The Brussels Post, 1921-10-27, Page 7FF.OM WAR "SCRAP"
TO BRITISH STEEL
BLAST FURNACES GET.
TINGr INTO SWING.
Debris from Battleftej~ L
comes. Every Grade of Steel
in Britain's Great Works.
After many weeks of silence and
idlenyes, the steelmakers are starting
up again, although timidly, with an eye
on the blast furnaces, says a writer in
a London newspaper,
They are. giving the ironmasters a
lead. If the bleat furnaces get into
swing, as they are beginning to do, the
eteelmalters can go on. Otherwise,
they must, very soon come to a step
Again.
The great steel works I have Net re-
turned from have sante half a. dozen
furnaces in operation out of about
twenty-four, and are what is known
o at is to
" ar] e floor." Th
as w ch g off, th
eaYe they are using up all the *craps
iron which is lying about the yards,
much of it con6ist111g of debris of the
war.
There are small mountains of shell
cases, old and new, great guns sawn
into sections like cheeses; boiler-
plates; machinery Castings—in fact,
any old .scrap -iron,- In the acres of
this scrap which I inspected in the
neighborhood of Sheffield there was
almost everything one could think of
ranging from locomotive axles and
crank shafts' to safety bicycle parte
and. tin cans.
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Any Old 1ron7
Theyareal t the teel-
1 grin to, steel-
makers. The ordinary tin c
ma Y an is, of
course, a misnomer. It is nbt tin! It Is
not even iron usually, but a very soft
steel. Out of this heterogeneous• col-
lection the steelmakers will, within
certain limifs•, make any sort of steel
they wish, ranging from the softness
and taxibflty of lead to flint hard,
such as they use for high-speed tools,
which in working become red-hot and
will go on cutting without losing their
edge.
It is all much the same to the 'steel-
maker. In practice certain ores yield
better results than others, but, gener-
ally speaking, he will take any old
rubbish out of the scrap -yard and
make from it high-grade steel, such as
is used for razor -blades and baU•bear-
ings.
It is all a matter of refinement. In
non-technical phrase it is boiled and
re -boiled, heated and cooled, and
kneaded while hot like a lump oe
dough in the Bands of the baker—only
in this case the hands consist of a
hydraulic press which administers a
"squeeze" of 1,500 tons force.
The scrap -yard in which I was per-,
matted to stumble about looked a most
awesome spectacle et cnsrupted human
achievement, and reminded me forcibly
of various "sooiewheres" in France. It
was ail mouldering with rust, and loots
ed as depressing: a wilderness of rub-
.. bish as one could hope to see. But
rust dons not worry the steelmaker-.
Rust is iron, and Is used again.
Putting the Lid on it.
Tho chief difficulty about it is that
ail this scrap has to be broken up
small enough to go through the fur-
nace doorways, and this is not so easy
a job as the uninitiated may suppose.
I saw little gangs of men here and
there engaged In reducing these
mighty stacks of iron and steel to a
workable size.
One gang was dealing with big cast -
lugs. They make a pile of these and
a crane raises a weight over the pile,
and drops it from the top of the jib.
The weights used vary from a ton up-
wards. When one of these drops
plumb on to a pile of cast-iron scrap,
Itis well not to be standing,too close.,
Wrought -iron has to be treated (lif-
e. terently. I found a bine-goggled. man
working quite on his own in a corner
with an oxy-acetylene outfit. He was
directing a flame no bleger than a
match on to the boiler• -plates of a bat-
tleship, and cutting them up, not quite
like cheese, but with most astonish-
ing ease
stonishingease and quickness.
Close by wee a blasting Pit, This, I
tetrad, was used for masses of iron
too large to be brolteu Up by the pleas -
"'ant method of "dropping the weight."
The pit ie' fitted with great frag-
ments. A lonely man comes along
with an extremely handy and portable
electric drill, and drills a hole in one
Of the larger fragments. Ile puts in a
charge of dynamite puts the lid on the
pit, and strolls a fow yards away
eaanaliy. Then there 1t1 an ealpl0sion;
the man strolls eaaliillty bdtk; the Pit
le emptied and refilled. And eo it
goes on day and night,
a'Plga" Prefe.r:am.
