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Show I III CHILDISHNESS OF IN B Dy Robert Herrlck B Tho English battle cruiser Invlnc- BJ lblo jumped Into Gibraltar yesterday HBJ for repairs Just ns wo wero leaving HBJ for Naples. Sho had been In tho HBt ' nght oft the Falklands, then In the HH ' Dardanelles, whoro to all appcaranceB B sho had some hard knocks. Ono of B her Biuoko stacks had been shot away H ' and was replaced by a stub, a torn- H pornry affair, and there was an ami- B nous tonglo of equipment about her B forward decks. Ab sho swung cau- H tloiisly into tho wntnr gato of tho H naval hnrbor, wo had a good look at 1 tho damaged cruiser. Tho mighty B . Invincible seemed llko somo poor lit- PB tlo gray toy that n careless boy had PB been playing roughly with. Along- H slilo tho molo of this Inner harbor , rested an old Cunardor that was ho- K Ing lined, bo our captain said, to ftV . transport somo export machinists H j from England. They wero on their Bt way to Malta to repair tho famous MS ' Queen Elizabeth, which has aUo been BH badly damaged In tho first attempt B to plorco tho Dardanelles. Other- B wIbo Qlbraltur was quiet, almost de- BBt ecrtcd for tho warships that usually BBJ hover about Its gray rock aro either BBJ on scout duty In tho HtraltB, holding BBJ up all passing boats, or at tho Dar- BBJ' danolles, and tho customary fleet of BBJ ( merchant steamers tarrying on their BBJ " way In and out of tho ancient pillars Pj of Hercules Is reduced to a few niel- BBJ nncholy tramps hold up for oxamlna- BBJ tlon of their cargoes. B Wo wero held up,' too, for a night PB becauso wo had somo cotton aboard BBJ for Italian firms. When wo loft Am- PB erica tho English government bad BBJ not decided that cotton was suspect BBJ and tho captain had congratulated BBJ . himself that this tlmo ho had nothing BBJ In his hold that would Interest tho BBJ British authorities tho previous trip BB ho had spent n week at Gibraltar bo- B causo of Bomo consignment to Swttz- PH a orland and had been forced to unload PH , his Bhlp to get at tho objectionable PH Swiss mcrchandlso. Hut it seems BBJ that England has discovered tho fact B ' "10 uso ' ctton in tho mnnufac- BH turo of ammunition, and It Is suspett- cd that tho ultimata destination of our cargo Is not Italian factories. Any way, they must rofor tho matter to London, which might tako a day sr a week, according to tho mood of tho London authorities. So wo pro-pared pro-pared to cross tho Algcclraa and havo a pcop at Spain, when unexpectedly tho naval officers returned to tho ship this morning and announced that they had already heard from London nnd that wo wero to bo allowed allow-ed to proceed, much to our satisfaction. satisfac-tion. I cannot say, of course, what went on In London, whether tho authorities au-thorities there changed their minds again nbout tho contraband naturo of cotton or whether they decided that tho Italians really needed tho staple, or Hltnply that It might bo a dcllcnto matter to question tho validity of tho consignment now that Italy Is so near to becoming an ally I Personally I was nover so glad to get away from tho shadow of tho great gray rock with Its ugly llttlo spattorB of barracks bar-racks and houses. Thero Is llttlo to seo In Gibraltar and nowadays of course one can seo nothing nt all within tho town and tho green Spanish Span-ish hills, tho misty African mountains, moun-tains, beautiful ns they aro, hardly compensato for n week spent gazing at tho rock of England's Mediterranean Mediterran-ean power. Tho battered battleship and tho thrco German vessels wo saw "Interned" "Intern-ed" at I'unta del Oarda In tho Azores aro tho only lmmedlato ovldcnco of the war thus far. Tho trading ships rusting at tholr anchors thoro are said to bo a lot rooro of them nt Lisbon ob all ovor tho world, In fact, which aro being held nt tho expense of tholr enforced hosts mado ono reallzo how llttlo men havo got bo-yond bo-yond tho stato of childhood In tho conduit of tholr affairs, how easily tho silly prejudices and taboos