NEWS AND NOTES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 59, 6 September 1913, Page 12

NEWS AND NOTES

ITbe^lolkrsßmg items of intelligence have been selected from files received by ih& latest mail.]

"The, decision of the 'Admiralty in this matter (the adoption of oil fuel) ia probably sound," saya the Morning Post. "What has happened throws into a clear light^ the need for continuity and forethought in naVal administration. The power of the Navy ought not to have its foundation changed from coal to oil until the supply of oil has been folly Becured." The Pall Mall Gazette remarks that, when the internal combustion engine ia completely adapted for marine purposed, oil must govern the position. "The Powers wag their forefingers at •the Turk, and practically threaten to tell his mother," says the Pall Mall Gazette. "We have not a particle of sympathy with the people who Bqdeal for intervention against the Turk alone, and are already beginning to talk about his atrocities] They are no 'worse than the atrocities which all the others commit when temper . .and ' interest are touched. Intervention must apply to all the belligerents ot to none. We have learned in ' the last few ~ months that, except in dogma, the Turk ia as good ,a Christian as any of them.'' Referring to the exhibits at the Commercial Motor Vehicles Exhibition in London, an English^ paper says : "They range from the hght car which the butcher's boy. can take .round suburban streets to the huge 75-horse-power. Hafley car, which <wul crash its way through rocks and watercourses in a country where there are neither roads nor bridges. Indeed, there is one machine which actually lays down its road as it goes along — 'the Pedrail.' " It is claimed that "British manufacturers lead the world as far as commercial motors . are --concerned. Under date 22nd July, the Milan correspondent of the Daily Chronicle writes: — "The Pope set his 6eal to-day on a nracb-debated case, of exceptional interest in ecclesiastical law". Fatßer Gaetano Arena, an Italian secular i priest, who ' had~ been exercising the functions of the Roman priesthood for twelve years past, recently desired to be freed from all sacerdotal obligations, on the plea that he was morally constrained by bis parents, while under age, to > enter tho sacred ministry. Pius X. pronounces the ordination null, and will restore to Arena all the rights of ordinary citizenship, including that of contracting religions ttiar^age. It is believed that this decision will have a far-reaching , effect in the ranks of the Roman Catholic clergy." "If men find (writes the Edinburgh Review) that in the opinion of their fellows successful' fraud upon a common purse is no longer a thing to be despised, as of old, but a thing to laugh at and applaud, as it is in Germany, and as our accident compensation and insurance laws are making it here; if pride in dependence takes the place of pride ,in independence, and if a popular opinion is engendered thpt the State is merely discharging a debt in attending to the needs of tho population, it is not too much to say that a national calamity will have befallen us." ft To be> effective, hVw must have not only physical force behind it, but also the principle of legitimate authority^ the sense in every citizen that his individual free will has ltd limits and can be exerted only within the spher© allotted to it. Liberty is, in a civilised mtmrty, -the child of law. It is not his own pleasure, but the fact that the community has recognised a certain, sphere of unchecked action as belonging to him, within which he can do as he pleases, that secures the citizta. in his rights." — Mr. Jamea Bryce. Every year v the excavations of Egyptian archaeologists bring new discoveries. Among recent, ones are a collection of mummified ibises dating from the Roman period, a model in limestone of an acrobatic dancing girl under the XVlllth dynasty, and an "Artef Crown," with horns, plumes, and dish, which represents the usual Egyptian way of personifying their god " Thoth.' » Commenting on TtErkey'fi reoecupafekm of Thrace, a Berlin correspondent writes: "It is held here that Turkey is playing a very dangerous game, which, she ia neither morally nor militarily entitled to T>lay. Any continuation: of her present disposition can only result in the occupation of -the vilayets of Erzeroum, Trebizand, and "Van by Russia. Turkey will hardly persist in the face of the united Great Powers. She is only pursuing her old game of seeking to set the Great Powers by the ears in ih« hope of maintaining her position." "We are told by the champions of Ulster that religious dissension is perpetual in Ireland and cannot' be eradicated, that there are two separate nations, and that whore Protestants and Catholics live together in Ireland they must be content to hate each other and. fight. That is their idea of the future. We repudiate, that idea." — Mr,, John Redmond. The fratricidal second war in the Balkans renews Turkey's chance to play off each of the "allies" , against the others/ as she used to play off the Great Powers. This is the opinion of the Saturday Review, which adds :—: — "The Balkan States, their increases in size more than set off by their losses in men and in money, will again be pawns m a greater game. > Such is the irony of history/ Professor Gotch, Waynflete Professor of Physiology/ son of one of the committee which prepared the Revised Version of the Bible, is dead. "Oxford University has Buffered a grievous 'loss by the death of Professor Gotch," save The Times. "The strong and attractive personality of his predecessor, Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, overcame the opposition, so marked at first, to the establishment of a School of Physiology; and in 1895, when Dr. Gotch succeeded hia old teacher, he found a welU equipped and active laboratory. To its maintenance and extension he devoted the best years of his life. An accurate and conscientious teacher, he won the esteem of successive classes of students, and in his hands the honour school in physiology became one of the most important of the Natural Science group." "It -Would not be easy to' find a parallel in history to the lurid, drama of Bulgaria's fortunes in the past few months," says the Telegraph, "Suck a, swift and towering rise, followed co ■soon by such a catastrophic fall, make -a chapter unique in modern annals, and perhaps, in all the recorded story,-of-■Europe.'" , » *' Wa-jjote -With sorrow:* that«4liis week .motor Omnibuses on one route are beginning to run- .all -night," says "the/London Academy. "Is this the pre-lttunary*-to>-*he •age-of constant* traffic — the era -when neither dark nor light shall kponr any cessations of noise and "bustle in-4hiß amazing capital of ours*?' .Shall we^in -» few years be sleeping by ' shift*,' all doomed to a pathetic kind •iof £emi-reEt>->aaud the -Tumble- of motorikrndee, mato:is3>usea, and the' whin' of 4he aenupkne? \Ve "truet*nat.;.--buUtljei hegup-^

" There is a remarkable variation in the respective estimates made by the Economist and the Statist of the amount of British capital subscribed for new issues in London in the past halfyear," says the Chronicle. "The Economist total w in round figures £120,000,000; that of the Statist £151,000,000. Whichever figure we choose to take it is a welcome indication of the undiminished vitality of British commerce and wealth, and proof positive that England's position as a. creditor nation i&, still as strong as ever ifc was. British capital has fertilised the civilised world-" 1 r "H we- were always obliged "to write for the ' average ' mind, there would evidently be very little veree, or technical writing, or scholarly production." — Professor W. T. Brewster." If carried, the proposal 1 to increase 'the period of service in the French Army from two to three years is expected to add 144,000 men. to the existing strength' of the army, and an additional 450,000 men in times of grave peril. ( The actual increase in the length of service will only be nine months. The London Daily News comments : " The Three Years' Bill reveals rather than ends a grave crisis in French domestic affairs. The Bill imposes enormous sacrifice* opon tna.Erench people.'' . "The South Africans have been furnished with a list of fifteen mines which must inevitably close down if the labour demands are conceded, while there are others which may be compelled to restrict their operations. Altogether, it is said that the immediate effect of a labour victory would be that 10 per cent, of the white employees would be thrown out of employment," » says the Telegraph. "it is understood tjhat the Government will maintain a conciliatory attitude, "but decline to be rushed into preoipitste action. They will concede what they can and advise the mineowners to do the same." "The King and Queen have shown a very definite conception of where their own social duties lie, and it ia cot tbe conception of the world that lives entirely for amusement," says 1 Mr. Filson Young in the Saturday Keview. "There is something extremely significant in the thought that at the height of the London season they w-ere engaged in that marvellous tour in Lancashire, shaking hands with poor old labouring men and women in cottages, and learning ait first hand, by road and river, in factory and cottage, something of the lives, not of the upper ten thousand, but of the lower twenty million. And -the fact that their garden party this year is given, not) to' the people of social importance, but to school teachers, ia also significant of & good deal.'