Tbis is the sort of anaterial the steep
works are .using now. They would
Much prefer to nig the neat and handy
"iiles" whidli come from the bleat fur.
naeea. But the blast furna008 hew
bean colli fOleen0ntlla, and there are p0
"pigs" available except the few, they
have in stock.
Seine of tate blast furnaces have
been started, and there are hopes that
in a few weeks supplies will begin to
come in, Meanwhile; the .steelmakers
are using up the debris of the war and.
clearing their yt4rds.
Se when you ride your new bicycle,
or shave with your new Sheffield tee
zor, you may reflect that it has in its
time in all probability played many
parts.
Ita vb probably
m Y hae eau, and very P bah y
was, a shell case wltieh never reaphed
Fritz, or it might have been a bit of
barbed wire behind which you shelter-
ed in your own particular trench, and
on which you were possibly hung up
whenyou' participated in the delight-
ful
ht-
ful
entertainment known as a night at-
tack. •
Reforestation on Dominion
Forest Reserves.
Each year a certain amount et tree -
planting is done an Dominion forest
reserves le the West, The species,
planted are mostly white spruce, jack
pike and .Scotch pine. Most of these
are set cut in the forest reserves lo-
cated among open prairie and ageicul-
tural lands and form part of a genera'
scheme of reforestation, Some of
them, espeenally on the Pines and the
Riding Mountain n forest reser es, are
set out in small sample plots from
which 11 is expected in time to derive
valuable information as to the most
eeonomtcal and efficient means of es-
tablishing Plantations.
Stock.Taking. of Forests
Needed.
Many tens of thousands of pounds
are spent every year in calculating the
world's cereal crops. Yet in the case
of cereals by the natural laws of sup-
ply and demand a few seasons' effort
can meet the world's requirements. I
would ask you to consider how much
money is spent In the whole Empire
In calculating what will be the timber
position in ten or twenty or fifty
years' tlnre. Yet to plan, establsh,
mature and has -veep a timber crop
will rarely take less than a century,—
Lord Levet at Empire Timber Con-
ference.
Vestigia.
1 took a day to search for God,
And found Him not. But as I trod
By rocky ledge, through woods un-
tamed,
Just where mescal -let maple flamed,
I saw His footprint in the sod.
Then suddenly,- all unaware,
Far off in the deep shadows where
A solitary hermit thrush
Sauk through the holy twilight
hush•—
I heerd His voice upon the air.
1
And even as I marvelled how
God gives ne Heaven here and now,
In a stir of wind that hardly shook
The poplar leaves beside the brook,
His hand was light upon my brow.
At last with evening as I turned
Homeward, and thought what I had
learned,
And all that there was still to
probe--
I
robe -I caught the glory of His robe
Where the last area 00 sunset burned.
Back to the world with quickening
start
I looked and longed for any part
In snaking savieg beauty be . ,
And from that kindling ecstasy
I knew God dwelt within any heart.
---Bliss Carman.
For the New Dictionary.
An Optimist—"An Irlsbman buying
goods of. a Scotchman„which he hopes.
to sell at a profit to a Jew,”
Skeins found during excavations
prove that mankind existed at least
1,500,000 years ago.
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HAb Pesefeeeeetee
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CHASING THE SHADOW AND MISSING THE SUBSTANCE
Fit as a Fiddle at Forty.
le Y
Too often the man of forty tells him-
self that he is growing old, "Not so
young as I used to be" is a phrase
against which I would earnestly warn
all middle-aged people. Don't say it
—don't even drink et, That is my first
practical .hint, and the most important
of all, says a health specialist
Fix your allotted span at seventy
years 0r mare, cling to the thoughts,
ideas, and actions of youth, and you
will find that old age will pass• you by.
Hundreds of cases have been
brought tomy notice where the great
mistake has. been .made of selecting
n nature.
isof a too strenuous exorc es a
peoplefax too much
Some pvigor
put p
into them, and then, on account of, en-
suing stiffness and lassitude throw
up the whole thingin disgust.
