1918-12-10 — Page 7

WOMEN AND THE ELECTION. WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?

Jay MRS. 17. G. MASTERMAN.] Early in the year" I was asked to take the part of the Liberal candidate at a "mock election" beld to educate the new woman voters. It would be obviously unwise to generalize from one meeting but the experience was an interesting ane, with some, to me, unexpected incidents. The hall was filled by a body of women.. many of whom had probably attended political meetings, none of whom had ever before exercised the franchise. The meeting was held in one of the out-lying

districts of London.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10TH. 1918

THE AIR FORCE

THE WINGS,

{BY IL C. BALLEY). '

Flying in the nature of things has no thing to do with fighting. When the war-drum throbe no longer and the battle Bags are furled, there will be no more reason for, an airman to be a good shot than for a surgeon to be a fisherman

But till then the rian who flies must be

a man who fights, and the pilot who is not handy with his machine guns will not be a pilot long. So Jack Bull, though he knows all about the theory of dying, must take a course at the Arma men; School before they will let him into the air. He must study the manner and customs of the Lewis gun and the Fickers, and how to treat them when they are not feeling well. He must learn what sort of a gun platform an aero plane is, and what sort of a target the German aeroplane will make. Remem. her that air gunnery is a very differco: thing from land gunnery. In air fight

is it for service: Try to imagine what a GT.BRITAIN'S WAR MEMORIAL vast volume of highly skilled effort that SALISBURY PLAIN

means, and you will understand a little of the task, which lie behind, our triumphs in the air.

MENTIONED

AS THE SITE.

Some time ago a movement was started The gun is not the aeroplane's only for the erection in Hyde Park, London of a great monument to the near two weapon. Jack Bull has to learn what a

million soldiers and sailors of the bomb is, what it will do, and why; and how. You think that even a civilian has British Empire who have laid down had opportunities enough of learning all their lives for its cause--for the cause of that: "But a bomb is a delicate and com-justice, freedom and peace-during the plex organism, and Jack Bull takes some four years or more that have elapsed time to understand its anatomy and since the commencement of the present, physiology. He must also study the way war. Hyde Park is already disfigured in which it is siung and the way in which by several hideous memorials, which are is dropped. Simple again, you think, nothing less than artistic eyesores in- but obviously you do not want to be viting either exasperation or ridicule. saluted by 230lb. of high explosive in. It is always the gathering place of tended for somebody else. There was everything that is most ultra modern years ago, and somewhere not in Eng- and of ephemeral fashion and frivolity. land, an aeroplane which-but again. As such the park furnishes a frame that must do a dance among eggs. There would detract from the majesty and im- were no casualties, and the episode still pressiveness of any memorial, especially amuses the infantry who were present one raised be a grateful people to these How does an aeroplane going at any of their countrymen who have made the thing from a mile to three miles a minute supreuse sacrifice for their sake. up against the clouds ever hit anything!

Any one who appreciates these views, which anything but a bull'etye is (for There are such things ne bomb sights. will be gratified to learn that an in- the all-important instant) a miss, If the airman sets his correctly for fluential movement has been inaugurated relation to his own, may vary from no vided, of course, that be can see it, and London, to Sailsbury, Plain, which, as a target moving at a speed which, in speed, height, and force of wind the bomb England to transfer the site of this national, nay, imperial, memorial to be will hit toe bull's-eye every time, pro-

1ustrious dead trom Hyde Park,. in: thing to 250 or more miles an hour. He that weather conditions will let him get great military training ground not only fres from a platform anything but stable over it. How they train Jack Bull to for British, but also for American and fixed, in a gale of wind always, and pot his target and hit it is one of the soldiers, has done so much toward in clothes more like an Arctic explorer's We will go on with him to the training which is already adorned with the things which I am not going to tell you.ning the war-that Salisbury Plain.

than ighting kit

depot, where at last he dies. He has been grandst of some months in the Air Force, and never namely, Stonehenge, so suggestive of the prehistoric monuments. left the ground.

warriors of the mother-country, before even the dawn of ter history.

