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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17038, 23 June 1917, Page 8

A few protests are being expressed against the intention of the' Government to call up the members of the Second Division for military service. We have no special rea-. son to suppose that these represent the feeling of most, or even of a majority, of the members of the Second Division, 'on the contrary, we are satisfied that the eligible married' men of the dominion entertain a very strong sense of the responsibility that rests upon them. A consider-: able number of them volunteered long before the obligation of military service was laid directly upon them. , The casualty lists of this week bear their own testimony on this point, recording, as they do, the fact that twenty-eight married men in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces had made the supreme sacrifice at the front and that 146 others had been wounded. The spirit which induced these men and other married men to enlist animates the majority of the members of the Second Division. It is not claimed by them that they are exempt from the obligation to defend their country, nor does any country admit that its capacity to defend itseli has been exhausted when it has called to arms all its eligible single men. It will not be pretended anywhere that it is not deeply to be Tegretted' that the need to rail married men to the colours should arise. It is a need which was not contemplated when the scheme of war pensions and allowances was framed, v and that scheme will have to be revised in view of the fresh conditions that are now presenting themselves. Mr Beauchamp, speaking at the ahn-ual meeting of the Bank of New Zealand yesterday, expressed the opinion that a serious dislocation of the labour market was to be expected and that many industries must be affected when the" Second Division is called up. It would be idle to assert that it will not be so. But no one would have been bold enough to say at, the beginning of the war that the industrial life of the dominion would not have been gravely dislocated by the time that 70,000 to 80,000 of the young manhood of the country had entered the military service. The essential industries will have to be protected by the exemption of indispensable members of the Second Division, but it is futile to suggest that the married men, as a class, should be freed from the obligation of service. That very vexed question, the cost of Eving in war time, received some attention from Mr Beauchamp in his speech yesterday at the annual meeting of the Bank of New Zealand. Mr Beauchamp referred to the misconception which exists in the minds of many people as to the causes of the increased cost of living that is pressing rather hardly to-day upon people of fixed and limited incomes. It is not the actual fact that the high, prices for imported commodities of every-day use Me in any appreciable degree attributable to the action of traders in seeking to make increased profits during the war. The first cost of these article* has increased enormously as a result of war conditions, and freights and other charges have been doubled', if not trebled. The case of the produce and manufactures ( of our own dominion is, of course, somewhat different, but it has to be remembered that the prices of New Zealand products are governed hy the value of the goods in other markets, or, hi war time, by the rate which the Imperial authorities are willing to pay. In any circumstances it is futile for politicians and others to clamour for a fixation of prices at pre-war rates or to ask that the Government should base current .values upon prewar standards. To make such an attempt would be unjust and economically unsound. The practice of the fixing of prices by Governments during the war has, as a matter of fact, been proved in more than one country to be a mistake, even in the interests of those who are supposed to benefit by it. There are two considerations affect, ing the cost of living which should weigh heavily—the one with the Government and the other with the individual. There Is a section of society which, unless restrained from doing so, will, in its lust for grain, endeavour, even in -war time, to exp-jit the people .by wringing illegitimate profits out of the food supplies of the nation. The effective remedy lies at the hands of the Government; ,It is a remedy which ii should not hesitate to exercise unsparingly. It consists in the use of the power of taxation. War profits are community profits, and it' is within the power of the Government to divert to the use of the State such war profits as fio-

It is reported that tho United States Congress will bs asked to sanction an appropriation of 600,000,000 dollars in order to provide the greatest air fleet in the world. There is no reason to question

the reliability of this statement, which is, • of course, heartily to be welcomed, for it has been officially., announced at Washington that the aircraft programme has been much enlarged and that definite plans have been formulated for assuring the airsupremacy of the Allies. People in England who havo been led by the recent

series of cross-Channel German air raids to be apprehensive of an endeavour by the enemy to invade Britain by largo fleets of

aeroplanes should find comfort in the prospect that, with America's assistance, the Allies will before long make a bid for a

measure of air-supremacy undreamed of in tho German calculations. We do not know what dimensions the air fleets of the European belligerents have now reached, but the number of machines employed must far surpass earlier anticipations, and it is probable the work of construction must be carried on feverishly if only to make. up for the numerous losses. The American programme aims, it is said, at the construction- of 30,000 training, observation, ana bombing aeroplanes.

