Baseball in The burning question of the in moment in sporting circles seems Gt. Britain ji be "Will Baseball capture the imagination of the public?" writes A. T. Grogan in the "Northern." and, as I think of the ever increasing number of teams anxious and willing to play this new and exciting game I fee! sure that in a few years from now we shall look upon baseball as a major sport in England. Approximately 700 teams will take the field this season. This shows an increase of 200 teams Over last year, the most pleasing feature being that "more and more schools are taking up the game each week as the education authorities in various centres realize that baseball is an ideal team game which demands and cultivates mental as well as physical fitness; two very import features in the training of our young boys under modern standards, As 'I travel about preaching baseball to new enthusiasts, many are the arguments I have with cricket die-harüs who seem to look upon baseball as an ugly reptile rearing its head in readiness to strike at what they call the very foundations of English sport. My reply to these friends is that baseball is actually cricket ployed under different rules, but, if the young people of today prefer a game which is clean, fast and intensely interesting the whole of the time, and where speed. action and robustness are essential, then must be catered for. We are living in ud, as in business, so in sport, we must move with the times. Personally I look to the future of baseball to provide yet another link in our great Empire, for now we have the game played in four of the Dominions—Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand—and y interest my listeners to know that ally the National Baseball Association have, had a request to send a team to Australia where so many of our present cricket visitors play baseball as a winter game" should act upon the assumption that between democracies and dictatorships there was a great gulf fixed.
A country ruled by a dictator could be Patron At dubb writes the New Pepys in Saint Truth," this night some debate. concerning England's Patron Saint, just as much a "good neighbour" as whether he was, as commonly infamous George of Cappadocia, country which was a democracy, of the democracies should therefore be The effortd who having made his pile out of trading bad devoted to cultivating friendly relations with the dictatorship nations instead of making them feel that whatever course they took would be opposed.
The other school took the position that a country had a democratic form of government the world would never be safe from aggressive action. The only proper for the democracies to take therefore them to encourage and support de-everywhere and do whatever was possible short of war to discourage the dictatorships, To the argument that, this would line the world into two hostile camps and lead inevitably to armed conflict. Their reply was that if the dictators were determined upon fighting the sooner war broke out the better since delay only strengthened their relative position. On the other hand if the dictators were not prepared to fight a resolute stand by the democratic nations would bacon to the Roman army under the Emperor Constantius, did espouse the cause of Arius against Athanasius, and afterward procured himself to be made Archbishopp of Alexandria. Here, moreover, did soe despoil and oppress the Egyptiens by his tyrannous exactionns that the populace at last rose upon him and lynched him. But they being a pagan populace and he a Xtien Archbishopp, he did in after years quite the mistaken reputacioun.of a holy martyr to the Xtien Faith at the instance of pagan Julian, who had succeeded Xtien Constantius a short while before the lynching. Soe was canonized accordingly, Finally. was adopted into England for her Patroun Saint at the time of the Crusades. An ignominious sort of Patroun Saint ju good sooth, if this Capadocian George be of a truth the man. But, as Coll Mapperly. our Churchies member, did not impertinently contend, Was it credible that a Church universally sworn to Athanasius (as the Xtien Church became within a few yf of the Cappadocian's death) slid ever have canonized this flagrantly heretick Arian into her Saintly Kalendar? call their bluff and lead to their progressive decline.
The President has sometimes appeared to be convinced by the arguments of one school, sometimes by the arguments of the other. He has denounced dictatorships because they were dictatorships and proposed that they should be quarantined. At the same time, particularly when speaking of South American countries he has praised the doctrine of non-interference" in the internal affairs of other countries.and upheld their right to adopt whatever form of government they might choose.
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