I began with the assertion that I was in favour of a peace by negotiation be- cause all wars came to an end by that way. I explained that I did not mean that we should give up anything essential, but that a distinction should be made between points of honour and points of expedienty. If it proved impossible to come to an agreement on points of honour it would always be possible to break offing the gunner has to fire at a target in the negotiations. I gave historical examples. No one appeared to dix- approve of that. I then declared myself in favour of a League of Nations, adding that a tague of Nations that did not 'include all the Great Powers I should regard as a Failure. The meeting did not appear to be upset by that either, proposal in Invour" of the abolition of private trade in armaments got my first öbeer. A little encouraged (a,dead silence produces a rather cold atmosphere) I went pa to declare myself an impenitent Free Trader and Home Ruler in favour of the Colonial model. I spoke in favour of ap qual suffrage and of giving the votes to women in the same age as the men, and found the meeting distinctly, if amiably,

howtile,

pensions.

QUESTIONA.

FIRST FLIGHT.

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WHY WORRY?

W

HY worry? The War's over! So it is.

We have all heard that remark more than.. once, but there is much to worry about " yet. We're not out of the game simply because the Huns have laid down their guns. What you gave on Heather Day and at the Fair is surely not the limit of your sacrifice! There are thousands and thousands of brave men condemned to pass the rest of their lives in misery unless we rally to the aid of the great work of healing. Thanks to the Army and Navy, we have had, and will continue to have, a very comfortable time in Hongkong. It is our duty then to "worry," in order that the maimed and sick, the human wreckage of the great war of Liberty, may be restored. Every one of us here owes a great debt to the men who fought and bled in the war-a debt which we can never repay. But we can show our appreciation by giving our last cent to the great work of mercy in which so many noble men and women are engaged at home. Money is urgently needed. Shall we grudge it now that the war is won? Never let it be said that our patriotism and honour petered out with the echo of the last shot. Don't say that you put every cent you had into Heather Day and St Andrew's Fair. The War Bond Drawing is for the same cause, and its success must be written down in the annals of the Colony's giving as another endeavour to show tangible appreciation of the brilliant achieve- ments, on the battlefield and on the North Sea, of the bravest boys orr earth. Make the result a Victory Offering worthy of the Colony..

PERHAPS IT'S YOUR LAST CHANCE.

If you can keep all that in mind you goes to the making of an ace of aces.” will understand something of what skill

destroyer of many German planes, and You follow the education of Jack Ball, o great artist entrusted with the you will see that Jack Bull has a good with a pilot of an older generation beside designing of a memorial there, to those deal to learn in his six weeks at the you, and had him almost as surprised as who have fallen in this war, could fail Armament School. They will show him you are. But while you marvel at the to be profoundly impressed by the solem first on the cinematograph what an aerc-speed and concentration of the training, nity of the scene, and of the environ- There ment. Their infitence would assuredly plane looks like in front of the gun-be is admiring its thoroughness. sights, and how the gun-sights must be was nothing like this in my time, he inspire him to produce something in trained to bring it down. Then he will sighs. After four hours' dual control keeping with that Stonehenge, which, Which now the property of the British nation, go to target practice at bull's eyes, and you were actually heaved out." V

