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MONDAY, JUNE 14th, 1915

PATRIOT 'CROOKEDNESS

The hopelessness of answering certain persons accord-

ing to their folly has long been recognized. More hopeless

,still is it when the folly is supplemented by deliberate

crookedness. The Patriot in an endeavour to justify its untenable position on the subject of statistical returns con- tained in the last school report begins with the state- ment tliat “there was no school report for the year ending June 30, 1914." in the last school report, part two, which is confined wholly to statistics, consists of 43 pages of mat- ter specifically described at the top of each page in bold black type “statistical tables for school year ended June 30, 1914."

This constitutes The Patriot‘s premise for its concul-

sions. When tlie premise: is wrong. it follows that the conclusions based thereon are wrong also.

in order to buttress its contention the Patriot grafts

on the statistical report for school year ended June 30, 1914, the supplementary report for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 1914, and arrives at certain conclusions which ure

The only basis of comparison possible in the mutter o

statistics is the school year i`or which official reports nr tabulated. it was on these reports that the Superintenden of Education made his comparisons when he reported only one vacant school for the school year ended June 30, 1914, the only period for which he had complete statistics. The periods for which inspectors Cain, Fraser and Boulter re- ported are the first half of the current school year, which is not yet ended and for which complete statistics for pur- poses of comparison will not be available until June 30.

Our esteemed Contemporary knows this just as well

as we do, but lt attempts to get over the difficulty by stat- ing its authority as “thc report we supposed covered the fiscal year 1914.”

The Patriot further attempts to justify its‘misrepre

sentation by stating that Mr. Richards quoted the words of the Superintendent of Education, and then proceeds to give a quotation from the Superlntenrlent's report as though that were what Mr. Richards said. Mr. Richards did not quote literally the Superiiitendent's words. This is the gravamen of our charge. Mr. Richards distorted the report and made it appear that “there are many't.eachers receiving no benefit from the supplement clause," whereas there were only two teachers so affected.

It should he remarked that it is not always easy for

the uninitlated to follow the criticisms of Mr. Richards and The Patriot. For instance Mr. Richards, in his budget speech, instead of criticising the report of the Superinten- dent of Education for 1914, which was before the House, referred back to that of 1913 and even then misrepresent- ed tho facts. Mr. Richards stated that according to his calculations from the inspectors’ reports, “one-half of the schools were poor,” whereas the Superintendent's 'report stated that “two-thirds of the schools were good and the remainder poor." Anyone taking the trouble to peruse the reports will find that, after making every possible allow- ance for “state of repairs," "construction of buildings,”

etc., only 132 schools are designated by the Inspectors as poor.”

this, which is inaccurate, the proportion would be onl one

Contemporary on its consistency, for in spite of its tw

their folly.” , rin: American Nora

. . , D 8, more remarkable for what it does not contain than for any thing in it. it is difficult to find in it any cause for the re

and more difficult. still to discover the thunder forecas

ances there is nothing said. The document is-long an worded with scrupulous care to avoid giving offence.

ed would be avoided. » ,

Our tslegrams from Berlin yesterday moming state

there will be more letters before hostilities begin.

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MOTHERS OF SPARTA

as did their fathers of old. Another correspondent writes:

"With your shield, or on it.” The counsel of the

Spartan mother to her warrior son finds echo to-day in s million hearts. We have been told of a Russian mother

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misleading anti incorrect.

1 rule. There in lies, perhaps, the exposure of the incom-

bkimgs “S back 1° U10 Doint at which we started. namely t e hopelessness of answering certain persons according to

The American note to Germany, the full text of which

‘was published in Saturday's Guardian, like the ordinary speech from the throne,” to use a hackneyed hi-as is

- she could-- = -' -

signation of that noted pacifist, William Jennings Br an

to her than it means even to a. router; so tender. B0

idea. of the matrlarchate. Paternity might be a thin: of doubt; the bond with the mother is indissoluable. indisputable. ln giving her son she gives a part of lii° itself. bone of her bone and flesh of her flesh in a. sense_ that the father can scarcely realise. Be it not ours I0 set lightly by his sacrifice, but in the nature of thins: the last poignancy of loss is to the mother. The greater. therefore, is her heroism when she yields her dearest possession to her country, uncertain of the issue, but very certain that she must see her s0n's face again with honour, or nevermore. ‘ 1 -_ ‘ _

