ACHILLES AND HECTOR.

Shannon News, 8 January 1926, Page 3

ACHILLES AND HECTOR.

GO TO THE WAB OFFICE. "HEROES GET THE DOLE." "Should you wish (o realise or revive the sensation of war, go to Hyde Park Comer and look at the Royal Artillery memorial," said Sir lan Hamilton in a recent speech. "Should you, alter that, come to. the conclusion that you do not like war, don't he ashamed to say so. "There used to be something superb about war in the days when Achilles and Hector fought, it out to the death and all the (private soldiers looked on. But nowadays Achilles and Hector sit at home in comfortable Whitehall, and it is you, when war comes, who will be blown sky-high by mines or suffocated by poison gas, or hung up like a fly in a spider's weh by barbed wire, or wounded first and then slowly sucked down into the filthy mud—or, worst of all, it may be you Who will lose your nerye and come home victoriously to live upon the* dole. , •

"One more remark; Try as much as you can to avoid putting,off responsibilities upon posterity. Think twice qr thrice before you purchase a quiet time or a semblance of peace by pledging those 1 who come after you to fight for causes Which you may think vital, but which they might come to look upon in quite another light. "The British of future days will" be only too .ready to fight, for they have it in their blood; but leave. them as free a hand as you can, and at least let them decide for themselves whether o>r nq they are going out to sow another vast crop of rolls of honour."