of ono set of boys against another Bet on tho next block can bo roused In grown men nnd In nations. War, In fact, brings out tho boy In most men, tho good sldo as well ns tho chlldlBh sldo of boy nnturo. War creates tho atmosphcro of tho unexpected, tho unknown, that ovory boy lovos; It evokes tho romantic In men. Slnco wo loft port tho stownrds hnvo'sedulously darkened all tho windows win-dows every night, not that thoro Ib anything hostile loft on tho open Atlantic At-lantic to? discover ub; It "Is 'merely part of tho war game, and both stownrds stow-nrds and passengers would feel cheated cheat-ed If any of Its rules woro neglected. And so when wo approached tho Span lsh coast tho vlgllanco wns redoubled In tho hopo of outwitting somo sub-inarlno sub-inarlno bolder than Columbus who might havo ventured around Franio and through tho Day of Biscay to meet us. A mouth ago, It was rumored rum-ored ono had boon seen oft Capo Fin Istcrro why not at tho Azores, then? Tho cheerful buzz of tho Bhip's wlro-less wlro-less Is no longer heard for tho admiralty ad-miralty regulations forbid tho Bond- Ing or receiving of messages except i In caso of grave necessity. Of courso tho ship's operator "listens in" every night to hear what ho can of tho ' world's doings, and his report leaks out among tho ship's company tho I noxt day. Every ship listens all the time naturally who wouldn'17 And that Is another boyish trick. Even in times of general peaco all tho forms exacted of vessels arriving arriv-ing In any forolgn port havo seemed to mo childish survivals of an old tribal stato of society when nnybody outsldo of tho homo clan must bo suspected of ovll Intentions. A stenmer drops anchor In dome port after a long voyage perhaps from tho now world to the old sho eannot oven drop her anchor oxcopt between tho prescribed hours that aro announced an-nounced by tho firing of n gun! First there comes from land a launch carrying car-rying tho health officer of tho port, who must discover any Instances of contagious dlscaso among tho strangers strang-ers thnt might bo dangerous to tho community. This ofllclul exchnnges n fow words with tho shin's doctor, perhaps cigars aro passed, and that form is over. Tho health taboo, Hie ono sensible taboo of them nil, Is thus easily and quickly satisfied. Then tomes tho customs officers. This Is ordinarily n much moro sorlous affair, af-fair, as usually property Is moro seriously ser-iously considered thari health. Tho customs officer tnkes u serious Interest Inter-est In what tho stranger proposes to bring within tho gates of his tribe, oven in tho small things that tho passengers pas-sengers carry personally with them, and ho uses various well known Inquisitorial In-quisitorial methods to discover and assess all property that tho ship ex-pectB ex-pectB to land. For ns It obviously has all coino from outsldo tho limits of tho tribe, it must bo hostile material, ma-terial, tho possession of somo stranger strang-er tribe, nnd Uiorcforo llablo to all sorts of fines and penalties, in somo cases to confiscation. Customs regulations, I think, Illustrate Illus-trate most completely tho survival In peaco of that childish tribal spirit among mature men which war arouses. arous-es. Apart from any economle absurd lty In tho tariff idea and aside from tho dlro political corruption that a tariff lnovltably entails, also from tho Industrial weakening of tho country that relies upon this form of taboo, tho habit of collecting customs works another Insidious harm in that It cultivates cul-tivates this tribal Instinct in men, tho deslro to shut themselves off from other equally righteous pcoplos nnd to sot up barriers that will boito tho disadvantage of all tholr neighbors. Anything that encourages sucli,npiro-vlnclal sucli,npiro-vlnclal way of taking llfo, that accentuates ac-centuates differences of opportunity nnd prlvlloge In brief that tends to Increase tho tribal Instinct of men Is nn lndtrott hlndranco tot progress, pro-gress, to civilization. TIiIb customs idea is a treasured rollo