* "The marriage between the Balkan Allies being at an end, the Powers have decided to keep the ring," say Punch. Investigators (writes an exchange) have taken such cold-blooded animals as frogs, toads, snakes, and some fish ahd put them in jars with liquid air at a> temperature of minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The animals freeze immediately and are left in this state for months. Then they are taken out and life is restored by massage. , Mrs. Mary E. Ewing, Head of * large engineering firm in Chicago, took up the work on the death of her husband, a prominent and successful engineer of the Middle West. , At the time he died he had under way, or in courso of planning, sewerage systems and contingent work for nearly a dozen Illinois towns, the total cost of which aggregated nearly 1,000,000 dollars. Mrs. Ewing, who had taken a deep interest' in her husband's profession for years, 'took up the'eontracts, and has been successful in carrying them out. She is now negotiating for work in several other towns of the State. James M'Eeynolds, whom President Wilson appointed United States Attor-ney-General, is not altogether new to the office, having previously served the Government in the capacity of special attorney under two Bepublican administrations. He caused the dissolution of •the Tobacco Trust, among other big feats. He is a Tennesseea'n, and in 1896, just after graduating from Vandor- S bilt University, ran for ■ Congress as a Gold Democrat, arid was overwhelmingly defeated. After serving as Assiatant Attorney-General for a number of years ho w<fot to New York to enter private practice. Rev. S. Col Her, the new British Wesleyan Methodist President, in his address, said : — "The laity did not want the ecclesiastic, but they were making him by compelling him to „ undertake duties -which ought to be in lay hands. It was said that in many circuits the ministers had to go cap in hand to try to persuade men to take office." Aftetf starving and driving away the farm workers, England, becoming alarmed at her rural decay, now finds that her efforts at reform of the land problem are complicated by suitable labour. Says the Daily Mail : " Fifteen thousand small holdings have been established under the .county councils. Agricultural education is advancing. Gardening and country themes were never bo popular. Wheat has been at a good* price, and in spite of bad seasons farms are easy to let. For all small farms candidates clamour. In spite of this fewer, fields are cultivated 1 and thp flight from the land has sp dispeopled the agricultural counties that it has proved, difficult to deal with. the ample hay crop, and will prove more difficult to deal with the moderate com crop." A significant statement was made by Mr. Eobei't Bmillie, presiding at tho Miners' International Congress at Carlsbad. " During the past twelve months," ho said, "there had been a boom in the world's trade. He had been carefully watching the Course of events, and he had failed to discover a single instance in which the employing class in any industry had. offered to share volun» tarily their increased gains with theii'i employees. ' . What little share in the huge profits made in this trade boom had come to the workers had only been won by the effective power of their own combination, through trade union organisations.*' " Two of America's most distinguished coloured citizens, the Rev. Dr. Borden, of New York, and Professor Eichelbergor, principal of Walter's Institute, Arkansas, arrived in London on their way to Zurich "to attend the world's Sunday School Convention. They both, to toeir surprise, found tJiemselves -confronted with tbe colour prejudice in London," cays ihe Central ,News. "They were refused » mission to several well-known hotels, and. only after very distressing experi--ences succeeded in-vgetting accommodation in. an out-of-the-way private hotef." "''What right have we -to judge -thoBalkan States so harshly?" asks Sir "Valentine Chirol in The limes. " They* arc-not indebted to the Great Powers for •any kind of assistance in the struggle--which they fought out against Turkey,, but it is to the Great Powers, on theother hand, that they owe the inlerfference with the settlement -which they •themselves had origmally ( contemplated '•in the event of a successful issue to their ■struggle against Turkey, and it is that -interference which as, in a great, measure, Tesponaiblo-loivvthij -jjreaent. -' toxtriddfti