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Pictures of Roasting $aids in I, How Conflicting Views of Winston Churchill andLord Fisher
Precipitated a Grave Crisis ir► England During the
World War, as Told.:by R, H.
Bacon in "Worlds Work"
lis,sermon in Westminster Abbot Lord Fisher of Kilverstono eMered hourly, every, minute of the day
stated that "Pictures of roasting souls the •I9nglisit Navy in 1854. at the age bi'o ght face to face with the realities
In hell make more atheists than, any r' sen. He rose steadily,achiev- At ham there was an inevit•
ai
of th r t e of war, a
e d it ' inge remain- "world." II s 910 he h politicians other titin in thefrom 1904to 1 when g r -cur o It c ens to
g" `able tendency for P 1
seemed ,certain that Passages `of the ed, the highest position open to e man conduct the war much the same as if
gospel of St. Mathew on the eubieot in his position, First Sea Lord. it 1914 it had been merely the case of annual
of future punishment attributed to he returned to the'. Admiralty under anceuvres War to them, naturally,
our Lord'wee not said by our Lord -=Mr• Wtnsto Churchill, First Lprd of not the sono vital realitythat it
r , the Admiralty, to serve Ins,country in had
at all,'" •the hour he had thought :of fer sixty tied for time at sea or in the •field,
At another point see said, "Soma say ,.long years, "It was not so nnuoh the .They patched up their party organize -
that people wins rebel against Gad Navy, as the Navy at war, that Was tion to deal :with au entirely new class
will be annihilated. I can only say, ever before Fisher's eyes,' In the of problems, to transact a novel busi-
we do not know."Dreadnought he vas the first to create ness, and to snake 'decisions quite out
Dean Inge, the "Gloom' Dean," in a heavyarmament ship. 1;Ie built the of the ordinary, but which were of
preaching at St, Paul's aleo dente- modern English Navy, but as an Ain- fatal moment tc the empire, Political
cated "the ghastly pictures of Hell erican criticonce said of hint, he was shackles bound, the organization of our
which fill Christian literature." "ninety-five per sent, genius with 'five government in war, he it- had bound
IIe stated that "the Roman churches per cent, of devil." its vision in peace -time, No -organize-
-attempted to solve the problem of Such a tnan, hard-headed and re -tion of the government in wartime had
Hell by introducing Purgatory, which lentiesa, was not suited to serve under ever been thoight out beforehand; no
is a plausible theory, The modernist his superior, Mr, Churchill, It is one training of our prints ministe •4 or
Protestant really believes in Purge- of the tragedies of Eulgish naval his other high officials in matters with
tory but not in Hell, What is really tory that his last six months of ser- which, in war, they would have to deal
needed 18 a spiritual conception of vice were filled with bitterness. And had ever been suggested. Our generals
eternal life, 1 would be the last to yet one cannot escape the conclusion and admirals had been trained for war
revive the terrible symbolic of Hell that the final disaster of resignation from their youth rip, whereas prime
'torture but I • think there is a great was in some part due to his own tern- ministers, on whom the supreme diree-
.danger to -day of entirely banishing peratnent. tion of the war rested, were appa ent-
the fear which is never absent from Admiral R, II, Bacon, at the in., ly supposed to be: supernaturally en -
`the New Testament.: We'would serve stance of Lord Fisher's literary true -'dewed with knowledge of war and war
God with reverence and godly fear." tees, has written a two -volume bio- conditions and, with no previous train-
_ -g, graphy:. Lord Fisher of Kilverstone, ing, to be:capable of conducting a
SomeThe following chain of events is taken world-wide struggle of supreme im-
Helpful 1� from the last chapters of that work. portance to the empire. The result was
It will be remembered that the gigan- muddle and disaster, and the greatst
Baking -tins that have become blank• tic siege of the Dardanelles, although of cur failures was the Dardanelles
ailed from long use in the oven shoulcl it had Constantinople• as its objective, campaign,
be boiled for a couple of hours in was undertaken equally as much for On the :rourteenth of May, 191.5, in
strong soda water. It will then be easy the political effect it would have on the the midst of the campaign, we find
to scrape away the discoloration with Balkan States. Backed by the govern- Mr. Churchill writing to the Prima
meat, it was opposed by the Sea Londa, Minister:
soap and silver sand.s„
A pinch of cream of tartar, added notably Lord Fisher.—Ediipr's Note. I must ask you to take note of
when half -beaten, will' prevent the PERSUASION AND CAJOLERY Fisher's statement today that he was
white of egg "falling.' On October 31, 1914, Turkey dealer- against the Dardanelles, and had been
To prevent milk or. custard boiling ed war, and on the third of November Firstall toSe Lord hs ato thatd effect The
•over, grease the top of the saucepan the outer forts at the entrance to the rya has agreed in writing
with a, little butter. .� Dardanelles were bombarded by our the to every executive telegram,e on which
'To prevent icing running over' the ships for about ten minutes. Any more and had they hene, been immeconddiately
of cakes, s Tinkle the top with a foolish proceeding cannot well be im- cesand had they been ld have
sue.
