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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1930-01-02, Page 3The Next War.- And You By. JOSEPH CALLAU One of the : most terrific cense quences of the -great war has been its eireet:upon the minds of men. In the years prior to 1914 a general confla- gration appeared improbable, an anachronism, Had not civilization made prodigious strides during the last fifty years; was not humanity moving to- wards union among its peoples? How `was it possible for this vast movement to be suddenly destroyed? Where shall we find anybody at the present day to assert that we think as we did in 1910 01^-191.3? Certainly, slaughter and devastation are of too recent a date to bs easily -forgotten. Nobody wants to hear of a return to these horrors.. But new wars are, nevertheless, not regarded as impos- sible. We have becomeaccustomed to the idea of carnage. We almost admit its periodicity, ' 4t * NO ESCAPE FOR CIVILIANS. And what would a new war be like? We must dispel all illusions. The Iast war was the war of heavy artillery, machine-guns, 'submarines: The next war, *ere humanity'feolish enough to permit it,. would be a. war of‘ chem- istry, : a war of, gases. In 1914-1918 the ^ombatants fell by the million. In the year X, which I sincerely hope will net find a•place in the calendar, the civil, population would be annihilated and there would be no plade for their preservation. • Our offspring would be- hold -nay, would actually participate in—an infernal outbreak of, horrors andtorments. I understand that there are military experts eager to declare that gases are not so horrible as they say, that they'„are the least dangerous arm of modern warfare, and they justify this assertion_•by quoting statistics. They maintain that the proportion of sol- diers killed among thos,� that•. were gassed is small, etc., etc. • Will this strange mania of fore- casting the future by the past persist continually? Le -ss than twenty years age; in 1911, when I was at the head of lily .Government at the time of the Agadir crisis, I•collected the opinions of military experts on 'the subject of aviation. • They were all of opinion that it could play no part in war. Had war broken out then, events would have immediately falsified their views. But what remained of their prophecy three years later? X (Ex -Presided( of France) It I Dangerous T Be Beautiful; - `violent convulsions followed ' by Sy f'EGGY O'NE1L `chronic and incurable” mental dis= 'My beauty has been my ruin," d. orders. All will •underotanii the signi- woman of .15 said to me the other ficonce of these words, afternoon: ''1f I haiiu't been beauti- ful I wouldn't have been' so cocksure LONDON 11T M7iRCY OP TWO that another ratan would come along after I turned -the last one down; "Like many other beautiful girls I played east and loose with- the atten- tions of my aflniirers,, confident that I would never lack for a fresh eine. I did not think there would ever be a time when I would be left on the' shelf,, a lonely woman. "If I hadn't been beautiful I might have paid more attention to cultivate ing my mind, Even now that mea looks have faded I might still be a charming and desirable, companion for some than,. "But I Wasted my opportunities— confident that beauty was every That is wisat this woman told me in a burst of freak self-rbvelation, Test of Experience a it a a a THOUSAND DIFFERENT DEAD- ' LY GASES. Guided by the past, the experts speakonly of two or three gases: chlorine, phosgene, mustard gas. Do they understand what considerable "progress" has been made since the end, of the World War? Itis iinpossible at present to give 'the number of gases which woul3 'be employed should there be a new out- break. A well-infor•ied journal ad- mits that snore than a thousand utilis- ale gases would have to lie reckoned with. What it certain, in any case, is that of late years gases have been 'discovered which are fifty and even _ a hundred times more effective than those Iusoten in 1$18. Also more deadly! We now ha e. gases—I spare my readers their Scientific designation-- Which esignation—which penetrate through the skin with- out making any wound and without the person being able' to notice it. Their effect later ilb to bring about 'PLANES* What is really diabolical is that these tortures are not merely invented for the soldiers, but for those behind the armies, the civil population in particular. The German officer 'Endres says in his book, "The War cf ,Gases';:. • "The terrible and hideous part of the new system of warfare is not simply the employmentof; gases as ,a new weapon but the change made in the objects of war. , "Wholesale slaughter of the civil population as a system and object -of war the fact that theone who kills