Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 28, 1915, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section 1 to 16 Winnipeg wednesday april 28, 1915. And Telephone Manitoba. H . General 6340 private Branch i All departments Day and Leht Pallu Cser sue. Soo mailers build los. Koom 506, no. 1 West representative Canada life bul Loloi. Larse. B9 Ludgate Hill. London u a at the soneral Post office. In Elart for transmission through in Tho British Isles at Inland Edom of Trade Liberty in re Ligion Equality in civil rights. Wednesday april 28, 1915. The latest Beason. An apology in Advance for a i general election seat out from Flat there ought to he election because the liberals broke the party truce by exploit for party purposes any do ii cuties which 1ho government might encounter within the stress Ami urgency of mobilizing or Jaii icing and equipping within a Lew weeks a Large expeditionary this is a euphemistic Way of saying that the practical politicians Are annoyed because the. Eral members turned the search Light upon the grafting and Swindl ing lat went on under cover of patriotism while the first contingent were being equipped. The people do not Shaie this annoyance. On the contrary they rejoice that there were members of the House who forced investigations and conducted before the committees an enquiry that uncovered no Means the crookedness that attended the expenditure of several Mil Lions of dollars for War purposes on. The basis of the greatest possible re suiting Good to the greatest number of party hangers on. Is it not probable that one of the reasons Why a general election is to urgently desired by some of Pur political worthies is that they Hope to continue the methods which have resulted in so much private profit and so much National disgrace and prefer that the inevitable exposure which will follow shall come in the first session of a new parliament in. Place of the last session of an old parliament of course they think that with a party Chest full from the Rake offs on War contracts they can they want to get it Over with so that they will have a Clear Field for plunder. However they May find that if they go to the people the people will go to them in a manner As painful As it will be enlightening. The govern hem s of Buchas Coa Nassios. The names of the business men to Are to constitute the Purchas ing commission for the government now been announced. The Pur c 1 pose of this commission As an in bounced to parliament by the prime sinister is to buy the supplies Here a Fakier needed for War purposes thus eliminating the middlemen and re saying the possibility of a recur rence of those irregularities which the earlier operations of the government. The commission is to be made up three Well known business Hon. A. A Kemp of Toronto a Mem the of the government without port Folio sex mayor Laporte of Mon Treal and Geo. F. Gait of Winnipeg. This is a commission which if it operates on purely business Linos Mth a View to securing the greatest possible returns for the Money out a can do this country great ser vice. This Community certainly has great Confidence in or. Geo. F. Gait who has been for thirty an outstanding figure in the business life of Winnipeg while in Montreal r. Laporte has an equally High standing in or. Kemp the coun try will not have equal is an Active politician and a file Ember of the government. It was Jar. Cemp who some few months ago took occasion to declare to a Toronto that there had not been and not be any truck Between the political parties of Canada during a continuance of the War. A Man m strongly partisan As this is pretty to be ready and willing to see at the moneys voted by parliament for War supplies Are so expended As 10 Oring a maximum of advantage conservative party. The Public ill however Hope that his associates win succeed in impressing upon the necessity of having this Pur chasing done on strictly business lines. The Success or failure of the Coin Mission will depend largely upon or not it accepts the patronage system which has hither to been strictly enforced in every j cd relating to War purchases. The patronage system not prevent the Purchase of supplies on a business basis. There Tew York times Thiris was written or at least dictated in Berlin or Adami shows How futile and stupid hat propaganda. Has been. Germany May coach h her own people but not rec Neutral nation like the unite 3tat is. We remember Barrie s or prophecy last autumn in such coach no. Or. And Ami by Post a pack age of leaflets published in English an issued regularly by the Central boar of Commerce in mad to fit within Ordinary letters from Ger Many to american correspondents. Consigned it to professor Leacock knowing his fatherly interest in the Canadian Royal mail Man other leaflets and pamphlets still no from gel Man sources to the America outlet. I have seen Many of these and their perusal makes me rub m head