. 12 PAGES Sm YEAR'82 NO, 118 KITCHENER PARTLY BLAMED _ FOR THE CABINET CRISIS The London Times Says the War Minister Tried "sx: i mate: to do Too Much Work---Story of the Trouble. Kitchener Insisted Upon Keeping Control of Questions With Which the War Office Had No Time to Deal--- The Charges Against Hon. Winston Churchill. London, May 20.--Commenting this morning on the Cabinet crisis! and the causes thereof, the Times says: "Lord Kitchener must bear his share of responsibility, because against much wise advice he insisted upon keeping in his own hands con- trol of questions with which the War | Office was far too pre-occupied to deal. He could not raise the im- mense armies and direct the indus- trial organization as well. "Yet that is what he tried to do, and the result was confusion. Manu- facturer after manufacturer can re- | | ~ hs HON. WINSTON: CHURCHILL. late how they offered to make shells; how their offers were coldly rejected, "and how, after months had been lost, they were implored to begin. "The matter does not end there. Requests awd warnings "from the front about the need for high explo- sives have been grievously disregard- ed. The War Office thought 1 knew more how to.conduct the pres- ent forces of warfare than the men at the front. While the French authorities steadily raised the per- centage of high explosive shells al- lotted to their field guns, our gun- ners were expected to do the same work with shrapnel, and the percen- tage of high explosives sent across the Chammel remained, and still re- mains, dangerously low. "Shrapnel has great and valuable, uses, but for smashing up formid- able entrenchments of the enemy it is not of much more use than sprinkl- | ing them with a watering-can. | "This thing was pointed out, but | was not sufficiently heeded, and the consequence is that loss of lire | has been grave and lamentable. The revelations which have been made | about the existing muddle in the ma- | nufacture of war supplies has to a great extent mn the cause of the political excitement of the last two! days. The episodes at the Admir- | alty only served to bring the situat- | ion to a head." | The Bolt From The Blue, | The first real public knowledge that a serious crisis was impending and the storm centre the Admiralty, | was observed from the morning pa-| pers yesterday. The parliamentary | correspondent of the Times had this to say: "It is understood that Loid Fisher | | with the First eh tend fn .. | EUT ATe ConUuCtIng has not attended at the Admiralty for the last two days. This faet, coupled with a prolonged interview Sea Lord and the | Prime Minister on Saturday, had gi- | ven rise to a variety of rumors. | Great activity prevailed in political | circles yesterday." The Times, commenting editorial- | ly on this statement, said: "The Government are presumably anxious | about the character of their own con- { trol of the war, which .is being sub- jected to widespread and searching criticism, both in public and private. The nation is anxious because it grows less satisfied that the Govern- the war with efficiency and success. "It seems that in every theatre of operations the struggle grows flercer and, perhaps, more indecisive. It hears vaguely of huge casualties both in France and the Dardanelles. The facts about the supply of mumitions of war have also caused deep satis- faction. "The broad result of these dis- turbing factors has clearly been to produce some sort of ferment within the ministry. A situation has been created which requires to be dealt with at once, with the sole object of securing better conduct of the war. Many reports are rife and we prefer not to analyse more of them. It must be assumed that whatever de- velopments follow, the Government will be gulled solely by the consider- ations presented by the war, "At present the chief storm centre | appears to be at the Admiralty. The! fact-that Lord Fisher was not in at- steps were apparently taken in his office yesterday - afternoon became "knowti, not only to all members of the immense Admiralty staff, but to many outside of it. Beyond that, all is rumor, and we trust and be- lieve unfounded rumor, Charges Against Churchill. "What long ago, past beyond the! stage of mere rumor, is the charge, which has been repeatedly and cate- gorically made In public, that rét Lord of the Admiralty had been | assuming responsibilities and over- riding his expert advisors to a degree which might at any time endeavor the national safety. Though well aware of this charge, we have hither- to refrained from discussing it. We al=o refrained as a rule from com- menting upon those aspects of Mr. Churchill's disquieting personal ad- ventures on the Continent, which have been repeatedly mentioned in Parliament. "So long as it was possible to do 80 we remained silent, because we preferred to remember the high state of efficiency to which Mr. Churchill brought the fleet beforethe war and the promptness with which he mob- ilized it, It is not longer possible | to