HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-10-28, Page 6National. Duty in War
From The Round Table.
selfless spirit which is its inspiration
And its life.
The greatest'problem of democracy
is not merely England's war: it is the is to combine liberty with self -distil-
Empire's war. The Dominions are pline. An autocratic State gives to
not sending troops merely to help the its people organization, efficiency and
d
Motherland." They are sending them. power for any ends it may
because they are no less determined view, but at the terrible price of un -
than. we are to overthrow Prussian, dermining the sense of responsibility
ism, to liberate Belgium and France, in the community. and of converting
and to secure the future of the Bri-' its members into blind and obedient
tisk commonwealth as a whole. We servants of another's will. All Eu -
sometimes forget that the British rope is fighting the evils of the sys-
commonwealth is one state, and that tem, where' a narrow military and
all its self-governing parts have an aristocratic caste, inheriting the tra-
equal interest in its fortunes, an equal ditions of Bismarck and Frederick
title to share in its counsels, and an the Great, worshipping dominion and
equal responsibility for its welfare. `power; regardless of honour, ruthless
Even though our own constitutional of human suffering, has organized
machinery is defective, we must not the inhabitants of two great empires
blind ourselves to the fact that, so as the means by which they are to
far as the issues of peace and war 1 seize for themselves supreme power.
' are concerned, the Imperial Govern -1 There can be no peace for us until
meat speaks for the Dominions as ; the attempt of tyranny to establish
much as for the British Isles. They j its power where liberty before has
cannot shirk that responsibility by i reigned has failed, Democracy stiff -
pleading the absence of adequate re-!ers from the opposite danger. In its
presentative machinery—at any rate, idistrust from autocratic power it
if they have not availed themselves of i forgets that corporate discipline and
the machinery of consultation which I individual
l service
rviee life ofas every necessary
already exists, Nor can the Domin- ; to theity healthyomen lies liberty itself, and
com-
ions, if they are to act as really sell- that when n has eritsel , the
governing communities, absolve them-, hereditary auihoity which imposed
selves of their responsibility both for j
the conduct of the war and for thelthem it has to discipline and organ -
terms of peace, bykpleading that they, rze itself. This war, in one of its
have no means of controlling Imperial ' aspects, is a spiritual conflict between
policy if they on their side do not 1 liberty and tyranny, between the
avail themselves of the constitutional ' principle of right and justice as the
machinery which already exists. The foundation of international relations
British commonwealth is one state and the principle that might is right,
comprising five nations. It is at war in which truth is on our side; in
for its life. No practical man can another it is a contest between the
doubt that the governing nations of idea that the primary duty of the
which it is composed should keep in citizen is to give loyal and unselfish
the elosest touch both over the con -
service to the community of which
duct of the war and the negotiation he is a part and the idea that the
of peace. No real co-operation is , primary right of the individual is to
possible by letter or cable. Complete ignore his duty to the community
undo . tanding can only be arrived at if he chooses, in which truth is with
as the result of personal consultation! the Germans. How discipline and
by responsible men meeting together! active service of the state ie to be
at the same time round a common! combined with democracy it is not
table. No such consultation has yet 1 the purpose ofifest this
hat wele have suggest.
taken place. That in itself shows! It is
bow little the communities of the Em -1 begun to solve the problem of creat-
pire have thrown their whole collet -i ing either the spirit or the machinery
tive strength into the war. If they! necessary to the full working of the
are ever to do so, such a conferences principle of self-government. To
cane of be long delayed, destroy the power of a king and
I
transfer it to an electorate is ob-
Liberty and Discipline. , viously only the first step, and the
Having overthrown tyranny within; machinery created to enable an auto -
our owe borders, and extended the' erat to control his subjects is ob-
power of control over public policy on I viously not that which will best enable
a wide franchise, we have grasped at, a community to govern itself. But
the privileges of liberty and forgot-, these are questions which must be
ten its responsibilities. The doctrine reserved till. after the war.
