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The Brussels Post, 1915-4-29, Page 6The seifeeetissfied man is easily satisfied. High is the Head of the Stag That atands on his own Hill -crag. One thing to put off until boaster - raw is "getting even 'with some one. Some person with a gift for fig - urea says rthat from B4O. 1496 to A.D, 1801, Europe had 227 years of peace and 3,130 years of war. Poiret, the famous Paris design- erof gowns, has gone to the war, but whenever there is & lull in the fighting he busies himself in mak- ing sketches of soldiers' dress. Out of them, when the war drum is no longer heard, will blossom new and wondrous designs for women's gowns. If the average student in the business colleges has trouble in learning to write with a typewriter that prints only half a hundred characters, what would he say to one that prints 4,200 characters 1 Such is the first Chinese typewriter recently invented by a Chinese atudent. Just haw expensive forgetfulness may prove, even when it has to do with small sums only, appears in some figures recently compiled at the University of California. Last year the students paid a total of $1,129 in fines for failures to re- turn library books on time, and $1,010 for failures to file their study cards when they were due. Even the ragman has his ups and downs. Clippings from tailors' shops, which a year ago were worth only four and one=half cents a pound, now sell for ten arid one- half, and those that are nearly all wool bring as high as twenty-two cents a pound. The next thing we know the ragman will be driving round in a six -cylinder car. The great sugar refineries in New York can do business and pay divi- dends on a margin of one-eighth to three -sixteenths of a cent a pound, because modern methods enable them to manufacture 35,000 barrels of sugar a day. Fifty years ago, in the good old times when house- holders paid seventeen or eighteen cents a pound for sugar, the refin- ers made four or five cents a pound. Englishwomen have hit upon an ingenious plan for providing motor ambulances for service in France. The idea is that the women who have the same Christian name shall contribute to buy a car that will represent them collectively, and that will bear their name. The re- sponse has been generous. Cense- euentiy the suldiers will soon see ambulances marked Beatrice, Alex- andra, Blanche, Lois, Elizabeth, and other names that Englishmen. know and love. Like Queen Mary of England and "the Czarina of Russia, Madame Poincare, the wife of the president of the French Republic, is of Ger- man ancestry. Her grandfather, Herr Mossbauer, was a distinguish- ed German court musician. His daughter married an Italian paint- er named Benueci, and her four daughters grew up in Paris. Henri- ette Benueci, now Madame Pain - tare. spent much of her youth at Wolfratshausen in the Isar valley, at the home of her uncle. Same years ago Prof. Samuel P. Langley, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, and other authorities predict- ed that travel by air would eventu- ally become the safest of all. Now it is reported that an officer of the Betel Flying Corps has asked to be permitted to rejoin his regiment, because he could not bear to see his brother officers running all the risks of the trenches while he him- Lesson8 of the War. The war In the air and under the sea, so often and so dramatically pre hesied, has come, and yet it pap come with many limitabione, Neither the air emit nor the sub- marine has proved to be a deciding faetor in war. There is nowhere else in the world a better field for submarine activity than the North Sea and the near -by British waters: The British n,•vy has been eoncen- trated in those waters since the opening of the war and thus far it has not lost a single first-line fighting ship by submarine. So long as its battle fleet remains in- tact it is the deciding factor in aa, Val supremacy, The loss of the smaller ships which the German submarines have sunk has not af- fected the battle fleet, It has happened, as Sir Percy Scott prophesied, that: "If we ever go to war with a country that is within striking dis- tance of submarines, I am of the opinion that that country will at once look up its dreadnaughts in some safe harbor." But the facts will not support his deduction that: "Now that submarines have come in, battleships are of no use either for defensive or offensive purposes, and consequently building any more in 1914 -will be a misuse of money subscribed by the citizens for the defense of the Empire." If the