The Cambria Daily Leader

MORAL OF THE ELECTION. Onr view of the flection result in the Swansea East constihiene-r will depend verv greatly upon our poll tical convictions or prejudices. ALL David Matthews, who found 1,09,2 more- electors to vote for him than Mr. David WiHiams had, speaks (Ii the magnificent victory achieved for i constitutional means of govern- mec.t. Mr. David Williams, in & minority of 1,092, sa.y!i that "Th\ victory i-5 ours." It appears to be a cae of paying your money and taking your choice. No one has lost, although Ald. Matthews goes to Parliament! Xow we are not going to talk of 8 magnificent, ddory, bocause with all the will in the world, being atvay from the excitenient and the en. thusiasm of the poll declaration, Wf; | cannot look upon a result in Turhich there is a reduction ryf over three thousand in the maicrity, as bjM too satik'actorr. Whilst vrc, rejoice that. the. Coalition candidate has been returned—would view it as a disaster to the country bad lie been rlcffated-,we are concerned at the1 fact that .1,817 additions)., voters enlisted under the Labour banner, and ire ask ourselves why t.hey transferred their allegiàn. V. hat has happened between December 1918. and July 19191 The first and most obvious answer j a dejicate one to advance; and Aid. Matthews will not misunder- stand us when we Aay that he wa at sorfte disadvantage compared with the late member in po.]itic¡: i influence. But that answer is not sufficient. It cannot explain awav a drop of 1,82.1. in the Coalition Liberal poll. We must search deeper.. • We believe that. war-tiredn##e and industrial unrest have contribu- ted their share to the decrease; but, above everything else, that prices and profiteering are responsible. We must remember the womao ,-mer; Think of her daily indigrta lion ?s she has to fit in her domest'i1 pxcnefjUer with the soaring cba?cs!' with ttit sonrinc, J. Think of her irritation as she 'fe.j made the victim o? chtrg wh^b sbe feels in her benef are not justl fied R very one. trying to ¡ ..J i. t her down. She is beginning to1 feel that the World is getting a hope- less sort of place, and the wonders at the slowness of the CrOternmenr in moving to her relief. We read yesterday—and she, doubtless-— j the statement of a Parliamentary -orrespondeftt that No topic of t-eiifrovArsy bAf Mia ?ne of Commou? fo m?.b M the apparently unj?ti?:\h?. rise in ? e of many articles of & "fTy <tay and the Government are n,t anxiou# that the eausa$hould U fully inveiiM- trated. The irtfluence of a World de- mand i generally understood and àp- preciated; hut the irritation by continiied srr^win^ np of the price of articles of home production or culti- vation to a degree out of all propor- tioa to the increase ih of other fcno-wd tauses, i in tbo opinifti of thi Oorernment, responsible for a confide*- able amount of the discontent that now di?loeate~s trade artd industry. That's all very well, she £ ays—and if her husband is a model one he will follow her-but the Select Com mittee now appointed ought to hate been (!A11 to long ago. The report t.o be ready when the members of Parliament return from their autumn holidays. She csnnot afford to wait go long. Rut when all is said and done, the Government has 4 very sub- stantial backing ef voters lovfll tú it: and whaterer Mr. David Wil- iiams was the is*ue-at the tion, he ir; a thousand vc,t<?s j do-wn as tht restdt of his challenge, j Wa-s it Direct Action, about which the unsuccessful candidftte was so uncharacteristically coy? We did our best to make the election r9- volve upon that issue, but Mr Williams avoided it likothe plague. He was full of qualifying how- evers whenever he gingerly touched the question. Now he de- clares that It was only Mr. Matthews who made direct action the issue." We suggest to him that his memory must be failing, b* cauge ho heayd his chief supporter, Mr. Smiilie., elaborate! an afgu- ment at DozTp;sig that direct action would be justifiable H tho Frime Mini&ter and tba Goverrii. meub- WoWd not redeem a defi- nite pledge'' to accept the g«cond part of the SanWey Beport. (A« a matter of fact,, there has never been