The Brussels Post, 1917-6-21, Page 2Storage Battery Problems.
A surprising number of motorists
taking out their first car haven't the
slightest idea where their storage bat-
tery is located, Some are entirely un-
aware a the fact that they have a
battery and that the operation of
starter and lights—and in most cases
ignition—is wholly dependent upon it
and its well being.
The result is that the battery is
ignored and often times harmfully
abused. Not until it runs down and
fails to do its work does the owner be-
gin to investigate,
"Most battery troubles that come to
our attention," says an expert, "are
due to lack of knowledge of the func-
tion of the storage battery and the at-
tention it requires.
"If every motoriet could realize that
a storage battery is a perishable arti-
cle which is highly sensitive to abuse
and neglect a great deal of inconven-
ience and expense would be saved. In
this respect the battery is no differ-
ent than any other part of the motor
car.
"Just as driving over glass and nails
abuses tires and running a motor with-
out oil will burn out the bearings, so
will lack of care and attention bring
the storage battery to grief.
"The average car owner knows what
constitutes tire and motor abuses and
he avoids them. He would do well
to find out what abuses his battery,
what attention it requires and why—
to get acquainted w
tion, First season motorists partle
milady would save themselves consid-
erable expense and annoyance by ac-
quainting themselves at once with
their storage battery and its needs."
Wash The Car Properly.
Motorists who buy fine cars usual-
ly take made in their appearance,
lth it and its opera -
JEAN LEMORDANT,
FRENCH PATRIOT
THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HIS
SELF-SACRIFICE.
Breton Artist Who Gave His Sight
For Franco Wes a Pacifist
I3efore the War.
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At last the moment came when he
crossed the frontier back into Pram.
He awaited the moment with. a lcind
of religious emotion. 131ind, with two
ribs broken, an injured knee and
fevered temples, he expected a miracle,
a miracle that was to come from him -
Jean Julien Lemordant was born in
self, from his own mental powers.
Brittany and is a true Breton type. Among the Britishers of to -day who
He asked the Red Cross nurses on are earning the right to be classed as
He began his studies in painting atthethe train to toll him the exact minute possessing the imperial mind, no one
the School of Fine Arts of Rennes and
that he crossed the line. He set his has come to the front more rapldly in
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particularly in preserving the mo then moved to the Beaux Arts in Paris, will, his determine&Breton will, to see the last half year than Gen. Jan Chris -
finish of the body. where he worked in Bonnet's studio. the frontier, to see something of it, a tian Smuts, Minister of Defence of the
"Proper washine, of the car will do After ten years of hard work, his suc- I
: hedge, a rail, a stone, a bunch of Union of South Africa, and at pros -
more to preserve the finish and ap- cess as an artist was assured. Then graes. He was led to the door of the ent the representative of the South
pearanee than anything eesa," says came the war.
ear at the right moment and he braved African commonwealth, in the imperial
the manager of a motor car company. Lemordant was a Socialist, a pas- every muscle, put forth all his will conference in London.
"It is just as easy to wash the car sionate pacifist, a fervent anti-militar-
power. The frontier passed, he fell The following is a very brief ly but surely America has come to
properly as not. All the mud should ist and deeply Interested in the Ger- in a deep faint, his iracle had not epitome of the record of the man, who realize that this struggle was the old
be thoroughly softened by a gentle man decorative art movement. But the eeree. -mis now barely 47 years old, has the bet- struggle for -which she had fought in
stream of clear cold water, which also conviction that right and justice were A war correspondent in Paris met ter part of his career ahead of him, former wars. This was once more
on his coentry's side sent him to the him recently in the Guerault Geller- and begins to be regarded as one of George Washington against George
front. His age, then 35, placed him les. The Legion of Honor and War the coming figures of the empire and, III. In other words, the issue of
among the territorial formations, that Cross were on hie breast. On the walls indeed, of the world.
freedom,eminentagainst slavery, of free goy -
against military despotism.