means, being interpreted, that after four is to the English-speaking race what the aeroplanes. The job is complex, course. Taking aim meane bringing the hours flying with an instructor beside Pyramids and the Sphinx are to the him to prevent disaster, the peophyte was Land of the Nile. And since these Questions followed. The first, by a aeroplane as well as the gun to bear expected to manage the machine himself, Druidical etones, still erect, sfter all Liberal I think coupled together are On many machines a gun is mounted to The system, perhaps, secured the survival these many thousand years, in their quest to explain the League of Nations are through the propeller. The ballets of the attest, but by a method rather circle, and erected to the memory of and a query as to the amount of mothers are pumped out so that they pass through hurried. Now Jack Bull has from fifteen warriors of long ago, are of a granite the spaces between the propeller blades, to twenty hoars with an instructor beside that has endured throughout all these (I had declared, myself in however fast that propeller is "turning him before he is allowed to venture alone ages, why should not favour of "billeting the children on the It sounds like a miracle. It is one of the He must prove himself able to loop the monument take the form of some gigantic the projected half-roll, that mathers "in families that had lost their many modern miracles that are worked loop, to spin, and to

Celtic cross, of. the same surt of stone by gears. If the pilot, has correctly is in effect to have a sound working skill breadwinner rather than encourage the noted the speed of his engine, the number before the instructor trusts him to his extending its arms to the same Sun to mothers to work for a living). On the of revolutions, the machine will do the own resources. At any time when they which the menhirs of Stonehenge were. question of the amount of mothers' pen- not make mistakes. The bullets are the engine, point out a field and tell him that has elapsed between the Pagan days rest, and in practice the machine does are up together the instructor will stop aised, and marking the space of time. sions, asserted that it must depend a pumped into the enemy, and not a chip to make a landing there. The result of of Druid worship, and twentieth cen- little on prices, and that it should be is turn from the propeller.

this system is that the number of crashes gury Christianity-bridging, in fact, recorded in the vrst solo flights of these epochs, so remote from one an

·remembered " that every penny the State

the embryo pilots has been brought down other?

A memorial service in honor of the gives it has to get." A Conservative ques Let us leave Jack Bull for a moment to ni. Moreover, in the old days, after tioner then asked me to give examples of trying to understand what I, knowing a man had fown solo, he was never dead of the present war, in Hyde Park, what I meant by questions of honour and my limitations, shall not try to explain he is not allowed more than three hours about it. The solemnity of the ceremony again sent up with an instructor. Now would have little of what was solemn questions of expediency. I instanced the the principle of that synchronising gear alone without half an hour of dual con- which it is proposed to hold on each German Colonies as a point of expediency and digress. If you want to understand She asked how could I contemplate re the Air Force problems you must know which he has acquired or not lost. Each ed by the surroundings, and by the hum trol for the instructor to correct the faults Midsummer Day would be sadly impair- turning their colonies to Germany "when little about matériel. The name of

instructor has a few pupils, and the sad drone of the busy, restless, visy we knew how the Germans treated the that gear is illuminating. The inventor

But can anything more natives." I said I hoped to see the native is at Roumanian. The designer of one of machines used are the Afro for dual con- metropolis.

solemn be imagined than a great open affairs administered as a whole by an the best neroplane engines is a Spaniard.trol, and the S. E. 5 for single flight.

How long will it take Jack Bull to air memorial service in the silence of the International Board, as I was not in Of what France bas done and is doing learn to fly Much depends on the wea great Salisbury Plain, on a site midway favour of leaving the native to the mercy for aircraft construction we all kngwther. A spell of stormor. fog plays of commercial exploiters of any nationall something. America, with her Liberty havoc with the best of schemes. But between the great granite Celtic cross ry. She also asked if I was in faveur of engine, is just beginning to push her he is quick he may graduate in a few which I have just described and weather- referring tariffs to an international con- weight into the scrum. I atring together weeks. An average indi takes longer, beaten, weather-stained, scarred, yet On Sale, till 31st December, at all Banks, Hotels, Clubs & Stores.

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Conservative candidate followed. vision of materiel the whole unbarbarian or more months in traming, but some What a scene for some future painter of a few odd facts to show that in the pro-Adud pupil, they say, may be six always majestic, and stately Storebenge? was obviously a practised speaker.

Surely everyone in the New Her voice and manner were excellent, but world is taking a band. The best brains times the "duds" make the best pilots poet!