British battle fleet did not exist the German battle fleet would come forth as its raiding squadrons have come forth. It would not have to turn back as they have. Germany would control the seas. Submarines might make it an uneasy control as they now worry the English in their sea dominance. Nevertheless the battleship fleet is the supreme and deciding factor in the struggle for sea power. Nor does the experiment of a sub- marine blockade seem destined to affect vitally British commerce. In the first two weeks of the blockade the submarines sank less than a dozen British ships, most of them small. Between January 21st, and March Srd, 8,734 vessels of more than 300 tons each entered or clear- ed British ports, Of these the sub- marines destroyed fifteen. In the meanwhile, since the opening of hostilities six German submarines have been reported lost. The London Board of Trade's eummary of shipping casualties re- ported during February shows that the ordinary risks of navigation were responsible for a considerably larger number of British ships than were victims of German tor- pedoes, mines, or guns. The number of steamers lost was thirty-three of an aggregate net tonnage of 34,947, with ninety- seven lives, of which nine steamers, aggregating 12,389 tons, were sunk by German submarines, with a loss of six lives, and one of 2,605 tons was sunk by a German mine. Such are the results from what is probably the best submarine fleet in existence operating in a most favorable field. The threat of submarine operations has added tremendously to strategic and pa- trol problems in naval warfare, but it has not taken from the dread- naught its place of primary im- portance. Nor has the aeroplane become a deciding factor in war. It has fas- tened that honor more securely than before upon the guns. It has given eyes to the artillery so that supremacy in the air means chieflly better service of the 'guns and bet- ter intelligence of the enemies' movements. Attacks by aeroplanes and Zeppelins have had little or no direct military effect. The airship, like the submarine, rias complicated warfare and added to its destru- five powers. Neither has developed into a decisive method of attack in itself. The automobile also has increas- ed the speed of troops and in- creased the commissariat facilities so that larger bodies of men can be maintained at the front than would otherwise be possible. In a self was flying in safety above them, I few instances armored motor -cars As a :natter of fact, the number of have served in direct attack. But casualties to flyers since the war began has been surprisingly small. —see FINISil LAGES'P :WED Sehente to Supply Mountain Water to Italian Prlivinees, Water fr,,m the Apennines was distributed recently for the first time to the provinces of Bari, I'og- gia and Leese through the Apulia Aqueduct, the largest in the world, which was begun in 1005. More than 2,000,000 persons now are as- sured of a supply fresh from moun- tain streams brought through 1,• 875 miles of pipe, The territory served has suffered for centuries from lack of an adequate supply. For the construction of the ague. duct, the cost of whish is estimated at $30.000,000 and upon which 4,000 workmen have been engaged nearly ten years, the course of the Sale river has been diverted. A collect. ing 'basin has been built at its source,,1,870 feet above the level of the sea whence the waters are con- veyed by tunnel for seven and one- half. miles, penetrating a water shed, and then through the aque- duct 'whim is 155 miles long. While the most important parts d the aqueduct have been completed it will take it year longer to finish all the minor details. like the aeroplane, the motor -oar has chieflly been useful in its aux- iliary services to the men and guns at the front. Against all the increased effec- tiveness of wax in killing, one single expedient has made defensive war- fare more effective than ever be- fore—the trench. It had its origin in the American Civil War. It was generally used in the Japanese - Russian War. With the advent of b•eavier and more accurate artillery it has become deeper, better pro- tected, and better screened. Back- ed by the fire of modern guns the odds in favor of clefe.ndere in trenches are greater than ever be- fore. • Costliness of Sea Power. The staggering money -cost of modern naval warfare is indicated in &onto degree by the fallowing au- thoritative estimate. If the twenty- nine Dreadnoughts now in commis- sion in the .British navy were sent en an eight -hoer full -power coal - burning