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NOTES OF THE DAY
SUBSIDIES FOR SEA POWER
46 an
MOTHERS WHO MOURN
IN BRITAIN.
The Very Idea!
ON KEEPING FIT
George. and Eddie Start Massaging the Masses WGeorge and us, by an
TE were greatly impressed,
By JAMES DOUGLAS Just twenty-one years ago the The hunger of a mother's heart Austro-Hungarian Empire de-is a tragic passion which cannot be described or, defined in words. ared war on Serbia.
It is a bodily hunger as well na a spiritual hunger. It ravages the unfathomable secret places of life.
The poets have tried to depict advertisement we saw in the the hunger of the mother's heart. paper. There was a picture of Teanyson in "Rizpah" puts it into a man with muscles on him like rock melons and a chest like a My baby, the boner that suck'd | doormat, and underneath it
"You Poor me, the bones that had laughed") ɛnid,
Spavined. and had cried-
Wrock! I Can Make a Mah of Theirs? Oh no! they are mine You in a Month!"
In thirteen days ten million men were sentenced to death.
In thirteen days 900,000 Britons were condemned to die: N nearly every home in Britain
there is an empty chair. There are ghosts sitting by near- ly overy fireside.
One phase of the merchant marine subsidy question has been largely overlooked, says the Chris tian Science Monitor. It is that concerning arguments for an "ade- quate" merchant service cssential adjunct to an "adequate" navy, usually meaning sufficient to insure "freedom (control) of the sea." In the June number of the United States Naval Institute Pro- Admiral Yates ceedings, Rear Stirling, Jr., Commandant of the New York Navy Yard, clearly states the navy's conception of the basis for measuring the necessary size of ita fighting force. In his paper entitled, "Sea Power," Adr miral Stirling says: "The navy and the merchant marine are inter- dependent elements of sea power.
They remember. The navy historically owes its exis-
They will never forget. tence to merchant shipping requir-
Their agony has never been told. ing protection." As a mercantile maritime nation, the United States If it could be told to this genera- ranks away down the scale in point tion, no politician could drag it of volume of active tonnage. As into another war on foreign soll. a naval power, the United States
Why not tell it now? Why not ranks high. Why? Simply bo-let this generation know before it Cause naval polley based on the
is too Inte? practical yardstick described by
Take, in the first place, the Admiral Stirling does not coincide anguish endured by every mother with the ambitious policy laid down during the endless butchery and by naval leaders. Big-navy Inter-the ceaseless slaughter.
Some of those who lost their dear ones are dead, but many of them are still alive.
ests are not unmindful of this It was the anguish of perpetual
fear.
apparent inconsistency in naval policy. There is one way to re- medy the situation without yield-almost every hour of every day. The mothers died every day and Ing in their quest for sen power. That is to encourage the building of a merchant marine that will re- quire the protection of a navy able to command the sons.
MILITARY NEEDS
A merchant marine based оп military rather than economic needs obviously cannot exist with- out artiñelal stimulus, any more than can the battle fleet itself.
It is one of the disappoint-Government aid is the only way to ments of the age that at a time develop and sustain a merchant when we stand amazed at the service on the elaborate scale de
manded by big-navy policy.
we
ย
two mwful lines:
not theirs-they had moved in my aide..
Then it went on to say how this But even these verses fall shortchap in the picture could lift & of the tale as it is told in the horse up with his teeth, and ten men could stand on his chest, and Bible:-
all you had to do was tear out the coupon and get a free booklet.
"And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night."
There were millions of Rizpahs
satiable love during the war.
OF MOTHER'S
Neither of us had the strength to tear out the coupon, so we thought it would be easier to go along to a gym-
haslum and give it a look over.
On the way there wo montioned to George that we were thinking of starting a gymnaalum of our own.
"All wo'd - want,” we explained, who suffered the anguish of in- would be a fairly large room and a couple of dumbells and, a picture of Sandow and Samson hanging on. the walls. Wo could put in a couple of horizontal bars.
LEAGUE
They would have torn the war Not one of them had a moment's
graves open with their hands respite from terror and horror.
