Article October 3, 1942 Issue

Signs of the Times

In Quietness and Confidence

with contributions from E. J. Davidson, A. L. F., Russell Henry Stafford, Thomas Hastwell, Herbert Barnes

[E. J. Davidson, in the Sydney Morning Herald]

One of the privileges which man used to take for granted was silence. He can no longer expect such a blessing in a world conspiring to importune his ears with emphatic demands that he shall listen to its multitudinous noises.... A Spanish writer, y Gasset, has written of this modern epidemic of noise: "He who wishes to meditate must get used to doing it submerged in the midst of a public racket, a diver in an ocean of collective noise."

Solitude, however, remains a necessity. In time of war, when the call to action is imperious, it would seem that sought solitude flavors of escapism. Yet, without the stillness it brings to troubled minds and weary bodies, we are in grave danger of weakening mental and moral fiber.

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