The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality

[ THE FOURTH YEAR ENDS. Four years mako a very short epan in the winding 6tretch of centuries which are recorded in the stirring pages of our island etorybut these four years are surely get apart by the magnitude of the events with which they have been crowded. It ia quite true that we live too near to these marvellous happenings either to graep their relative importance or to our- miee their consequences. But we tnink it is not mere proximity to the world-war that accounh for the disposition of pre- sent commentators on these four years to regard them as. the moet wonderful and significant in human history. At the close of the fourth year of the conflict it is im- po?ible to forget the great eoldier and statesman who was called by the emer- gency to take charge of the War Office, and to organise our military strength. Lord Kitchener estimated that it would take at least three years to defeat the German pretensions to the hegemony of Europe and the lust of Prussian miti- tarists for world dominion. On this high authority, three years and "the duration" became almost synonymous; notwithstand- ing The competent judges who though that we should not accomplish our task in so short a time. We have had our illusions in plenty, and we may not yet fully realise the full fcope and difficulty of our stern enterprise; but we have, at any rate, never regarded it as an easy matter. The eub- lime levity of anticipating an easy con- quest undoubtedly belongs to the German Kaiser whose faeilo prophecy muat often be the subject of doleful jest in the dis- appointed Fatherland." The pious Commemoration, with which our four years of warfare fitly closes, will inevitably recall poignant feelings of the vast losses we have all sustained; but the event can have no real interest for this 'people or for the world if it be not above all things eFse a time of profound grati- tude for good work well achieved and for a deepening of our unalterable resolve to carry on to the very end. We have lost our best end dearest by the scores and hundreds of thousands, those whom the war has maimed for life are with us everywhere. The latest vote of credit is a timely reminder of our sacrifices in trea- sure we are constantly brought up against our shortcomings in preparedness, in organisation, and in dliciency. But theze considerations will fall into their right places and assume just proportions when we remember with becoming gratitude the difficulties we have surmounted, the in- domitable courage and spirit of our race; the energy and sacrifice of the whole people; the unity and loyalty of the British Empire all the world over; and above all the devotion and strength of our valiant Allies. At the end of the fourth year we are stronger than ever, and, be it always re- membered Time is still on our side. We have organised our armies; we have brought the equipment of those armies to the highest point of efficiency; we have learnt many of the lesions of modern warfare, and we are still learning. W. have leaders in whom we place the most implicit confidence in respect both of their aptitude for leadership and of their ideal- ism. We are confident that these leaders will bring uo to victory. Mr Lloyd George has a remarkable record to his credit during the war. With President Wilson he has convinced the neutral na- tions of the justice of our couse and of the determination of the Allies to fight to the very end for the rule of international right. Like the Prime Minister, the people of this country at the close of four years of war were never more resolved than now to prosecute the war until Prus- sian militarism receives the "knock-out blow."

