The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1917. MONEY FOR WAR PURPOSES.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 20 August 1917, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1917. MONEY FOR WAR PURPOSES.

(With which is incorporated The Tai hape Poet and Waimarino News),

At no time since war began are President Wilson’s words to the American people more applicable to us, than at this time, when we are faced with the undeniable need for lending twelve millions of money to the State that our Empire may do its share with the Allies in saving the world from slavery, and never before could we take those words to ourselves with greater profit. He could not find a single element of selfishness in what the Allies were fighting for, he told the American people, they would have to devote themselves to the prosecution of the war without regard to profit or material advantage; they must realise to the full how great the task was, and what elements of capacity, service and selfsacrifice the war would involve upon them. America may have immense stores of money, but the immensity of her war work is almost appalling. President Wilson told his people of the things they must do, and his words are just as applicable to us in many respects. We cannot, of course, supply new ships by the hundred or set our mines and factories to make war material, but we can clothe and equip our gallant fellows who are under arms and also those who are incapacitated. President Wilson told his people that they would have to provide food and other necessaries, not only to Americans, but to

all their Allies, to Britain, France, Russia, and Italy. He made a special address to the farmers of the United States to put all their energies, and money into winning the war. The time, he said, was short, it was of the most imperative importance that everything possible be done and done immediately. As with America, so it is with New Zealand, the supreme test has come, we must all speak, act and serve together. From other journals, we have noticed that our Minister of Finance has addressed an earnest appeal to e’fery man, woman, and child, in the Dominion to do their duty in connection with our money needs in carrying out what we are pledged to do towards winning freedom. Whether Sir Joseph Ward is of opinion that this district will do its

duty without being so. especially ap- i pealed to we do not know, but so that we may fully appreciate the pressing urgency for money for War purposes, the appeal will be printed in these columns, in due course. It is stated, truthfully or falsely, that there are those amongst us who. arc utterly disregarding what President Wilson would regard as mandatory. To this great cause, he said, we must devote ourselves without regard to profit or material advantage. True or false, it is freely rumoured about the streets of Taihape that there are those in our districts who are using their huge profits from war prices of produce in buying up the farms of men who arc going to the front; that instead of doing their duty as patriots by lending those profits to the State they arc locking them up in ' acquiring more land, doing the very opposite of what President Wilson, by proclamation, sayS the American shall not be allowed to do. We sincerely hope these rumours have no foundation on fact, because we arc sure that those who go on aggregating the lands of the /men who have gone to fight will come to an ignominious pass when the compulsory clauses of the Finance Act, are set in operation. Only gcniuncly patriotic people can hold their purpose and their honour steady to a common end and prefer the interests of the whole to any narrow interests of their own, says President Wilson, and those who act otherwise are neither patriotic or British, there is no other alternative. The men who will go on mopping up land left by the men who have gone, or are going, to fight while the money must be had to clothe, feed and equip the gallant fellows who joyfully appreciate the supreme honour and duty of fighting for their homes and country, cannot be classed as either patriots, or truly British. We sincerely hope and trust that these rumours can have np reference to men in this rich, progressive and eminently patriotic territory. The supreme need of our country today is sacrifice, but is it sacrifice, when men who have made huge profits by reason of the war are offered 44 per

cent for their money free of income tax, which is in reality 6 or 64 per cent? If there are men so callous as to go on accumulating land with the idea that mortgages arc going to bo taken into consideration from a taxation point of view they will be rudely enlightened when the denouement comes. If there are men who are so selfish, so un-British as to go on spending every penny of their war profits while the country is at the greatest crisis of its needs for money, fficn no one can have any sympathy with them when Nemises overtakes them. This war is a very serious matter; we are only just now at the critical stage of it; the next few months will determine whether we are to win or lose. On Saturday news ceased to come from the front while great battles within battles were raging and no one could say whether Allies or Germans would be victorious. While an cquiponderancc of force like this obtains is our surpremc opportunity, victory must come through men and money, we have the men and we have the money, are we going to withhold either or are we going to win an early victory by freely sacrificing both, casting both into the balance against the world’s common destroyer? This war must be waged without regard to profit or material advantage. If the money is not forthcoming by voluntary means then it will have to be taken compulsorily, money must be had as well as men and the franchised people of this country will without doubt insist upon both being available.

A NEW LOCOMOTIVE,

On several occasions this and other New Zealand journals have differed with the Government over, their persistence in buying from other countries what can be manufactured here, and in their belittling of the brains, skill, and inventiveness of our people by virtually telling them they arc know-nothings, by importing men who cannot be satisfactory here owing to the widely differing conditions in the country from which they are imported. Briefly, we wish to draw attention to a new design of locomotive engine that has been under test on the heaviest and most difficult piece of railway in the Dominion for the past two or three weeks. It is neither just or proper that the achievements of our New Zealand engineers and workshops should be kept secret; they should have

the public appreciation, commendation and reward that they arc entitled to. We want no imported Jack-in-tlic-Box to bob up and claim all that which

( comes from our own people, From the : office of the Chief Mechanical Engineer of our Railways, the plans of a new j design of locomotive have been perj, footed; in our workshops, by our working engineers, this now design of engine has been built, and after months of trial it has proved an unqualified j success. In the first place it costs j £2OOO less to build than the engine it , is designed to replace; it is lighter and I yet its working weight is so placed over the axles that it has a greater * grip on the rails on which it runs; it is more compact, can develop greater steaming power, more convenient to