And then the layman on World who has ever made the customary ber address practically contained no of all the civilised nations, as well as in the end. definite policy whatever. She asked for the craftsmen of three-quarters of the turally asks if every fellow can y, if pilgrimage to Stonehenge will fall in a condemnation of the Liberal leaders and industrial globe, are at work to tame the there are not some physically fit, dever with this idea, and lend encouragement support for the Conservatives because the heathenry. But it is a big job. Not enough, passing with credit through to the movement.-E. first did not and the second did foresco only on the Weitern front does the ordeals of discipline and theory, who lose

themselves in the air. Walk through a stores

Such men there the war" This proposal was grected with heatben rage. laughter. She pressed for protection and depot of the Air Force and you see packare. What happens to them is that they

medical"

or hospital opens fire. and swoops down. pumping keeping the foreigner out," and the ing cases labelled with strange names, are sent on to a scepticism of the meeting became so rocal

There the doctors take them in out lead as he comes. The rising spray and not by ones or twos either. To keep fight.' that the chairman had to appeal for a squadron in the field means not merely It is more likely, considering the test perts is up the spray does rise every time.

The disability may be physical. tells him that he has bit. fair hearing. When she asked Are you the provision of so many machines, but passed at the outset, to be psychological after. Sve hours well, spent in going to trade with Germany after the the continual supply of any number of or-vile word-temperamental.

Special Flight" Jack Bull's name is So the warf she received no response. Beyond small things. One of our best engines is case has to answer a string of ques put in for one more school, where the these she had no proposals at all.

built up of close on 2,000 parts.

The tions, which remind you of the old ordent most brilliant pilots brought back from etores depot must be ready to send any of the Confession Albam What is overseas will teach him the very latest one of them anywhere at a moment's your favourite amusement? Who is your guiffs," that is, the tricks which the fight The Labour candidate spent nearly ten notice. "For want of a nail a shoe was favourite poet, Do you mind solitude? ing front is continually inventing of her precious twenty-five minutes in lost";" remember the proverb, criticizing the first tito speeches, after imagine what would happen if the depot know. And they have already established came to the end of his undergraduate life and Sach are the things the doctors want to that is a story for another day. We have declaiming her intention not to do so; ran out of one little washer. This to their own satisfaction some genre so swiftly young fellows must live in these something a good deal less than a year, and then proceeded with the Labour pro- gramme lumiliar to rest newspaper read-engine, indeed, is highly complicated. principles: That it takes much longer

Most types do not contain anything like lar the married man to learn to fly than grim days. Her criticism did not receive any

any so many parts. But the depot has to be a bachelor; that the boy who was bit you of these Air Force schools, in which What is the impression I have given applause, but.. inevitably compressed, was listened equipped with supplies for a whole host of a rascal at school makes the best stathonsands of the best of our boys are]

the programme though very attentively, especially the on of types, and month by month, almost for flying; that the fellow who likes tales

part on education. Her strongest point was the day by day, types are becoming obsolete, of adventure or sensation better than any working1 The youth of the Air Force

glory

says Lord Weir;" its power to use the phrase "my party's pro- so that the unhappy depot wakes up one other sort of book is to be preferred to gramame her weakest, the immense aum morning to find that the big stock of him who has a more refined taste; that glory-and its worry. He was thinking ber of points raised, and the absence of a complete engines and parts of a pattern the total abelainer is to be regarded (as of the problems of the individual, general principle to which they could be which was in hage demand have sudden-fying material) with distrust; and finallad not 20 may throw away two or three referred.

ly become useless. There is no help for they have the most horrife suspicions lives besides his own to say nothing of A real ballot box was used, and manu-it. Design and construction are in quote only a few of these dicta. Critic- keep himself fit, if he does not obey HALF A CENTURY REPUTATION.