of the liberty of the individual has Meanwhile we can begin to cast the
been preached to the point that he is beam out of our own eye by building
often held to have the right to dis- up the foundation on which all heal -
obey any law of which he disap- thy democracy must rest—a strong
proves. The duty of the citizen to sense of our responsibility as citizens
serve the whole of the rest of the and of our duty to serve the com-
community has been overlaid by his munity of which we are a part. The
loyalty to caste or class, The nature chief difficulty in the way is not
of the state—the foundation of all organization or even our enemy, but
civilized life—is no longer understood. our reluctance to put pressure on our -
It has even been discredited through selves. Once we have made up our
a shallow association with the Prus- minds to do that, the battle is half
Sian' perversion of the idea. In con- won. For in grappling thus man -
sequence the principle of service, of fullywith ourselves there will be born
obedience to the law, which is the the spirit of unity and high courage
basis of the state, which alone can which, once alive, will not only carry
give unity, coherence and well-being us to victory in this war, but which
to a great community, has grown will be the sure foundation of a bet -
weak. Hence the state itself is weak ter world when peace is come once
and unhealthy tbrough lack of that more.
IV.
Loudon, Eng,, Sept. 22.—This war
r MGUS BUILDINGS OF YPRI S NOW i RUINS
The upper picture shows Lille Street, Ypr es, with the famous Cloth Hall, which ]aas been re-
duced to ruins by alternate bombardments of the Germans and the Allies. The lower iew nt to of
The Hailes, Ypres, one of the most famous buildings of Flanders. The pictures were
tint. Sgt.
a
Toronto friend by Sgt. Stuart Jones, of the 48th Highlanders, with the Firs g
Jones, whose home is in Milton, Ont., was employed in the C. P. R. freight department in Toronto
when he enlisted.
WHAT GERMANY HAS LOST. look rich, and also because it inflates
_ • the products fully 100 per cent.
In a Year of War—Great Sea Losses This practice enables him to reap
one eal-
Inflicted Upon Pirates. a huge proll1 by converting
The total gross tonage (approxi- len of poo? cream into two gallons
of
of ships of all nationalities of a product that looks just as good
as the most rich, simon-pure article.
Most of the United States now have
standards fox ice cream to which they,
require manufacturers to conform.
Fourteen per cent. of butter fat is
what good ice cream should contain.
Dishonest manufacturers cheat their
customers by handing them a product
thickened with gelatin, gum or ren-
net, which contains only from 6 to 10
per cent. of butter fat.
captured, detained, sunk or damaged
from the outbreak of hostilities in
August, 1914, until the end of August,
1915, amounted to nearly 4,000,000
tons, and numbered close on 3,000
vessels.
The details of German vessels which
have been swept off the seas in all
parts of the world are as under:
Ships. Ton. Few of the public and even many
United Kingdom and ice cream manufacturers fail to real
146 375181-
Overseas British ports ize that there is such a thing as
• cream being too rich. Experiments
Captured in German
Colonial aiorts 21 43,367 show that cream containing 18 per
Captured and sunk by8 99,424 cent. or more of butter fat is not as
British satisfactory as that containing 14
Captured by British 75 186,766 per cent.
Detained in Egyptian If fruit is used, the amount -of but -
ports 18 86,038 ter fat may be reduced to 12 per cent.
WITHIN AN INCH! watch-chainl It was in this position Detained in Belgian 89 186,920 without impairing the qualityer the
that, a little later, in response to his ports 1 cream.
Hair -Breadth Escapes at Home and cries for help, a rescue party found Detained in French and
on the Battlefield. him. Russian ports 95 112,945
In connection with the Houndsditch Detained in Italian
ports 86 153,876
Captured and sunk by
allies 4 3,822
Captured by allies 25 37,985
Sunk or damaged by
submarines, mines or 4 6,975
explosions _
Totals 521 1,113,258
This war has revived the old sub- affair a year or so ago, at which it
ject of the value of little things as will be recalled, a company of sol -
life -preservers. Biers were called out from the Tower
It was only the other week that a of London, it was reported that a
private in the 4th East Yorks Regi- piano -tuner had a most marvellous
ment was saved from a severe bullet escape from being shot. This man
wound by the cigarette -case which' followed the practice of some old -
he carried in a pocket over his heart. fashioned doctors, who used to keep
'l'he missile lodged in the inner cover their wooden "sounders" inside their
of the case, and part of a cigarette grey "toppers," and placed his tuning -
was torn away. key inside his bowler-hat—a little fad
There have also been similar cases which also saved his life. The piano -
reported during this war, notably such tuner found himself in a dense crowd
curious life-savers as shaving -soaps, of people which congregated at the
tobacco pounches, hymn -books, news- beginning of the affair mentioned,
papers, etc., all of which seems to and in trying to get out into the side
suggest that a sort of armor plate roads, came within range of the fate -
worn under the tunic would assist to ful window. Suddenly, a bullet whizz -
minimize the loss of life in battle. ed towards him, and, entering his hat,
Whether that is so or not, it is not lodged half -way in the key -handle.
