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SAVING THE NATION BY MÁRTYRDOM.

SOCIAL DELIVERANCE THROUGH A NEW

ARISTOCRACY.

[BY THE VERY REY, W. R. INGE. D.D. DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S.]

AIR SPEED.

IS THERE A MECHANICAL LIMIT?

NEXT YEAR, 340 MILES AN HOUR.

**Impossible is a word which should be used with extreme enu- tion when discussing aviation. The speeds attained in this year's race for the Schneider Cup are cer- tainly not the limit even on pre- sent lines of design, and already it is possible to foretell new lines of development, which will be fol towed provided there be sufficient inducement. '

I hope Mr. Austin Hopkinson's | Government is stendily becoming a little book, "Religio, Militis," will mere engine for the plunder of be widely read, for it is worth a minorities, an instrument of whole whole Hbrary of "Christian sale bribery and the systematic cor- Socialist literature. He intro-ruption of the citizenship of the duces himself as a Member of Par-workers Rain can be averted only Hament and formerly a private of it we rediscover the long forgotten Dragoons In the latter capacity truth that progress comes not from he fought in the Great War; "ia the enlightened self-interest of the the former capacity be represents many, but from the enlightened a working-class constituency as an self-sacrifice of the few. Self Independent. He is a large em interest cannot hold a nation to ployer of labour, who has made a gether; the alleged altruism of the In the past two, yours the in- fortune and distributed it among pack, the flock, the herd, is a decrease of speed has exceeded most The reasons, in a his employees, while be retains the lusion.. "The symbiosis whereby expectations. full right of managing and direct the sheep and the shepherd dwell few words, are

Decrease in the resistance-aren of ing the concern, from which he no amicably and usefully together

the engine; longer makes a profit for himself. comes suddenly to an end wheu This experiment is his contribution autton commands a higher price to the social problem. So far, it than wool!" has succeeded; for his workinen trust and honour him, and are con- tent to leave in his hands the power which he uses so capably and unselfishly. As he hates being praised, we will consider his plan only as a social experiment.

So the author, who knows the conditions of successful industry, sees the country sliding down into the abyss, while none is better off. except the politicians and agitators whom he regards as the meanest and most peroicious of the Auman race. Their mischief-making, ac- tivities give them a power and an income which their sloth and lack of understanding would does. to them in any walk of life other than that of the politician." It is a frue indictment of the Labour agitator, whose rewards are dazzling that many thousands of working men look at his career with cavy, and desire to imitate it.

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To a Platanist like myself, it is A very interesting experiment. For it is an attempt to carry cut the most. Original part of Flato's "Republic." Those who have not read Plato often faney that he was A Communist or a Socialist. He was nothing of the kind. When he wishes to forbid all direct ser vants of the State to own property, his motive is not economic. The workers, including the peasant pro-

Spirit Of The Soldier. prietors and traders, are left to. The writer" were the only remedy individual ownership. But in the spirit of the soldier, as ho order that there may be no con has known it on the plains of lict between private interest and France. Amid the horrors of public duty, political power is to modern warfare, the mud, the ser- he wholly divorced from financial min, the hideous forms of death, influence. The Guardians" or ruters are to be deliberately placed he found his religion and saw his vision, not quite orthodox, it may in a position which only a good be, in expression, but very near the man and an ardent patriot would heart of Christianity "God is wish to occupy. They are in some that man who, for the sake of man, ways like what the military monks by man is crucified. A vision of of the Middle Ages were intended the Man of Sorrows, whose visage to be and were not.

was more marred than any man, The End Of Democracy. like a wounded soldier, broken.and The power of the purse is to be tortured and clothed with the taken away bath from the rich and bloody rags of battle that is God from the populate, poo, given to a

as the soldiersw him, and that is class who, being forbidden to have the God who has returned to any money, reliemselves, cannot preach Themes of the abuse it. The State is to be ad. Gospel to hin that God cave ministered by high-minded ascetics, became man, but that man once who can neither bribe zor be bribecame God, and that therefore ed. There will not be much com this may happen again. petition for these posts; but Plato seems to hope that enough Austin Hopkinsons may be found to make it work. "

This them is the conclusion of the whole matter. The country needs martyrs, martyrs of a new type. They may or may not say its us "Not practical politics," will be nothing else can. They must be the verdict of the majority. But men who are willing to give dis-" it is quite impossible that we can interested, and heroic service to go on as we are. "The ills which their country, as the soldier gives come from exalting quantitative it, not only without asking for any considerations are now so manifest reward; but with the prospect of that we may hope to see a healthy being sacrificed by the unworthy reaction against democracy in our men who "have their portion in generation. The natural end of this life." The times need nas democracy is autocracy, for which the sequestered and cloister the process of artificial levelling virtue of which Milton speaks, but paves the way. The path of de men who can hold their own liverance is by finding a true aris, the tortuous ways of business, tocracy-a class of rulers whose fit even in the mud of politics, which, ness to rule is so manifest that the our author says, smells even people, harassed by a generation worse than the mud of Flanders. of political brigandage, will gladly put them in power. The new aris tocrats will not be ambitious, but they will consent to take office in the spirit of the Gospels" he that is chief among you, let him be your minister."

