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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-9-15, Page 7se iiii'sinurs LETTER TO THE - - IRISH LEADER, DE VALERA Savoy Hotel, Lenden Common% Lord Mines, ea fieeretarY Aug, 4, 192L Stele eof tho eoloPiee,reave ;dated de Vera, Eate, Mitiefien thair views, and the 6olnoide With tlto illgheet Online whiffit Dominion Man have ever pet forward oil eehtilf of their free netlime, Whet 15 gooll encu&1 for the na - Mite °eget !Moly te gcse cueugh for Irelune, too, For lelreen to any to tee world thnt they will pot be Home, Id)' Dear De Valerie; Lane euly erce ported to me the substance of his con- versetioue with you and handed me your letter of the al -Bt July * • 0 • shouid /Ike to add a word ie reeer- ence to, the situation at I have eome riatitated with the Maths of the greet to view It I have discussed it very 13ffiliali Dominiene would be to alien- I fully with you and your colleagues, I ate ell that sympathy which ha3 so have alset.,Peebed ea deeply es 1 could into the Under position, My 'caavic- tIon le that for the pretent no eolution based on 'Ulster miming into the Irish State will aucceed. Meter wiU not agree, elle cannot be (Greed, Etna any et/11104a on those lines es at present' toroth/Pined to faiillre, •Believes Time Will Deolde. far been the main support of the Wee cause, The 'Britiee leffinte Mlnlf3ter oilers complete Doirtellot etataa to the twenly-six vourities, eubJect to certain etrategle liefoguartle *Melt yon are reeved to agree to volintetielle ate a free Dominion, and 'which we. Sbuth Afri- cello agreed to as a free nation in the Melon, of South Afriea. To my mind I believe that it le in the interest of such an offer be 0 Britieh Prime Minis - Ulster to conie In, and that the force ter, who unlike his predecessors is in of community of leterette will over a a POsition to deliver tbe 'goods is an ported of years prove so great and event of unique importance, eons -Palling that Ulster will bereelf de- You are no longer offered n home cide to Join the Irish State. But at rule scheme of the Gladstone or As- prenent an Irish settlement is eel), pos- gulth type, with ite limited Powers and sible if tee hard Nets are calmly faced reaervations of a fundensental charao, and 'Ulster is left alone. Not mile will ter. Full 'Dominion status, with all it she net eonsdat to come 111, but even is and int dies, is yowls if you will but take It It is far nore than was of- fered the Transvaal and Free State, who fougbt for freedom one of the greatest -ware in the history of Great Britain and one which reduced their own countries to ashes and their little people to nine. Boers Accepted Less Generous Terms They accepted the far less generous offer that was made to teem. Frain that foothold they then proceeded to. i1 she dces, the Irish State will, I fear, start uncles. such a, handicap of inter- nal friction and discordance that tee result may well be failure mice more. My strong advice to you ee to leave Ulster alone for ,the present, as the only tine along which a solutiou is practicable; to concentrate on a free Constitution for the remaining twenty- six countles, and through a successful running of the Irish State and the pull of -economic and other peaceful forces, eventually to bring Dieter into that improve their position until to -day State. I knew how repugnant such a South Africa 13 a femme =tented, solution must be to all Irish patriots, united and completely free country, who look upon iffiell unity az a slue What they have finally achieved after qua non of any Irish settlement But years of warfare said political evolu- the wise man, while Ilehtiug for his tion is now offered to you—not in ideal to the uttermost, learns am to doles or Instalments, but at once. and bow to the inevitable. And a humble completely, If, as I hope, You aoceet, acceptance of the facts is often the you will become a sister dominion In a only way of finally overcoming therm great circle of equal States, who will It proved so In South Africa, where stand beside you and shield you and ultimate. unity was only realized eroteet your new rights as if these through several stages and a process were their own tigb1S: IA10 will view of years and where the Republican an invasion of your rights or a -viola- Ideal for svelte we have made unheard den ef your status as if it -were an in - of sacrifices had ultimately to give vasion and a violation of their own, way to nether form of freedom. and. who will thus give you tbe most ireiend Like South Africa. effective guaranty possible against any My belief in that Ireland is travel- Ipossible artillery interference by the ling the same painful read as South British Government with your rights and position. Africa, and that with wisdom and Th fact, the British Government will inciter; ;o In her leadership, she /frt have no further basis of interference destined to achieve no less success. with your affairs, s,3 your relations you belore, 1 do not con. with Great Britain will be a concern