my business to explain here; but it is Had the implement of this man's
rather curious to note that in London profession not been kept in that curl -
and other populated towns there are nus position, it may safely be assume
annually numbers of hair -breadth ed that the bullet would have entered
escapes from death. his brain and killed him.—London An -
Not long ago an incident occurred
in a provincial city which ought to
dispel criticism about hatpins and
their danger. A lady was passing
beneath a first -floor window garden
when a heavy flower -pot fell. It came
down with great swiftness, and, had
it struck her head, would certainly
have killed her, or, at any rate, most
seriously injured her. As it happen-
ed, however, the flower -pot struck
the lady's hatpin, whence it bounded
off on the pavement, Of course,
her hair was much disarranged, and
her hat also; but. she owed her life
to her hatpin, nevertheless. Another
extraordinary escape was of a man
walking along an uneven cliff in,
semi -darkness, Somehow, his foot,
slipped, and, to his amazement,'he.
found himself sliding down into a
horrible chasm, He had been slid-
ing for a few seconds, the while he
tried unavailingly to •stop himself,
when suddenly ho received an awful
jerk, and discovered himself hooked
on toa stubby little branch by his
swers.
Anarchist a Millionaire.
The British trawlers sunk by sub-
marines to the end of July number
105, of a tonnage of 15,087, in addi-
tion to 31 vessels of the same class
(with a tonnage of 4,229) sunk by
mines or explosions.
The record of neutral vessels sunk
by German submarines is a long one,
numbering 43, with a total tonnage of
59,299. They comprised:
A millionaire anarchist named Leon
Prouvost was in Paris sentenced to
a year's imprisonment and a fine of
/40 for disseminating seditious state-
ments among the troops and civilian'
population of France alleging that.
the Government was deceiving the
public. Mme. Donnadicu, his accom-
plice, was condemned 'to three years'
imprisonment and twomale assistants
were also sentenced to terms of im-
prisonment.
,p
For Those le Germany.
Norwegian .. , 22
Danish 8
Swedish 8
Dutch 2
Portuguese 2
Greek 1
SCIENCE FACTS.
•
One species of white ant produces
86,400 eggs a day.
One-fifth of the earth's surface be-
longs to the British Empire.
It is claimed that there are seven
of Shakespeare's autographs in exis-
tence.
Illuminating gas leaking from
mains under asphalt pavements will
soften and disintegrate them.
So great is the velocity of electri-
city that it could travel round the
world eight times in a minute.
To make night on earth as bright
as day there would have to be over
800,000 moons in the sky.
An elephant has more muscles in
its trunk than any other creature
possesses in its entire body.
In China a man pays his doctor
only while he is well. As soon as he
falls ill the physician's salary stops.
Finger rings have been invented
with interchangeable settings, re-
moved with no more difficult tool than
a common pin.
A glass has been developed which
gives the same intensity of color val-
ues as daylight when used with a
gas or tungsten light.
A physician is the inventor of a
hollow cane in which he carried all
the medicine bottles he ordinarily
needs to have with him.
The Japanese Government haal.
adopted a plan of. railway building
that will require ten years to com-
plete and add more than 1,200 miles
to existing lines.
When a child dice in Greenland the
natives bury a living dog with it, the
idea being that the dog should be used
by the child ae a guide to theother
woeld.
