THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11510, 5 October 1915, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

THE EMPIRE AT WAR

Our Empire, not our country only, is a great" armed camp. The seas of the world are covered by our sailors, and wo know that mot only is this great military fore© on sea and land unparalleled 111 its size as compared with anything we ever possessed in this country, but that it is unparalleled in the splendour of its acts ever since the war began.-—Mr Walter Long. THE WAR LOAN. With the sum to bo realised from tho war loan we could build twenty - five Panama Canals or one hundred steel plants as big as Krupps's. It represents 14s for every human being on earth. I.t would take seventy clerks eight years, working eighty hours a day. and counting four shillings a second, to count the money,—Mr H. N. Casson. BADGES. I want to see everybody who is working, either directly or indirectly, on Government work, given a Government badge to show that he is in the work. Lwa.nt to go further than that, and want to stop (people wearing any other badge except that given by the G'overnment.--Enrl of Derby. BROTHERS. Ml class distinctions have been forgotten among our p.oldierp, ;ind I hone they will be eliminated for ever. Men can' be friendly in the face of death, and I havo great hones that when our men who have faced death together come back they will face tho ordinary difficulties of life with tho frame sense of brotherhood and camaraderie.—Mr Ben Tillett. WHEN THE COLLAPSE COMES. How long it will take to beat the Germans it is impossible to say, but when tho collapse comes there will bo a, suddenness, completeness, and dramatic reality about it which no episode in historv can in any way equal.— Colonel Maude. VOLUNTARY SERVICE. We might have to oonio to universal compulsory service, but it would be a great pity if that were sOj because universal voluntary service was the grandest thing in tho world; it ennobled a mart and it ennobled a nation. —Bishop of London. THE EDUCATED RECRUIT. H is a remarkable fact that while it takes six months to train the ordinary recruit, the educated one, being more amenable to discipline, and the assimilation of orders, becomes a trained soldier in three weeks.-—Lord Shaw. THE MEN 07? THE FUTURE. Bovs of the present day must view life differently from the boys of tho past. A very large number of the best of our English manhood are being out off, and the test our ualion can send to aid our country before this war is over will be required. It will rest with them to bring this England of ours to u greater height than it has ever reached before. .Bishop of Chelmsford. GERMAN CULTURE. If the object of Gorman culture was to create works of destruction, l.heu German culture must bo given a high place in the culture of the vaiid.— W Robert Cecal. M ,