The Mighty Atom.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 11, 19 May 1911, Page 7

The Mighty Atom.

The funeral of Robert Hogg's daughter Lizzie was largely attended" by neighbours and Socialists, and after the Anglican burial service a. short ad dress of Socialist sympathy and spirit was delivered at the graveside. The Worker's business manager and Mrs. Hogg received many telegrams and letters of condolence, likewise numerous wreaths ; and for all the kindness and sorrow shown they feel deeply appreciative. Dean Fitchett, according to c 'Balclutha Free Press," has been referring to the men who thirty years :«iio at Dunedin opposed Bible Heading. These were "blatant beyond ail precedent' , and had a pestilent rag of a newspaper." The "pestilent rag" was tiie "Jbiclio/ , edited by feir Roocrt Stout. Now, sureiy, we'll see a pole-axed. Dean. Rudyard Kipling is collaborating with a prominent historian in writing a "Child s History of .England." Ana Kipling is the last man on this hunk of mud who has any fitness lcr the work. He's a red-handed Jingo savage. Foster Fraser—whose graphicest book is "lied liussia"—is airing his streaming opinions on colonial loyalty in Weekly." There's so much mad-dog Imperialism in the opinions as to be nauseating. Died at Greymouth last week at the age of 76 Hanwell \Villiams, said sis years ago to be the oldest surviving chemist in N.Z. He went to the West Coast in 1865. The Tommyrotic habit by which Aristocracy and Hierarchy never write their a r eal names is recalled by sundry bathetic letters in. Dominion papers signed "Meath." These letters deal with "The iiiHipire Movement" and are designed to gain weepful endorsement of the Earl of Meath's Empire Day crawl. Why doirt we get our youngsters off their knees to stand straight in defiance of the customs which degrade them ? R. H. Sherard, author of "The White Slaves of England" and a life of Oscar Wilde (whose friend he was till the end) has had a lot of dirty linen publicly washed by suing his wife for £100. His wife is "Irene Osgood, , ' novelist, but Sherard claims to have written her books for her. Davie Moffatt, the "Silver King," who died recently in America at the age of 72, began life as a message boy and left a fortune of £12,000,UUU. Another text for the master class to wheedlj more work out of their little errand boys. Dr. Tudor Jones, late of Wellington, and a willing helper of the local branch of the Socialist Party., who returned to the Old Country - about twelve months ago, has an illuminating article in a recent issue of the "Christian Commonwealth," on the '"Heretic of the Rhine," Pastor Ratho, who is being prosecuted for heresy by the German High Court. Few men have become world figures so quickly as Victor rayson, M.P. Like Tom Mann, Gra3 r son at one time contemplated entering the ministry, and studied for the Unitarian Church. But he came to the conclusion that "it was useless to expect true religion in a social system such as the present," and, therefore, transferred his allegiance to Socialism. "I realised," he says, "that a better social condition cotild only come by political action. The Socialist and Labour movement has mc body and soul." Grayson is a writer of unique ability. There is a verve and a flash in contributions which reveal hypnotic force and unorthodox character. A great personality races between the lines. Here is one of those exceptional men able to excel in several spheres—whom versatility does not weaken. Most men attempt all-round proficiency only to miss the higher levels of one domain. Supremacy as specialist is sacrificed to an equilibrium in knowledge and prowess. Victor Grayson is orator and writer, ivnd also more; he is statesman and - prophet, and again more: he is a doer. It was said of Robespierre when approaching manhood : "This young man will go far." We think of the saying and of Robespierre as we take stock of Grayson—and we wonder. He is a leader to know and to watch.