It is manliest that a great extension of air fighting is to be expected. The number of men, all specially qualified, required for this branch alone of the military service most represent a continuously large demand, for in this hazardous, nervewracking work the risks run are incessantly depleting the ranks of the airmen. To few is it given to emulate such a remarkable performance as that of the late Captain Ball, V.C., who between April 25 and May 6 participated in 26 aerial combats, in which he destroyed eleven hostile machines, and whose full record was 43 enemy machines destroyed. Well might the chronicler say of this gallant British airman that "his courage, skill, and determination were always exceptional." One of Germany's objects in attempting frequent air raids upon England may be to effect the detacfonient for home defence of as many British machines as possible, and thereby perhaps to. weaken the air service which is doing so well on the western front. We should expect the prevalence of apprehensions of a German aerial invasion to strengthen in the Mother Country the <view emphasised by a great public meeting in London, that the aerial war should bo carried actively into the enemy s country. Britain has the machines and the airmen, and there must be defended German towns within their reach which would afford the necessary target for richly merited and salutary reprisals. The immediate results would be beneficial in convincing the Germans of the desirability of keeping their aircraft nearer home, and would give them a merited foretaste of what is coming to them when America brings her air fleet into action on the western front, and when great British, French, and American air squadrons cooperate to " blind " the enemy and' keep him in that unhappy state. This vision is far from merely fanciful, and the realisation of it will materially 'hasten the termination of the war.

Presumably there is now little likelihood of the Home Government being obliged to impose a system of compulsory rationing upon the people. The high prices of food &re causing uneasiness and some industrial unrest, and there seems to be a special shortage of sugar; but there are no indications of general scarcity in a perilous degree. It is true that Lord Rhondda, who has succeeded Lord Devonport as ■ Food Controller, says that the Mother Country is depending on the United. States and Canada, in a vital degree to keep np the food supply, but it is easy to see that, though the enemy's submarines continue to take toll, he entertains no fear that conditions will reach a tragic crisis before the ingathering of the approaching harvest. Next year,- if Mr Lloyd George's forecast is not too sanguine, and if the farmers and all other classes axe doing their duty, the British Isles should be independent and virtually least at a pinch—in the matter of food supply. The Government regarded it of the utmost importance that the necessity of compulsory rationing should be obviated if in any way possible; chiefly, though not solely, on account of the. very large additions to ihe already vast army of administrative officials that would be required. Mr Kennedy Jones, Direct6r-general of Food Economy, emphasised this point nearly three months ago. It was essential that we should make • success of voluntary rationing, because, when the man-power was so urgently needed 'elsewhere, a compulsory system would be practically disastrous. It would mvolvo a large army of officials and would require police or official supervision as well. To distribute food twice a week to ten million families, for example, would moan the distribution of something like twenty million tickets a week. To prevent the effective working of a compulsory scheme there were also many obstacles and difficulties.

Air Jones expressed the belief that voluntary rationing would prove successful - and it would seem that his confidence in the public spirit and good sense of the community was not extrarvagantly astray.

Members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force have frequently expressed a wish that journalists would not " make a feature" of tlie deeds and achievements of New Zealand soldiers. " Tie New Zealanders," one of them said recently, "are only ordinary men., and don't like to be written about so much." Another, who left the dominion as a member of the Main Body and, after service at Gallipoli, wftere he was wounded, is now in France, expresses a somewhat similar sentiment in a letter from the front, in which he deprecates the high praise given to the Anzacs by Mr John Masefield in his book " Gallipoli" as being undiscriminating and especially as being unfair to ho soldiers from the Mother Country. Wo ourselves have deprecated tho tendency to credit New Zealand and Australian soldiers with semi-miraculous performances. The tendency was observable even during the Boer war. It was particularly onspicuous in connection with the operations at Gallipoli, There are many poople who still seem to imagine that the Anzacs bcro the whole brunt of tho dire experiences of those eight months of precarious occupation in 1915. Tho failure to rccogniso and acknowledge the co-operative work