of a man who says he loves solitude 1,500 worth of material-if he does not script voting paper: A scrutiny proved rapid process of evolution, which.com. necessary, although there were no spoilt presses the development of years of peace from a layman's hurried observs orders, if he falters one instant

DLE CLERC'S the physical, mental, moral training of papers In the result the Liberal was into monthe. To send out a pilot with tion, though from one who is something and a man hot 30 in supreme control of elected by a majority of one vote over the the machine of 1914 would be like arming more than a layman in the study many thousands. An exceptional în-Lavaluable for decasas, of the Important orgass, Imbour candidate, and the Conservative our infantry with the musket of Water-think it should be said that some of these stance, you say. It is no exception, but Giavel Fains for the Race, Gout, Ehenrastiem, &c.

psychology, may not be useful. But: I was twelve behind.:

1oo. The masterpieces of the other day principles show signs of rash generalis/the regular order of things, that's qui CLERG. ED. CO, HAVERSTOCK ROAD, NY.. Price & Leading Chemist, or pot free. Dr. Le The general impression I received was are obsolete as the ichthyosaurus.

ΤΟΣ commander should be about 25. He tion from insufficient material, and that will have 200 men under him, and what Losses, ENOLLER Depot: Paris. 12 Row that the meeting was impatient of

much remains to be done before we can material you please. His position is CASTIGLIONE NOw York, 80, BEEKMAN

STRICT rhetoric, but prepared to listen attentive-

GUNS AND "ROMES, ly to any practical proposal. Except for

When designer and manufacturer bave peramente most valuable ingen roughly comparable to that of the captain, babe, NEW ZEALAND SENSO

The

work of

who will be and Brisbane; a question on divorce, no sex matters were done their best and the Air Force has the hospital Bight, I suspect, is done in discussed, nothing was asked on temper

training for his job

an long, or ance, and nothing on the position of the accepted the machine, it is only a re-recognition of the fact that many failures say half as old again, and has been L., Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Wolling women doing men's work when the men cruit. It needs to be tuned up before it come because instructor and put more But youth is not only of the can be put into the fighting line. To nature uncongenial, that one hobyte Generally the women, seemed antique send up a pilot with a machine and a wants to be ridden on the curb and an individual, it is of the whole Force Or for

What wonder it you growth peace;

although uncertain how, they gun which have not been brought up to other on the snaffle, and that, in fine, a ganisation systems, are all of mushroom Bome could get it. They welcomed any sugges- the finest pitch of efficiency is mers waste encher must study temperand charterhing to criticise here, there a divergence spirit, a lack of unity! You are Lion of any plan which would make war of good stuff. Only the best of the best impossible for the future.

They were can rule the air, Anything less is a preSPECIAL FLIRT.

But let us suppose that Jack Bull has watching, as it were, a lad growing, body, much concerned with what was to sent to the enemy. So here is endless

ment What you see is not only to their daily lives the lives of stiff work for more depots. And not the one of this trouble. He has done his mind, crater, all in headlong develop themselves und sanchins alone, but the fan must be put

flying successfully, and he passen War is over. There was a consensus of into fighting trim-which brings us back into a Special Flight, where the best present but for the future. Performance opinion that this sort of meeting address to Jack Full and bis Armament School instructors, shots, and pilote take him is as nothing to the promise.

energy, the sheer hard-thinking, the ed by all three candidates would be a good For there they not only teach the pilot in hand. You wonder, perhaps, how he studied the more I felt the intense innovation in a “proper clection.". gunnery, but they tune up the guns, practises shooting in the air. Beience fundamental brain, work, and, above Meantime, women's societies might do When the manufacturer has done bis has not yet devised a means of flying an all, the eager devotion which has been well to organise in their several con- best the gun still needs much work. On aeroplane for him to fire at. His target given, to win for our country that power is a tiny pool. High up in the air he in the air without which there is no vic stituencies meetings on the lines I have an average the tuning-up procese means "described;

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