run they would. eunseme 4,320 tons of fuel. running up a bill of some $18,000. If a single Dread- nought battle squadron of eight ships were ordered to steam at full speed for twenty four hears and to fire each gen and each terpedo tube once, the Cost to the nation would be approximately $1,000,000 allowing nothing for the deprecia- tion of material. tiiernian.Alueriean Denounces the Eribieta In a recent magazine article, a Germran-American, while loyal to hie German ancestry, denounces the I(aiser in the following man- ner': Possibly you have noticed how the Raiser teesele in, following the army during the present war, Re has a epochal train, and lives in luxury. He has courtiers, ser- vants and oonvenienoes and amuse- meets. When he leaves his spe- cial train, there is a special camp for his personal comfort, Flendr•eds of special soldiers and scouts look after his safety, and hundreds of courtiers and servants look after his wants; If a palace is in the neighborhood, this is taken pos semen of for the Emperor, This is was for the Emperor, But .for the men who do the fighting and share the danger, it means sleeping on the ground, aubsisting op little food, probaby a wound, and possi- bly death, A million better men than Em- peror William live meanly and risk death, while he lives as well as when in his palace et home, and is in no danger. The Emperor ordered the war: the million better men who make greater sacrifices because of war opposed it, Millions of dollars are paid in taxes that the Emperor and his family may live in an extrava- gant and luxurious style unknown to the people: the Emperor wastes more every year than a thousand average German families live on. And who is this great Emperor William4 The descendant of a poor but "noble" family called Hohenzollern, which has risen by politics to its present distinction, Frederick William was the prince to whose poliey his successors have agreed to ascribe their greatness. Compared with the other crowned heads of Europe, he was a pitiable figure. The Elector of Saxony at first refused to recognize him. Hi3 taste for military pomp be came a mania. The food of the "royal" family was so bad that even hunger loathed it. But he was always a maniac about fighting ; he made a specialty of tall soldiers. His feeling about his troops seems to have resembled a miser's fueling about his money. He loved to col- lect ollect them, to count them, to see them increase. The nature of Frederick William was hard and bad, and the habit of exercising arbitrary power made him fright- fully savage. His rage constantly vented itself to right and left in curses and blows. When his majes- ty took -a, walk, every human being fled before him, as if a tiger had broken loose. If he met a lady in the street, he gave her a kick, and told her to go home and mind her brats. His son Frederick (after- wards Frederick the Great) was in an especial manner the object of his aversion. The business of life according to him was to drill and be drilled, The recreations suited to a prince were to sit in a cloud of tobacco eanoke, to sip beer between puffs, to play backgammon, to kill wild hogs, and shoot partridges by the thousand. The Dnty of the Canadian Iletr. Someone should stir up the Can- adian hen and make her realize that we are at war, and that every part of the country should do its best. During the last fiscal year' Canada imported 11,250,000 dozen eggs. The eggs came from Great Britain, Hong ICong, Japan, New Zealand and the United States, It is only a few years ago that we were export- ing eggs to Great Britain, Illacbine Ws Steel! Anel Stretches Wire Fence, There is a .little motor.driven fence -building machine which weavesand puts up wire fencing at a speed of about 200 feet an huur and can be equipped to build feeees from 9 inches to 5 feet in height: Between 25 and 00 different styles of fence own be made by simply changing gears or leaving out line wires. In building afence with this type of machine the end and: corner poste must be in plane 'before the opera- tion commences, but these posts may be placed at any distance apart up to two miles. Wires be show the line of the fence are stretched along the ground before the machine eminences to weave, but these are not fastened to the posts until the mesh wire is woven In. The work of fastening the fencing to the posts is done just as fast as the weaving progresses, The weaving mechanism itself is sim- ple. The line wires pass through tubes, just back of the hand of the operator, and the wire for weaving is earried on spools which make a figure-eight movement around the line wires as the machine travels ahead. Each spool holds 70 feet of wire and when one runs out it is quickly changed for a filled pool. The fact that each line wire is stretched separately makes a tight fence, no matter how hilly and un- even the land may be. A 1% horse- power gasolene engine operates the weaving mechanism and drives the machine ahead at the same time. The operator merely steers the ma- chine and ohanges the spools when. necessary. 