[ operate, much . more economical on ( coal and water than the X class of engine now used for the heaviest traffic, the old tender is entirely eliminated and it is highly appreciated by the men who have to run it because it provides them with comfort and convenience impossible with the old class of engine. We need not discuss the subject further; we all see the possibilities this new engine, which is very fairly termed the racehorse among locomotives ,opens up, and what it will save the country every year from now on. The surprise to us lies in the fact 1 that imported geniuses have not managed to prevent such an engine from arising in “New Zealand workshops. We need neither import brains or skill, our workshops are literally crammed . with both commodities already, as this new locomotive goes to conclusively prove. Engines or other machinery made in New Zealand involve no coml missions or other unnecessary exI penditure, and while a saving of one

hundredth of what is resulting from"’ the new locomotive is 'possible, ,we

hope our associations of railwaymen will do their duty in urging upon the public the cessation of the unnecessary prodigality' of buying abroad. The severest test has been made of the new “Tank Engine,” as it is called, and no single fault has been found. The Railway Mechanical Engineering Staff is certainly entitled to the country’s congratulations.

“I am not joining in with this cry about taxing bachelors,” said Mr Payne in the House. “I think the bachelor is suffering enough already, poor chap. Any man who has not enough brains to be married deserves all the misery that is coming to him.”

A return laid on the table of the House states that from August 4 till March 31, 1915, dhere were 2101 motor cars imported into the Dominion, valued at £40,263. From April 1, 1915, till March 31, 1916, there were 424 cars imported, valued at £660,

181. The total for the whole period was 6434 cars, valued at £160,444.

A statement regarding the soldiers who have come back from the war was made in the House last week. The total number of men returned up to July 31 was 10,917. Of these 9265 had received their discharges, 1234 had returned to duty, 48 had died, 198 were waiting final disposal, 216 were under treatment,' 4 had deserted, and 19 were on special leave.

“I am very busy, and I am sorry I cannot attend the Court, I am guilty, and if you let me know the fine and send along someone to get the money I will pay it,” wrote a Wellington Chinese to Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M. The magistrate said that evidently the Chinese was of the opinion that a fine was some sort of license. The writer convicted and fined £5, and costs 7s for sel-"* ling cigaretes after hours.

“That strong representations be made to the Government that, in the opinion of this association, all reservists called up and failing to answer the call to the Empire’s aid, be deprived of all civil rights.” Such was the nature of a motion from Hawke’s Bay, which came before the Conference of Patriotic Societies in Wellington. It being considered that the matter was outside the functions of Avar relief societies, the motion was Avithdrawn undrr pressure.

Taihapo Domain Board has gone to considerable expense in cultivating and planting ground for scenic purposes, to beautify the town, and yet there are many thoughtless people avlio, directly the trees, and shrubs planted came into bloom, will go and ruthlessly pull and break them to pieces. It should be borne in mind that notice boards indicate that any person caught breaking bloom from the plants in the Public Domain will be prosecuted, no matter who they arc. As the Domain Board is determined to: prosecute the first person caught taking that Avhich belongs to the community as a whole, people AA'ho are in the habit of going to the public garden, instead of to their oavii, for floAvers, should bear this in mind. '

The new oil shells and aerial canisters are the Allies’ rprisals against the Geramn liquid fire jets, writes Mr Perry Robinson. They comprise a thin metal shell filled with oil of a highly inflammatory nature and a percussion charge. The shell, hurled by a small gun, splits on striking an object. The percussion charge ignites the oil, which scatters over a wide area with deadly effect. Vast numbers of these wre poured on the German trnches. Men were seen with their clothes ablaze running and screaming with pain and terror. The new type of tanks have also beefi doing some effective work. They are armed with a much biggr gun than the old type, and manned by crews inured to “tanksickness.”

Tapestry Drapings, 80 inches wide, in the newest floral designs, lid per yard—Collinson & Gifford.

Top wages will be paid to a breastbcnchman, who can keep his own saws by the Eangataua Timber Company, at their Eangataua Mills,

The Sydney bank clerk, Walter L. G. Dean, who stole £3657 belonging to the Commercial Banking Company, was brought up at the Quarter sessions last week for sentence. Judge Docker gave him three years’ penal servitude. He could not get a salary of 1219 per annum even if he were a judge. The inadequacy of the sentence is ridiculous.

An unnaturalised German, John Anton Bock, and his two sons were taken to Somes Island from Auckland last week. Recently the elder son, who is a First Division reservist, appealed for exemption on the ground that his father was a German. The appeal was dismissed, the chairman of the Board stating that it rested with the military authorites to take action.

A conference of delegates representing 24 butter factories, held at Palmerston North, on Thursday, decided to hold a conference in Wellington on August 22nd, and afterwards to interview the Prime Minister on the matter of the purchase of the butter output by the New Zealand or Imperial Governments . A committee was authorised to offer to sell the output at a price on a partity with that for cheese, allowing threepence per lb on butter-fat as the difference between milk and whey. The committee was given a free hand to mak the best arrangement in the interests of producers.

It is with the deepest regret that wc have to chronicle the death of the third son of Mr. and Mrs. John Collins of Opaea, Taihape. Private Maathew Collins, while serving his country in Europe, received wounds, from which he died on ’August 12 He was only 22 3'ears of age at the time of his death, and was well known and highly respected throughout the district. Mr. and Mrs. Collins have two other sons with the colours —one in France and the other at Trentham. The sad intelligence was received by Mr. and Mrs. Collins shortly after returning from the railway station, where they had been bidding good-bye to their son Paddy, who was returning to camp from his final leave. Mr. and Mrs. Collins will have the heartfelt sympathy of their wide circle of friends in their loss.

Genuine List Curl Table Covers, in green, red, and brown, 8x 10, 63/, 8 x 12, 75/ —Collinson and Gifford.