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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-3-14, Page 6The ,Car's Tool Equipment. Quite. frequently We hear ear own- ers, especially new buyers, ask: "Don't you think I ought to have such and such a tool in my car?" We reply that it would perhaps be nice, but there is a line to be drawn on having no more to carry along than is absolutely necessary to make repairs on the road, .Every car, whether new or old, is supposed to have a full equipment of tools, like pump, jack, a few wrenches, oil. cen, and starting cranle. This list really accommodates the prob- able or average need of any car own ea to meet little emergencies on the road. It would be impossible to carry all and every tool that might be need- ed some time. A truck might carry such an equip- ment, but we do not believe very many private owners eare to undertake the task, and really do not know of any who presume to do so, What we wish to answer is, "Where is the limit to the number of tools any car owner ought to carry with him?" You will need a pump to inflate tires. Then come two tire tools for. taking the casings off the rim. The jack should be in usable order at all times, for one never knows when it will be needed. About four S wrenches and one good monkey wrench should be at hand. The S w•renehes should range at reasonable openings to take in all the nuts that will ordinarily need turning at any time. A hub wrench must be carried. On the hub wrench you have an open- ing not only for the outside cap but also for the nut underneath this cap on the enol of the axle shaft. Along with the above we should never forget the oil can with enough oil for an emergency. There is another thing that every ear owner should make sure is in his tool box: It is the starting crank. Some cars have them fastened on the front of the car, but the greatest num- ber have the crank in the tool box. You can never tell when you may need it, no matter if your car does have a self-starter. On very long trips, where one may be at times far from a garage, more tools might be carried, but it is our experience that instead of too many extra tools it would be better to carry some of the smaller parts of the car, like frent hub cones or balls, races, spark plugs, fan belt, a small roll of wire, some insuated cable, and extra lamp globes. Include in this, if you will, a good stout rope or towing cable and yen may rest assured you have a sufficient tool equipment, un- less, as we say, you have ample cap- acity for carrying more. THE EBB `FIDE ON THE SOMME! MAJOR IAN HAY, MILITARY AUTHORITY. Sees in Fateful Struggle of Last April the Real Berman Waterloo. "The battle of the Marne was the high tide of the tear, for Germany. The battle of the Somme was the be- ginning of the ebb tide. Already the latter battlefield has lost some of the stark horror it presented just after the fight. The indefatigable grass was covering some of the scars of conflict when I saw it last fall. The enormous mine craters and shell pits are still serious obstacles to cultivation, and the rusty wraiths of many barbed wire barricades remain to hamper the farmer. Yet the atmosphere of peace and quiet seemed an augury of the time when French soil will know the :freedom it enjoyed prior to August, 1914." The ,speaker was Major Ian Hay (Beith), author of "The First Hun- dred Thousand" and one of the most notable figures developed by the great conflict. The interviewer could not conquer the inclination to ask about the earlier days of the war. "A great deal has been said about that," replied Major Beith, smiling. "Perhaps, after all, the best things have not yet been said. By contrast with the Somme, and Verdun, the first battle of Ypres seems a rather small scale affair. Yet I think historic per- spective will perceive it as one of the vital battles of the war. Nothing in history is more splendidly heroic than that last fragile line of cooks and grooms and teameters who took the rifles from dead men's hands and checked the Hums. If the Germans Reached Calais? "The significance of that heroic stand can he appreciated only in light of subsequent development.,. To -day, for instance, we eoneede the submar- ine to be one of the graeeet menaces of the wear. It is a menace chiefly be- cause Germany holds a portion of the Belgian roastabout twenty-five miles in length. Let us assume that she had reached Calais in that first triumphant drive, Fier submarine offensive would have