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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1917-9-6, Page 2Caro and Repair of Tires. A very satisfactory tire paint for finishing the inside of a tire after repairing may be made by mixing thoroughly one gallon of gasoline, one half pint of C-35 cement, one and one- half pounds of soapstone and one-half pound of whiting. Many successful Trouble Rules For Balky Autos. Above all, remove nothing from the engine except as directed in test rules. 1. Gasoline—Is tank full? Are pipes clean? Is carburetor clean? If car- buretor needs adjusting do it, other- wise leave it alone. Does manifold THE ORIGIN OF he at once enlisted the sympathy of TO WIN SUCCESS. the Society of Public Maar of Gene• vu, andthe president, M. Gustavo, Fulfil Your Duties Promptly is an THE RED CROSS bfoynier, tools up the crusade. A com- (!3 ter mission was appointed and the first STARTED SY A SWISS GENTLE. MAN, M. PUNANT. Nicknamed "The Good Samaritan of Solferino" by the Grateful Soldiers of 1859. It was during the terrible suffering of the soldiers In the Crimean war leak? that the world awoke to the realize- with men are using this formula 2. Compression To test: Open all tion that something must be done for with the best of results, petcocks except the one on cylinder to the wounded on the battlefield, It is so comparatively easy to pre- be tested; crank engine, noticing how We hoar stories of the brave nurse, serve the tread design in vulcanizing strong the compression is in each Florence Nightingale, who gave up repairs made on tires with non-skid cylinder. her own home life in England and treads that the wonder is that any re- 3. Ignition—A. Test for a spark by went into the hospital work at San - pair man should fail to do so. A tread taking wire off of any plug; hold wire tars, and with a group of nurses cared pattern is inexpensive and easily about one-eighth of an inch from for the wounded soldiers by day and made. First cut a ply of L. F. 52 plug; crank engine with switch on, by night. Ae she carried her little fabric 18 inches long and the same Spark should jump to plug, night lamp is her hand and ministered width as the tread. Over this lay B. Are the batteries run down?' to her suffering soldier boys they cail- a ply of gum of 1-16 gauge half an Does the vibrator (if any) buzz? Is ed her the "Lady of the Lamp" and inch wider than the fabric and cover the whole well with soapstone. Then the timer clean? Do timer points I the "Angel of Mercy." place this pad fabric side down in a make good contact? sectional mold and stand the tire the C. Are any wires loose, burned, tread design of which you wish to pre- wet, broken or short-circuited? Are serve on this. Tighten the clamps spark plugs clean and are points 1-50 and cure for twenty minutes. of an inch apart? In using this pattern in the vulcan- D. Does magneto armature revolve? ization of the tire repair twenty min- Is safety spark gap clean? Are in- officer nor was he a doctor, but he utes should be added t6 the regular terrupter points clean and adjusted loved his fellow man and had the cure in order that the heat may right? Do all brushes make good con- sympathy, of a good physician toward penetrate the pad. tact? Is distributer clean? Is die- all suffering humanity. This man was In building up a sectional the re- tributer rotor loose, broken or making hi, Henri. Dunant, a gentleman of pair cleanliness is a prime requisite. poor contact? The stock should be well stitched and E. Check magneto wires as per all air blisters either rolled or picked ec „ , out. Each operation should be fol- Note—Loose wires and terminals lowed by a cloth saturated with gaso- and neglected batteries, also dirty line to take off the bloom. The gaso- gasoline, cause much trouble. line should be allowed to evaporate thoroughly before proceeding with the eNote --To keep a gas engine run - next step. All fabric must be applied ning, coaling and lubrication are skim coat down. needed. But although Florence Nightingale did much to help the soldiers and saved many lives, she was not the one who started the Red Cross work. Who, then, first thought of this plan of universal service ? It was a man, not a woman. He was not an army WHERE CANADA'S means who lived in Switzerland. In the summer of 1859 he was touring in Italy and was at Solferino when that dreadful battle was fought on that warm midsummer day, June 24. Suffering at Solferino There the Austrian army was de- feated by the combined forces of France and Sardinia. At the end of the horrible struggle rnorethan 3,590 major in charge, the Canadian rani. men lay dead or disabled upon the tary chaplain, and others. battlefield. Forhours and days they The train ran right into the ceme- lay where they had fallen without HEROEStery, and there, while the preparations care: LIE were being made, we sat In a special Henri Dunant want out himself on - waiting room with the label "Canada" to the battlefield and helped the sol. -- ed the peasant on the door. The major came to say diers and organized poor TRIBUTE OF REGARD PAID TO that all was ready and the procession !women who lived near by into a band started, the firing party with reversed 1 of volunteer nurses. They were so BRAVE SONS. arms leading the way, then the bearer frightened by the terrible.sights they party with a light hand -cart carrying the coffin covered with the Union Jack and our flowers, and finally ourselves, ed. the wounded. stress of d my cousin, a pathetic little figure in diAs soon as Dunantcould do so he her bright blue uniform with gold but- tons. It seemed a long walk before bad some of the soldiers removed to we reached the Canadian burial the neighboring town of Castiglione. istance an Austral- Here the churches and other public Quiet and Picturesque Resting -Place For Dominion Soldiers Killed at the Front. 