BRITISH LAURELS
WON BY EX -BOER
GEN. SMVTS NOW A STAUNCII
IMPERIALIST.
Sagacity of Former Foe of England
Foiled Germans in
South Africa.
recent speeches, "is the battle of free-
men 'againet bondmee. Before the
war it was bruited abroad that this
nation had become core'uleteci by
wealth, that it was growing soft and
that the day of trial Would find it
wanting; but when the blow fell it
showedewhat freemen could do, It
showed what a free nation could do
when it was fed on the stuff , of free-
dom. To -day it had become the fin-
ancial, the moral and, in. a sense, the
military mainstay of the Allies.
"Looking at this nation as it stands
before the world to -day," he continu-
ed, "I feel that liberty, like wisdom, is
once more justified of her children.
The great British commonwealth of
nations overseas did not always want
this bloodshed and the terior of mili-
tarism lways over shadowing them.
They wanted to bend all their energies
and resources to the building up of
their nations, and that could not be
done when they had to be prepared to
meet the enemy at every point. Slow -
will wash away all the dust. Then all
the grease and oil spots should bo re-
moved with a piece of waste saturated
in gasoline. The care should then be is left him in the rear to work on some around him were some 300 of his Born in Johannesburg in 1870.
rubbed gently with a clean sponge,csuch job as a food convoy, but on Au- works. The PresidentR
of the epublic
using an abund.nnee of clean col gust '7, 1914, he went straight to the had just left him, after buying one of Educated in South Africa and at
water, until ail mud is removed, The Mayor of Rennes and pleaded to be al- his pictures. Christ's College, Cambridge, where he
made a really distinguished scholastic
car should be rubbed dry.with gentle lowed to leave with the active army. But his eyes were bandaged and the record and earned the highest honors.
most that he can hope for is that Practised law with
some day ho may be able to distin-en-anent success
guish day from night He speaks with- in Seuth Africa,
out bitterness and still has words of poWbitio•otgeueeexttieonnsei.vely on a variety of
strokes of the chamois, wringine a. o At the last moment the Forty-first
as the water is absorbed. Infantry Regiment was found to be
"The object is to remove the dust wanting a sergeant and Lemordant
and mud and leave the surface dry was allowed to go.
and clean with just as little scratching Within a fortnight he was taking praise for that which he admired in
and rubbing on the finish as possible. part in the battle of Charleroi. During German art in earlier days.
Rubbing should be done in straight the retreat, when companies had lost •
;Ines rather than in circles.To pre- their officers and everything was con-
vent water drying and spotting it is fusion, Lemordant, now sergeant -
well to dean one panel at a time." major, stopped a hundred men of vari-
THE FUTUItE OF FLYING.
ous units, including Algerian sharp -
MILITARY PUNISHMENT. shooters, as they fled and led them for -
THE KAISER'S WIFE.
Why Does Not the German Empress
Protest Against Brutalities?
ward to a sunken road from which as "The Kaiserin, so far as is known,
has raised no womanly, wifely, me -
Trips in Aeroplanes Will at no Distant from a trench they checked the en -
Trips voice in protest against the men to recognize, after the Boer cause
Old Martial Laws Not AdaPtable to
Future Become Popular. Changed Conditions. emy's onrush all the afternoon. A shell
horrors in Belgium nor- the recent had been lost, that destiny and corn -
exploded near him, killing two of his mon sense summoned the real intelli-
shoulder, which still remains stiff as the situation and to become the right pire now than these men of South Donald has survived to rise from the
men and wounding him in the right gence of the Dutch 'States to accept
Entered politics as a young man,
and was an unfailing supporter of the
Boer cause when the South African
war broke out.
Loyal British Imperialist.
Rose to distinction as one of the
military figures ne-that struggle, and
to more distinction as one of the first
greater horrors in Northern France,"
says Auguste Rodin, the famous
French sculptor. "I am sure I ex-
press the unexpressed collective
thought of the women af the allied
Battle for Freedom. '
"In my day and in my country," ad-
ded Gen. Smut's, "I have seen freedom
go under, but I have seen it rise again.