the greatest number,. and not the indi= victual. of the greailest genius, will win the final victory—this is the of-, frightening prospect that, beggars the -imagination. "The modern soldier inust••knowing- ly cut dowh and murder women, chil- dren, and the sick; he must in flaking a Cowardly attack upon thein in their. sleep; annihilate human' beings un- aware of their fate," And how is all this to be done?. Oh! in the simplest way, I will' guote the English specialist, Major Nye: "A thousand bombs would be enough in favorable circumstances to gas a city. like London. The ordinary bomb weighs about five pounds; 't is there- foie, not a case of the enormous bombs of former times, Consequently a mod- ern .commercial aeroplane d'an' carry six hundred of these bombs. "Thus we "see that any commercial aeroplane whatever can now be used for •war purposes and 'that only two of these 'planes would be able to gas an area 'as great as that of London and its suburbs. The Inspector -General of -German aviation, Lieutenant-Colonel Siegert, says in the. Berliner Illustrierte Zei- tung: "It is a fact which cannot hence- forward be overlooked: a handful of aeroplanes is capable of reduces to ashes the Metropolis of a great Power." * * * * * To -day it is 'the fashion to : rate feminine beauty as' one of the most highly -prized ` commodities, A really beautiful girl is said tp have the world at lier,feet. There is moo- ts,arty door that ie closed to 4tCI; . In business and In love cit is the popular belIef'tltat she starts with the" dies heavily loaded in her favor. But how fir from truth this Is, is proved by actual experience. You have only to look round at your•own circles of. friends. How manly .beauti- ful girls do you know who are success- fully and happily married? - - Men court them and pay them at- tentions—yes, but ft is the other. sort, the homely ones that they mostly marry. And how many beautiful girls do you know who are holding down big business and professional positions? I know a good many women who have been particularly successful in com- mercial careers. They are capable, attractive women, bat few could be called Beautiful. Ruined Her Life I remember meeting a girl some time ago who had ;won a prize in a beauty competition. If ever there was a girl who was rained by her looks, it was site, IMMENSE PERIL TO THE Formerly she was a sweet, there - tenuous MASSES, tenuous girl with a gentle disposition. zThe public recognition of her beauty soon changed all this, and she became arrogant, self-centred, and impossibly Conceited. She lost her job because ejte con- centrated more on her looks than on her employer's business; site jilted her !lance because she thought Ire was not good enough for her; she almost broke her mother's heart with her unreasoning vanity. To-ciat this girl to working as a packer lit a factory. Illness has de- prived her ot her looks. She has no- thing left. Another girt I know whose future has been ruined by her looks is on the stage. If she lied applied herself to bet' art she might today be recogniz- ed as one' of our leading actresses, for She has genuine talent. Instead she has chosen to pin her faith in her pretty face•, and has got nowhere at all. I suet a girl not long ago who told plame in. frankly that site wished she were "Do you know," site said, "I don't 'believe men trust a really pretty girl. I have known heaps of melt. Sento I thought, were certain to propose to me, batt nearly every one has. since gone off and married someone else with not half my share of good looks." d, can be manufactued in limitless There was one man on whom this entities and of a more or less ani- girl was particularly keen. He took foe standard, her out for nearly six months, and in 'The best gt?ality of steel used is tiro end married Toe Easy at the Start her plain sister. - British manufacture, and thus the "I got a job in an office," the girt fsfon of the Rules of Golf Commit- said, "but was dismissed because it should help a native industry that was considered my good looks were a ntoat present much depressed, At the disturbing Influence, and not condu- time a word of regret may be reseed at another replecsneent of clue to office discipline." But I could enumerate these ex- ftsmanship by machinery, although anpies almost without end. Every a matter of fact most club heads body must know of others in their own shafts are now factory made. .