in wonder whether the. Upper most warlord and is advisers Regar the Ordinary american As having the level of intelligence of a twelve Ryea old child or whether after All i a not such a tame cat of a an ._.67.6 ,74.6 s6--" 91-8 coldwell forgets earlier years. It suits or. Coldwell o purpose to fake Only the last three or four years showing a steady and fairly pronounced Rise. And for this Rise he claims credit chiefly Lor or Billiarde and the so called truancy act but unfortunately for or. Coldwell s argument or. Billiarde and. Hia so called truancy officers have been operating in Winnipeg since 1908. And during the whole of that time or. Coldwell and Premier Roblin Havn been pointing to or. Billiarde and Liis so called truancy officers As a substitute Complete and. Satisfactory in., every Way for compulsory education. So according to or. Coldwell s argument we have a right to Ash How it comes that under the Billiarde re Gime attendance fell from 66.5 per Bent in 1909 taking the column of total enrolment to 64 per cent in 1910, with a further fall to 63 per cent in 1911.7 or taking the monthly enrolment basis of comparison How was it that the percentage fell from 86 in 1908 when by. The , mr., Billiarde and his truancy officers started into 85.1 in 1909 84.4 in 1910? in. 1912 the percentage 011 this basis fell to s4.3, but Tho following year Premier Hoblyn told us in that famous Minnedosa speech that Manitoba had the most effective compulsory attendance Law of any province or state the Dominion of Canada or the United states. And yet for three or four years inauguration of this perfect Law the percent age of attendance in the Public schools of Winnipeg steadily fell or. Collwell wisely says nothing about these falling percentages but when they he sin to Rise to and be hold tha Riss in due to his famous. Truancy Why attendance improved. The truth is that neither the falling period nor the rising period had any to improve be Winnipeg pub Lic schools it May not be out of place to Bug Gest that the educational Campaign of the free press and the de mands of the Manitoba Liberal party have been much More effective than anything. Or Billiarde and his. Political co workers have done. For or. Coldwell to claim credit for Tho improvement is a splendid Sample of nerve. For Long years or. Coldwell contended that compulsion in school attendance was a delusion and a he quoted in the legislature elaborate statistics to show that it had been a failure wherever tried. And when finally dra goofed and goaded by Public opinion into of attitude he dresses a the neglected. Children s act to make it look like a. Genuine Cor Pul Sory measure asks for credit of something the neglected children act did not accomplish. From the Golden books. A Eulem. By Georgo lust breathe trumpets breathe slow note of Saddest sadly responsive peal be muffle the War Day by Day the situation North of tires Fol employment by the germans of a owing the great Rush by the Ger mans and the counter attacks by the allies is gradually being revealed t leaves the germans for the time at any rate with an Advant age though much less than they expected to gain and at one time Hought they had gained. What the germans accomplished by their drive was to drive the allies out of the Dis Rich lying Between Langemark and St. Julien to the East and the tires canal from Het Sast to Stee Straate o the West that is to say they drove into the allies line a wedge a mile and a half wide at its base but tapering to half a mile. At the canal. By a second attempt the germans crossed the canal and seized the vol age of Luzerne half a. Mile to the West. This represented the achieve ment of the drive at its maximum. The British counter attacked from the South while the belgians and French met the drive by a frontal assault and also by pressure from the North. The canadians led off in the counter stroke. They move North Between the canal and the Road running from tires to Pool which Widen forming two aides of a Triangle. They drove the germans who were advancing towards tires forbidden weapon of poisonous gases said to be chlorine. The Hague convention forbids the use of asphyxiating bombs but the germans Are hiding behind the argument that they spread the gases not by bombs but by utilizing Tho wind when it blew upon the enemy trenches. This is a characteristic display of the slim Ness of Kultur. This of course is a game that two can play at and it is not probable that French and British chemists will fail to devise a counter stroke. The germans apparently counted much upon the Surprise of this barbarous expedient and their Small net gains in View of their heavy losses will probably appear to Tho German authorities altogether incommensurate to the Effort employed by the German staff. The dispatches Sug Gest that the German attack has virtually spent itself which if True tells against the theory that this action North of tires was Tho first action of an offensive on a wholesale scale by the elsewhere Tho German offensive does not appear to be prospering yesterday the germans reported tha they had re captured from the French Hartr nans welter Hopf Tho height to the Northwest of thann which dominates the Plain towards mul Hausen. The French report adult tet that they had been forced from the Summit by artillery but stated tha 1 t ,7 Summit of Ariu Iury but. Back into St juliet., while trenches just Over West they pushed Sti further North t w Yards and recaptured the Village of Filkey. The original British lines appear to be intact with the exception of St. Julien which hands. Is still in German at Portage. David h. Scott was elected Warden o Woodlands. The Marquis of won has been appointed Viceroy of India by the new Gladstone ministry. Thirty years ago a ladles voluntary Relief society was organized in Winnipeg with Amos Howe As president. To the female franchise clause struck out of the franchise Bill who under consideration Ottawa. D d Mann has tendered for railway construction work in Newfoundland work on and dumb Institute Corner of Portage and Sher Brool Street is about completed. Twenty years ago in enormous Reservoir near Panal France gave Way and Many villages were inundated. Winnipeg Odd Fellows attended Church at holy Trinity where they Ca to my reason has evaporated so that m cannot make of tical deductions fro the data put Forward in Germany defence. When in one and the Sam Issue of the hande Stag Flimsy i Fli Hong to do with or. Billiarde arid is truancy any Educa zionist knows perfectly Well that it s one of the commonest of Pheno Lena to find school attendance Good using periods of Trade depression acid correspondingly to find it bad using periods of commercial and Industrial Prosperity. This we repeat Well known educational phenom the Pean from professor Helfferich upon Ermany s preparation and organza observed. A for the War not Only in the Mill e of the word but financially in places where no compulsory a dts action statute exists As in Winnipeg and where conditions of child labor , also As in Winnipeg where o our Las Ting shame be it said the age in the factory act was actually powered where these exist the above mentioned phenom Ena Are Apt to be emphasized. Chiefly in High schools. If or. Coldwell had wished to speak As an educationist and not As a politician he would have de the remarkable and very Welcome Rise in the percentages of attendance for 1914. The explanation As Given to the free press by officials of the Public school system is that owing to the Trade of the severest Manitoba has Ever sex has prevailed for the past two years or More a great Many children have gone to school because they could get no work. This is the Good which the ill wind has blown to a Good Many children in this City and province. Most of them will be thankful for it As Long As they live. The free press is informed that the increase in attendance in 1914 has been most marked in the High schools and top grades of the elementary schools. Indeed we understand that the increase Here la twice that of the increase in the mid dle and lower grades of the element Ary schools. Speaking generally it will be seen that the period of fail ing attendance synchronized with the period of Good Trade which lasted roughly from 1909 to 1912, while the period of improving attendance synchronizes with the present de pression. Problem Stilt unsolved. Winnipeg of course is not the Only City where this phenomenon of improved school attendance in time of Industrial depression is to be it is to be observed All. Comrades with downcast eyes an muskets trailing attend him Home the Youthful War rior . Upon his shield upon his shield return Ine borne from the Field of Batto when he fell glory and grief together clasped i mourning his Fame Hub Fata with sobs exulting Tell. Wrap round his breast the nag Bis breast defended his country s Flag in Battle s front unrolled for it he died on Earth forever ended his Brave Young lives in each sacred fold. With proud proud tears by tinge of shame untainted him and. Lay him gently in his grave. Above the hero write the Youns half sainted his country asked his his life the on the Rue do Bolt. O pallid Christ within this broken shrine. Not those torn hands and not that heart thine have Given the nations Wood to drink a like wine. Through weary years and Neath the changing skies i Fen turned their Back on those appealing of yes and scorned As vain thine awful sacrifice. Bangs with their armies children in their play. Passed a needing Down this Shell 1 ploughed Way world knew not where its True strength Lay. And. Luxury in lust of Gold. In selfish ease in pleasures manic id evil is Good Good evil we were told tet Here where nightly the great flare a gets gleam and murder stalks triumphant in their beam. The world has wakened from its empty Jal reports which Are the Vienna reports which Are not much better we have four sets of official French Gorman and. Russian. Every War office in Assn link hese reports keeps in mind their possible effect on Home and Neutral Blic opinion and the extent of the a formation thus furnished Trio enemy. They Are therefore not to _ to relied upon a telling the whole Story. Alter checking these reports for months the verdict must be that Jie germans Are the least reliable. Yench British and russian reports Are often marked by discreet but aggravating omissions but any specific statement in Thorn can fee believed. The German reports while also Cap Able of a discreet i reticence Are often marked by evasiveness exaggeration1 and Toast fullness. In particular to German War office cannot resist a. Weakness for grossly exam Seratino their captures of men and guns. 1 he German people so travellers from that country report Are childishly eager to hear reports of the capture of prisoners and guns and when any action. Bast or West gives an Opportunity they multiply their pains ten or Twenty times. The French on Tho other hand rarely give statistics about prisoners although they have captured Large numbers of them since last september nor have they anything to say about their casual ties. There has been nothing in this War More remarkable than the re serve and Belt control of the French they leave it to the germans do the loud talking Ancl vain boasting. The French reported on sunday that they with the belgians had re captured Luzerne and driven the Ger mans across the canal. This was specifically denied by. The germans in their official report of monday. It is now Learned that Luzerne twice changed hands. On saturday the French retook it Only to lose it again on the following Day on monday however As the germans now admit the French again took Luzerne and drove the germans Back Over the canal. The French and the belgians also crossed the canal and captured Het Sast half a mile to the North. The germans claim still to hold a position on the East Bank of the canal. Into this narrow salient they have rushed batteries of heavy Artil Lery with which they Are trying to Shell the railway station at pop Peri Nghe about ten Miles to the Southwest. If the French still hold Bix schoote a Little to the and there has been no report of its German salient which Here reaches the tires canal must be very narrow subject to attack both from North and South. Apparently there has been considerable fighting Between Bix schoote and Dix Mude but details Are not available. The German Success in the first instance was due to the unexpected of the Summit. Yesterday the Frencl re captured the Summit and advanced. Some distance Down tile slopes towards the German positions this was followed by German counter which were repulsed. Thus the German attack in Tho Vosges has made no anything Tho French position is slightly improved. The same thing can be said of the German offensive in the St. Michlel wedge. It is probable that Germany is making her greatest Effort Here in an attempt to Widen the sides of the great salient and thus bring the Ger Man lines nearer Verdun. The Ger mans have within the past week made attacks in at Les a pages on the Northern Side of the wedge in Billy Wood near the apes at St. Michlel and in the Bois Lepretre near font a Mousson. These Are at which the e Rench the nibbling tactics have made substantial gains during the past six weeks. The French claim that in the fighting at these three Points they have not Only held the germans in Check but have themselves made Progress. This it is True in in Fiat contradiction to the German report which claimed a substantial Victory with the capture of guns com Bres near Les a pages. Some Days ago. This raises the question of the relative reliability of official reports leaving to one Side the turkish offi i birthday congratulations to j april John c. Baton born to Ronto. 1s7u. Or. J. R. Homer born Newport Monmouthshire eng., 1848. Or. J. A. Douglas Winnipeg t born Ontario 1s74. April w. Legi Midiero St. Born St. Boniface Man., 1860. J. K. I Clunis born 1.851. Hon. J. B. Prince born St. Gregoire 1865. Hon. E. Watson born Elora ont., 1s53. G. H. Stead Xiru , eng., 1s7d. The Point of View is c. H. A 1 the present tendency to gloom should the Ray of Hope Illume. If everybody says we re busted depressed Exhur Wood and disgusted our pockets empty House.3 Baro jobs cant be had. Sir any ii this is what they All do say. Things will be so until the Day the Blithe some Optimist holds Sway. runs away with us. We follow on like sheep. When others cry we Fain would weep. So let the Emile replace the frown tis Best to Rise when one is Down. If we d rejoice instead of drizzling. Fewer in hades would be dream. At last o Christ in darkened land this strange where ruined Homes lie round on every hand deeper truths men come to understand. For lonely Graves along the country where