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1935.
NOTES OF THE DAY MOTHERS WHO MOURN The Very Idea!
SUBSIDIES FOR SEA POWER
IN BRITAIN
By JAMES DOUGLAS
In thirteen days 900,000 Britons were condemned to die. IN nearly every home in Britain
there is an empty chair. There are ghosts sitting by near ly every fireside.
One phase of the merchant marine subsidy question has been largely overlooked, says the Chris tian Science afonitor. It is that concerning arguments for an “ade-
Just twenty-one pears ago the quate" merchant service sa kn essential adjunct to an "adequate" | Austro-Hungarian Empire de navy, usually meaning sumclent toclared war on Serbia. Insuro "freedom (control) of the In thirteen days ten million
In the June number of the men were sentenced to death. NOR." United States Naval Institute Pro- ceedings, Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., Commandant of the New York Navy Yard, clearly states the navy's conception of the basis for mensuring the, necessary size of its fighting force. In his paper entitled, "Sea Power," Ad- miral Stirling says: "The navy and the merchant marine aro inter- dependent elements of sen power. The navy historically owes ita exis- fence to merchant shipping requir ing protection." As a mercantile maritime nation, the United States ranks away down the scale in point of volume of active tonnage An n naval power, the United States ranks high. Why? Simply be enuse naval polley based on the practical yardstick described by
first place, the Take, in the Admirai Stirling does not coincide anguish endured by every mother with the ambitious policy laid down during the endless butchery and by naval leaders. Hig-navy, Inter-the ceaseless slaughter. esla are not unmindful of this It was the anguish of perpetual
Some of those who lost their dear ones are dend, but many of them are still alive.
t
They remember. They will never forget. Their agony has never been told. If It could be told to this genera- tlon, no politician could drag it into another war on foreign soil,
Why not tell it now? Why not let this generation know before it is too late?
fear.
apparent inconsistency in naval policy. There is one way to ra Stubbs Rd.
The mothers died every day and medy the situation without yield-
almost every hour of every day. wing in their quest for sea powerNot one of them had a moment's
That is to encourage the building
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, JULY 29, 1935.
SOME CONTRASTS It is one of the disappoint ments of the age that at a time when we stand amazed at the
The hunger of a mother's heart is a tragic passion which cannot bo described or defined in words. It is a bodily hunger as well as a spiritual hunger. It ravages the unfathomable secret places of life.
ON KEEPING FIT
George and Eddie Start Massaging the Masses
TE were greatly impressed, Georgo and us, by an
W
The poets have tried to depict | advertisement we saw in the the hunger of the mother's heart, paper. There was a picture of a man with muscles on him like Tennyson in “Rizpah" puts it into two awful Ines:
rock melons and a chest like a
My baby, the boncs that suck'd doormat, and underneath it
"You Poor me, the bones that had laughed | Raid,
Spavined and had cried—
Wrock! I Can Make a Man of Theirs? Oh no! they are mino-You in a Month I'*
not their they had moved in my side.
But even these verses fall short of the tale as it is told in the Bible:-
"And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvent until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to reat on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night."
There were millions of Rizpahs who suffered the anguish of in- satiable love during the war.
LEAGUE OF MOTHERS They would have torn the war graves open with their hands They lived In ngony from They would have kissed and casualty list to casually list, from fondled the dend bones short leave to short leave, from battlefields. battle to battle.
of a merchant marine that will re-respite from terror and horror. quire the protection of a navy able to command the seus.
MILITARY NEEDS
A merchant marine based on military rather than economic needs obviously cannot exist with- out artificial stimulus. any more Itself. then can the battle flect
Death walked in their hearts, The nature of a mother's fear is hard to imagine, for it is incon municable. It is more profound and more poignant than any other form of human pain.
Its depth ia indicated by the fact Government aid is the only way to that it cannot be shared even by develop and sustain a merchant those who love her. service on the elaborate scale de- manded by a big-navy policy.
It is a solitary misery.
It is hidden far beyond the touch
of the
These Rizpah remember twenty years after.
Those who strove to comfort and consule them also remember.
It is well that the Rizpaha of the
future should forcace and fore- know what is in store for them.
No girl now living can be sure that upon her heart may not fall
the curse of war.
The mothers of the future are
Then it went on to say how this chap in the picture could lift a men could stand on his chest, and horse up with his teeth, and ten all you had to do was tear out the coupon and get a free booklet.
Neither of us had the strength to toar out the coupon, so we thought it would be easier to go along to a gym- Rasium and give it a look over.
