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<center>'''Ben Rapaport''', May, 2023<br> | <center>'''Ben Rapaport''', May, 2023<br> | ||
''Exclusive to pipedia.org ''<ref>If it were not for Scott Thile’s expansive online forum and his willingness to accept my occasional stories—especially this one that is not wholly about pipe or tobacco history—you would not be able to read it elsewhere on the Web. Thank you, Scott!<br><br> | ''Exclusive to pipedia.org ''<ref>If it were not for Scott Thile’s expansive online forum and his willingness to accept my occasional stories—especially this one that is not wholly about pipe or tobacco history—you would not be able to read it elsewhere on the Web. Thank you, Scott!<br><br> | ||
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==Assorted Pipes and Their Uses== | ==Assorted Pipes and Their Uses== | ||
“War and Peace Pipes. Commemoration and Remembrance” (''Pipes & Tobaccos'' magazine, Spring 2008) was my report about pipes of another era. In this story, I examine the history of the peace pipe and pipe of peace beyond the colloquial “Put that in your peace-pipe and smoke it.” This essay the whole what’s what about these two terms. | “War and Peace Pipes. Commemoration and Remembrance” (''Pipes & Tobaccos'' magazine, Spring 2008) was my report about pipes of another era. In this story, I examine the history of the peace pipe and pipe of peace beyond the colloquial “Put that in your peace-pipe and smoke it.” This essay is the whole what’s what about these two terms. | ||
[[File:PeacePipe-2-politics-aberdeen-peace pipe-pipe of peace-russians-french-csl1837 low.jpg|thumb|This cartoon of Lord Aberdeen appeared in ''Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England'' (1921).]][[File:PeacePipe-3gettyimages-530859114-612x612.jpg|thumb|left|Courtesy, gettyImages.com]]As you might expect, the interpretations are many and varied. This cartoon of Lord Aberdeen appeared in ''Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England'' (1921). (see at right) | [[File:PeacePipe-2-politics-aberdeen-peace pipe-pipe of peace-russians-french-csl1837 low.jpg|thumb|This cartoon of Lord Aberdeen appeared in ''Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England'' (1921).]][[File:PeacePipe-3gettyimages-530859114-612x612.jpg|thumb|left|Courtesy, gettyImages.com]]As you might expect, the interpretations are many and varied. This cartoon of Lord Aberdeen appeared in ''Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England'' (1921). (see at right) | ||
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Writing about Maxim’s famous machine gun and his Pipe of Peace, in 2001, Stephanie Pain asked in “War and peace” (newscientist.com): “Had Maxim done with death and turned peacemaker?” “The words ‘Maxim’ and peace somehow don’t seem to go together.” And Paul Cornish asserted: “This [inhaler] was successfully marketed under a somewhat ironic appellation: ‘Sir Hiram Maxim’s Pipe of Peace’” (Machine Guns and The Great War, 2009). | Writing about Maxim’s famous machine gun and his Pipe of Peace, in 2001, Stephanie Pain asked in “War and peace” (newscientist.com): “Had Maxim done with death and turned peacemaker?” “The words ‘Maxim’ and peace somehow don’t seem to go together.” And Paul Cornish asserted: “This [inhaler] was successfully marketed under a somewhat ironic appellation: ‘Sir Hiram Maxim’s Pipe of Peace’” (Machine Guns and The Great War, 2009). | ||
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This exhaustive study has multiple levels of meaning, and I’ve made every effort to focus on one objective, to demonstrate that the peace pipe and the pipe of peace have meant and continue to mean different things at different times to different people. In closing, a few lofty quotes—historical nuggets—from George Edward Lockwood, “Pipes of Peace Idealistic Emblems of a Practical Smoker’s World” (Tobacco, August 19, 1926) are appropriate: | This exhaustive study has multiple levels of meaning, and I’ve made every effort to focus on one objective, to demonstrate that the peace pipe and the pipe of peace have meant and continue to mean different things at different times to different people. In closing, a few lofty quotes—historical nuggets—from George Edward Lockwood, “Pipes of Peace Idealistic Emblems of a Practical Smoker’s World” (Tobacco, August 19, 1926) are appropriate: | ||
This mighty instrument of good will [the pipe] was found more powerful than the sword, so settling the tangles of intertribal disputes. It was utilized for such purposes more often than warfare. Just as the pen has time and again been found more powerful than the sword, so the pipe of peace has, time without number, been found more forceful than the arbitrament of war. And there can be no doubt that the character of the smoking mixture used in the pipes was a preponderating factor in promoting its conquests. The pipe of peace has played so many historical and social roles in American history that it is now looked upon as one of the most characteristic symbols of the United States. …The world’s authorities on international law, however, believe that the nations can be educated up to the pipe of peace type of diplomacy, and they have devised many plans for introducing it. The remodelled [sic] Hague conference and tribunal are some of them, and the League of Nations is another. | [[File:Peace-Pipe-Cantburn.JPG|thumb|400px|Courtesy, eBay.com]]This mighty instrument of good will [the pipe] was found more powerful than the sword, so settling the tangles of intertribal disputes. It was utilized for such purposes more often than warfare. Just as the pen has time and again been found more powerful than the sword, so the pipe of peace has, time without number, been found more forceful than the arbitrament of war. And there can be no doubt that the character of the smoking mixture used in the pipes was a preponderating factor in promoting its conquests. The pipe of peace has played so many historical and social roles in American history that it is now looked upon as one of the most characteristic symbols of the United States. …The world’s authorities on international law, however, believe that the nations can be educated up to the pipe of peace type of diplomacy, and they have devised many plans for introducing it. The remodelled [sic] Hague conference and tribunal are some of them, and the League of Nations is another. | ||
What can confidently be stated is that Native Americans smoked the venerated, ceremonial, sacred Pipe. Today’s briar is not considered sacred in the definitional sense of spiritual or sanctified; it’s certainly not ceremonial, nor is it worshiped, but it is venerated in the sense that it is valued and treasured. If the distinctively rigorous ritual of pipe-smoking is followed, the result can be a divine, spiritual and, I dare say, heavenly, experience! | What can confidently be stated is that Native Americans smoked the venerated, ceremonial, sacred Pipe. Today’s briar is not considered sacred in the definitional sense of spiritual or sanctified; it’s certainly not ceremonial, nor is it worshiped, but it is venerated in the sense that it is valued and treasured. If the distinctively rigorous ritual of pipe-smoking is followed, the result can be a divine, spiritual and, I dare say, heavenly, experience! | ||
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