\g._;_ ‘hill x.,-'_ if-'I 3.-if fl *‘ '.3 ‘ i ,ii eil iflli. up _ iii-_-gp-,~ gf! ` rl _< i.»A>, 2, ; ii _ - li I 'fo ~ , Y -.j f » i;¢_ I Ei_"\ Y ;~ -1 "If 2.1 " ig l “fffi.'j_- i" iiif ..f ._ rif _ Sf ,|7 fi .r-_ ii _+ , I \:. ,V V. H, j; _;,~i lr - S f- ":f». fi' §_ { _1, .il . _,L _ XJ. {‘ Il, Lil I . . . . ;_ il- l ‘lil ." ¢~». *;_.-=- ‘i vii _.__ » ». 4 it .1 3"- an'd fraternal societies in allthe centres, _ventory of the man and woman resources an ,__ . f-5*. / 1 be sworn in as deputy registrar. (delivered er bp . ,_ mph' _;u_,_!___________“` _ _ . _THE RED RAG _ __ Ofllol li li|ll-*‘the daringzn ‘ _ ~. causeway; s . ~ i.. - r 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. 0111’ 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 )0( “iv-i~:'Li. snow Tiinm" 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 °if¢'if}°u`§’3§i’§iI-`.il'$§1l°iiL“tii5‘§ liflf Xi5"Z‘7i‘i“..i.‘.’.’I.‘,"£`i‘,’§?..f’~l"’ ‘hm ’°°“ '°°’ s-‘7€5“3’-1»?5°-$3Z“.!?f»-‘ifi-li; ‘Ji-‘iii lil( orspadeaiaie ' _ ‘ _Norse ~ "‘°*°’°"""°' _ ~ i J Early in United used WSI' ‘I Y half hours' ' flying. The Fokker, 0 operating always behind ithq Cer- ills y when war ‘broke out. He .nan lined, carried only enough fuel W `or two hours' flying. In his Fokker W » Acts -have been done under this fn- 5 MEN` ll, _ 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