I have seen that small people of mine,
a beaten people, rise again and fight-
ing for the same freedom again, but Cfinadian all-stars, is another W
now no longer for themselves but for has been killed in action. ,,At the rate
the whole of the rest of theaworld, and established so far there will be very
the record of their efforts you will find few football stars left when the war
CANADA'S SPORTS-
MEN AT THE FRONT
LARGE NUAII3ERS FIGHTING IN
LIBERTY'S CAUSE,
Rush of Athletes to the Colors L aves
the Dominion Minus Foot- \\qh
ball or Track Team.
When a record of this war has been
completed it will be found that no one
set of men have eontributed more to
the cause than the sportsmen of
Canada. You hear a lot about the
stars of England who have fought
and died, and of the stars trim the
States who have started. isut neither
country has given a greater propor-
tion than Canada has to the cause of
crushing the Hun.
Distinguished Footballers.
No one sport in Canada has given a
greater number to the firing line than
football. Virtually every football
player of note has gone overseas, and,
many of the best have already been
killed or badly wounded. The list of
the dead includes Russell Britton, of
Kingston, the star quarterback of the
Argonauts, and one of the beIt that
Canadian sport has ever known. Gor-
den Southam, of Hamilton, one of the
written all over Africa south of the
equator."
This is the sort of appeal that
Smuts and men of his mind made in
South Africa at the beginning of the
war. These men realize that British
institutions, though indeed forced up-
on them unwillingly, had been really
a blessing. In truth there are no more
loyal British imperialists in the em-
ends and sports comes back to its
own.
One of the first to,go was Eric Mc-
Donald, of Fredericton. McDonald, in
addition to being a star football play-
er, w,as also a noted sprinter and fam-
ous all-around athlete, He carrieclopt
the original idea of the football en.
tries, which was to rise through valor
or fall on the field. In this case Mc -
Mr. Orville Wright, the American The changed conditions of warfare
expert, predicts that the aeroplane have developed situations to which old
will play a great part in the new or- . martial laws are noi, adaptable.
der of things that will follow the war.; Under the old system the suspen-
He believes that it will be in great de-:
sion of sentence for first offences was
mend whenever 11 10 necessary to tra- ! Later that evening he organized a nations when I say they must vision
not obligatory, but was eimply a mat -
counter attack with a handful of men the silent attitude of the German Em-
willvel at great speed. By aeroplane it , ter of discretion on the part of the
which enabled a battalion to withdraw press with loathing, in the light of
be possible to go from New York , general commanding. Amendments
to Chicago in eight or ten hours in- , without severe losses. The next day that which has occurred in Belgium
passed by Parliament in the course of
he was made a Second Lieutenant. and evacuated territory in northern
stead of in twenty, as at present; and the present war make such extensions
to San Francisco in two days. Further- of sentence obligatory for all cases.' The retreat to the Marne followed. France. For this imperial wife of an
more, it will be useful in transporting : Nearly two-thirds of the court- - The artist was wounded again during imperial monster has raised no dis-
the battle but refused to be sent to a senting voice against the horrors I
small packages and very valuable , martials at the front and immediately:
hospital. He followed the retreating have mentioned. As a wife, as a mo -
freight to remote regions that the rail- ! behind the front have developed from
Germans and was wounded a third ther, what can be her thoughts? She
way cannot reach. There are thole! either drunkenness or fear, sometimes
sands of such places in the West, in: from both, according to Monsieur time, at Craonno, a shell splinter lodg- is represented as imbued with Chris -
in the vertebral column. He , tian sentiments, a zealous and fervent
Alaska, in South America and in Rene de Planhel, who has had More Ina*
Africa. Mr. Wright thinks, too, that ; than two years' experience as counsel, kept with his regiment and during a 1 Christian who, according to reports,
in the battle of the earnestly to the Almighty in
Africa, who fought under Kruger and ranks of lieutenan
a result. kind of citizens of the British Empire.