a definite pledge, and since the challenge of the Danygraig asser- tion, Mr. Smillie has talked of an iaiplied pledge, wMcfe is equally j absurd). If Mr. Williams tras not pre-pated to accept the elecfioncer- ing tactics of Mr. Smillie. why did he not repudiate fchem ? ft i So the new member is perfectly entitle*! to say +hat the working classes of this great industrial con- stituency are thoroughly opposed to the use of industrial action for poli- tical purposes, and that they have not lost their faith in Parliament h>& the best instrument for obtaining necessary reforms." Mr. Dand Williams always talks of the will of the. people. Well, he accept it, in the best temper be can com- mand, We wish him joy in his tm- ticipations oÍ -the next election. It I is always the next election. Hope springs eternal in. the human breast, and M'r. Williams is the most sanguine of mortals. For the present, however, he must bow to I the will of the electorate—and it has i declared itself against him, what- ever his platform wns. I

41b. LOAF—is. 2d. S 41b. LOAF- "Is. 2d. 0 I I Should We Pay the  Economic Pfice? I Econom i c Price? i Jfr. W. H. Palmar, tha president of the i National Association of Master Baker?, has had a good deal to do with Collcoting étÍdnNJ f?F Commission ?n ?i?ht  Baking, which presented its report a week ag?. A?c? for an opinion &bo?t the R?! port., he Said r—• The findings Are exactly what, f I be—a wash-out. I catiriofc BfA how it is possible to legislate or. the findings of this Tribunal." He was especially severe on the dis- tinct kme and th exemptions involved. Either they must stop all night bak- ing, or t'ftey mitst kave it alotio; you play it in this fashion," he irrgHl. "It appears to mt as if they have been trying ta placate boffi sides." Mr. faj-Ater held that the Cofnmission should hare taken their eonragxs in both hands of left it alone. In his opinion, thfey pot a the witid tip when the opera- tivps' side was faN\I:} witti tiie side. The faet, of the matfer was the Ministry of Labour Was oort4 'lthflfl threatened by the opp-t-,qfires wit)i a shrike, and trere prepared to go any Ungth {? %v?d ?a?. Tt would have bc?n batter if tho Comni i ?sion had 1dt t?o thing alone or f?ali with ? pTopcr?. Af it 1\"U they had K)?!* a ?''t ?f compro- mis?. and ho WM ?o?Tin??d tht t.h^ men would ha?e ?ona ??o? hy Speaking of thft fsatiofisl dehiatid of the operatives for it a wi-nl; minimum, and a 41 hours wk, he said lie was attending a meeting of the National Association entire this vr,Olk in TjOHdon, I!{!JI..d to dis- i Wiss th* proposal?. But," b* add?d, y«u ran take it f-mi me. filerp, won't be any &o«tlemen' tin the Minifitrt of Food either twlueeft th$priee of flour or raises th« 1"ri8 of llr Or rellses the 4pries of Mr; Palmer spoke terr highly of a r«~ oent "Cambria Daily Lea^Ver article, in ^hich it ?ns ur?e? that the subsidy on htí,1 ghouM nofr 6o ?'?mor?d, ? tbat ? l r,eopln might knoTT what bread really j COStf. 1 quita agTee/' said, with the Writer of that article irho has a MM grip of the whole position. Askfcal what h<» would oonarider a fair I ef<;t>omsc prir« for the 4-1h. Umf nt thf) Prc«$nt. moment, Mr. Palmer replied, j hI. or 1. M." He h^kl that the! Public hou1d kn? wh?t pri(-e, were .Ymt for 811 commodities, and Said they d?i nnt kMW "-day, ?8t fh?y vould pio- t habh be more eareful in spending,

I MR. T, J. RES'S  MR. T. J. REES'S PAMPHLET. I "Journal of Education" in Appreciative Wood. The following is art ett from the "Journal M IMuoatlon H regarding r T. pamphlet on Education f'rotyeir?." July, 191^ That somifo (yf tb> Vfelsh atethori- ti^s .iT'e dt) A alirfe to fh n(!e.