Soft -looking .and delicate clouds
foretell fine weather, with moderate
breezes; hard -edged clouds foretell
wind; rolled or ragged clouds, strong
wince A bright yellow sky at sun-
set also presages wind, while a pale
yellow sky forocasts wet weather%
ENGLISHWOMEN IN
ECONOMY - LEAGUE
GIFTS, MOTOR CARS AND ENTER -
',MINING BARRED,
Prominent Ladies Active in Support
of Movement to Reduce
Expenses.
The "silver bullets" with which
England hppes to win the war, and
which she must supply in a large
measure to Russia, France, Italy and
Serbia, are being so wantonly wasted
under the old order of things in Eng-
land that national economy is now
the greatest immediate issue of the
whole British nation,
e Parliament has organized a War
Saving Committee, which is issuing
pamphlets to the people throughout
the Empirewhile in London two
other societies have been formed with
the same object in view, the Women's
War Economy League, which has been
launched by the Dowager Lady Wim -
borne, and half a dozen duchesses and
other peeresses, and the Women's
Dress Economy League:
Free t e Ocean Sore
BITS Or NEWS PROM TIIl'
MARITIME PROVINCES.
Items of Interest From Place*
Lapped By Waves of the
Atlantic. -
The Hampton tennis club of St.
John, N.B„ gave $530 to the Patriotic
Fund,
Shipments of iron ore from Bell
Island have of late been abnormally
large. %
Roderick Steele, an I.C,R, brake-
man, fell from the ferry steamer at
Sydney .and was drowned,
Mount Allison University, Sack.
vine, N.B„ has the largest freshman
class this year in its history,
At Newcastle, N.B,, Scott Act In-
spector Chamberlain svgs dismissed
and went into the hotel business.
Ladies of Fredericton, .N.B., will
take part with the menin organizing
meetings.
Children of Nova Scotia have al-
ready contributed nearly $1,200 to an
ambulance fund for the Canadian sole
Biers.
Charles Conoley, of Fredericton, N.
Tho Parliamentary War 'Savings B„ was arrested in Hudson, Maine,.
Committee is asking for a pledge to- eharged with stealing from the rural
ward economy in a list of expenditures mail boxes.. -
which it says has been drawn up by . t Joggins. Mines, N.S.," is proud of a
experts before being;' adopted of- family which gave a father, three
ficially, sons and en adopted son to the .Em= •
An Economy Pledge. pine's service.
A large meeting was held in Guys-
boro to consider the question of un-
St.
a campaign for the repeal
of the Scott Act.
Simeon Jones, formerly mayor of
St. John, N.B., died in London. He
was 89, and at one time a prominent
brewer and banker.
Two ladies of St. John, N.B., Mrs.
John A. and Miss Aedele Fowlie,
went out with a hunting party and
each shot a moose:
This pledge binds the signers, men
and women, for the period of the,war:
Not to build a. house for personal
occupancy.
Not to give any presents except in
the form of War Loan vouchers. -
Not tc use motor cars unless for
charity or on official business.
Not to entertainin the restaurants.
To ignore the changes of fashion..
To limit expenditure on mourning
attire and on funerals. James Knight, of Sheet Harbor,
To discharge all servants except accidentally shot and killed his
those absolutely necessary. friend, William Behie, while they
To abolish all"treating," and make were moose hunting.
the nation's .motto be: "No drinks till Frasers, Limited, of Fredericton,
we have won." N.B., paid S150,000 for 9,000 acres of
The Women's War Economy League freehold timber lands situated in the
has sprung into life through the urg- I vicinity of -Nelson, N.B.
Ings of the Parliamentary Savings , "Sporty" Jones, awaiting •sentence
Committee, which issues its daily . in a Fredericton, N.B., jail for sheep -
propaganda to the -newspapers. Lady i stealing, escaped while a terrific
Wimborne's society is trying to get , storm was raging in the vicinity.
• in its work in the field most fruitful) Equinoctial gales did much damage
for the war loan—among the 2,000,000 ,'in country districts of New Bruns
people who"spend one-half of the to- • wick, blowing down many trees which
tel income of the whole country, as1 stood for decades.
against the 43,000,000 inhabitants
who spend the other half of the na-
tion's total income.
