MUDDLE AND CHAOS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 5 August 1915, Page 3

MUDDLE AND CHAOS

i ic js a dilUcnlt job these times to dis--1 t*- ot. Kitchener’s calibre. I Tvrcj vc months ago he was ca ' ed ripe' - , I in frantic haste to stop the Germans : from cverruuning western X.. who had- been absent from England f, ;r some years, and beheld muddle and chaos wherever ho looked. Chaos bllnbod at him from every desk and pigeon-hole at the War (Vice. Where tlie cfik-iul should have been alert and youug, he found the pood old septus, genarian job-hold or. wlio.se business in life was to do ns little as possible in the largest space of time. Also, the aged job-holUer, had the usual backing of influential relatives, eager to sp:-t blood ami treasure to keep the aged one In It is billet. IXI cheiier could not fight this crowd —no man ever could. He probably t-hougl.it that the task of beating the Germans would, be much easier. So he clenched his famous jaw and created new armies and commissariats out of the raw. He did well. But not well enough for the conscriptionisls. who | are demanding their article for army j and civil occupations alike. At presI cut the nation is divided on this ! point; and the genius .who attempts ro thru.-t conscription upon the easy-going Englishman is going to divide trie nation some- more. In the meantime, .Kitchener, who has never publicly declared in favour of conscription, is geti ting ail the armies he needs. In this j matter the German is no object-lesson to us;-since, Frederick’s time he has been suckled at the animal's breast, and the thing that appears natural to j'j’itz is as poison-gas to the freedomio vi n g En g] ish. ma n.