of other forces is a worse fault than the mere exaggeration. We are aware, too, that soldiers— soldiers of British stock at any rate—do not relish being hailed as heroic, though perhaps the inclination to pay thenj this excessive honour does not spring from the worst part of human nature. But there is pride and prido, reasonable and unwise; and local communities all the world over blamelessly take a special interest in tho worthy doings of the sons of their own soil. Provided that a proper sense of perspective and proportion is maintained'—in other words, so long as the deeds of our countrymen are not represented in a false glamour (whether to the disparagement of others or not) —it is only right and reasonable that tho newspapers of the dominion should "make a feature," even a special feature, of tihe experiences and accomplishments of tho soldiers from these islands.

A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that tho Minister of Defence lias received advice that the hospital ship Maraina has reaohed her destination.

The prospect that the shortage of laboui may be keenly felt at next harvest, unless the available man-power and woman-power of tho country are organised, was the subject of a refercnco in Mr H. Beauchamp's spoech from tho cha / at tho annual meeting of tho isank of New Zealand yesterday. It is imperative, Mr Beauchamp said, that tho oountry should produoo more foodstutls, and if all the available land is put into cultivation (including cottage gardens) wo should havo more than sufficient to meet our requirements. It is particularly essential that wo should grow moro cereals, as the' present war has emphasised the importance of every country being, as far as practicable, self-supporting as regards food supplies. Efforts are being made to overoOmo tho shortage of breadstuffs, and farmers are being encouraged to substantially increase their wheat acreage, under a price guarantee which should leave the growers with a reasonable profit, allowing for tho increased cost of production. Farmers in New Zealand have always exhibited a praiseworthy patriotio spirit, and Mr Beauchamp said he ilias no doubt the appeal of tho Government to produce more cereals will meet with a hearty response, particularly as cereals are foodstuff's which suffer least of all by prolonged holding. At the conclusion of the ceremony of presenting the 6 o'clock closing petitions to tho local members of Parliament yesterday, a deputation, consisting of tho representa•tivea of the different women's social workers' organisations, waited upon Messrs T- K. Sidey, C. H. Statham, and J. M. Dickson, M.P.'s, and asked their support and co-operation in the direction of urging tho Government to appoint wo'men police or patrols. Addresses on the subject were delivered by. Mrs Peryman, Mrs Lindo Ferguson, and Mrs Jackson, all of whom urged the necessity of women police or women patrols being appointed. The members of Parliament promised support in this matter when Parliament met. A vote of thanks was accorded his Worship the Mayor for introducing the deputation. Speaking at a smoke concert at Palmerston North on Thursday night (says a Press Association telegram), the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald (Minister of Agriculture) made reference to tho butter-fat tax, and declared that if the merchants "had had their own sweet will butter would have risen to 2s per lb. An export duty had been suggested, but this was easier to put on than tako off. During the coming session no source of revenue would be left untapped in order to provide for our war needs.

Mr Harold Beauchamp, chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, mentioned at the annual meeting of the bank that 348 oificers of that institution are at present on leave on military service. To compensate .as far as possible, in the shortage of men, the bank has continued the employment of women clerks, wherever suitable, andi at the present time there are 278 in the bank's service, most of whom are proving quite capable in the performance of the work entrusted to them. _ A private meeting of,- citizens was held m Morning-ton on Thursday night with the object of extending the energies of the Second Division League. Members were enthusiastic, and a vigorous campaign is to be undertaken immediately for a house-to-house canvass in which the ladies will be the backbone of the committee.

Referring, at the annual meeting of the Bank of New Zealand yesterday, 'to the emergency issue last year of ten shilling notes, Mr Beauchamp, chairman of • directors of the bank, admitted, that the quality of the pa,por and the style of the note were "not altogether satisfactory," and expressed the hope that the bank would shortly be able to replace the issue with a note of a more suitable description.

Waronui Coal Proprietary has entered into an agreement with ita employees whereby they are granted additional war bonuses of U per cent, and 10 per cent, ino Green Island companies have also entered into a similar agreement with their employees, but this agreement awaits the signatures of the men's representatives Practically the whole of tho mine owners in Otaivo havo now granted these additional bonuses to their employees, bringing tho total increases on the pre-war rates up' to 17£ and 20 per cent.