Lady Duff Active.
She is assisted by Lady Juliet Duff,
a war widow, whose husband, if he
were alive,, would now bear the title
f Sir Robin Assheton-Smith, and who
NAMES ARE DECEITFUL.
Phrases Used to Describe Articles
Are Not True.
"Appearances," says the adage,
"are deceitful"; but still more deceit-
"ful are names. Some' of the phrases
which we use in order to describe
articles are, in fact, sheer lies. What
are camel -hair brushes? Are- they
made from the''hair of camels? . Not
a bit. They are made from the tails
of Russian and Siberian squirrels.
Whence comes India ink? From In-
dia? By no means. It comes from
China. The French are sensible, and
call it "Chinese ink." Nor does india-.
rubber come from our Imperial , pos-
session, but from Central and South"
America.
"Genuine" French brier -root pipes
are not made from the roots of brier,
but from the root 'of a white heath.
Centipedes have not a hundred feet;
the largest of them have no more
than thirty. There is no wax in seal-
ing -wax; heartburn has nothing to
do with the heart, and there is no
nitre in sweet spirits of nitre.
Finally, let us mention the depress-
ing fact that "Dutch" clocks are very
rarely Dutch, nearly all the wooden
clocks so styled being made at the
No fewer than 700 writs were issued;
by the Prize Court up to August 25
with reference to the seizure of ves-
sels or cargoes in purely prize cases.
The net amount standing to the cre-
dit of the Prize Fund at the present
moment is £2,943,804. Nowadays
there is no distribution of prize mo-
ney among the captors.
Enquiries by British people con
corning relatives and friends in Ger-
many should be addressed to the
Under-Secretary 'for Foreign Affairs,
at the Foreign Office, London, and
not to the United States diplomatic
sad consular representatives in Ger-
many.
AIR SOLD AS ICE CREAM.
Fifty Per Cent. of Some is Nothing
More Than This.
If the man from whom you buy
ice cream tees gelatin in malting; it,
the chances are that you get only 50,
per cent. of the real cream you pay
for and that the rest' is nothing more
nor less than air.
Gelatin has no places in pure,
honestly -made ice cream, In acme
states its use is forbidden by law.
It i, used by unscrupulous manufac-
turers because it makes poet cream
Miss Helen Pugsley, of Parisboro,
N.S., won two money prizes in the
last High School exams., and gave
the money to the Red Cross Fund.
It is claimed by the Halifax Herald
that the people of the Maritime Pro-
vinces will soon have given 250 ma-
chine guns to the Canadian forces.
At Glenholm, N.S., Mrs. Charles 1;.
bequeathed to her and his small son Fulton died. For 30 years she accom-
an income amounting to nearly $1, peeled her husband constantly to sea,
000,000 a year. Her •mother, Lady he being a sailing ship captain.
Ripon, is enthusiastically supporting A. E. O'Leary, chief fire and game
the league, as well as the Duchess of warden of New Brunswick, had a leg
Sutherland, the Duchess of Beaufort, broken and sustained other injuries in
an auto accident near Riehibucto, N.B.
St. John, N.B., held a "patriotic •
auction" for the benefit of the patrio-
tic fund. ' It was aimed to raise $50,-
000 by selling goods which had been
donated.
Hon. Mr. Hazen, while in St. John,
N.B., recently, made arrangements to
the Marchioness of Tullibarine, the
Countess of Pembroke, Viscountess
Ridley, Lady Islington, Lady Hebert
Cecil and Mrs. George Keppel.
Mrs. Asquith, the wife of the Prime
Minister, mid Mes. Reginald McKen-
na, the wife of Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, are also recent "joiners."
This league hasonly six items in have large warehouses built there for
its pledge, instead of the eight of the the accommodation of winter steam -
Parliamentary Committee, but the ship business.
members have promised to limit them-
selves as to all luxuries, especially
those which mean money spent on im- FLY -KILLING JUICE.
ported goods. They will have nothing -,e—
to do with the new fashions, will give Electrically Charged Pan May be
Used Against Pests.