keep silent because the very quali- ties which then served us so well are proving to have rash and dangerous consequences in the war. "In the vital, and deadly conflict in which we are engaged all consid- eration affecting individuals must disappear. When a civilian minister in charge of a fighting ice persis- tently seeks to grasp wer which should not pass into his unguided hands and attempts to use that pow- er in perilous ways, it is time for the colleagues in the cabinet to take some definite action. © Such is the stage Mr. Churchill appears to have reached. « "What definite action, if any, may be taken, we do not know. One very obvious solution of the difficulty at Blood Thin and Weak Too Nervous to Sleep Hore is Another Oase r in Which Dr. Chase's Nerve Food | empires Proved Its Great Reconstructive Thin blood antl exhausted nerves usually go together. A considerable portion of the blood is constantly consumed in keeping up the vitality of the 'mervous system. Once the blood is deficient, either in quantity or quality, the nerves suffer and Dr. Chase's Nerve formation g + quently made already in many quar- | large force of assistants tq attend to the Between Toronto and Kingston In 6 4 ~~ surg to recommend '50 "excellent a ne." ° Food goes di- the Admiralty which would undoubt- al would be to place a seaman at its | head. If that were done the omly | possible choice would be Lord Fish- | er, and the suggestion has been fre- | ters. 1 HOW MOSCOW FEELS WAR. Congested Railways Put Up Good -- Germans Keep U.S. Consul Busy New York, May 20.--C. 1. Long: necker, who has been wosking for | four years for an American concern in Moscow, has just returned wita his family, and he says he will be glad to see Dayton, O., his old home. He says the American Consul-Gener- al in Moscow has his hands full wita the Germans after whom he is look- ing. "It is only lately that Moscow has seemed to feel the effects of war," said Mr. Longnecker at the Imperial. "Up to two months ago it was hardly perceptive, but now, owing largely to the congestion of freight on the rail- ways, the price of foods has mater- ially increased. "Russia has a surplus of sugar, and there is a tremendous lot of grain in the country, but in many places it could not be moved. "It seems to me that the feeling of friendship for Americans had inc- reased in the last month or so, due in a measure, I believe, to their hav- "About the busiest man in Mos- cow {is Consul-General Snodgrass, who has been compelled to put on a German | needs. In the neighbor- hood of Moscow 8,000 Germans have been made prisoners and sent to Si- eria or other provinces, and the des- titution amcng their families is ac- ute. They have no means of earn- ing a living, for under the law no German may be employed in Russia. "I do not think that popular feel- ing in Russia against Germans is as strong as it has been. It seems to be more bitter, for some curious rea- son, when the Russians are winning than when they are losing. "There does not seem to be any suffering on account of poverty. As a matter of fact, the women and chil- dren seem better off than before the war, for wives draw part of the pay that their husbands were getting from the. factories; and" they get something from the Government, so that the total is more than when the man of the family 'was working and drinking vodka. "I was in Stockholm five days, long enough to convince me that Sweden was absolutely pro-German. Norway, on the other hand, was pro- English." COVERED. 170 MILES, Hours, & Minutes. Toronto to Kingston in six hours) and five minutes was the record made by a motor-cyclist who arrived in the city on Tuesday and left on Wednesday for Ottawa. He left Toronto at 10.05 a. m., and reached Kingston at 4.10 pm. The 170 miles must havé been made at an average speed of thirty miles an hour and as he stopped and had dinner at Trenton. The cyclist must have made some remarkable speed records on parts of the road. He left King- ston at 10.45 a.m., Wednesday and told a Whig representative before jumping on his machine that he ex- time for an early supper." The Ontario Motor cycle Associa- tion is running a relay race between Windsor and Ottawa in June, and he will be one of the contestants. T0 ISSUE GREEN BOOK. Italians To Learn Country's Attitude During War, . Rome, via Paris, May 20.