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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1930.
THE PRESS AND PEACE
PEACE
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I AM writing this article simply
as a Christian who wishes to celebrato the birthday of the Prince of Peace with joy and thankfulness, but is almost over- whelmed by a bitter disappoint- ment. For it really looks as if the most carneat attempt over planned to make wars to cease in all the world" has falled finally and completely. It has failed because, in spite of the hideous experiences of the last war, and the even more hideous horrors of the next war, if there is one, the nations of the Con- tinent are not converted.
We in Britain have done" our best. We may say with the Paulmist, "I labour for peace; but when I speak unto them thereof, they make them ready to battle." Nat one of the Great Powers has stood honestly by our side.
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EARTH? By the Very Rev. W.R. INGE, D.D.
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years ago.
"Do
you room.
hind a child's gravo to shoot at a bearded German who has probably got a family, anxiously "awaiting his return at home.
"There was a large crucifix at The sight of the ona end. bullets chipping Christ's image about, and the knowledge of what He has done for us and the Germans, and what we are doing to Ilis consecrated ground and each other, made one feel sick of the whole war, or sicker than. before."
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Well, I suppose we ought to put these thoughts away from is on Christmas Day. It is the ce child's festival, the most popular `-- of the Christian holy days-thr lenst ecclesiastical (it made its way curiously late into the calendar) and perhaps for that reason the most Christian of our feasts.
Greek Clearly, no
to
For we are to enter into the
wrote another Ode in a very Greeks? For France, the League is only different spirit, the spirit, not of should make a slave of another Kingdom of Heaven as little a machine for maintaining the Christ, but of Napoleon and Greek. We must not spoil the children; as that most attractive status quo, and their own hege- Treitschke, of Hitler and Musso- dead in battle, or hinder their of medieval visionaries, Julian of mony in Eurone.
lini. It commemorated Crom- burial. We shall not offer up Norwich, says. "To me was America makes broad, her well's victories. It was his trophies in the temples, fearing shown no higher stature than Christianity was phylacteries, and leaves an effete hero's task "to ruin the great that the offering of trophies childhood." Continent to stew in its own work of time, And easi the King- taken from kinsmen may be a founded by a young man; it is juice.
doma old Into another mould; pollution. We shall not do a religion for the young, and for of Greek those who remain young in heart Russin is piling up a gigantic Though justice against Fate vastate the land army, certainly not meant for complain, And plead the ancient enemies, nor burn their houses; though their hair is grey..
There show. When she resumes her rights in vain; But these do hold it is only lawful to reap standing
is something very old policy of conquest and an- or break As men are strong or corn, without injuring the next charming and inspiring in the nexation, our fatuous Socialists, weak." Oliver was to crown his harvest."
faith, hope and charity which who are now howling for war glorious career by smashing our And now it is assumed that in have survived contact with the The engagement is announced be- with Haly on behalf of the allies in the Great War-"A the next war each side will try world and experience of its The religion of the tween Mr. Hans M. Ruecker, League, will sing a very different Cæsar ho ere long to Gaul, To to exterminate the women and ways. manager for South China and the tune. They would not insult a Italy an Hannibal."
children of the other by poison devout recluse is good, but the Philippines of Curl Schlieper, Russian football team-if the Why this change of tone? and incendiary bombs. What religion of the good man of the Remscheld-Germany and Miss
Because England was for a few has come Russians play football.
0192 Lisi Beran.
Civilised world is better. years the strongest military nations have never behaved so In such characters we see the power in Europe. Happily, before. Arc the nations of true. Christian temper. A This sounds self-righteous, Cromwell was the last man to Europe, bound together by race, sunny, genial spirit it is, unsour- know; we have not always been take such advice; he was a cauti- religion, common traditions and ed by suspicion, unburdened by pacifists. It was in 1645, the ous and level-hended Englishman. culture, less akin to each other care: a spirit which has found year of the battle of Naseby,
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than Athenians and Spartans in a natural wealth in contentment. that the young John Milton Our fits of jingoism have been the time of Plato?
