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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1920,

. QUESTION OF LEA DElfSllll’.

. With.the reassembling of parliament this week the question of leadership again looms up and specu- lation is already rife as to who shall succeed Sir Robert" L. Borden if the latter should decide to leave the political arena. i

The “Little Sister of Confederation’? has rea- son to remember with gratitude the name of Sir

Thomas White. After years in which the treaty of Confederation was observed in the breach, with. our numerous impotent delegations and official represen- tations practically useless, it remained for the bril- liant ex-Finance Minister in his human way to desig- nate our position in the Confederacy on the introduc- tion _at his hands of our $100,000 yearly increased subsidy. The names of White and Mathieson will be inseparably connected with this modicum of justice to Prince Edward Island, and in the melting pot of leadership of any government for Canada at the pre- sent time all thinking citizens will cherish the hope that Sir Thomas White may reconsider his decision and assume the burdens, which we think could be his

by mere acquiescence in the wishes of the majority

of Canada's voters

Thinking men and women who have our Coun- try’s interests at heart would welcome the ex-Fi- nance Minister as a fitting successor to the line of distinguished men who have hitherto guided Can- ad's destiny. With the disappearance of Sir Robert Borden from political activities, the trying times 0f Reconstruction suggest only one yire-emniient fig- ure —Sir ’l‘hoiiias White. '

(HPVEIEN M EXT BY (‘OMMISSI(').\'

The Bell government has evidently abandoned all responsibility in matters of administration. The telephone matter which came up the other day the Bell government has handed over to the Board of Trade. .

When the teachers, some months ago, came be- fore the Bell government on the invitation 0f the latter to devise ways and means by which to meet the teachers’ demand for a higher salary, the govern- ment, instead of grappling with the situation, asked the teachers to take a plebiscite and ascertain what the people were willing to do for them.

Yesterdays Patriot announces that a commis- sion was appointed to report, and has reported, upon the condition of the Falconwood Hospital buildings.

, There is in the employ of the Government a highly

paid and efficient Public Works Department with a commissioner in charge, drawing a sal- ary of $1,500; an engineer, salary $2,500; an assist- ant engineer, salary $750; a secretary, salary $1,500 and with travelling allowance of $1,000, with steno- graphers etc making a total of some $8,000. Yet this extravagant Bell government finds it necessary to go outside and appoint a_special commission to re-. port on what repairs are necessary for the main- tenance of the fabric of Falconwood. Was extrava- gance ever so unwarranted, ever so unjustifiable?

Everyone who knows Mr. Shaw, Mr. L. B- Mc- Millan, Mr. McKay, Mr. Bonnell and Dr. Goodwill would have confidence in any report they would make regarding necessary repairs and it is nothing but gross extravagance and disregard for their duty for the Bell aggregation to go outside and employ a commission to report on what is the every day work of the department, itis merely to label themselves as incompetents and unworthy of the confidence of the electorate.

As to the report of the commision itself, if it is anything it is a damning indictment of the incompetence of the Bell government. _On June 24 last the Grand Jury of 24 responsible residents of the province presided over by Hon. James. H. Cuni- miskey, ex-Cominissioner of Public Works in the previous Liberal Government visited Falconwood of- ficially and reported under oath to the Supreme Court that they “found everything in a very satis- factory condition”—not a word is uttered indicating that the building was not in a satisfactory state of repair and no doubt they were shown over the prem- ises by officers who should have been in a position to know‘ whether there was any cause for complaint or need of repair They also visited the Infirmary and reported “everything clean and sanitary.” ,

If there has been any departure from this sat- isfactory and sanitary state of affairs since June it has developed under the Bell regime and they and they alone are responsible and must bear any blame attachable. '

In the past it has been the invariable custom to make any necessary repairs at Falconwood in the fall and neglect on the part of the Bell Government to do this rests on their own shoulders.

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EDITORIAL NOTES.

