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Nelson Evening Mail, 26 May 1916, Page 5

It is doubted' -whether any man in poli. tics to-dav has made' stich financial .saerir fices as Mr Aequith' has made. . He" had- . a practice at the bar which brought him, in £15,000 a year, and- he gave; it lip for a job' immeasurably more # burden*' some thai 1 has never brought • himr-.more than £SOOO. He might have been Lord Chancellor, with a comfortable seat .on the Woolsack and £IO,OOO a year, and he chose .instead to sit in. the House of Commons every day to be the target pfevery disappointed placeman. • ■* ■'. "When the classic histoty of this war is written it will give'more chance. % to a master of'breadth and- generalisation like Gib'bon than to a, liant detail and > staccato' epigram' Wee Michelet, but it will be. the,- fault ;otthe historian,- not of the sub;jebty\.«, generations far hence do nof feel selves gripped and thrilled- by the light for Verdun as -we of to-day' feet OUT* selves living*.and" swayed spectators>'or the battle in the bav of astold in,the (pages-of Thucydides. J ."• -., • , One of the medical officers at "the Auckland' Recruiting Station - "had a surprise while examining a recruit tho other day. The usual method'employed by tho doctors in making the .eyesi cht test is to hold a card over one ove and to ask the'recruit to read, -with the other from a letter-chart on, tho wall at the other end of the room. One man protested that ho could-not,-see out of one, ©ye, and, turning/ m& 'head , aside, dropped it'into the palm of mat hand—a glass one. ' •-^