instead of an artificial poverty wrote his Nativity Ode, the short and relatively mild. Burke. Those who had to do the kill in luxurious requirements; a most exquisite piece of word was right when he spoke of "the ing in the Great War felt that spirit which is not ashamed to music that has ever been brought ancient and inbred integrity, the whole business was horrible enjoy heartily, to reverence out of the English language. piety, good nature and good and unnatural. A young officer, humbly, to admire unreservedly, On the first Christmas Day, humour of the English people," who was killed on the following to love and trust with the whole In the November issue of the he reminds us, there was really
And now I am convinced that day, wrote in his last letter heart. or we have put the evil spirit away home, near Christmas-time in In a word, it is the spirit of Oriental Economist, an indepen- peace on earth. "No war,
battle's sound, Was heard the from us for ever, and not, as our night digging, I was shifted to a child, which has retained its Ident organ published in Tokyo, world around: The idle spear neighbours say, because we have muke room for some other com- bloom and grace and fragrance there is a timely appeal by Mr. and shield were high uphung; got all we want. We think the pany. I advanced to a come long after the cool morning Tanzan Ishibashi, its editor, to The hooked chariot stood Un- time has come, after nearly 2,000 tery to defend it and stayed hours have changed into the the Press in general to lend its stained with hostile blood; The years, to give Christianity a trial there most of the day. It is a glare and dust and heat of mid- weight to the creation of diplo. trumpet apake not to the armed in international affairs.
beastly thing to have to do, day. matic policies which will tend to throng, And Kings sat still with We think we have done so digging trenches among graves Do not let us be too superior the preservation of world peace. knew their sovereign Lord was this piece of pagan war-morality, ornamental wreaths to make mas with the children, who love awful eye, As if they surely already, do we? Then listen to and pulling down crosses and to enjoy an old-fashioned Christ- The article is based on the recent
by."
should it. It
revive early publication by over fifty Chinese
Twelve years later another think it right," says Socrates, "One feels that something is memories which we should be newspapers of a lengthy state-Puritan poet. Andrew Marvell, "that Greeks should enslave wrong when a man lies down be- ungrateful to forget. ment addressed "To All Our People and to the Government and People of Japan," in which a warning was issued to the Chinese, masses to refrain from anti-foreign speech and action, an assurance given to the Japan- cse Government and people that recent unfortunate occurrences were in no wise reflective of thought common to most of the
When 40 years of age I was strol Chinese, an appeal made to ling along a dark, quiet thorough-
fure, Japan to soften her attitude to
not thinking of anything in standing at the kitchen door and I particular; when suddenly for no said, "What's the matter, have you wards China, and a plea put for-
While travelling to a popular re- I became apparent reason whatever.
not started work? He vanished
1 had quite sure he surt,
most unusual ward for co-operation, in which paralysed. My feet halted in their immediately. Being
stride and no effort of my astonish- was having a joke on me I looked perience. During the train journey the Japanese Press were askeded self would induce them to go on all over the house. Then doubt I was obsessed by a feeling that all turned to fear. 1 was certain some was not well. A companion to their influence. Mr. again.
serious had taken whom 1 divulged this premonition I remained in this mysterious con- thing really Ishibashi laments the fact that dition just long enough to allow a
place."
tried to put my mind at ease, but in We ran along side by side to the vain. the Chinese appeal attracted so
car to dash out of an unexpected
works, and I said, "How he will opening, and flash past within, an little attention in Japan, and be- inch of my nose.
laugh when he sees us like this," My mind went back 25 years. The But he never set eyes on either of the attitude of
us again. He had been killed the scene was a public school. It was vernacular journal which pre-
voling day ond crowds of would-be exact moment his wife saw his ap-
N old Scots proverb declares that banns in this Lanarkshire town by a A "There are mair married than strange arrangement on the part of Bented the statement under the voters and others were congregated Patiton in the doorway.
near the entrance gates, where
gude house hauders," and while this the authorities. A friend of the par- heading, "Chinese Impudence." polling booth WOS situated. We A year ago my husband was taken may be disputed, there is no doubt ties having lodged information that
could ace across the road, but not into hospital. On It is beyond question that there
sitting alone in that despite slender financial re- they had been married without legal to right or lefi, and when on being the house waiting the arrival of the cources or parental disapproval, there banns, the offenders were summoned released from school my friend, post, a week later, I distinctly heard is never any lack of Inds and lasses before the Sheriff, who then imposed
Aina of Ave
The couple shillings. schoolboy fashion, suggested a race my name being called. On making who are willing to try matrimony.
was then handed the road"
a printed form, duly I was
nothing searching inquiries I failed to fathom
It is generally well known that ac- loath,
the mystery, until I visited the hos "ready, set, go!" was sald, pital the next day and my husband's cording to the law of Scotland for completed, which, by discharging the malities are unnecessary, and marine, certified the marringe. Truly a and my playmate ran, but for me n first words were, "I've called re-
firmation. This is known as irregular consent,
Another method of irregular mar- My friend ran under the wheels of going to answer
marriages, and is completely binding a passing horse and trap, and was A few days before his death I lay mariectly legal. The only condi- riage was known as "jumping the broomstick," while A clandestine carried home unconscious. My sixth in bed and the whole of that night, tion is that one of the parties must sense saved me from grave harm on which seemed endless, I fell a con- my recent stroll, as it did on that stant tupping of my knees, Stop it, have, immediately preceding the affair was described as a "hall mirk occasion 25 years previously.
ceremony, not less than three weeks marriage."
