THE PACIFIST

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 122, 25 May 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE PACIFIST

Dr. Friedrich Bergius,, scientist, in the course of a lecture, said that Germans in the event of war could oat sawdust, drink sap and dress in hirchbark. There was a process whereby 70 per cent of wood could be transformed into carbohydrates and cellulose, and the remainder could be used for motor fuel. Food and fuel produced from waste and from sawdust could be marketed at a similar price to imports. Oh. how I love my follow man. I'll fight him never more, They'll never mil me tip to scrap Now I am o'er four score. I hope when brazen bugU'S blow I shan't I" 1 really missed. I want to tonst my toes at home. And bo a Pacifist. I hope that when our cousin Fritst Goes dentins clothed In tlmhers. He'll spare a hit of good pine wood To build his Bertha's limbers. Should Munich beer remnin unbrewctl, And sap be drunk lnstentl, I trust the limber will not go To cousin Fritz's bend. And should these food syntheses have Pine sawdust as a ration, I trust no timber lnnimls will Become an army fashion. Duckbonnla ami bivvles. ducouts too (The dear old front-line houses) May yet be built on a new plan Of Frltz'B bireh-bark trousers. Up PriißSlnn guards and at 'em lads! Filled with wood cellulose. Before the timber dies in you And carbohydrate goes. And in those days, no Roman stuff! No "Kvery man a brick," But every man a walking tree.' And every Fritz a Btick." I long for pence o'er all the earth. Who ever be the men. But if foes fight in timber clothes, We'll have the wood on them. I trust with till my senile heart That brothers of all ranks, Will grow in beauty side by side, And not within elm planks. —C.J.