sitter one Riegle clean cat solution of the Irish question possible at present, not of the British Government but of You will have to pass through several the. Imperial Conference, of which s e Great Britain will be only one of seven stageof whice a freConstitution. for Southein Ireland is the first, and members. Any eueations, in issue be- lle ineluelen of Water and the full re- tween you and the British Govern - cognition of Irish unity will be the ment will be for the Imperial Con- test. Only the first stage will render ference to decide. You will be a free the last poseible, as causegenerates member of a great league, of which most of th effect. To reverse the process and to e other members will be in the begin with Irish unity as the first stee t3ame position as yourself, and the Is to imperil. tbe whole settlement. conference will be the forum for Irish unity should be the Ideal to thrashing out any questions which which the whole process should be 1130.1 arthe between members, Thisis direct (I the nature and the constitutional erne. e. flee (if dominion freedom. I do not (Mk you to give up your Ideal, but only to realize 11 in the only An Unprecedented Opportunity. way which seems .to um at present Tho difficulty in Ireland is no Imager practicable. Freedmii will lead inevle a. constitutional difficulty. I am sells - ably to unity; therefore begin with Red that from the constitutional point freedern—with n free constitution far of view a fair settlement of the Irish the 26 counties—as the first and most question is now possible and practic- important step in the whole settle- able. It is the human difficulty -which ment. !remains. The Irish question is no As to tbe loam of that freedom, here, longer a constitutional but mostly a too, you are called upon to choose be. human problem. tween two alternatives, To you, tie 1 A hiStory such as yours must breed you say, the Republic is the true ex- a temper, an outlook, passions, sus- proe.sion of national Self determine,' picions, which it is most difficult to Um. But It is not the only Gores- deal with. On bath sides sympathy is sion; and it Is an expreeteon welch called for, genercaity, and a real Meet - means. your final and irrevocablesever- ness of soul. I am sure that both the ance from the British League. And to English and Irish peoples, aro ripe for this, as you know, the Parliament and a fresh start. The tragic horror of the people of this country will not ' recent events, followed so -suddenlY agree, by a truce and fraternizing all along The British Prime Minister bee the line, haa set dewing deep faun - made you an offer of the other form tains of emotion In both Peoples and of freedom—of Dominion etatus— created a new political situation. which is working7 with complete sue- I It would be the greatest reflection cess in all parts of the British Imegue, ,011 -our statesmanship if this auSP1- Important British ministers have des- clouts moment is allowed to paw, You cribed Dominion status in terms and your friends have now a unique which must satisfy all you could le- opportunity—such as Parnell and his gllimately wish for. Mr. Liesel George predecessors and Renewers never had in his historic reply to Gen. Hertzog ',—to secure an honorable and lasting al Paris, Mr, Boner Law in a cele- 'peace for your people. tented declaration In the House of I pray God that you may bei wisely elig„.1:04 4 dfr joy 1411rtg&41 WATCH YOUR STEP gelded, and that peace may now be concluded, before tempers agalu change and perhaps another genera- tion of strife ensuce. Ever yours sincerely, J. C, Smuts, Choosing a Career. "Now, boys," said the sehoolmaster, "when I (Lek you a question, you must not be afraid to speak out and answer me. When you look round and see all the fine house, farms, and cattle, do you ever stop and think who owns them all now? Your fathers own them, do they not?" "Yes, sir!" shouted the boys. "Well, where will your fathers be in thirty years from now?" asked the teacher. "Dead!" shouted the boys. "And did you ever see in the streets lazy men lounging about, wafting for someone to give them money, Well, where -will they be en thirty years?" "Dead!" And who wil be the loungers then?" "Us!" Al! Scotch. A lecturer says that Gaelic was the language of the garden 01 Eden, and that. Adam and Eve were Scots. And, to be sure, Adam is a good old Scottish name, But, they'll be calling It the Garden of.Edenborough next, They say, moreover, that kilts orig- inated on Mount Ararat. Oh, ay! That's vera possible. Yon kilts look- like rainy -day sort o' gar- ment, ye ken. But, havers! If ye grant that, the daft rogues will be tellin' ye next that 'twos a Gael who put yon ark en Mount Ararat In the first place. And belike, after a', the food was only a Scoteh mist! Mother. Mother I am here a-thinkine Jest eteellte sort o' blue, Half discouraged: heart's a-sinkine Like a heart will sometimes do. Luck has sort o' been right me, Though I've bravely hit the line, To revive the hope that's in me, forgettin', mother mine, I