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In all patriotic efforts since the war be-

gan this province held its place and took its art very _creditably. It IS SP9-tlfylllg _ t° iznow that in the matter of registration,

which is to be _completed "pmt Saturday, our_ people are maintaining eir good record- ’1‘he province has been fully organized; de- puty registrars have been appointed in every school district and a sufficient num- ber have been appointed in Charlottetown and other centres to accommodate all re- gistrants. Apart from the readiness with which volunteers came forward and _offer- ed their services, a particularlycreditable feature is the fact that all are giving their services free. The Superintendent of Re- gistration, Mr. J. J. Trainor, informs us that no deputy registrar has so far deman- dediremuneration. And here it is only fair to, state that Mr. Trainor is himself giving his services gratuitously although the amount of work involved is simply enor- mous, necessitating a personal visit to every school district in the province. Mr. Trainor speaks in the highest terms of the patriotic enthusiasm shown by the teach- ers in taking up this work. The school boards also entered loyally into the matter placing their schoolhouses at the disposal ‘ofthe registrars as registration booths. The merchants, business men, church

by acting as deputy registrars for their employees and members are assisting very materially in facilitating the work and thus avoidingcongestion and loss of time at the booths.

As stated in a previous reference to

this subject the purpose of the government is to procure a complete and reliable in-_

of the dominion. It has no reference what- ever to the Military Service Act although it is probable that if -the war continues the data obtained may be utilized for indus- trial organization in prosecuting at home necessary work having direct relation to the nation’s war efforts.

As previously said also all persons over

16 must register. In default of registra- tion heavy penalties are provided. Regis- tration must be personal and in no case by proxy. Those who through illness or other causes are unable to leave their homes may have a deputy call upon them or if that be inconvenient a member of the family may

We trust there shall be no defaulters

and that our province will make for itself a record which will compare favourably with that of our sister provinces.

_ ' A THEORY DISPROY ED

This war has proved and disproved

many pre-war theories. It was firmly held by many eminent writers and poets that the “red furnace of war” was necessary to temper men’s souls, to save them from ef-‘ feminacy, to make them masculine and manly; that long continued pursuit of peaceful avocations tended to enervation and cowardice. Nothing has been more effectively disproved than this by the pre- sent War. Probably not one in a thous- and of our Canadian soldiers had ever handled a rifle before he went to war; pro- bably not a ‘half-dozen of our half a million Canadian soldiers had ever expected to take part in a war. Before enlisting each manof them, it is safe to say, had mapped out his life’s programme along lines in which had absolutely no part. Yet on

of battle, after a few months of they proved, man for man, infl-

superior to the German soldiers who

trained for war from boyhood, been religiously taught that war onlycharacter building and man- factor. The German soldiers are

mechanically efficient; they can

the “goose steg” to perfection and

army, mec_ anically, is unques- most perfect war machine in

wherever they came in con- Canadians, even when the their favour they were out- ‘is no idle Canadian boast.

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soldiers who, like the Canadians

have proved

life-long train-

a virtue, cruelty in any forma vice an_d, to quote from ay well-known poem; 1 ‘Phe [bravest are the tenderest, the loving are

To say_ goo roads to aicertain type

of Grit is like the proverbial “red rag to a bull.” In a recent issue' the Guardian com- mented approvingly on a piece of road east of the City which had elicited many words of commendation from autoists. The Pa- triot ' made somewhat similar remarks about the same piece of road expressing the hope that road masters in other sec- tions would follow the good example. The admission, made probably in a moment of forgetfulness, that there could be such ia thing as a good road appears to have brought the Patriot back to its normal po- litical sanity for in its next issue it ‘edito- rially declared that “complaints have reached this office of neglected roads in va- rious parts of the province.” - In a later is- sue it publishes a letter from a gentleman in the far western part of the province vil- lifying the Guardian for having made such an unreasonable statement as that there was a good"piece of road anywhere. The western correspondent had found a piece of road somewhere near St. Louis which on the 9th of June was “disgraceful”!

The comfort that a good Grit of this

type can derive out of a piece of bad road is really pathetic. In fact if the example of the roadmaster so approvingly quoted by `-'ioth the Guardian and the Patriot is gene- rally followed by other roadmasters it may _nean the extinction of the type.