If her son return in honour, well. 'But in the hour of

parting even that hope cannot asstiage what is indeed the instant bitterness of death. At. the moment she bid! him go, she has already counted the cost. The sacrifice is made as completely as if, his name wereeven now in that dreaded telegram which, for many days to come. she awaits as the first, the only news. And every day is a new martyrdom, carried with the bravest outward cheer- fulness. And not outward only, for it is the healing com ensation of this supreme devotion that it brings a

the worst event befall, cannot kill. The hero's mother is elect among women, her consolation is unique, supreme. For her the fallen remains an exquisite vision, she sees him not, but yet she sees him stlll,_beautlful as he is realised in the Martial Elegy of Tyrtaeus. which enshrines for all time the image of-

The hero boy that dies in blooming years, ln man's regret he lives, and woman’s tears; - More sacred than in life and loveller far For having perished in the front of war.

But with all the pride, the solemn joy of the mother

lu her vicarious service to the nation, her suffering in time of war, come well or ill to her soldier, is likewise ia thing apart. For since it is her own body and spirit that she has offered to the cruelty of the foe, her agony is not the agony of the wife or sister or daughter. Her memories and thoughts are not as theirs. The things she keeps in her heart are too sacred to bear recounting here. But they command our utmost silent reverence, for *they are of the very essence of her ordeal.

The mother’s is the acme of good citizenship. when

she permits--nay, urges--her son to take up arms for his country. And she is none the less ready, even when the causes that demand the sacrifice are rooted, as now, in ironic mystery. Well might woman’s heart rebel

f against the present dispensation of Fate, the insolent

presumption of aforeign military caste that has doomed-

; in sheer wantonness-so many to untimely death. But

woman is quick upon the point of honour, however cynics may traduce her on that head. And here, between nations. as formerly between man and man. We have Once m0l'e. in old Bradwardine’s phrase, the “ punctilio of the duello." Deep in the hidden nature of things it is decreed that when matters come to a certain pass between individuals the life of one or the other is no longer possible.. Such a condition may be forced by the guilty arrogant upon the innocent unoffending; but in certain relations the innocent may no longer decline the wnger of battle and keep his honour bright. Not even a vaunted twentieth-century civilisation has been able to withstand that old barbaric

pleteness of that civilisation. The fact remains that force wrongfully applied can only be met and conquered by righteous force. And in the contest mothers’ sons must bleed and die. The answer of the Allied mothers has been clear and in the right Spartan vein. And it only heightens the present world-tragedy that the mothers of the enemy have replied in like manner. 'Therein ls the foe doubly formidable. and we do well to see that our armour is of proof against the day of decision. When that day has come and gone, and we greet the returning and commemorate the unreturning brave, let there be laurels also for those silent fighters who, to their joy or sorrow, have laid their motherhood upon the altar of patriotism.

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ln the United States press while the note was in process of preparation. It objects on general principles to the indis- criminate murder of Americans on the high seas, "solemn- ly" refers to previous similar objections and asks for as- surances tliat the like shall not- occur again. As to what may happen if this sort of thing ' is repeated, or how much time the Germans are to have in which to give the assur-

That. it will disappoint the great majority of Ameri-

cans ls to be expected. It vit\q_,’.',fparleylng with the tiger and the hyens” which the American press had anticipat-

ln another column an aged clansmsn makes appeal

to Scotsman in the Island to respond to the fiery cross

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And one a new-made tomb.

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that the German press regarded the note as "very con- |05 clliatory in tone"-and it certainly was. in all probability

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ue when compared' with the subioctlonof men and their rulers to the principles of justice, if indeed it be not more true that these mighty spirits could not 'have been formed except under equal "laws, nor roused to full ec- ilvity .without the ,influence of that spirit which tus' '“gr'e£`t'charto'r breathed over their forefathers."

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passes the following elo _ _ "__,_!.__',_,-ni-\ _ _ __, _ ` quent eulogy upon the Mag- tlngency with ‘ `~="- ' V - na Charts' “To have pro-

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third of the number of teachers which in 1913 totalled 588. ` , ~T ®\

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