éi:t for | fore'ho;;#bt and n ,aoto\r^h consideration "f every RA-r^ot. of tb* rl:èt:(;1\ before d«cicicig on a general plan is proved by & r^feren, co el excellent pamphlet which Mr. T. J. UeeiR, th Director of Education Slran*«a, h, juti la he deals eshvairtive'v tlith elementfirv and ««condary *duoo.hicn hr1"" 8, well ,-as J with «obools, and as h'? ootiditionf h Swaneoa j ate fni.r ty^vc^l, hs c. and j are oi geneva I in;-tr«st. Tbe total miliar ti children attend- inf; »U grrades of schools is 21),694, 4nd of afawA :r¡¡1 rach yMi- reaoh the ot 12, and for whom full-time &hi«aU<m must, bo ppovided until tbty reach the ege of t4 or IS (Mr. ileos strongly recoan- mcuds t\rAi6Ïong of the school ^ge to 151, and ptrt-Vtie edueation up ,0 J6. The scheme for dealing wick th««« 3,000 oliildren is briefly as follows,—A« each year tb?y rear-h the fig- of U, thoy ahall fee e^bmitU" to some <"y=iem of ftlaestfi- cfition, baseri partly upon examination tests And partly upon headmasters' i reports and partly 011 the wsh^s of their parents He recommends the transference of the brMt children te the two inteiv tA,sd!,tte schools, the next li(-st to one of the four municipal fceeondary srhools, and the remainder to the Middle School* whih will be bUs4d under tho Act, ?nd which v?t p?owde eotpeeo from 12 to 13 or HI, and parVtiiae tup to 18. The eystem io pot te be a,bsol\itely rr'fid, for undor proper gnaranteee kraater ferepoe from on* trjMt of Oebool iN) ttie if eoa&e so& plat, is adapted, we b.#re no doubt that it ean bo mAZe work-able. and ajReieat, and that a f^r larger pr<>prortii»n of eVsmentary <whool ftipils will be induced to a thorough *eon?«e of eeuondqry edn«*ii«$i than at seetioije ip the pasapWet of grest art «duc!*tieD, technical education, pii5«iw4 I odueation, etc., tnd we believe that äuthóritî may derive much enlighten- ment and ho-Ili from a eareful study ef the eyggeeti6n« put forward in it/'

SUMMER REVERIE t On the Scents of the, Garden. I On a recent sunwaer day of beautiful i stinshine, I found myself in the midst of an atmosphere, with which hardly any II can be compared in th# oaW.ogue of flower peri urn?*—the «we»t 6roa of clover I —the me HioR of the Cymric bard. It was wafted by a gentle breeze from a field tv-n- by, carpeted with I'ttle oreanir- whi ';•* blo^co-ms, eaeh emboeom^d in its 'I green trefoil. The farmer, it may J judges only from a cold utilifarisni standard, and the glorious vieta of colour nud fragrance -6 only eeeaadary. In dut- j t,;mt!. the tinsytApathetic or noisy I harvester will lay low th, b!o-*s»>m??, thus nipping the fragrance in the b-ad n ut i what disp^tisation can wholly eradicate j the ev?r-fragrant memory of the pleasing I' message from those blossoms brought on the wings of the summer breezes I We are .p»,*nfully familiar w-th the p^i-er'e harsh vsrdi ;t of Nature red in i tooth and claw." But, if there be mufh reason for such, eom-pene.Itions abound on every hand, which give a decided pull to the balance, to the brighter side. Have, we not. the pleasant of ispring,and summer, the warm sunshine, the prolrfic foliage of the fhady hedgerows, the twit- ter of birds, the infinite variety of colour on every hand. Such beauty is a joy for ever Bui: more, who m.r. ignore the charm of pcrltime--a veritable^ language of flowers. The legend hre bNlll handed down of t1:.1" liVh plutocrat, who resented the I action of h/e poor* ne>:ghboure, M they I loitered on their way to admire be beauty I of the choice blossoms within the walls of his ?yt?Dsirf gardens. ActJ?? on his stern ecmmnn^, b's eerr?ng-m?n set h,?e' i e r the l ?o?-ers ¡ blmcd unsn :,f th prying c? M 6f t?e I poor folk. But kindlier thsn he, eo rich in filthy lucre, were the breezes, they I spread abroad over the heightened walls the bleuded perfumes of a thousand bloor»<, to regale the riostrile of the poor p7$-b:r. In the same manner doth Nature find a way even to carry her sweet messages to the ecu) of the ftfsyht* j, whose fingerg tou?h the blooms ¡).$ if they eacrfd things;. -:1— rH- ow unleSfiab-e perfume '«! How much love, whocn even- ardent lover eoughr in rain to den; Its fUi- ranoc as -.——" i$about as fax as any can Who, (Sauntering en a summer ev?-7ving, lnwn a country efme, with honey- suckle hanging in cluater# am**igst the thorn branches, does not find tiie very Itir hlden with frxgrenee? Voit will hear also,-it may be, the intermittent, flu !:i:er oi the humming bird hawk-moths which e*me in PHeh ef the sweet fire of the Sower*. Intemirtgled with the peru-ne i the delieats edeur of (iie homely dogro?l, hardly able to anAAEI iv* ptMft:" HI: t ámidstuh A pre*- fwihn of ffagrance. Tfirl-ng hack to the days of long age, ofls can easily resurrect troth. xmongit a [ multitude of eiibconecious impressions the characteristic emell May or hawthorn blofsonw. It has a certain nnity pungency, M of bitt.