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“STRONG MAN" CULT
REV. E. L. ALLEN ADDRESSES ROTARY CLUB
LOOKING AHEAD
13, 1932.
peace in the same capacity, and
now he has a rival in Hitler, "hend of a great movement. Most ro
markable of all in the two groat
democracies of Britain and the United States, ench Prime Ministor und each President has been halled In turn the 'man of destiny' who was to lead the country into an era of prosperity.
of
"Without trying to bring all solutely put maide this longing for under one head, can we offer any "I believe that we, should re-these Instances of hero-worship a superman and go boldly forward explanation of this sorica in the path of democracy. The phenomena? I soo in it a compen- times in which we live are not sation for the sense of Impotence an appeal for a dictator who will and frustration under which jockey us all into happiness and the mass of mankind has. auffered prosperity, but for a few hundred now for years; we worship the thousand ordinary people who atrong man because we know our- wil acek a little more knowledge selves to be weak. and develop a little more courage,' said the Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen dur ing an address on "The Cult of the Strong Man" at yesterday's Rotary Club timin.
feeling of powerlessness la easy to "The origin of this widespread trace. It goes back eventually to the disillusionment of the returned soldier when he came back from the War to find that everything in the World had changed boyond recognition except of the men who ruled it.
A Reason for the Cult.
"How very interesting it would be," said Dr. Allen, "to take a leap into the year 1982 and to see what shape the history of our time had begun to take by then in men's minda. I am sure the historian of 60 years honce will have a great deal to say about the political and
"It has a strong support too in the fear which haunts so many to- economic questions which are our day, the fear that there is a place South passed, West bid one heart.ain pre-occupation, and perhaps for them in the scheme of things he will have something also to say North passed and Mr. Frey, hold of the many uncertainties which only till such time as a machine ing the East hand, bid one spade. beset us in private and family life-place. Then there is the fact that South bid two diamonds, West went to three spades and Mr. Frey But I hope he will not admit one the rapid extension of the franchise
The Bidding.
Neither side were vulnérable.
took the contract to four spades.
The Play.
ace.
feature which is to me among the
has been invented to take their
moat Important and most interest-in so many countries has brought ing-what I would call the cult of into power a new domocracy, just the strong man. Let me explain of history, so that they are not yet at one of the most difficult perinds what I mean by this.
centrate on the
The jack of clubs was opened by South which Mr. Frey, the de-
"During the war, as in all wars, clarer, won with the ace immedi-
there was a demand for a new type ately returging the six of hearts of leader, for the man of iron will which Souris won with the
and resolute action, who would con- South led the ten of clubs which the dummy ruffed with the eight mattered and brush everything else one thing that of spades Mr. Prey's next playade to deal with the necessities was the king of hearts from dum-of the hour. We had such men in my, fallowing with the six from Kitchener, Foch and Clemenceau, his own hand. He then led the
or, if we were on the other side, queen of hearts from dummy and
of
Hindenburg and Ludendorf.
mentality remained--this craving man of clear hend and
for the
equal to their task.
"In a very simple way we seek relief from all this impotence, but brought up to believe that cricket. it is a false rellef. A boy was
was the finest of all games-as of course it is-but he was himself quite hopeless at it. What did he do? He constructed for himself phuntasy-picture of it great cricketer with the features of when North trumped with the jack The wax passed on but this "W.G." who knocked his records of spades, Mr. Frey refused to
and everybody else's into a cocked to overtrump with the king
hat. Just as this Ind got out of spades, but instead discarded the
marvellous this figure of the cricketer, the sausfaction which his own sorry Performances could never yield him, so we console our- eyes for our own powerlessness and failure by a phantasy picture of the super-man, the dictator- call him what you will. That this New Type of Leader.
is the origin of such a figure in "As the war came to an end, we
shown by the fact that each of us grew tired of the soldier and we
hns some private prescription which we are sure would cure the turned to a very different kind of
world's maladies, but which we Man, if not to the philosopher know nobody is likely to adopt, ant turned king of whom Plato spoke,it is just this that we imagine the at any ratq"fo a University Pro- fessor turned President.
six of cluba. This play later made it possible for the declarer to pick up North's trump.