little flqur, p agined, The reason put forward was BusfI ma ccrnoit would have been his.
g But I make no complaint of that.”
A pearl button sewn to the corner that it was desirable to test the range Mr. Churchill's statement is correct,
of the dishcloth is handy to scrape of the Turkish guns! The tact was but so' also, was Lord Fisher's. Mr.
•any substance 'which clings to plates that Mr. Winston Churchill, First Churchill knew .perfectly well that
•or pots. Lord of the Admiralty, suffered from Lord Fisher waa, and always had been
If carpets are spotted with dirty a disease, common among those not ac- against the whsle operation and that
marks, make a stiff paste of magnesia, customed'to war, which may be called it was only at his insistent request, and
hot water, and fuller's earth. Cover caooefhes agendi, that is, the itch to under pressure, that Lord Fisher had
the marks and Ieave till dry, then be always doing something. This boo- reluctar tly consented to aid the opera -
brush off with a stiff brush. • bardment at once brought hometothe tion in every way he could. In his
Even old steins can be removed by Germans at Constantinople the neces- World Crisis he himself says: ,"I am
this treatment: Stretch •the Boiled silk sity for bringing the defences of the in no way concealing the great and
over a basin and: pour belling water Dardanelles up to the highest pitch of continuous pressure which I put ,upon
through the material. Then rub pow• perfection, and, incidentally, it afford- the old Admiral."
dared borax over the stain, and pour ed them three months in which to "I CANNOT CONSENT TO BE
more boiling water on it, and stain achieve their object. PARALYZED."
will be gone, No unbiased person, looking back
II the waste pipe of the bath has now and studying the history of the Mr. Churchill's letter to the Prime
become Choked with 'soap, take a Dardanelles, can fail to trace the se- Minister continued:
handful each of salt and soda, force quence of events. Smitten with the I am.attaehed to the Old Boy and
them into thepipe, and pour a kettle- fascination of a great operation which; it is a great pleasure to me to work
Idof boiling water down it. Between if successful, promised a vast political with him. T think he reciprocates these
them they will deal with the obstruc- reward, Mr. Churchill practically feelings. My point is that a moment
Council to adopt his will arise in these operations when
tion, forced the War Co
There Is nothing better as a sub- proposals, although he knew that he the Admiral and Genera] on the spot
stitnte for suet or halting powder than had neither Lord Fisher's approval nor will wish and require to run a risk
sago soaked in water or milk until rthat of Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson. with the Fleet for a great and decisive
quite soft, then added to the flour in Henever consulted the Board of Ad- effort. If I agree with them; I shall
the porportion of one small teacupful miralty. He constantly, in the face of sanction it; and I cannot consent to
of dry sago to four of flour. Lord Fisher'`s •objections, persuaded be paralyzed by the veto of a friend
If after serving a hot joint of boiled and cajoled him into acquiescing to who, whatever
h ys tever'ISatresplthe t, will sales'.°
beef you put it back into the water in send out more and more vessels urg-.