-?r almatids, witb jut a 1¡gH"n of the thorn 'n its sweenies. This is due. as the scientist will tell you, to a fsmilr rela.ionfhip. And again, in ft,tr wanderng*, whcii bent more upon fd'.owing o-ld Ieaak Wal- ton's foote.to'ps tbrtn upod- a botanical | eearch. bad cr? chanced, by the Side of a d&mp difch, upon jhe oommon moadow- ffwe?' a eoufin of the May, with the almond aroma. Ope of Nature's reports this, to distil just a t-otieh of deadly pcirot}-rufc 3t!1. Oa r<ialis- iftg bo winder an uneanny teelitig ere»?p8 within. It briiiffs to, mind n.wbho,tH" sbcry, Rappaccmi's Daughter," in Moseg-. from an Old Manife," and the gorgeous aoverg ''n his garden, frotu whose malignant in Run- ces the old professor, tail, emaciated, sallow arid siokiy looking," atoms to ihrink as from f*>me Savage beasia er dČ$dJy makes or evil spirits." The other day, ~n a (mr of a friotitl,s garden, I enme acroffs a fsm(lit'tr plapt or herb—^e common miifcil (Welsh milddail o? yarrow, with its finely divided leaves and its cluster of white I Sowers. Its peculiar odour, awake and reminl^ce'it nerve, find brought bgck ihe packed hedgerows the c/;tintry-sid^ roads arid and fields. A chance pluck in passing si one or- b other of the infla te v^ri'ty 06 growing things brought All indivMnsil scented message frorox eich one so touched. And the milfoil' many, eeemed like the tent, thst hath spoken ptace to many a sitfferc?. W?re on?- to b?xyd an &p)?ioa u to ?? most democratic «f <? ?n?r' per- faMM. p?rh?p? ?hat of the wallflower ,vowd by general wn??,-nt be <?'-e?d '?ortby ? thai p:. Many humMe I ootte unable to boast of a profuse >f Hardly any other, can show a prod' OTlity of this prime favourite of sheltered walls. V^'here they abound, no other blooms much eli anoe to send forth thl1"ir •:?7,fT;ni<>d breath upon the brceee Th is the wallfio rer's democracy beeiomes a monopoly Nature n-reds ample space to show fori-h a its glories. The carna- tion, flower of the gods," with its pink or whites blooms and its street elove- flavoured perfume, eavis for itp Awn niehe of garden. or lawn, that no other may trespass upon its sweet world of fragrance and charm. The ros,& the queen di flowers "—called eo from of old, Must have its benOurtd jdac«. Themaa Jopes, who oaee oharmed Swansea with kid fragrant 4IInri. wished to ii4rr" upon Ixis hearers the frio. offebt. of suffering mi trial upon the noblest eoixis. go -dowtbad a roee a th\1I« eI Wnfert y»t ralTiet#T»<! te yield a ite perfume Eoldiftv all wttb the spell of his entrancing oratory, h. pud- dly flashed forth, '4 Crash it "nd the eaoctuary seetoed filled with t\e frag- rance pot only of the crashed roee, hqt of the soul ejvpobled through sufferLng. The 1.n. flowers ^-r-whence prew eeedeth it? Surely not alotie from tJlt or to!-out, neither from lovely shape or form, bttt also from the storehouse of Sweet perfumes, so quietly distilled from Nature's boeom. I J. Evtnt JoNst. I

TOWN TALK. Afr. Artemns Jon- K.C., who appeared] for the Crown in the doctor's case Wednesday, was the learned counsel who defended the late Sir Roger Casement,, :0:0- At a colliery not many miles from Swansea, names of butties working together at their rerpectire headings itrq Carpenter and Gimlet, "Wiltshire and Bacon. -Car- If anybody d*vcrre« a cheer, it is the man who has wen the Mons Star, for he at any rate has done his share in killing the monster of militarism. '—A note from St. Thomas. —:< — With the completion of the local stt-ro- drome, aviation will f^n b* quite com- men in the town. And in 87-nz, as in everything else. Swansea determined to be in the first flight. — » :— The inhabitants of one of the west end streets are said to M wondering whether some of the Corporation scavengers are still celebrating the Peace holiday, for there are still on view plenty of evidences of Saturday night's street bonfires. —SO: — A member of the Y.M.C.A. Boy Scouts is in a terrible w ay over the great number of Union Jacks that he has seen upside down. He approat.