eyes open. We should replace violence with intelligence. That would mean a healthier, happier future for our races. We would then be a credit to our name: Homo Sapiens, "Wise Man." So let us step down from our proverbial "Ivory Tower" and carry on! When the shadows beckon men of my years, we still have our children, we still have our dreams. I dream of a day when our leaders will actually put the principles of science and democracy to work in our land, in politics, in industry, in trade, in education; when understanding will more than hold its own against superstition, guile and greed, when force and violence will be replaced by conference, compromise, and approximate justice in all our domestic and foreign relations. When that day is at hand in our own land, our example will be greater impetus to the path of peace and justice in other lands, than are our present speeches, and our lend lease of the implements of war to all democracies, and would be democracies of the world. It is a matter of forgetting the hypothetical universe created out of ignorance and motivated by our undisciplined emotions, and a reconditioning to the actual universe as gradually understood through controlled experience and experiment. I think we can say, even in the face of current fears and pessimism, that during the ups and downs of the past million years, man has gradually acquired more understanding, more freedom from fear, more dignity, greater kindness, and a clearer conception of justice. Even though for the moment "the bird of sorrow" is not flying over our heads, but is actually nesting in our hair to borrow a Chinese proverb-that bird will not nest in our hair forever, unless a blackout on Science be decreed in every land. For slowly but surely, the understanding of man provided by Science will help to make our life more intelligent, toil more cheerful, fear and hatred, pain and tears less prevalent in our life. TO BE A PHILOSOPHER is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. -Henry David Thoreau WEATHER VANE A breath of Will blows eternally through the universe of DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ways stood for colonial freedom and New Delhi: The Congress Working racial equality and this denial of Committee had met in New Delhi on July 5, and had approved a number of resolutions to be placed before the All-India Congress Committee now meeting in Agra. One of these resolutions welcomes the general improvement in the international sphere and the lessening of tension between. the great powers. The resolution says the All-India Congress Committee trusts that the conference of representatives of the great powers will meet at an early date to discuss informally the various questions which have tended to produce conflict in the past. Another resolution approved by the Committee says that the All-India Congress Committee have noted with deep sorrow the conflict which is going on in certain parts of Africa resulting in cruel and forcible suppression of large numbers of people. Behind this conflict lies the policy of racial and colonial domination. The resolution says the Congress has al both is a matter of gravest concern to it. It can only lead to disastrous racial conflicts which may affect the whole of Africa and powerfully influence people in other parts of the world. Any assertion of racial domi nation will inevitably meet with resistance and no stable or peaceful society can be based on the theory or practice of dominating race or of colonial control. About the Middle East, the resolu tion regrets that no way has so far been found to resolve the conflicts there and that the path of negotiation is not being pursued. AFRICA Prime Minister Nehru: "The great continent of Africa, from its northern Mediterranean coast to the far change and eruption. In the extreme south, is in the process of a dynamic south, as is well known, a racial polihas shocked the world. In the other cy of gross intolerance and arrogance parts of Africa also, in various shades World Movement for World Federal Government, will be held in Christiansborg Castle, the Danish House of Parliament during the latter part of this month. Donald Harrington, Minister of the Community Church, New York, will head the American delegation of forty to fifty people. The Congress will be devoted to United Nations Charter Amendment Study. and degrees, this racial policy is in evidence. It comes into conflict with the rising nationalism and consciousness of the African nation. Unfortunately, there has been a great deal of violence on all sides and repression which has brought misery to vast numbers of people. No solution of the African problem can be based on racial discrimination or on the suppression of the African people, who have suffered so terribly for centuries past and who must command our sympathy. I earnestly hope Japan: The Japanese National Com that the methods of violence will cease there, for this can only bring misery to all concerned." RIGHTS OF WOMEN International: El Salvador has be- U. N. CHARTER STUDY COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS mission for UNESCO was not yet one year old when it announced last month that there are already one hundred and twelve UNESCO cooperative associations and one hundred UNESCO student clubs functioning in the country. UNESCO cooperative associations are responsible for the steady growth of “UNESCO Schools" in Japan, where children get free courses in drawing, music, dancing and languages. The Japanese National Commission for UNESCO will celebrate its first anniversary this month. UNESCO-CONFERENCE United States: "America's stake in International Cooperation" will be the theme of the fourth national conference of the United States National Commission for UNESCO when it meets on the University of Minnesota campus Sept. 15-17. NEW OUTLOOK International Musical Eisteddfod Once a year, a small market town set in the hills of North Wales invites choirs and folk dancers from all over the world to come to Wales and join in a friendly contest. The event is known as the International Musical Eisteddfod-a Welsh term that means "sitting together." This year, the "sitting-together" was recorded and an exciting musical documentary was created that is now being released as a commercial album. The World Review's Radio Reporter has interviewed the man responsible for this recording, and here is what he learned. MR. JACK BORNOFF, Executive Council is an affiliate of UNESCO. First, of course, I wanted to know about the Eisteddfod itself. The contest, Mr. Bornoff pointed out, goes way back in Welsh history-back to the original "sitting-together" of the bards of Wales around the 7th century. It has always played a vital part in the life of every Welshman. There is no greater honor in all Wales than winning the choral contest, or the song or verse competition. He told me how from a purely national festival, a brand new interna tional Eisteddfod was created five years ago. "Just think of what this now means for a little Welsh town", eighty members and speaking the And if the Welsh hosts are enthusiastic, Mr. Bornoff continued, there are always moving stories about the sacrifices made by partici pants to finance their journey. He told me about the Italian choirmaster who sold his grand piano to bring his group over. Only this year, ladies of an English choir sold rhufor barb from their gardens to pay their trip. He had similar stories about many other groups. the And once they come, they come back again. The International Eis teddfod is like a magnet, Mr. Bornoff said. It attracts singers and dancers from everywhere, from England to Java, from the Rockies to the Carpathians. The choirs and the dancers compete and so compare their styles and their traditions. And the music-loving audiences, who pack into the great pavilion and overpour onto the fields outside, sit enthralled at each performance, and are tensely alert when the final judgments are pronounced and the winners chosen. swopping of autographs and the many sign-language conversations that took place. He told me about the impromptu performances that sprang up, at any time of the day or night, and about all the other events that transformed a competitive music festival into a rare and practical demonstration of friendship between peoples. "It is just because this brave venture stands for everything that the International Music Council holds Mr. Bornoff attended this year's worthwhile," Mr. Bornoff declared, contest. And he still marvels at the recollection of peoples from so many lands coming to the little town and submitting freely and even joyfully to the strict rules of an ancient Welsh tradition. He went on to describe the hearty atmosphere, the friendliness of the townspeople and the high spirits of their foreign guests, the "just because it so admirably implements the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that the IMC decided to record the festival this year and thus make it available to everyone." And incidentally, linking the rich music of this album together is a fascinating descriptive commentary spoken by Mr. Bornoff himself. REMEMBER THAT AS when you are passing through a thick fog you can see nothing in the space ahead of you but darkness, so when you are mentally passing through a dark and depressing period you can see nothing in the time ahead of you but darkness. And this is as much an illusion for time as the other for space. -Stoic Saying |