NOTES OF THE WEEK National Memorial Association. I An opportunity was afforded on Satur- day at the meeting of the Council of the Welsh National Memorial Association of clearing up a matter upon whioh doubt appears to have arisen in some places. An impression prevailed in some of the in- dustrial areas that there was delay in admitting tuberculous patients into sana- toria. The (jeneral Director explained that under the aegis of the Association there are now 278 beds in sanatoria, and as a matter of fact no patient was kept waiting for more than a fortnight. This definite statement by the Gene-ral Direc- tor should reassure members of puhlio bodiea and others who have been rather disposed to criticise the Association un- favourably. • It « • Treatment of Discharged Soldiers. Efforts mado by the National Memorial Association with regard to the treatment and training of discharged tuberculous sol- diers and sailors have not yet elicited the support of the Treasury. A scheme to train men for market gardening was drawn out Ny tli the assistance of Professor White, of Bangor University College, and was submitted to the Ministry of Pensions, but the latter did not feel justified in as k- ing the Treasury to sanction the expendi- ture (about £ 2500) on the ground that similar schemes elsewhere were not very encouraging. A proposal* to provide sana- toria treatment fcr officers also came to naught. The difficulty, therefore, is to get the Treasury to provide the necessary fundo, but tila Association are making another effort to prevail upon the Govern- ment to accept their offers. • • • Huge Vote of Credit. I Mr Bonar Law asked the House of Commons yesterday for a Vote of Credit for £ 700,000,000 the largest sum ever asked at a single sitting by any statesman in our financial history. The largest single sum voted to date was £ 650,000,000 on July 24th, 1917. The new Vote will bring the total amount voted in this way during the financial year which began on April at to £ 1,800,000,000. This is tho third Vote of the year, the first hav- ing ueen for L600,000,000 (March 7th), and the second for 2500.000,000 (June 18th). It was estimated that the last Vote would finance the war until the end of August, and the new one will carry the Govern- ment well over the recess. The new Vote will bring the total amount granted by Parliament since the beginning of the war to the prodigious figure of £ 8,042,000,000. » • » I The Holiday Resorts. High fares, curtailed services, and crowded trains do not appear to interfere much with people's holiday arrangements, and it is surprising what a large number of visitors are to be seen in the holiday resorts in North Wales. The coast towns especially are well filled, and, judging by reports from the various districts, August will be a busy month for hotel and board- ing-house keepers. The arrangements re- garding food supplies are evidently work- ing satisfactorily, and visitors have no need to feel any anxiety about their "rations." I A Judge by Heredity. Lord Justice Bankes, who has been ap- pointed chairman of the committee to investigate the employment of aliens in Government departments, is a striking example of hereditary ability. He is a great-grandson of Lord Chancellor Eldon, and grandson, on hie mother's side, of Lord Chief Justice Jervis. Sir John El- don Bankes was a famous athlete in his 'varsity days, and enjoys the distinction of being the tallest member of the Bench. He is the eldest son of the late Mr John Scott Bankes, of Soughton Hall, Northop, and is a J.P., D.L and chairman of Quar- ter Sessions for Flintshire. 1\ I The Late Sir John Rhys. It is interesting to learn that Miss My- vanwy Rhys, of Jesus College, Oxford, ia collecting materials for a biography of her father, the late Sir John Rhys. Welsh- men in particular will welcome a history of the life and work of the great Celtic scholar, whose fame in hia particular branch of study extended far beyond the boundaries of his own country. Misu Rhys is soliciting the loan of letters which any persons may have received from Sir John Rhys, particularly letters of an earlier date than 1860. • • I Mr Lloyd George's Welsh Terrier. There was consternation in Downing- street (says a London correspondent) over the loss of the Prime Minister s Welsh terrier, which took advantage- of a tem- porary halt of the motor-car while his master addre:sed a War Aims meeting at Sutton to leap overboard. Thia action must not be imputed to lack of patriot- ism but to a knowledge of the country. Between Sutton and Walton Heath there are stretches of down and woodland where rabbits and other legitimate objects of search on the part of Welsh teirieis are to be found. The Premier issued a description of the animal on Monday, and offered a reward of B5 for its recovery. "Cymro," on Wednesday, turned up at Redhill, Surrey, and a resident who found him wandering disconsolately immediately communicated with Downing-street.

DEARER JAM. I Bv a new order which rame into force on Monday the retail prices of jam have been iiiitd as follows, the iirst price men- tioned being for lib.. the second for 21b., the uiird for Oib., and the fourth tor 71b.:— Stravvberrv, is. 2d., 2s. 2ù., 38. 4d., 7s. 6d. Black currant, loganberry, rasberry, Is. led.. 2s. Id., 3s. ld., 7s. 22d. Red currant, raspberry and red currant, Is. Oid.. Is. lid., 2s. lOJ., 6s. 7id. Raspberry and gooseberry, strawberry and gooseberry, 18., Is. 10gd., 2s- lOd., 6s. 6R Gooseberry, gooseberrv and red currant. Hid., Is. 10d., 2s. 8ad-, 6s. 3id. Black currant and appie, raspberry and apple raspberry and plum, strawberry and apple, rhubarb and raspberry, rhubarb ,and strawberry, lid-. Is. 9d., 2s. 7d., 6s. Od. Riiubarb and apple, rhubarb and g:nger, rhubarb and lemon, rhubarb and goose- berry. rhubarb, lid., Is. 8 £ d., 2s. 5d., 5s. 91d. The prices axe up from Id. to 2d, per lb. The prices for other varieties remain the same as hitherto.

