<:.f«s T^W Hp» ■ anii Jsiatfctian Wrtoß SATCJRDAY, FEB 3rd, 1917

Grey River Argus, 3 February 1917, Page 4

<:.f«s T^W Hp» ■ anii Jsiatfctian Wrtoß

S ATCJR DAY, FEB 3rd, 1917

-' Delivered averymorniug in Gr%»tn'ot>tb.-K'umar.i Hokitih;a, Uobson,'Wallßendj "Tiij'loHilla.Croao i dti'u, Ngahere, Bluckball,, Melbou Orti k, Brunuei Cc iCiaKa, Kotouiaati, Poerua, lucbbonnie, and C Patara, Euru, Kaimiita. ; Kotuku, Moaaa, Aracika, c Bunaiigu, Uiiaollie, Cobden, - Baxter's, ,Kokhi " Ahuura, Ikainatua, Stl lwater, W liuta, Reettou r

DOCTRINE OF FRIGHTFULNESS. THE Hun seems at present to be - making every effort to impress all the

world with his cruelty. It is evident that lately the "superman" of kultur has been making "superhuman" /efforts to inflict the utmost suffering on those whom he can reach. A .couple of days ago we were told of the hardships imposed upon the unfortunate people of Poland. Probably no nation has suffered more in the i world's history than the Polish. The country has time after time in the past' been reduced to abject misery by the Prussian on the one hand .md ■ the Russian on the other. The Pole.; at different times have been frightfully treated — their territory has been ruled by first one side . and then the other; her people have been forced to submit to almost every conceivable ignominy, but we do not think that nx any time she has been more harshly treated than in the present war.. The history of Poland is very sad indeed and the happenings of the past eighteen months will add many pages to her sad chronicles. But we siave been assured that Russia, not the old Russia pf years gone by, but the great modern Russia, which has acted so magnificently during this war, is going to secure the definite independence and nationality of Porand, as Britain and France are determined to do in the case of Belgium and Serbia. The awful German monster hay from the beginning of the war been drunk with the lust for blood and suffering. He has shown himself to be in every sense the very incarnation of all that is basest in human nature; in fact, we can say that hjs frightfulness exceeds anything that n-i. man nature at its Very worst contains. To the vilest passions of man ihn Hun has added the vilest imaginings of his brain. Truly his "kultur" las produced the superman, but not in the sense which civilised people understand the tetm. The German saperman is the product which even a conception of the Devil at his wot ft would not convey to the mind. W« thought the German and his notorious ally the Turk, had reached the li-nirs of crime in Belgium and in Armenia, but the question now comes to us : "Is there any limit which the mind cf n.an (not superman) can gra-?pf*' The crimes are unspeakable, -vid the p,ost marvellous thing about fhe war is the great forbearance of 'he /llies. Hit: ordinary animal nature vf* nan say« that the Allies should p'lny Germa-iv at her own game, but the Chnsiian principles upon which tl<e Allies h;«v-e based their whole operations commands them to deal fairly with , the monster, but nevertheless the command is plain that the Allies must destroy the monster, and this the nations of liberation are determined to do. They have told the monster sr in reply to his so-called peace terms, which as the whole world knows were only planned by the Kaiser and his associates in order that the monstei might gain breathing space. Now that the Allies have definitely refused to parley with Prussian militarism, we are told that unrestricted sea warfare will be resumed. What were the restrictions on Germany's sea warfare during the past • two and a-half years, we ,should like to Know. The only factor which has controlled the submarine operations in the reast has been the British Navy, with its Allied assistants. The task has «een great,' but it has been wonderful!" well done. Such instances as that announced by the Admiralty concerning the destruction of the Artist have been much fewer than they would have been if the Navy had not been capturing and destroying submarines. Does Germany want America, or even China, to believe that she has placed any restrictions on her submarines? The restrictions were of course plain in the cases of the Lusitania anc? Britannic! Had those vessels been a thousand miles from land, we believe that the enemy would have sunk them in the same brutal manner. The latest Note to America is only a blind, but we do not think that it will blind even the dullest mind. President Wilion, at time of writing, has acted promptly, and it looks as though America is certain to come in on pur side. All ships, we believe, whether neutral or otherwise, will.be sent to the bottom if the enemy lean manage- to get near them. Any protest from America will be answered by some diabolical German lie. We shall find that the danger zones will be wonderfully elastic, and will only be limited by the cruising radius of the submarines. Of ""parse this is. allowing that Germany will have the power to get her siibrnarin^s out. The great converter of these things, however, has bec-ii hard at work lately, and we think from Ihe meagre cablegrams about the Na/t's operations that the submarines' power to leave German ports and to return to them will be very limited We pointed put in our article on :he blockade . that the new minefields aie certain to be very effective, and the "danger zones" proclaimed by -jer many will almost surely be narrow-d down by the Allies to the Baltic, and Heligoland Bight. The Entente i»:ust steadily, go on with its work until the "Day" when, on those long frozen lines of trenches the. sun brings the warmth of spring- to awaken in the blood of our gallant soldiers the energy and power to punish very severely the monster. The crimes of the past must be atoned. Germany must pay the price ; she must be brought to her knees and forced to renounce her military god. We can only deal in one way with such a nation. The military machine of destruction must be destroyed by a stronger military machine which has for its principles justice and truth. Such principles of humanity do not by any means suggest an easy, forgiving nature. Humanity does not, forbid the killing of those who by their every action show themselves its enemies. Often has. it been said that the true foundation of the whole war is the effort of the Devil to crush Christianity out of the world ; in other words, the belligerents represent the powers of good against the powers of evil. If so, the same rule applies, evil ©nst be' de.

