Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-12

 half the German answer to the pope's note being devoted to the attitude of the kaiser and says that the kaiser is copstitutionaliy only president of the German confederation, and that when the note says behind the kaiser is the desire for peace stands the German people, it is reversing the situation the people stand before the kaiser.
 Further, it is not a matter of indif- ference that the person of the kaiser should be pushed in the foreground. We all know very well his declLra- tions on the peace question" the paper remarks. ''but we also know that dur ing the 26 years of his reign he made utterances extremely disconcerting to foreign nations. and. thanks to the lit tie cleverness shown in the compost tion of this part of the note. 1t is tol- erably certain the foreign govern ments will dwell upon these. utter ances.
 The Post deplores the fact that a number Of men of high social position nave begun an agitation against peace, and that instead of being energetically disavowed by the highest quarters they have been thanked for their atti- tude. but it adds:
 I've can be calm despite all war 1usting dukes. grand admira1s. burgo- ma sters. pFivy councillors. ferocious professors and other colleagues of Count ReventloW The coming peace cannot be much longer delayed"
 A little pageant of thefSabbath even ing Is the munitioner on her way to work. It happens about church time, and partakes of the nature almost of parade. Girl after girl you may sec passing along, singly or in pairs. tow ards the factory for her night turn Of duty And though they wear no badge or uniform, you may know them all by one infallible sign. For. neatly folded A 1i,-1( (..1r rvie what, at first sight, looks like bath ing costume. but is really her working overall.
 juvenile smoking is responsible for an appalling amount of crime in the coun- try. We were warned some time ago that oversmoking by our young sol outcry against '.depriving the soldier of his smoke" The men themselves say that the comfort of a cigarette ill the trenches Is inestifna ble. But sur geons in the war find that many of our lads suffer from smokers throat. Now smokers throat renders It difficult to snaesthetize a wounded man. The roint is really worth considering.
 Football is the new pastime of the Midland intuition girls. It Is not the handling code, as one might have ex- pected. but association. Quite num- Der of works teams have. been formed in Coventry, and some of the girls show speed and judgment in their play. They made their debut before the public on Saturday, playing for "F-rance day" The new craze has in teresting possibilities.
 How grievously we have mistaken tEe purpose of the German army. It has all along been an instrument for peace the German note to the pope reveals. An unfortunate fate has dogged it. seeing that wars with Den mark Austria. France and now with half the world have resulted from it's efforts for harmony. The secret or it's passive mission WAS we'll kept from Bismarck. Thirty years ago he must have been under a misspprehension as to it's raison d'etre. for he boasted that in ten days 1t could be in the f1eld three millions strong. and that there were clothes and arms for another one and a half millions.
 Then it seemed that the object Of such a muster was not a pageant to glorify abstention from war. To him the army existed"in the hope ard ex- pectation of renewed conflict with France. He candidly owned that he hated France. and 30 years ago he rather foresha dowed what was to hap pen to Belgium when he said that the repetition of the 1870 advance inpos- sible. But he had TO doubt what the German army would do. "If God gives us a chance we shall do to them (the Freech) as we did in 1870. Indeed. unless God himself conma1Jds the French army we must be victorious" Not exactly a peace parade then.
 Our felicitations to the government Of the commonwealth of Australia, who have devised the decoration em- bodying- the prettfest sentiment in the present wat and one which Is we'll worthy of adoption in this country. The Australian government is issuing badges to the mothers Of soldiers. with the addition Of a bar for every son away on active service.
 One of the greatest needs of the sol diers at the front as a means of rec reation is books and nAgazines. This Sir Douglas 4afs emphasizes very in letter of November IS. 1918. in which he said:-
 Those who have not visited our WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD.