The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920. A WINDOW IN MARS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3572, 7 September 1920, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920. A WINDOW IN MARS.

With which is incorporated “The Taihape Post and Waimarino News ”

In locking clown upon the Earth from some such place as a window in Mars a scene of human life and activity would be presented the like of which has not been enacted at any period since, in its evolution water became separated from land. It would be seen that the peoples of the whole world are either fighting or ignorantly frolicing on the very brim of a chasm wide enough, deep enough and dark enough to envelop and ingulf the sum total of them all and swallow them down into oblivion. iProm a window in Mars a powerful telescope would discover that the voracity of greed was bent upon killing off the just, the innocent and the ignorant. That telescope in Mars would disclose that the war of human extinction was not only waged between individuals, factions and communities, but also between the two most powerful empires on earth as well. It is in no respect an exaggeration of the world situation to state that the two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race, the American and the British, are now at variance over the problem of world domination. The whole world is today at the feet of Anglo-Saxon peoples; Britain and Germany are no longer the two greatest factors in shaping the world’s destiny. By virtue of a precipitate greed Germany has forfeited its proud place among the nations and has passed down and down in the category of power until it is amongst the most impotent and least to be considered in any great world struggle. America has risen to the mighty altitude among peoples vacated by virtue of German greed, and to-day the two great Anglo-Saxon peoples, facing each other across the Atlantic ocean, have complete mastery of sea and land, and the men in Mars with the telescope are anxiously watching. and wondering whether either one or tlie other will fall victim to the Insatiable greed the like cf which wrought Germany’s downfall. Britain and the United State between them now hold a pre-eminence of power that no nation or combination of nations can seriously, effectively challenge, and from the window in it is seen that all other nations and peoples are praying that AngloSaxons in America and Anglo-Saxons in the British Empire will combine in one mighty effort to snatch and rescue civilisation from that awful catastrophe upon the brink of which* it new stands. It has been stated, over and over again, that Britain and the United States have the world at their feet and it will become what they choose to make it; there is none to gainsay them. The Anglo-Saxon race is now being weighed in the balance, and from the window in Mars there is excited wonder as to whether it will be found wanting_ The beings at the Mars telescope are hopeful that another cycle of civilisation is not yet near its end; that what life AngloSaxon greed does leave upon the Earth will not be forced back into a primeval state of savagery, A condition bitter than that, of the brute except for the element of possibility it holds of a nobler existence which is to require thousands of years to bring back to the god-like altitude it had reached when the cancer of death cast it down. A new scene of rusTf anfi excitement has recently come into the field of vision of the Mars telescope, and the Martians at the eyepiece are alarmed. The friendship and agreement built up by President Wilson and the British Government is being attacked by Republican

greed; a unified Anglo-Saxondom ! directing the world’s future is being undermined; agreements and understandings are being scrapped ami 1 burned in tbe turmoil of a presidential 1 election. There is yet another scene of human convulsion, and the Martians at the window are speculating as to what effect it will have in saving some degree, some measure of civilisation. The workers upon the Earth are seen to be in. a state of hitherto unprecedented excitement; they are opposing the efforts of American Republicans to perpetuate the horrors of war. and destructive tumultousness is spreading throughout every class in the two great Commonwealths that now have world domination between them. The British Empire is for peace; the workers in both Commonwealths are for peace, and the question in (lie minds of the Martians, who are taking a comprehensive distance view, is whether the greed of Republican tammany'and graft will be powerful enough to maintain a division in the Anglc-Saxon house which must, ultimately result in 'its own complete destruction. The Mars lookers-on see France, Germany. Russia. Italy and other hitherto great nations struggling on towards social i and industrial reconstruction, and they are concernedly speculating on the chances of effective recovery before ominous enlargement of the riff in the Anglo-Saxon rock of friendship being made by the American founders . of trusts, rings and combines, results in an orgy of mutual interdestruction. The Martians are stupified, bewildered with a greed that is so rank that It does not realise that the two divisions of Anglo-Saxons already rule half the 1 earth; command very nearly the whole of the world’s credit; that . their supremacy at sea is without the shadow of a challenger; that they possess a great preponderance of the faw materials of life; that they are the most intellectual and efficient peoples on earth, and would yet engage in mortal combat to see which should possess the whole of the sum total of everything there lives, or grows, or is upon the face of this illtreated old globe. These two divisions of tbe Anglo-Saxon race are not content to go on dominating the world, at least, it is more correct fo say. they are content, only for that section of Republican greed in the United States from whence has sprung most of the industrial and social curses and scourges that has i ) troubled modern society. DemocraI tic America and the British Empire are for agreement and co-operation. Republican greed' is for rivalry, competition and war. Britain and Democratic America urges the immediate setting up of a League of Nations to govern the world, Republican greed opposes; the peace treaty and a League of Nations, it prefers a state of war in which their exploitation of the peoples of the Earth can only be madepossible. Britons and American democracy stand for nobler ideals and a higher civilisation. Republican rings, syndicates, trusts, combines favour a return fo feudalism and the dark ages. At any rate, if that is not the condition they have specifically set their minds upon, if. is the only ultimate of a successful progress of their greed and exploitation. The beings at the window in Mars, from their comprehensive view, are not at all surprised that the workers, the people exploited by industrial, trading and financial combines and trusts, are exerting a strong hand in determining whether there shall be a continuance of war. or whether such orgies of murder and massacre shall be relegated to a regrettable past. It would be of absorbing interest to learn from the Martians just what part presentday greed played in precepitating the great European coriiflagation that some people are still anxious to keep / burning, and it would be of consider- [ ably greater moment - u o present-day ' society to know what part Labour is going to enact in stifling exploitation i and in saving civilisation Will Labour go off on a tangent that is likely to result in the Earth being soaked in human blood, or will it follow the constitutional road to a much higher plane than that humanity now stands upon? The United States and Britain now control the future of the world, will they mutually agree to continue this dual Anglo-Saxon role, or will rivalry of American greed result in : that power of dominion being lost to j the Anglo-Saxon race. !