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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°"°*`!" 09° - - -_-_-.-.-_-_-.~ _-_-_-.+_-_-9'.-,».-_-_-f _-,-_-1-_-,_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_» ,_ _-.-_-_-_~_~_~ -.-.-.-_-_-_-.-.-_-_-_-.~.-_-_ OPENING' Of _LEGISLATURE 'l`he Prdvincial Legislature will convene to-morrow# and the formal opening of the House will be more than - ll 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. --->x<--- _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.” -_ - ._ 1. , _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. a is f 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° `_ ` af g»~ ‘the House some time ago-and this gg ‘¢'~'.'’§'iueEalm'