THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1670, 3 February 1917, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

Brussiloff stands for an intelligence of a powerful and superior order, for clear vision and sagacity; hence the ease with which he has adapted himself to the necessities of modern warfare. —Ludovic Xaudeau.

If the schoolmaster had his imagination stirred by the romance of trade, and we could bring about the marriage of business and education, greater progress in our inventions, and undertakings would be achieved. —Sydney Walton, B.Litt.

For the “agitator” there are lines and imprisonment; it is against the law to withhold one's labour —in war-lime. For the contractor and speculator there are increased profits; it is not against the law to exploit the nation’s necessities —in wartime. —T. E. Naylor.

Russia will never be conquered while the world lasts, not only because of the extent of its territory, but because of the soul of its people. They may be pushed back and back, but they will burn and suffer, and suffer and burn as they go.—Bishop of London.

The workman is inclined to think that he is the man who makes the profit, but if lie saw the whole w'orking of (he machine he would realise what a complex one it was; he would realise what a combination of qualities are required to run a business successfully.—Neville Chamberlain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham.

When peace comes, ii' we are to recover quickly from the effects of the war, it will he essential to increase the output of wealth; and one problem of the future will he to devise some way of carrying on industry which does not involve the restriction of output by either employers or employed, and which can reconcile the conflicting claims of producer and consumer. —M. Sanderson Furniss.

There have been few nobler spectacles than the way m which the married men between the ages of thirty-eight and forty-one —that is, the men who have very likely had some twenty years of family life — fdumldered their burden and went to the colours. It is much easier for the young or even the middleaged bachelor to adopt a totally new way of life than for the family man of set habits —the sun of a domestic solar system. —The Spectator.