MAY MORN CAMP.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144850, 30 November 1915, Page 7

MAY MORN CAMP.

DR. THACKER’S COMPLAINTS.

The Christchurch Everting News writes:— , , ~ The Wellington Post has had the supreme effrontery to suggest that General Henderson may know n ? ore .about military camps than Dr. Thacker, M.P. It has even gone so far as to hiut that tho gallant member may feel ‘’uncomfortable, if not a little foolish, after reading the General s ‘‘clear and concise” reply to tho charges about May Morn. Surely the Post must forget itself. It fails to appreciate tho superiority of men and methods, of the intuitive and spontaneous over the laboriously investigative and inductive. To appreciate the point it isonly necessary to quote an instance. Dr. Thacker’s mate on his visit to May Morn, and his colleague in the Christchurch mooting, was Mr. P. C. TV ebb, M.P. Mr. Webb is an admirable example of tbo intuitive mind, native in-, telligonce, and keen perception superior to more accretions of fact. He approaches a subject —an employer of labour or a military problem, or the defence system, quit© free from any prejudice which a knowledge of the subject might establish, and behold, it is shrivelled in a nor’-wester of denunciation. “One minute’s look at th© camp,” be declared in tho Alexandra Hall, “convinced mo that conditions were very similar to Trentham last year.” There you have it—“one minuto’s look” sufficed. Note tho difference. Poor General Henderson, handicapped bv the experience of a lifetime of camps and all tho prejudices which knowledge gives a man, actually confesses that he had to make “a detailed inspection lasting over two hours of everything in camp” before be came to his conclusion, and oven then it wasn’t the same conclusion as Mr. Webb and Dr. Thacker. Surely, the Post wouldn’t suggest that the opinion of a man who confessed that ho took two hours to form it could be classed with tbo inspiration of one who only required “one minute” I