'Though with the exception of a short journey to France, I have never pass- grouna• rn the a ed beyond the seas which encircle the fan funeral was taking place, and buildings were converted into emer- British Isles, writes an Englishman, I above the purple heather the birds gency hospitals, and Dunant at his visited the other day a sad but beautt- were singing in the warm sunshine. own expense bought the necessary ful little scrap of Canada. It is the While the chaplain read the service enmities. He not only premiered the. burial ground of the Canadian soldiers the firing party stood leaning on their bandages, linen and sponges which who die in England, and it is situated reversed arms. When he had finished, were needed, but he bought special in the huge cemetery of Brookwood, he was followed by the Wesleyan treats for his boys—tobacco, oranges, in Surrey, about thirty miles south- chaplain, for another soldier was to be and citron. He would go about among west of London. One of the Canadian burled alongside. The latter had evi- them, ministering to their needs, %4w�rit- cf5cers with whom I talked said it was dently no friends in Englaud, for there ing letters for them, cheering them very like parts of his own Country, were no flowers on his coffin, It and encouraging them He wore spot - The ground is undulating and still seemed so sad --so painfully lonely— less white clothes and was s0 imma- wild, and among the heather and pine- that I wished to take some of our lcicknamed ulate in his appearance a that they woods grassy paths lead hither and flowers and lay them at his feet as i - thither, and at intervals—sometimes a humble tribute to his memory, but I tan." very long ones—there are groups of shrank from asking my cousin at this After he returned to Switzerland he graves. It may be of interest to des- moment, though I know she would wrote a book in French called "Souve- oribe briefly a Canadian military have liked it. ' nir de Solferino," He spoke with deep (feeling of the need for the protection funeraleithe England, It willme show your The Last Post. and care of the wounded and for those readers that their kinsmen who die Then three volleys were fired over 'who were trying to attend them dur- there receive the honors which they the open graves, the Last Post was ing the time of battle. Ile felt that richly deserve, and it will afford an- sounded, and we walked sorrowfully'the wounded should be removed at other instance of the admirable way back to the train, leaving our hero at once from the field and that a per - rest with his comradee amongst the manent ambulance corps of trained n zed and managed. heather and pine -woods. The major and efficient people should be a part Arrangements Were Perfect. in charge asked if we were satisfied of every army. To do this with safety It was a young cousin of mine who with sire arrangements, and there these trained workers and thejr had died. lie had given up a good could be only one answer—that they mounded soldiers must have protec- tionposition to fight as a private. He was were perfect. It must please Cana - wounded from at Vimy Ridge, spent a diens at home to learn that their sol- i fired upon by either side, month in a French hospital and was diers wlio die in England, even though I Red Cross on White Field then sent back to a London hospital, they be only simple privates, are His book was so practical in every way and was so fall of vivid sceite_e of the suffering soldiers at Solferino that could do very little at first, but under the leadership of this brave man they were able to do something to help the In which the Canadian contingent is organized We bad hopes of his recovery, though buried with alt rho honors he would always have been a cripple, Peas ible. but pneumonia supervened and the Over every grave the Canadian mili- end came swiftly. A. few days pre- ta.ry authorities erect a white wooden it made an immediate appeal and was viously his sister, a member of the cross, with the name and other par- translated into many languages. Tice Canadian Nursing Staff, arrived in ticuiars. Each is numbered, and in universality of the appeal, not in the England, and she was with him when any communication about the grave name of any particular nation, but for There will probably be a good deal he died. We and another Canadian the number should be given in order the good of suffering humanity, of grain left shelled be the ground lady, a friend, were present at the to scold trouble and delay. Friends brought it home 51, 01106 to the Hearts from thisY e•u s harvest. Turn it funeral. The Canadian military who intend to visit the spot should of all people, and every one had this authorities took over all