In the Moray Place Congregational Church on Sunday evening the now famous American Battle Hymn," composed as far back as 1774, and which was a feature ot tho recent service conductcd in 'Westminster Abbey in commenoration of the entry of tho United States ,into the war, will be sung hy.a full choir. The introducuon of this item into an ecclesiastical service may bo considered in the light of an innovation, as it is probably the first time the hymn has been associated with New Zealand church services.

Ten Territorials were charged, before Mr Bartholomew, S.M., in the Port Chalmers Court yesterday, with failing to attend week-end drill on the 9th and 10th inst., at the Heads. The oharge against E E Prattley was dismissed, as it was not certain if he had received notice to attend the parade, and that against Sergeant E. MTherson was withdrawn, as he had been posted charges against K. Middleditch and E. Smythe were withdrawn ™ d „', tl£en TT ant3 were on the sick list! E. R. Milne, H. Pntchard, T. Montgomery M Smeaton, L. Knewstubb, and R. M'Pherson, were each fined 10s, and costs (7s) His Worship said that if the men came b£ fore him a second time the fines would be substantially increased.

deferring to the damage caused to road 3 and bridges by the heavy floods that have taken placo m various districts during the past few months, tho Minister of Public Works, tho Hon. W. Fraser, said at Auckland last week, that the demands on his department for special grant as a result of tho damage had been very great. Fortunately he had taken the precaution during the past two years to sot aside £50,000 in each year as a special fund to meet flood damage. During the first year for which this fund was available about £35,000 were expended, but for tho second' twelve months tho special grants required would amount to considerably moro than £50,000. ■Tho Minister added that, as many local bodies were seeking small grants for works that properly should come under the heading of ordinary maintenance, it had! been found necessary to decline to make grants tor flood repairs in eases in which the cost would bo under £50.

Tho right of purchasing tho freehold of sections held on lease from Native owners hii laumaiunui-which is still the ■ tenure of most of the sections in tho town, in spto of small purchases recently made by the Government-is one which lias always been eagerly desired by the lessees (reports tho Taumarunui correspondent of the New At wcck ' ? meeting of tho local Chamber of Commerce to or ganiso a protest against tho present valuations, the following was related as a typical caso : -A quarter-acro section containing a block of business places was let original lv at a yearly rental of £7 10s. Three yca/s ago tho freehold value of tho ground was l/A 200 - Th ' s . ycar ifc ia va 'ued at £6iCO At tho expiration of tho lease nine years hence the present lessee, if he wishes to continue in occupation, will nrobablv have to pay a yearly icntal of £200 for a quarter-acro of land—unless some modification is introduced. Ho would have to pav much more if values oont'nuo to rise at tho samo rate in tho mAn-nf.irr^

