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The Press

IT IS an unfortunate commentary

the state of world affairs to-day, that the journalist, and the newspaper, have found themselves severely criticised for no other rea- son than that much of the news published is of an "alarmist” na- ture.

Some unthinking people have evch gone so far as to attribute to the Press the warlike atmosphere that is disturbing their minds.

It

Is asserted that newspapers thrive

on "wars and rumours of war," Those who make such an asser- tion are sadly out of line with actuality, The "Straits Times” re- cently gave vent to its feelings when It stated: "If anyone is tempted to liken a newspaper stafT to the witches of 'Macbeth,' stirring a hell's broth with evil delight, he is sadly -mistaken.--Many-a-Journalist - ħing- been sickened by the contents and emphasis and atmosphere of his own newspaper in recent months, when the slate of crisis has become al- most chronic in Europe; Indeed, the reaction is perhaps stronger in him than in the public, for the latter can refuse to read the news, whereas he must deal with it all day long. Therefore the journalist understands why it is that the public, reading Its newspapers day after day, has felt a growing disgust at the end- less tales of re-armament and in- ternational threats."

The trouble is that the reader is liable to become parochial, rather than international, In his outlook. He is liable to blame the particular newspaper which he reads, and to unthinkingly brand it as tional" when the news published causes him some apprehension. He falls entirely to realise that, could he peruse a representative selection i of the world's Press on any par ticular day, he would discover the same substance of news.

Hitler: "What's all the fuss about? I was only going to serenade the lady,"

IF BRITAIN WERE ATTACKED-5

Conscription the truth

H

BY LIEUT.-COL. T. A. LOWE

AD the crisis of last September developed Into war it is reasonable to suppose that we should have had Conscription and soon found ourselves, as in the Great War, raising armles on the Continental pattern."

They would have been poor armies with the minimum of training. Inspired with the valour of ignorance they would have headed for disaster.

That is one reason why the word "Conscription is so much dis- trusted in this country; wo feel in- stinctively that it means chaos, inemelency--and incompetence.. In Great Britain we feel that "cannon fodder" and "Conscrip-

tion " aro synonymous terms

simply because we know by bitter experience that they mean much the same thing.

I BELIEVE that one volunteer is worth ten pressed men: I have the utmost faith in both our Regular and Auxillary Services, and a tre- those mendous admiration for men

who filled the ranks of the Auxiliary Bervices long before the country as a whole realised the extent of the danger with which it was threatened,

The citizen sallor, soldier, or air- man had no delusions about the commitment to which they were pledged. Honeyed words from

Cabinet Ministers mean nothing to them now because they have read the history of previous volunteer movements in this country.

Exactly eighty years ago, under the shadow of a French invasion,

tion of news are privileged to at- tend conferences with Government spokesmen throughout the Empire. it is not suggested that such con- ferences provide the news, f6, such is not their object. The omeial at-

Should he possess a radio set, he may tune in to a tirade by one of the world's polica! figureheads, and with a sense of triumph, can cut out the flow of oratory which in- tudo merely recognises the useful- sulls him and his country. Never-

ness of the newspapers, and wisely theless, he must realise that all is assists in explaining matters of na- not well in the world to-day. Totional importance as circumstances merely refuse to bear will not re-

may warrant. move the tragic sinte of affairs. It is better that the true conditions should be appreciated at their full value, rather than to refuse to

ten or to rend,

cm-

Britain has always shied at the very thought of conscription, по matter how sugar-coated the pill. To-day, the people of the British Isles have accepted cumpulsory ser- vice, for none other reason than the fact that they realise that the stem day, and should those happenings cause the reader to recoll fa elther realities of the moment must be

the fault faced with resolution and grim depprehension or disgust,

does not lie with those, who endea termination,

vour faithfully to, record events. It does not matter whether The The size of the type cannot alter Times" the "Daily Mail" may be the sense of the news, although it the choice. It does not matter may emphasise the gravity. whether the. facts are presented in The newspaper endeavours to re- a. simple manner or blazoned in fleet public opinion; it gives the headlines, they still remain facts. news.of.the hour, and whether that

It is probably not realised by the average reader of a newspaper,, that those responsible for the presenta

It is true that throughout the world, some newspapers do play up analysis, It is the render who must to sensationallam, but in the last!

Judge for himself as to the It would not nasist matters if the phasis placed upon current events bellicose utterances of certain _Die- | by means of cold type. tatom were to be denied publicity, Many people to-day call to mind The fact that Hitler's remarkable the sober appearance of the news- creed "Mein Kampf", has proved a pupers of their youth, forgetting the best seller outside his own country, great difference" in the atmosphere indicates that peoples of the rest of of those days as compared with that the world are enger to know what | ruling to-day. Newspapers have is likely to happen, be it a calamity not created the Hitlers and Musso-' or otherwise:

linis of the present ern, no more than they could have been held res- ponsible for the utterances of the England. Their mission is to record Romart Invasion of Neros, or the the dully happenings of the world na they occur

of the every hour

Is pleasant or otherwise, it must be conceded that it is generally based upon fact and not fiction.