whicb. It was boiled' it will be much en-tly required at home. The First Lord thus in effect wrote
to
snore tender when served cold than if BASIC CAUSES OF MUDDLE the Prime Minister to say that he
put into the larder dry. Let us summarize the true causes of intnded to the Seaate r , himselfehimself
Did you know that "strong juiced" the Dardanelles muddle. First and has stated that "no ship could sail -or
vegetables, such as cabbage, caul! foremost, the blame must rest on our gun fire without the sanction of the
flower, Brussels sprouts, onions and peculiarly inefficient war oragnization, First Sea Lord"; and, in effect, he
Turnips, should be :cooked quickly in whereby an aged, politician, a matt now asked, either that Lord Fisher be
an open -saucepan and in abundance etdowed with many gifts but whose dismissed and a weaker First Sea
of water? main training in life had been that of Lord appointed who would 'o his bid-
• a "party" man, with a resultant re- ding, or, that he himself should be
Fund to Replace 'gard for procrastination and expedl- ;•iven authority to override the pro-
ency and whose guiding motto was fessional views of the Sea Lords.
Scots Fishing Nets "wait and see," became the•chairman
Lost in Storm of the War Council, merely because he PROFESSIONAL ADVICE DIS -
happened to be the political leader of REGARDED.
Glasgow: The Lord Provosts of the partyin One must marvel at the assurance of
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee andpower at the declaration this
Aberdeen, acting upon the recomhen- of war. This chairmanship should youne7
politician, who assumed
dation of William Adamson, Secret- without any doubt have been held by professional naval knowledge superior
an energetic man of business who was to that of picked men whose lives had
tory of State for Scotland, have tissued accustomed to probe matters, without been spent in the Navy and in the
an appeal to the public of tli.efr re- fear or favor,_down to their basic study of naval problems.
spective areas for support for the foundations, That the Prince Minister Already, during the ill-fated first
Scottish national fund for relief' of should have been kept informed of the few months of his war administration,
distress in the flshiug communities in •deliberations of this Council, have at- disaster had clogged Admiralty policy,
Scotland, due to the fishing fleet dis- tended its meetings when he desired, and he had been forced to call in Lord
aster in a recent gale.'and have retained power to sanction Fisher to put matters right. Over the
Sia hundred vassals lost 31,000 nets, or veto she proposals arrived at is, of Dardanelles he had brought the Navy
the cost of replacement of which will course, obvious, bub the conduct of the into a difficult position by his dis-
be £150,000. Mr, Adamson stated spade work, the sifting of facts from regard of the advice of his profession -
that the storm havoc had fallen on mere ex cathedra opinions, should have al,colleagues; but he, in spite of this,
the industry which has suffered from been under the direction o£ a man se- appealed to the Prime Minister to re-
, a depressed condition for some yearsleered from the whole manhood of the Bove him entirely from all professional
and that as a result 01 the latest blow'country Eor his sound sense, energy, control and virtualiv to dismiss the
many Rahormen who have no reserve and genius in the conduct of business, man who had retrieved the errors of
capital or credit for" re -equipment mayA second cause for the muddle was the early part of his administration.
be compelled to abandon fishing. that both Lord Kitchener and Mr, If success hacl followed his previous
The secretary said he is countingChurchill were allowed to state their disregard of the advice of his naval
on "the sympathy which will inevit-personal views instead of the .Council advisers ho might, with some appear-,
ably be aroused in Scottish hearts" at being placed In possession of the con- awe of reason, have asked to be allow-
the news of the fishermen's plight. sidered opinions of tike naval war staff ed in future to follow his unfettered
The Lord Provost here has arranged and the headquarter staff at. rho War judgment; but, instead of success,
to receive contributions.Office, No information on vital mat- something approaching disaster had
ters was asked from these two author-
resulted.
Joy -Riding ities, no joint conferences between During the course of the night of
these two staffs took place; but the
May fourteenth four memoranda name
thing- ti that Daily
are outlIs ast atogood
he Personal opinions of individuala woad tq Lord Fisher's office from the First
taken to deal with the nuisance of allowed to take the place of considered No. 1 dealt with the provision of
staff appreciations.