There are, unfortunately, enough bad

sections of road still in the province to af- ford needed nourishment to the few who take pleasure in them but their wallowing in these should not prevent them enjoying and even acknowledging a good piece of road when they see it. 1

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If the Canadians are, as a writer in an

American magazine said some time ago, the most fo`rmid'able fighting unit on any front- in proportion to their numerical strength, one reason for this proud pre- eminence is suggested by Gen. Sir Arthur Currie, who is their commander and who ought to know. At a dinner given in Lon- don the other day in honor of Premier Bor- den and his colleagues, Sir Arthur said that when the Canadians went to England first some ,uncomplimentary things were said about them, not, we may suppose, about their willingness to fight, but probably about their lack of "form.” It may be that some of the Canadians, and even particu larly those Canadians of English birth, were inclined to adopt a somewhat patro- nizing attitude toward Englishmen who hod not _had the advantage of adventuring 3,000 miles away from home in a great, new country. It it may have been that some of the English oliicers of crack regi- ments were_inclined to be a trifle superci- lious in their manner, or that Canadians were inclined to detect a patronizing air where none was present. From whatever cause or combination of causes, the Cana- dians became imbued with a spirit that might be summed up in the words, “We’ll show them.”

This was almost a slogan with the Ca-

nadians when they went to France, and at 'che*second Battle of Ypres, when i one poi- son gas was used, and where Canadian va- lor saved the day, they justified it. Boast- ing has long gone out of the soldiers who havefbeen fighting for three years. They do not need to boast. “The corps never failed,” says Gen. Currie. “They will take any position they are asked to take and they will hold any position they are told to hold.” The _spirit of the Canadian soldier was never higher than it is today, and wh-en they are again turned loose they will do more killing than they have ever done. What the Canadians -have done in the past the Canadians who are now joining the co- lors will do. Traditions, more glorious per- haps than were ever established in such a short period of warfare, cluster about the Canadian army.- The old veterans might be inclined, perhaps, to take some such at- titude toward the draftees as the British regulars showed .to the Canadian volun- teers, and the Canadian draftees will say as

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about some-ol the mutant llylus _men of the -war. and explains how they won renown. Theilrst to attract internat- ional attention was' Roland Gsrros, noi. because of his-particular exploits, be- cause ‘he was brought _dow-n and made prisoner before he could run up a big score, but because of his daring and the great fame heenjoyed as ~s bird- man in the days of peace. Theh came t-he first of -the great German flyers. lmmelmanii 'with the Fokker, ~but__whe- ther the Fokker made Immelmann famous or the pilot made the machine' famous is' s moot point. From the -point of view of the expert designer of flyl-ng machines, -the Fokker was ,more or less s joke, ibut lt was admir- ably admptad for its own purpose, and had advantages over Brltlsh machin- es that helped the Germans for some time to claim mastery of the air The Fokker was light, and it had' a good engine, and as a. defence machine was hard to beat.,

The Gorman Fokker

Being lighter lt was swlfter and

could mount more rapidly than .the British machines, which. built for voyages over the German lines, had o carr enough gas for tour and s

lmmelmann used to sit up an altitude of 10,000 feet and swoop down like a he/wk upon the Brl-tlsh planes flying st 7,000 feet. ‘lt is not to be wondered at that -with this advantage in position and in maohlne he should -have made a formidable score, but even so, Mr. Grey notes, he has never heard any R. F. C. man say that the German was not a' great alr fighter. He had a lettei’ from a. crack British flyer when lmmelmann’s fame was at its height, and he said: "I had a scrap with lm- melniann the other day. He flies n monoplane, fire through 'his propeller and files beautlfully.We got off drums of ammunition at one another, appar- ently wlthout results, except plenty of holes in my machine."

Balcke and Rlohthofsn

Bolcke was another Fokker flyer,

and a contemporary of <Immelmann‘s

though he dld not rise to fame so soon. To hlm is said to belong the credit of developlng"t.iie German sys- tem of' training a number of firemen to -lig‘-ht in regular formation on thc lines of what' later on came to -be known as a “clrcus.” His circus be- came famous. One of his pilots was Richthofen, lproba-bly the. finest of all German flyers, who was killed' by a Canadian a few weeks ago. Rlchtho- fen would appear to have had all the qualifications for success as an alr- man. He was a cavalry officer by training, a horesman, and a game shot by family tradition. 'When given com- mand of a squadron of his own. he de- veloped the Bolcke circus to a remark- able degree. His men 'were not only aviators, but gymnasts. 'Ilhelr mach- ines were palnted ln all sorts of har- lequln colors. They moved from place to place along the front, and when the weather was favorable they always

