Glebe Collegiate Institute - Lux Glebana Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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l UX GLEBANAGKQ- WA R A G A I N ' I I lConlinucd from Page 35 the industry, and so the American navy would be built of inferior materials. Only two things remain to be added-the government steel plant was never built, and in 1916 the Bethelehem Shipbuilding Company, a subsidiary of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, received an order for eighty-five destroyers at a cost of one hun- dred and thirty-four million dollars. A few years ago the trial of the British engineers in the U.S.S.R. brought up the name of Vickers, the company which employed them. How- ever, Vickers has other enterprises besides building dams for the Bolsheviks. In 1930, at the time when relations between England and Russia were most strained, Vickers sold fifty of its most powerful tanks to the Soviets. Arm- strong-Whitworth and Company sent, about the turn of the century, an agent of theirs, R. L. Thompson, to japan and China. Thompson used these nations as tools for his company in the typical way-getting one to buy a battle- ship and then pointing out to the other the deficiency in its navy. During the war, conditions everywhere were appalling. At Briey, behind the German lines, but within easy bombing distance of the French planes, lay rich coal mines and munition plants, producing the weapons which tore the French boys to pieces. Yet at no time during the war were they harmed. Did someone ask why? It is so amazingly simple. A group of French munition makers held an interest in these works and they intimidated the French parliament into giving orders that this sector was not to be bombed. The reason given at the time was that if the Briey works were destroyed, the Germans would retaliate by destroying Dom- baste fMeurtheet-Mosellej. Of course, this would have ended the war much sooner, but the hand which destroyed human life and art treasures so ruthlessly was stayed when it approached the iron mines of the arms' mer- chants. On the battlefields of Flanders, the conditions were almost as bad. Incompetent generals nearly lost the war. At the Somme men were drowned in the mud. At Passchen- daele the conditions were ghastly, continuous drizzling rains and heavy artillery had reduced the country to a pulp. If a man fell, wounded, he sank in this quagmire never' to be seen again and his relatives received a cablegram report- ing him missing. An officer, having come up to see why the men could not take the objec- m,Y3PALERE FLAMMAM ..,,AfX +-1.-Z z .S tive, a slight hill, said with horror, My God! Do We ask men to fight in this? Siegfried Sassoon in his Memoirs of an Infantry Offi- cer says, I particularly remember, as I passed down the trench, a pair of hands Cnationality unknownj which protruded from the soaked ashen soil like the roots of a tree turned upside down. And floating on the surface of the fiooded trench was the mask of a human face which had detached itself from the skull. What was the civilian's lot-the original inno- cent bystander? In Belgium, he lost his home, his crops, in Poland, he was faced with starva- tion. In England and France, he was rained upon with bombs. In Paris, the screaming shells of Big Bertha tore their way through his buildings-even his churches. In Armenia, he was driven from his country. What is the aftermath of all this carnage? Is the world any further ahead? We are in the throes of a great depression which has practically knocked this old world off its axis. Every year more men die prematurely from causes which can be directly attributed to the war. There is no further need to convince you. War is the curse of mankind. How can anyone do his part to make this world a better place with this sword of Damocles hanging over him? A practice of the Golden Rule is what we need. War is legalized murder. I cannot ever think that it is right to kill your fellow- man. What harm had the Frenchman or Britisher suffered from the Austrian or Ger- man that gave either of them the right to take his life? He was a man with wife and children, or a mother who depended on his support. Why should they be deprived of it that the munition-makers might profit? Or does the solution lie in Britain's acting as the policeman 'ls6l

