December 1957 School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Maga:ine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Maga%ine

December, 1957

December, 1957

There is much in the world to be ameliorated-teeming millions to be relieved of their penury and misery, cruelty, torture and disease to be eradicated , soil erosion to be prevented , moral standards to be raised , hatred and petty jealousies to be removed from peoples' minds . Only then can universal co-operation and understanding be achieved and only then can we live in freedom from fear . The fear that exists today brings out the evi I in men-slyness, greed, conceit and envy . Everyone wants to take but no one will yield. Yet with knowledge comes understanding and the desire to better the lot of mankind . So much is being done today to bring about complete world peace and understand- ing to which so many aspire, but still the minds of many become puffed with ambition and perverted and distorted with lust and power. It has been possible to split the atom since 1932-but its power has not been used for peaceful purposes as much as for the production of weapons. Let us concentrate upon the problems in the world around us. When the world is a better place let us explore space . -BETH LEE , V IA SURVIVAL IN LONDON It was a mild, murky, mid-January morning when the "Strathnaver" docked at Ti Ibury. To those of us who had expected to be confronted with the full rigours of London winter on arrival, this rather unseasonable weather was a pleasant surprise. The good weather continued for our first week in the capital, that nerve-shattering time when the newcomer is faced with either a £30 a week flat or certain death in the gutter. Only those who have ever attempted to find accommo- dation for three people in London can possibly appreciate the seriousness of the prospects. Agents , more agents , tele- phones, and telephone directories (and there are four of the monsters) nearly drove us insane. Every morning we divid- ed forces at the door of our hotel, opposite the Marble Arch , and caught buses in different directions, in order to inspect the many quite unsuitable apartments which had been suggested to us. Most of the available flats were for two persons only, and consisted virtually of two rooms , a double bedroom , and 39

Wendy Pope, VI A.

Wendy Cooper, VI A.

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