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jlabnospiiliihreiiftllll trendllel “K1 fllehpspltak. It is

011.- vt

his aide; and who in the midst of dan rs and hard-

_'-“"'°"-‘Vt-'_“_" °"° `*‘3-',i“.‘°jf`*r°'.°_-‘f~“* ` ships can seelthe ludicrous and the humorous. ~ "WUI IIN _Edna Phfll' o"§i`u"i_f i'»";e';~j¢`_~t_»e"» ini: ¢.»"oa`n -138 _ 3 gf Pfovidgncg tug 5Q\\_|'¢¢5

I-tw! Otllee-l\.oharlo\t|\`wm'» lunch 'ollldq at Cum- of tears and of laughter have been placed very near

, MASTEll|_-Y

' to each other, so near that the one often merges into ` 1 Large: m

u»"f`-l-»"o»'||v _imma fun. iw iw mf. or ¢l..'0.l.’¢r. Hasgood humourma his faulty omeiiig Char es i Carvell -and-~l'u -t

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evening only (fauna mr) $1.80. tallvmd mn "°E;““ ‘“ ‘h° “°"'° '“°k' "°“‘ ‘“ “'h'°h h° 5° 08 NGWQPIQM' RGROHS Tl.‘l00d lil ll? 6 'N

...all i . 7 w . ' °f'€f_‘“~*‘"““*‘i.”‘*°"' ,-.`f** . . ‘Factol‘-y_',i\__nil‘wlt outa-Sl_ndllW_0

1 Tumi abe°l_e1ynn‘_';.__¢l`n-ruardtg__,_ 'familar

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Sneel, -heather# Brass and enm-

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_ -. _ _ ~ - __ - -~ - ~ - ' K ‘ _~ s- binationso..M_dtaltli1Sqme preferoovered.Buttons.' _ _

m‘ ' ’ ‘ ’ ‘ 'i _ ` lPA}T0i‘l_B1\lewst`oel¢#_are_rigbther°enow._‘ _ "

Lauwg .5‘,T,,L°:‘°,;‘7 A5,” N, .Mum by The Splmt Record ‘ -la y an expression of » .- .. _ _ 5' ” ~‘.- A ` V i ' ` ' `

,Mu |,,_¢,,,,“~,, u_._.,*_ ' _ -this humour and is a n§bs\Q'c table eiort. 1-* _ ~? in . _ .»_,;. .».-.. _ ._/;rl_n,-.1-.‘+ ;.»_ our

_ V *MHP 0| Of °_|f¢\||l\|l|\c ` monthly an ;s x°r Sm tx ‘I _ _ _ _. t ` ;l_'L'.'. ,_._».;

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2 TUESDAY MARCH 28 !9l6_ amount, teneents. Unfortunately nas not on salethis ~. . __(_C°“i’mz“'°d'_,_ `i,`:i\°tcl:i§smgiii‘h“‘i>§w;':>riiptl;itiit1theyawat = _- '_ _~ ' _ side of the Atlantic and tllguncertaintles of trans- "-4 f‘ i I _ . ~ able to D011 G UW Bfmlh G°"°*`!"

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OPENING' Of _LEGISLATURE

'l`he Prdvincial Legislature will convene to-morrow#

and the formal opening of the House will be more than -

ordinarily elaborate. The Guard of Honour wi consist of loo N.C.O.'-'s an'd men,‘half froln A and B Companies respcciively, and will be under command of Captain McLeod of B Company, with Lieutenants 'l`annahill of A Company and Kelly of D Company. No salute will be fired this year, as onlv thc large guns are available. -

'l`hc session will in many respects be new, it being

the first session under Lieutenant-Governor Mac- llonald, while there will be a ne\v Speaker and a num ber of n_ew faces among the membership.

The Opposition, larger somewhat than during the

last session, will muster under a new leader, Mr ]. H. llell, who, while new in the present Assembly, is not altogether a stranger ill the House.

The (io\'erillnellt, under the leadership of Premier

.\lnthieso`n, is with the exception of three members constituted as during the last parliament.

The new Speaker, it is understood, will be Mr _Iohn

S. .\l:1rlin of llclfast. Mr Martin is one of thc ablcst and most highly respected members in the House. lluring the last parliament he attended regularly all thc sittings and closely followed the proceedings. .\lthougll not a frequent speaker, llc took part in all the important debates. llc is personally popular with all ilu- members of the House and should prove an able, competent and impartial president of the Chamber. ‘

The reply to the speech from the Throne w_ill be

movl-fl hy _\lr _lmucs Patou, one of the members for thc City, and seconded by Mr .-\. D. McLellan, mem- llt-r for the Ut-orgcto\vii District, both new additions tothe llouse. '

'I`o~nlorro\\"s proceedings will be largely of a

formal character and the House will settle down to business innncdiately thereafter.

