Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 30, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba April the revelations of sir Percy Scott damaging an indictment of a great Public depart ment has hardly Ever been framed by a responsible horseback Riding is great for but its Kinda Tough horse sir Sidney Low in re of All the books dealing with the end published since the one of the most painful is and ineral sir Percy Scotts tears in the Royal Navy John one of that the writer is a Man with a smarting under the recollection that his lifelong efforts to improve the effectiveness and fighting Power of the Fleet were turned Down by those in or adopted too writes at times but on the whole in a conversational with no liter Ary and without that Strong impression of personality which makes Ludendorff and lord Fishers confessions so striking in heir different sir Percy Scott has Only a if a tale to and he tells it in a Plain and unadorned the tale self is it is to be terrible one for it is a sustained attack upon the the the negligence the the want of foresight of the British so damaging an indict ment of a great Public department Lias hardly Ever been framed a responsible and capable i began these notes eleven months ago in suggesting that a thorough and exhaustive inquiry was needed into the operations of our fleets during the and the administration and con duct of Pur everything has since come to Light has strengthened the Case for such an in and sir Percy Scott de ii res the clinching it May be his statements Are incorrect or they need to be authoritatively examined and de finitely even in its present preoccupation with economic and financial problems i find it difficult to believe that parliament can allow this question to rest where it for if Admiral Scotts allegations Are not sheer inventions or Gross distortions of the this was allowed by those who had control of its chief defensive Arm to Drift into a condition of the most alarming and perilous when War broke out in we were torn by anxiety and uncertainty Over Many but on one we were completely we never for a moment allowed our selves any doubt about the maritime that we had not Only the but incomparably the Navy in the world was the unshaken conviction of All some extent we in actual numbers of ships and weight of Arm Ament we of in the Quality and personnel we were equally the War has shown that the British whether of the Royal Navy or of the mercantile i us ill and the British executive officer on Are no Whit inferior to the bestow their a reduces in dauntless courage and heroic in ingenuity and Energy they have been in the end these great added own material and we won the War at sea As we Ana our allies won the War on but our sailors succeeded in spite of ties and disadvantages which Render id their task far harder than it should have and might Well have made it i close sir Jercy Scotts volume with a shudder Over the we and High of thankfulness owing to the of our men and the Providence of we in the surmount sir Percy Scott declares that for Many years the War our Navy had been inadequately prepared and1 equipped for the most important of its duties the fact was Well known to the More Active and capable offi cers of the who made strenuous efforts to Amend the their Effort were Tor the most part Defeated by the obstructive Ness and obscurantism of the authorities at a ship of War is a plat form to carry guns Are be discharged at an enemy in such Man Ner As to do him the maximum amount of what is called gunnery is therefore the most vital element in the naval Seamans knowl it was the subject to which feast attention was paid in the years when our modern was being built no trouble was taken to see that the Sailor was a Good gun Ner who could be relied upon to hit his an officers promotion did cot depend upon the of his men in he did much from his own Point of to devote himself to what sir the result was that in the eighties and nineties of the last Cen Tury tie shooting of the British fleets was deplorable it was Only by the unremitting exertions of a few Resolute of the chief were Scott himself and Jel that the Standard was gradually in years of the pre sent Century there was a great in emulation was set up be tween the various units and squad aped ships the level of Jas about As High Asit was possible to make it with the imperfect so far As it depended in the1 and nerve of the the shooting of the British Navy at the outbreak of the War was but under modern scientific conditions of the naval gunner Are not they Mustbe supplemented by mechanical aids if the Best results Are to be of that is what sit Percy Scott saw at any Early period of his and he spent years in trying to impress upon Whitehall the necessity for introducing into All our gun carrying vessels the requisite machinery and he did not the admiralty persistently rejected is director flyer and improved rangefinders until Long after they had been adopted by our Prinold Oal maritime and they showed i similar dislike to other inventions and adaptations almost equally org what was the result there suit according to sir Percy Scott and his statements Are confirmed by lord Jel hoes cautious