Exercise need be of,a very mild and
pleasant character only, such as could
be performed in Ave or ten minutes at
the outside without the least strain.
A few bending movements to keep the
digestion in working order are all that
is required, and when there is an ob-
jection to exercise, you can arrange
a splendid substitute by fallowing the
morning bath with a brisk rub down
with a rough towel or a pair of flesh
gloves.
A plain nourishing diet, a careful
mastication, Plenty of sleep and fresh
air, and moderation in all things aro
the golden rules for those who would
live to a ripe old .age end maintain
their health.
"All week and no play makes Jack
a dull- boy," and for that reason a
hobby of some descrtption should be
taken up. If your hobby takes you
into the open air so much the better.
You will have succeeded in obtaining
relaxatipn for the mind and exercise
for the•body at and the sane time.
Don't worry over things which can-
not possibly be avoided or altered.
Worry kills, and nothing destroys
health so quickly or ages one se
rapidly,
b
A new device develops, fixes, washes
and dries photographic films within a
single space -saving cabinet.
The Mounted.
J
Between he sdienee and the stare
He takes his lonely way
O'er barren tundras where the wolves
And. foxes seam to stray,
The igloo; of the Estiufmaux,
The missions here and there,
The tepees and the trading poste
Are in his loyal care.
With horse or husky in the cold
Unflinchingly he goes:
Death like a shadow paces him
e s
Across the earthsrusn w ,
puny
Rr sits
Beside his campfire ,
And in his blanket creeps.
With silver daggers of the frost
To slay him while he sleeps.
His beat le bounded by the ice
That rims the Arctic Sea,
The wilderness acknowledges
His grim authority,
He tracks the evildoer down
Through famine, freeze and thaw,
For in the country God forgot
Behold! he is the law.
Clouds Two Miles Long.
We speak of "heavy thunderclouds,
but it is difficult to realize that any-
thing floating in the air is in actual
fact heavy even when it is about to
percipitate many taus of rain upon the
earth.
Clouds, indeed, have weight, for all
of them contain water In suspension.
A big thundercloud may be two miles
long and broad and three miles high.
If it is a continuous mass composed of
water vapor to the point of saturation,
it represents 200,000 tons of water
suspended in the air.
Nature's pumping engines have
raised that great quantity of water
from the sea and the earth, and the
cloud itself contains in "energy of
position" exactly the power expended
in raising this water. The cloud is, in
fact, a reservoir of great capacity, per-
haps 6,000 feet above the ground level.
Pippin Rhgmos`
Wait MeSOnjj-'�al"
THE HOPEFUL VIEW
Things are looking pretty black, trouble everywhere. we see,
and we're prone to cry, "Aleck," and to murmur "HaLly Meal"
But there's comfort in the thought that they've looked that way
before, and the passing seasons brought all things right side up
once more. Naw we weep and ring our hands, and denounce
the doggone luck, for the people of all lands seemingly have run
amuck. Statesmen death* little stunt in a rattr'd, locoed way,
but the, problems they confront will be solved some pleasant day.
Crime and license seem to rule, seen to thrive in every town;
let us keep our foreheads cool—everything will settle down. But
there's nothing now iu sight, nothing new in any clime: every-
thing comes out all right if we only give it time, After every
three-ring war, every routine thing •expireg, and the ev11s we ab-
hor were confronted by our aires. And our fathers doubtless
said, as their sons remark to -day, that all rlghteousnea'n was
dead, and the furies were at play. But they lived to see the
dawn of a good and whciesome time, when the begieee all were
gene, with the seething wave of crime. And our troubles. tea
will cease e,s the seasnee run thslr course, and we'll boost the
clove or pence till our Iarynxes are hoarse.
REGLAR FELLERS— lay Gene Byrnes
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Canada From Coast to Coast
One of the largest sales et pure
bred live atoek in ,Northern' Alberta
took Alsop receslllY when lieu. Y. W.