No Help From The Churchas There was a time when it was fondly hoped to find these qualities among the clergy. Alas, for would Dow expect it. For churchmen make it their concern rather to preserve a church than to keep alive a religion. The policy of the Roman hierarchy in Ireland, during the late troubles filled with disgust all who have no taste murder. In the Established Church a powerful group of her clergy flatters and lawas upon the political party which holds that it

The Common Man, Some may answer that if a good man goes into politics, he must either cease to be a good man, or prepare to be speedily ejected from politics But Mr. Hopkinson thinks that disinterestedness" is a powerful lever. He admires the common man, whenever he is not a constituent factor in a mob, and thinks that he will follow a capable leader who has proved that he has no axe of his own to grad. The workers will not give their best to employers of "the old school, whose ideal was summed up by Lewis Car

roll:-

But I was thinking of a way To feed myself on batter, And so go on from day to day "Getting a little faller bas But how pathetic was the popu

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increase of power without in

• crease of weight;

further refinement in aeroplane

reducing re- construction sistance; wings which despite small area afford the lift necessary for a landing speed · not exceeding about 90 miles per hour; the discovery that pilots can en-

dure it;

the successful employment of & geared engine for the first time in high-speed racing craft, en- abling a propeller of greater efficiency to be used.

The British type which was vic- torious at Venice is certainly cap- able of a speed of 305 miles per bour; not it will ere long establish a world record over the three- kilometre distance, But without any radical alterations, and' by merely screwing up to a higher pitch and refining here and there, it is estimated that in next year's rice it should capable of about 340 miles per hour, and of flying the many cornered Schneider Cup course at about 390 m. p.h.

That may or may not represent the limit on present linca; whilst all the world is wondering whether far greater speeds 400 or even 500 miles per hour may not in the near future be attained.

The

Pilot Lying Down. At present the three-kilometre absolute speed record of aircraft is taken near ground level, where the abris comparatively donee principal obstacle to increase of speed is the enormous resistance offered by the air. This restance (to use a mathematical expression) increases as the square of the velo city. Some idea of the effect of this law may be obtained from the fact that in 1925 and 1928, for the addition of 230 h.p., an increase of speed by only 12 miles per hour was chlained in seaplanes of the Schneider Cup "class." The year, however, with the addition of only 10 or 12 h.p. the speed went up by a further 24 miles. The reasons have already been indicated

The cross-section, or resistance aren, of the body of the machine mined in these "high-speed craft much by the size of the pilot as by the girts of the engine This will constitute the principal tampering item until machines without floats or wheels can be con.. sidered (as they may be for the big races of 1929 and 1930)..

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SCOTS' WHALE SURPRISE.

"EXTINCT SPECIES

„FOUND____...

AFTER CENTURY OF WORLD.

SEARCH:

The stranding of a school of 120. whales last month in the Dornoch Major Leonard Darwin set him Firth on the north-east coast of self to discuss this vital problem Scotland has resulted in the dis when addressing the Bedford Colcovery of species of whale for: lege for Women, Regent's Park, on which scientists have searched“ alf eugenics."

the Seven Seas for nearly a cen

tury..

The dismembered skeletons · sure

going to the British Museum, whence, after cleaning and recon- struction, they will be distributed among museums and universities throughout the British Isles,

When the news that the school had run'ashore reached the British

Mr. Hinton said:

stated clown to have a

We all know," he said, "what little boys are like-how mothers te constantly saying to the Don't do this, and Don't do that, and bow these commands are sometimes enforced, if I may ven- ture to quote George Eliot's ex- pression, by making them tingle a bit in sat and safe places."

This is a thoroughly practical Museum two expertsMr. M.4 form of education which, we must C. Hinton, an assistant' keeper in presume from its constant atop the Department of Zoology, and tion, is not without immediate Mr. P. Stanowitz--were sent north effect." It is an education which in the hope that information as to has been going on ever since man the breeding habits of whales might was man-that is, for at least one obtained.

billion years producing heritable effects, it will, in the future, make -casual look at one of the whales Not next year, but afterwards, it children alightly more docile by

and I got what I can only is not impossible that instead of

nature as each generation makes

describe as the shock of my life engines with the cylinders set V-

its appearance. If this has gone

I had expected to see some com shape, broad arrow," or cruci-

on every generation for a million

mon' specimen known to every form (like the American Packard),

years, what a truly awful" being

trawler and fisherman; judge of an engine with the cylinders in the primitive little boy must, have

my surprise, when I discovered bcen may be produced. If the

what I suspected to be the very cylinders of such an engine do not

whale for which science has been protrude unduly, a much slenderer

searching in vain in all the Seven Seas for 80 years. fuselage would be possible were it of the air; the pilot can wear elec not for the need to find a place for trically heated clothing, and can

Mr. Hinton revealed the fact the pilot. But already there is be artificially supplied with the that this species is the mysterious talk of accommodating the pilot, oxygen necessary to maintain Efe; Penderea, or false whale," a not in a sitting, but a balf-rectin- the machine could even have a smaller relative of the "killer ing position. Such an innovation closed cabin in which temperature, whale," which it resembles in

many would have to be made with cau- air density, and oxygen could be ways. tion, for at high speeds it might maintained at life-sustaining con have a disabling effect upon his ditions. faculties.