-lie(I Iipa Scoutmaster Ivor Morgan the other night and lodged a solemn complaint. Something w-ill have to be dona--and 6()()lt! -:0: After ihe declaration of the poll yes. fcerd&y, Mr. David Williams said: "We have won absolutely." Which is qu;te a different try from that oi some 07 bis supporters who bad backed their man for various amounts. They said: We have lost, ab«olu:ely." When a man was charged at Pwllheli with being drurik in the yard of an hotel his solicitor contended that as tit." alleged offenee was after clcsing Honrs the yard Ceased to be a public place aad there -& no offence. This ruling was upheld, and the tase was dismissed. ■ One of onr London contemporaries,' re* ferring to the demobilisation of the Army's p:g-6n messengers, states that the pigeon as a. uieseenger is at least as old as Solomop, We can go further hkek than tbia— the pigeon (or oirii-e), yms Tif-T-i as A mesienger br Noah during {he t1! — Mr— The follevring dialogue took plaee at the IJenelly Police Court:— Solicitors ts lox, the ofwwl price .you pay for a bottle of whieky? No, T only pay the brewery fi*. fd. per bottI. Solicitor: Am. 8d.! sounds more like a solici- t?T's fK t?n the prka 6? a bcttk <? ?tns?y. Mr. T. R. Lndtford, at the .Lknei^y Court, said that if everyonte in Llaneily alone-who had, without a liceuie. gold bottles Of whisky <t)' brandy to during the tear cmÜd be brought to the court, the finos rea.iised wmuld be almost suffleient to pey the National Debt 1 Surely this is a bit c( Americanism, — 3»J— Ccnntr Council lor H. T. Watkins, in» spired br that thoughtful and genercms spirit Which characterises his pilgrimage through life, h&s handed his priie at the carnival at Llandovery to th# Old Age Pensioner" who merched, or rather hobbled, in the procession. The placard On her b»<"k was a seething c:.>mm«ntary oft the present-day treatment, of the aped and infirm who are no longer phvuically able to forage for themselves. H reed • fity Old Age. 7s. o. No rape fruit." -A* Inqniries in reference to the mmour that yie old Tlrook Colliery drift at Owsun"fiejr:vwcn tfes abon^ h) be -re- opened elicited the information that in "nite ?f t? ?ff?Ttt hin price of coal, thN' wag no intention on th na?t of {he th,Po *-ILt rir., nn r.,art -)f tflkirtff. It Appears that the only founda- tion for the If-tneur is that the weter in the drift i* at present. being used at w««hery at the (Iwaancaegu.rwen col- lieries. A wel'-Vnown Swansea man who has just rcturneJ. from a T"18:t to I^endon .^ay» t-h,.it ope of the thinfr«-that impre^ed him in the wahnrha (Ý. th* city was the Tillnl- her of 1.4roo houses that were he""ng con- verted vnto fiat*. 7n view nf the crowds of loeel people thrt "4" pac.tred" inta apartm.»at». he thiaks an effor!- should ly, made in the town to ereft Mec>e .of huilningrs complete I'11f room«. Besides in solving the hooef^t prehV-fft, an eh a scheme,; he h>1;evW, would be more eaotfsrtaKa tifa the tana ft ts. m<- Thare was a very hot argument «i eeort»mie ptoblerAs in a train going nn the Galley last ntgnt. A nnrnVr oi young men were quoting sytherittea," statistic*, and arguments in a Saoe# learned manner, srid thins* were getting a hit lively when #n elderly mru, spew- ing in Welsh, intervened delivered himself of the follow ire: \(1" dear hoys, yotj can argue to the point of exhaustion, but yon e*n't get awlt-r from il;- p? m"iule laid down in the Old Book. In th" sweat Of thy face shait thdn eat b.n-!1:" And in all instant they wero all disenssing theology. Mr. John Fiwat eonfeeticiper, of Caer- s(tre«t, b*4 tha mieforttjui#, just before Pecuse Day, iof 16fits a 1% TFaioa Jack, aehich hr&8 ovw hw pmmimo. Whei be in<iuired of the police, tkkv said it had probablr ben atohm by two ø. for a _aU Vad Mfo^tad to tltm that two fopeffMrrp were pen passing Caea>ei?eet t brass-kaehWd fitug similar ta feat whioh ha dessffibfjid. Mr. Pows's oomment is that he hop" L. tbo I fowHgtters. whan they gtt how. will Of the UnioB LTel-ok alongside their own natifr* nal flag, and tftua aid ia promoting ipe I twuational aiaity.