was that our Navy went into the great War inferior in some essential matters to that of for the germans had provided themselves with the instruments and apparatus which we lacked As a con in spite of their inferiority in and they had a strength if rightly and boldly might gone far to deprive us of the command of and in prevent us from making the fullest use of Admiral Tirpitz has stated that if to Toad not been thwarted by the politicians and the military dictators he would have sent out the High seas Fleet at the very beginning of the War to try conclusions in a pitched Battle with our main and from sir Percy Scott that it was by no Means certain that the British Fleet would have emerged successfully from the so great was the advantage conferred on the enemy y scientific and me Admira Scotts is a grim Sermon on the text i told you it the admiralty erred it was not for want of the most emphatic on december sir Percy Scott wrote As to Alty the f am some years used a very Good modification the director Timich allows them to fight the Guinis of their ships in As we can not do this it gives Tho germans such a superiority in gun fire that if British Fleet engaged a German Fleet of similar the British Fleet would be badly beaten in moderate but annihilated if it was he wrote again to the same effect on february and More than twelve months was in formed by the lords of the Admir Alty that it was decided forthe pre sent not to adopt his two after these letters were in Good Hope and Mori Mouth engaged the German cruisers Scharnhost and the British ships had no Means of fighting their guns efficiently in such so they were both easily annihilated by the German and Soulon Board them went to the it was what i had sex what i had and what i had strenuously tried to fifteen Hundred Brave officers and men were sacrificed because the admiralty had ships with Means guns in said that the Good Hope and Monmouth no doubt it was but this eats no reflection upon the gunnery ability of Admiral Cradock and his officers and in no Way duet want of skill it was due to the ship jacking the accessory instruments the Good Hope and the Monmouth were without these instr of consequence they were Lively against the throws further i glut of at that Battle the eix ship with Percy Scott Calls for by that Means he acquired Merit in the eyes of his inspecting admirals hardly took the trouble1 to ascertain whether the guns could or whether the Crew knowhow to handle that was a Small in comparison with the smartness which had become the idol of the if the ship looked thoroughly Nice and if it glistened with paint Ari gilding and polished if the men were Well orderly and could go through All their Drill and evolutions Tveith machine like precision and these conditions were fulfilled the ship was favourably re ported and its Captain and com pander and to produce these results the time energies officers and men were so much occupied in House aiding and routine fifties that they almost forgot gun and went about their firing Black and in a most perfunctory Fash ought to have been completely secondary armament he had several ships with their primary Arm fitted he had hot a single Cruiser director firing he had rib zeppelins As eyes to guns were outraged by those of the germans he had to use projectiles inferior used by germans and in firing at night he was utterly outclassed by the it did not a great naval expert to predict what and in some cases Whai the very midshipmen foresaw there were and closes in Satis factory my Demy Tho principal people saunter along rather the love affair is Between a elderly Man and a nurse of Leorae forty years alter much hesitation she Depte his the Tenor of the Book is but it la rather too much weighted with the kind of Moraliz ing which seemed allowable during the tout is rather Boring now that the War is Basil by Eleele Thomas an intimate and conscientious study of a Small College no heroics and no the fussy drama of stimulated to an unusual Point by a hero Long since poor dear by Florence in Putnam new York a gossipy Book about three with the temper of an Angel tout an unattractive exterior conscientious and Nice tout a too direct and daintily pretty but As the Story was written in America and not in one May toe assured commend changing the railway Ter minus from port to fort it is said that ins evid ence which they have heard has been favor of the latter the new Brunswick legislature de mad to hold a referendum on the question of the As provides for a vote of the people on the matter of importation As Well As on the general principle of but an amendment was carried which leaves out the question of importation and this will not foe before Tho people at the coming the Dis Cussion was not on party an optimistic Farmer to the editor of the free press to an article in year Issue of March 16 by of to Cost of stating the latter i preventing him making farming if he is a prewar Farmer and cant make things so there must to a screw Loose and a bad leak some one hears Many pessimists like i Tho above and More especially from that after Many trials Theodora finds the old timer and prewar herself in the arms of her Stalwart f and digging