CallsOfficer ofAdmiralty “Boy of 15” “Solemn Childishness” Is In ; dictment of British Writer Against Expenditure on Military Scheme. Flouts ‘Freedom of Seas’ By H. G. WELI.S. . \ Author of the “Outline of History.” tfperinl Cubic Dispatch to Tlie Oninliu llee. Copyright, % London, Oct. 13.—It Is proposed tjiat Great Britnln. which is too shab bily poor to give the mass of its own children more than halt an elemen tary education, which cannot house its poor with comfort or decency, •which has over a million unemployed Workers, shall spend great sums of money upon a naval establishment at Singapore. This undertaking is just not within the positive prohibitions of( the Washington agreement. It is a W few hundred miles west of the area involved in that agreement. But it is flatly contrary to the spirit of the Washington gathering and devastate!! Japan it dominates the route of the French to Tonkin; it Is a contemptu ous gesture at any American notions about the “freedom of the seas." ■ Provided cruisers and hattlesships are to play a part in the "next war,” it is an admirably chosen position. Let the reader look it up in any atlas and see how its submarines will be able to radiate over the adja cent seas and how all India supports it. It is fairly well placed for air war also. On the supposition that the world is still to go on divided among aggressive sovereign states. With phases of war preparation railed feeace and acute phases of more aftd more destructive war, it is quite a good move in the game. On the sup position that the world is growing lip to an age of reason and that a world civilisation is attainable it is « monstrously stupid crime. Acts oHVar. When I was at the Washington conference upon the limitation of armaments I denounced the French with what many people thought was tn extreme bitterness for their reli ance upon submarines and Senega lese troops. This British feat at Hingapore deserves an equal- denunci ation. These preparations of the French and Br.tish are equally acts rf war against the general peace of mankind. It is no good treating the French as though they fclone were cut raging the unity of mankind with Iheir great armies and equipments. |Jr%at Britain we now see by this crime at. Singapore. Is just as mis chievously and criminally disposed, both powers are disturbers of tIre peace and destroyers of human hope. ■ But when the thjng is done by one'e own country and by people we know, one sees more of it and more of the humanity of it than when it happens abroad and I find a particular figure floating before my mind now when ever I hear or rend the word Singa pore. He will serve as my type speci men for this aggressive and trouhle pome British Imperialism and very probably the essential wickedness of 4'rench policy finds its ertihodiment ifl pome quite similar personalities. i In which case we are not up against Wickedness but against—what shall I «av?—a retardation of mental develop ment. Roy of 15. , My type specimen Is the secretary -for the admiralty in the present Brit ish government, Mr. Amery. He is a pleasantly smiling, short, thickset lad of 15. He was born in 1X73, but In 1889, when he should have become 16 he was living the life of an excep-* Itinnally clever boy at Harrow and isomehow just became 15 again, and he has remained 15 ever since. Every jyear his birthday comes round wlth jmt the slightest effect upon him. He nfay he a little more substantial, but hl« bland clean-shaven face is the same *^hut confronted the Harrow mastors. He has just the same smile. He went on to a brilliant career at ftHlliol college, Oxford, always famous !or its retardation of adolescence, and emerged a devotee of the British"em •pire and of the games of foreign ^policy and war. Kipling was new to men then and •that generation was drunken with .him. Cecil Rhodes was a great in spiration in the land. lie could not have preached salvation by Anplo , jfkixor.s more earnestly if he had been Mr. Lothrop Stoddard. Mr. Amery Sunder these influences and by a nat ural inclination dedicated his life to ' the British empire, any British em 'plre apparently and whatever it did, ' 'and he has boon so busy serving it -ever since that he has never had •time to think what it Is at all. •( He is one of a group of Interesting ‘'youths of 15 who focusedTupon Bal •loll college. Rut most of the others .have become portly or bald or they 'have grown whiskers or such like .disguises; none of them still show ‘their fifteenness as engagingly as Mr. • A mery. Imagination IJvely. ' N'ow tlie mind of a boy of 5 is a • very Interesting sort of inind. •Imagination is awake and lively, hut *lt is still a narrow imagination. Many fc.f i !%a emotions ami social devotions Lie Hill undeveloped. A boy of 5 is .i 11 callable of making a volcano In •the garden wllh all Iho available ex •plosives; he likes mixing chemicals to •s< e what will happen; he thinks the •loveliest possession In the world Is a 4-un. If you give him a toy railway Jsystem he will take great pains to ra range for a really smashing col Ision. Towards women he is a iftpartnn—a red Indian. Something of -15 still lingers In my own compost itlon, though most of me is a little ’older, and before the yar I used to play a great war game on my barn 'floor with lead soldiers, realistic ‘.scenery and guns that lilt, with other •hoys, actually and sometimes even chronologically 15. Unflinching fel •lows those lead soldiers were; they •left no widows and orphans and If ‘one got disabled, there was no pen sion. You melted him down. I Now bolh Mr. Amery and I would lllke to play