Far and Wide

EVERY country has, through time, evolved laws and customs peculiar to it which we call a way of life. In its commonly accepted sense this term has come to mean many things as diverse as social behavior and judicial reform, political attitudes and forms of hospitality. Traditions are gradually established which shape much of our outward behavior until, in turn, they provoke an adverse trend. Every country has a face which changes in the course of time, as does our own, and there is rise and fall of power with the passage of years. Millions of human beings exchange wealth and want. Prosperity may be shared or seized. Material power changes hands. Fractions of the huge scene are reflected on the newspaper front-page, on the cinema screen, in current literature and finally in the place where it matters, in the little mirror of our own individual minds.