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THE FE-ELING OF ANGER

We should avoid' both speech and

action while the feeling of anger ls hot within us. If we cannot suddenly subdue lt, 'we can_af. least restrain its outpouring; we can walt in quiet until time has cooled the fever and made reason possible. _ Bitter words spoken under this lm- pulse have severed frlendsf destroy- ed' affection, injured reputation, pois- oned tho very fount of happiness-" words which s few hours later the , 'speaker would have given worlds "to-J unsay. ‘ ,`

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sums which have srokengip noni-, ies, destroyed business, indicted life-'f long inlurles, and blasted the char- acters of the doors-acts. that 0-ho! ivouid -have shrunk froin__ln horror hed. they but waited till daeir anger wel WOM.

restrained. may make its restraint

0. e troubles Mon, os,i"_trou,l_»le‘s an

ounce. -»- -‘ '~ ‘ ' "

ln the London Aeroplane Mr. C. G., in

Grey, the editor, -writes interestingly pl

wine is made from them, and lf tho`e

D‘_Arteqnen of‘£\e Air ; _

ilhe-contrary' notuirithstandingii Braiiiarxy is 01° I“\‘_"l"°i‘=., '_H°1° °‘““*'~y1 B AR

passed, tfhaf no tribute to his skill and bravery is needed.He flevnapparently,

CHN Ball stand in need of an eulogy. H

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whether the enemy was one or ten lt made no difference to Ball. When

he fell lt 'was in n great ,battle against odds.

Hawker and Bishop

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mental type w Maj H k

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ngmeemn _ to be expected. Some people liked t,

K ofllcdi' w1h_o rwas lleam-

to fl

as the flrst British flying man to ln the V. C., a soldier of rare gifts

as a leader and adiiilnlstrator and in- ventor of new “stunts." His fighting abilities and his knack of training and inspiring those under him had much to do with the British supremacy of the air ln 1916. He died ln a duel -with Rlchtholen, when a west wind drove the combatants far belilnd the Ger- man lines, and Hawker had the opt- ion of landing rind' surrendering or fighting to a finish. He chose the lat- ter course. \Mzijor Bishop, the great Caadlan ace. ls' to ,he reckoned among the finest fighters the »\var has dev-

5 s-- c ttor _ respect

he is not surpassed, lf, indeed, he is equalled, -by any man who ever drove a plniie-are his chief characteristics. He has won ull the British honors be- stowed on Ball and Hawker, and-he survives as the commander of a squadron ,to add new lawrels' to his mlgnlflccnt record.

Hivhmwwsmwmnesmppm YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

BV REV_ T.8.LiN8COTT, D. D.

(A11 rights reserved)

Dr. Llnscott ln this column will

help you solve your heart problems. religious, natural, social, financial and every other anxious care that per- plexes you. If a. personal answer ls required enclose a five cent stamp. No names will be published; lf you prefer, sign your initials only or use a pseudonym.

snni-Jcriuo. A CHURCH:-A 'rain-

er of a young physician, asks if he did right to select a church for his son to attend, ‘which he thought would be i-he greatest hcl/p to hlm in his pro- fession. This father did' right to plan for the success of his son profession- ally, but lf in doing this he dld not plan for ,the splrltual and moral pro- gress of the young physician he was very much to blame. The functions of a church are moral, and spiritual, and hence social; membership ln a church should not primarily be for commer- cial reasons. ` f _

O O O

SEX IN HEAVEN:-John A. asks

my oplnlon whether there will be ,pro- creatlon fn heaven. Jesus seems to have answered a similar question when he said. that in heaven, “They neither marry, nor are given ln mar- riage", but this does not fully anewer your question. If trees and flowers gi-ow"fn heaven' and reproduce-` them-

selves. and If grapes grow there ii?

are horses in heaven, all of which seems to be lndlcatedfin the book

Revelations; I soo no,_reason cliildreh may nctlbe “boi-1# to

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beings in that ideal country;

and no other perse

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from Somethirisrmore noble than wer and » a - 'f I ~ » at as-ms, ws... my W., .ii is