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_PATRIOTIC FUND RELIEF

_-\s a gooll deal of misunderstanding exists regard-

ing the relief granted by the Canadian Patriotic Fund, the local Relief Committee, of which the Hon. justicei liitzgcrald is chairman, has issued the following state- ment for the information of all concerned 1- A

" Under the rules governing the distribution of this

l"und we arc only permitted to assist the familicsiof tlepeutlcut relatives in actual residence who_ depended v/ltir¢»l_v on the soldier, and then the Fund can only' assist to the extent of the actual need existing, after the assigned pay of the soldier has been taken into uccollllt.

“ The facts disclosing such a state of things must

llc shown to the Committee hcrc before they can decide on any claim.

" W c are also receiving applications from men who

own farms and whose families, when the assignment of pay and separation allowance are taken into account, cannot he in need in the usual sense of the term. _

“ L`udcr ordinary circumstances this would pro-

hibit thc use of the Fund in such cases. It is only when, notwithstanding such ownership aud_ assignment of pay und separation allowance, there is actual need by rcttson of thc' hu'sband's or son’s enlistment that the l‘:l_tri0tic "Fund can be called upon to contribute.

“ Ouraim is to secure to the family of the soldier

enlisted thcsustenancc he had provided previous to his enlistment. The Fund cannot be uscd to better the condition of the family of the soldier.

“ The funds are now being depleted to all alarm-

ing extent and unless the utmost care is exercised in its distribution it cannot much longer stand the strain upon it.

“ Investigation is of course made by the Committee

in evcry case before relief is granted, but the applicant must in the first instance satisfy them that his is a case coming under these rules before any investiga- tion cau -be made. -

“ We' notice that in, recent applications men with

large families only assigned $l 5.00 of _their pay, while many of tl1osc_"~similarly circumstanced’making/earlier applications assigned $20 to/$25.' 'Tltisfthc Committee take into consirleratiqnwl1t~l'\‘§rlakinga'llotments. There cattnoi-be much real hée§i,‘i»i`hgref the or sdti keeps for personal-use tll`e"betler part of his pay.” -_ -

, _f-,_. This stdftit-,inielihfexplains-fully the attitude of the

p Tatriotic Fund in granting relief, and *should beborne 'in mind by clergy and others for. -the information

soldl

the harbour `a

those

a_n’_~

which easily _' 'could be

community-

. sRoberti.Qee_§l.says conditionsin

of the

01'

an opltusni, at lun,

‘5o centimcs, which' in English is‘ a much Snialler

portation are such at pfécg litiztb leave little h _ _of its coming. _ However,f'a`fter the war, will'be

record and 'will no doubt be available. '

' The"oditor, Capt. Duck, has our thanks for th

copy. » _ ~

lmcll To )'i‘(lls cares

just as we had concluded that the problem o

winter navigation had been successfully solved, and that our “ splendid isolation ” was a thing of the past, lo! down comes a north-easter and blocks Pictou har- bour with an impenetrable bargier of ice, a barrier against which our car ferry, one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world, is as powerless as any of herl predecessors. When Picton harbour is blocked it is blocked irrenlediably until the wind chooses to lift the blockade, and as the windis anvuncertain quantity and bloweth where it listeth the postal authorities did wisely last night in sending the mails to the Capes. Of __cou_rse it is somewhat humiliating to return from twentieth century `modernism with its splendidly equipped icebreaker to the prehistoric method of haul- ing the mails across the strait by hand in an open boat. but such is our luck, and such our isolation. There is the hope, llow_cver, that this cotulitioll will not p'rc- vail when \ve move our plant to tllc'Capes for good. Should impenetrability of ice then overtake us, as _mayhap it shall, we shall have the iceboats near at hand and there will be no such delay in mails as wc have suffered during the past four or five days. \Vc hang our faith now on the last peg, the Capes, and trust that another winter will see us established there.