--A Green Book which the Government is preparing will contain diplomatic documents tending to show the atti- tude of Italy from the beginning of the war and the strenuous efforts 'made by the Italian Government to reconcile the obligations of the Triple Alliance with Italian national aspirations and the principles of na- tionality, on which is based the exis-. tence of Italy and the hope of future] greatness.' Sy 4 The documents show that the Ita- lian cabinet exercised patience its desire to avoid com- plications nu that finally, when the Austrian point of view proved to be rreconcilable, it beca pected to reach Ottawa in "lots of | Ki IN BEHALF OF YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION The Excellent. Reports Presented at the Annual Meeting on Tuesday Mrs. Carr-Harris, President, in a] few well chosen words extended to the guests of the evening a cordial welcouie to the thirtieth annual ga- thering of the Association and ex- pressed her pleasure at seeing in their midst two of its charter mem- bers. Mre. Donald Ross and Mrs. Witham Cochrane. "The hour had come," she said, "when to its bene- factors they were called once again to render an account of their stew- atdsinp. '1nis they would do not in any spirit of exultatica but with a consciousness that they had often fallen short of the true Association ideal wnich was to advance the ph sical, social, intellectual, moral and spiritual interests of all young wo- men withoui reference to national, denominational or social distinctions Evening-- The Financial Standing]: tection and federation of Club with Club, life with life, for love's sake, more than merely the sake of neces- sity or power has been our aim. 408 are enrolled in class club and mill work during the year 1914-1915 589 girls: and children including tne ultimate purpose being to bring them to fulness of lite in Christ." Sne then touched upon several rea- sons why they had in a measure tal- len short of the ideal one of which was lack of appreciation of their pri- vileges and responsibilities as mem- bers, some allowing themselves to accept omce on the understanding that it would take little of their time less of their sense of personal res- ponsibility, and none at all of their co-operation in making the true As- sociation ideal delightfully real. "it we are to win in the conflict, with the opposing torces in the way of the attainment of an ideal Christian wo- manhood," she said "we must vring to the work a greater measure of consecrated zeal." Another was present day conditions. In the rush and whirl of lite its members have! rarely time to take advantage of the priviiiges offered by the Association. The most interesting lecturers fail ciety soon develops into boredom, even pleasure easily palls. Over all things hangs the deepening mist of dissatisfaction, She compared present day condi- tions and escape irom them to that of a water beetle low down in the mud pond, a"sense of inexplicable haste is upon him, he chases one shadow and another, = his pastimes are earthly, his ambitions soar no higher than bis epvironment. A time comes, however, when he wear- ies of it all. He begins to climb the stalk of one of the water grasses, Up, up he goes until he reaches the top where he wriips himself up in a wen attached to the grass from which he sways to and fro like a child in a swing. Socn an extraordinary thing happens, the unsightly, norny shell-covering begins to crack a new head begins to enierge, then he draws forth two pairs of tae most gorgeous wings, then like a telescope he draws out one section alter another of the remainder of him. For a momen: he stretches himself lazily, looks down upon his old linfitations, sur- veys 'with supreme satisfaction his old self life dangling from the wa- ter grass and then soars into the grand upper sphere of sunshine and! of gladness to sip honey from the flowers, It is life, more life, and fuller that we need to meet present day conditions. Notwithstanding shortcomings in the attainment of their highest ideal as an Association they had done a great work as the reports to be presented would indi- cate. Mrs. Carr-Harris then . expressed her appreciation of the splendid work done by the General Secretary, Miss Knowles, in building up a machine for effective service for young wo- men such as never before existed In Kingston and also paid a high tribute to the valuable services rendered to the Association by her coajutor, Mrs. 4 Secretary's Annual Report. "To-night by our responsiveness, our loyalty, our faith, and by our thought for the Other Girl, let us enrich the cord we spend here in fellowship, one with anpther" reveals the spirit of a room visualized. in words, allowing us to spell that word Room with a capital letter. For many winters, women and girls have gome out from this room, touch ed---some less than others, it is true, but surely each one touched a little --by the spiritual forces of this House of Friendliness, A group of women linked together by a common impulse--the guest of the gleam jhe gleam which leads to better liv- houte and employment lessons come under the influence of the Associa- tion; 122 are in the free Junior De- partment. A paid membership of 278, four clubs and 2 patriots of Girl Guides in healthy condition, ex- tension and improvement in the boarding department to the amount of $1,600. Classes in gymnasium, swimming, tennis, elementary English, noon meetings held. in two | mills. Fifteen thousand one hun- | dred and ninety four is the total at- | tendance in the various departments of the work for this year. The Gen- eral Society has given advice or aid to 1,706 visitors who have ap- plied at this office desh, 1,746 let- ters' and postals have been mailed 682 business calls made, 60 boara and committee meetings held, 18 so- sials and lectures, 16 tennis teas ind | 37 meetings of Girl Guides. 