in the Farmer is better off any one in the towns would to hear More from re Cess Ful Farmers As to the raising Grain per Bushel today v prewar Pyramid pile treatment Ort or skid for free just Back from the while Meta reaps the rewards of glancing at the last Page one reads with lips pressed in her soft Lover for director sir Percy Scott had recon the during the accepted the it then it was too Admiral Scott had a a boy of on one of these a week before lie went into action this lad wrote to his father if we have a scrap our gunnery lieutenant says we shall not Lave a dogs As our Etem poised director which we have Rig up is not and the Ger mans can outrage our so t the three cruisers did not have a dogs they were All shot out of and the sixteen year old midshipman was among the Many Brave men and boys who went Down with when we read these things it is easier to under stand Jellicoe would not face the risk of with the Memy or following him up through the if we Are to credit the authority i am we were in the direst jeopardy All through the Early part of he he says that he went to Scapa flow in the autumn of 1914 and had a Long interview with sir John the command Erin chief discussed with him the terrible state of the salient Points of which were that for strategic reasons he was obliged to keep the grand Fleet at that German Aero planes had been Over the and must be quite conversant with the Anchorage of the Leet and the unprotected and that any night submarines might come in and Send the grand Fleet to the when i said goodnight to lord Jellicoe i added shall we be Here in the morn his laconic reply was i won Why the Fleet was not de sir Percy he cannot possibly the German mind could not believe that we could be Sacii As lord Fisher would to place our ships in so dangerous a position and luckily they Wowra not sufficiently enterprising to put the hypothesis to the says Admiral the Ger mans had had half a dozen men of the stamp of our own submarine com we should now be a Ger Man we were saved by something like a Miracle or a series of but Are the British nation and the British parliament con tent to leave the matter there the question is no merely of retrospective what of the future we want the whole Admir Alty system to be examined so As to make sure that the mistakes which might have lost us the great War shall not be is the Admir to go on building fifi million Pound surface which per haps could be destroyed in a few minutes by bomb dropping aeroplanes and super submarines sir Percy Scott and lord Fisher warn us that the Day of the surface battleship is Over it will be superseded by submersibles carrying 15inch or 18inch and by ten of weighing 30 tons and manned by Wenty could carry As much explosive As a dreadnought of on with a Crew of Over that s the opinion of the whose earnings have been vindicated by will their advice be ignored and derided again shall we prepare against the next War a great High was Fleet of huge rendered obsolete by the Progress of Aerial Ransport and subaqueous Taviga Ion look and 1jsteh a a uk10us Tati iat that some Chemis find the of it ant ties Willis and Rural teachers racing by Nat Gould John Nat Gould died last but still nother of his stories has just been like the others it smacks f the the betting and most of the race racing rivals is quite without literary Var style of unconventional conversation Lor the most there re no even in the description f the last great at the end of 10 Book by Max put in the free press report of Williss remarks before the Winnipeg provincial conservatives on monday night appeared the Fol owing dealing with the education ques Willis complained of a change in the Law which prevented third class teachers with three months Normal school training teach no in Rural and said that the Scarcity of teachers might be attributed to in consequence of the they in the Rural to employ second class and were compelled to pay and a he did not aay the teachers were overpaid at but he claimed third class teachers would answer the purpose in the Ordinary Rural school just a in connection with this statement a correspondent very familiar with educational conditions in Manitoba writes to the free this statement indicates on Willis part a very superficial know ledge of the regulations of the advisory which is the body that deals with the standing of the teach neither the advisory Board nor the department of has passed any regulation prohibiting third class teachers from teaching in the Rural in connection with the Normal there Are three courses Given a course of fifteen weeks which entitles the Pupil to a third class i a further course which gives the Holder a Sec Ond class and a continuous course of ten months which gives the student a second class the Entrance Grade to the Normal schools is Grade prior to 1916 the Entrance Grade was Grade the advisory Board in the latter part of passed a regulation Rais ing the Grade and making it become operative on the of the training of fifteen As the minimum of has been Tho Standard requirement for ten it is not the least of the measures to the credit of the present adm Nistra that notwithstanding the time of the strenuous War period