On the way there we mentioned to were thinking of George that wo starting a gymnasium of our own.
"All wo'd want," we explained, "would be a fairly large room and a couple of dumbells and a picture of Sandow and Samson hanging on the walls. We could put in a couple of, horizontal bars.
"Yes" Interrupted Goorgo, eagerly. "And we'd fit them with "brand"ralle. with plates for the counter lunch and we could have all the boys in uniform and..
..
"The horizontal bars we are refer- ring to are things you exerclso on," we said, coldly.
a man
lio was allent until we got to the lying on his back, jerking his legs up gymnasium. There he saw and down as hard as he could go.
"That pour chap's taking a fit?" exclaimed George, "Get a bucket of water and throw It over him!"
explained. "Ile's exercising." wo
wonders of science and inven- Several economic factors make if of pity or compassion or tender-menaced by the same fate as that "He's doing what is known as 'riding
пеня.
which darkened the minds of the molhers of the past. ¿
If the pain inflicted by war upon were realised there would be no more wars waged by ол foreign battlefields in foreign hells of hate.
impossible for the United States to ap-compete indiscriminately with other
THE DAILY DREAD maritime nations without subsidies for its ocean commerce. One is n
The fear of a mather who motherhood relatively higher standard of living watches by the bedside of her child which doubles costs connected with during a dangerous illness is a the building and operation of terrible thing, but it is by com- American tonnage. If there must|parison brief. be merchant ships for a big navy
blko","
"What bike? I can't see any bike. Anyhow, you can't ride a bike lying on your back. Ool Look! There's a man having a terrible fight with no- body!"
"That's shadow sparring," we said. "Is It?" said George. "Well, any- how, he's got no chance of gotting licked. What are those big leather. balls fort"
"They're medicine-balls,"
"You don't mean to say that peoplo Awallow those things?"
"They're for exercising," we said, patiently. "You throw one to us and we throw it back to you."
"What's the use of me throwing it
tion, marvel at the elimination of space and time, and preciate what these things mean to the social and economic life of the world, there should be so much that is disheartening to
SAME MENACE those who wish to see the lot of
The anguish does not go on for
If we could form a League of mankind made brighter and to defend-or to defend a big-navy years.
policy against taxpayers-there But the fear caused by war Is Mothers in our land no politicians happier. In recent years, we must be subsidies. The taxpayer not mercifully limited to weeks or would dare to now the needs of have seen what seemed the in-fools the bills for the navy and for months. It eats out the mother's war in pacts and understandings and lying entanglements of superable obstacle of space national shipping services over heart.
We are apt to forget that all the sophistry and casulstry. almost removed. Personal com- and above those which can operate
I do not believe that men will munication between man and profitably under private manage mothers are tortured, and not ment. Fairness to him requires
another foreign war. But woman- Blain. man in any part of the globe is that he should be permitted to des merely the mothers whose sons are ever deliver us from the danger of
We pity the hundreds of thou-hood can work this miracle of re-to you if you're going to throw it back merely a matter of moments and cide whether he will profit most by money. In industrial life, the shipping his merchandise by the sands of mothers who lost their volt and rebellion,
chpapest possible means, often in sons in the war, but we seldom What about a League of Wives inventor and the engineer have foreign ships, by having to con-realise that millions of mothers and Daughters and Sisters? brought about revolution: tribute subsidies to sustain ship.whose sons survived suffered the The men will march. The men manual and clerical labour is ping services that demand a larger daily pangs of dread till the last will fight.
It should be clearly recog-shot was fired and the last shell gradually being reduced, and in nized that subsidies
rarely hurst.
This is the horror which makes international life science con-economic, nearly always military in
war as horrible for the whole to.veto any repetition of 1014 in But the women have the power tinues to play a big part. But purpose and effect.
nation of mothers. It is utterly side by side with the fact that
beyond all computation or measure-
They cannot raise the dead, but ment. science has been enlisted in the
This is the one thing which is they can save the living. ........................reat service of mankind, such as
never found in war novels or war Let them hear the voice of the plays or war historien. It is awar generation which to-day is hidden and concealed martyrdom, living again in the dreadful past.
"Green earth forgets." But the hearts broken by the calamity of 1914 keep their memories.
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1935.
to me? We may as well keep it."
"Aw, shut up!" we said, and drag-. ged him out of the place,
The more we thought about setting up a gymnasium, the better we liked it. All you had to do was to provide the furnishings, and the, customers. did all the work.
Eventually we launched out.