stroyed. The whole teaching ol Christianity proves it, and we Delieve thai the whole of history proves it. What ever point of view people may choost to adopt the principle is true— mat which stands for the lowering of tht human race and the submission of the whole world to the power of militarism whether it be expressed under , the term "kultur" or under any other ' term must be completely destroyed (The cruelties of the Hun are but a foretaste of what the world would be like if militarism had fu?l, control. Let us hope that the- great forces oi the Allies will very soon deal the mon , ster a mortal blow, and that never again will the nations of the. worlf 7 have such a terrible task to under I take. When the stamps for the Bri I tish coinage were first devised 'nothing could have been more prophe . tic than the symbol on the reverse j side of the sovereign — St. George kill Jing the Dragon. The Dragon ma> well represent the Central Alliance *V. hydra-headed monster of crime am ' : destruction.

) A Press Association message froir . Wellington states that the "Gazette" . notifies that the export, of sheepskins ? and pelts has been prohibited. f An advertisement in this issue draws attention of parents and guardians to the re-opening of the Grey District ' High School. 1 I Rumours were prevalent in Grey > mouth yesterday that a man named . Jameson had disappeared. Reports state that he had recently been in a despondent mood and that when last 5 seen he was going towards the . "tip." I The war is gradually beginning to • be felt by the large landowners. Mci ! are scarce everywhere. In a part oi 1 Hawke'-s Bay recently a traveller say 1 young women mounted on horsebacl mustering sheep and driving cattle One of them could work dogs as wel v as a man, using a tin whistle. . The Otago dredge Progress waf s docked at Port Chalmers on Thursdaj , j for survey with a view to having th( I vessel converted into a cargo carrier ' ,'The demand foT tonnage has prompter 5 j this uncommon project. It is probable 1 I that within a few months the Progres? >» j will enter the coastal service. t j A plague of the small crustacean c known as whale feed, has, states s rt Wellington newspaper, occurred at s Paekakariki within the last few days Millions of them have been washed v] v on the beach and it Is reported tha. ~' in some places they are two feet deep s The effect of the heat has been to.de . compose the bodies, causing an almos. - intolerable stench. A case was in progress at the Ma- ( gistrate's Court, Palmerstpn . North. - recently (says the "Manawatu Stan--3 dard"), in which the curing of pigs . occupied a considerable portion of tht witness's evidence. Examining couu- » sel asked a witness how long it would > take to remove the lard from a car- . case, and witness thought it would take some time : Counsel : What non- ! sense ! I know something about pigs j and think it can be done in two mi - nutes. Witness: Well, if you can df it in that time you should give up being a lawyer and take on the pig business. You would make your fortune - Counsel quite enioved the joke, although it was turned against him. J The Burkie's L-reek cucu M'.ne ha:- --> changed hands, having been acquirer [ from the Reefton owners by Messr? Bruce and Lush, well-known Welling i ton men, who represent a limited li r ability company, reports the "Inanga f hua Times." The new proprietary was to take possession on Thursday ' It is understood that the new com- [ pany intends to push developmen' [ work ahead so as to be in a positior to rail large quantities of coa 1 "to Christchurch as soon as the Otirr j tunnel is completed, where there is r P ready market for the article. , A little Rakaia farmer recently hac . a very distinguished gang of harves t |ters at work on his farm. Th c far- , mer started to reap his crop, and at t soon as the machine had got a fail . start his son began stooking. In i. . short time a party of gentlemen >ron I Christchurch who were spending th< . week-end at Rakaia Mouth — solicitor: t and members of other professions, to ( gether with a well-known clergymar ; —scaled the fence and were soon hard , at work in the harvest field. The amateurs shaped remarkably well, a«cr it a comparatively short time the whole of the crop was -in stpok. The kindly aevtion of the week-enders was mucr appreciated by tire far^-~ The continuance of hot, dry weather has been all in favour of a. quick harvest, says the "Timaru Herald." As a matter of fact thegrain has been saved this year with greater celerity than for many years past, records having beeiv put up on many farms in the matter of getting the grain from the growing stalk into the bags. On some fairly big farms the. cutting, stooking and threshing have been completed in a fortnight. Threshing- from the stook this year is the ordinary thing and by reason of the very hot dry weather the grain is as hard in the stook as it is in an ordinary season after it has been irf stack for a couple of months. While dry weather is desired for the ingathering of the harvest a good down^ fall of rain, is much needed for the pastures and root <srops. The timber industry along the Mair Trunk is reported to be' slackening down somewhat (says the Auckland "Star.") The conscription of men has reduced the number of builders very considerably, and the scarcity of tradesmen, combined with the hea\«y increases in building material, • has had the effect of causing- moneyed men to slow down in the building of houses for speculative purposes. The mills have been very 'active during the past year owing to erection of new freezing works and big extensions to others, including Taihape and Feildm 8"- The only new works in course of erection now are those being constructed at Kakarik-i, near Martor. for the Wellington Meat Export Company. Under the circumstances, therefore, a reduced output is forecasted.