they have carried out this proper move ment for a higher Standard for the teaching profession and the Normal schools during the past Winter have enrolled altogether six Hundred and Twenty which number has Only twice been equalled during the past ten of this three Hundred and eight have taken third class professional and nearly All of them Are placed today in Rural schools and receive salaries of not less than a As a result of the Steps taken in Manitoba for raising the Standard a Entrance and extending the period of training in the Normal the provinces to the West have adopted the same work of Empire a new journal of the parliaments of the has made its appearance in the Edi Tor is Howard of the pm parliamentary which As Long ago As to bring out a journal summarizing the work of the Imperial and the Dominion and the first number gives the of a Long and very useful the object is to summarize from the official re ports everything that Haa taken place in the parliaments of the Empire that is of More than local the first dealing with the sessions of last to come 236 of which the Imperial parliament claims Australia new and South Africa from 30 to 50 pages for summary this is rather tout peace debates have swollen the matter to dealt with and there is nothing inthe Long As it is which is not of genuine Imperial in the editor quotes plentifully both from speeches and text of parliamentary and the re sult is a collection of political Evi Dence both authentic and interest the journal covers ground Toft is covered by no other new books the Field of politics name new if one is somewhat bored with pro lems and of new theories and old Max Rob ustious Cowboy Story May toe heartily the ook is filled with lurid from he first chapter till the glows Vith blatant and ends with lie engagement of the indomitable underfoot new York with Sally who runs a restaurant out the actors Are strongly drawn and the action never spiritism and religion by Johan Oxford University the author is a Catholic Ane his Bulky volume is issued bearing he Nihil Obstet of the took Jorether with an appreciation toy car Dinal is weighed in he balance and found definitely Liljencrants has introduced in o his Early chapters an exhaustive View of the evidence which Haa ome to hand in later that adduced by Crookes Myers and Stainton the recorded Phenomena in connection with some of the most celebrated mediums is often n the words of scientific investigate and the opinions of of spiritism the psychic As veil As the physical is subject Lorex pensive examination and after plodding through the mass of evidence s glad finally to come to the stage of Cumming Here the author be comes very in the physical such As material fraud has been so often de acted that one is Apt to suspect that he whole has been a matter of Clever prestidigitation in almost every Case Hose producing the marvels have Een very and there Haa been the inevitable temptation to charlatan by where people have paid or magic and expect to get very is the Dic us Anent the Phenomena coming under the head Here one finds cases galore of educated and Ideal Stic people of sexes feebly or Plum chantly exploring mental and spiritual spheres quite beyond the Range of Normal with due allowance made for thought Transfer ence or Ness and there Are still Phenomena which evade sex the average Reader will still say inasmuch As in the realm of metaphysics there is so much stir that is without much less it is not sur prising that the claims of the spirit its should offer an Galous difficult Doest put he matter away so he makes Tho statement More than once that while the nature of these Phenomena is not yet proof is utterly lacking that their causation is pre finally be says it May be possible that in some cases an in hence has teen present from a spirit world but granting the it is More than Likely that the influence would be of a diabolical the last chapter of the on the moral aspects of is an orthodox refutation of claims that spirit ism is in any sense a Yankee in the British by Ewen Macveagh and Lee Putnam new with lots of Good stories and inter Esting Light upon the great the writers have especially set Thein task Hebri Tosh appointment toy the Dominion government of a permanent Purchas ing of proved capacity and unquestioned to save Canada millions of declares the Toronto it would apply to the vast and complicated National buying the same Businesslike Prin Ciple which is part of the policy of every Large and successful private there was never greater need for efficient methods than the country faces serious financial Obi the people Are experiencing heavy their representatives in parliament ought to deem it a duty to support every pro calculated to save Money for the the Toronto Star also strongly favors the purchasing it says the people of Canada May Well believe that by Many influential firms which have been Selling goods extensively to the country on the old Freean Deasy plan by which any Good fellow in office would always amiably place an order with any other Good fellow who wan edit and who was on the party patronage list Mayi Weh believe that Tho governments determination to create a purchasing commission