Anyone who tries to think or write about the world situation to-day needs courage. The subject is so enormous and so complicated that it is bewilderi… - Vera Stanley Alder

Every seventh year the Governments would likewise take pause, consider their own progress, go through a process of re-election, re-arrangement and rest. All this organization would be founded upon the belief that man was not made for work, but work for man, and that the aim of all living is to allow man to reach his highest ethical and intellectual development in order to be of service to the cause of progress.

There are those who stand in the vanguard, those who huddle ineffectively in the centre, and those who definitely hold progress back.

Can we grasp, for instance, that in spite of weather vagaries, even in spite of present soil erosion, there is and could be more than enough produced to-day to allow everyone everywhere a fair standard of living, without entailing drudgery for anybody?