~ ever from cruelt --German hiloso h to scumsna on im- is his -is when

"bl1llmes, ,but shortly before the Is Theodore 'Dnalsor's book, “The Gilman ‘Bprihg ofiensii/o began,” Genius" an -immoral -work, is it just s' Riolifiiofen. ‘who had been in Gsr- mediocre _performance suobes _ble .sim presumably " -training 'new readers have a right-topxpeot. or .ll im. returned no the n-om, and in it a ‘work or swiss, to which theory and the men under him were equip- the-author lseupposed to lncllne;:'l‘h_e lied with Fokkerlrlplanes, -which " question-has 'eXcit`cd" much iutereiit lh 3?-|510 D8. badly made copies' of literary circles in the `lJnlt`ed_Bt_ote,¢_. amish sopwuh. 'rush-. engines. hon- where ivir. Dresser is honed- in some °V0\‘._ were good, and the men expert circles as one of the greatest od Amar-

the book,

and that one would not be example- L_ The anti is __nelt_.her The -iolnr is that

clety. '

snd\tlilit a man's .claim». to

Arltlst does not relieve resppnslbilltles as a uueniber’

by instinct. like a -blrd flies. Nor does 1-mm me fmt that he is asking $50,000

el d. H, I h_ ' ,hint that there would be a prosecu-

ope ` B nerve am 'B mastery °r tlon, and so the publisher. withdrew

machine un' ln th Ia

_courage as it ls." That is to say, Mr.

.have been suppressed by meidenlshi

_flyers and when Rlchthofen was lean novelists. I-lb has his staunch ad- bl`°11€ht down he could console him- mlrers in Cunudli. also. as a’ letter to 5°" with "W l`9f|°C¢|0l\ *Ulf 110 bl,-d the literary mall d'eparf.ment_of The done his bit and done lr with a chlv- Mall and imnplre, Toronto. indie- “UY fhlf- 18 NFB M9011! GBFNBDU- 30 ated. ‘Special mention was made of much has been _written about Guyne- "Jenny Gcrhardtf 'one of his earliest mer, the French ace,/wihose name will and pi-esumably one of his 'best stor- ”°"°1‘ M forsotten. and whose slnsle iss. At any rm, it had a wide circui- handed exploits have never been sur- ation, and Mr, Di-olser has made a

lot of money out of -his” writings. Just. how he is .prosperlng may be judged

from the John Lane Publishing Comp-

°tg’“S H "ISYS b0Y. flllil-6 BS 1110095! any for with drawing his latest fhoo -

E' ‘T mwhanlc 'wh° l°°k°d_ after from the market. This demand ls

8 p ana' and the veritable DArmg` some what humorous contrast to his

nan of the skies. He loved best'to'gu claim that he Wrote .11-he Genius.. ff alone, scouting ovcr the Germ n '

a . .

,mem lookin to d for a moral punpose, but probably

he would argue that there are n'o inor- zil purposes more woi'-thy of patron- nge -than that of handsomely maln- talninz the Drelser family.

Publlehcr Wlthdrow Book ' _

When the 'book appeared it 'niet

with the varied- reception that was

some people disliked lt; a whole lot of people wanted to read lt, and a whole lot of people, while wanting to read lt themselves, did not want. others to read it. Crltlcs disagreed. One would say the .book was a remarkable performance in realism; .another ,that its tendency was decidedly immoral. However, the New York Society' for the Sup- pression of Vice was of opinion that the book fell 'within its jurisdiction and the secretary of the society wrote to John Dane, the publisher, to say that he had lieaixl protests against the “salaclous and profane psssoges 'ln `-tli`e"'work§" This was a

the ‘book from the market. Natur- ally this 'was a iblow -to Drclser,. so he #and the 'publisher have agreed to go beifore e. New York court and have five judges decide the char- acter of the book and the amount of compensation that is due Mr. Drelser for its suppression. As a matter of fact, the book will probcibly 'be 're- published if it he vindicated.

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Wrlte of Whatever Happens

Mr. Drelser ls' an infldel, and 'his

attitude toward his work was re- vealed 'ln an interview in the Brook- lyn Eagle some time ago iwhen he sald: "It is dreadful to think of shackles being forged' which are go- ing to hold -the zinlnd, which ought to fling its doors wide open to light and truth. in a vice-like grip of tlmldlty utterly precludlng initia- tive. There's little enough -moral

Drelser's theory -ls' that the very ex- istence of s. thing is the only neces- sary justification for writing about li.. This same point of vlew was expressed by a famous New York ed- ltor, who said that lf a thing 'was good enough for God to let happen, it was good enough for his paper to print.

