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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-6-3, Page 7FARM LIFE HAPPIER,„ The farmer does not now have to stay at home if he hies a oar. He does nob feel himself rooted !to the spot, I3i&: wife and dhildren wf11 he happier and more contented, An automobile brings freedom —, fre•edoan from isolation, freedom from loneliness, freedom [from the ]imitations of time and distance. To the farmer iu car is .far more than a rnore luxury, Ib ie a 'vital necessity to him and his family. It offers .a. welcome relief. It makes him a better worker by giving him. recreation :and pleasure ho could not otherwise have. Its broadening mental effect is on,e of its greatest benefits to him. Once the farmer has an automo- bile he soon finds himself looking forward to summer evening rides with his family, wibh the cool breeze !blowing away the :fever heat of the day's ,work in the fields. He finds himself able to go on pleasure trips, to pienics, and so on, with his wife and children, winch hither- to he 'was unable to enjoy because of the distance to be covered in the time .at his disposal. Many a man has reported that he doesn't feel the Hard. Work of the Farm as much as he did before his gave him the needed relaxation. A man can't get the same rest and relaxation out of a horse. In the second place, the chanes " are he is sorry for the brute. 11 a man h as .any sympathy and feeling for animals he knows that they must have rest over night and on Sun- days. A horse is too slow and the distance he can cover is to small for any one really to get any great amount of recreation from an even- ing's drive. At the same time, an awtom•obirie :costs money only 'when in .actual use, unlike the horse, which is a constant expense. In winter instead of hugginglthe fire, trying to keep waren, and dreading the next trip, he will have to make •to town, the farmer oa,n go and come with eomforb And just as often as he pleases. The automobile also afecilitates communication and intercourse, oar and (because ib does it is one of the foremost ins uences in fostering a strong sense :of good fellowship and fraternal co-operation among !am- ens. When the church, the school and the ,grange sourish, the opportuni- ties for recreation and Social Betterment ore •naturally multiplied. In enab- ling the :farmer Ito make the most of these institu'tionls the automobile • elps to swppont and develop them and also renders i:te owner one more invaluable service, This influence of the authan,olbile is only natural, When a mon shuns :himself off from hes neighbors and sees very little of thein he soon loses interest in them or whab they are doing. He gets so that he cares very little. about anything but what is Raking place in his own little sphere. He builds about himself, as it were, :a Chinese wall of indif- ference. Another argument for !the ear on the !farm lies in the fact that while in the oily the working unit its gen- erally only the head of Ithe •famaily, on the farm all hands turn in and help. There is work doryoung and old. And !while the farmer himself does his full share, he has certain advantages, as compared with his faithful helpmate, who is not only tied down to the house, hut also probably has the cares of a ,family of little ones. Progressive farmers to -day -ap- preciate that the women folk de- serve a rbetier, ibrighter !life. And nothing has made the life of farm women ,brighter and broader than the automobile. An hour's ride— a visit with laughter, song and gay- ety, do more to erase the marks of care and preserve the roses of ,youth than any other means. .And of course If an automobile in the :family proves beneficial to a pian and his wife, it cannot help making a big difference inethe hp - bringing o•f 'the children. A car provides just the safety, valve need- ed to let out the excess energies and spirits of the growing Iboes and girls on the farm. It gives !the form- er city advantages, without city drawbacks. KRUPP'S BIG STEEL WORKS WHAT AN OUTSIDER SAW IN THE GREAT STEEL PLANT. It Is Remarkable the Easy Way Metal is Worked in Raking Gln. Barrels. An official said something to, my friend, who turned to me and re- marked : "Gonne along. If we hurry we shall be just in time to see a sight you will never forget.' So we hurried to a great steam hammer at the other end. of the long •worlcsshop. "Don't stand too close," casae the injunction. A mighty mass of glowing white - hob metals came gliding along an overhead rail and came to rest un- der the hammer. Then the ham- mer began to work. The steel seem- ed like dough. It was kneaded and etrebehed and ,pulled and shaped until it got longer and longer. [ have never seen anything like it be- fore. "What are they doing)" I asked. "Making a gun !barrel," What strudk me as remarkable was the easy way the enebel was worked. It might