the arrange- also make themselves acquainted with feeling of the brotherhood of mankind into pork. pinty of meats. The special train for Brook the number, as they can then be and that something should be done to waterere1andnials filers ox duringreapernods of wood started from a London station, guided without diflienIty' to the grave Help this work. drought in it was leis coffin in which we they seek, Henri Dunant not only wrote this if it is not supplied plenti- laid the flowers we had brought with us, Ththe Spiked frames to be strapped to the vivid story of Solferino but he went to fully, firing party and the bearer the different courts of Europe and per. "Economy puddings" and "economy Party occupied most of the carriages, snually told his experiences on the bat- meat pies" are the latest forms in and there was a salon labelled "Cana shoes have been invente„ to enable a tlalieid, and then advanced his plan which food is served in certain fash- da," hal. of it reserved for us, the men to walk upon an ineeined roof, for a world society of protection and unable households. Plain foods are other half coutalning the officers, the Pull up the early flowering annuals service, growing into favor again the world as they go out of bloom. In his home country of Switzerland over since the war. Q,,.,,ee,-_-.,.,,mss,. , -- Excellent Rule of Life. International conference was held In One of the most successful of men Geneva in October, 1863, said recently that he attributed his The meeting lasted for four days, success to his early formed habit of and the subject was well discussed doing at once what he saw ought to be and resolutions were adopted which done. contained the fundamental principles .- Whenever a task, big or little, pre - upon which the Red Cross work was rented itself he gave it his immediate founded. The next year, at the fain• attention, despatching it with all por- ous Geneva convention, en Aug, 22, sible promptness, and his splendid 1864, the society was formed. As the achievements are proof of the success flag of Switzerland is a white cross on of this early formed habit, a red field, out of compliment to this Much of the mental worry and country, where the organization origi- physical ill -being comes from putting Hated, and also because Switzerland off until to -morrow what should be is a neutral nation, they decided to done to -day. • reverse the Swiss flag for the sign of I A task promptly accomplished rel this new order, and a red cross on a dom brings worry ora igre, WHEN THE WAR WAS PLOTTED ON JULY 5, 1914, MATTERS WERE DEFINITELY ARRANGED. At the Council at Potsdam the De- cision Was Made Which Plunged the World Into War, JAPAN'S ARMY AND NA MILIPARY ORGANIZATION IS TO -DATE. Service is Universal and Compulsory and the Navy is Modern in Every Respect. On the eve of the fourth annivers- Japan's chief contribution to the ary of the outbreak of the war there world war so far, aside from 1 urnish- was published in rho London Tirc ere RAM - statement ing ammunitions and supplies to R - statement of the first importance as . sta via the trans -Siberian railway, E t• to the origin of hostilities. Prom this have been the capture of the Asiatic it appears that the war Was deliber•-1 German colony of Tsingtau, the pat - field chosen as the emblem i It is the delay in getting at it that Quite apart from the mental and Council at Potsdam, at which the an active naval participation is the Kaiser was present I Mediterranean, to whidlr waters she white wns os' atel arranged on 5, 1914, at . a of this humanitarian society, (worries and tires us y g July roling of the Pacific and more recently GASOLINE VERSUS OATS. 'moral discomfort of dreading a task, it does our work actual harm. 1f Machinery Took Place of Horse,' It is a common failing among wo- More Land Could be Sown in Wheat men, this failure to attack our oblige- Great Britain has recently ` forbid- tions instead of worrying over them. Just why this should be so is a pus - clan everyone to feed horses on grain unless it is because most of us suitable for human food. The action have not bad much, if any, executive causes the economists to call atten- training. tion to the possibilities of greatly en-; How often do women exclaim: larging the food supplies of the world,! "Oh, I should have written that let - by using the vast areas now devoted to producing grain for horses, for which the world is fast substituting power -driven vehicles and cultivators. The number of horses ,on farms in 1917 is no greater than in 1910. Meanwhile, the shift of production from oats, chiefly used as food for horses, to that of wheat as food for man, made rapid progress. The num- ber of acres devoted to the production of oats in 1916 showed an increase of less than eleven per cent, over that of 1910, whereas the acreage devoted to so true. Work's irksomeness is al - wheat in 1916 made an increase of most invariably in our fretting over twenty-seven per cent. over that of the fact that it lies ahead of us. 1910, and corn also showed an in- crease, although not so great as that of wheat. During the 1910-1917 per- iod, in which the horses in the coun- try showed a slight decrease in num- bers, and the acreage devoted to the production of their food showed a less gain than that of the acreage