The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-30
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 Letter General News and Gossip From Abroad.

TODAY-"The Irish Olympic" race is i to be held in Ireland this year, writes Daniel O'Connel, who also
 comments on the proposal to pro-
 vide all royaI Irishmen with guns"
 DUBLIN, March 30. - So we are going to have the Tailteann Games
 the Irish race Olympic). which was abandoned last Summer owing to Rory O'Connor's rebellion. hear that everything is being speeded up so that all will be ready for August. That l is a fairly long-range prospect for our times, but it give us some hope that 1 the games won't get further away as we get nearer to them. Hope is one of the few things that has not been killed in this country, but it has been fairly well pitted with bullets. For Ireland there is light in the long dis tance always, but frequently it comes from a blazing train.
 In the midst of many peace sugges- tions it is quite delightful change to hear that the only way we can have it is by going out and buying guns, with, 1 suppose, an earnest intention of well and properly employing them. This new peacemaker emerges in the columns of an English Sunday news paper. The editor says: "Things being as they are I think the Govern ment should take steps to arm and or ganize those whom they can trust to support their own rights. Men should buy their own arms, but the Govern ment should endeavor to create an or ganization for mutual support" We can start an army of our own, and if that wretched terrace across the road tries to give itself airs by get ting up rival army we shall step across and shoot it up-so demonstrat ing our loyalty to the Government
 
 There is no reason any longer why every street should not have an army of it's own and why sandbags should not take the place of flowerpots at every suburban window. Anyone who has any private shooting to do can or ganize himself as loyal citizen and carry out his shooting. Guns for every body who can afford them, and over time for the grave-diggers. Hurrah! Anyhow, there is not much to do in this country now except to go out and shoot somebody.
 Perhaps it is only natural that a Dublin fire should be accompanied by explosions. After all, there is a good deal of truth in the saying, Habit is second nature" I lay in bed the other morning while mineral water factory blazed itself into ashes to the noisy accompaniment of exploding chemicals and bursting bottles. Hear ing that sort of noise in the early
 
 thought, "They're at it again!" and I rolled out on the floor and under the bed, where I remained until the little dispute was composed It is easy to misunderstood things in Dublin. l was not the only one who misunder- stood those explosions in the burning building. Lying under cover of the bed, I heard all the guarded posts of Dublin wake up and let off their rifles just to prove their wakefulness. In sharp, staccato sentences the ma chine guns entered their protests against the disturbances, and in minute more somebody apparently said "Shut up!" and all the guns stopped, and the ginger ale and soda bottles had the night to themselves. Unhappily they kept many unhnoWing citizens under their beds. It is curi- ous what lot of people do not want to die in their beds in Ireland. Curl- ous, too, it is what a lot of people fail to recognize the pop of a ginger ale bottle.
 Some daring people have been tell ing the clergymen in Belfast that their sermons have emptied the churches and filled the saloons. To this the Church people retort with the crushing incident: "A well-knoWn business man who attended service in a Presbyterian Church in the city inside the last fortnight displayed large bill on his business premises