1 have entertained as our guest Miss | Nora Saunders, General Secretary | -M Jameson; student so- | ciety of Dominion Council, Miss £11- | zabeth Conklin student Voluntee: | Secretary from New York City. We acknowledge with grateful apprecia- tion, gifts of books, tables, rugs, pie-| tures, piano, bedroom and kitchen | furnishings from many friends. | Again we express our indebtedness | to the editors of the daily press for | encouragement and co-operative, to! the physicians who have given pro- fessional services without runmera- tion, university professors, students the city libranign and other workers who have mad® educational work possible in our institution. We have seen the fulfillment of one of. our dreams in the extension of our boarding departinent, five new rooms tastefully furnished, accommodating ten girls, are open for occupancy, quiet upper chambers whose rest and peace should be the preparation for new day's tasks. We have valued the fireside, where some have come in perplexity and fear, others falter- ing by the way, found warmth and cheer to foster friendship and shar- ed in the simplest joy of life. Our love and gratitude is due Mrs: Wil- liam King, who has given so lavish- ly of herself, her influence and her means to make our House of Friend- liness a home. A year's investment in youth, wo- manhood, character, ability. Has it been with the expenditure of money and effort. We have made very splendid plans, the best in the world, which warranted to work--they worked in Toronto, Winnipeg, Brant- ford, Peterboro, They have stood the scientific test, the only difficulty has been one girls do not always take to them. Lowell tells the story of a scientific poultry raiser who wa 'ed to find a food for ducks th would be cheap, nutritious. He work- ed in his laboratory until he had pre- pared a celery compound which he considered to be a very superior ar- ticle. At a meeting of the State Agricultural Society he héld forth at length: on the superiority. or uns compound until he had quite ex- hausted his complementary adjec- tives and then solemnly concluded by saying "Gentlemen, there is only one drawback to this excellent pre- paration, and that is, that the ducks are so stupid that they won't eat it!" | We offered our girls millinery, dress- making, basketing, 'and gynmasum classes, all with expert teachers but 'the small registration did not justify the labor and expense. . The board of Edncation having introduced Do- mestic Art and Science classes, with superior equipment, lessons and in- struction given free of charge, will make it unecessary to provide these privileges another year. "A HNttle stenographer once said If I were only working in a place where 1 could feel that I was helping to make girls happier, I wouldn't mind working twice as hard. I know that helping to sell stockings is useful and n gary but oh! how much I want setise of being directly and personals * Through our clubs business, " and the clubs girls' believe in the experiences. of is etl; WE ean have my i te Forecasting Cabinet reorganization | London newspapers surmise that the | above Ministers and in addition, | Baron Lucas, President of the Board of Agriculture will retire. Their! places will be taken by non-partizans | and Unionists to make a Cabinet which will represent the whole na- tion as no Cabinet ever has in the past. an organization in the city, which is | doing civil or philanthropic work but | that -needs-something which she has in her power to give in time and ser- vice. Our club and Girl Guides rolled, | over 1,000 bandages, made house- | wives, given socks and hemmed tow- | els for the city Red Cross Society, | made baby clothes for Salvation Ar-| my and Victorian Order Nurse, given | refreshmehts and programe at House | of Industry, given gifts of towels to | Association Building and Mowat Me- | morial Hospital, sent gifts of fruit, | flowers, stories to Hotel Dieu and | General Hospital, even the seven | members of our junior club have ta- | ken a scrap-book made by themsel- ves Lo the creche and dressed a doll | for the hospital, enjoy the pleasure | of placing it in the arms of a little | sick child themselves. Several college girls were working for M. A. Dupes, when the challgnge | came to one of them in these words: | "Study your city as if at the other | ehd of a knowledge of its industrial | and social needs lay a Master's de- | gree." The problem of extension | work ix often wonderfully interest- | ing because of its very difficulties. | The Dominion Textile Co., Crother's Biseuit Factory and Kingston Hoslery | Mill have been visited this * year. | Programes of musie, missionary, reli- gious, and pratical talks given by national as well as local workers. | Parties have been provided at the Association Building, and