Ship-build "Observer" points out in Shi building "Horse and Hound":—The Progre: Leviathza (now being serapped in British Yoi) has had an unfortunate career. When bull by the Germans she wi the largest ship afloat, and she was a definite challenge to our transatlantic trade. She had not, however, been long on the western ocean, before war was declared, and at the time she was lying in New York harbour, She was promptly interned until America came into the d then she was converted into è trans-Under her old name, the Vaterland, she was e: ely advertised by the Germans as the world's largest shi, and as such was an object of interest on b th sides of the ocean. Alter the wer, she reconditioned and fitted for passenger car ing, but was never a success, being eventu Wy taken off the run, end for the last four veal e has been lying-up in New York harbour rusting. Talking of big ships, I learn that the Queen is going to launch the new Cunarder, beside which the Vaterland would seem almost insignificant. She will be the world's largest, having a tonnage of 81,500 net. She has been two years building, and will be ready for launching on September 27, or thereabouts. The Queen has approved of this ship being named the Queen Elizabeth. With a gross tonnage of 84,000, and length over all of 1,030 ft. she will have an extra deck to the Queen Mary, and will indeed need strong holding-chains to check her passage down the slipway.
Pacifists's philosophy ifists's Pacifism is not a mere opinion Principles 9" doctrine but a of life, says Alfred Salter in listener." It is both negative and Negative pacifism ix concerned right of an individual to refuse to part in war or in preparation for war under any circumstances or for any alleged object. The pac starts from certain first principles A first principle really not arguable. You either see it or first Principles of the pacifist are these: war is wrong—not merely inconvenient, uncomfortable, nasty, bestial—but wrong. It is a crime against man and (to the Christi pacifist) a sin against God. It is a violation of human personality and of human brotherhood.
is contrary to the whole life, spirit and teaching of Jesus Christ, Therefore it is wrong. and for us we can have nothing to do with it or with preparation for it. The liveliest imagination cannot picture Christ in khaki bayonetting a German soldier, or bombing helpless people from an aeroplane. If He would not do these things, we must not do them. The pacifist believes that if enough men of any nation held sincere convictions along these lines the Government of that nation would not dare to go to war because it would know that its manhood would not respond to the beating of the drum, That Government would therefore be compelled to follow pacific and conciliatory methods in its international relations, Consequently peace would be more likely to result than if the normal attitude of the Government was one of sabre-rattling. n's A clear policy is the first necessity,
Weekly." But a policy can only be conducted with means suitable to it. If Iceland were to declare a policy to-morrow of wresting India from England, Iceland would fail from lack of means. The means by which any policy may be carried out must be proportionate to that policy, There are things which no man can do however strong he is, and the things which a man does best are those things which he is best suited by foresight and preparation. Whatever policy we adopt to-day in-the effort to restore as much as possible of what has been lost must be supported' by physical strength. So much was evident when the politicians began shouting at the top of their Voices "rearmament" but never told us what exactly re-armament meant. The plea they advanced for this policy of postponement, con-coalment, and silence was that in. military affairs you must not inform your rivals of your proceedings, Now a measure of secrecy is essential to military affairs, but there was in this business an element of secrecy which was no good at all We were concealing things from the mass of English opinion—they are still so concealed—aid those things which we concealed at home were perfectly well known abroad, Rubber and Tin Both the rubber and tin restriction schemes have the Resin same fundamental character, points out the "Economist" They are primary producers' schemes with compulsory legislative backing. Both have been in force fo: some years; the tin scheme secured a fresh lease of life last year and the extension of the rubber scheme is in process of deliberation, But Wwhereas the rubber scheme has consistently had a good market ana a good press, the tin scheme has been a source of endless controversy. The statement on behalf of the rubber-growing industry, which relates mainly to proposed future standard tonnages in the different areas, is distinguished by its lucid detail. The tin announcement, embodying the decision of the International Tin Committee to reduce quotas for the second quarter of 1988, was so worded as originally to provoke serious misunderstanding. The market interpreted the new 15 per cent. but in quotas, which it disclosed, as being related to "standard" tonnages, whereas it appeared that the cut was actually in terms of "operative" tonnages, after the making of certain adjustments last December. On the first interpretation, the actual physical reduction would have been about 9 per cent; the true figure was a full 15 per cent, Idlers and A serious daw in our social system The Dole he minds of everyone connected has for some time been exercising
with the administration of unemployment as~ sistance, and Mr. Ronald Davison, in a letter to "The Times" very usefully emphasizes the need for prompt action, says the "Spectator." Unem. ployment assistance allowances, of course, an drawn by persons who have exhausted their covenanted insurance benefit, or for some reason have never been insured. In the vast majority of cases the money is urgently needed and wisely spent, But there exists, as evel bo‹ worker knows, a class of young men between 20 and 30 who, being unmarried, can quite well live on the 25s. or so which they draw, make no serious effort to obtain work at all and flatly refuse to attend the training courses under the auspices of the Minister of Labour. They frankly prefer loafing, varied by a few odd jobs to supplement the unemployment assistance dole, and they are rapidly making themselves unemployable as well as unemployed. This is plainly a case in which the doctrine, no work, no dole, should be laid down, Work-centres could be set up at no great cost in the principal cities where this evil exists, and the unemployment assistance money paid, and paid only, to men who have done a week's work at such a centre. That broad principle could be varied considerably in its application; every facility would, of course, be given to a man to seek genuine work, But it is a prostitution of a relief system io let it be used to support deliberate: idleness, Court It was reported in the daily press re-Case cently that a motorist had been heavily fined and his licence suspended for being in charge of his car while under the influence of drink by the Kingston Police Court Magistrates, comments "Time and Tide," This is not an uncommon occurrence, but the circumstances of this case are peculiar. The motorist, realizing that he was in an unfit state to drive his car, obtained the services of a stranger and himself slept while the stranger drove the car, The driver, anxious as to the condition of his passenger, left the car to fetch police assistance, The prosecution maintained that the owner was subject to penalty as he was in charge of the car, although asleep, and because his temporary driver could be ordered out of the car, Apart from the fact that if the defendant was so soundly asleep he could not even have ordered his best friend out of the car, it is to be regretted that a car owner who recognizes that he is in a condition when his driving may be to the public danger, and does his best to obviate that danger, should be penalized, Admittedly, no car owner should allow himself to reach that condition when he intends to drive, but this attempt to remedy such a situation is surely not one which should have been so drastically received.—His action would seem to have been a step, even though not a very firm step, in the right direction,
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