have been pot- ter's clay instead of steel, so soft did ib appear to be. Of course, it was the tremendous force exerted by the hammer which made the metal so' ductile. Before I had time to wonder I was conducted to another work- shop, where I saw :some huge shears cutting through armor -plate four Meshes thick just as though it 'had been putty. It seemed incredible, but then ,most of the things at Kruplp's saver of miracles. A few minutes later I saw armor -plates 10 inches thick being bent as though they were sheets of tin. I thought it very strange that Krupp's should take my Iphobograph surreptitiously. It savored some- what of prison procedure, writes a correspondent in the Philadelphia Ledges. Undoubtedly, they re- quired my photograph- for some means of identification if need arose. They desired to make sure of recognizing me again. I have no doubt now that they wanted my portrait for their secret service— for Krnpps' have the most perfect secret service in Christendom, with agents all over the world—and when the Allies get to Essen I ex- pect they will find that photograph of min in the archives of Krupp's. At the time I thought it queer treatment to mete out to a guest. Dealing a Heavy Blow. "You mustn't be surprised at anything that happens here," said my friend. "The officials here have to take care. By the way, is isn't wise to go wandering alboub or you mighb get into trouble. You wont' forget to keep close beside me." "Fritz," I found out, was the pride of Kraupp's-a giant steam - hammer that has !been in use since 1660. People thought Alfred Krupp need when he started to build "Feltz," The hammer cost $500, • 000, and is as goad bo -day as ever, so it has repaid its cost many times over he its half -century ,of hard hit- ting. Kings have cracked nuts wibh it. I did the same, I placed a nub beneath it, and "Fritz" cranked it perfectly without so mush as touch- ing the kernel. Yet the same ham-. mer can deal a blow of 50tons which no metal can withstand. I was told that there 'were 160 of these great steam hammers in the place, I can quite believe ib, for I saw a large nuanier, and if ,the facts ire correct, !they must have cost several millions of .dollars to build. noticed, however, that even in ICmu:pp's they cannot get on without Britain, for at least one steamham-. mer I saw was made in Sheffield. Mfuaehe of Science. lfhe noise, of course, was mad- dening, Wherever you go at Krupp's you,cannot geb away from the olanking send hammering of meta. Even where there is noham- mering going on you can hear the sounds from afar, The Emergency Marine Gangway—It Might Have. Helped in Case of Lusitania.. This ingenious and practical means for enabling passengers to embark to !lifeboats, or for the re- verse operation after rescues have been performed during stormy weather at ,sea, is the recently patented invention of Captain Arthur N. McGinty, a widely -known ship -master. It has been carefully examined by many experienced authorities and officers who have participated in •recent noteworthy rescues and beans their highest endorsement as answering the reoonnmendation of the London Confer- ence on Safety et Sea that "suitable arrangements alien be made for emb'wrk'ing the passengers in the boats." This structure is portable. and quiokly thrown into operative position. It consists of two long booms, which are swung out :at right angles to the side of the slip, about fifteen feet aparb, and have suitable floats attached to their outer ends, B,ettwe,en the booms ie stretched a strong wire net over which pas- sengers can readily pass. The equipment is 'held ee•curely in place by guy -lines. Thus, lifeboats are lowered to the •water with only a working crew in therm. When safely afloat the boat is brought head- on to the outer end of the emergency gangway and there temporarily mooned, while, under the direction of am execwbive officer, the proper number of passengers only are permitted to enber the gangway and thereby "safely and !sanely" readh the waiting boab. m •ors sized as they struck the water, In the case of the Lt:sdtalnia, several boats full of passe g were oa. p and many lives were lost which might have been,saved had !some such dles'iee as that elwmnn above been in operation. "Here we are. This is where the wheels are made." Ire the Hands of the Potter. It •was a vast workshop, and all over it were molds for •wheels. We watched men pour the boiling. liquid into . the. molds. And we watched the metal gradually hard- en, And we watched the workmen lift up the molds and disclose the completed wheel. Some of the wheels seemed tome to be more like the wheels of locomotives than of gun: carriages. It seemed I was right.' The output of this one workshop alone moist have been tremendous, for it webs between two and three hundred feet wide and over an eighth of a mile long. A big gal- lery :ran•all •round it, and there was a perfect maze of girders about the roof, while several suspended cranes swung up huge • ,boilers in the making and ran abort with them from one end of the building to the other. Nor did the workman stop to stare ab us. They ignored our -vary existence and went o,n with their work as usual. "I think we'll go naw and have a look at the pobtery." "Pottery)" I echoed. "Yes. The molten metal for mak- ing :cast steel is carried in clay pots and they turn out five thousand of these pots in the pottery every Wheels of Woe. , I saw the Krupp armor made, but I have not the space to describe the process, It was very strange to see the armor-pkute rolled sub to vari- ous thicknesses just like so much pastry. Alter witnessing the vaxi- ous temperings it has to go through and ,the baths and seourings and rolling's, I realized it must be coat- ly. But I was rather staggered when I found that armor -plate made on the Krupp principle costs $550 a ton, and that there is about $2,500,000 worth around the hull of a modern battle oruiser. "It's wonderful)" I exclaimed. My friend only smiled. "We'll go along and see how they make the celebrated weldlees steel wheels for artillery," he said, "and then we'll lot you inbb the great secret of ,making oruoibie steel—the se- cret which gave 'birth to these works.,, • We went outside. A `motor -car was waiting, "Get in," said my 'friend, "It's a bit too far to walk," In a few minutes, after laving to pill sup once or bwice bo let a works train of iruoke go by, and after be- ing jostled .acrbss railway metals, we stopped outside another big wo rksh;op, day e So to the pottery we went, and when we had seen the men busily engaged in making crucibles, as the earthenware pots are called, we de• parted forbh•e place ,where ,the cele. brated ortieible steel is made' Whab an animated scene met my eyes. Men walked aabbut-rapidly in pairs carxyin:g (between them cruci- bles full of white-hot liquid steel on long metal bars. There was no, fal- tering or Hesitation on their part. They journeyed straight to the par- ticular mold at which they were engaged, with the assistance of many other men, in filling and pour- ed in their quota of metal. Beek and forth walked the men With their burdens of scalding met• al in their elay: pots, Every mo- menb I expected to sea some of those !pots split asunder :and spill thab deadly liquid on the carriers. but the pobs did not splib because they were made of a particular kind of earth which ears withstand a greater heat than vessels made of armor -plate itself could withstand. ing the bigge•sb of gone. Unfortu- nately, there were no big guns be- ing bested at the •tim'e, and I had to be satisfied with examining armor - plates that had been used for pre- vious !tests. "Before 'we start I want to see some one in here," said my friend next day, and I followed him into one of th•e offices. While I was waiting, the official to whom mY friend was talking looked up some letters in a case, and calling a messenger told him to take the let- ters along to 'some one in the next department. I commented on this a little later, and learned a lot about Krupp methods. - No mean in Krupp's is allowed to know boo mulch. Correspondence going from one room to another is looked up, so that the messengers cannot read it. A man may have been employed there .a11 his life without 'knowving anything outside his particular department and with- out being allowed to go over other parts of the works. Even high - placed German army officers are not allowed to see all the works In fact, every.precawtion is taken to prevent a ,man gaining more in- formation than is.necessary. ICrupp agents are everywhere in the build- ing, but I thought they were mere ly workmen who were not very busy; Steel Without ae Flaw. - I wabched the men filling a huge mold ,which, when ib was complet- ed, would be a 00 -ton bleak of steel. Drop by drop the molten steed was being poured into ib. And that is the secret Krupp discovered. By pouring in comparatively small quentities of molter' metal at a time air bubbles were given a chance to escape, and a flawless block o£ steel was the xesulb, A simple idea, but it was worth mil- lions of pounds. My 'head was iegin.ning to, ache, so I was rather glad when my friend suggested luncheon. We .rode beak to the Essenhod Hotel and paetoolr of a meal, after which, as a change from the inside sightseeing, I was taken over the ranges where the heal it. lereut'r enr strew are ren big guns are tested. Like every- tabled in the butiet to greatly thing else at Essen the ranges are lessen the pain e r thu.k in the me - tog gigantic, one of them 'being 10 miles vuua,eystem,of a wound elan in ea, long, This is used solely for testa most cite! organs. Children's Sleep. Much information as -to the health of a child may he gained by ears- ful watching of its