The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, September 19, 1914. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1299, 19 September 1914, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, September 19, 1914. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Thr children attending the local State °choo! are particularly well catered for in the way of games and environment. We believe we are safe in saying that there is not another primary school under the Board's jurisdiction which is so well catered tor in those things which make school life attractive. The committee has decided to lay down a full-size asphalt tennis court at a cost of over The boys’ and girls’ enclosures have been levelled and grassed, and are now second to none for athletic purposes ; the gardens and beautifying schemes are being perfected eyery year, and a circular summer house has just been erected in the front gardens. The public have co-operated with the committee and teaching staff, and the children have done their part. The school environment should have a corresponding effect upon the children in their lessons and general behaviour. The Foxton school is going to ‘’kick the beam” in the near future for pride of place in primary institutions. The health and cleanliness of the children, we may add, is splendid.

The Kaiser is a disappointed man. His plans, and those of his war lords, have so far been frustrated. He expected to humiliate France and celebrate the great occasion at Paris within six weeks. Foolish boast. He did not expect the plucky Belgians to dare to oppose the onward march of his great fighting machine. The British, owing to internal dissensions, would not risk entering a protest against trampling over a neutral State. liven if Britain did consider a “scrap of paper,” what matter —her armed intervention was a matter of German scorn. Without going into details, the German war lords have been brought low, and well-deserved humiliation awaits them. The auger and disappointment of the Kaiser’s fighting general knows no bounds, and is revealed in the inhuman and diabolical atrocities they are practising. The day of reckoning is not far off. Bloody battles will yet be fought, but retribution will come as night follows day. In the course of a few weeks Germany will be relentlessly crushed. As she has drawn the sword, so shall she perish by the sword.