1 woulnv Auiiiwalz-wolllt

1 Mr Runciman, President of the British Board of Trade recently stated that between 350,000 and 400,000 women are now employed in the leather, metal and miscellaneous industries in Great Britain. Besides these, many arc in Government employ, an _increasingly large body are in commercial houses and `quite a number ill agricultural work. It is stated that millions of English, Irish and Scotch women have taken thc places of men in order to allow the latter to get into khaki and so increase the armies that are fighting for the liberties of men and women on thc bittlelields of Europe. ` ' In Canada,-female labour has not entered so largely

into our industrial life, ,i/mt, however, because our Canadian women are less loyal or ready to take their share in the great struggle, whether on the battlefield.. the store, the bank, the factory or the farm, but bc-7 cause the men have not yet quit their jobs to don thc` khaki and there is therefore no _room for our women. In many cases, however, vacancies have occurred and in our banks especially the presence of wom'cn clerks points to the fact that the male employees of military age have taken their places in the ranks. This is perhaps not so evident in other lines of activity. There are many men still doing work that women could do ‘equally well, although probably many of those meli may be wrongly accused of being clackcrs, as we know that some at least have offered their services but for _some slight physical defect have been refused. _ Throughout Canada women have cheerfully offered theirl services both atlthe front asnurses, one at least as- a chauffeur, and was accepted, many in affluent circumstances in the city of Quebec and other cities \vligc_,_thcre are munition factories, as employees in the making of fuses, ctc. .Here in Prince Ijldward Island there is no` direct war ivorlc for our women other than to offer to till the places now occupied by men in order that 'the latter may go and do men’s work. This they are quite prepared and competent to do, so that there is no excuse for any young man of military age and ‘physically fit for not taking his place in the ranks. _. '

With the filling up of the -105th Regiment there has

been a lull in recruiting, but the fact should not be lost ‘ sight of that men are still needed and that more men from Prince Edward Island must yet go before the war is over. - ~ > . - i There will slior`tly"bé‘ll'tlothel; call, and i_t is hoped " that no manphysically lit will consider- himself indis- pensable in the position he occupiesf woipen Kuflioxizantdluhis world The s_alvation_'of.»thefIlmpi is the Ons problem to-by 'at\`<1`_ We iris"'r'1t>t_-.'ll€.t_I'at the ' P0

of cnquirers;and‘ complainants. Not infrequently. i I

elusive' that the war will end before 1917..-Lord

_ _ifapi_dly.' -Mex Harden

` ihtérnal difficulties make -perfeitive. ']: L. Garvin

ltlie war-in-_ _Mmm-.-'f.__ _I _ `¢ndiof_.!tlle° `_ `

g»~

‘the House some time ago-and this

gg ‘¢'~'.'<f-_ - - ’ _ _ c

lm where we can-una-hut. . .1 '_‘:_-; tl-f'_“"°§}{’,_"-‘°--"%"‘f""_‘ "'° ‘°‘fl5i*‘-"-

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_M.,Ribot, the French Minister of Finance, says he 131°" ”ii1‘¢§f°““ lime" bm in

can Dee the e dfoi the war. Lloyd's rates show a con-_"'lW\1° 'Wk' °6¢"\\l5` dill!

*Keep to the rlqlll” sf vw.. 1"* Will

-~Mr.‘ GARVELL: what was nm-1 Mr. mmlonllauz 5600.000 was f°\'

abrapnel shells'-not for the Wl10l¢ shell, I think; alntply for the steel 0! the shell. 'rhe rest was for some other ppt; I am not tamlllar with these mechanical. terml. _At all events. they were contracts from the Shell C0111- mtttee; they were- contracts illit 01° guna ag gthgrg__'_',l‘h¢ Nova, Stroll? Steel Company got similar orders unt l Feb- .-uary, I think. 'rust ls an they sei till

thelll tlielt theyllot orders for some illq - . - . ` » T Mr.._G WELL: ‘ ‘O no. _ . Mg tg!-lEN:j That is what the bon. ,` eutlol.l1af"-'put on Hansard; per» hop; that lb wrpng, too. The presump- _tm is nm it o s. although I had 11°* umeto go into an time uunss- I assumed some of them 'to be uulmport- ant. '_ _

Mr. CARVELK4, ` On December 17,

1914, $100,000. machining and assemb- ling- ‘

Mr. MEIGHEN1 That. ls what I ilitlilugm. they ala not ssl ll at *lm t.-it Br.