of barbarism fostered In our raodorn world by tho self Interest of a fow Individuals that mako money out of Us restrictions upon freo oxchanges among tho peoples peo-ples of tho world. Theso days Uioro Is talk of increasing certain duties, for oxnmplo, those on Gorman coal tar dyes in order that In the event of another world war wo may bo wholly independent of Germany, which has a virtual monopoly In this product. Reasoning on tho assumption assump-tion of another world war before this ono Is ended seems peculiarly barbarous. Naturally war increases tho icon-Bclousncss icon-Bclousncss of this prlniltivo tribal Instinct In-stinct n thousnnd fold nnd gives' it a sort of religious sanction that i bo-comofl bo-comofl Irresistible to tho ordinary men. Wo forget that other men may bo mado In God's Imago as well as ourselves and probably nro os mueh attached to tho flhago ob wo nro. It becomes a patriotic duty not only j to kill tho foreigner but also to steal i his property and to seo that ho Is do-prlvod do-prlvod of freo Intercourse with all of his neighbors, ovon thoso who think better of him thonwo do to worry him, In short, in ovory conceivable wny Just as wo worry him all wo daro In poaco times by nrbltrary restrictions restric-tions on his trading privileges. 'And tho result nro thoso forlorn ships rotting out tholr usefults In many of tho harbors of tho world, "Interned," "Intern-ed," to uso tho learned euphemism of tho profession; also In that droary collection of so culled "neutral" merchant mer-chant ships held up at Gib until somo puzzlo headed official in London makes up his mind that their curgoos aro harmless. Henco also tho poor battered battlo cruisers and super-j super-j dreadnoughts limping Into dry dock I for oxpenslvo ropalrs after a fow well ' directed shells from tho enemy's bat-I bat-I torles. No, whatever might havo been said or sung in praiso of warfaro In tho early days of man's careor whoro ho got Into closo personal conflict with his tribal enemies and did all tho harm ho could do to tho porson nnd tho property of tho ontlpathotlo tribesman, war under modern conditions condi-tions oniphtislzcs its uttor unreason nnd moro especially Us childishness In spite of 42 coutlroeter guns anil su- (Continued on pago seven) Tie Childishness of Jan f (Continued from pngo two) perdrcadnaughts. About tho only un-childish un-childish clement In modern warfaro aro thoso women nnd children who must mourn their dead and get along I somehow tho best thoy can without tho aid of tholr men, who havo been killed in tho great tribal debauch. Well, wo havo still threo poacoful , days boforo reaching Naples In which to enjoy this enchanted Mediterranean Mediterran-ean sen. As wo pass between tho snowv crests of tho Sierra Novada shining behind tho mists and tho pur- I plo African mountains I think of tho truo childhood of mon that onco was around theso shores of the many piratical pi-ratical expeditions, thoy mado against cadi other from tho tlmo that Ulysses Ulys-ses sot sail until Napoleon cast lustful lust-ful eyes on tho Pyramids . But such war was not tho sordid scientific butchery of thoso days, rather tho tumultuous hcadlnoss of spirited boys bent on adventuro and tho worlds beyond. Llston to theso prophetic words from Anntolo Franco In his "Rovolt ot tho Angels:" Wnr and romanticism , are both dreadful pestsl What pity It Is to boo men cuttlvato a chlld'sh lovo for cannon and drums! Thoy do not rcnllzo that war, vhlh strengthened strength-ened tho hearts and crentcd cities for ignorant nnd bnrbarous men,-brings men,-brings oven to tho conqueror theso days nothing but ruin nnd m sery. iaHPHsHJJHiaiHKfliSjViHI ,aiiiiiiii . ar Is no hotter than a horrlli'o and JH stupid crlmo now that all people nro H bound together by nrts, science, nnd H trade. Insane Europeans who nro thinking of cutt'ng one another's jH throats when tho same clvlllzntloit H I surrounds them and unites themt" H Slnco thoso words wero written H theso " nsnno Europcnns" have cut H I ono nnothcr's throats by tho million. H |