•'.yoy-riding," or car -stealing to give itThirdly, views of these two states siege artillery, stages and cranes, lay -
its proper name. The present dila- should have been laid before the Coun- ing lines of indicator nets watched by
entity is that magistrates differ as tooil by their technical heads, not by drifters, fitting the battleshipswith
the criminality . of taking a: moons s Lord Kitchener and Mr. Churchill- It trellia-work protectioi against nines,
ear and "joyriding" in it. Some treat was right end proper that theae two and the provision of seventy aircraft
It as an amiable ° klud of practical ministers should have been members of and some'' 500 -pound bombs.
coke, though others with much better the Council, but they were not the pro- No. 2 dealt' with a scheme of Com-
reasom convict the thiel,' 8iiom theper persons to lay the stare reports modore Tyrwhitt' for submarine and
public Point of view ear -stealing res- before the members or to answer any ZePPelin hunting, and made proposals
OMB ate a danger, 11 is a great riskfor variops arrangentents in the
questions which arose therefrom Jur-
to have parsons Who are.antirely irre• lug debate, •The various' commands, Grand Fleet and' the North Sea, and
spousible and may be criminal racing both ashore and afloat, were daily, lase 'Suggested a telegram to Admiral
a
tound the streets. The (Wager of ' ` de Meek about the scheme.
toad accidents is seriously increased. Mineral's, Liniment for Distempers -; No, 8 proposed an Fntportaut rear -
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The succeeding days, therefore,
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er was concerned. The reconstruction
of the government introduced an en-
tirely new factor. He began to see that
if, in the newt reconstructed govern- I attar iof
y the stomach and bowels and tons heunis, ors each. °has. Reasbeck, -ane
moat, Mr. Churchill lett the Admiralty drive out constipation and indigestion; Meek Hill, ant:
he, Lord Fisher, might still remain as break up colds and simple fevers and
Fist Sea Lord, provided that the new allay teething pains. Concerning
First Lord was not irrevocably come them Mrs. W, 79, Forsyth; Dover, N.B„ OTTE, 6 WM:MS TO 3 YEARS..
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Eventually, however, the rumor g��,�
become First Lord and that Mr.® Conserved
Churchill would remain !h the Cabinet. 11 11D
Desirous as he was of staying at the f
Admiralty and completing the work he Thelon Game Sanctuary
has started, he determined not to do
so with the Dardanelles millstone
hung sound his neck; for ( next to Mr.
Churchill, the most ardent advocate on
the War Council of the Dardanelles
operations had been Mr, Balfour. He
accordingly, without consulting any-
body, seized Isis pen and wrote to the
Prime Minister, His letter amounted to
an ultimatum, and prime ministers are
not accustomed to submit to such dos-
tation, nor to be told whom they are to
exclude from their Cabinets. Had
Lord Fisher called on the Prime Min-
ister he might lame placed before him
his point of view in a perfectly consti-
tutional manner, but the letter that
he wrote finally destroyed any chance
of his being retained as First Sea
Lord."
"COMMANDED BY KING"
If Lord Fisher had remained quiet,
as most of his friends were urging him
to do, he would in all probability have
been asked to remain as First Sea.
Lord, and he could then. have intro-
duced gradually the changes he felt
necessary, But he was obsessed with
the idea that he could not serve at the
Admiralty with Mr. Balfour, who was
already deeply committed to the Dar-
danelles campaign; more especially as
Mr. Churchill was to be retained in
the Cabinet and would therefore be in
a position to support Mr. Balfour in
that matter.
It is noteasy to understand how
Lord Fisher could have believed that
his letter was a proper communication
to send to a Prime Minister, and not
to have seen that it was a most inju-
dicious act on his part. But there is
no doubt that he did not view his ac-
tion in that light. The strain of the•
previous few days, and more especially
the wrench of his self-sacrifice, with-
out doubt helped to warp his judgment.