been immeasurably more power- ful. Indeed, had she been able to es- tablish submarine bases along the nar- rower portions of the English Channel, the outcome of the wear tvould ha c been very different. ' "The German dream of e„ England isolated and starring might have been actually roalie d. festead, we have been able to meet the submarine men- ace and conquer it. Four million Brit- ish soldiers have crossed the channel without the loss of a life. And those 4,000,000 have molded history. portion of rho Belgian coast retained by the Huns is their last slipping grip on interference with the allied cause at sea. When that gap is closed by the next big British 'push' the submarine peri} will become negligible. IIence the great masa of German troops arrayed along the Brit- ish front, and the despernte nature of the lighting in Flanders. "Germany might have held this coveted strip of coast if the old in- stinct to 'smash for Paris' had not been too strong, Had Germany seiz- ed the Belgian coast first, instead of thrusting forevard to their defeat at the Marne, their other aspirations might have been realized. But the de- lay ryas fatal. Hence the Marne as the zenith of their offensive." a " "If I Had Known." "I had a friend. Our souls clasped hands; Our heart -strings, like two vines, about Each other twined till twain seemed one." If I had known thus early in the race That Death would come and claim you as his own, In crowded ways I would have sought your face, If I had known, My every word and action would have shown I seas your friend; the ties, like vines, that grace True friendship, strong as iron bands had grown! "One shall be taken,"—yours the va- cant place; And ire who eats the bitter crust FRENCH CHILDREN ILL WITH FAMINE SUFFERING OF JCYENILES 1N ]YAR Alt EA. Detailed Statement of Poor Nutrition 13y American 'Red Cross Physlcian, That the French children, as a mass, are underfed, undernourished and in- sufficiently clothed, especially those . whose parents have been ratable to provide for them out of means ems- ; mutated before the war, was the opin- ion expressed by Dr, William Palmer Lucas, of the University of California, in en.artiole by him in the American Journal of Medical Sciences, on the work of the Children's Bureau, De- partment of Civil Affairs, American ' Red Cross, France. The article deals with conditions in France hast August, I He said in part: ! "Probably at no time in the history of the world has there been such a widespread condition of underfeeding and poor nutrition as new exists in a i very large proportion of Freneh cltil- dress. Owing largely to the almost static conditions of the Civilian popu- lation, there have been few widespread epidemics; dangers of such epidemic., increase with the moving about of re- fugees. If a widespread epidemic should occur at the present time I be- lieve that the mortality would be, very high, for the children have undoubted- ly less power of reeistanee than they have ever had before. The infant mor- tality rates rose during, the first year of the war, fell eharpiy during the second year and l•egan to vise again during the third year. Urgent Need in "'Lone des Armes." "The most urgent need which fared us at the outset in August was that of the children from devastated areas, in what is known as the 'Zone des Armees; an area extending ba about thirty miles.from the front lines of the army. in this area we found towns which are likely to be bombed at any time, other towns partly de - I strayed, which had been evacuated I early this yens, and still others which were then being gassed or were under continual shell flee, From this area the children nee constantly being sent back in varying, numbers; sometimes they are moved for sheet periods only during acute bombardment. At other times, when the sector is suffering from more or less constant shell lire or gas attacks, the children have been evacuated more permanently. Isere the problem is an urgent one. We have attempted. to meet it in several towns w•hieh seemed to demand immediate at- tention, and from which calls had th- ready come to the Red Cross. Housing 500 Unfortunates. "The largest undertaking of this kind has been in the eleuethe-et-lio- selle Department, under the kind guidance and auspices of Prefect Mir - man, At his invitation the Red C'r'oss has established a large cleating house and hospital at Toul. IIere same 450 children and fifty mother from gassed or bombed villages are hewed and medically supervised, "From