4, Value of Peat in Feed. Peat is used by manufacturers of molasses feed as a filler and a car- rier for the molasses. It has very little feeding value, considerably less than wheat straw. The use of peat in prepared foods makes the analysis of the feed misleading, as the protein is usually calculated on the basis of the nitrogen content. and the nitrogen in the peat is not in the form of protein. Beet molas- ses fed alone is very laxative and often serious effects result from its liberal use. Peat is said to have some corrective value waren fed with such molasses. bf this is true this is about the only real value it has in these prepared foods. Corn Improvement. The greater part of the Report of the Ontario Corn Growers' Associ- ation, now ready for distribution, is taken up with valuable hints on the breeding of seed corn. Methods of improving the yield of husking and silage varieties are given by both college -trained specialists and by practical farmers, with the re- sult that the report contains what may be termed the latest word in corn growing. The raising of alfalfa as an alter- nate crop is advocated, • and some excellent pointers are given ' Con- cerning its cultivation. llhe report also contains a home- ly but very timely talk by an Essex county man on "The Value and In- telligence of Birds on the Farm,"- which arm,"which will be found most refreshing as well as informing reading. A brief but suggestive article is also given on the use of electricity on the ferm. In spite of the fact tbait money talks, it doesn't seem particularly garrulous with some, of us. fit: ,Minima- ommoommmommormomommow lir. nsfra' rtr. " READ THE LABEL n QP THE PROTECTION.' Or THE CONS SUMER THE i•NOHEDIENTS ARE ftAG1` PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL, IT 1� (1•IS THE ONLY WELL, - KNOWN MEDIUM P81080 BAKING POWDER MADE IN »�Y,.�o,•CANADA THAT P088 NOT CONTAIN BAKING 1� ALUM ANO WHICH. HAS ALL THE POWDER INGREDIENT$-'PLAINLY STATED ON iwx+ureiur, 1'OilLll THC. LABELI cr, MAGIC BAKING POWDER " _ CONTAINS NO ALUM "-• 1:01011MI OP ALUM IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS SUI,..unlc PHATE OF ALUMINA OR SODIC ALUMINIO FIL- SULPHATE, THE PUBLIC 6HOULD NOT BE osuraZw 'i{ MISLED BY THESE TECHNICAL NAMES. MO •s-*-%-, • . W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED itzzizcr i;isar, WINNIPEG TORONTO. ONT. . MONTREAL 411MINIMINIMINIEll Jr NATION FE1�T GGAV DANGER TO GERMAN CENSORS CONDEMN - Ell BY HERR S'TADTHAGEN. Socialistic Press Ras Been Oppress- ed by Military Officials Passing on War News. - 'Phe newspapers in Cepenhageu have obtained copies of the official report of the debate in the German {Reichstag on the imperial- budget, including the text of the speech made by the socialist Deputy, Herr Stadt'hagen, which the military cen- sors refused to allow the German newspapers to publish. The speech deals entirely with the German press censorship. Herr Stadt hagen said "From all parts of the country Dome strong protests against the se- verity, the inequality; the injustice, the inefficiency of 'the censorship. The military censors have made the whole of the socialistic press a tar- get for heir malicious attacks, which are not intended to preserve military secrets, but to suppress the free discussion of questions regard to which the people of Ger- many •have the fullest Right to Express Their Opinion. The Volkszeitung, our local organ at Danzig, was suppressed for say- ing that there was nn danger of a famine in Germany, but that the price of many necessaries of life was too high for the working classes and imposed considerable hard- ships on them. At Konigsberg our local daily newspaper was suppress- ed for saying that the viotories won by the German army were due to the :fact that universal manhood suffrage exists in Germany and to the right possessed by German werkmen bo combine in trade un- ions or in political associations, "At I(attowitz our newspaper, the Freie Presse, had always ap- peared at three .o'clock in the after, noon, but the military censor there