La pe

Eight Miles A Mizuta,

tions, must take into account the

The first trace of this mammal was found in 1840 in foil form in the Fens, and twenty years later, fossil demains were discovered in was known of the creature. Tasmania. Beyond that nothing

Limit Of Engine-Power." On the whole, it is difficult to see tain a speed of 500 miles per hour It may not be impossible to at how very much greater speeds at

at great altitudes; but an exact: ground level than 340 miles per forecast is difficult, for the calcula hour will be attainable even in racing aircraft, for always the necessity for providing a safe land on alighting speed must be provided ing speed and for the carriage of for, and with that at about 90 the complicated apparatus for cabia. For flying from ground. miles per hour the design of the aeroplane must be such that there level to the great altitudes provi is a strong tendency restricting the son must be made against the maximum speed. Próbably how-

great range of conditions SAR ever, we shall ere Boure countries If one imagines & Schneider race risking landing speeds of 100 ox even 110 miles per hour, and sacri the question of observable turning at an altitude of eight miles or 10, ficing life to them;

pointe is raised. Naturally sa

A Great Slaughter. Mr. Hinton, pointing out mazka":

the whales jaws said:

Those are the marks left by the suckers of cuttle-fish. What I imagine happened was thin::

The water flowing down the north-east, coast early last month was unusually warm and ap patently it brought the cuttle fish inshore here in unprecedented numbers. Bard on their track came this school, and, judging by the fact that they pushed rigi have been greatly excited by into the river, the whales must thair unexpected good fortune.

is better to receive than to give, lar confidence in Kitchener, the and better still by the force of a most undemagogic of men, and, na majority to take." Such an at is now known, a bad organiser, titude, though it calls itself Chris just because he was believed to be tian, contradicts Christianity absolutely straight and honest two ways. It holds that comfort Jack may rightly claim to be as automatically makes people better, good as his master, so long se his and poverty worse, which is not master is no better than Jack. But exactly what Christ taught; and just as water inevitably boils at a |that charity may be performed certain temperature, so the human vicariously. The collective con heart warms at the sight of dis science" is an ingenious Agment interested service. The question for those who wish to rob Peter for the leader to ask himself, as to pay Paul. There is a neat Mr. Hopkinson mys, ie not, Can Latin proverb, Qui suadet nia det, I make my followers love me but Frobably nothing in to be gained longer course them the present one Let him who preaches charity Do I really love them 1 har i secras inevitable that little, tinagle Hewa many times) would by mere piling on engins-power of 185 miles (consisting of a small give what is his own." We shall Such a man has undoubtedly get but little help from the chosen the way of the Cross, and of weight, which, in turn, demands

more can be done without increase have to be adoptedME churches, either in theory or prac he will probably have much to larger wings, whilst the greater relar inducement to speed the am- But there seems to be no partien- tierk

auffer Our democratic Parliament is is not the likelihood of failure, but bodies would have to be overcome. research into flying at heights of Perhape the greatest trial sistance of bigger engines and case amount of money needed for dominated by the spirit of the the knowledge that he is will

At very high altitudes the pro-seven or eight miles. In all pro crowd, that numerous piece of be exploited and spoiled blem is different. At 40,000 ft. the bability rather will there be des PILLS her or less along pre- strenuously resisted being eval-

Browne, Bays

Religio Tyrrell, after a despairing look at quarter of that at ground level. aent bars and the Bohnender and Medioi), which taken asunder what the Church has made of the At euch an altitude, therefore, the other high-speed races will be alter Probably, it is thought, at first stem men and the reasonable Gospel, said that the best fate thabeistance of the air is but a small ed as to conditions in order to add only two or three whales ran creatures of God, but confused to can befall a reformes is that he obstacle to the attainment of great to high speed such practical quali aground, but the others tried in gether make but one great, beaat." And his work may he forgotten speed; indeed, the machine must ties as a reasonable landing speed their blundering way to help, and. Kr. Hopkinson agrees Anyone This was only an outburst of pely faster in order to be supported The conditions of the Schneider in their turn stranded or were who has had the duty of breaking simism. I prefer these noble words by the, nit. The supercharger to up & mob will agree with me that from Religio Militis: the engine mahles the power to he

race cannot be altered drastically fatally injured, by bruises on the disgust at its bestial stupidity and

for the coming year, but the ruling rocks and the resultant rupture of cowardice leaves but little roam for

maintained in spite of the poverty body may reconsider the matter for blood vessels, so that the cl fear of its inhuman eruelty

**(Continued on next Column.) | | the year after next -Obrerver, perished within a few hours.

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