Mr. CARVELL: $25.000. maehlu- ng und assembling. ‘ Mr. MEIGHEN: The Domlnlon lro_“ ind Steel Company got an order of 600,000 in February, 1915. Il has helm luggestod to me that Perhaps W9 'aught to reverse our policy- We MV” now arrived at the startling dis- covery that the Nova Scotia Steel Colupruly got its contract ln December. and that the Domlnfqn Iron and Steel Company got theirs in February; sure- ly that ls u sufficient ground for lnves~ ligation. . Complaint has uleo been umll-3 with regard to fuses.'lf there is one thing upon which hon. gentlemen on the oth- er side of the House are ullaulmousdt is that we have had awful treatment lu the matter of the supplying ol fuses. One could scarcely refrain t'rom weep- ing ill llstening to the rlgbt hon. lead- er of the Opposition, who ralllcll all his eloquence lu order to :lepiclt to the House the distressing condition of the British soldiers at the battle of the Marne. They were compelled. he said. not to follow up the victory; later they were compelled to stand still because. forsooth, we did not get fuses; we were making only these'empty shells. In tho first place, it is correct that the American Munltlon Company got a contract for fuses in June. 1915. for 1,600,660 of the graze fuses and 2.500.- 000 'tlmo fuses. One would think, list- ening to lion. gentlemonopposlte, that just as soon as the Shell Committee was appointed they had carte blanche from the British Govemment to buy anything that they wanted lu the way of munitions of war. One would think

that all they hai; to do was write cheques on the rftish treasury and buy munitions of svnr at any time. of ally kind, quallly.~aud descrlptlon th_ey liked. Does It not appear to hon. gen- tlemen that lt is altogether likely that the British War Office exercised some .control over what this committee bought? Have hon. gentlemen any evi- dence that this committee had power to buy fuses before June? Oh. they say. they dld not try; there 'Is no evi- dence to show that they even tried. 1 tell hou. gentlemen that.-there ls. The Mfulster ol Militia is on-record .ln

was read to the hon. member for Car- leton by his own leader-as saying that as early as 1914 the Shell Com- mittee had tried to Impress _upon the Brltlsb Government the fact that we could make fuses in this country. They, endeavoured to do this, but without

1 - I . I ` DMLY SEl.EC`l`l0ll§ *F08 »

GIIIRDIIII REI-DERS

-_-__

lurnllllotl by W. I. Lennon.

-, KEEP WELL T0 THE RIGHT. 4 “knelt to the right" ls, the law or the

road-

Ma.lte_lt ls law of your moral code; lu wba.taoe'r you determine to do. Follow' tho road or tbotloud -and the

Truen - `

Follow_ lul_fear noi. By day and by

nw; `

_ D _

right." _

U hill' ul down hlll, "keep tr- the

Doubt _will assatl you, temptation will

- _ woo- ~ ~

1 " 1 i _ Douhtt ls. at traitor, temptation a

' .; BIIBIIIG. I A heart that ls honest, it lite without 3 _ ‘ blame, _ _ ' Will rink for rar higher. In worthlnd renown, _-

Than the grandest of lltngl with

aceptre and crown. -. »

It v

\| _ . -.4 - -

#rho weak wtll»suoeumb'to tl\;a_;_ll,ll_ld » ‘ and the stron;

“K"¢"||`| to the right," for 'rho right ls- ` ' ‘ he true

.hull molly 80 under and' "89-

ers relauves who are not entitled torellef fronii _ i ` ' ' ' ~ V ` wi-ont; ‘ - '-'Y " "

ment that .we could-mn 0 fuses luc- ceestully in Canada. Up io tbal._,t_l e 1 do not know whether the_ Uni tl States had made any fuses on not. _e

battle of the Marne, fl’ I relgelnber rightly, took place lu August r Sep- tember, so that It would be Pretty hug for the Shell Committee, having ,tamed authority at the end ot' April. 1915, to help out the soldiers of Brit- nln at, the battle of tho_Marne ln All!- unt, 1914. What dld they do after they gorthat authority? Mr. Carne8|°._ Wim was over there at _Chststmau 1914. en- deavoured to Ilnpre s them with the tact that we .could make fuses hew- They let the tlrst contract the tlrsv. ,M second day ot June. 1915. Shortly _ f-

terwards. early ln August, they _lou - other contract. for 500,000 fusestp e Russell Company of Canada..__'I‘hoy. let the contract to the American Muni- tlou Company on /the basis-_I tltluk my figures are correct-of $3.50 for the time fuse and 53.75% for the Brass fuse. The hon. gentleman says that the price of the latter was $4, but a deduction for loadlnz. whlelywas Q92, done by the holder ot the contract. makes _the price 33.72%. Two months later they leta contract to the_R\lssell Company at a price averaglngL§3.50 for the graze tune. The Russell ompany dld not until recently 'undertake to make the time fuse _ The Brltlsll Government h'a.ve always maintained that the making of both fnsesf tho time (uae particularly is a matter ol’ great technlcallty and of great dini-