the girls guided in making gifts for the hospi- | tals and encouraged to call upon fel- | low. employees who were ill. This | department has been greatly ham- | pered for lack of funds--equiptent | for volley ball and base ball is much | needed for the employees of Domin- | fon Textile Mill to make use of at the | gon hour. Rented rooms in ex- | te sections of the city mear Ports-| mouth and the Textile Mill are very! necessary to carry on every club! work where ligitimate pleasure may | vided to give expression to the fu g girl. 151 women and | girls have appealed to us for work twelve of these we have housed from one to ten days until suitable employ ment could be found. From this nucleus we have tried to form an over sea club, with but indifferent success. The excitement of mobili- zation In our city proving a story counter attraction to quieter parties | and fireside games. Personal let- | | | tose tou; that there 15 Wot | have grown to know the girls--to know their names, so that when I meet them, it is not "the tall girl with the dark hair" but Mabel or Elizabeth or Sadie who speaks to me. I know where they live and where they go to find the amusement which they naturally crave. Why do they protect against serving tea Sunday afternoon, I find it is because Sally and Fred were going to walk in the park and we were going too. Or do they have disagreeable experlen- ces when they leave their work to go home after dark." All their inter- ests from the soldier man with whom she went to school to the dash of rouge on Sadie's fac. 1 have made my problems, I have "cut my finger" this summer to learn the answes., "If all Association members were like me, What kind of an Association would I it be; "I am the spirit of womanhood; Over the world I am honored {| Wherever the love of the heart | Has gone out from woman to wo- MIAN," Cait SIRS 700d 18 (his binding together e binding together of Christians, To open the doors of a happier lite For women; the mothers of nations, See how their work and their piay Is hallowed if God is within it Great deeds are wrought, and great sacrifices made Wherever the Master has entered, Then wider your bounds to the ut- most "Till no spot on earth may be found Where women and girls ean be stunted In body, in mind, or in spirit, So shall the Kingdom of Heaven in- crease And the circle of Christ be complet- ed "That they may have life, life more abundant" This is the call to the Christian. When we think of the lives laid down for each one of us tnis day, that we may live and serve our fel- low beings a little longer in ths world. Surely we as bers of a dearly loved Association will unite in revealing to our girlhood some of "God's glad surprises" even if it means that we go about with bam- daged hands.-- Lillian - K. Knowies, General Secretary. Treasurer's Report. Receipts: --On hand May 1st, 1914, $386.84; Membership, $235; house, $3,710.97; subseription, $1, 047.96; Gymnasium, $89.26; class fees, §$2,25; sales, $62.48; rent $17; opening night, $16,40; special sub- scriptions for 3rd flat, $18.55; coi- lection, $2.26; Miscellaneous, $5.50. Total, $5,694.25. Expenditures: -- Salaries, $761; office, $34; repairs and supplies, $764.89; house, $2,225.99; wages, $658.87; telephone, $26.25; light (including gas for cooking) $209.36 water, $21.63; fuel, $332.85; reli glous work, $3.90; social, work, $12, 10; extension work, $1.68; gymnas- ium, $67; sewing, $10; printing and advertising, $47.70; interest on mort gage, $319; conference, $42.50; taxes, $11.78; N. C. of Women, $2; cartage, $2; Dr. MacCallum (disin- fecting), $3; refunds, $2.75; miscel- laneous, $2; Total expend. $5,462.- 45; Balance on hand, $132; Total $5,694.25. Liabilities Owing to Queen's At- hletic Committee, $71.50; mortgage on Building, $5,580.00; Total, $5, 1.50, ters have been written, invitations| gs to special parties sent out. Possibly we have not been willing to accept conditions as they are and mot aa- justed our work sufficiently to meet the new conditions. At the National Board meeting jn New York, one of the members gave her report in this manner: "It all began with the little boy in the next apartment to mine. He is very quaint and attractive, and we have respective One day he told me of a man who was so poor he couldn't buy his little boy a boat so he took § ? FL mile fill 2 : gisss £ i ! 8 Ral Excelent reports were also pre- sented by the comvenors of the so- cial, educational and finance 'com- mittees, all telling of the splendid work performed and the zeal and in- terest of the girls. There Is an ur- gent need for financial support at the present time, The Board members 10 serve three years are: Mrs. A. Strachan, Mrs. Edward McLelland, Mts. James Less- lie, Mrs. E. C. D. MacCalem, Mrs. T. Mila, Miss E. Henstridge, Miss Hat- tie Chown, Miss Drummond, Miss Richardson was added to the two- year list on the resignation of Miss May Chown. WOMEN OFF TO BERLIN. To intercede' With Germany In Fav. vor Of Peace. . a El a. i Sb RNR oS Ee