Smith, Minister of Railways, disp09ed
of hie herd at Caanroee to Kiealtum
tramp Company, oi' Seeman, Alberta,
for ;$20,000, .One hundred Red fifty
head Of eatt!e were hought by the
Ranch Company,all being of the
"Palr€ax" Hereford breed.
Canada's aid to returned soldiers is
untversaldy known and the latest
statieties issued show that the Sol -
diene Settlement' Board :have placed
26,000 returned men on the land with
monetary advaneee exceeding 254,000,-
000; 108,500 disable& 'soldiers were
treated by the Department of Soldierar
Civil Reeestablisisment and 50,050 of
them fitted, by vocational teaming for
new positions in life; 73,000' ere in re-
ceipt of pensions on a scale more
i eral than a i
111 Otl county in the
'et' try t e
world; $164,000,000 was paid in gra-
tuities; and an insurance scheme has
been developed by which men may
protect their families. from want, Ir-
respective of their present condition
of health,
Quebec's population has reaobed 2,-
550,000, according to estimates made
by. G. Marquis, chief statistician of the
province. The last provincialcensus,
which was held in 1918, gave a popn-
latloa of 2,486,000, compared with 2,-
002,232 in 1911. The increase, Mr,
Marquis stated, will affect the number
of representatives in other provinces,
which have not kept up with Queboe's
growth, in the House of Commons,
Exports of fish and fish products
from Canada for the year ending
December 31st, 1920, were as follows:
drycodtlsh 1
1,788,015 quintals: pickled
coddah 99,109 9 giilntals; lobsters, 14,-
498
4;498 cases; cod-liver oil, 291,351 gal-
lons; cod oil, 4,797 tuns; seal oil, 1,003
tuns; whale oil, 164 tuns; S. R, ter -
ring, 42,582 barrens: pickled salmon,
1,957 tierces.
Women all over the Dominion will
be particularly -interested in the corn-
ing
oining general election, in view of the
recent amendment to the Dominion.
Election Act, which gives to women a
wider share in the government of
Canada than they have ever had pre-
viously. Under the present Act any
woman Who is a British subject of the
full age of 21 has equal rights with
men in holding offices, being a candi-
date for the House of Commons and
lu voting.
Forty new Silos have been erected
by farmers la the country surround-
ing Lethbridge, Alta, this year, which
are all now filled with sun -flowers and
Ott+A. SetaleeverdiA yield have aver,
Aged more than twelyce tone to the
.acre and Mal corps era; pec 'been, the
beat ever harvested. in Southern. Al-
berta,
An average el thirty -ave. bueeleSe oe.
wheat per acre for the seven Jaya'
owe -gloms in epic)}; his outfit bee been
engaged 18 the Pelmet of Grant Bel -
Jaeger, ivho has been operating a
large threeletag maehlue in the vicini-
ty of Lake Saek"ateem, One Held oR
Marquis wheat •threshed arty bushels
to the acre, a Heid of oats one hun-
dred and seven bushels orad a field of
barley seventy -oke,
Ex -Canadian soldiees at the rate of
more than two hundred per week are
making Replication for life insurance
wltdies under the Returned Soldiers'
Insurance Act, wbich' eliminates pre-
linlinaty medical examination,. The
number of returned soldiers bolding
policies' now totals more titan. 5,000,
Involving some 213,500,000,
Callous returns for the following
towns and cities. have been announced
b a
Y t he D minionur a
B e ut
o Ststi sties:
Vernon. 3,649, 1911, 2,671; Fernie,
4,343, 3,146; Spandau, 16,359, 13,839;
Port Arthur, 16,134, 11,220: Kitclraner,
21,605, 15,196; Guelph, 18,019, 15,175;
Valle:stead, 9,180, 9,449; 8t. Jahns,
Que„ 9,859, 5,903; New Glaze -ow, 2,959,
6,383; Magog, 5,145, 3,978; Joliette,
9,036, 6,346,
The utilization of potatoes for the
manufacture of potato flour, potato
search, dextrine and Meer products
from potatoes, is the purpose of'a
company whioh has been organized
with headquarters at New Westmin-
star, B.C. 1I. V. Janeen, a Danish ex-
pert,is to be in
chara of h
g
t sp rant.