The end came on May twenty-second
in a letter front 'the Prime Minister:
Dear Lord Fisher,
I am commanded by the King to ac-
cept your tendered resignation of the
Office of First Sea Lord of the Ad-
miralty. Your- faithfully,
H, H. Asquith.
rangement of, the Grand Fleet, so as to
station squadrons in the Humber.
No. 4 dealt with re -enforcements for
the Dardanelles.
Captain T. E. Crease, naval assist-
ant to Lord Fisher, gives a vivid de-
scription of the events of that fateful
night:
"I was working in my room at the
Admiralty on the night of the 14th
May, when towards midnight Master -
ton Smith (the First Lord's private
secretary) came in with the minute
(No. 4) and covering letter, and said
that the First Lord wished the First
Sea Lord to have them in the morn-
ing.
"Masterson Smith asked me to read
them through, and I did so. He was
evidently uneasy about the minute and
asked me 'how I thought the old man
would take it' Knowing well Lord
Fisher's frame of mind during the.past
few days and his letter to the Prime
Minister of the day -before (in which
he pointed out Mr. Churchill's deter-
mination and forecast his own resigna-
tion),, and reading that submarines
were now included in the proposed re-
inforcements, in addition to various
other ships and materials that Lord
Fisher had not mentioned a few hours
earlier, I had no hesitation about my
reply. I said at once that I had no
doubt whatever Lord Fisher would re-
sign instantly if he received the min-
ute; for these r ew proposals, coming
at that moment, would be the last
straw.
"Masterson Smith, who also was
very familiar with the First Sea Lord
and his ways, said he did not think
Lord Fisher would go so far as that;
but I repeated that I felt quite certain
that he would. After some discussion
Masterton Smith said he would tell the
First Lord my opinion before definite-
ly handing me the minute to pass on.
After some delay—I believe Masterton
Smith first spoke to de Bartolome (the
First Lord's naval secretary) on the
subject before going to Mr. Churchill
—he calve back with the dispatch box
and said it must be sent on, for the
First Lord was certain that Lord
Fisher would not object to the propo-
sels; bub the First Lord had also added
'that, in any case, it was necessary
that they should be made.' I repeated
my warning as to the consequences,
and then arranged for the dispatch.
box to be delivered early in the morn-
ing to Lord Fisher."
I1 Mr, Churchill had been wise be
would Fusee kept back the minute and
have discussed the matter next morn-
ing; but either, in his optimism, he did
not care whether Lord Fisher resigned
Closed by Oreder-in-
Council
Ottawa,—The Thelon game sanc-
tuary east of Great Slave Lake in the
Northwest Territories which contains
the last known herd of muskox on the
Canadian mainland, has been closed.
No person, either Indian or white
man, will be permitted to enter this
15,000 -mile preserve unless by special
permission, Hon, Charles Stewart,
Minister of Interior, announced re-
cently.
The musk-ox is exceedingly rare
and action has been taken, by order -
in -council, to conserve the herd of ap-
proximately 250 known to have their
habitat in this area,
To prevent serious depletion et
Canadian wild life and to ensure pelts
being taken only when prime, amend-
ments have been made to regulations
covering the administration of game
in the Northwest Territories. Open
seasons for fur -bearers have been set
as follows, with former open season
dates in brackets: muskrat, March
May 31, (Nov. 1 -May 15); arctic foe,
Nov. 10 -March 31 (Nov. 1.March 31);
lynx, marten, mink and fisher, 'Nov. 1 -
March -31 (Nov. 1 -March 15).
This was an abrupt form of farewell
after over sixty years of good service
to his country; but a man who pre-
cipitates a Cabinet crisis in wartime
cannot expect any great courtesy from
those whom he has embarrassed.
It is .a matter of history that, in the
past one hundred years, and probably
for longer still, no First Sea Lord had
ever resigned through a difference of
opinion with his First Lord Mr.
Churchill created a double record in
this respect. Two of his First Sea
Lords—Adlttirai of the Fleet Sir Ar-
thur Wilson and Admiral of the Fleet
Lord Fisher—both relinquished their
posts owing to differences of opinion
with Mr. Churchill on naval matters.