The Petone Boxousrh Council senc v circular to the various local bodies in tie Dominion asking: for support for a resolution to increase the pay of the men in the Motor Patrol Service, and has received replies from 73 of whom %i support the proposal and 41 decided to take no action. With respect to increasing- the pay of soldiers and the conscription of wealth, 31 replies were received, 22 deciding- to take no action. In Alexandria on Monday the tern-, perature registered was 130 degrees in the sun and 92 degrees in the shade. The temperature in the shade in Dunedin on Monday (Mr. Pauh'n's record) was . 87 degrees. Yesterday it was slightly hotter, the thermometer registering 88 degrees. At Mosgiel yesterday 85 degrees were registered in * the shade and 115 decrees in the open. The ministers of Chicago embarked in November on a plan to make N*«.w Year's Eve, which fell- on Sunday; the Ofreatest church going night in the listorv of Chicago. Resolutions were prepared, endorsing the closing of tLe saloons and the forbidding of "ihs use ~>f hotels and cafes on that lij^ht. AH churches in Chicago were to !>e ureri\l •:o keep open house, to orovide gn^d tiusic and refreshment?. ?hd »o *inihasise the religious side of life as a •neans of welcoming the new year. Occasionally a complaint reaches Base Records that the next-of-kin of a New Zealand spldier reported wounded or sick has not been notified by .telegram, arid has seen the news in the daily papers. The explanation in most instances is that the next-of-kin has changed from the address originally given without informing Base Records of the fact. The soldier gives the address before he leaves New Zealand, and it is for the next-of-kin themselves to see that the authorities are informed of any subsequent change, otherwise a telegram may remain undelivered. One of the lionesses at the Onehunjfa Zoo has given birth to four healthy übs. This raises the total number >f lions in the Zoo to 21 — eight idults and 13 cubs. . Lions seem to thrive in captivity in this climate, and as there is practically .no demand for them in the Dominion, Mr. Boyd, the proprietor of the Zoo, is eported to be thinking of shipping ;ome of the" cubs to America, where 'ie expects to sell them to advanage. ■' To show the loyalty of the telephone nrls of England, an English exchange •tates that within a few minutes of an mpending air raid becoming known 'he operators have hastened to the learest exchange to report for duty. to meet the rush of work that naturUlv follows, while; a call in the case if emergency for Volunteers for late iutv always meets with a ready response. The operators- know that uninterrupted commercial and industrial life is as essential to ensure a suc:essful issue of the war as a wellrained army, and that an efficient telephone service is. vital to assure this The lifebpatmen a t Deal are having strenuous and exciting times ■ says the London "Morning Post" of November 25th). Already this week 32 lives had been saved from two vessels which now lie wrecked on the Goodwins,. and yesterday the Deal lifebpat was called out again to rescue che crew of the Norwegian steamer Petra. bound from New York to Rotterdam with a cargo of maize, which iad- stranded on the Goodwins near: the spot where the wrecked liner Mahratta now lies. A haze was prevailng at the time, and rain was falling, uid owing to the recent, gale a trenendous sea was still running over he sands. The lifeboat was launched it three o'clock in the afternoon, and. n trying to get alongside the $te&.