the hospital at Teel a bi- weekly dispensary service has been ce- tablished in the factories and mairies of six nenrby towns. This service is covered by Dr. Alice Barlow Brown, of Chicago, one of the American fund for French wounded medical delegates as - alone, signed by the bureau to the work in Can cry but to the darkness and to the Meuethe-et-Moselle under Doctor space, "If I had known!" Etiquette of Fish Feast. Ladd. This fund has worked hand -m - hand with the Red Cross for the real- ization of the great opportunities for service. At these dispensaries groups NEW ISSUE Offering of 900 ���00 9 2 Five Year 6% Refunding Gold Bonds CITY NTRE DATED 1st DECEMBER, 1917 DUE 1st DECEMBER, 1922 Interest payable half -yearly --1st June and December. Principal and Interest payable in Gold at the City Treasurer's Office, Montreal, or at the Agency of the Bank of Montreal, New York. Bonds issued in Coupon form in denominations of $100, $500 and $1,000. ISSUE PRICE—PAR. A full half year's interest will be paid 1st June, 1918. The bonds therefore give a net yield to the investor of about 6y%. THE BANK OF MONTREAL, Fiscal Agerft of the City of Mont- real, is authorized to offer the a!tove-riameG' bonds for public sale on behalf of the City, at par, without accrued interest, payment to he made in full on 8th April, 1918, against delivery of the bonds at. any Branch, in Canada, of the BAND OF MONTREAL, or of any bark the applicant may specify, or at the Agency of the LANK OF MONTREAL, New York or Chicago. The issue is made to refund a like amount of Montreal Throe - Year 57i. Notes, the original issue having been made for public works, in anticipation of a permanent loan. Beginning 25th February, 1918, applications for the bonds will be received by the BANK OF MONTREAL, MONTREAL, or any of its branches, from whom application forms and copies of the prospectus giving full particulars of the issue may be obtained on request. The offering is subject to withdrawal on or before the 18th March, 1918. Applications should be addressed to the BANK OF MONTREAL, MONTREAL and should contain full instructions as to place of delivery and 'payment suitable to the applicant, and the denominations of bonds required. The issue is made with the approval of the Minister of Finance, Ottawa. of the whole number, so we have the tank of caring for from 600 to 900 children a day. The largest number of children in any one convoy so far has been 680 Belgian children return- ing after three years of German sub- jugation, Any one who saw ihdse children, their emaciated, pitiful bodies, would realize how great a task confronted es at that point. It leas been most difficult to secure adequate medical inspection of these children, who came in by hundreds each clay and were scattered throughout France the next day. If one visualizes this situ- ation it is clear that the newly arrived children must be sent out of the city each day if the next 1,500 rapatries are to be cared for on the following clay. The French needed and asked for help with this problem from the Chil- dren's Bureau. "The child life of a country is the second line of defense. It must ba preserved at any cost and strengthen - BEATING RECORD OF PHARAOH. Largest Artificial Lake is on Line of the Panama Canal, The MS, Government Fisheries Be- reau is planting Gatun Lake wrth fishes. The first shipment for the pur- pose, made by steamer recently, con- sisted of catfish, sunfish, carp and black bass, all of "fingerling" size. The bass were -planted in the Chagres River, the principal tributary of the lake. . A Pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty constructed a reservoir (known to -day as Lake Moeris) which covered sixty- three square miles. It was an arti- ficial lake, regarded in its day as one of the wonders of the world, and was designed to regulate the flow of the Nile. In its way it was the most remark- able engineering achievement of an- tiquity. But Gatun Lake, on the line In the Samoan Islands, when a fish of children and women ranging from ed in every wee- if we would keep any of the Panama Canal, beats it, being a few hundred in one town to more about three times as big. Its object feast is held, the piece de resistance nation truly prepared to meet future g j than 1,000 in another are cared fa•. is similar; namely, to take care of the must he divided r in accordance with medically. This work is very urgent '}errands. The conservation of child a rigid and unvarying the etiquette. The