attitude, move- ments, and expression during sleep. The child who !sleeps best with the mouth wide open, and the head thrown back, is moot likely suffering from enlarged tonsils, which impede its breathing; if it can only sleep when the bedclothes have all been kicked off rickets should be watched for, while lung or !heart affections are shown at an early stage by the tendency to sleep high up on the pillow, so that the head and shoelace's, are raised. In cases of pain in any part the hand will be found .to be carried to the affected spot during sleep, so that teething, heaadadhs, or ear- ache nuay be diagnosed, while a curious sign of irritation in the stom,aeh or bowels is the constant rubbing of the nose. Restless sleep, broken and uneasy, is• a ecammon syuvpte'h of the onset of serious Mimes, but any exeremle torpor end d.rowsinese should also be suspeot- eel, as these frequently precede feverish ailments, such as scarla- tina and measles, Convulsive ab - tacks are nearly always preceded by the tight eleepin:g of the hands, with the thumbs folded into the palms, and the ',stiffening and curl- ing up of the toes. Crime in New York Alarming. There has. never been aperiod in the history of New York when there were more crimes of violence and bloodshed than at the present, time. Attempts to blow up cathedrals, churches and court houses occur with almost the frequency of spring showers. Mysterious annrdere are committed almost as often as traf- fic is interrupted in Fifth Avenue. .The deadly bomb has become as common as the town pump at the croseroadis hamlet. Thugs and shot- gun bravos are as numerous and daring as in the day's which pre- deded the kilning of Rosenthal. Now, the place for a beginning of the cure of tide evil is the Bronx. The miaere:ants who blew up the Court House sihouldbe run to earth and sent to prison if all the re- sources for the maintenance of law and order in the State 1 New York trk have to be employed. e police authorities do not realize the gravity of their responsibilities. New Blliet Cures. Mr. Alex, F. Humphrey of Pitts- burgh, Pa., leas, invented a bullet for was use that is the absolute op- posite to scone reapecbs of the "poisoned bullets" mentioned in the early •dispatches of the was, for it carries in its nickel jacket Greene thetics to deaden the pn.in of tile. won ud, and not pies to help to ii 4AKt5THE Has STC yEA AXES to lw•uftl(f 1 COMPANY 11 „ ,gaanro,oNr. Jas been Candela's favorite yeast for more than linty . years. Enough.for Sc. to produce 50. large loaves el fine, MADE IN CANADA wholesome nour- ishing home made bread, Do not experiment, there is nothing just as good. E.W.GILLETT CO,LTD TORONTO, OMT. WINNIPEG MONTREAL at IN GREAT DEMANi). Immense Quantities of Ice Creast Consumed. Ice cream dealers are making plans dor a busy summer, the pe- riod of their greatest prosperity. A large city on a good hot day, COn- sumes about 50,000 gallons, or 300,- 000 quarts of ice cream. One big firm alone has been known to sell 20,000 gallons in the epees of twen- ty-four hours, which dhows just what a great city can do when it goes out on an ice cream celebra- tion. The trade is one whish is affected vexy quickly by weather conditions and the reports from the weather bureau are scanned closely in order that .the proper amount of ice cream for a certain day can be made. 'While the product can be manufactured and stored in cool - ere for future use: without the slightest deterioration, still the fluctuations are so great that a uniform output each day cannot be maintained. A drop in temper- ature coming over night will send the ice cream. business to a frac- tion of what it was on a previous hob day. The first indication of a hot spell in summer finds the big freezers working at full capacity to prepare for the emergency. Cooler weath- er will mean a decided diminution of the product and a building up of the stores of milk and cream in country depots to be drawn on as soon as the situation improves. By making a ,study of the business and through the experience of long years, the larger conerns know the proper way to go about assur- ing themselves of steady incomes. As their production decreases their supplies increase, and vice versa, so there is no real loss. Vanilla ice cream forms about two-thirds of the output, with nho- colat-e second and strawberry, third. Vanilla, while being the most popu- lar, is used to a great extent in soda fountains, where it is put up in drinks of various other flavors. This accounts in a large way for its supremacy. TORONTO'S MOST POPULAR SUM- MER DISSIPATION IS CITY DAIRY ICE CREAM—the demand has spread from year to year until it is now on sale in nearly every town in Ontario. There seems to ba something about the climate of Canada that makes it the confection that everybody craves in warm weather—infants, invalids, children or grown- ups, it makes