They lived In
from They ugony
would have Kissed and ensualty list to casualty list, from fondled the dead bones of tho short leave to short leave, from battlefields. battle to battle.
Death walked in their hearts. The nature of a mother's fear is hard to imagine, for It is hicom- municable. It is more profound and more poignant than any other form of human pain.
Its depth la Indlented by the fact that it cannot be shared even by those who love her.
It is a solitary misery.
It is hidden far-beyond the touch
ness.
These Rizpahs remember twenty years after.
"Yes" interrupted George, eagerly. "And wo'd fit them with brass rails with plates for the counter lunch and we could have all the boys in uniform
and
"The horizontal bars we are refer- ring to any things you exercise' on,' we said, coldly.
Those who strove to comfort and console them also remember. He was silent until we got to the It is well that the Rizpahs of the gymnasium. There he saw a man future should foresee and fore-ying on his back, jerking his legs up
and down as hard as ho could go. know what is in store for them.
"That poor chap's taking & fit!” No girl now Hving can be sure that upon her heart may not fall exclaimed George, "Get a bucket of the curse of war.
The mothers of the future are
which darkened the minds of the mothera of the past.
THE DAILY DREAD
If the pain inflicted by war upon The fear of a mother who motherhood were realised there watches by the bedside of her child would be no more wars waged by during a dangerous liness, in us foreign battlefields in terrible thing, but it is by com-foreign hells of hate. parison brief.
The anguish does not go on for years.
on
water and throw it over him!" -
"He's exercising," wo explained.
a bike'."
"What bike? I can't see any bike. Anyhow, you can't ride a bike lying on your back. Co! Look! There's a man having a terrible fight with no- body!"
"That's shadow sparring,” wo said "Is it?" said George. "Well, any- how, he's got no chance of getting licked. What are those big leather balla fort"
"They're medicina-balls," "You don't mean to say that people swallow those things?"
"They're for exerching," we eald. patiently. "You throw one to us and we throw it back to you."
wonders of science and inven-Several economic factors make it of pity or compassion or tender-menaced by the same fale as that "He's doing what is known as 'riding " tion, marvel at the elimination impossible for the United States to of space and time, and ap-compete indiscriminately with other maritime nations without subsidies preciate what these things mean for its ocean commerce. One is a to the social and economic life relatively higher standard of living which doubles costs connected with of the world, there should be so much that is disheartening to the building and operation of American tonnage. If there muat
SAME MENACE those who wish to see the lot of be merchant ships for a big navy mankind made brighter and to defend--or to defend a big-navy
If we could form a League of happier. In recent years,
policy against taxpayera there
But the fear caused by war is Mothers in our land no politicians must be subsidies. The taxpayer not mercifully limited to weeks or would dare to sow the seeds of have seen what seemed the in-foots the bills for the navy and for months. It eats out the mother's war in pacts and understandings
and lying of spice national shipping services over heart.
entanglements of superable obstacle olmost removed. Personal. com- and above those which can operate We are apt to forget that all the sophistry and casuistry.
profitably under private manage-mothers are tortured, and not I do not believe that men will munication between man and
ment. Fairness to him requires
another foreign war. But woman- slain. that he should be permitted to de-merely the mothers whose sons are ever deliver us from the danger of cide whether ho will profit most by shipping his merchandise by the aands of mothers who lost their volt and rebellion.
We pity the hundreds of thou-hood can work this miracle of re-to you if you're going to throw it back
to me? We may as well keep it." cheapest possible means, often in sons in the war, but we seldom What about a League of Wives "Aw, shut up!" wo cald, and drag- foreign ahips, or by having to con- realise that millions of mothers and Daughters and Sisters?
ged him out of the place. The men will march. The men tribute subsidies to sustain ship- whose cons survived suffered the ping services that demand a larger daily pangs of dread till the last will fight. navy. It should be clearly recog-shot was fired and the last shell nized that subsidios nro
rarely burst. economic, nearly always military in This is the horror which makes purpose and effect.
.
