POINTS OF VIEW.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1953, 9 January 1914, Page 3

POINTS OF VIEW.

1 .. :J|AROJ]T JffiNGS JN ; MpTOKME^ANDjHEmITEETE - - . ''We . : areThot';"snrprised,"{vKy6':■'"' the "Dnily. Hcraid,".':."tlie inon."wlJa.'drive and conduct motor omnibuses are los - ing their teeth' faster, than. they,'''ought o and their nerves are all >going te • pieces.- The .strain .of driying'.'ih.erowel r eel streets is evidently beyond tho scheme ol mankind as planned iii the first chap • ler of Genesis... .We think we are get s tmg. very refined because we talk ; great deal about the horrors of war. am . infant mortality, and so on.; But why . then, do wo congratulate ourselves tha' 0 tho motor-bus "trade is one of the bless !> ings of civilisation?.-.,.' We have got ,t< » seriously face our. responsibilities • ii % these mat-tors. Is it a good.thine t< 1 have motor-buses if they arc shaKinj » men to pieces before their, time? As i g matter of fact, half. our civilisation, i; \ insanity. 11 . "... ':.\:~. ';':,.. n ' ■'.' "-' a ?■-. A Very Stained Class Window, • The Archbishop cf York having un a yelled a. stained glass window to tfci . memory of a clergyman killed in th. , hunting field, Sir Philip Bunie-Jone 0 protests in'the.: "-"Westminster", am 1 says:—:.". .. ... '■ ' ■- "If any keen Christian sportsman cai i honestly, declare that .while -indulging ii i a fifty minutes' run. with a 'kill at tin s end of it, ho is doing to others as he ' would bo dono by—mv criticism, o j' course, falls to the ground. j "Meantime thepresent instance) hard ly seems to have been a case in point . and it affords food for reflection tha--3 the blessing of thc-Church, through one s of its highest dignitaries, should havi i been called down tipon'such a very stain ' ed glass window." , ;.':...,.;. 3 :■-'-;:'■ V/hen One Is a Orpwd! f :: . 3 "The very presence of so raanv'polira . in Dublin makes for hilarity," say; l "The Times." '."They are so ridiculous!} - big and thoy sneak as though frorr • Olympus. A policeman told a friend ol ' mine the other day how be had, 'movec " on''a man-in Grafton Street. ''I seer him standin' there bo Xoblett's shot t 'an' I says to'him,'"Look hore, mo fine j. fellow,, you move- on. out'o' this now I've been watchin' ye this long time an 3 yo're up to ho goo'd." "I wasn't hen > live minits ago," says .he; "I don'l ) earo wliether. ye were or not," says I 5 "You move on now, '.without any more ! oul' chat or I'll charge ye'."i "What'i I my offence?" says ho, "Yo're loitcrin',' : , e>ays-I. "Isn't every. tyan else loiterin' I as well as. mo f" says he;. "You're, collectin' a crowd," says I. : . "How could ! I be collectin' a crowd,", says'he, "an 1 j there only- meself in it?". "Go on oul • o' that now," says I. "If I say. wan's : a crowd,'wail's a crowd." ' " , The Real Leaders. of Td»morrow, . slr. Wm. Greener; in the "Author," : attacks authors for allowing their work to appear in just any paper,; merely 1 cause it pays a : good price. "In a Tarcoraa gaol a prisoner went to the punishment cells rather than'help in repairing the gallows," he says; "iri Mantova many .tiricklayers' refused tc work in building a gaol;'in Milan,'in Paris, and in Rome',, compositors and • pressmen refused to produce, papers ! containing commonts -which might pre- ■ jiidirc the cause of workpeople on strike. 1 Thc&> humble people had., convictions, ' and acted upon them.- With them any " honest, man ..would .be. proud te shake , hands. -They are the rcal.kaders of to- . day and to-morrow. • The author is got ing te'be relegated to a rear rank, hav- , ing shown already that he is.,,willing,tc . go anywhere, an 'agent' recom.incnds,.-,oi , wherever pay is highest." ! . For tho Decent mtorrrumt of old i Clisirches, "All over the land there may be r foniid 'buildings sanctified by. years ol . holy service now become, not deus ol - thieves, to bo sure, but "commercial " ised," sold for thirty pieces of silver ' reduced to humble and often very doubt 1 ftil service.' " says tho "British Cliurchman." "Yet, we are. reminded, 'tlicn J is not one such placo that could no! [ have been-used, to best-'advantage, foi > the higher needs of the community, foi > social centres, club-rooms, and helpfir i recreation and entertainment.' I ." 