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The Novo|\le¢‘s Point of View "ii,

A great many American novelists

are in sympathy with Drelser. _ The traditional point of view of the pro- fessional writer- is that there oug-ht to be no censorship except by the public. He says that-if the public wants a \book the public ought to have the book.~ Ilf, on the other hand, th_e book ls not wanted, it will perish without the 'intervention of a policeiinnn. Even` wrltdrs who would not ,permit their children to read the sort of lbook that Drelser writes, sro roetlve at the .notion of some police court Judge or some half-edu- cated secretary of a vice doelety do- stroylng the property of- a` writer. They can point to some of the great classics of tho-world‘s literature and argue -that if they had -been produced ,ln_ modern times they would surely

busybodlos. A prurieni. men can ilud in the Bible. even passages io up- 'pssl to his prulenov. and no doubt. ,lf the author of the Bong of_8on|s were within the lurisdlctfo of e Cens- dlan court hs might sojourfiing It me mi im-m._ _

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so ter se one' can glenn from en

eager perusal of ell rcfereufxtto the book. 'it ‘oonoerne the on of o genius nemedwitls. enifhie immoral rsleiionl with S number of people. 'riley must have been oonMe~re,ble,. for the book is one of 'Iso payee. s

es to the

cHiiinnfl0wN'si .iiiuwsinis

- Sir:-Do we prize our public pai-kg H115 PIGRBUILB grounds sufficiently? We have first ln importance Victoria park which' for natural beauty can scarcely be surpassed ln America. I sm afraid me do not takqjiufllclent advantage of t e beautiful shady walks and -road. ways to ‘be found here. The many squares and breathing spaces to be found in the cliy tell ln' no uncertain words' that those who planned and laid out our clty‘s streets, squarps and parks had an eye\ not only to the beauty of the city but to the health and_.p\lensuro of its people. 'rpg old Jail square which has been converted into a park of late years should ‘be highly appreciated by the ,people of western and southern part of the city. Rochford square, also ln ,the western part is Indeed a beauty spot app;-aging. cd fully by the people. Circus tents used to -benpltched on 'the square st one time, but woe betlde the person who would even suggest the putting up of any tent that would attract the hoodlum element to this' part of the city or destroy the nice green sward of the square. _

I, need ‘ not say anything about

Queen Square for its flower: gardens are the pride and boast of all citizens, and though -the cost. of their upkeep is considerable, still it ls met without a murmer-.

For the eastern ,pant of the city we

ha.ve'Klng's and Hlllsboroilgh squares much prized by the people who fully enjoy these needful breathing- spaces.

The people of the eastern 'part have

also Prince of Wales College grounds which aid largely to beautify this portion of the city. ‘ - _

The northern part of` the city

(which ls the newest part) ls' not served' so ,well ln the matter of .plea- sure resorts and breathing spaces as the older parts. 'lt ls true that Spring park though outside the limits is owned by -the city. lf however is a rough-and-tumble plone of ground that has not yet recovered from the time when the city fathers in -ihegoodness of their hearts permitted clricus tents to be erected here.

There is also _in this northern and

thickly populated part the Upper Prince Street School grounds, a de-

~llghtful spot, indeed. as lt stands at

present; but it ls practically private property and the public'-cannot obtain the same benefit from lt as' they could from a pu-blic park or square. It, like Rocliford Square; some years ago was a -place for tent pitching; a place whers the rabble delight to resort. Loose cattle and horses also pastured on the grounds, though it was sur- rounded bv nigh board fences which gave tbeplnca the appearance of a jail yard or ranch more than a. childrens' plav ground.

How changed surely ls, all this. U10

unsightly fences have been removed. The grass is kept clipped and"tho so clous ground ls as neatly kent as

anmgsntlemanu front _~lawn. This chan has all taken Dlhoe without any extra expense to the public »f0l' the janitor of the school keeps these grounds in mn a.dmirahie'_co\161¢i°n as s. labor love. '

I ani Sir etc.. ,

A TEACHER.

Charlottetown. , - June 19th. 1918.

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