342." There are but two larger nebulae, the beautiful one in And- romeda and Measier 33. These gave clues to researchers which enabled them to fathom the raye teries of star evolution,
for
"What's the use of me throwing it
I
·
The more we thought about setting They are the prey of the poll-up a gymnasium, the better we liked ticians...
it-All you had to do win.to provide But the women have the power the furnishings, and the customers. war so horrible for the whole to veto any repetition of 1914 indid all the work.
nation of mothers. It is utterly beyond all computation'or measure-
ment.
1935.
They cannot raise the dead, but This is the one thing which is they can save the living. never found in war novela or war Let them hear the volce of the plays or war histories. It is a war generation which to-day is hidden and concealed martyrdom. living again in the dreadful past.
HEART HUNGER
(Continued on Page 4)
Eventually we launched out. George was the masseur. We stroll- 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
no like that. things
George's
first
the sobbing and George was leaning. in a corner, exhausted. The man an the table was blue and black and green and red in spots. He looked like a black opal,
"He tried to get away," panted: That's the man who served. George. the summons on us from the Traffic Department."
man in any part of the globe is merely a matter of moments and money. In industrial life, the inventor and the engineer have brought about # revolution; manual and clerical labour is gradually being reduced, and in international life science con- tinues to play a big part. But side by side with the fact that science has been enlisted in the BACK-YARD RESEARCH real service of mankind, such as
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
""Green earth-forgets." But the 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-
hearts broken by the calamity of too thorough massage job was a bit We could hear screams coming from The mystery of motherhood is 1914 koep their memories. tionalism, to restrict the bountylating telescopes which carry them hard to understand, for a son is a
|tha They are the
-massage-room, but we were too grey witnesses
busy to aso about it at the time. As of Nature. One other circum-dream distances away to pin-point living part of a mother's inmost whose testimony should shake the soon as we could, we went to the mas
ignorance of the new generation sage-room. The screams had died worlds, they suddenly rediscovered stance which
cannot be over-bright gem, a spiral nebula which being
Ife is not only the soul of her and steel its will to resist the new down to a muffled sobbing. There looked is that science has reach forty years ago was assigned the soul. He is also the flesh of her brood of warmokers who have was a man lying on the table doing ed amazing heights in diacover- nondescript identity of "object flesh.. ing and applying the means of destruction, in preparation for wars which, it is calmly as sured; are inevitable. And to day many nations are still more Į nebulae are thought to be the eagerly striving to find more "mothers" of stars. Because stars are sunя at tremendous tempera- efficient, more deadly and more
be tures, they were belloved to horrible engines of war. If
gaseous, 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
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 which cil 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 even less devastating than the soul- destroying effect caused by the deprivation of the right of all mon to take part in the ordinary reckoned in mere statistics. And 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 amidst plenty, and the all to have been impressed by ever-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
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Atoms in stars made up of such weighty matter are at such high temperatures that they are Lee- 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 botwoon 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 resulting from studies of "number 142" will be forthcoming,
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"Oh, I'd like to get right up there and walk around bare-
foot
Oh wo said. "Well, domo 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 apprd him. $25 straight away, but there was a man training for a fight and he want- ed a sparring partner, so we said to Georgo, "You can't go out. There's a man here who wants a sparring part- ner. Hop into your togs."
"I'm a masseur ! exclaimed George, We oventually persuaded him, and we went out to look on. One of the customers was skipping in a corner..
"Are you the chap who wants
asked Goorge aparring partner?" walking up to him.
him a
B.
"Yes," said the man. "Right!" said George, and landed.
a terrific crack on the nose. The man let out a rear of rage,. George leapt in the air, and the next. thing we knew they were both out in. the street, with George three lengths. in front yelling for the police.de
Around about midnight, ho back. We were sitting in the rowing-- machine, fishing.
came
"Lock all the doors," he said," hoarsely.
Well, that ruined our business. *** We were imprisoned in the gym nasium for fourteen days while the boxer prowled about outside. All wed had to eat was the stuning out of the vaulting horse and an occasional allee of medicine ball
Never again will we enter
um business. naclum
the
Even now, Georgo in wearing a false: moustache add
smoked glass.