At tho Kotorua Hospital, Sir James Allen had an interesting conversation with a sexagenarian who fought in the first Egyptian oampargn of 1882, and again in the Zulu rebellion of 1907, and ■ has also done his bit and boon wounded in ih© present war. This veteran has six sons also serving at front. "How old are you?'" asked tho Minister of Dcfenco. "Sixty-three, sir," replied tho man. "Hut what ago did you say you wero when you joined?" asked Sir James Allen. "Thirty-eight, sir!" was tho prompt reply. "Perhaps ono of tho most daring of the hundreds of courageous acts that caine under my observation was performed by Sergeant Tunley, of Havke's Bay," says an officer who was recently fighting in iJlranco. "On September 16, when in Sunken road, an enemy's machine grin was getting- us, and adding to our casualties at an alarming rate. The difficulty was for tho officer to locato that gun, and Sergeant Tunley essayed to provide the information. Taking dieath in his hands, ho quietly andl apparently unconcernedly walked up the road smoking a cigarette. In an instant tho gun wa3 trained on him, and it seemed as if tho Angolio Host throw their protecting arms around him and saved him from death that day, inasmuch .is, though tho ground all around him was devastated!, and the ballets, fell thick round his feet, ho miraculously escaped. Not so tho German gunner, who was so successfully enfilading Sunken road. Our gun soon got him, and there was no further trouble from that source. Sergeant Tunley well deserved the military decoration he received." Mr Fl'ank C. Tunley, now a regimental sergeant-major, Wellington Battalion, left with the sth Reinforcements. Tho military decoration awarded him was the' jj.C.M., which he recently forwarded to his wife, who resides in Roy street, Newtown. At a sitting of tho Military Service Board at Napier on Tuesday, the appeal of John Hameses Oiley, second assistant master at the Hastings North School, was dismissed. Appellant appealed on the ground that to serve would mean violating the laws of God, and that it was contrary to Christianity bo bear arms. Ho quotedl numerous verses from the Bible, which were combated by Captain Calvert, who in turn quoted St. Luke xx, 36: "Then said Ho unto them. But now he that hath a purse let him take it, and likewise his scrip, and he that hath no sword, lc-t him sell his garment and buy one." He also referred to the command to turn ploughshares into swords. The appellant, in answer to Captain Calvert, said the Belarians should not havo repelled the Germans by force of arms. He could! give no example where the Word of God forbade the bearing of arms, and he would have no objection to fighting in a righteous army commanded by God. Mr Poynton: You quoted, "Those who kill by the sword shall be killed by the sword." If you do not do it you are not obeying the Lord. Who js to kill those brutes if wo don't? Tho board expressed regret that a man with appellant's ideas should teach in a school where there wero 420 pupils. Tho appellant said ho had resigned his position.. At a meeting at the Mount Morgan (Queensland) Technical College, Mr B. G. Patterson said ho had heard the High School intended teaching German to its pupils. He questioned the general utility of the German language, and pointed out there was abundant evidence to show that, to students of mining, Spanish was _of greater value than German, 'the man with a knowledge of Spanish had the continent thrown open to him in America. A large number of Australians had gone to Mexico and the South American States in connection with the mining industry. He would, therefore, move for a sub-committee to confer with tho principal of the High School on the matter of considering the possibility of allowing boys coming into the mining school from the High School being given Spanish as a language subject, or second language subject, and that the sub-oommittoe report' to the board. The motion was carried.

History, which has a habit of repeating itself, does so in striking fashion (writes Sir Henry Lucy in the Sydney Morning Herald) in one aspect of the revolution which, with striking suddenness, has deposed the Czar. Napolean 111 was driven into war with Germany by the Empress Eugenie, who played in the tragedy the part of Lady Macbeth towards her halting, doubting husbandInfirm of purpose, give me the daggers." A cloud of testimony points to the fact that the Czar was ledi to, arid kept by his wife on, the pathway which ended in ruin. Herself of German parentage, the Czarina became a willing tool in the hands of the Kaiser. Surrounded by a court almost exclusively pro-German, she to a large extent nullified the enthusiasm of the . Russian, people for the war, and helped to keep in office men who deliberately attempted to drive the popular leaders into insurrection which they were prepared*to put down with relentless force. They reckoned that, these men out of the way,. and the Duma dissolved, there would be opportunity for establishing a separate peace with Germany, an event that would deal a staggering blow to Russia's Allies. Pending this fulfilment of their plot, Russia would, owing to internal dissensions, be unable to play her full part in the war. Knowledge of these circumstances sealed the fate of the Czar, and' made impossible, not only his establishment on the throne, but the devolution of sovereignty through any member of his family. This feeling is carried so far that the Grand Duke, most successful of Russian generals, having been reinstated in high comm.and from which ho was driven by the secret agency of the Czarina's pro-German confederates, has been pqremptorily relegated to private life.

Un behalf of mothers who are compelled to travel with children long distances by railway, complaint was made to the New Zealand Times last week concerning the manner in which departmental rules as fco reservation of seats are enforced. Owing to-tho official insistence cn all seats being reserved in strict rotation, it was said" mothers are frequently separated from their children. In the informant's own case she was allotted a seat in front of the child, and no appeals to officials had any effect! Had she been placed by the sido of a reasonable person an exchange could perhaps have been made, but her fellow-passenger on the double seat resolutely declined to move so that the child and mother could be together. In tho same carriage was a young mother, looking very ill, with an infant a _ few weeks old, who was separated in similar fashion from her travelling companion. The contention is that in such cases passengers might be allowed to travel side by side, even though it might mean an occasional break in the strict rotation of seat reservation.