1703. The loss of property in lion» don nlone exceeded two millions sterling; over 8,000 persons were drowned; twelve men-of-war were wrecked; 17,000 frees were uproted

Those who. on account of lllf‘ severity of fhe pnst winter. are ap- prehensive of a change of climnfe if not indeed o-nofher glacial period.

may find some consolation in the foot, recorded by n recenf London paper, fhhl "the most terrible storm ever experienced in Great Britain “I! in the November of

in Kent; 15,000 sheep were blown info the sen; the Eddysione llglif- house wan destroyed; and the Bish- op of Both and Wells was killed in his Md."

" THECHA

Ludeiiilorii Proves liindeiiliurg Figureliead

Ludenilorffs history of ‘the war which has been running serially in the newspapers for the pasf few weeks, 8w uow appears in book form is p perly called an apologia. or in modern urgot ill] "alibi." if will interest military critics since if is by fhe pen of a great sfrnte- gist and facfician, although be_ tells them nothing that they did not know before,’ and because of the great part played in the struggle by the author, if will remain a vul- uable historical document, enven- omed and biased though it is. it‘ contributes little to the discussion Who won the war? and is probably falsiﬁes fhe record when it under- fake-a to show what or who lost if. Needless to say, the blaime is not. ﬂSSUill/(‘Ll by Ludcndorii‘. if was not the ‘bod generalshlp of tlie‘Gernisn lenders. nor fhe loss of fighting spirit of fhe German soldiers, nor even the ~‘desertion" ‘of the allies, serious though these defections were. The blame for losing the war Ludendorff’ pufs upon the Ger- man people at home, audpurticul- nrly on their politicians. He hardly goes flic length of asserting that but for them Germany would have won llio struggle, but,lie innin- llllllS that it could have been con- tinued ‘lllldrill!’ morulc of fhe civ- iliaii population not been all shot to pieces.

‘The Great Il-"lgure Head

Probably many of us recall iii the enrlicr sfngcs of fhe struggle and ill. intervals thereafter looking n! pictures of llindenburg, and reluc- fiiiilly admitting inenfall-y’ lllilf. he looked more like a great general than any of‘, our own. in facf. fhe picture “'11s nlinosf loo perfect. and nf one ti-ine a rumor ran that Hin- iieiiburg was a legendary character, a niyfh summoned from Valhalla, something like fhe famous "angels 1ft Mons." LudeiidorfPs hook prov- es fliai. the idea was not so fur from the trufli. liindenbug was a flgurehead; he was hauled out of his obscurity when the struggle began because he looked fhe part. liis imposing appearance and his sounding name had a tremendous influence upon the German people. They loked at Hlndeniburg as a ferriﬂc ﬁgure of doom and destiny. They’ erected huge monuments in his honor and drove nails in them to signify their faith in him. l-ils nppezirunce was more strengthen- ing to the Gei-nfan people than were fhe utterances of the Kaiser. Um fortunately he did not get near en- ough the firing line to dnunf the allied troops by his ferocious mug. lie was no dcmi-god ‘to them. Illn- dcnburg or another, what did it matter

Ludemlorff, fne Brains

llindenburg Wils i111 officer on the refired list when the war broke our, nnd whoever exhumed him showed n perfect understanding of Germain psychology. He had the additional advantage of being an aristocrat. Ludeifdorff by all means the finest brain in the German high command, labored under the advantage of being a commoner, but his gifts as .1 highly trained general staff oﬁl oer were known, and in the end Berlin udmitled lliem, though zil- wuys making him subordinate, in appearance, fo Hindenburg. The latter. on t-lie other hand, had en- ough intelligence to realize that liisjcpufnfinn depended upon Lud- eiirl-orff‘, who testifies, perhaps iron-

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Furnlohed by W. 8. LOIIIOII »0-¢+o++‘o~~»no+¢+o+¢00< INTO THE SUNSET

Someday. when Life's evening shades are falling, And the ebbing tide would lull me to my sleep

ant. To where llio golden sunset glids the deep.

l shall look seaward. eagerly, for our the WGSI. Comefh fhe "Boat of Shadows“ still nnd calm; Methinks l'l1 hear amid the chili wind sighing The music of tho heavenly ves/p- er psalm.