no difference what your state or station. City Dairy Ice Cream is most refresh- ing. nourishing and digestible. For Sale by discrimrnnting shopbeopers everywhere els ' , ''-`s PLAN REBUILDING CIRIE illtlp lath at1'II0I)S Or ToWIv PLANNING t'11GED, BeIagees man .Out '!'ask to !!Mgrs Men Invaders Are Driven Out of the Land. So confident are Belgians that, the Ge man invaders will shortly be driven from their county that plans are now being diesuseed and drawn up in London for the scien- tific rebuilding of the devastated towns and cities of Belgium, The idea. of rebuilding ruined Bel- gium 'men nnodeen ecaemifio lines WELD originated by the International Garden Cities and Town Planning Association and was ont+husiasti- rally accepted by King Albert end the Belgian Government, while the British Government has bestowed its official blessings on the scheme. A committee called the Belgian Ibwn Planning Committee has been formed, made up of representatives of the various Belgian Miniatxiee, the Royal Institute of British A echi- teatLs, the Institute: of Municipal and County Engineers, the Town Planning Association of Great Bri- tain, Belgium, France, Holland, Poland, Russia and Spain. At the first meeting of the come nsitt•e:e ie was decided that the ac- tual work of rebuilding Belgium should be dune entirely by the Bel- gians them -selves, from plans pre- pared by Belgian architects and engineers, and that the work of the English and other non -Belgian members should be advisory. Obliged to Work Secretly. Each member of the committee pledged himself not to accept any contract or payment for any of the work in connection with the re- building. The committee is now devoting its attention primarily to securing a complete civic survey of the de- vastated towns and cities of Bel- gium. This work is proceeding slowly but successfully, slowly be- cause it has, to be done secretly— right under the eyes of the Ger- mans—and smuggled out of the country piece by piece. The means by which this is accomplished, and who is doing it, cannot be revealed, as it is believed the Germans if they discovered it would put an effective stop to the plan at once. It is hoped, however, that within five or six weeks the complete civic survey will have be -en obtained. Although definite plans are yet to be formed it is probable that the committee will do much more than provide merely for the rehabilita- tion of the stricken towns so ae to provide homes for the war suffer- ers. Particularly in England many men who have made -a- careful study of town planning methods see in the present an opportunity for the ap- plication of modern, stienti.fic ideas. They urge that cities beautiful" such as have been outlined in min- iature world's fairs and on is small scale in English garden settlements should be erected on the ruins of the devastated Belgian towns. Must Consult Owners First. It is questionable, of comae, to what extent these methods can be employed, for there are the owners of the property to be consulted. One-fifth of the adult population owned their own homes and the residents of Flinders are distinctly conservative. But it is inevitable that the new Belgium will be an improvement en the old. The work that the committee is doing at preeent is principally educative. Various groups have been formed to study the numerous problems connected with modern town planning. One group is deal- ing with arterial communic.ation:s, others with tyres of roads, rail- roads, street ear Intel, eubw'ays, canalization, water. gas, electricity, sewers, communal service, police, fire prevention and tither stat and civic problems. A remarkable collection of old maps, showing the development of the old cities and towns of Belgium has been placed at the dis:poeal of the committee as well as large num- bers of photographs showing Bel- gium before the war and now. 30.000 Structures Destroyed. Particularly tragic are maps of rained cities and towns, like Lou- vain ,and Termonde, where by dif- ferent colors those parts destroyed and those remaining sae shown. From figures received 10,000 houses and buildings have been de- stroyed by the Germans since they invaded Belgium. Revenge. Ib be possible to heap "coals of fire" upon the head of one who has offended us, and do it with such vicious intent that there is no merit in the trent-menet so far as we are concerned. The kindness that springs from a generous and for- giving spi.rivt ieone thing, and theseeming kindness which is secretly intended to humiliate ,the fo•o and to place oureelvea on a pedestal isquite another matter. Revenge to the same epirit 'whether ib 'hurls benefits or -brickbats, We want nn agent In every town. Muslin was firth made at Hoag, in Mesopotamia, and was intro= duped into England .in the, middle ��+a•P-, ? se�.� .�' 1, la�a.a;• ,�a�yit. `.:,,.�«.:� ' ?ae, ' • of the seventeenth cemuiry,.