Carried out successfully,
the
new en-
terprise is planned to afford a per-
manent market t for the potatoes. grown
In the Lower Fraser Valley, relieving
the situation when there lea surplus.
Hemry Robertson, one OR the pion-
eers of the distrit some twelve ranee
west of Grande Prairie, Alta., expects•
to thresh from flitacit ee eighteen
thousand bushels of wheat this sea-
son, making his twelfth consecutive
bumper crop here, His field per acre
during this period has never dropped
below twenty-five bushels, and hasrun
as high as fifty.
Several heavy yields of wheat acre
reported by farmers in the district of
Magrath, Alberta, who have finished
threshing, On one form forty bushels
to the acre were obtained on a field
of 150 acres, and on anotber thirty-
two baehe1s to the acre oar a field of
similar size. Yields of thirty bushels
to the acre are fairly common.
"Broadening Out" the
University.
During the past weep the provincial
university has undertaken to provide
study classes in accordance with re-
quests received from Junior Farmers'
Institutes and Junior Women's Insti-
tutes in Cheltenham, Streetsville, and
Brampton respectively. In each case
the personnel of the classes will con-
sist of young men and young women
from the farms in the vicinity and in
each case also the request is for in-
struction in English literature. Be-
lieving that such a movement towards
higher edueation is one of the most
encouraging signs of this new era,
the University of Toronto is endeav-
oring to provide instruction in all
cases of this kind so far as the size
of its staff a al permit. In this
"broadening out" policy the university
has the cordial support of the general
public because itis everywhere recog-
nized that the provincial university is
in this way serving the interests of
the province.
China's New Alphabet.
1,
The new phonetic alphabet for
China has proved a success. In 1912
the National Educational Conference
recommended a Chinese alphabet of
thirty-nine characters, of which there
were twenty-four so-called initials,
three- medials and twelve finals. By
1915 schools to teach the phonetic
symbols bad been established as an
experiment; lately all the normal
schools bare given special courses in
the subject, apd this year all the pro-
vinces are learning the new system
and putting it into use.
20,000 Oranges on Tree.
A single orange tree of average size
will bear 20,000 oranges,
Good trade usually means fewer
criminals, accor:ling to official figures.
Sanctuary.
No choir, no retest, no church aisl
vast and dim,
i No organ grandly rolling hymn o
hymn.
I What "JIAat itl le? Klan
Ciertltifl words halve come to b used
loosely, and ,are applied to those who
haa'e'no right to them.
They ellonrid be v'ector'ed to the true
signiticanee end their. lsaw.ful vo-.
prietor hip.
(hve of these words, is ""cholla, " iter
it ie commonly *Wiled _to hae)Se apKi
plays and their anthem to -day •
What is "daring" in iiitgAt t9i
coarseness desiypvi'e4 to se).11 "POW
ie supposed to be ayhonemous
brave or heroic, Whet. title bora,: a,
writer to .be thee characterized when,
be --or she -1a me elx tyyjng, to sed
how cheap' apd nasty 11e: --ox she^ -
"dal• 0" to be.?
Truly„ utero aught: to be a thetins.
tion medal between a deed that wins.
the ldilitaay Medal, taste Victoria Cross
or the Croi;t dna Guerre' and the, welt
of one who is simply trying t0 data
cover haw to play en a depraved in-
stinct for profit.
The theory of some producers of
drama and purve orsof literature
9s
that if the public will stand for it it
must be all right,
Let us call what they inflict on the
theatregoers and the book -readers
exactly what it ie --dirty, not daring.
Their action is not courage. It is not
even recklessness. It is mere shame-
leassnees. It is done not for art, but
for gain.
Our men who fought at Vimy Ridge
and at the Somme were "daring."
They risked everything they -had; and
the proof of it is that thousands re-
turned to thein homes no more. It is
belittling their sublime and magnifi-
cent exhibition b on of t courage apply a PT y t ho
same language to them acrd to the
pornographer who regards the public
as an insatiable shock -absorber, ready
to reward with cash triose who grati-
fy its pruriency.
"Daring" aho+uld be applied to the
highest and not the lowest traits in
our humanity,
"Frank" is used in similar ignoble
fashion. Ccmmenly we are told in
advertisements that "the very frank-
ness of the language robs it of all
offense." Frankness is a beautiful
quality. It is the clear candor seen
in the eyes of n child- It has no right
to be used for mud and mud -slinging.
Prank and filthy de not mean the
same thing.
00 course, when anybody objects in
such matters as these be is told that
his own mind is putrid; and "to the
pare all things are pure." That verse.
is the first refuge of the hypocrite—
the windshield of the salacious against
the blest of criticism. It is used to
turn the tables on those who legiti-
mately censor moving pictures. It is
used against anybody who dares to
say anything that is not what the
profiteers in muck desire.
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But in the West the altascloth is
bright,
For woven there with threads of sun
set light
Are rare deaignsain purple, rose and
gold,
Beneath bright opal tints in beauty
scrolled.
And high o'er all, star -candies faintly
glow,
While flowers • otter incense from be-
low.
Low winds an anthem breathe through
dark'ning trees,
Earth, sky, cloud, star; a temple fair
is these.
Get Out—And Walk.
There is no better tonic in the wide,
wide world that a good walk is the
open air. If your work keeps you 1n•
side most of the day, get up a little
earlier and walk to work. It will make
you feel bettor, make you better able
to do your work.
As. au old hunter ono& said, "The
goad Lord must have wanted every-
body to get lots of fresh alr and suns
thine, that's why He made so much of
it."
When you walk, walk briskly,
breathe deeply. You will find that it
beats any amount of medicine, and it
doesn't cost a cent. .
When you play, play bard; when
you work, don't play at all.
11- t-iol—
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That Others May Live. •
Along "Mother Veleta" the patient
peasant is wearily seeding the wheat
fields, Ile stumbles over the broken
furrows traced in the des;rair of fa-
mine. Weakened by hunger, long and
bitter hugger, there is barely strength
in his arm to broadcast the seed over
the fields.
The grain that he sows and covers
with the black earth would mean life
to hint. It would strengthen the fail.
ing hands, send new blood thmcugh the
hunger -withered veins and mean the
fullness of years to him. The grain
in the sack swung over his bony
shoulders would keep him -alive until
relief might reach him and his.
But that may be days or even weeks
away. The seed, if whest is to wavo
in the valley of the Verga next sum-
mer, must go into bhe ground now:
The time of seeding is passing. The
sky overread is dark with birds mov-
ing from the Arctic to the Bl'aok Sea.
Winter is at hand. There is frost in
the night sky and white rime in the
dawns. The seed must go into the
ground new or never. 11 man and
women end little children 'are to live
in the Volga, the soil must cover the
seed, not to -morrow, but to -day,
So the plodding peasant looks pia
last upon the fields and. on the sun.
He will be dead of hunger before the
elarnerer of green fromthe new wheat
is seen over the early winter fields.
He plods to his death that others who
come after him may be warmed by
the suns of Russia.
The patient, plodding peasant, plod-
ding down the centuries. His soul is
of the soil. He sees farther titan the
mystics ---and truer. What matter the
wordy little doctrinaires who come eat
of the Fast Sides end the White-
ohapels of the world and assume to
speak for Russia? This figure of the
plodding peasant who walks to most
his death is a giant towering over
them.
"Dawl Airin," "Shin Fane."
Here is some information regevrd,-
ing Irish weeds much in the news that
sae not pronounced as spelled:
Hew it is spelled --Dail Eireann.
How it is preounced,—Davel Airin.
What Dail moans -Hoarse of Rep-
reseniatives.
Wltgt it is --"the Irish House et
"Cenu one, meeting place for the
eighty-five Representative3 of 'Sinn
rein Ireland. It is now held in Dub-
lin, but can be held any pima. design-
ated by the members. • In Easter, week,
101.0, it was held Outside of Nelson's
pines in Dublin, when the members
assembled to read the Constitution of
the "Irish Republic;'
By the wary,, Sinh Veit: in pronouns.
ed "Shin T'nne.°