German village of Freilburg, i up their motor cars, except for urgent
Black Forest.
n the
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- 'THE SENSE OF TREES.
Something Almost Human in Their
Unerring Instinct.
business or charity, will renounce en-
tertaining in the restaurants, restrict
their meals at home, discharge all
men servants except those ineligible
for war service.
No Evening Gowns.
Lady Juliet Duff was formerly one
A quick method of killing flies and
other insects is' to exterminate them.
with electricity. Any orie who has
electric power can make an effective
fly destroyer.
To make the contrivance one se-
lects a fair-sized dish or pan, which
Mr. James Rodway, who is the cur- of the best dressed women in.London. is covered by a non -conducting sub-
ator of the British Guiana Museum • She announces that she is no longer stance, preferably of wood, having
and en eminent botanist, declares that! to indulge in evening or ball costumes an elliptical hole cut across thecen-
plants have at least three of our five 1 and will give no more large dinner tie. Lengthwise of this hole a coil
senses,—feeling, taste, and smell,—{ parties. One or two intimate friends of wire, wound on a core of wood is
and that certain tropical trees • smell- I may be invited in,to lunch or ,dinner placed. ' This insulating core is made .
water from a •distance, and will move to a frugal meal of two courses in- preferably three -cornered. oe pyramid
straight toward it. But trees not in stead of five. Such a thing as a holi- shaped, the apex upporinost, so the
the tropics can do as well. A resident day at the seaside is not to be toler- fly or insect which is shocked when it
of an old Scotch mansion, says a wri- ! abed since it means money spent on comes in contact with the wire wound
ter in the Scotsman, found the waste
pipe from the house repeatedly
choked. Lifting the Blahs in the base-
ment paving, he discovered that the
pipe was completedy encircled by
poplar roots They belonged to a tree
railroad"fare andtips to porters, now core drops off into the pan below.
to beclassed as luxuries. The core is wired closely, and just as
Lady Tree supports the idea and I soon as a fly touches the wire a eon -
she thinks that every woman viould nection is made and the insect is
look well dressed in an evening gown , Milled.
of black satin, while for daytime wear 1 The wires of the core are. extend -
that grew some thirty years away on the f everybodytnaware a sailor mbe ysolv- ed by cord to ule of 1 kot. No current any used electric
untillight
e con
see-
the opposite side of the house. Thus 'cd i
the roots had moved steadily toward
the house, and had penetrated below
the foundation and across the base-
ment until .they reached their goal,
the waste pipe, a hundred and fifty
feet away. Then they had pierced a
cement joining, and had worked their
way' in long, tapering lengths inside
the pipe for a, considerable distance
beyond the house. There seems some-
thing almost human in such unerring
instinct and perseverance ',ie sur
mounting obstacles.
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Weavers of Cashmere shawls take
tea or three years to finish a pair of
the very finest. These shawls fetch
upwards of $500 in London.
15 has been estimated that the sense
of smell in a human being can detect
the three-hundred=millionth part of a
grain of musk,
velvet or silk, no lust to cost a penny nection is made by the insect touching
more than $10: he wire.
Int order to attract file fly or insect
1- to the fly ]tiller, the dish underneath.
Rings From Shells. is partly filled with glycerine mixed
with denatured alcohol, which gives
English girls becoming engaged to off a sweet odor..
soldiers males a special point of ae- . Any insect not killed at, once by
quiring out -of -the -common engage= touching the charged wires is drown-
ed when it lands in,the dish,
auccessFully and artistically made '1
from the bands of shells melted clown
usually Not.
oz's favorite stone, On the inside as „Pa, a man's wife is his batter, half,
inscribed the day on which. the frag-
ment
isn't she?"
ment was . originally picked up, and a+Yre are told so, my sort."
few particulars. Shell bands aOe also "Thein if' a man marries twice there
made up into brooches and bracelets, isn't anything left of him, is there?"
War brides have a fancy for rather
wide wedding rings, and fax .the mo -
An the smaller size, the .popiiiar An..inheritance may be gotten hast-
one before last August, is in the ily in the beginnings •,mut the end
background: thereof siraTl not be blessed.
and inset with the prospective wear