Soldiers on tho point of leaving for the front are usually embarrassed by tho liberality with which friends and relatives shower upon them presents which it is assumed will bo of use to thom in their military life. It is therefore desirable to make known the fact that any articles, beyond tho officially issued kit have to bo discarded on arrival in England. As a matter of fact, when a soldier comes to the actual campaigning part of his career ho has with bim only as much as he can carry on his back. A' letter from a youn" Aucldander now at Sling states (says the New Zealand Herald) that on the arrival of hi 3 contingent at the camp an inspection parade was heldi, at which any missing QrticiG of issue was supplied, but everything else in any man's kit was taken away. Tho sacrifice was in some eases heavy. For instance, one man lost a brard new sleeping bag which must have cost the donor about three guineas, and cameras musical instruments, etc., all went the same way. At the same time the writer of the letter states that in his experience he has found the issued kit full and ample, and that there is no room in the pack for anything else. "But it would," he adds, "bo as well to make it known to men leaving with reinforcements that at the end of the sea voyage they loso all their extra gc.ir." A very useful artificial arm has been invented by Mr P. 11. M'Kay, who explained it before the Claims Board of tho Auckland Patriotic Associat-'on last week. Tho loss of his left arm and a portion of his forearm caused Mr M'Kay to think about the invention. The arm is fitted with a hand, tho thumb of which can be moved 'by muscular pressure on a cord, which fits "round tho shoulders. In this way objects may be pioked up w'thout recourse to the other hand. Tho hand, however, is not the nrincipal feature of tho invention. Whop slipprd off it uncovers p sockot at the "wrist-." into which tonl s with spooially-mado handles may be inserter! '-illi meo. Tho- of tho board wore much ir,/pressed with its practicability and ingaruity.

A striking illustration of what patience and determination have achieved in the education of the South African natives was cited last week by tho Rev. W. O. Willoughby, in tile course of an address at Auckland on missionary work in BcchuanaJand. .Realising tho necessity of training tho native "boys" in useful industries, demon tary classes in building construction were started at tho Tiger Kloof Institute. Tho classes were oonductcd according to tho South Kensington regulations, and when the course was completed, a number of tho students, previously raw native boys, without education of any kind, were entered for tho South Kensington examinations. lho results were remarkable, 100 per cent, of the passing, and later on examinations in the advanced grades were also held, with equally suocessful results. . Although the New Zealand Government is not accepting skilled mechanics for munition servico at Home, JSytlney' files show that there is a keen demand for such experts in Now South Wales. Mr Russol Sinclair, who is selecting mechanics in that State for munition-making in England, stated last woek that a • large batch of men who had been engaged for this work would leave, for England at an early date. There were still a large number of vaoancics for fitters, carpenters, turners, and cabinet-makers who could work on aeroplanes. In fact, all kinds of skilled mechanics were wanted, and they would be found employment immediately on arrival in England.

The entry of America into the world-war is having its effect on tho markets and price of produce in that country, as well as in Now Zealand. Mr T. G. Sarjeant, of Wellington, has received a letter from Mr G. Gr. of Illinois, U.S.A., in which, he says: "Things in this oountry just at tho present time are rather unsettled, due to tho fact that we are entering this worldwar, and we have got to go through a period of re-adjustmejifc. Dairy products aro bringing high prices. For example, last month on my farm, where I separate cream, I received 45 to 47 cents a pound for cream based on butter-fat contents. The price is now down to 40 cents. Hogs have been bringing 16 cents live-weight. Potatoes have •been about four dollars a bushel, wheat is three dollars a bushel, and corn has reached the unheard-of price of one dollar 50 oents a bushel.- The wheat orop this summer is not going to be as largo as last year. The average planted- to other grains will be larger than ever before/'

Tho United Starr-Bowkett Society -will dispose of £1500 on July 26. We have received 10s from "M. S." for the B. Miller Fund, and JBl from H. E." for the Barnardo Homes' Fund. Dr Oommins will deliver a lecture in the Oddfellows' Hall, Albany fctreet, to-morrow evening. The secretary of the Money Club reports that applications for loans to tho amount of £3450, and for 56 sharea were received by the trustees this week.

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