insisted on 'seeing all the proofs be- fore publication, and then declar- ed that he had no time to read them before three o'clock, with the result that the publication of the newspaper had to be delayed until some hour of the evening, some- times later, according to the wbim of the august official who wielded. despotic sway in those regions. • "The Vorwaerts received a warn-• ing from the military authorities because it proteoted against wildly sensational reports of English atro- cities on German prisoners on the grounds that eueh reports stimulat- ed public enthusiasm for the war, German Spielers in Poland Pause In 'Their Work of Rigging Trenches for Their Midday Ileal, and hence to discredit them meant diminhsliing entlieeiesse for the war. When the Vorwaerts protested against the' publication of a report that the German army had captur- ed Belfort and seven French army corps (about 350,000 anen) et one atrolce, the military authorities in Berlin warned the editor that he was doing a public disservice and exposed his newspaper to the pen- alty of suppression. The Vorwaerts was not allowed to reply to attacks made on it by another Berlin news- paper, the Neueate Naohrichten, whish is a oonservative organ, al- though this journal had been per- mitted to libel the Vorwaerta in the greatest terms of abuse. "On another occasion the Vor- waerts was not allowed to publish a speech made in the Berlin Town Council by Herr Wurum, in which the authorities were urged to pre- vent the prices of necessary commo- dities of everyday life from . being raised above a certain level. The publication of the Vorwaerts _ was temporarily suspended for declar- ing that the hostility existing In other countries against Germany was due to the foot that the Ger- man method of government is based 051 Autocracy and Militarism, which together had produced many undesirable features, "We were even forbidden to re- print an attack en the English een- sore published by the London weekly newspaper Truth. The Vor- waerts was forbidden to publish an article saying that the destruction of the despotism of 'the Tzar would be a blessing to the' Russian people; dowbtless oar astute cemsora thought this was en indirect hit at the German Emperor. The Vor- waerts was not allowed to publish a speech made be the English mem- ber :of Parliament, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, in which Macdonald spoke against the war and other anti -war utterances made in Eng- land were likewise suppressed. Why? "These are only a few cases se- lected from many of which ,we know but they suffice to show that the censorship is badly adniinistered, inefficiently conducted and unjustly balanced, so that energetic meas- ures should be taken by the au. preme authorities to remedy what is really a grave danger to the wel- fare of the German nation," UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SUP- PLIES. The various committees in charge of supplies report satisfactory pro- gress. A sheet.ehower waa held on.Wed- nesdmy last in the Physics Building,, which resulted in an addition to our store, amounting ,to aboub seven- teen hundred streets. In addition to this, the necessary quota of the following' articles has been reach- ed—Surgeons' gowns and masks, nurses' cape, covers for hot water bottles and pneumonia jackets. In spite of efforts, however, the number of articles required is still great. In the first place, ten thousand sheets are still needed, and this is an urgent necessity not to be denied. Next to sheets the mush pressing needs are pajama, of which nearly two'thousand snits are required, and surgical night- shirts, Also let us not forget the need for socks. Each letter from the front emphasizes the urgency of the demand for them. The writer will be glad of contri- butions to the wool fund,, of offers from women . who are willing to knit if wool is sent to them, as well as of eontributioxis of sacks. (Mrs. A.) JEAN McPHEDRAN, Convenor of the Ontario Red Cross Suck Feed. MRS. F. N. G. STARR, Treasurer. University Hospital Supply Asso- ciation. A Sharp Lad. " \\linen 1' was a boy we didn't have sn•ch wonderful mechanical toys.'' "Yon needn't have told me that, pe.. Fr 011/1 the way you stick to mine I'd have guessed it." Lack of interest in a Mary is enough to prove its truthfulness. Macintosh—"So you and your wife eloped1" Macpherson„ --"Yes, hitt 1. have since had reason to be- lieve that her father bought the Ieclde•t- I, used and placed it just where I couldn't help seeing it," 1When is Proper Tirane to Marry When should