TEA FOR THE HOLIDAYS- f People going awat for holidays should remember that they must take their tea and that they are entitled to buy in ad- VaJJúe at tho rate of 2oz. per head per week up to four weeks. A family of five troing away for a month would thus oo entitled to purchase 2!lb. of tea.

BACON PRICES. I The Daily Express understands that the Food Controller has personally taken up the problem of reducing the retail prices of bacon. The prices are dependent on the situation in America, and Mr Hoover has promised to see what can be done to lower prices when he returns to the United States.

CHEESE WHERE NEEDED MOST. I Mr Clynee, the Food Controller, says equality in the distribution of cheese is not desired. The larger proportion of cheese will go into mining and other areas where it is a staple articles of food, and agricultural labourers are to receive sup- plies from their employers at first-hand prices. Rationing, says the Ministry of Food, would involve eupplying cheese to people who did not want it at the expense of those to whom it was almost a necessity. I

MOTOR-CARS TO CHURCH. I SUSPENSION OF PETROL ORDER r ON AUGUST 4th. I Next Sunday, August 4tll, being the fourth anniversary of the Declaration of War, the provisions of the Motor Spirit (Consolidation) and Gas Restriction Uroer 1918. in so far as they relate to the pro- hibition of the use of motor spirit in priv- ate motor vehicles or hired vehicles fvi" the attendance at Public Worship, are suspen- ded between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. on that day where no otad" reas- i onable means of conveyance are available, provided that these vehicles may be only so used for proceeding- to or from the nearest place of worship, or the nearest place of worship of the denomina.tion to which the user of the car belongs. No additional petrol will bo ranted for b:3 purpose.

THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD. The Arts and Craft:! Exhibition in con- nection with the Weleh National Eistedd- fod was opened yesterday at Neath, by Alderman Hopkins Morgan, Mayor of the Borough. The Eisteddfod opens on Tuesday morning. It will be held in an extensivo canvas marquee pitched on the sloping ground in Gnoll Park district of the town. To-day thd Celtic Conference will assemble in Gwyn Hall.

SUMMER SCHOOL AT BANGOR. I LARUE ATTENDANCE OF TEACHERS I Under, the auspices of the North Walea Counties Training College, Bangor, a summer school i3 being held at the College, and will continue until August 24th. A large number of teachers from all parta of the kingdom are attending tho school, there being no fewer than 200 staying at the Normal College Hostels, while others are lodging in Upper Bangor. The inaugural addrees was delivered on Saturday evening by Professor John Adams, M.A. Prof essor of Education in the University of London, on "The "Art of Listening." The lecturer said there was a fudamental difference be- tween hearing and listening. A good many people imagined that the only thing they must do at a lecture was to sit still, to be mere passive recipients of what the lecturer said. One must cultivate the principle of active listening, and he would compel all students to first undergo a course of practice in listening. Dealing with the taking of notes at lectures Mr Adams said the best method was to analyse the lecture as it prooeeded, and to take comparatively few notes. On behalf of the city, the Mayor (Mr R. J. Williams) welcomed the teachers, and hoped they would benefit by their stay from a health w well as from an in- tellectual point of view. A four weeks' course of geography and regional survey will be conducted bv Mr Wallace E. Whit-ehouse, M.Sc., L.C.P., lecturer in geography at the University College, Aberystwyth; assisted by Mife Olwen M. Rees, M.Sc., lecturer in geo- graphy at the Normal College. MiE. Isabel Robinson, London County Council specialist in methods of infant teaching and nursery school organisation, will con- duct a fortnight's school for infant teachers on the kindergarten system; a second fortnight being entrusted to Miss Hannah S. Newman, a pupil of Dr. Mon- tessori, who will lecture on the principles and methods of the Montes-ori system. Profesisor John Adams, M.A., LL.D., will give a week's lectures on "Personality in teacher and pupil;" Professor J. Lloyd Williams, D.Sc., of the University Col- lege, Aberystwyth, will devote a week to addresses on The teaching of music in school, with special reference to folk- songs;" and the third and fourth week of this course will be taken by lectures on "Biology and human welfare," by Pro- fessor J. Arthur Thomson. There will also be a four weeks' course of physical training and hygiene, and various courses of education handwork. In addition to the four weeks' geo- graphical course, there will be special lec- turos on Anthropo-geography" (five) by Dr. A. C. Haddon, F-P,.S. a week's lec- ture by Dr. M&.non 1. Newbiggin, on "France," etc.; and Profefaor II. J. Francwe,ill deliver five Ipctures on Phases of European Civilisation.

