The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-11
WAR ECHOES

req oh Spithead last Saturday morning and review the ships. but his arrival was oe- layed by the political crisis until the evening Then the royal salute was fired
 and combined flight of airships and aeroplanes appeared over the land. The
 Tines correspondent says that the manner in which the aeropianes kept station In
 their flight was the most notable event or the day At night the fleet was illumi- mated, and the display of searchlights- the fantastic clashng in the sky of the enormous shafts of light-is said to have been the most remarkable ever seen. on
 Sunday the King informally visited va rious ships, and on Monday led the way In a tactical exercise. When the royal yacht had anchored 22 miles of ships
 passed in proces sion the crews cheering. London Correspondence New fork
 Times. The quiet confidence displayed by those best acquainted with the status of the British preparations of the naval and military service is one striking feature or the Boer war Instead. there is evident cocksureness which marked the outset or the Boer war. Instead there Is evident deep realization of the fact that Eng land now faces the most formidable roe she was ever called upon to meet. There was tremendous patriotic dem onstration at Whitehall, where the scenes were similar to those In Times Square
 on election night Ten thousand persons were massed at the entrance to Downing street, patiently waiting for the cabinet sitting to end. Other thousands were 4lx- ,Ic nf the admiralty and the war office, and surged around the lions in Trafalgar square:
 As Big Ben" tolled the fateful hour Of
 midnight. when the utimatum to Ger ! many expired. the cheering became cont!n- uous and deafening. The bareheaded crowds roared Rule Britannia and God Save the Kingy Impromptu process sions were quickly organized and marched up and down Whitehall frantical- ly waving Union Jacks and cheering for war. A picturesque feature of the mem orable sight WAS hundreds of taxicabs and lmousines with men and women sit ting on the roofs cheering and waving flags. while notorious loads of demon strative added to the pandemonium.
 
 notor car flying the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack. which forced slow passage through the crowds. The most picturesque touch was a handsome H. mousine with three women in evening dress perched ou the roof Among the sight seers who rarthe bantlet of the crowd were Ambassador Page, Commander Sym ington and Harold Bowler in the latter's touring car. When the cabinet sitting ended shortly after midnight there vas a concerted rush of the crowd In Downing street. The po- | lice whistles resounded, mounted police charged and tried to open lanes for the l depafting ministers cars, some of which got stuck in the throng.
 Many hundreds moved on Buckingham palace, where their loyal demonstrations made sleep for the household impossible. 1 Amerftan Lubmerman. state of war exists in Europe but America is at peace | with the world.
 American soil has been extraordinarily
 productive at time when the agricul-
 ture ef many nations Is brought to
 standstill through calamtous strife. Our banks are sound and our financial
 strength is unimpaired.
 Unparalleled opportunity opens before l us, bidding us take our rightful place in I the trade of nations.
 l We must have ships to carry our goods | to the worlds markets abandoned by our
 warning neighbors. Necessity will pro- | vide them.
 We must have confidence, inspiration to
 commercial progress. We have ample fc undatlon on which to build it. We must have courage to maintain all ways that higher standard of right that
 will prove our moral leadership among
 nations, prerequisite to enduring com | mercial supremacy.
 A great opportunity is here.
 Let us make the most of it. at the same time working in harmony and with one accord to advance civilization, to supplant
 war with industry. to replace bloodshed with peace.
 New York World Doubtless the farm
 women of France did not require the
 spur of Premier vivianis appeal to them to complete the work of gathering
 the crops left unfinished by the men who
 have been called to arms.' The women of Paris have taken up so far as they
 could the work of the menfolk who had
 to go to the front, and in rural France
 the women are full partners of the men
 in farm management. What the womer
 of the Balkans did they will be prompt
 to do.
 This work the nation is glad enough tt
 have them perform for It's defense: o course they cannot fight. as they will bs
 reminded if they ever ask for the ballot
 That is the final argument against votes for women. Yet is pot gathering thu
 crops as important for national safety al
 service on the firing line? It Is still true T as Napoleon said that an army travel. on its belly; and God is on the side ol the full granaries equally with tn, strongest battalions.
 There is the Amazonian precedent fol women warriors, and there have beer : var queens from Boadicea on; yet it il
 improbable enough that women will evel take a material part in the actual fight ing of battles. But with every advance they make in industry. with every proo } they give of their ability to do man. l work of peace. they weaken the tradi , tional argumen. against their fitness fo |, the ballot. If they cannot participate fl 7 campaigns as soldiers, they make it pos l sibic for men to do so.
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