NEWS AND NOTES

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 10

NEWS AND NOTES

**The Simple Life," aa a phrase, h^i become a joke; and, under the salutary discipline of Mr. M'Kenna, will soon be a practical joke for all of us ; but still it is true that a poor man is, by the very nature of his lot, free from 1 all manner of artificial evils which wealth briDgs in its train. — G. W.. E. Russell. Mr. A. M. Pooley, editor of the memoirs of the late Japanese diplomat Count Hayashi (negotiator of the AngloJapanese Alliance), expressed a significant truth when he says : ' ' Diplomacy i i& war in the Council Chamber instead | of on the field," The landed gentry have given their sons nobly and freely with the industrial classes, but the capitalist classes are sitting at home in comfort and security behind the bodies of better men than themselves. — Ben Tillett "Nobody who has ever been a member of any Government doubts that things might be done better than they were being done," said Mr. Bonar Law in the Commons. "I remember many years ago Mr. Balfoufj when he was Prime Minister, saying to me as I left the House with him, 'The worst of this kind of life is I have never ' any time to think.' That is true. At a. time like this especially, Ministers are driven all the time." ! It is stated that Mr. John Wanamalcer, a former U.S. Postmaster-General, and head of the largest department stores in New York and Philadelphia, proposes I that the United States should purchase Belgium from Germany for twenty thousand millions sterling, and then return Belgium to its own. people. But how can Germany sell what is not hers, and how can America receive stolen j goods? To find this money might soothe the Wanamaker conscience, but not any normal conscience. It would merely make America accessory to a crime, and ! would be an encouragement to fnfcure | aggressions. I _____ Russia will never" be conquered while the world lasts, not only because of the extent of its territory, but because of j the soul of its people. They may be pushed back and back, but they will burn and suffer and suffer and burn as they go. — Bishop of London. The Pall Mall anticipates some social changes after the war. "The man of the leisured classes who has looked into | the eyes of death and has found his soul will not be content to 'idle-ricb' any more, nor will he regard those who have stood by his side and dared and done with him as the -workers in a hive of which he is the drone by right divine. ; The workers themselves who have tasted of the large freedom which discipline and self-sacrifice bring will not be content with the old narrow ways, but will demand something more of life." "International rivalry," says Dean Inge in the Quarterly, "is plainly very bad business j and there are great posI sibilities in the Hague Tribunal, if, and only if, the signatories to the conference bind themselves to use force against a recalcitrant member. The conduct of Germany in this war has shown that "public opinion is powerless to restrain a j nation which feels strong enough to defy it.'i It will be well with our cause if the people here at home will do their part with something of that willingness to | listen to the call of God, of that spirit of readiness, of self-sacrifice, of patient cheerfulness, of comradeship and unity which I felt everywhere around me during my visit to the Grand Fleet. — Archbishop of York. Eeferring to the comparatdvery high pay (5s a day) of Australasian soldiers, the Colonial Journal says that at Cairo Australian privates " occasionally occupied the best dining tables at the hotels, to the exclusion of their own officers. The remedy was simple. Shepherd's and the Continental hotels in Cairo were put out of bonndi for n. co.'s and men." "The Welsh Church (Postponement) Bill has been dropped. The Welsh Church Act itself, under an Order in Council, will be suspended until after the war. The Home Secretary confesses that the Government has dropped the Bill in order to avoid embittered controversy. . This seems to mean (says the Daily Chronicle) that the Welsh Church Acfc comes automatically into force with the end of the war, and that all preparations for it will be made forthwith. The Welsh Church leaders, however, retain the right to work for the repeal of the Act at a later period." With all the respect due to learned, powerful, great Germany, that marvellous example of organisation and resistance, I must say, in the name of my country — no vassalage; no protectorate under any one. The dream of a universal hegemony has been shattered. The whole world has risen up against it. — Antonio Salandra, Prime Minister of Italy. The Matin states thati a lady died at Marseilles in whose will the following remarkable clause was found :—": — " If I die before the end of hostilities, I ask that my body may be laid provisionally in the cellar, and that it shall eventually be interred in. the field where the final decisive victory is gained. I also leave the whole of my fortune to the town which shall bear the name of this victqrx." "On the very eve of war," says Mx. R. W. Seton -Watson, "one of the most distinguished of Prussian historians, Professor Hans Delbruck, freely admitted in a moment of candour that the German Officers' Corps would never tolerate the introduction of a Parliamentary regime in Germany, save after a new Sedan in which Germany was not the victor but the vanquished." "Not the youngest of your Lordships will outlive the traces of this conflict," said Lord Lansdowne in the House of Lords. Admiral Jellicoe writes, to his wife ! — "I am sure the men are longing to get home, if only for a day or two. They are setting an example of cheeriness that is splendid. They have not the excitement of action, or the trial of patience would not be so severe, as they are condemned just to wait and watch. We don't get much comfort out of the weather. The nights are very long, the sky is very grey, and the decks are very wek." " Germans are fighting at this moment against one enemy who cannot be seduced or deceived — Time ; and they are making an extraordinary effort to put Russia out of action before Time can come to her assistance," *=ays the Nation. "I would venture," says the Prime Minister, "if my words may carry their message beyond these walls to my fellowcountrymen outside, to say to householders, to employers, indeed to everybody — that in a small, but a not unimportant, way one of the best services they can render to the country at this moment is to see that all what I may call till-money — the smaller change of our social and industrial Ufa— it pud aoi is gold bu& in -note*, aad ixtjßasir. l( '