• Was one of the leading figures in Botha In the South African war. They and it would be no surprise to se .
e him
An Intrepid Soldier. were won in the midst of the bitter- soon promoted to the ranks of a brig -
framing the new scheme of govern-
ment for the Union of. South Afrioa, nese of their defeat by the generos- adier general for distinguished sere
them and gave :them a measure of cor
My which handed their country back to vice and military efficiency. His re
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Boers had been conquered Great d at the front has been even great-
theunder which within a few years after
t to that of colonel,
praye flying will become a popular sport, for the defence of soldiers. bay
the greatest yet devised. He says: "It : Cases of desertion with downright Yser received five wounds at once—on; favor of her country and her people.
is far more exhilarating and delight- , fear as the cause are occasionally re_, the left STM, the top of the head, the If'so, what must pass through her nation should not fall into the trap
which the Germans thought had been
ful than the automobile for high temple, the body and the right leg, He !mind at the treatment of French wives
I refused to be carried off the field and, I and mothers of the Somme department sel. for it and revolt against its al
ported, and very few soldiers are to-,
speed, and far safer. Thel time is not tally exempt from fear. Men who legiance to the British Empire.
far distant when people will take have fought bravely in numerous ac- ! eupported by a soldier, he led the , by the 'soldiers' who serve her bus -
Became the Minister of National
their holiday spine in their aeroplanes tions Mon. de Planhol says, finally , charge and was struck by a bullet un-; band and whose acts01violence and
'nerved der the right eye, crushing his fore- I vandalism are publicly procloimed by --- ------------
precisely as they do now in their au- I give 'way to what is called
tomobiles. Long tours in the air will. wear"; their moral courage is no long.; head bone. I him as 'glories to the arms of Gere
.115 1 if h' head had burst and many'?
' "As wives and guardians of the
sacredness of homes, the women of
the Allies must have collectively
classified the German Empress in the
Britain turned over to them, as the
citizens of a British dominion, the
complete control of their own affairs.
Became in Oil) government of Presi-
dent Botha of the South Africa Union
the right hand of the President in the
direction of domestic affairs.
Foiled Germane Intrigue.
At the beginning of the present war
immediately took a leading part in
making certain that the South African
offer greater relaxation from the daily er sufficient to overcome physical fear, ,.
grind than long railway journey. 'and they run away from danger. Their; as if both eyes had left their sockets.
People need only recover from the :number, though, is small in compari- ' For four days and nights ho lay where
foolish impression that it is a danger- : son with those who forget their duty ' he fell, two days unconscious and then
' I d
he
ous sport, instead of being, when in the stupefaction of excessive drink- , . ,
adopted by rational persons, one of ing. Even these, considering the mil.: tortures of thirst. A blow from the same category all men to -day classify
the safest. It is also far more com- lions of men mobilised, ere so small: butt of a gun roused him from a her imperial husband.
Portable. The driver of an autome- a percentage as to constitute no re- ' fainting spell. It was dealt by German1 "How can she, mother and grand -
bile, even under the most favorable , flection on the army as a evhole. I soldiers searching for the dead, mother, have remained silent at the
circumstances, lives at a constant A frequent and effective means of , All was dark around him. He could tearing away from their mothers and
nerve tension. He moat keep always defence invoked by counsel for aSSUS-, hear moans and groans of the grandmothers of more than 400 young
on the lookout for obstructions in the ed soldiers is the citation of gallant wounded and he dragged himself French women to serve as slaves, or
road, for other automobilee, and for , eonduct on the battlefield, It often toward them and asked why the night for unmentionable purposes, to the
sudden emergencies. A long drive is happens that a soldier refractory to was so long. He was told it was broad uniformed officer barbarians of the
therefore likely to be an exhausting army discipline is a great tighter, and daylight. Then he understood. , German army?