Colonel Lowe served with distinction in France and Belgium, winning, the D.S.O. and M.C. He was wounded' twise. lle. is a well-known writer, on military toples.

there was another vast volunteer movement, atimulated by the clti- zen's natural instinct to defend himself.

THE movement to organise voluntary ser- vice for defence thus celebrates its eightieth birthday this year. The task which we are to-day facing with confidence is to make a field force of

citi- 340,000 zens, all of whom will be prepared, equipped and trained to meet the event of war any theatre.

The immensity of this effort has for the moment overshadowed the fine work which is also being done by Auxiliaries in the Navy and the Air Force. The Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve consists of 123,310 omcers and ratings, who disappear into the Navy on mobil!- sation.

These men are trained at Lon- don, Clyde, East Scotland, Mersey. Severn,

Bussox, Tyne and Belfast:

and additional ships are about, to be added at Southampton, Cardim and Hull.

The cost of this Reserve for the coming year will be about £472,700, and as a distinguished Naval officer put it to me, "It is the cheapest bargain the Admiralty over made."

A much larger proportion of the

Air Estimates Tast #lon of £205,000,000 will be expendęd on the Auxillary Air Force, which In- cludes tho balloon barrage squadrons,

Training in the Auxiliary Air Force, which includes twenty dy- ing units of the RAF. Voluntary Reservo, is done in the volunteer's leisure hours. 'He does this so that, should the need arise, ho may be able to take his place in ser- vice squadrons without delay.

It is one thing to talk gübly about " conscription, but another to put it into practice.

Men without weapons and equip. ment

** cannon quickly become fodder" in modern warfare, and already-1-observe-a-dangerous tendency to count them in terms of rifies instead of fire-units.

"We have enough rifles to arm everyone who joins up," said Mr. Hore-Bellsha, but I trust he meant that the rife was only the begin- ning of the equipment effort.

be allowed to get a grip in Great Britain as it did in the Great War. Everything is changed. To begin with we have a clear-cut polley.

The Territorial Army is divided into two parts with two distinctive roles (a) Home Defence, to repel Invasion by air and sea, and (b). a Field Forea to meet the event of

war overscas.

When Mr. Hore-Besha án- nounced the restoration of Home Defence to priority, he gave those engaged in anti-aircraft, and Coast Defence work a sense of recognised importance which they had previously lacked. Recruit-

ing was

as stimulated to such an ex- tent that the Government decided

to increase the A-A divisions (all of which belong to the Terri- toriala), from five to seven, and thus create a covering force of guns and searchlights for the whole of Great Britain. A big effort is now in progress to equip theso divisions, to the required establishments.

And rightly so-but simultane- ously the Field Force of the TA. reached its peace-time establish- ment of 130,000 men and the same concentrated effort to equip them is not apparent.

NOW that this Field Fores has been made up to its war strength and the whole is in process of being becomes more critical than ever." doubled, the armament situation

This sudden doubling of its atrength came as a complete sur- prise to the Territorial Army, as doubtless it must have done to the armament industry. So far as the TA. is concerned, the organisa- tion as it stands is excellent, and 11 this huge Field Force of

our citizon

will foreca

guin 340,000 men is to mean anything at all it must be modelled in

enormous prestige.

But the armament industry must terms of small, flexible Infantry divisions trained to use Bran guns,

.it that men are not sent to 800 to.it

anti-tank

camp for training with nothing rifies, Carden-Lloyd curriers, and mortars, as well as

a rillo. but a

For too many stagnant years the the rifle.

Infantry has been playing at a form of training which everyone knew to be obsolete. Field days

to

THE Cry must be-we have the men, we have the money, and, by Jingo, we must have the proper material and weapons with which truin them! Otherwise ope

worth volunteer is NOT

ten pressed men. Instead he will find himself on the same basis as the millions of half-trained, goose- stepping conscripts whose minds are filled with a delusion.

That delusion must never agalu

GRIN AND BEAR IT

were only too commen in which the troops banged off blank ammuni- tion in the manner of little boys playing at gangsters.

This foolery may be repeated and the whole voluntary effort. dissipated unless the equipment for training on modern lines is are not forthcoming. The men joining up for Saturday-afternoon soldiering, or for holidays in the sunlight. They are enlisting to be trained as a citizen army in the defence of their country.

SOMETIMES "one won-. ders if we are not trying them too highly and overloading the willing horse. As

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orial omcer, said to he recently: only I'd joined the Regulars instead, might have found time for my business,” and this is a point of view which the Government must consider before further responsibilities and commitments upon the Territorial Army and upon our auxillaries in general.

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There is a great stirring in the hearts of the people, a new pride of race evident on all aldes-but this must not be over-exploited. For the moment this great volun- tary

spirit of service must be har nessed to armaments, but soma day the danger will pass.

Whether he has taken part in arr Expeditionary Force or not, our citizen soldier, sailor or airman -will be none the less a herɑ. "And lot it be emphasised 'now-he telll expect and be entitled to a land fit for heroca to live in.

WIDOW, 90, LIVES. ALONE

Sir Conneaut, O Ninety-year-old Mrs. Marietta Armis has lived alone since her hus band died in 1931. „She keeps her: own · hosian, cooka her own mosik

And I like it," she said." "It gives. "me time" to think."??

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