sleep those Brave hearts who for others died Tell of life s Union with the crucified. And new Light Kin sea in the Mourner s eyes like Day Dawn breaking through the Rifted skies for. Lire is born of life s self sacrifice. Frederick be Obb Scott holy week Northern France. Robin redbreast Optimist. Yesterday while we were digging at a Flower bed and rejoicing that Spring with that nameless pathos in the air which dwells in All things fair. Spring with her Golden suns and Silver rain is with us once a Robin fee breast who had been hopping in the grass chirping cheerfully his invitation to All and sundry to come outdoors and rejoice with him in the arrival of Spring and who on our Entrance on the scene had Avi ated to a Low and convenient limb of a near by tree scolded us for not going away after turn ing up a few shove Fuls. Wanted to Prospect for Worms in the freshly up turned Earttie. A Cheeky beggar he is and with his mate has built in that same tree several years. He knows us and we know him. We always Hail him As the Harbinger of Spring. He is the bearer of a Friendly infection the spreader a wholesome contagion of cheerfulness. Our interview with him yesterday morn ing made a Fine beginning of the Day. A Day which should have been signalized by the writing of a Spring pome instead of a political often we let our impulses go unrewarded toy Sens y and economically with other Para is demonstrating that graphs demonstrating Long i finance had Beer caught Nap one while simultaneously evidence s brought on the it 1 confess that i cannot make the to positions concerning Belgium s distrust of Germany and he of railway m for those strategical Imes ending on her Frontier with Tery Grisdale. Addressed by very Rev. Al in the open Plata does sat 4thre the dwellers in the Tonj states whom Yernberg is so anxious a Tate a no win to though a Man palpable signs. Does or. Adam believe that Ger Many will realize that every time her open their Mouths they nut their feet into them my space is up. Without touching the Best article in the number. Professor Colby s review of Craib s Germany a in Island without a word on the a portraits and illustrations equal by in the great English illustrated weeklies. The Bookman. The old Soldier. By a therrie Tynan. Lest the Young soldiers be strange in heaven god bids the old Soldier they All adored come to. Him and wait for them clean new striven a Happy door keeper to the House of the lord. Lest it affright them the strange new splendor lest they Bash them the new Robes clean Here s an. Oldi face now Long tried Ana tender a word a hand clasp As they troop in. My he greets them and heaven is homely he their great Captain in Days gone o or. Dear is Tho Friend s face honest and comely waiting to Welcome them by the strange door. We Hope to by Austin Dobson in tha Spectator Abou Bob Rogers and the Angel. Abou. Bob Rogers soon have ease from cares of state with sudden snort and wheeze awoke night from dreams that he was great and saw an Angel who above his Pate a Halo of Bright Tungsten bullets wore and his White nighty trailed upon the floor. The Angel was Quick and sometimes slow Click Click Ity Ding Click Elick. What write Abou asked half sleepily. Lists of men s what list then sked he prime ministers to the Angel said. At this Abou at once sat up in bed and said now Well talk business put me Whereat the visitant at first looked vexed but soon he smiled. I be other lists to ill come and vanished. With White stripes and it looked Fine when he was trying it on tues. When he begins wearing it he will be Tho cynosure of All eyes. When we met him at tailor s tues. Trying it on and wearing his pleasant manner and a Check ered Vest it is always a pleasure to meet the Doc thought to. We had the pleasure tues. Aft. Of seeing our genial mayor on main St. Wearing silk hat and a Cane he being on his Way to some important function no doubt. He looked o.k., never fear and greeted us cordially. He is not puffed up with his dignity Ever the same old Dick to one and All. Many admiring glances Are cast at the boys of the Gallant 43rd, from the Gallant col. Thomson who leads the Way to major Grassie who brings up the rear. Comparisons Are odious As Shakespeare says and where All Are so handsome and soldierly it is impossible to discriminate but be editor has More than once heard specially admiring remarks from one and about capt Scroggie As the regiment swings by with its martial stride. The regiment is still wearing its plaid pants but we understand that the Kilts will soon be donned now. With the hot weather now hand the uniform without pants Over the Knees has its decided advantages through when we think of the mosquitoes it must be admitted that perhaps there is something to be said on the other Side As Well. No doubt the Canadian club will be having another luncheon party again pretty soon we opine. Spring housecleaning is the order of the Day in ;