- experience. The steel shaft was bound to sone That is the tragedy of the beautiful ooner or later, and the probability is girl. fife is too easy or her in the t it will hot affect the playing of beginning. ' unless site is particul- gaino much one way' or the other, arty sensible and leve! -headed she is tory will still go to the player pos- spoiled by, flattery and admiration. ing the greatest skill in the mak- And hien when she wakes up from of the strokes. Theie,is, happily, her dreams it is oiton too late, nMed to fear that the Rules of Golf- No, I think that on the average the Committee would countenance any de- moderately attractive girl—very often vice that would rob the game of any ,even the downright plain girl—has a of its characteristic qualities." better chance of happiness than her beautiful Sister. PATHS , I look around me' and I see the plain The best petit through life is the girls winning all along the line. Whey high road, Which initiates us at the have husbands and children. They are right moment into all experience. dile placid and comfortable Instead of ceptionai itineraries are 'suspicious, and natter for anxiety. What Is nor- mal is at once most convenient,. most honest, and most wholesome. Gross roads may tempt us for one reason or another, but It is very seldom that we do not come to regret having taken them, down to the stern practicalities of What more do we want? Who will dare to deny the immensity of the danger the masses would be exposed to in the case of a new clash of peo- pies? But is there no way of preventing"this reprehensible conduct," to use the words of Professor Meyer? Let u§ see! Prohibiting the manufacture of pois- onous gases? This question was dealt with at the League of Nations. A com- mittee was formed to study chemical war, consisting of four members, with five highly quatffled experts. It was unanimously admitted that "it did not seem possible to prevent in a general way the production of poisonous gases which are now being made." Prohibiting the utilization of these gases for the purposes: of war? ,Alas! we limo wtlie worthlessness of such a prohibition, We were able to note, between 1914 and 1918, the perfect contempt with which the formal in- structions of the. Convention of the Hague were�regarded. It will be just. the same as long as the present gen- oral frame of mind continues. Serious Questions supplies of good hickory wood for the y shafts. In consequence the prices of Settled at Last' first-class grades have become very high. The steel shaft,on the other • hats • ''"The -ban on the use of steel -shafted qu golf clubs in this country has been re- fo moved at one stroke, and from to -day the all -steel kit (with the heads of of wood for drivels and brassies) may dee be lawfully employed by the meanest tee 'golfer or the greatest champion, This is decision will not shake the world of. sa golf to its foundations, exp "Many golfers will welcome the op- era portunity of trying it and comparing as -the results of the steel shalt withtheir and experience of the wooden shaft, and " they may do so now, not furtively, but s ' with the knowledge that they are act- the ing legally."—Glasgow Herald. the "A notable event in the history of Vic golf marred when the Rules of Golf sess Committee declared the use of steel- ing shafted clubs to be legitimate,". says no The Scotsman, "It is the declared policy of the Rules 'of Golf Committee not to sane - tion any substantial departure from the traditional and accepted form and make of clubs, Their declaration now is that 'steel shafts, as approved by them, conform with the requirements laid down in the rules of the gems. "The words 'as approved by the Steles of Golf Cotmnittee"is' a saving clause correspnnding,to the phrase, 'as at present manufactured,' in the Ant- erican rule, They mean that it is the present type of steel shaft that is sanctioned, tints leaving the Commit tee free to judge regarding any other type• that inbe manufactured in the future. "It is one of the most important functions for which .the. Comiiiittee exists to see that the ingenuity of manufacturers is not allowed to defeat he degree of skill required in +,'ie Irley • ing of the game. • . "It is for that reason that restric- tiensehave been placed upou.the weight and the size of the golf ball, and the question has been seriously considered whether within these limitations manufacturers have not succeeded in evolving a" ball which flies further than is desirable. But so far no change in the. direction of a larger and lighter ball has been made, nor is it. desired by the ordinary golfer, who finds the game difficult enough as it is. "The introduction: of the rubber- colored tall effected mucic more of a revolution than the steel -shafted club is likely' to do, It may add ,a few yards to a drive, although even that is doubtful,' but it is not primarily a. rneehantical contrivance calculated to give extra distance. "With the extending- demand for. golf blobs owing. to the ever-increasing • popularity of the game, it has been found ` difficult to obtain sufficient /Farther and Farther,North Each Year A NORTHERN SAMPLE OF THE WELL-KNOWN WEED This tobacco, grown near New Liskeard, put„ is a sample of first tobacco grown in 'Northern -Ontario. - __ domesticity the average man wants a good deal more„' No girl, however plain she is, need ever despair of getting a,,husband. A dozeu times a day when I see married couples together I say to myself, "Now, what on earth did he. see In that woman?” . s One sees good-looking; smart men married to the dowdiest and most un- interesting creatures imaginable. But one does not need -to seek far to find the reason. 