This record is all themore remarkable
when it is appreciated that these two
were probably the most experienced
Sea Lords the country had seen for a
century; whereas Mr. Churehrill was
the youngest and, politically, the most
inexperienced of any First ,Lord who
had held office during that time. It is
not unreasonable, therefore, to suggest
that Mr, Churchill's unfortunate and
undue optimistic belief in his own
judgment was not only a great dis-
service to the country but was the dom-
inating reason for Lord Fisher's re-
signation.
Leave the Coal Mines Alone
Evening Standard: What is quite
clear is that any attempt drastically
to alter wages or hours at the present
moment and under present circum-
stances can do nothing but set back
the partial revival which has already
taken place. It will handicap us still
further in our foreign markets, and,
by forcing th cieosure of those pits
which stand on the margin of econo-
mic working, will increase unemploy-
meat and involve a permanent loss of
wealth—since a pit that has once been
closed down is not easily opened.
— r
Modern Indifference
London Daily News: The war alter-
ed the values of things. In a world
where everyone was so liable to be
killed at any moment nothing seemed
quite so important as it had done. And
themood has remained. It will pass
doubtless in time. But while it lasts
all manner of old, queer, obsolete
things will continue to enjoy safe and
undisturbed, rather popular than
otherwise, their shadowy existence.
School Age Difficulties
Glasgow Herald: It is now becom-
ing increasingly manifest that the an-
nouncement,
snouncentent, made by the present
Government at the beginning of their
tenure of office, in regard to the rais-
ing of the school age was, from every
point of view, premature, Everywhere
in England the signs of difficulty ac-
cumulate. Buildings offer a problem
of the first magnitude: there will be
a scarcity of properly qualified teach-
ers: no provision has been made to
assist the voluntary schoolswithpay-
ments for new buildings, and it seems
not unlikely Chet the whole religious
position in England will constitute
or not a
(which ill somewhat fore- menace to the early application of
shadowed by his remark that "in any the new agedImit for leaving school.
case, it was necessary that they should
be made"), or ho had confidence that Another thing that has puzzled es, a
he could bent "the old Admiral" to his little, about "success stories," la why
purpose. the interviewer sometimes has to
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73 ADELIADE W. & 62 FRONT W.
His Hearing Restored
The invisible ear drum invented by
A. 0. Leonard, which resembles a
miniature megaphone fitting inside
the ear, entirely out of sight, is help-
ing the hearing of a great many Peo-
ple. Mr. Leonard invented this dram
to relieve himself of deafness and
head noises, and it does this so suc-
cessfully that no one could tell he le a
deaf man. A request for information
to A. 0. Leonard, 70 Fifth Avenue,
Suite 437, New York City, will be
given a prompt reply.—Advt.
"What did father say when you told
him you were going to take me away
from him?" "He eeemed to feel his
loss keenly at first, but I squared
things with a good cigar."
I1 you do not talk until you have
something to say, you will always
have something to say when you talk.
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FOR THE HAIR
Asks Your Barber. -He Knows
v�CDUGIISandCOLDS
Ads Me ix,
Bbl e: tiffs
Saws
for cleaner— faster cutting
The steel used is made and spec+
kitty tempered in the Simonds
plant and we can and do -guar-
antee every Simonds Saw.
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A. O. LEONARD, Inc.
70 Firth Ave., New'Ynrk City
Grippe
Heat and inhale Minard's. Also
bathe the feet in Minard's and hot
water.
tee
"I have to work in the store and
do my own housework, too, and 1
got nervous and run-downaed was in
bed nearly allsummer.The least noise
would melee me nervous: 1 was told
to take Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vega,
table Compound and 1 have taken
seven bottles. It has made me strong-
er and pus more color into my face.
1 am looking after my store and
housework and my four children
and 1 am getting along nicely now."
Mrs, J, Malin, IL IL No, 5, Berton
St. East, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
Mable' Campotti
r k d Med 'C "., LyIn,M„ Il.',5; 5
C)bs rl oniarlp c,n,a.
ISSUE No. 49—'29