life is as much a part of this great flood waters of the Chagres River and and impelling; tea certain extent the prevent them from doing mischief, heads are assigned to the tribal ora- conflict as the nruhttenance of armies, tors, who are of the high nobility. workers,' are in constant danger, since It. he for the future freedom of the Oaten Lake is the largest artificial they are well wit' iu range of nil ' body of water ever known in the The flesh just behind the gills is set children of to -clay and of to -morrow raids or of the enemy's grins. I world. It is, in fact the most import - thefor guests whom the host of � that our Allied armies sirug�gle at � p the occasion desires to honor. The Caring for "Rapatries. • present. The struggle must not be in ant feature of the transisthmian canal, pectoral tins (a particular delicacy) go "Another task which :faced tate Chid- vain. .from such ideals at home the extending two-thirds of the distance to the Icing. The cuts across the dreris Bureau on its ariival in France Children's Bureau of the American from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific spine just abal't the pectorals (the was that of caring for the `rapat.ries' Red Cross sprang. Toward the eon- Ocean. very parts vte should think most de- as they enter 'France through ewe.- summation of such ideals tho Chi]- It occupies a basin that was dry land n•etet time ire is Bureau ill continue " before the canal was built; and, be - Hirable) are distributed] among the i zerlauul, At the 1 nt t the ala c r , a w on s rue to scala. common people. For the chief's the tion of entry is on the Lake of Gen- -- -- cause the area covered by it is very tail and belly parts are reserved, eva, in the small town of Evian, which Water and salt are essential for hilly and topographically irogular, it -- hue fewer than ram inhabitants, Into the health and comfort of the sheep, stretches in a multitude of arms far Sprouted oats are relished by hens;' this town 1,F.00 rapatries pour each Salt should be before them continu_ up into its marshy shores, they keep them in good condition and I clay, 750 in the morning and 'MO at ously. If plenty of water is previd- make them lay, Sprouted oats digestnight. The proportion of ehildren ed, awes will drink surprisingly large easier than rawoats, l among them is from 40 to eft per cent. quantities of it. .learO, W 5....."..,..r.z, A. - ,.,..,Su....119*,17n.21....3.::,._,_.,,,,V=1..:,,-.....1.,•119,3.CL.,,,,, .. a ,.,.m,..4,m..1711=91:120,o ITom, }low Uv YOU Wel.1-,11 '1.11<e-1/IE RIMON ? IP `tat) IIAD A '114 Wout.p >� A /400E61- WA`i , YO ADVEICTISE IT f One reason why its shores are marshy is that in its shallows there develops with astonishing luxuriance' 22. fa ontli aretk at Cedir Ot IV A 1 SES —' Dotal 'PeAIe 'ft, me `tot' I , 1Ni ivinp AT Yoe/ To You've Gm ONe.. MINK' Ttte, WAN `lou Bel OF T140e0- HEAOAceee ( Iltii70R latTel'rHAT 1 toate.:— BANDS -roc T POT `leSTERWeef •---- ts� —it.- - a kind of grass which sends out run- ners in all directions. On this account its banks are not easily accessible even to small craft, As for fishes, it is hoped that they will multiply and furnish a worth- while food supply, March. Oh, Dear -my -heart, don't call it rain! 'Tis springtime's thrilling drum. On rooftree and on windowpane We hear its rousing thrum, And hark! The shrill wind's bugle call In chiumey tops and trees Is saying•, "Waken, waken, all Brave blossoms, if you please! Spring's hosts must take their stand again 'Neath maple, oat: and larch, And end harsh winter's cruel reign, Attention] 'Upward, March!" - Oh, Dear -my -heart, 'neath winter's snow The flowers' sleep is sound. That's why grim March must Muster so To fetch them front tht*ground. With wild, wild winds that pipe and blow And loudly beating drum, "Pis March that says to them, "What hol - Glad blossom time has come! Shrink not from sides still dark and drear, From winds that sting and parch, But rise and face them Without fear. Attent.ion!Iipward, March!" --Ili, M. Parks, Heather is being cut frons waste lands in Holland for use as cattle fodder. Del - Naa.eel — Come oUT--IlecloR (GUESS 1 pip is HafR�. _— HECTOR A � GIVE EC __ PR aryl aoov wm.r.oP iesrEr- YOti ieE RIGHT lay STYI.G 1 WtYH le&STRING AROUND 'JOUR HPAt> �7 KUT, "CITY OF DEAD," }RESTORED POPULATION lour RNs ArrER LONG EXILE. Mesopotamian Town Where Ilritish &lel. Greatest. Reverse Is Rebuilt, The city of Iiut, the serene of the British Mesopotamian army's greatest