operation. Now, the aeroplane has between court martials accumulates "I had thought of everything," he: "No French woman, were her hus-
a great future for sporting purposes, honors and decorations that it is diff i.. has since said: "of death and terrible band the Emperor of all Asia, would
I ' 1 have remained silent under like dr -
because this element of nerve tension cult to ignore. ' wounds but not of that."
is absent. The driver enjoys the pro- , A much disputed point le: When Picked. up by German stretcher cumstance, and thus given tacit ap-
ceeding as much as his passengers, has an infraction of discipline or a bearers, he was carried off and after proval to the practices of her Attila -
and probably more. He can make mis- crime been committed "in the presence a terrible voyage reached a hospital like husband and 'his Attila -like fol -
takes, even lapse in his attention, ' of the enemy" an aggravating circum in Bavaria. His condition improved, lowers, who disgrace civilization."
without any serious consequences. etance under militery jurisprudence? 1 -ds eyes, one of which had jumped
Winds no longer terrorize the airman. In trench warfare the old definitions of from the socket and the other had , THE SWEETEST WORD.
Newspaper readers will remember -presence of the enemy" have become been driven in by a piece of bone I
that, ten years ago, tny brother and I obsolete; great latitude is now given from Inc forehead, had been placed in . There are soft words murmured by
dear, dear lips,
carefully selected the days in which for leniency on this point, and it is position again and he began to sm.! Defence and as such directed the cam -
we made our flights. Some lays, when exercised in all but the most flagrant He could even trace lines and decipher ; Far richer than any other;
paign in which the German colonies
very large letters. But the sweetest word that the earth
hath heard were seized by the South African
Is the blessed name of "Mother," f°r°68'
._Sent to London as one of South
Africa's representative for the• per -
0 magical word! may it never die
Gen. Jan Christian Smuts.
there was too much wind, we would eeses,
not fly at all. But we have learned
now to fly, and even strong gales do :
up at any time except in the very had many problems in farm work there was placed in a fortrees. A third ate 1 From the lips that love to speak it; pose of imperial consideration of im- lieten at on croesinge. Never steal a tion has no weapoe with which to de -
not now frighten the flyer, He goes! We all make mistakes. With se broken. Twice he tried to escape and
days. The only wind conditions that are sure to be some failures. And tempt, only foiled when he had reache: Nor melt away from the trusting perial problems presented by the war. while they are moving. Never . go barbarism,
ride, and don't jurnp on and off trains feat barbarism but the eveapon of
'cyclonic,' when there are great twists that we hate to acknowledge our mis- tenced to a reprisals camp. Then, to ; That even would break to keep it
hearts had time in spite of the stress of war around or under the safety gates when That Whalsoever the service every
deter him now are the kind known as most of us are so thoroughly human ed the frontier, caused him to be sen- I Smuts is one of the men who have
In the atmosphere. Under these dr-, takes. A successful farmer says: "I his despair, he again lost his sight. I to shadow forth an outline of the vast theY are dawn. Don't use railroad loyal Canadian can or is called upon
cutnstances he does not fly." j have learned more from my neighbors' At the reprisals camp his blindness'sequences of this era. It is a vision bridges and treaties for shrbeirts. to render, each shall say to himself
, Was there ever a name that lived like
of what the British Empire and the Keep out of railroad yards and don't and to all the rest: With this service
and I have profited most of all front severely wounded who are allowed to I Willtthhiserie ever be such another? reunion of the Anglo-Saxon races play or loiter' about the railroad stn. I would help the nation to win victory,
teens. It isn's brave to take reeks.
Every year the farmer wonders hew ! ; caused him to be placed among the : . .
I failtives than from their succeases
the causee tracing out their effect, to go to Switzerland, where he was Democracy vs. Autocracy. That every smallest garden shall be
is a pretty safe guess that it will fall myown meta .ee---b studying out be exchanged. He was soon allowed The angels have reared in heaven a mee
• • • Yfins to the world.
the pasture is going to hold out. RI • '
and avoiding tneir repetition."shrine
"This," said Gen. Smuts in fine of his
off about August. Be ready for it. I '' . .