We stroll- George was the masseur. ed about in cream flannel trousers and a white sweater and said to the vic time, "Go on You're doing fine. Don't you feel the benefit of it" and things like that,
George's Arst massage job was a bit too thorough.
There
We could hear screams coming from the massage-room, but we were too They are the grey witnesses busy to see about it at the time. As whose testimony should shake the soon as we could, we went to the mus Ignorance of the new generation aage-room. The screams had died
Bobbing muffled He is not only the soul of her and steel its will to resist the new down to a
on the table doing He is also the flesh of her brood of warmakers who have was a man lying on
(Continued on Page 4) the sobbing and Georgo was loaning in a corner, exhausted. The man on the table was blue and black and groon and red in spots. He looked like a
opal
soul.
flesh.
Many men have searched the in increasing the yield from the globe for some precious jewel of earth, measures are taken, in knowledge, only to find it in their the effort to keep up prices, and own back yard. Such was the ex- perience of astronomers recently. in order to further economic na-Busy with space-and-time-annihi- tionalism, to restrict the bountylating telescopes which carry them hard to understand, for a son in a of Nature. One other circum-dream distances away to pin-point worlds, they suddenly rediscovered stance which cannot be over-
a bright gem, a spiral nebula which looked is that science has reach forty years ago was assigned the ed amazing heights in discover- nondescript identity of "object ing and applying the means of 342." There are but two larger nebulae, the beautiful one in And- destruction, in preparation for romeda and Messier 33. These wars which, it is calmly as- Kave clues to researchers which sumed, are inevitable. And to enabled them to fathom the mya- terica of star evolution, for day many mations are still more nebulae are thought to be the eagerly striving to find more "mothers" of stars. Becauso stars efficient, more deadly and more are suns at tremendous tempera tures, they were believed to be horrible engines of
If war.
gascous, but research in atomic there is a spark of comfort to structure has borne out the theory be found in this connection it is that when a ton of matter takes up much room 115 the Great that forces are also at work Pyramid, it must be gaseous, and devising counter-measures to when squeezed to the size of a pen- offset the new horrors whichcil stub, it must be super-solid. are threatened. Next to war, the greatest tragedy of life is to be found in the millions of people, in all parts of the world, who are unable to get employ- ment. It is true that
most nations see to it that, these workless people and their de pendents do not actually starve, but physical starvation is oven less devastating than the soul- destroying effect caused by the deprivation of the right of all
reckoned in mere statistics. And' men to take part in the ordinary so, whilst we can point to great life of mankind. No-one who achievements in practically all has come into contact with large spheres of life, we still have groups of workless people can poverty amidat plenty, and the Sail to have been impressed by over-present threat of new wars the mental blight that un-hanging over mankind. It is for the world's statesmen, and employment brings the grow social reformers to face up to
Atoms in stars made up of such weighty matter are at such high temperatures that they are fre- quently broken up into three or four pieces. Comparatively speak- Ing, this new astronomical walf was right in earth's back yard. Only because of obscuring matter between that section of the con- stellation of the Giraffe and earth did it remain unappreciated. Now it is conceivably only a question of time before additional theories
342" will be forthcoming, resulting from studies of "number
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"Oh, I'd like to get right up there and walk around bare
fout."
black
"He tried to got away," panted George, "That's the man who served the summons on us from the Traffic Department."
"Dh we said, "Well, come on. You get one side of the table and we'l get on the other."
And we
massaged him again.. When he came to, we sent for a taxi, charged him $50 and let him go.
George wanted to go and spend his $25 straight away, but there was man training for a fight and he want- ed a sparring partner, so we said to George, "You can't go out. There's a man here who wants a
ner. Hop into your sparring part-
"I'm a masseur!" exclaimed George. We eventually persuaded him, and we went out to look on. One of the customers was skipping in a corner. "Are you the chap who wants a sparring partner?" asked George
up to him.
said the man.
"Right!" sald George, and landed him a terrific crack on the nose.
The man let out a roar of rage, in the air, and the next George Joapt thing we knew they were both, out in the street, with George three lengths.
in front yelling for the police.
Around about midnight, he came back, Wo were sitting In the rowing. machine, fishing.
"Lock all the doors," he said.
hoarsely
We
that, ruled our business."
wora imprisoned in the gym- nasium for fourteen days while the boxer prowled about outside. All we' had to eat was the stuffing out of the vaulting-horse and an occasional allce of medicine-ball.
Never again will we enter the gym- nasium basicoss
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Even now, George is wearing a moustache and amokod glasses,: