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YOU COWARD!

Dialogue between Stuart Gelder and his wife about their fate and their daughter's if war came

A reply to this article will appear To-morrow

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that you in position. When

We assist you in this connection "IF you go to war you will be right to without any trouble or complica- delivered tion to yourself to you at home and subsequently in Hongkong.

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a coward."

My wife said this to me yes. I signed Shep- terday.

Three months ago I signed a manifesto in which I promised nover to take part in war in any

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1838.

TAXING FOR HEALTH

When it is realised, as may be discovered from perusing the | Colony's official health bulletin for the week ending January 1, that 12 persons die here daily at this time of year from tuber-

My brother, who brought it. said, "Don't sign if you don't mean it, it's all or nothing."

But i did mean it. Then I met a man who was a conscientious objector in 1916 and went to pri- Son. He told me:

"It isn't yourself they hurt so much, though that's bad enough. It's your wife and children and your parents and brothers and sisters, but especially your wife and children."

So yesterday I told my wife, "I'm not so sure about the peace

manifesto,"

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SHE replied, "If you

pard's paper it appeared to be only an ethical question. Now it seems much more complicat- ed. I believe my first duty is to you

arkl the

baby and I think perhaps it may be necessary 1

KO inter the army."

My wife look. ed up from her knitting and said quietly, "If you go you will he a coward.

ANN:

she stands

to lose

"I shouldn't take a penny of "He would be like a civilian ed to heroism by poisonous your pay. You needn't worry who kills someone in peacetime clouds of lies. about us. We should manage because he really doesn't know "Perhaps they had to die as somehow. Don't you think what he is doing. We are horri- Christ died to show the pathway there's something rather funny tied but we don't blame him or to the truth. At any rate the in suddenly treating me like a hang him. It would be different flame which consumed them has defenceless child-wife? If you for you. You would know shone an everlasting light on the go back on Sheppard and your exactly what you were doing." wickedness and folly of war.” self you won't be able to pre- tend you are doing it for my

sake, that is, if you

back."

dare go

1

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SHE glanced at the book- shelves. The firelight

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My wife stuck her

needles into the ball

weren't sure why did

I said, "Are you daring me to shone among the names: of wool and placed them in her culosis alone—and the figure is you sign? Willie warned you.”

go to prison? In the last war Sassoon, Wilfrid Owen, Norman basket. "I was sure of myself, but I women thought that fit men of Angell, Mottram, Remarque, "Of course," I said, "everyone very probably higher. for the

me If all people were hadn't thought of you and the 29 were cowards if they didn't Zweig, Henry Williamson, Bar tells disease has just been made

there would be no baby.

Ko to the front. Now you will busse, V. M. Yeates, Crozier, Christlike notiliable-it is brought to us

think me a coward if I do, and Blunden, Grenfell, Hemingway, war,' but they aren't and you If war broke out it is almost if I don't the majority will still Tomlinson, Aldington, Brittain, have to face facts as they are." {that the task of improving the certain there would be conscrip- think I am, so it seems I shall be they stretched into the shadows, She replied, "Don't you think jhealth of Hongkong is a titanie Lion immediately. There would whatever I do."

"They have told you, and there were plenty of people who be only one of two things to do--- "I would rather you were a scores of other men and women, said that to Christ. It has been That should not discourage enlist or refuse and go to pri- coward than a murderer," she and your own experience. You said to every

son, or perhaps be shot. Winter said.

one. the work.

would have no excuse

person who has for not preached His way of life." has told me how his wife and "Would it be murder to kill knowing. They have written "But what would you do to people suffered when he was sent someone as a soldier?”

the story of the next war, too. prevent war?"

She smived: "Nothing." to Wormwood Scrubs. I don't

If it comes you know it will come for the same reasona-and-end-in-1-shouldn't-do-anything-to. the same futility.

prevent it. Then there could

At first glance the health statisties seem_to_present_to_us.

Her needles stopped clacking. think you would be afraid of"Tian invading soldier or air D insurmountable difficulty. scandal and ostracism and abuse. man killed Ann I should consider How can Hongkong ever hope to But another problem has occur it murder, but the man who kill "I don't want you to protect be an invasion but no war. They wipe out tuberculosis, for in-red to me.

ed her might never have thought us by killing other women's hus- would have no one to light. They about it like that. He might bands and other men's wives and would be landed among peaceful BRACIJANICZENIACHE, ENTER) 21mnem stance? it is argued. Let it not "They don't give family

They would think he was doing his duty and children. That was done last people.

have be supposed that we can entire-allowances te conscientious ob protecting his own baby by kill time by men who didn't want to nothing to do but parade and

jectors. You couldn't live for ly obliterate the disease. The

ing mine. many months on our savings. contention is that even one life All the reserve goes to the house is worth saving, more particular- Į and insurance policies. You ly the life of a child, a mother would soon be penniless. or a bread-winner.

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"I don't think I have nny

do it but were blinded and goad- look at the shops. They would be among people with a strange language and be driven back among themselves or society. They would have nothing to do with their guna and munitions. I believe they would soon rofuse to obey those who had placed them in such a ridiculous posi-

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having looked at the figures, to draw ed the invasion would still be fourth row. I did as I was tol

spiral, starting at the five in the necessary, but the statesmen would not be talking over the "Now," he said, "I will tell you bodies of millions of dead. all the figures the spiral goes through, "I believe if we behaved like Here they are:-Five, four, at the beginning of the top row he lyse every foreign soldier so that Hight up to the nine that we should, in effect, para- two,

he couldn't lift a finger to fire a "Marvellous!" don't you ever get mixed up with gun or drop a bomb. The policy the figures from the day before?" of turning the other check is not "No, I forget everything that hap- only Christian, it is more power- "Not only do I remember dates," | pened yesterday outside my personal ful than the biggest bomb.

continued, "but 1 remember Agures. Write

down a number, without my seeing it, and raise it 10 the third power."

went.

said.

"But

uffolks and the things I must remem- ber. Otherwise I shoutin't sleep like a lot as I do. If you gave me a number now und asked me to re- I did so.

member it to tell you what it was "Now," he said, "tell me the first in six months' time I should do so, figure of the answer, and the total number of figures in it."

Master of Tongues Again I did as I was told, and I

"I

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anyone accused me of not doing my duty to my country in time of war 1 should say, 'We are both out to defeat the enemy. Our only difference is our method."

All cities have had the same

MAN WHO KNOWS EVERY DATE FOR 100 YEARS problems of health As those which will mean the gradual de- Hongkong faces to-day. in feline of risk of infection.

MET in London the man who is down. First line-Nine, eight, seven. tlon and pack up and go home. probably the mast amazing

"An international discussion greater or a lesser degree, Eng-1

genius

at figures in the world, a Thus he went on until he had on the problems which provok- When it is remembered that human "automatic calculator." folshed. Then he told me, without land faced the same grave task at the time of the Coronation

Cheerful Httle Hungarian cabaret in half a hundred places. And of Queen Victoria-not so long words, "What is the date of your

artist

Olgo, greeted me with the a remarkable change has been

birthday?" ago-the death rate in Britain I told him. effected in the health of that was roughly 22 per 1,000 an-

"It was a Thursday," he said with- nation within living memory.nually and that when King date of every day for the last thou

out a moment's pause. "I know the Some disenses which were once George VI was crowned it had sand years."

scourge have almost entire-i

Such

are the amazing statements been cut in half, it gives onejone must expect At meeting this ly disappeared, and the general

human

an calculating machine. cause to hope that even here spread of knowledge of the part conditions may alter and lives he played by proper diet, sunlight,

may be spared. fresh air and cleanliness, has worked wonders.

But these improvements in To a large

Britain, our example, have not extent infectious diseases, which

been accomplished without cost, once played such havoc

and they cannot be made here asked him how he did it. among smaller children, have

without expenditure. Social and

I can spook Hungarion, Stav lan- been divoreed from much

Не told me that he knew the gunges, French, German, Scandina health services in Britain in second, third, and fourth powers of vian languages, and English. or their terror. Victorious

every number. There is a part of 1910 coat £56,000,000 and have his brain that absorbs figures like ask him to five me the numbers of the other side and losing mil- "Sometimes when I meet a linguist killing and maiming millions on battles have been fought

ever since been devoted largely blotting paper absorbs ink. It is no his square in as many languages a lions on your own. I believe my with the great "white scourge"?

to the care of mothers and new-

possible. I then give them back 18] way would bring certain victory. tuberculosis--and the death

him in the order that he gave them." without born babies. Now the same, or

that appalling loss. The Great Memory showed me rate from this cause. both of

rather the improved services,

rome cuttings that were not dated. That would be not only a trium-. the respiratory and non-respira-

It is this part of his brain that In-¦ "I don't date anything," he said. "I phant moral achievement but a cost Britain £427,000,000 an- that they offered him £5,000 so that phone numbers, and have done so

terested New York surgeons so much remember all my dates and tele triumphant achievement or tory variety-ts lower now in

as well.. Britain than ever before. Evennually. But the lives of 42,000- they may examine it after death.

for the last thirty years. Tint is diplomatie strategy "I will show you how easy figures since I was six["

Your method has always been without actually tackling the odd babies are saved each year, re, ho

Just before I went I thought I adopted and drowned successivo "Write down eight rows of eight, would trip up the Great Mind nations in blood. The method of thing directly, Hongkong has to say nothing of the lives of

hundreds of mothers. · vastly improved the chances of the average Incipient victim of Revenue can have no better! tuberculosis. This is a clean use than the safeguarding of Colony, broadly speaking. But the health of a population. "In It could be cleaner, and it is fact, this should be a first con- largely up to the people them-İsideration in'a community's plan "aclves to bring about the changes of laxation.

effort to bit.

Precious Brain

Aftures without my seeing them."

I did us follow-

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"What were the Bgures in the fifth row?" I asked.

"28 7 5 406 1," came the reply before I had. time to see if he was "Before you ассиве

correct.

absolute pacifism has never been. tried."

me of:

In desperation, I said. "What was cowardice ask yourself, which

demanda the greator. the fifth figure in the seventh row?" Way

"Faur!" come the prompt reply. courage from a nation?"

It was too much. And to think

She got up and moved to the that I was unce top of my form in door, "Well, what will you have

arithmetici...

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