The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-04
MS UPPER CLASS
LACKS PATRIOTISM
ESGLIsH KNIGHT SCORES YRS MIN
BEERS IN SEVERELY
woRDEp LETTER.
WORKMEN IN ARMY
SHORTAGE IN NUMBERS ENTIRELY
DUE To FACT THAT OTHERS
FAIL TO DO THEIR
WORKMEN IN ARM Y

LONDON. Jan. s.-~slr Harry
waechter. high steward Of GuiIford,
who is fair type Of the class he
discusses, seores the upper classes Of
Eaaiand for their lack Of support Of
TIE territorial army and their gen
erai lack of patriotism.
Inasmuch as the government does
sot intend T. Introduce compulsory
service in thu army and no leader Of
the opposition has intimeted that the
Jgnionists would do So Il jhey return
- power, the territorial fierce is the
only recognized system of home de-
Tense.
Nevertheless. SAYS Sir Parry
A.afchter In a letter TO q newspaper.
'tis is practically made up If work
isgmen and the shortage If ia num-
bers l. entirely due TO the upper and
middle classes failing to do their
duty.
Have Done Nothing.
"Aa a body the well-to-do English
people have done absolutely nothing
toward national defense. There are
ptse4.cally no representatives Of this
,,.ass in the ranks OF the territorial
army Al present rs A class they
csasiaer themselves the elite Of the
nation. yet they do nothing, leaving
ii To the working class 10 give them
a lesson in patriotism. They re
ceive the best Of The worlds goods
and many privileges and give moth
Ing in return,
IF this dry rot ef the upper classes
continues much further the lower
classes will cease To regard them IS
tnetr natural leaders and those who
hv tradition and education should be
the most important asset Of the coun~
try will end by being execrated by
those wAe are really 9e4E.a their
work.
''No one is too old to do some SER
vice. II man is unable TO fit him
self to take the field he can at least
instiI true patriotism into the younger
members of his family"
France Praises Tendon.
Anatole France. the famous French
writer, drew a comparison between
Paris and London in an interview
during his recent visit TO this city.
1T struck me- he said, ''in com
pairing the two cities that Paris Ia
more elegant and London more sol
idly comfortable. You understand
comfort over here. and, Of course,
Englishmen prefer comfort to ele-
gance." @
~8a The French writer said he found
no justification for the charge Of
'insularity'' brought against the
English. The people OF England did
not seem to him to be specially linn
tied or restricted in their ideas, and
gin fact he said that they are per-
haps more cosmopolitan than people
sof other nations. In some respects
he intimated that the French are
more ''insuIar" than the British.
THE fact that you are inhabiting
an island has. OF course. had an ,ef~
feet on your character" lie said, you
remind me of All Baba and the Forty
Thieves. You go out and collect
everything YOU can get hold Of and
bring 1t back to your cave. I made
that remark TO a man the other day,
and he retorted: There are more
than forty of us
II am speaking only Of material
acquisitions, although the store Of ac~
cumn,ated treasure In England is as
tonishing IT seems to me that while
Paris is the center from which ideas
radiate London In the center TO
which the ideas of the world con-
verge. English genius is. ] suppose.
more practical than intellectual, hut
YOU have an extraordinary capacity
for assimilating and applying ideas.
Everything gets to London in the