… VOLUME XIX WELSH OUTLOOK Where there is no vision the people perish NOTES OF THE MONTH WE have no reason to think that there…
… VOLUME XIX WELSH OUTLOOK Where there is no vision the people perish NOTES OF THE MONTH WE have no reason to think that there was any noticeable change either in the extent or the manner of the celebration of the feast of our Patron Saint this year from what has been customary during the last twenty years. Sir Owen Edwards, in his sly, humor- ous way, said in one of his little vignette essays…
… tration on the political life of Wales-all show that there exists a great effort among our people "to recultivate their waste places." We won-…
… tration on the political life of Wales-all show that there exists a great effort among our people "to recultivate their waste places." We won- der often whether these movements do not sufter more from our enthusiasms in celebration on St. David's Day than they gain from what ought to be the most valuable results of a patronal festi- val-a general and universal review of the life of our country and a re-dedication of our…
… properly understood, means skill and ingenuity applied to the manual arts. The revival may be regarded from two angles, that of providing work for…
… properly understood, means skill and ingenuity applied to the manual arts. The revival may be regarded from two angles, that of providing work for the unemployed in new industries, such as those at Brynmawr, and the useful and profit- able-occupation of leisure evening hours by those otherwise employed during the day. In the case of the former it is essential for the continuance of the industries that they should be, at least, self-supporting, but…
… England, North-East coast, Lancashire, Cheshire and South Wales. We congratulate the North Wales Local Authorities who initiated the move- ment on the success they…
… England, North-East coast, Lancashire, Cheshire and South Wales. We congratulate the North Wales Local Authorities who initiated the move- ment on the success they have met with, and on the example they have provided of the value of concerted co-operative effort for the public good. A RTHUR Owen Roberts, who died in Rome last month after a short illness, was only thirty-four. Almost the whole of his brief working life, after leaving the University,…
… AT THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE THE FOUR CAMPS by Rev. Gwilym Davies, M.A. AT the beginning of February, Viscount Cecil presided over a committee of…
… AT THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE THE FOUR CAMPS by Rev. Gwilym Davies, M.A. AT the beginning of February, Viscount Cecil presided over a committee of repre- sentatives of voluntary societies working for peace. He was anxious that a weekly bulletin should be sent from Geneva during the duration of the Conference on Disarmament. "We want," he urged, "first-hand news of what is really hap- pening and not of what is officially said to be going…
… tween the camps are stray tents like that of Tur- key close to the Soviet habitation and of Spain on the outskirts of the…
… tween the camps are stray tents like that of Tur- key close to the Soviet habitation and of Spain on the outskirts of the French encampment. These four camps represented the four ruling ideas in the opening phase of the Conference- "Internationalisation of Armaments," "Reduc- tion of Armaments," "Equalisation of the legal status of States, of the victors and the vanquished of 1918" and "The total abolition of all instrum- ents of warfare." Of…
… General Election are returned sufficiently strong to form a government. And what are we to say of it all at the end of the…
… General Election are returned sufficiently strong to form a government. And what are we to say of it all at the end of the preliminary phase of three weeks? Millions of people are putting their trust in some solid advance at Geneva towards a warless world. It is this knowledge that will haunt the delegates and it is this conviction that will make any country reluctant to assume responsibility for the breakdown of the…
… I wonder where that valley leads. I wish I could spend a few hours in that village." One found oneself imagining the exploration of…
… I wonder where that valley leads. I wish I could spend a few hours in that village." One found oneself imagining the exploration of the copse or valley or village-and there was the story A good panorama film was a series of such stories, with indifferent intervals of varying length. The part of the film which could be invested with story interest, and that part only, was inter- esting and educative, and was remembered.…
… It ought to be evident to critics of films that the very qualities which make films positively dan- gerous are those which give them…
… It ought to be evident to critics of films that the very qualities which make films positively dan- gerous are those which give them educational value. If the film can make the child a criminal and inspire the wish to become a gangster, equally, then, can it help to make him a good citizen. What is necessary is that skill should be expended in the making of educational films equal to that which is…
… "Ascetic aestheticism is perhaps the cure for the lapse of our artistic taste. "-Rev Herbert Morgan. "Art is not confined to a few strange…
… "Ascetic aestheticism is perhaps the cure for the lapse of our artistic taste. "-Rev Herbert Morgan. "Art is not confined to a few strange people living in a world of their own. It is from Welsh peasant culture we can get most inspiration for Welsh art."—Mr T. Alwyn Lloyd. "Distinction between fine and useful arts must disappear. "There is need for emphasis on the spiritual side of education." — Mr Edmund D. Jones. "Indian…
… they inspired: let the art of India entrance one as it can or yield if one would to the mesmeric interweavings of all life…
… they inspired: let the art of India entrance one as it can or yield if one would to the mesmeric interweavings of all life in a Cosmic One, the fact remains that these arts are not for international transplanting. They are native to their own soil: they have no existence apart from it except in a sort of bottled state in museums and collections. One does not expect almond blossoms from the whins of…
… MORE WELSH FRIENDS OF SOUTHEY by Herbert G. Wright, M.A. AMONG Southey's friends at Oxford was a young Welshman, Thomas Cooke Rogers, whose father…
… MORE WELSH FRIENDS OF SOUTHEY by Herbert G. Wright, M.A. AMONG Southey's friends at Oxford was a young Welshman, Thomas Cooke Rogers, whose father belonged to St. Asapn. He matriculated at Balliol in November, 1793, and although he can have known Southey only a few terms, they lived a good deal together. Southey describes Rogers as "a wild Welshman, red-hot from the mountains, perfectly ignorant of the world, but with all the honest warm…