THOSE GUNS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18549, 26 November 1925, Page 11

THOSE GUNS.

T6 THE EDITOR OF "THE FRSSS." gu- —A. correspondent, writing to you on the 25th, expressed his indignation ait the suggestion to remove "those cutis" from the green in Victoria street, and one would imagine, from the tone of his remarks, that the proposal was quite unheard of. But 1 would remind him that in quite a number of places similar suggestions have been made, and I have a report of the Town Council of Blaenau Fesbinide .(Wales) actually deciding to remove. "those, guns" from the public park, the reason actuating them being that "they imbued the children playing there with the spirit of militarism." If your correspondent's son had been shot by an assassin; would he like to keep the pistol as a trophy, and tell his children that it was 'the weapon that killed their brother and. that we-should also prepare to go out and sjhocit someone else's son. I give him credit for more lovo for bi§ family and respect for himself thaw to do that. Yet our lads are being "trained for war all the time and "those guns" must produce in the growing lads the spirit of revenge and hatred necessary to stimulate them for the next wkr. That is why they are there. Would not a statue of the "White Christ of the Andes" prove our loyalty to peace and goodwill far better? — Yours, etc., PEACE.