reverse, after lying for many months a eity of the dead, abandoned by even its native population, has gradually been rebuilt in the last six months and is now a thriving town of neatly as great population as In clays of peace. It was too important a centre to bo neglected, It was a link between the Euphrates and Persia, and, aecurding- ly, after it had been deserted for more than two months, a British officer ar- rived there to take charge of the work of reconstructing it. The first thing to do was 'to elean the place. The debris was dumped out of the houses into the streets, the ac- cumulated filth was buried or burned, the barricades were pulled down, the dugouts and trenches were filled up, Re -building the City. An imposing colonade bazaar was built along the river bank. A begin- ning was nude With a coffee room and some retail ships for the builders, who for a long time were the sole popula- tion. Skilled masons, natives who had been employed by the Germans in con- nection with the Bagdad Railway, were collected and set to work. They rebuilt and ire -roofed the old bazaars, widened the old streets and built new ones, repaired the mosques, the baths and the lee factory, put new engines into the flour mill and converted the flats and shoals in the middle of the Tigris into vegetable gardens. Though still partly in ruins, Iiul to- day is a cleaner and better town than ever before in its history. Most of the people are beck again behind their nel doors. The bazaars are thronged. And the,people are more prosperous than over, for there is abundant labor for everybody in the neighborhood. Some: of the prominent people in the town will never come back. Eight of them, including the Sheikh and his sons, were hanged by the Tueh,. and forty others were shot. 'lames Iiept Green. The house which General Townshend occupied during the siege has been re- paired, but the roof and balcony aro stili pitted with shrapnel. Seven shell holes have been tilled with plaster. The memory of the General and of his principal officers survive; in the names of the new streets. These is Townshend road, Dalamain road, lie- liss road and the names of brave regi- ments are recorded in Dorset road, Norfolk street and Muhratta row. Every association in the nemenc}aturc of the Kut is reminiscent of the mem- ory of its former defendsr.s, especial- ly the cemetery. The long -drawn agony of the garrison which fought and endured here so stanchly to the edge of starvation makes one of the most tragic stories in British military history. Nearly 1,800 soldiers of the British army died of weenels and dis- ease during the siege and are buried togethenein a bare mud field, inclosed by a mud wall with a few starved palms in it and hueless desolation all around—but that is Mesopotamia. The Turks dug trenches all around the cemetery, but they respected the graves. Graves of Heroes, Volunteer parties of bluejackets from passing gunboats have landed and trimmed these mounds of earth, which are as clean-cut and neat now as in an English churchyard. A brick wall is being built around the WOO - sure. The place is grassless, it is true, but the sombre aspect will dis- appear when water is brought to the land and the scrub palms are fertiliz- ed and carred for. Three miles below Rut is the only enemy relic in the neighborhood, an obelisk put up by the Turks in com- memoration of the fall of Kut. It -is a kind of Cleopatra's Needle on a square iplinth, all of kiln -dried brick plastered over. An old converted British "cow - gun" stands as a trophy ou each side, One of the guns has tumbled forward , and the plaster and brick are already crumbling. The monument was never unveiled and is still half covered with a camas sheeting, most or which, how- ever, has been carried array by the Wind, A Low Opinion. "The real German opinion of Itu;- sian democracy, if we could only get ?et it, would suggest to ut, 019 story of Hitystacies horse." The Speaker went on:- "Hen Bay - stark come up with Cal Corresille- in front of the post -Wive olio clay, and be stopped his turnout and melee- " 'Ye hein4, looldn' for a gond boss, Cal, be ye?' "'I dunna Why?' sires fed, ""Thiit here mare's for stile,' sates Iden, 'You know me, Cal. I'm al- ways ready for a hoes !rude. De ye want the snare oe dmt't ye? She's a beauty. 'lake her or lenve here "Cal studied the mare a ramulus. Then he. said;_-. "'I certainly would} iake her, nen, only I hain't got nirthiu' smaller than' a dollar on mr, anti 1 hate te. bust at; "