Lady Newborough has left London for Bryn Llewelyn, Festiniog. The Lord Kenyon and Mr Harry Ver- ney have succeeded the Lord Herscheil and Vice-Admiral Henry Campbellas Lord and Poom in Waiting to His Majesty.

I. BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH ANi, CHURCH RE-UNION W OPPOSED TO JOINT SERVICES IN I' CHURCH. (From Our Own Reporter.) .1 Ad d re.?siiig the [yi Addressing the clergv and )aity at the, annual meetings of theiocesan Society, h on ?"?ednesday,the Bishop of St. Asaph sai? the first meeting of the Board of Finance had been held that day. He did not hke to prophesy what the effect of that Boai ct would be on the work of the Church, but it had brought in enthusiasm on the pari of the laity in the financial work of tha. £ j diocese (cheers). As regards the work of t- education, he could not help thinking that j the treatment meted out to two small Church schools, namely, Glyndyfrdwy atti > Pontfadog, was harsh and unjust- (hear, j hear). No doubt the Board of Educat on were technically correct in closing school* when the attendance fell below 30, but ha > did not think that war-time was a perloct i when advantage should be taken of excep- tional circumstances (hear, hear). In the c& £ 0 of the two small schools he felt that the education authorities of Denbighshire "• and Merionethshire had not played the game, and the treatment was harsh, un-. just, and certainly not necessary. Refer- ring to the Education Bill, he said thaf. from a secular point of view it was valu- able, and one rejoiced in particular to sr-O that the position of the teachers was bet- ter-they were certainly worthy of it (cheers). Anything that would strengthen i the teachera' position waa better for the empire. But there was one point as re- s 9-ard religious education that had been left out of the Bill, and that waa don. £ by general agreement. The war had. however, taught them what could be done by a highly cultured nation, which con- centrated its forces. The war had also- taught them the value of moral educA-i tion, and he believed that the moral char-1 acter of the Allies would tell with force ia the final issue (cheers). A great change had come over Noncon- formists who at their meetings confessed that it had in the past been a great mis- take to oppose religious inetruetion in daw ?choob. ?hat showed a great change, an. was certainly some reward for the sacri- fices made by Churchpeople (hear, "rY. Meetings had been held Wlth the object « £ agreeing to an interdenominational svl- Jabns for use in aU the Welgh day school&. and he believed it would be possible to brjlJ K In an Act of Parliament to make rovjeiorl by which leading Christian bodies could, through a committer, make arrangements for interdenominational teaching to those children whose parents dbsired it. Of course the Conscience Clause would alwava onerato. THE QUESTION OF RE-UNION. I opeaocing" on the question of re-union, His Lordship said the question had re ceived greater prominence during the war, but as Dr. Forsyth (chairman of the Con- gregational Union of England and Wales) put it, if they pushed the question of re- union they would tear the Church of Eng- land in half. That was a very wise re-, mark. Re-union, if it came, muet be al re-statement of the first principles and, acceptance of them by all (hear, heary, b No one desired to see progress toward. re-union of the Church and Nonconform- ■ ity more than himself, but it could not be K done in an atmosphere of emotion-they, ■ must get down to bed-rock principles. m Dealing with the question of the irecog4 K nition of joint services, he said he had re- f cived request for the same, but the ffli ral thing the clergy had to remember was the duty they owed to their own faithful peo- ple, and they had no right to shock their convictions by actions which might aceng to them quite unintelligible and irrecon- cilable with the doctrines always taught in their churches (cheers). He was en- tirely opposed to the holding of joint ser- vices in Church-he was sure they would not be good for their own Churchpeople or good for the Nonconformists. It was far better to go on in their own way untit some larger light on the great question* which divided them had been vouclisafod., He did not object to attending joint iier- "iceg held in a neutral building and fot Churchmen and Nonconformists to meetf together in prayer (hear, hearl. THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH. I As to the war and the future, he could not help feeling that the wound of injustice might be hidden by the plaster of emotion, but it could not be healed by it. Whilfl Churchpeople had kept silent during the war, they felt that a great injustice had been done to them. He had not met a single man who waa prepared to say that the treatment of the Church in WaiN waa a just treatment (hear, hear). One of the most distinguished Nonconformists in th. kingdom said recently: "My heart yearn' for re-union,but I recognise, and frankly re } cognise, that one of the greate t obota ice to it at the present time is the treatment! meted out to the Church in Wales. What can be done to remove that injustice?" (appiause). He (the Bishop) realised that while the war had had a marvellous effect on the people, he did not believe that the character of the peoplo had changed. He believed that the men would come back not with revolutionary ideas, but w Ith 4 determination to see justice done (ap- plause). He did not believe that a jus- tice-loving people would tolerate the tear- ing of parish churches without a penny to carry on work that had been done for cen- turies (cheers). Welsh Churchpeop'e had no reason to be aahamed of what they; had done during the war. Their sons, be- fore conscription, answered the call, an nobly did their duty-God bless them. He looked forward to the future of the Church in Wales with no misgivings. She had shown that even endowments and estab-) lishmentfl were not the essence, aud the Church remained more powerful than evet (cheers). ——————— ——.— >