'The plain girls have made it their business to cultivate charm. And that, after. all, Ise what really counts.—Montreal Standard. Player -Piano In rooms. where I lived with a player -piano, my Iandlady came in impulsively one evening, most deeply moved, with tears in lier, eyes, hardly able to express herself about such "wonderful meek." The particular piece of music which had meant eo much for her, whenever she had 'we- ceutly heard it, till finally she had to speak about it, was. the Adagio sostenuto of the Opus 106 Sonata music that is commonly regarded as reserved for the elect. She had lived -with it for a year or more, and at last Beethoven had spoken to her, as Markets for Alberta Coal he spoke to ate, and as he is waiting Edmonton Journal (Tad. Cons.) • to speak to so many, if they only had (Mr. Nrsaio of the Dominion Fuer- the chance to hear and would learn Board, warns Alberta coal producers tto listen. that it is necessary for the operators feThe more I biggest hopethinket the more 1 to be on their guard against losing al that the It suchlies ill eke ground -in the Manitoba market player -piano. opens out great through their anxiety to supply "tire werepossibilitiesa that I have wished y province further east.) The compe- were not at the command of many tition of the American mines in Mani- toba to be played so atrociously that its has not been of a fair character, They have persistently dumped their product there. Repeated efforts have been made within the past five years to have the Canadian anti-dumping act amended sous to prevent the prac- tice of importing American supplies at sat prices, which bore little relation to those at the mines. When the Minister of Finance introduced his 1025 udget he announced that the de- sired changes would be made.,But short-sighted criticism offered be Pro- gressive and scone other Western mem-- hers led him to withdraw the resolu- tion of which he gave notice. Since then, though. the Government has had its attention drawn frequently to the injustice that was being done the AI- beeta industry,. no action has been taken. ,The situation demands correc- tion immediately. name becomes a reproach, or to stand Idle In grand houses, end find its highest usefulness as an accessory for an impromptu dance. When one sees such degradation and waste of its magical powers, one longs that the whole supply aright be comanan• steered, and issued by an all -wise Mu- sical providence to Wren and women here and there (I could Send In se• veral navies) In aIreee !Ives it would melee a simply incredible digerenee. For any own part I give thanks without ceasing to the discoverers of it. . . The only experience with which its advent can be ceens• pared and has often been compared, is a bookish boy's Suet discovery of the world that reading opens . up. Seriously, I believe that such an in. veittfon may yet enlarge the life of common men (those, I mean, not ex- perts and specialists in music, as there were in the Middle Ales ex - parte and specialists in manuscripts) almost as much as the invention k- m—luting did. Somethnes I think of all the lovely things of which the story. -makers used to dream In the old days —magic carpets, helmets of luvlsibil- ity, inexhaustible purses; touchstones that turned everything to gold, And I declare solemnly and deliberately that if I had the choice of all such miraculous treasures, and a Player - piano were added to the fist, I should unhesitatingly asic for it, as by far the most profitable miracle of them all.