Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-02
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Congratulations are due this summer to Frederick Moore, who has just com pleted 40 years tenure of office as di- rector of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin. County Dublin, where he has rendered brilliant service to Irish horticulture.
 Mir Moore's botanical eminence seems partly due to heredity, for when ontN 22 he succeeded his father. Dr. David Moore, who had held the office for nearly 50 years. But even at that early age he had already been for thee years curator of the famous garden at tached to Trinity college. Dublin.
 Whale oil, beloved of Tommy Atkins fof lighting fires. and many other pur- poses. except that for which it was is sued, namely. waterproofing his feet has made some fortunes within the last few years Investors in Georgia have been getting their capital back every year, and the industry in that region is not yet 20 years old.
 It is estimated that half a million barrels of whale oil were used by the allies during the war. Leviathan thus blInS ranged on our side.
 Scott received 1900 guineas for half the copyright of The Lord of the Isles, and 500 has just been given for the original manuscript of it. Both prices seem excessive if regard is had only to the intrinsic worth of the poem, which was regarded by the Original publishers as "a comparative failure"
 But in it's failure lay the great gain ct Scott, the publishers and literature, for at the same time occurred the startling success of WaverIey So. when Balla antyne made complaint to him Scott. with perfect cheerfulness. said: Well. James. so be it. Since one line has failed. we must just stick to something else"
 fhereupon he abandoned the writing of metrical romances. and in their stead came the immortal novels.
 We are, psychoIosicaIIy speaking, changed people.
 Gone is the old British phleg4n, the self-complacency. the eaSyg going in- dulgerce towards everything and ev- erybody, born of the union between a damp climate and a prolonged deep d,tam of peace The climate. it is true persists, but the menace to our wide awake. And although victory has removed the material danger which threatened us, ill spirit we are still f.chting foes.
 The pa assions reused by war are burning vet. and the result is a gen eral attitude of intolerance towards men and towards ideas that do not happen to support our opinions.
 You can meet it anywhere where humanity congregates-at social func- tions, in clubs. in the tube. or in the omnibus. Violent opinions violently expressed set the key of conversatio today. Even the mildest of men and women seem to have adopted a new and aggressive note.
 But the fact that a spirit of intoler- ance is abroad in this most tolerant of all lands is not entirely to be deplored. The condition of mental and moral lcthargy towards which we were drift ing before August 1914. was dangerous not only ma terialIy but spiritually to our national life
 The official statement that there are more officers holding permanent com missions than the army, in it's present unsettled state, requires, has some curious individual illustrations. There is the case of old regular officer a permanent maier. He is one Of the hundreds of majors over the number permanently required. Room could be found for him as captain. but he naturally dislikes reverting to that rank and pay.
 So he has accepted the aIternativ of retiring on majors pension of Z 400 a year. which is not an unpleas- ant start in civilian life for a sound man on the sunny side of 40.
 The fist of August was the day of days for Switzerland. and with re- turning peace will be kept under something like normal conditions.
 It was on this date in 12s1 that the selves into a league for mutual de- fense against Austrian oppression Around that nucleus slowly grew the present federation of g cantons, and the anniversary is now a public hoii- dar
 general except of royal rank upon W hon the baton of British feId mar shal has been bestowed. Of foreign princes there have benerafIy been one ex-kaiser and the lase emperor of Aus