The Dangers of Treating Crisis Lightly
It is admitted freely by the most thoughtful that there has not been a time known to history when so many serious problems confronted the world as today. Every one recognizes that the social and political condition in every nation on earth is such that no one can predict the disasters that a single day may bring forth. And yet, in the very face of all this, there is a marked disposition to treat the whole subject with lightness. Many persons give one the impression that they regard the whole affair as a huge joke. And right here lies one of the gravest dangers of the age. If one looks seriously upon a threatened danger, he is very likely to seek some way of escape. But when he makes the danger nothing more than the occasion for jokes and ridicule, he can not avoid being plunged into it, wholly unprepared to meet it.