And when the tide is surely flow-

ing outward, Slowly, so slowly, toward fhe goiwlng west. l shnll slip oars and lightly follow after

in the golden sunset of my resf. into lhe golden sunset, wave on

wave. Softly and gently, drifting ouf t0 son. No qualms, no fears, for through the minty brightness‘, Dear angel forms l love will bec- ~ kon me.

~Annie M. March.

l shall look seaward, eagerly expect-

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KINGIS COLLEGE

(Toronfbxillobe)

Historic King's College. in Wind- sor, Nona Scofiu, has been destroy- ed by ﬁre. The loss is estimated of. $200,000 with insurance of $45,000. That is u heavy loss materially in these da-ys when rebuilding would mean almost double if not more than double the larger amount men- tioned. Heavier than the ﬁnancial loss is that sustained in the burn- ing of ol:l paintings, books and doc- uments that were stored in a bulld- ing whose history dates bnck- mpre than a century, and which was the home of fhe first university to be set up in the British colonies as fhcy were then. To Nova. Scotiu Lllltl the Maritime Provinces the destruction of this link with the post and training’ place .of the youth of today is n sore blow. it may be relieved somewhat by prompt avid from fife other universi- llcs uiid Provinces of ilie Doniin- ion. Toronto has not forgotten how institutions of learning everywhere cinie to fhe assistance of its own university with volumes and docu» uienls after fhe famous fire flint zleslrfiycd fhe main building in which the library was then Slillilled, and the financial aid that was prof- fered from Ulllﬂl‘ sources. The loss if King's (iollege is (Taiiudzfs loss.

_.__*-¢o>i-- MRS. ASQUITH‘S BOOK

(lWestininsfor Gazelle.)

ll is satisfactory fhot steps have been taken to silence, at least for ilecciii. people, rumors which have been put about very lndustriously

ieally, flint he never iiizidc a sug- gestion flinl iliiidcnburg did not approve. lf is not on record that llindenburg ever made any sugges- tions on his own account. Luden- dorff appears to have been dis- liked by llie Kaiser. He himself ex- plains this on fhe ground that he was no courflcr. At any rate the Kaiser would not have given Luden- dorif (‘Ollllllllllll in the East when fhe war broke out -. lie know, or his experts knew, that lllndenburg wai- not capable of carrying on flie campaign against Russia. So Luri- endoril‘ was sent as hischief of staff.

No Use For Chancellors

There was on understanding be- tween tlie two, or it may have been an instruction from Berlin, that ev- ery order presented for Hinden- burg’s signature should first of all be signed by Ludendorff. IOn one occasion, through an error, Hin- denburg signed an order first, and a. few copies gof out, which should now be worth a considerable sum because of fliaf rarity. If is plain enough that Ludendorff was ham. percd by the jealousy of the Gen- erzil Staff‘ on more than due occa- sion and that if refused fo swiftly reward him for his brilliant ex- ploif at 'f‘iiuneuborg.Tlie war might have been even more costly fo fhe Allies if from flio ﬁrst he had had fhe supreme coninfnnd. Falkcnlinyn disliked him, and if. was not uiifll Verdun had destroyed Fnlkenhayns reputation as a soldier that Luden- dorff, in spite of jealousies we; giv- en nutliorify commensurate with his abilities. Ho speaks Wllll oi Mackensen and with contempt of Moltke, whom ho accuses of being a paciﬁst. Ho had no use for Beth- ma-nn-Hollsvog, whom lie eventually overthrew, but liehiiil no greater luck with fhe Chancellor's success- ors. ' .

No Praise For American;

Sllﬂflkilll; of the lJ-bont dinn- puign, which Bcfliinann resisted f0!‘ a. 1on8 time, though strongly urg- ed by fhnf bearded pirate. you Tir- pltz, the soldier says iliut of ﬂrsi he opposed if. The records show that in the end he advised in its favor nnd coerced fhe Chancellor into accepting it. The possibility "wt if mism firing fhe United States info the war was discussed, buf ll was calculated-flint belforc the United Sfnfes could get an, great force overseas the war would be won. American readers of flu- book will be enraged to ﬁnd fhr German general speaking so slightly about the American influence upon the war. if, ﬁgured in Ludeudorffs mind about ns prominently and dec- isively as Darnguny. lie nnys that the only help the American army gave ‘was to take over quiet sec flonn of the British and French lines and thus release these troops for the real work. Foch's offensive of July 18, 1918, evidently took thi Germans by surprise, throwlm fiiem buck permahenfly on the de- fensive, and in the e it was bud endorrf who insist that an arm lstfce should be asked for]. When the Allied terms were announced he says that he wanted to resunii fhe war, but that the German c'v lllsn population and the Berlin pol iticiano had no heart left for the enterprise.