soldiers with the world ‘.But While Mr. Amery lias remained 15 through and through large parts of me have'gone on growing older. Tide older thscUon of rue cuu see uieu as something more than lead soldiers and realtze war in terms of spilled human life and utter waste and us a stupid massacre of boys nnd young men. Even that war-game we used I to play in our hnrn left the floor In a weary-looking muddle and was • bore to put it way. «44ut the highest expression of Mr. Aniery's being Is, I perceive, to play soldiers and bat tleships with mankind. And the amazing thing is that we let him. ".Solemn Childishness." We nre disposed to let this man with the soul of a I5-year-old kid spend money for which our schools are being starved, upon this solemn childishness at Singapore. And there may be thousands of us doomed to wounds and blood and tears under the plump hands and knees of Mr. Amery and his little frlendsf and their antagonists as they crawl about their game on the floor of the world. But If I can see Mr. Amery, not as a black devotee of blood-lust, but as an Innocent perennial juvenile, then I am bound if I cun to see the same »__ thing in France. Those people over there who are opening new boxes of African soldiers and setting them down in (If rma/iy and who a re _ so secret and busy wi*fc I heir sub marines, are probably just such inno cents ns Mr. Amory, just ns solemnly !15. They hnve not vet learned to see the w*orld in terms of life. And if so the cure for war is not so much for the world to grow better as for the world to grow up. Mr. Amery Is not a bit terrible personally, but it is terrible that he should have any sort of control of the serious ^things of life. I think he ought to be kept out of mischief— *just as 1 think nnother lad of the same age, Mr. Winston Churchill, ought to be kept out of mischief, in some sort of Institution where he can play kriegspiel for the rest of his existence without endangering human life. And I ask reasonable adult men In France whether the time is not ripe for a similar segregation of puerility from their foreign office and war office out of the reach of mis chief. Perhaps the 1924 electors will dq something in that direction. If these lads presently get a game of war going betweeh France and Eng land we shall have the whole fabric of civilization so entirely In ruins be fore it Is over that I doubt if it will be reconstructed for many centuries (Copyright, 1923.) St. Ann Parochial School to Hold Bazar October 18 St. Ann Parochial School Fund as sociation is planning* to stage one of the most extensive bazars ever at tempted in Omaha. 13. J. Boyfe has been appointed mannger. The pro ceeds will go into the school building fund. The bazar will be held October IS. 1!) nnd 20 in St. Ann parish hall, Twenty-fourth and Poppleton avenue. More than $2,000 in pAzes will be given away. There will he entertain ment and the weather permiting there will be* open ait' dancing on the grounds adjoining the hall. Japan has about 1,600 earthquakes a year. Nebraska Legion Men Meet in Utah / / Two Special Trains Arrive in Salt Lake City and Hear Recital. Suit Luke City, Utah, Oct. 13.—The Cornhusker sper'nl out Of Nebraska and Douglas county rpecial from Omaha, met for the first time at Salt Lake City this morning and ^t!0 Ns brad kens en route to the Legion con vention enjoyed a get-together fest. They parted company following the organ recital at the Mormon taber nacle. The girls’ cadet corps of Hastings again hekl center of Interest, eclips ing the various organizations of other states. The girls were personally greeted at the Utah state capltol building by Gov. H. C. Mabey, first Legionnaire governor in the country Tlie greatest reception yet accorded the Nebraskans was tendered last night by the citizens of Grand Junc tion, Colo., when nearly half of the city's 11,000 people, headed by the town band, met the train tnd escort ed the Nebraskans to tlie main part of town where a street dance was held in honor of the Cornhuakera. The streets were decorated for the occasion, affording a sight that will long live in the memory of the Ne braskans. New Postmaster. Harvard, Neb., Gc^ 13.—Ur. A. J. Jenlson Is now postmaster here, dis placing G. A. Herzog, who had held that position since 1018 and who was forced to give it up on account of failing health. Although the appoint ment is only temporary, it is expected that Ur. Jenlson will l>ecome per manently installed in the local office, according to employes of the post office. Cancer Week to Be Observed Here The Omaha Bee Will Co Operate With Society in Educational Campaign. This week will be observed ns na tional cancer week all over the United States. The Omaha Bee will cooperate with the American Society for the Contre presented in a man ner thht will enable the layman to recognize cancer In its earliest stages. Medical authorities declare that cancer Is not necessarily a hopelsse malady if It ia recognized In time for its complete removal. It is estimated lhat approximately 100,000 men and women died last year from cancer in the United States alone Of this number many might have been saved by timely ojierations. WOAW. the Woodmen of the World Eife Insurance aseooiaion radio na tion, will aid in the campaign against the disease. -The state organization Includes Dr. Palmer Findley ns chairman and Dr, A. P. Overgaard and Dr. B. B. Davis, members of the state executive com mittee. Corn Husking Starts. Callaway, Neb., Oct. 13.—A few farmers In this itart of Custer county have started husking corn. 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