Winning the Kail" On visiting the hospital in the resilence in Scotland.
There are a number of strange
Many old proverbs relate to wed- While I was stunding at my front morning I found my husband was
busy tapping in the same manner as customs and instances of irregular door one morning a neighbour ran past without hat or cost, a look of
I had felt during the night. His end marriages recorded, and one of the ding customs, and proffer good ad- I hurried after pitifully and
drawing near, he looked at me so old methods was "marrying by meal."vice to those about to enter this state. distress on her face.
raised his hand to In this, the two contracting parties One such declares that "Ill-fortune her, enquiring what was the matter. mine. She said "something had happened
The following day he
knelt facing each other, each with a follows them that are married in
and 26 similar proclaims,'' handful of meal, and with a basin try in May, you'll rue the day, to her man." I asked her to go back
between them. They placed their The Scottish prejudice against mar home, and I would run for the doc
In the basin and tor, "It's happened at work," she One day in the year 1010, I had hands, full of meal, assured me. I was standing by the just finished a letter to my brother mixed 1, in token that they would
not part until death severed fire and glancing up, I saw him in France. I had not been on union. After swearing on a Bible
asleep when I was rudely awakened
to
Use
moans
one
are sections of the Press in every country which seem bent on destroying the peace struc- ture rather than on reinforcing
STRANGE PREMONITIONS
THE weird and exciting stories. from real life ere ofttimes stranger than those conjured up by the imaginative authors. A few of those told to me during the past few years by friends and acquaintances will be of interest
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Girvan was reached, and strange- ly enough the front left wheel of the locomotive was found to be bad- ly cracked, a fault which would un- doubtedly have caused an accident- had the train proceeded further again. There was still no one out- On my return journey the feeling persisted despite my companion's At the same time my sister, who assurance that all was well. Sud- slowed down and lives about ten miles away from our denly the train
came to a full stop on a high em- place, had the some experience.
A week Inter, we both received bankment. word that our brother had been A few moments later a guard and told us to elled at the time we heard the re-opened the door
alight. Due apparently to a faulty peated knockdings.
coupling, the rear compartment, which we occupied, had become de tached from the rest of the train, and had stopped on the level track. Had this occurred on a decline it would have brought disastrous con- sequences.
Some may dismiss my story ne "pure coincidence," but I wonder?
Cecil Rhodes
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exercise on mass opinion is undoubtedly a factor in inflaming national passions. .50 Conversely, the Press. can, and in innumerable instances does, do much to create international .50 concord and friendship. Mr. Ishibashi puts his finger on one of the worst evils when he says that many newspapers get carrl- ed away by extreme nationalism. He might have gone further still by laying much of the blame for
by loud knocks on the door. A this effect, the couple rose and de- this unhappy circumstance on Governments which exercise other hand, it is equally true friend of mone seeking me, 1 logic- instance of this form of marriage be for a basin of broth; the custom was mine was ill, and thinking clared themselves man and wife. An the younger inale guesis rode a race complete control over the Press, that in these nations where the ed out of the window, but could see tween a Duikelth couple took pince plso known as "winning the_knil," even to the extent of making freedom of the Press is unfetter- nothing.
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the foot of the stair the
foot, is run for a silk handkerchief. mouthpieces of official propaabuse their privilege and, either knocking started again. I rushed to Even trial marriages are no new presented by the bride.
deliberately or by lack of dis- the front door, but on opening it things in Scotland, for a curious cus Following marriage, it was often to engender hatred and friction.cretion, arouse international dig there was no one about.
tom, at one time prevalent in Dum- the habit for the No-one imagines for a moment cord. The responsibility of the were awake, and both my husband for a year simply by shaking hands.
By this time the whole family friesshire, was that couples married place to visit the young men of the couple, and then to decorate them by hanging an that the Press in totalitarian Press in these matters was never and daughter had distinctly heard A curious form of marriage which old erdel qued stones about his States can exercise an influence greater than it is to-day. But the knocking. We closed the door has since passed into a proverb was neck. The burden could only be re- which would run contrary to that of Governments is even the front room, and had scarcely sat As recently as 1850 persons were band, and so securing his freedom. and retired for a few moments to "tuglen or Rutherglen: marriages." moved by the bride kissing her ha governmental ideas," On the greater still,
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