OTHER MEN'S MIND'S.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 1124, 18 December 1914, Page 4

OTHER MEN'S MIND'S.

NO RULING RACE. History declares that no nation, however great, is entitled to try to impose its type of civilisation on others. No race, not even the Teutonic or the Anglo-Saxon, is entitled to claim the leadership' of humanity, Each people has in its' time contributed something that- was distinctively its OVVU, and the world is far richer thereby than if any one race, however gifted, had established '. a , permanent ascendancy.—Viscount Bryce. *•• THE FOUR C's.

In soldiering and war, it has been said there are four "CV' which go to make up the true soldier—courage, commonsense, cunning, and eneerlulness'. One of tho two sides toKlay is fighting with the first three only or those "d's." Our side is also playing with, the fourth " o''—cheerfulness ; they are fighting in the right spirit, knowing that they are fighting on tho right,side, and will win in the end.—Sir R. Baden-Powell. " GREAT " 'GERMANY. If Germanv, after her diplomatic rascalities of'the last few years, and her cultural display of the last tew weeks, is to be called great, then we had better publish our dictionaries in abridged editions with , the. word "great" omitted.—Mr Arnold liennett. *#* THE FIRESHIP'S DESCENDANT. The submarine is the successor of the destructive agencies of former times. It may be regarded as the descendant of the fireship, with which it was the practice to attack ships lying to leeward, and taking shelter in open ports or bays.—Mr John Leyland. * « WAR AND THE WORKER. I am not at all sure that we are uot a littlo premature in anticipating very considerable unemployment. As the war progresses it is clear that the demands on the industries of tins country will be enormous. 'there will be industries where not merely the employment will be vei-y full, but there will be overtime and shortage of men. You must remember that over one lion men have been withdrawn rrom ordinary industry for the purposes of war. and it looks at the present moment ns if that number might be increased by another half million.—Mr Llovd George. V a orrrzEN's fiust duty.

Our people are- realising now that tho first duty of a citizen is to fit himself to defend his country. '.lbat we have yet time to repair oar refusal to admit the accuracy cf this truism is duo to the unceasing watch of our seamen in mine-strewn waters. — 1< ield-—ar-shal Sir Evelyn "Wood. <* * AN ENGLISHMAN WORD. Our Empire has grown prrat and prosperous, and will grow gi'eai and more prosperous, bec\uisc we ']"vc always kent our pledge word. T;;at has caused the splendid outburst of loyal ry and devotion to the Itowu .".:' ; . i'jiiipire which has been s'.tu on nU hnnos It is evoked. by the knowledge that.

justice and fairness mark the ■Bntjfli rule, because we have alwa3 r s observt'd our good word given on scraps of 'p?-p a »', and because an Englishman's wore is as good as his bond.—Air lllragwortli, M.P. . . *•* WAR ON THE BRAIN. Thinking war day after day and week after week without any change of thought or shifting of interest is injurious to the delicate mechanism of the brain and the nervous svstem connected with it.—Mr James Douglas. V THE CURSE OF HUMANITY. Modern warfare, robbed of all the <show, splendour of uniform, and of individual prowess rewarded the same evening on th© field of battle, Is now a matter of mere numbers, railways, food, organisation and petrol. Petrol has turned out to be the curse of bumanityv It alone has mado tho concentration of modern armies possible. Millions of victims can now be well fed up to the "hour of their deaths, whereas., under the regime of the poor old war-horse, some limit was placed on the killing powers of ambitious kings.— Mr E. Asnrnead-Bartlett.