'If no other provision can be mads ! for a reverent .disposition of these once ' sacred places,' if they cannot be ion- ' served for some good work in the community whoso higher, interests tlioi , have so faithfully served, why does no! "_ some rich and reverent soul endow a so ciety for the decent interment of ok ( churches ? Tims might, we be saved frotr ; the sight of theso staid old ecclesiastica s fronts plastered over with signs one ? posters—reminding one of 6ome old sn in; 3 fallen into - senility,- hat set rakishrj ' oyer oiw car; cigarette in .mouth, leerinj f tipsily down, upon a ehilv scandalisee 1 public ~..-' J Soma Unholy. Jests. "'ln. Boston, for example, I foune 9 the gas company installed in a protti • little stone church; a g(h)astly (!) com r bination, which incites to unholy jests I In Providence, bloused and paint-'stainee " art students raced in and out of a Gotliii . structure once a house of worship; while '] in the same city gay shop-girls am r grocers' -clerks spun madly about ol f roller skates in an old colonial "meet - ing-house." ■" i " 'In Pittsfiekl a- fine old building, de - signed by Bulfinch. of the eclebrfttee 3 "Front," serves-as the ballroom of i s summer hotel, its old timbers shakin; ; under turkey-trots and tangoes, bunny ; hugs, p.nd grizzly bears.' " [ .' , ' What Mr. Jaceb Says. ; ' J "I saw Mr. Jacob this afternoon a \ his factory, where about 2400 people an r how at. work, many of the original strik " ers having icturncd," says a • "West minster Gazette" correspondent in Dub j lin. "Mr. Jacob is a member ef a fain e ily of Quakers who have built up till - great business in Ireland. _ He was-em phatic that he-had no objection what ever to trade unionism; many of tin skilled workers in his business—print ers, engineers, etc. —were trade union ists. He would welcome a union amon; his own workpeople, but ho. was em t phatic in asserting that no member o a the Transport Workers'..Union shouh . enter the. factory again—'not if I have i_ te sell the coat off my back in the 1 struccle.' ■:.-'.'. B "The strike at the factory lias b'eei v represented as a lock-out; that allega \ tion is disposed of by the fact that 1701 I of tho workers remained when the other s left. No complaint, was' ever made i* n the firm by the imieii;no notice wa G given of the strike; the paiiners sim 0 ply found themselves a thousand hand h eliort on Monday morning." • ,j A fjosmopplltan Business for Milking ..,-.?■■■■ tho Taxpayer. !- Mr. A. G, Garelincr, the editor of th i I/oiielon "Daily News," lias a scatliini i- article in his paoer aprojws of the con ;- victioii'of Herr'Brandt, Krupp's agon :- in Berlin. -. He declares that tho arinou n plate''business "is in fact a eosniopoli :- tan business for milking the taxpayer h It- uses panics as another trader use 1- advertisements. It- has no enmities an r- no loyalties, no r-onscience and no com; >- try. It has only a voracious appetit ir for dividends..'.lt tnanijniktns the pres es and and has jt h spokesmen in ;Parliament.' It offers fa o jobs to .service."officers.;on . their retire: ■r nient., and is haiid-hi-glovo-;wi.th' ever i- militarist and 'aggressive'ami*. "~ It. is a ir octopus 1 whose -..tentacles :djg.; into'evcr. Ie nation'in Kurprie.-'V. It' has Reduced th ■ Liberal cour.'trv.-to.heli: .-■■ Icssncss; and" "at'"the end of eight, year ■ of a Liberal Administration Mr. Clnii chill announces rim ids t the!', friurophan ,* cheers of tie city aldeimen'tliat wo ar

going, to have bigger Navy Estimates than ever. _ . .'■ "Are there a dozen men in the Liberal party who will tell the Prime Minister plainly that tliey will resign their ; seats rather than consent to bo tiie tools of the armaments contractors any longer? Is there no statesmanship that, will unite the Labour party in England mid the Socialist party in Germany_ to destroy the octopus that is bleeding both countries white? Are the nations te he for ever the sport ef hungry diareholelors who play with' their fears to fill their own pockets '?"