one marry 7 Row 'simple it Bounds and fiver easily answered, "When you meet the right girl," And again, "How are we to knew the right 'sail" This is indeed a subject worthy of. discussion and' one that should be well studied, kr its lessens may save, many an unhappy union. Speaking from experience, says a writer in a New Ysi* paper, when I was 18 and any, husband was 20 we thought and felt sure that we were the right ones for one an- other. Nothing would "stop us, witlh the result that we were mar• ried only to ,find nub that, after lav•. ing together for five ears, we were eat i.r a]y unfitted ted for one another er t and that we could not agree. Many a time did I regret the fact that I did not stop to think whe• Cher it was the time for us to get married. The result of our hasty decision that we ware meant for one another ended, as it could not help but do, in the divorce courts, Not always does it turn out so, as 1 know of several who married when young and who are very happy, but I would advise that neither boy nor girl should marry until suer a time as they feel that their mental condition is such as 'to be able to make a true selection of a mate and not to jump at the first girl for whom they may have a .fancy and marry her, regardless of whether they are suited for one another or not. Marriage is etlelt a terribly seri- ous thing to undertake, especially 'when the step is taken only on the grounds that they like the girl, she looks good, even though she is not very clever, or on the other side, he has a 1st of money and can show me a good time; neither the good looks nor the money will last for- ever, nor will they help to cover the other fawlts to which we 'have clos- ed our eyes. Therefore, dear reader, ` let me advise you to wait until you reach at least the age of 25, so that your mind can'help you to select a mate that will be a real mate and helper to you. The Submarine. A few years ago the great ques- tion was whether armor plate or ship's guns would, in the end, prove the stronger. As the guns increased in size and their projec- tiles gained in penetration, armor grew thicker, and called to its aid alleys that gave it greater powers of resistance. The contest seems to have resulted in a victory for the guns. At present no warship, how- ever well protected, can withstand the impact of projectiles from • the heaviest naval guns. To -day the contest is beween the battleship and the submarine. Not long before the present war broke out, one of the foremost naval au- thorities of Great Britain startled navy circles by declaring that the day of the dreadnought was past, and that the submarine was to be the victor in future battles on the sea. He found enanv who agreed with him, but also many who took the opposite view, At times during the past half year events have seemed to con'lrm his prophecy, but the issue is still doubtful. Submarines have indeed torpe- doed and sunk 'battleships, but on the other hand several submarines have been' renamed and destroyed— = one or two eases by unarmed merchant vessels. The new craft have an advantage in being able to conceal themselves, and thus to snake an attack before their pre- sence is suspected; but they are ne- cessarily eters of movement, espe cially when submerged, and vessels of high speed can run away from them, or (baffle them by taking a. zigzag course. Moreover, in their very construction there is an ele- ment of danger to themselves; even if they escape the enemy they are by no means certain to survive the perils of the sea. Unless future experience in this war differs considerably from that of the early menthe of the conflict, the result is likely to be that both types will survive and gain in ef- feotiveness. For the greater opera- tions of a naval war the huge bat- tleship is necessary, No govern- ment that might have to fete mica e. task es, reducing the forts of the Derslanells would think for a mo- ment elf stopping the construction of green and powerful battleships; no government that needs the de- fence -of a navy will ever again neg, leet to provide an active and alert fleet of submarines, Rats Off to the British Navy. Britain sends some of her mese powerful :battleships to •pierce their way through the Dardanelles, guards her commerce on the seven seas of the world, and maintains sufficient fighting strength in the North Sea to keep the emelt venni- rd grand fleet of the Germans hud- dled in the Diol canal, Talcs off your hats, gentlemen, to the Brit- ish Navy. Roseland, I3.11., epent $2.000 re- riuvating its city hall.