nouslblllty. However. lt

will be seen that there was no more than what was in all probability neces- sary delay in conducting the negotia- tions preparatory to entering into these contracts. I do not know that lt ls_surpl-lslng that In a. few months the prices dropped. I do not know but what the`first -prices may have been too large. lt may have been that some mistake was made. I should be sur- prised-yes, I-should be amazed, for it would have been utterly incredible ~lf‘ any committee conducting opera- tions of so colossal a character in so brlet a time-operations of u business character, which were entirely or for the most part new to them-and not commit errors, not make unwise and llnprovfdeut expenditures. There never was a committee on the face of the world. there never was o. business en- terprise ou the face of the world_ that the face of the world that under Buch clrcumstunceswluld not mnke"\l7rwlse and improper expenditures, just as ls charged by the hon. member for St. John. - .

It ls complained-at least. this Ts

the burden of the charge- of the right hon. leader of th`e Opposition-.that while others iight we lag; that no fuse; were delivered. The right hon. gentleman arraigned the Shell Com- rnltteeand the Government because the Emplre.su1‘feretl on account of the awful delay In the delivery of' ‘no fuses. be says, were delivered or have yet been delivered by this Amerlcan com- pany. The hon. member t'or~Carleton was not sntlslled with making that statement once; he came along with lt every time he got on the fuse sub~ ject. Why. ho said, they never could make fuses; they llld not intend to make fuses. and they have not de- livered any; so far as the delivery ot' fuses by the American company was concerned, the Brltlsh Empire might be smashed to pieces. We stlll walt, the hon. gentleman says, and we have not the fuses. Then, he says,the Russell .company got a contract of 500,000 fuses tn August and they de- livered about 50.000 fuses. I have cou- siderable confidence in the Russell Company. I have considerable ln Mr. Russell. and l should be the last to say aword against the Russell Company or against its management. However, I do recollect that the very men _who are new holding the. Russell Company up as paragons of' business virtue

men, when lt. suited

purposes, lampooned

nd the Russell Company

up as to be avoided in

world all men

at the

now; their Mr. and the

Wh()

llrld

Ill) &

and than

now; The

see are

have

or tbl!

i ` I ‘I0 (he Nlllt." _ 4, _,___',_‘,

In touoll

Whose are

all

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_ Keep

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d _______ _ _ _ ___.___.__ _-__ . _ ... _ __ __ ' _ 5 _ _ ‘- _ -,,-_ N - ' "5'\f,,1 -Nc,”-,__',_ ` '

tell this House tbaittbe- American coz! Ainerieau--_chlllmany ~delIv‘e_)veilif‘=i`7i"ln` .pany have made no-deliver-les? They the third week lu Jutluury,_;1vll_en the

should have made- lnilulries. It--wie “stated ln the House some weeks ag . fat. all events back ln the old Parlia- ment chaniber. that they had made no deliveries. That was stated by the hon. member for South Renfrew (Mr. Braham). and I llmlillted tt_ and l.0\<\ .htm that deliveries had been made. Consequently they are put. on their

Inquiries and secure tnforluatlou that _would _warrant them ill making a __,-_statement ot the character they did on the_tloor of this I-louse? Ae a mat- 'ter ot fact, the American Munltlous Company and delivered 417,000 fuses ln purllusn s of that contract. and are delivering right along. ‘

,pf Mr; CARVELL: _ _W.ould_the hon.

member tell us .how many fuses' the

guard. Why dld they not make some

cmatter was wld .filfalliluptllu in the old Housoof Corsican?-»‘~._» '_‘~

Mr. MIG!-lE!°{.. I coma tell what

they _delivered in, tlte tbl, tweak of January: but I do' know that !lie`y de- llvered practically 400,000 fuses when the hon. gentleman _ spoke In this House ou the 9tl1 of Marchl and-when-' be stated that they had never deliver- ed any fuses.. Ona would think that the ambition of the hon. _member vias”

never to be satisfied _until be realxed the very perfection ot error in all ` fog, he stated to this 1-louseéon tha.t.`.;lub-’ ject. I have not ,yet got to the wurslili There was not a. phase of the sub|e'et` that the bon. gentleman discussed in

reference to which ho did not__ one would think a most-_ or _lntant._ igillble

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