Child Was In A Decline. j Wasting Away with Sickness and Diarrhoea but soon Cured by Dr. Casseil's Tablets. Dr. Cassell e Tablets ehould be given tel all weakly or backward children. Theji, build up strength and stamina for future a Mrs .LicMeid 12, AIderside-?reet, Harpurhey fl anc ,hest(,r, say?-I'm .urt Dr. CaaseU s Tablets saved my child's Hie. She tell into a decine, and began to W-UTO away terribly. I was told it was consump- tion of the bowels. The diarrhoea wa. something dreadful; it hardly ever ceased. There really did not seem any flesh on her poor little bone* at all. Sometime8 she was sick, too, but the diarrhoea was the real trouble, and it was thought that nothing could be done. However it occurred to me to try Dr. Casseil's Tabtete and it wae quite astonishing how they. ii-e-ped her. The diairhoea got less, and soon was was quite gone. Then she put on flesh, and now 6he is a fine little girL'-i Dr. Cassell s Tablets are the Proved ttemedr, for Nervous Breakdown N are Paralysis Spinal Weakness Infcntile Paralysis N eurasthenia Sleeplessness Anaemia I Kidney Ti-ouble Indigestion -jI II' asting Diseased I Pulpitation | Vital Exhaustion Specially vaju?hto for rurstn?: | Mothers and during <?- Critical. 1 Periods of Life. < 1 S'jld by Chemises and Stores in all parts of | the world, 'nciudtn? Australia, New Zeal?ut? [? Canada, Africa, and India. ¡ Prices: 1B, Is 3d. and 3& (the size being |\ ?heimstcconomicat). 

Lord Liclifield was found dead near his j Staffordshire residence, Shugboroughl I Park, on Monday night. He ha.d been j Par ks, 'iiootinf, and there was a gui?hot I wound in t o _d. {