which will end All is strongly resented by these it is far reaching those who and who want to to the Are out to defeat the but the which does the buying and the pay ought to take a hand in the game and Force the Reform the parliamentary correspondent of the Ottawa journal explains the reason for some of the opposition to the Bill in the House of he nor does the hostility come from the opposition in the very staunchest of assailed the Resolution and furnished the most effective the in is becoming jealous of its deprived of its suspicious of orders and tired commissions it views with antagonism any proposal with1 thei of infringing upon its How Many of them have really i figured As a business Man the increased Cost per Bushel of every Advance in wages on the farm very and the reason must be because they cannot if will not acknowledge the it is the businessmen in our towns and cities who daily Tell the Farmer what farming is costing the old established Farmer and a few of the War time have More Money today owing to the Advance of wheat than they Ever had in pre Var and in spite the of one has Only to take into account their investments in Vic tory subscriptions towards and the lately projected Forward it is he returned men and others on whom the of l Falls the hard and one mind hearing a few kicks coming from the older Farmer had his All found the War As regards an outfit to work one wealthy Farmer with no debts and bushels of wheat in his was kicking about the Price he paid for a business Man took him up and asked Jim what does it matter f it goes to a barrel Are you not the one producing it at first Cost Jim scratched his head and said i never saw it in that Light its the Farmer As a Doest wish to see the nor Swallow it when he does see another an exception to the Manyan old admitted it want costing him much More to Day to farm than before the and lie was a Sample of the every Day one you As to increase in one hears More kicking at Harvest time and when its Only for a month or Why kick prewar wages for stokers were from to and today run from to do Many farm ers know How to figure this increase out per Bushel one if he is 20 a null Haa least one blessed Rel afforded Pyramid p treatment a free trial mall or if cannot wan a 60 cent Box any drag Stoit take a a two Joto the by the top my Turners weekly thinks that the first Plank in the platform of the Independent Walbor party recently framed i Winnipeg is give the party a great Deal of trouble unless they explain clearly How they intend to carry it the clause referred to read the labor party stands for the transformation of capitalist pro Perty into social with production for use instead of we Are says Turners in asking Hoy they propose in How they propose form which is of such a Basic nature and so sweeping in it scope As to Dwarf into insignificance every other Plank in the platform either they have worked out the method by which this is to be done or they if they have should not in their in the first place it gives their opponents an excellent Angle of for it leaves them open to All kinds of charges in regard to proletarian the seizure of bolshevism in and All the in great where such questions have been matters for practical debate for Many they have hot yet brought Forth any scheme which enjoys the support of a majority of even the workers them state and control which was for years the goal of advanced economic has fallen upon evil Days is be ing superseded by a variety of which have this in that they aim at giving the worker at least a share in the control and direction of Tommy with the american once they came to know there was full Confidence and the americans were attached to Tho imperials for but after each was Able to teach the other quite a the House of by the Ryerson lockes new Story has a Farll up in the Mornone feel tar Fine As the remit of atm f o f Pyramid free Sample Coupon pie amid drug 678 Pyramid of Csc kindly Send me a Freo simple of Pyramid pile la Plain Rappr How a Young girl suf Ebeb Tua was restored to 4j Lydia l Pinkham yes Chile by Ler f t air is cer Agi me an lat Del sip int res bul cd any or Stook acres in a 20toushel according to this is 400 and at increase Means Only Cost of stocking 30 40bushel stocked will be per in a the acreage before the War it was costing the Farmer be tween Goc and 75c per Bushel to grow and Market his Grain and he received 90c per a profit 15c or 20 per i doubt if it is costing a but will say and he receives a profit of 90 per or 70 per cent and As 75 per cent of the Farmers living is found on the what does it matter if such things As Tea and sugar have doubled m Price yet the Farmer will Send his Money to the mail order House sooner than see his merchant who carried him Many a year inure War Days make his 25 and of per cent profit and lose a few thousand bad in spite of what the Earmer is exorbitant i have just started farming my buying implements and but prefer being an Optimist it Dia Pink hams vegetable com Pound enough for bit it has done for my she in 15 years of in sickly and Aid in had to Ebay borne Irani school Moat of the i she suffered agonies from 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