THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY AND MILITARY TRAINING

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 43, 15 November 1926, Page 10

THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY AND MILITARY TRAINING

gi r _ As a comparatively recent arrival’in this country, I read with interest the report in your paper this morning of the resolution passed by the Presbyternian Assembly condemning compulsory military training. Apart from the abysmal ignorance ot world conditions and affairs disclosed by the remarks of most of_tli« speakers —which, after all, was perhaps only to be expected, the most interesting feature to the uninformed man -in the street, of whom I may claim- to be a fair sample, was that there- must, bo something in this compulsory training;, since that same august body appears at' one time and another to have condemned dancing, racing, an occasional spot, Sunday tennis, fishing or golf, art unions, short skirts, in fact anything and everything which tends to brighten up life for the average citizen. • If these bright lads had their way, this would indeed be a cheery country in which to live The hilarious mirth of an undertaker’s mute at a funeral on a wet day would be as nothing in comparison to it. I would suggest for the consideration of the Assembly that at its next meeting it should have posted up in - a prominent position those lines of Robert Burns: "O wad some po er the giftie gio us To see our sei’s as ithers see us" the "ithers” in this, case being that great majority of ordinary normal citizens whose only desire is to live <mt their lives unfetterd by wowseristic trammels.—l am, etc., „„„„ ANTI-WOWSER.,