have put ray wces behind me, An' I'm back there in your arms, Snugglin' where the world can't find me, With its worries an' alarms; Yotere a-sayin': "There, now, sonny! It's all right, dear, never mind!" Life's as sweet agin as honey, It's no more a tough old grind. Mother, I must quit my dreamin' An' get busy, after while, But this little bit of seemin' That I see your loviM smile, Will bring back the punch you gave me, In life's game X'll kick a goal; You, in mem'ry dear, can save me, I'll be master of my soul. She Was Embarrassed. Mr. Peet, a very shy young man, was introduced to a fascinating young wo- man, who, misunderstanding his name, addressed him constantly as Mr. Peters, much to his distress. summoning up courage, he remon- strated: "Oh, don't call me Peters—call me Peet" "Ah, but I don't Imoyou well enough, Mr. Peters" said the girl, blushing as she withdrew behind her fan. . A new tank, recently demonstrated in France, will cross trenches, swim on the surface of *water, and then dive and crawl along the bottom, THE NEW DRIVER I said to James Augustus Barr, when first he bought himself a car "Shun etreets where crowds are thick; bunt up some thoroughfare remote, and there propel your panting boat until you've learned the trick. The half-baked driver is a frost, and many lives are lost for his beeetted sake; emergencies arise, alas and then he steps down on the gas when be simnel use the brake, 3 beg you, J. Augustus Barr, to keep off Main Street with your car, until you've learned to drive; because of driversbrash and new ten thousand sleep beneath the dew who still should be alive." But James Augustus is a bore who know it all, and then some more, and balks at counsel wise; and so he tooled his boat along, among the Main Street shipping throng, and crippled seven guys. And of the seven five will sue to get the money they feel due for sundry broken limbs; and two in righteous wrath have said that they will punch the driver's head, and blacken both his glims. And it is certainly a shame tbat boobs, before they've learned the genie, may drive through crowded marts; the core should pinch such lads at sight, and straightway Jail them over night, and confiscate their carte. RECIAR Gene BYrnea l<140k4 WHERV- CAN -rwo 4Re.AT E316 cczEN-4 PuFrs PaBcat-T SIZEs FoR OVER IM Sl\t`NE, 191lelElz..•{ •••,4°-(••, • • The,„Statore of Britooi s Cleverest Men °Jun ref° must Di'. tall is Bldg George? Nieety- retie !mesons otet of a bemired *teed not tbfl you, eidli as they are unable to glee tee correct height 01 mast Of our grpakeet men. The majority ef potable are unaware of the existence of the effienee of 00. throponeetry, as the etelly of human height is called, or of the part this solenee Piara in determining taste re - kiting to men's evolution. Yet so important 13 aathrOPOrgetrY to 8t1141ente of man eve the various races to which he beleegs tbat a see- ffial section Of the Braise Assoctetlon, kesewn 013 the Anthroeometrical Own- mittee, has been formed te deal est- ates/vele and exhaustively with the aubjett. s It is g eurioue fart that biographies end autoblographles rarely give the height of those with whose careers they are coaeorned, A melee tastes in dreas and wines will be reeorded, while 11 he has a passion for Pinks ea battoneoleti this le also noted, His height however, Is seldom , If ever, re- ferred to. When It is, his biographers Lisette), dleagree. Take the case of Napoleon. Bourien- ne says teat the Emperor was five feet two Welles in height. Another writer of the period states that he was five feet one and a half, while an English biographer declares that he was "lees An Interesting Bulletin. Bulletin No. 1 of the series to be issued by the Provincial University during the academic year 1921-22 has just come from the press. In this booklet there is outlined in the brief- est possible fashion the various ser- vice e that the Department of Uni- versity Extension has to offer to the people of Ontario. For teachers there is a summer session in arts and in pedagogy, correspondence courses and teachers' classes during the winter; for farmers there is a comprehensive two weeks' course; for industrial lab- orers in the large cities there are evening classes throughout the winter season; for journalists a one week's course, Then, there are extension lec- tures available to any locality in the province; a course on "foods and diet" for women; a towa-planning course; rural and urban evening tutorial classes during the Winter; and, most radical of all departures, an arrange- ment by -which a group of twenty peo- ple in any part of Ontario may study, under competent instruction in even- ing classes, and proceed to a B.A. de- gree. The concluding paragraph of this bulletin states that the University of Toronto will endeavor, in the mat- ter of higher education, to meet the needs of any part of the province so far as its finances and the size of its staff will permit. All of this means that the provincial university is rend- ering real service to its constituency and so is performing the true func tion of a modern university. To de- velop properly this type of seevice a more adequate revenue will be re- quired. Mt. Everest Climbers Still Seeking Route. The British expedition which is aiming at the concineet of Mount Everest in the Himalayas, the world's highest peak, has completed its ex- plorations to the north and west of the mountain without discovering a erect'. 