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."

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