlees'. 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