—From "A Musical Pilgrim's Pro- gress," by J. D. ril. Rorke, The National Debt Toronto Globe (Lib.) : Veterans ill or disabled should be accorded hospital treatment or pension assistance with a maximum of generosity and a mini- mum of red tape. Ex -soldiers who are actually sick should be instantly en- titled to hospital treatment upon the 'The wife of a grouch has to take Mere evidence of the illness itself. If erorythiil5 for grunted." there is to be haggling and quibbling• over when the disease first started, let A WIND the doctors do the arguing among A captain of a trawler in the Eng- themselves after the sick man, is safely fish Channel once told the Bishop of inside, ... Those who offered their Oxford that time and again,'when the lives in the days of national crisis painfully living up to their good looks, catch was in, and they seemed be. should not need to apply hither and What Really Counts calmed, there often was a wind higher you and be passed about from pillar After all, when a than utarr'ies he up, unfelt on deck, He kept his snits post in their otvti hear of need. does not want to be always looking at peak up and headed, for the haven, They served the nation. Let the na- a beauty advertisement of a fashion and when morning came found him- than repay as best it carer. • plate. It is very nice to -be seen out self' near home. So with us in the with a beautiful girl at the theatre or monotony of daily tasks the wind of It is less important for the stock at a dance. But when one comes God's Spirit up above will slowly trtarket to be on the up -grade than bring us home.—Jolie A, Hutton, on the level—Virginian,PiIot. MUTT AND JEFF— ! JE FF, m See A 6ERismo M FLEW IN P, i Oft6'[' AIRPLANE- THAT'S A DARN GOOD ibEA • vi By BUD FISHER ANY IAEA IS Goob UNTIL yoU GET iIoLD OP IT: es lire to e Happy We Have 365 Nice" New Days Before Us—What Will We Do Witli Them? There goes' New Year's Day',agalit, Are we better and wiser for all the -good resoltions ave, made last year ' We may leave made a score of res- olutions and written them neatly in A vellum.00vered 'notebook. We may have Promised ourselves to : ,he al- ways punotual at the office; not to put Of mending until there is, not a rag III to wear; totidy thehildron's toy cupboard; to take more exercise. and drink more `'water, But -after a few days„ or, :anyhow, .before the month of January was out, most of us, I fear, slipped gently back Into our old bad babith Weil, re mnepor tnity, I' owhe, T don't es askaforoth• ar sudopden- and complete'reror;nation It Is. a great mistake to demand the :impos- sible: Most of us also, too high with our New Year resolutions, • Tltat's,•why we forget all abode : them alter January 1st„...Human nature Is Weak, and we can't expect to dhange our characters all at once. But now we. have 365 ni>ie,' clean .new days before us it's worth seeing if we can't make a"reselition or two that we do have a chance oL 7ceeping, Five Lucky Resolutions - Of course, the wise man Will ob- ject that fresh beginnings can be made every minute, and new Ieaves turned every day, ' Bat the New Year adds a certain flavor to this moral spring-cleaning. Leaving the old year behind with all- its mistakes .we tan start on new enterprises and tackle or difficulties and weaknesses in a netiv spirit, So let each man and woman wake up on January 1st resolved to encour- age a few really good habits. tbrougk- out the year. ` Don't -choose- too diti'c- cult things! And remember quality is far more satisfying than quantity. We all have our own individual failings, so it's no good making.. any definite suggestions. But if we each looked into our habits and discover- ed which of them are most irritating to other people, and what could be rectified with most benefit to our. Selves, we might get a -line-on what to tackle. FIve Is a lucky number, so we might indulge .in five simple resolutions. Little things like remembering to put our shoes in trees each night, filing papers at once -instead of in a hurry at the end of the week, mending a hole in a stocking before it develops into a "potato,” writing up accounts daily instead of torturing our mem- ory when all the money is spent -call these are excellent resolutions read can quite easily be adhered to. Weary of Winter Apart from matters of detail like these, let us snake one resolution that is realty good. Let us make up our minds at the dawn of the New Year to be happyPlan out all sorts of nice things to make life sweeter and happier 'in the coming days. January, February,' and blustering March are the most trying months of the year. We are sick to death of winter days and springs seems so far away. The determination to . be brighter, happier, and healthier, 'and to plan more amusements and gala occasions, will lessen"the monotony of Ude usuallq trying period. Even though we may forget all our resolutions before spring arrives, some good will come of then. The first few days or weeks of the year will be full' of the rapture which comes to each of us when we know that we are doing the right, proper, and wholly delightful thing! An Old Myth Exploded, Manitoba Free Press, (Lib.) : Fig- ures are now available which bring to a definite conclusion the long-drawn- out discussion regarding the existing scale of railway freight rates on grain. As is 'well known, these rates yere set under the Crows Nest Pass agreement in the teeth of the rail- ways which have always insisted that, th carriage of grain 'on such terms involved them in loss , , This fall, however, there Baine a chance. Special circumstances, the chief of which was the short western crop, brought about a sharp and alarming decrease in rail- way earnings. Sir Henry Thornton and Mr. E. W. Beatty both, issued statements en the situation, and it be- came at once apparent that both rail- ways were depending upon grain for, a large part of their net profits. Nei- ther railway has yet issued a state- ment explaining how they could at one and the same time carry grain at a loss and make their profits out of that carriage. It's our guess that even If long skirts do succeed In ,coming In, they woli't stay long.