to
It was necessary for North lead a diamond or South's ace of diamonds would go to sleep. When North led the diamond, de- clarer pinyed the seven and South won the trick with the ace. South returned a diamond which the de- clarer won with the queen. He then led his king of trump n small trump to dummy's ace On the king of diamonds, in dum- my, declarer discarded his last losing club.
and
By refusing to overruff North's jack of spades, Mr. Frey made his contract of four odd.
and
done, the man who would make a strong will who would get things clean sweep of precedenta traditions and vested interests and ctit 4 way for us through the thicket in selves.
which we found
our-
on the
enthusiasm which greeted Woodrow "We remember the tremendous Wilson when he set foot shores of Europe. He was the New World come to the deliverance of the Old; he was the political Messiah, and nowhere was his TWO WHIST DRIVES.popularity higher than in Germany
itself.
strong man is doing! We would
body's income above a certain level dearly love to abolish the 'dele or, on the other hand, to take every-
we write to the papers to say that to maintain the unemployed, and what the country Mussolini who will do just this.
wants is a
FUNCTIONS AT Y. M. C. A. AND when in Rusis, war had bred re-danger in this modern cult, especial-
HELENA MAY
A Grave Dunger. "But there is more to it than I believe there is a grave ly for nations which, rightly, or wrongly, have committed them mocracy. The attraction of the selves to the enterprise of de- dictator is that he relieves us from necessity for individual effort and Individual responsibility and the
mass-salvation. presenta us with a ready-made
"On the other side of Europe, that. volution, famine and the break-up. of all moral standards, a very dif- A record number of tables for a These men have gone but others ferent figure rose-that of Lenin. Y.M.C.A. whilst drive was the re- have come to take their place. We ward of the organisers of a plea-call such sint entertainment at the Euro-There is a significane in that word men popular idols' pean Y.M.C.A. on Monday night. 'idol', for it suggests that we are Thirty-six tables were arranged. half aware that what we are giving
The prize-winners were Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Holland and Miss far removed from religious venera- to them is something not so very Stokes (booby); Mr. Guard, Mr. tion. Pope and Mr. Hart (booby).
It is strange, indeed, that this rationally-minded 20th. cen Mr. S. F. Bernard who leaves tury of ours should have produced for England this week presented so many demigods of worship. the prizes. Mr. A. R. Brown, on "Let us run very rapidly over the behalf of the organising commit list of strong men in the post-war tee, thanked Mr. Bernard for his world. First and foremost there interest in Service Work and is Mussolini and tho series of wished him a happy voyage. Fascist dictatorships modelled in
Forthcoming Y.M.C.A. Service-other countries on hin. men's entertainments include a "At the moment, the destinies of tennis dance on July 18. swim- Russia are in the hands of Stalin, ming gala on July 23, and whist with his new religion of the tractor drive on July 25.
and his plan to compress centuries of evolution into half a generation. Chinn has had its Sun Yat-sen, and A large gathering attended the half a dozen war lords have been whist drive at the Helena May In-hailed in turn during the last few stitute yesterday, organised by theens as the strong men who were Hongkong Women's Guild and theto unite and reorganise the coun- Ministering Children's League.
M.C.L. Whist Drive.
The prize-winners were Mes- dames G. Moss, G. Stimson and Lake. Mrs. Westlake
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Germany's Strong Man.
In Germany, Hindenburg provides the one instance of a war lord who has survived into the
"There is a craving in human off on to other people what we nature to take the easy way, to put
is a far easier thing to put the know we ought to do ourselves. It
here on a pedestal and burn in- the heroic thing in cense before him than to try to do a small way oneself! Remember that there is all the difference in the world be- tween the strong man and the genuine leader: the one does things for us, the other enables us to do them for ourselves.
"You see,
na long as We have persuaded ourselves that the world is in such a pass that only a dicta- tor, a superman, a twentieth cen- tury demigod can do anything with it, we ordinary people can just sit back and do nothing, for the matter is clearly out of our hands!
"The fact is that we have looked at these men in the wrong light. They are not a refuge from our powerlessness but a proof that we (Continued on Page 11).
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