11 cal route to the summit, it is an- f nounced in a Reuter despatch from 1 Simla to London. Some hope is stell entertained, how- ever, that a route may be gained on the northeast flank of the great moun- tain, and when the Monsoon abates an- other effort will be made. Meanwhile the headquarters of the expedition has been moved toward Kharta,upon which point tee firther effort Will be based. The present expedition has survey- ed about 10,000 square miles of terri- tory on and adjacent to Mount Ever- est. than Ave tiel alx." The otoPtain sat the De Valera ')141i re$eeted the Orin, Bellerophee measured his famdlia cep. 01Yered 1481411), e14 the reply Of tete, and reported that IM Wee live Lleyd George comee ilramatie. feet seven. (Melones. Whether tide will he the Inoideatally. Napoleon held the viewt of as r woEngland di:Mende Kant that the shortest men are often the Slim Fein. Pbe eelte waydbyrlie of "111°1411"g t!i1 belief waye "hided There be little .of the ultimata* small men for his biggest taske. abdtit the 1,107d George rel, but It Tang George io five feet seven and a Welds tie 'one of the strong Statements hall /mallet; in height, 10 whiola respect in the exchange between Orewn and he represents the average height 01 Sthn Fein, It reitereteil thii English his aubjects. The shortest ruler is stand that Ireland etailifit hi permitted the Ring of Italy, who is five Net two; th Withdraw from , empire. It while the tallest is the King of the meets the Ir1h elaiin fir independence Belgians, who ha Mx feet two. Lloyd 'George reiterates the Who is Britain'tallest statesman? English offer, insiata that it demi meet Lord Onrzon min probably claim this Irbeb demands, warm that t1I tree° distinetion, being MX feet one in May end and reminds De Valera that height. Mr Balfour le six Net and ho is rejecting the final peace offer half an intik; while Itir. Austen Clsin- that no English GOverament dare ex- berlain Is eve feet eleven and a half teed in liberality. inches. The Premier is five feet six The very quickness of the English and a half; welle Mr, Asquith is eve reply arguee that England heti' made feet eight, her final concession. No time was Tlae Bishop of London is ilfre feet taken in conferences and ten, and the Rev. 7. R. Campbell one tions. Sinn Fein and De Vffiere min inch shorter, hardly fail to note that fact, Earl Beatty le five feet seven, and De Valera has made his restatement Earl Haig five inches taller. The of the stand for conaplete Irish aepara- ahortest author is probably Sir J. M. tion. The reply of Lloyd George is a Barrie, who is only eve feet eve; the restatement of the higher lights of tallest of fanaous writers being Sir A. the English stand and something Conan Doyle, a fine figure of a man at more. It is aimed not oily at De six feet one. Valera ane Sinn Fein, but at all Ire- land, and at all the empire, at world opinion, and particularly at American opinion. Thatreminder of his that Ireland under the dominion status will be freer than the States of the American Union will be impressive in the United States. His quotation from the first inaugural address of Abraham Lin - them. Iron and its derivative, steel, coin, bearing upon the physical near - have been the war -maker's metalsness and indivisibility of the American One of the arguments advanced to North and South, axil applying the show that Japan never could be a Lincoln argument to the geograpideal fundamentally strong war -making na- situation of England and Ireland, ale. tion has been that she had not iron peals to Avnicana who know any - and must import her ores and steel. thing of the Civil War problems and Yet it long has been known that the dangers. Japanese Archipelago is of voleanie The refeiences to the demands and origin and that these islands are so views of the older school cf Irish lead - many heaps of iron oxide deposits of ers must have weight in an Ireland magnetic sand. that is persuaded to peace. As only The sad thing about this for the the Sinn Fein, the Anglophobe and the gunbuilders and steel plate makers of German elements regard England as Japan has been that this "iron sand" a "militarist" nation of the Prussian is a stubborn thing, too stubborn for sort, the English Premier does well the usual method of ore -smelting. The to ignore the De Valera insinuations Japanese, however, are a tenaciously of "militarism" and the enplication stubborn race, given to studious pot- that England would deal with Ireland tering over retorts and test tubes. On as Germany would deal a ith Belgium. October 18, 1920, the Japanese War Ireland knows better and the world Office had -this to say: knows better. Iron sand is so general throughout On the surface the exchange of notes leaves the situation deadlocked the length and breadth of the empire that it has long been plain that if some as it was a week ago. But so long as the truce holds, FO long as there is a method were discovered of smelting suggestion that the last word has not iron from it Japan never would suffer been said, the hope of peace will live from want of steel. On the strength of the above, the necessary investiga- in spite of the unbending attitude ef tons were started as early as Sep- England the the hardly weakened tember, 1919, by a special committee. stand of Sinn Fein. * * The experiments of a year But rejection an -.l reply, le:Astaire:it * have been crowned with tolerable sue- and argument can hardly go on in - To cess, and the process has been expert- definitely. "We ernnet -along a merited with on a practical scale et mere exchange of ri,ths," is Lloyd the Penohichu Iron Works, under the George's reminder. Sinn Fein must make its. decision. control of the Okura firra, with very satisfactory results. It has been told over and over again that Ireland can have freedom, but The matter dropped from sight or within the Commonwealth. Sinn Fein hearing. It was guarded as a militarse has come to the crossroads. It must secret and still is. In all the talk al arms and armaments nothing more acmake its decision for war or for pee. was heard until a few days ago. Then; — 1— the cables announced that Dr. Naito' and Goro Matsuka had discovered a Red Rash. reowni roacae s sa a fa odr„ tthhea tuiwialilinfevooflutsitOene-li and war causes said in substance that Some years ago 0 writer on svar ze the world steel industry, make Ja- in 4,000 years of recorded 1 • t tipaalltioneaset,Oft tthhee slur aht ani;odn-mpraoidt :clan ge dthaeyrse whhaedn been e nohad7"breeenthu4nnbr4uk0c0n0 Mikado's empire independent of Great in all parts of the world. The old globe is rarely, free of the Red Rash.. On the eve of the Disarmament Con- ference we are enjoying a period cf comparative world peace, but it is only cornparative. We are dreading the "next war," while a dozen wars,, little and big, are running their 001115e. There is fighting in Ohina between the North and 'South; nor are these mimic battles. Spain and Riffian tribesmen are locked in death grips along the Moroccan seacoast. British forces and tribesmen are battling in Maesud along the northwest Indian frontier. In Asia Minor, Greek and Turk are continuing the immemorial battles that have always raged between East and West in this cockpit of the Near East, Here is a war of first-class dimensions and over first-rate lassoes. There is a truce in Ireland now; but a few weeks ago Erin was a plat.° of bloody ambushes and gunfirt' in nar- row streets. It may be ao again. Upper Silesia is reasonably quiet now; no man knows for how long. There is continual fighting in East- ern Siberia, whore old boundary lines have dissolved and a hell a continent is drearily fighting under the banner of first one half -bandit and then an- other. In a eeore of places in what used to be Russia little wars are flar- ing up, dying down and lighting up gn'ine, The New World is comparatively quiet, Costa Rica and Panatela have settled their little difficulty, but there is a "state of war" in parts of Meer- agueh 'a world is not free from the Red .11ash. 11 nisevnevile inimune en - disease. tirely; bet the Dissienenneet Confer - once may help in building up a high degree of immunization signing the Opera Sent by Recite. Opera meeting?! ..10 notelet aud transmitted by wheiese telephone was tlistihetly heard 800 intim away, "Iron, Cold Iron." War never amounted to numb in the Stone Age. It never came into its own 'until men learned to take certain rocks, melt them and make iron of Careful Lumbering. The operators (under thither per- mits on Doninion forest reserves) are all conducting the thither operations more carefully. Stinnes are cut low, trees are utilized as fully as possible, the brush Is disposed of anal the tracts operated are being left in geed con- dition for protection against fire and for reproduction of the Serest —An- nual Report, Director of Forestry, Ot- awe. • • - Britain and the United States to far as iron imports are 'concerned, Vickers, Ltd., the- great French and American shipyards and fabricating plants will miss the Japanese as due - tamers and feel them as competitors. If "iron, cold iron, is masterof men ale" Japan is about to take her place tear the head of the table. Nor should it be forgotten that iron and steel are the metals of war. Here is something to think over on the eve of the Disarmament Confer- ence that will deal with the iron panoply and steel machinery of wars. It was the Japanese War Office that created the oonamittee that has found the way to make ;steel of the "iron sand." Louden University, with g total of 20,000 students, is the lavgeet in the wetted; it includes 65 inetitutions scat- tered over the metropolitan area.