STILL THE SAVAGE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 622, 29 August 1933, Page 4

STILL THE SAVAGE

Near the Forum in Rome was . a eqvered passage dedicated to Ja'nus, the God who faced both ways. It was left open in time: of war to indicate that the deity was out of Rome, presiding over the Roman arms, and was shut in times of peace. It was rarely shut. The Romans, being a war-like people:, had no League of Nations nor Disarmament Conferences. We products of a Western Culture so superior to that ■ of Rome, blessed with the Iieague and the Conference, hate war. Yet somehow our passage of Janus is alWays .open. There is Britain's little war on t.he Indian Frontier, the French carry on their continuous performance in the Atlas, the war between the meek Assyrian Christians and the peaceful Arabs of Iraq goes on with accompaniments of massacre. There are the trade war and the class war

and the Christian Hitler s war against the Jews. Under the veneer of 400.0 years or more of civilisation and musing upori the blessingg of peace, man still remains the savage; cruei and wasteful, and impiacabie towards his br other man, who does not see eye-to-eye with him in religiori or politics or tradition, whose skin is a} different shade, who dares to speak in a different tongue.