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UX GLEBANAGQQ- ,sg,PALERE FLAMMAM The College That Business Men Recommend STEPHEN T. WILLIS, President and Principal 62 BANK ST., OTTAWA The New Type, High Standard College for those who prefer quality, refinement, and efficiency. ' ' Our Thorough Instruction, Practical Commercial Courses, Business-like Atmosphere, and Genuine Personal Interest in every student have won the approval and appreciation of those who desire the best in business training. This is the only College in the City equipped to train students on Bookkeeping machines in addition to the pen system. All large concerns now use Bookkeeping machines. We have three different types, electrically powered. 4 We have complete,Calculating Machine Courses as well, including Comptometer. Our popular Pri-vate Secretarial Course includes: Shorthand, Typewriting, Bookkeeping, Commercial Law, Secretarial Arith- metic, Executivc Correspondence, Practical English, Spelling, Secretarial Procedure. - f - Our Other Courses: Stcnographic, Accounting, Salesmanship, STEPHEN T. wn.Lxs ' . . . . . . . . Prmcipa, . Commercial Scienceg Secretarial Science, Civil Service. Ask for descriptive catalogue. N D I V I D U A L Night SchoolwMonday and Thursday nights. Enter any time. . PLEASE NOTE, E F A . Stephen T. Willis wishes it known that he has no connection 7367 My Tune with any other business college using the name Willis. Do not , be confused. Mr. Willis owns and conducts ONLY the STEPHEN T. WILLIS COLLEGE OF COMMERCE SPECIAL SUMMER at52 Bank Street. C O U R S ES Y on are Invited to Visit and Inspect this Progressive Institution S h TW'll'Cll fC ECP CI1 . I IS 0 CSC O OITIITICECC 62 BANK STREET, OTTAWA, Telephone QUEEN 4644 flsst

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UX GLEBANAGXZ5- of the world? Should she arm so strongly that no nation would dare to start a war for fear of her chastisement? While human nature re- mains as it is, I am afraid the workable solution lies in the latter plan. At any rate the decision will have to come quickly for every day the cloud of war looms higher on the World's horizon. The world is passing through a great crisis now, caused by the Italo-Ethiopian dispute. Not only the original question, but the diffi- culties which have arisen and will arise out of it are sufficiently grave to warrant closer observation. Grievances exist on both sides. But, nevertheless, the fact remains that Musso- lini committed an act of aggression instead of awaiting the decision of the League Council. In judging him for his acts the League Assem- bly presented the following facts: Mussolini had signed a covenant not to start a war for three months, he had signed previous treaties respecting the neutrality of Ethiopia, since Abyssinia had agreed to settle the dispute by peaceful means, there was no case against her, and, finally, Mussolini himself wanted the war. In view of these facts they felt justified in employing economic sanctions against Italy. Sir Samuel Hoare's peace proposals received such adverse criticism at home and at Geneva that he was forced to resign. But what every- body seems to forget is that M. Laval had warned him that Signor Cerruti, Italian em- bassy to Paris, had announced that oil sanctions would mean an attack on the British Heet in the Mediterranean. Under the circumstances he as Britain's Foreign Secretary, felt obliged to make a last bid for peace. -The result was the Franco-British Peace Proposal which was turned down both by Ethiopia and Italy-by the former because she would have to give too much and by the latter because she would not receive enough. At the League meeting on January zoth, the stand on oil sanctions was left undecided. If they should yet employ an oil embargo it will either result in another World War or in a final triumph for the League. Mussolini has repeatedly declared that he will regard oil sanctions as an 2lCt of war, but of late he seems to have lost some of his grandstand bravado. With the World's disapproval of his actions- with forty-three nations of the world applying hampering economic sanctions against him- with the Ethiopian rains to dampen his ardour, I 4571? QQPALERE FLAMMAM PROTECT and Beautify-Y our Fine Furniture-with a Capital Glass Top CAPITAL GLASS PAINT DD., LTD. 433 COOPER STREET OTTAWA GLASS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION for Buildings and Automobiles MIRRORS RESILVERED AUTOMOBILE GLASS REPLACED PAINTS , VARNISHES ENAMELS Phones: QUEEN 27 QUEEN 28 DDNALD 1. STALKER Druggist Q TELEPHONE RIDEAU 1 17 103 RIDEAU STREET OTTAWA