anorriinown oonnoinn. " '1

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concerning Mrs. ABQlllilfB aufc- graphy. There has been much whin- periug and nudging of QIIIOWBJIIUCI! hinting at inconvenience or scan- dalous revelpflons, some talk of glaring indflscrations. No time has been Iloaf in denying such stories as fodk a. form which made denial pon- aible. As n mutter of fact, there in xro woman of our time -who has better warrant for n book of “My Life." Her whole li-fo has been spent with interesting people since me day, of her girlhood. when “The Glen" was a rallying place for wit and brains. She has lived for u full generation at the very heart.- of political life. She has known ev- eryone nnd she has brought fo the knowledge the koenest and most polished of understandings. To suppose that such a woman should Sll down deliberately to provide muteial for the scandalmongers is merely stupid. m THE TREIE-S IN WINTER

(London Advertiser)

“When l'iii ndveary of ‘fhe babbling world.

its books and all save silent wood- land things,

I rlaiiibtir where llie pine its shad- ow ilings

Over the Ddlll that's ‘round the boulders curled.

And watch the greafuvlllfe clouds slowly by,

flipping their points and spires in- nunierable

info fife wilderness of fhin blue sky "

“TTPOS are the inosf civil society," said Robert Louis Sfevcnsou-“An old oak fhut has been growing \Vllt‘l‘8 he stands since before the Reformation, taller than many spir- f-s, more stately than the greater

. pint of mountains, and yet a living

thing, liahlo to slckiiosses und denlli, like you nnrl me; is not that in, itself a speaking’ lesson in his- tory?" And perhaps nt no time of fho year do the trees make deeper appeal to our sympathies and un- dvrstanrling than (luring fhe winter months when in each fin-y, frail twig there are the marvels of little resting ‘buds wrapped in fhe mys- tery of sleep beside fho leaf sears of fhe season pzist and keeping leaf promises of ilic awakening time to come. Quite secure from the rav- ages of frost and wind and sforin, from the mighty tree trunks and branches, on out and up to the sky fhe ambitious liftle twigs surfing in wind, needless of the drlffing flakes of snow, or stiff little icicles that perch among them, dreaming of iln-inty orlcle nests that will be woven anew near the old ones that still clung to their ﬁngers nnd of lent‘ whispers in fhe days of fing- ling life of the springtime.

"Each softly curled lcnf is a drenm

laid at rest, Thnf was bo-rii in the magic of Spring, _ The fenderest dream of ,1 frail lit- fie fiwig ‘fliat wanted fo let ifs heart sing———-" ' Intricate and lovely fhe inter-

woven designs of the leafless trees stand out against the winter sky with u bcaufy that is hidden in the days of spring and summer. Then do the silvery-coated tree trunks proclaim their strength and charac- ter in their typical branching and growth. Sturdinessof oisk, frailty of drooping popular, delicate, tow- ering droop of elm, rounded sym- metry of maple shelter-seeking dc- pendence of birch are all interest- ingly displayed like ihany person- alities again-st flie~year round beau- ufy and sombre green of pine, tum- u-raclr, hemlock, balsam spruce and cedar, n5 they stand sllonfly in fhe whiife snow in quiet unpretentious winter lovelinr-ss. mm

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COLDS

(New York Tribune)

The logic of colds is simple en- ough ‘flreaf a cold respectfully, snys an‘ exchange. put it to ‘bed for the first twenty-four hours, nnd it will retire from the scene with grace and speed. On tho other hand, ig- nore its existence for a couple of days, and if will gather such sfrenglh that soon you won't be able to think of anything‘ else. Keep up the ﬁght n week or so longer, going about your business as usual, and there's on, even chance, in the present state of health statistics, fbut the cold won't be a cold any more, but will have put on the dignify of inﬂuenza. And inﬂuenza treated with con- tempt can show its mettle by turn- ing info any one of a number ‘of things that are worse. ‘