-.ier. rot several times on the hard sands. ->Frtunately, she managed to get near che steamer without mishap, arid took oft the entire crew of 22 men and the ship's pet dog. Owing to the add>lonal weight of the rescued crew the lifeboat experienced considerable dif'icultv in getting clear of the wreck as he water was falling and she bumped dangerously on the sands before reaching deep water. By skilful seamanship, however, the lifeboat averted disaster and brought the rescued sai!ors to Deal, reaching port at iialfoast seven o'clock. Remarkable results have been" achieved by returned Anzacs in the hand .veavmg of tweeds (says the Melbourne •Age '). About* six weeks ago the. state War Council sent Sergeant Sin.:lair to Geelong to train returned soldiers as jveaver.s, and at the present time m the old fire brigade rooms at Lreelong. there is the nucleus of what vhat should become a useful Australian Industry, in which discharged soldiers can be profitably employed hergeant Sinclair comes of a Scotr-h family, the members of which spun their own yarn and wove their own blankets and cloth from sheep reared on the home farm. It was as nearly as a household could be, self-sup- !£ rt K+ J %u nd S( L r * cant Sinclair has no. - doubts that what was jrood for Ms t household will be good for Australia At presnt he has only three men at work but he intends to add \ o this number as soon as the men are made available. They have be es > in SaSfn? for five weeks, and have produced specimens of tweed which can best be described as of the Scotch homespun quality. After ten days' training a man can produce plain worsted tweed at the rate of. a yard an hour. Allowing his wages to be 2s. this tweed of a quality unsurpassable, can be sola *L 7S J^? VaT A inc l udi n* a substanprofit. After, three months the man can make his own living, Wh™ more men are made available and the scheme is in "full operation other -la^es of weaving will be undertaken Bathing and boating are not only amqpff the most wholesome and pleasurable of pastimes, but they also contain an element of danger which can only be reduced to a minimum by universal knowledge of the art of swimming. The proportion of swimmers m the community has vastly increased of recent years. and fatalities nave been greatly reduced in conseciuence. But every summer sees drowning accidents, the present summer being, no exception. In almost , every case ignorance »f swimming ls^ the cause of these heartbreaking accidents. Often the irallant attempt of a swimmer to save the life of one. who does not swim leads to his undoing for in snite of life-saving classes many f>re still ignorant of how to handle a drowning person in the water Xt would be a laudable innovation if swimming were romnul so rily taught m wry school. Th c lives thus saved wd the sorrow thus avoided wouM rop av the trouble and expense fi« : imes over.-« New Zealand Her^M^