—Detroit Free Press, While bathing at a French seaside resort, an income-tax collector was attacked by a shoal of jelly -fish. Some Jelly -fish evidently have more back bone than taxpayers.—The Humorist, i ipl.o 9 t rets Of the Future Qtzeena Elizabeth One .of this Greatest Diplomats Who Ever Lived Writer Looks Forward to The Appointment -of Women As Ambassadors (By Margery 'hawrenco.) I was .interested—and .amused—tp read an article in which the mailer had the temerity' to declare that women would never make good diplomats, Women not diplonuatc? On' the con- trary, women are diplomats first, fc. ss, most, and all the time. Diplomacy is simply doing with na- tdogs what women do with men all • their lives. Iong; being. patient, fore- sighted, tactful; manoeuvring to ad- vance, retreating' with dignity; learn- ing when to be silent and when to speak. You will say, I suppose,: that itis more difficult to run a nation's af- fairs than a single roan, but I. doubt It. Ina nation's affairs one is not swayed by sentiment—one can sit back, as'it were, and size up the situa- tion, and the • consequences of one's action impartially—and this is sore- ly difficult to do in one's personal and emotional life. There tare no women diploa'rats? Was nob Queen Elizabeth one of .the' - greatest diplomats who ever Iived? Her delicately tactful handling of the problem of Spain, her dealings with the thousand -and -mg international difficulties of her position as a soli- tary woman -queen prove her essen- tially a diplomat, - Then what of Madame de Mainten- on, whose subtle and patient diplons acy for years not only ruled France and France's king, but actually recon- ciled the Roman Church to the situa- tion? What of Florence Nightingale, whose handl ng of an antagonistic Army chief, vacillating Ministers, and a disapproving Queen was a su- preme piece of diplomacy? And, coming down to our own day, what of Gertrude Bell, whose advice was courted by soldie- and statesman alike? She would have made a grits Viceroy, as more than one man who knew her has said to ane. 4.II these women were, in truth, diplomats of the first order; it is an obvious- and foolish thing to say "such women are rare!' Of course they are —but brilliant men ere also rare! As for the "impossibility of women assuming the necessary diplomatic manner," let me whisper that the "dip- lomatic manner" is like all other "man- ners," r. mere pose, and who is ea quick as a woman to assume the nec- essary pose for a Ocie she wants to play? The writer's final conclusion, that, by entering the lists of the professions on a level with men, women as a whole has lost her attraction for man, is simply and frankly foolish and un. true, Are men and women ceasing to love and marry since women took to entering business, running shops, be- coming doctors and barristers and en- gineers? Of course, they are not? Diplomacy? We women practice it as a natter of course, day after day, All hail, Woman Ambassador of the Future! You will find managing a do- zen contradictory nations child's play after managing that inconsistealy needy, and altogether delightful crea- ture, Mani—Montreal Standard. Dad (assisting little Alice with hoc' homework)—"if .I gave you live oranges amid you hail one, now many oranges would you have?" Atice—"I dunneo. We always do our sums In apples." The Warrior What word did Duty say, Aa he passed by to -day And found me helpless, lying pros- trate by, tine way? My sword was red with rust, My threat was choked with dust, But Duty looked and said unpitying- ly, npityingIy. "Thou must," non straight a burst of fire Rekindled my desire, And I sprang up iron -willed, deter. mined to aspire. —Frederick George Scott. GCT NetivouS, nils ROCKET St -TOOT You SO MILES U.P IN Me All"; Tel Peat, y- DIRECTION'S old every PActq‘Ge. HAVE YOU Go A MATCH? MINE ARe AL1, wet e Love asomornrorarsemeasmese Sends a Gift of Wet Matches. v I'M fyotmGT Rult,i WITh 'CtiESE MATC1'ic-S UNTIL. THEY GCT DR?Y. D�PIVGter 'LOU Gor i tv1 A`CC(- ? NO) AIN'T 'THAT US'r TOO BM* WHERE ARC. You GCING,, • 'YOU CoWARb? 1 „,tre eve fit-•