So much for the logic. If there were nothing involved but a com- mon aenso calculation of probabil- ifies, we'd play safe, obey the Health Department, nnd fake fhe stitch in time that saves nine. But psychology interferes. We qairt-gef rid of the notion that there is something of the mollycoddie about a pe on who given in to a cold or even ‘to n bit of temperature. ~If

domrf seem digniﬁed to go to bod

without a doctor's orders, and if doesn't seem dignified to call a doc- for without having aibona flde, full- ﬂedged illness to show him. Better

small risk of being dubbed a malade imaglnoire. If you do get sick you may blame yourself for foolhardy obstinncy, buf. nobody also will blame you; on the contrary, you will be spoken of as a martyr to dufy and you job. r80 you determine

‘to stick it out, logic or no logic.

lii Samuel Butler's “Erewhonﬂ people thatcommit crimes are sent to the hospital, and people that get sick are sent to prison. There is something to be said for fhe latter part of the arrangement. ,

--'—-<o@---- _N0 ENTANGLING PLANETARY ALiLIANOES

(The Review)

lt is not entirely clear whether fhe prize of 100,000 francs is offered by fhe French Academy of Sciences for fhe besf plan oi‘ communicating with another planet or for fhe ncfunl achievement of infer-plan- etary conservation. On fhe latter supposition if is probable that the prize money, if put out at inter- est, will amount to a goodly sum before it can be awarded. Most of what we hear concerning the plan- et which we happen lo lnhublf tends lo confirm a belief that any other planet ihnf values ifs-self- rospcct and peace of mind will refuse either to initiate or to res- pond to any efforts lo establish a more intimate acquaintance with us. As a rather bright litflo plau- et with a failhful moon at heel, we dare say this world holds a respec- table position among it's fellows in the ﬁrniament, but for our part we love the rest of fhe universal foo much to subject it to fhe dlsen» cliantfiieift which a diiniii-iltlon of distance would inevitably produce.

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WHERE DOES THE WATER IN THE OCEAN GO AT LOW ' TIDE?

To gcf to fhe answer of this you must know stiiiiefliing nlioul the tides. The tide is caused by the pull of the moon on the wafers in flio ocean. Tilt? moon revolves about the earth once each day and has the abilify to draw up the waf- ers in‘ the ocean toward if as we have see-n in our study of fhe tides.

Now, when it is high tide in one place it is low tide in another. The moon does not make more wafer. but only pulls if toward it from side to side. When if is low tide where wo are ‘fhe ‘water has sim- ply nnoved as n-boily toward the place where it is liil-ili fide. '

The tides act ii good deal like a see-sou’, except tllﬂl.‘ 'fhey move from side to side insfeadof up and flown. \When one end of fife see-saw goes down the other end goes down. and when fhe “down" end comes up the other end goes down. So the answer f0 your ques- flon really is thiif at lo\v tld-c ins water which mode if high a ‘few hours before has gone to place where it is at ‘that moment high tide.

-F‘rocin the Book of Wonders. Published nnd ‘Copyrighted by fhe Bureau of industrial Education. incl, Washington, D. C.

WHERE ARE Tlill RIIAPMASTERS

sine-Seeing so many 191L911 l" the press concerning Road Masters and fhe roads in different parts of the island l thought l_would contri- bute a liffle of my own experience concerning a piecel of’ road in llie Norfli (lardigan district No. l bod occasion fo go through gkllfi district lately and found the road iilniosi impossible. l struck on a frail, followed it but like the prov- zirblal squirrel tnick it ended u-p u tree. I made GHQUIITICS obouf- the road master and was told there were two rond imnnfcrs appointed in fhe district buf they did not agree on the lilies to break fhe road. The fwenlfy or thirty chains of road in said district through wood land, called “The Durdanells" is in scandialofis shape. if there was a bell hung up at each end to warn travellers on approach- ing each other if. would help out some.

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