Don't overload the pastures. nursed fOr some weeks. Te the holy name of "Mother."
4,
A Sight of Beloved France.
Bis Breton spirit remained un-
pfroeretduonmi tyatnhda totfh eT;ailla Cd011itervOelr Etennloy0ePd- edii•enan:pofirnteer, than his record in Cana-
, Famous Track Men.
and Oould not have hoped for .under
the narrow and almost despotic reign
of Kruger an his burghers.
HIS MOTHER
How proud I was when be marched
&Wit),
On that first great day of school,
Thougk my heart was sick for his prat-
tling play,
And the touch of his fingers cool;
I longed to keep him and hold him,
As only a mother can,
But I braced my will, and told him,
"Be mother's brave little man."
I was prouder atill when he marched
away
To the "job" he seized with joy,
Though I knew the successof that
busy clay
Meant The loss- of my darling boy;
But who, with the great world calling,
May hinder oreation's plan,
But proudest of all when he marched W5
aer
So I kept my tears from falling, of the Montreal Athletic Association,
And murmured, "Be brave; a Men!"
away koilleledtopatwtihthe tfhreonFt gwhhtiileeg gio3itnhg
Though I knew that the lad who left He was one of the best-knoeve sports-
Was810)1didgaog a long good -by;
men M Canada. Ted Savage , outside
i
y
To the coeors-eall was I,
But hive both stirred and stilled me
As—one of the fighting clan—
BeAslwanattlyeedfa
deenvitharelovoekr amthatatuIbrtlied me, what Canadian sportsmen have done.
Canada
Tom Longboat is still remembered
as one of the greatest marathon run-
ners of all time. He has put the long
distance efficiency into effect as a dis-
patch carrier on foot, where he has
done remarkable work and has been
mentioned more Than once for his dar-
ing, stamina and efficiency. The,idea
of an Indian dispatch runner proves
again that this war is not entirely,
modern in its make-tup, despite the
forty-two centimeters, the U-boats
and the Zeppelins. Longboat to -day
is running greater distances at greater,
speed than he ever used In his best
marathon days, to judge from re-
ports that have been received from
the front.
Percy Molsom, McGill's star
sprinter, and Frank Lukeman, of
Montreal, are other track men who
have done distinguished services.
White Victor BUcbanan, president
wing and captain of the championship
Montreal footbell team' is still an-
other who has renderedbrilliant ser-
vice in France.
These names are mentioned to show
There is no football team in
no track team, that been% lost enough
Every year about 5,0-00 boys, girls
Stop, Look and Listen. star players to beeak up the organize -
tion; and that hasn't
and grown folks lose their lives taking -.finest sort of fighting material --game,
contributed the
risks In crossing railroad tracks. resourcefnl, alert and always to bo
Start a Campaign to teach children the
found on top of the job, making good
danger of tattling sboracuts and walk -10r remaining on the field of No Man's
Land, with the game over for all time.
ing and playing on the irgtirS. Liras
are too vatuable to be thrown away.
Agree now to obtserve these rules:
Never use railroad tracks for high-
ways and areas -outs. Stop, look and
Bywords of the War.
That when barbarism with war at-
tacks civilization at peace, civilize -
ata
Hope for the best and make the
best of what you get,
recognized as 11 corner of the desei
battlefield.
That every furrow made by the
plow shall run into the soldier's
trenches at the front.
That every barbed blade of wheat
shall be a spear.
That every bandage for 0 wounded
youth hall be part of the garment of
destiny to stanch the ebbing blood of
the wounded, the better, world.
To the end that the German nation
shall tease to seize the lands and
horeee of other peoples as lands and
Mines for its own people.
To the end that it lial1 cease to pro.
claim its lust of conquest to be God—
an Almighty God of plunder and
butchery, of torture and treachery and
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