devoted to the food of man, the production of petroleum, which is the food of road and farm machinery, showed an enor- mous increase. The quantity of petroleum produced in the United States was 8,801,000,000 gallons in 1910, and '12,224,000,000 gallons in 1916. Figures of world pro- duction of the various cereals indicate the substituting petroleum -fed pow- er machines for the: grain -fed horse would materially increase in other SOUNDS THAT NONE CAN HEAR. countries the areaavailable for pro- ducing food for man. In the United Human Ears Adapted to Only Limited. States, where, as in Canada, oats and Range of Ai[ Vibrations. wheat grow side by side on lands capable of producing grain, the area devoted to oats was, in 1915—the ban- ner -crop year -41,000,000 acres, and to wheat, 60,000,000 acres. In the world as a whole, the area devoted to producing oats is about one half as great as that devoted to wheat, ter long ago;" or "I have owed that call so long I'm ashamed of myself;" or "I've put off going to the dentist so long my teeth are in a bad condition;' or "My rubbers have a hole in them and here it is pouring pitchforks; I've had it on my mind for the last week to get a new pair," etc. Now a cry of despair over some really big obliga- tion, neglected until too late; now a wail over some small one. Some one has said that the hardest part of work is getting at it. This is The executive person that we all ad- mire has perfected the art of "getting at" doing what has to be done. The minute we treat this "getting at" the performing of tasks prompt- ly as of primary importance and starting right off at our work we have accomplished the worst part of it. Care and worry come through our putting off till to -morrow what we should do to -clay. - Life is much brighter when we are abreast with our duties. Surely it is worth while to make every effort to keep abreast. Why think a week about buying a pair of needed rubbers? Save your mind and nerves and get the rubbers. Wilhelm! Oh, Mel Oh, my! And likewise I ! I 1 Sit still, my curls, while I orate, Me, I, Myself, the throne, the State; I am the Earth, the Moon, the Sun— All rolled in one! Both hemispheres am I! Oh, my! If there were three, the three I'd be! I am the Dipper, Night and Day, North and South Poles, the Milky Wayl I am they that walk, or fly on wing, Or swim, or creep. F'm EVERY- THING! It took six days to make the land and sea, But centuries were passed in making MEI The universe? An easy task. But I— Oh, my! ,fa 1 mai = t What is sound? There isn't any such thing—not, at all events, as people ordinarily think of it. Without an ear to hear it, there would be no sound. But for the pre- sence of the atmosphere about us, there could be no noise. On the moon you would have no voice. If a 42 - centimeter gun • were fired ten feet away you would hear nothing. What we call sound is merely an ef- fect of air vibrations impinging upon the auditory nerve. But, oddly enough, when the number of these vi- brations per second falls below a cer- tain point, we1hear nothing, and the same is true when it rises above a certain point. Thus, there are sounds that we can- not hear, There is no question of the fact that the noises made by many insects are wholly inaudible to us, by reason of their high pitch, But they are audible to other insects undoubt- edly, A curious instrument for testing a person's range of hearing is a ' little whistle, with a rubber bulb to force air through it, It can be adjusted for any pitch. Some persons can hear it at a higher pitch than others, but be- yond a certain point it becomes in- audible. Yet it is • surely producing sound. A katydid could doubtless hear it. Potatoes in Greenland never grow larger than a marble. God rest you merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, —Old English Song. Mucilage which can he used in bath stick and book form, and of which only the , quantity desired at any particular tine can be utilized, has been inventor!, the purpose being to guard against the loss consequent upon`the drying of liquid mucilage. A IR In a report of a recent speech in has sent many ships to act mainly as the Reichstag by Herr Haase, an In-, i convoys to the transport vessels- of dependent Socialist, printed in the the Allies. Not long ago it was sug- Leipziger Volltzeitung of July 20, apt gested that Japanese troops be sent pears a reference to "the meeting of : to aid Russia on the eastern front, but July 5, 1914," as one of the matters for various diplomatic reasons this which would have to be explained be- was not done, fore the origin of the war is fully un- I The present army and navy derstood; `This," says the Times cor-I strength of Japan is known only respondent, "is the first public refer- vaguely. There are those who assert once to a date which will probably be- that she has two million and half. come the most famous of the fateful trained men under arms, but the fig - month of July, 1914." I ures at the outbreak of hostilities cre- The Conspirators. I dited her with a standing army of At the meeting in question there 250,000; a first reserve of the same were present;—The Kaiser, Herr von number; n second reserve of a million, Bethmann-l-Ioliweg (Chancellor), Ad and a total of trained men of 1,500,000. miral von Tirpitz (Minister of Ma -1 The navy, according, to the same rine), General von Falkenhayn (Mini- statistics, had three modern battle- ster of War), Herr von Stumm (head ships with four building, two battle - of the political department of the Ger- cruisers and one building, thirteen old - man Foreign Office), the Archduke er battleships, fifty-four destroyers Frederick (cousin of the late Emperor with two building, twenty-eight first Francis Joseph, who took command of and second class torpedo -boats and the Austrian forces at the outbreak of thirteen submarines with two build - war), Count Berehtold (Austro -Hun- ing, She had a few airplanes and only garian Foreign Secretary), Count two dirigible airships. The army and Tisza (Hungarian Premier), and Gen- navy budgets for 1913-1914 were each of the Austro-Hungarian General eral Conrad von Iloetzendorf (Chief about $50,000,000. Stafi). It appears that Herr von Jagow and Germany before the war, Years' Service. Perhaps in no country of the world, Count Moltke were not present. exceptin crena y The correspondent goes an: have military matters been kept such "The meeting discussed and decid- state secrets as in Japan, but it is ed upon all the principal points in the generally conceded that at present she Austrian ultimatum which was to be has fully realized her ideal of being a dispatched to Serbia eighteen days "nation in arms." Her to?tical or - later. It was recognized that Russia ganization, equipment and methods would probably refuse to submit to closely follow European and especially such a direct humiliation, and that German standards. Japan is a great war would result. That consequence admirer of the Teutonic military ma - the meeting definitely decided to ac- chine. As in most modern armies, the cept. It is probable, but not certain, field service uniform for both pri- that the date of mobilization was fix- vates and officers is khaki. The in - ed at the same time. i signia of rank are worn as in other "The Kaiser, as is well known, then countries and frequently embody the left for Norway, with the object of conventionalized chrysanthemum, the throwing dust in the eyes of the national flower as well as the symbol French and Russian Governments. of the Imperial family. Three weeks later, when it became Service is universal and compulsory, known that England would not remain with liability from seventeen to forty, neutral, Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg actual service beginning - at twenty. wished to withdraw, but it was too 1 The first line is inade ep of two late. The decision of July 5 was ir- classes: the Geneki, or active service revocable." . with the colors, for two years in the Shutting the Gates of Mercy. It will be recalled that the Arch - infantry, three in other arms; the Yobi, or reserves for the active army, with service of five (or four) years duke Ferdinand and his wife were and four months, making a total of murdered at Serajevo on June 28, seven years and four months in the 1914. The Austrian ultimatum to Ser- first line. In the Yoki, training of bia was presented at Belgrade on July sixty days each is given on two occa- 23 Bions. The reservists then pass to "In accordance with a long -formed the Kobi, or second line, for ten years, plan of aggression and conquest they where they have two periods of sixty 'shut the gates of mercy on mankind.' days each with the colors; tires to the Millions on millions throughout the Kokumin, or third line, home defense world were doomed to slaughter, army, for two years and eight months, laceration, ruin, privation, sorrow, by which completes the liability of twen- one arbitrary camarilla of half a doz- ty years' service, en men. More crimson is their guilt Zell Equipped Dockyards. than that of all the private homicides aimi- The classes mentioned are filled by that ever lived, and this war cannot men of the highest physical standards. w endduntil fttis made certain that unit versal war never again be brought capable of bearing acme but of a on the worldd The excess of these, plus the men by similar mon and low- er physical standard up to a certain lar means." number, are assigned to a category called Hoju, which is a supplementary reserve to replace losses in war. Portable Army Baths. The Japanese have always been -de- voted to the sea, and their present thoroughly modern navy is the des- cendant of water forces which have The French War Department has just completed the first of a series of fifty portable bathing establishments been in existence fol centuries. In which are about to be used in the one of the museums of Tokio there is French army, Each comprises three said to Hato from 1800 compartments, separated by double r partitions. The soldier leaves his ani- a 'Writing, A.D., showing a naval fight in which form and underwear in the first corn- the ships are wreathed with the amolto pertinent, has a warm. shower bath in e of their guns. Grantinie the date to tho second, and in the third is given be cornet, this is the first recorded instanceangioof the use of powder in a pew underwear and receives his ani- kettle at sett. Japan's fleet stood her form, which, in the meantime, Itis its good stead in the war with China been disinfected by steam heat. The in 1894, and with Russia in 1904, when whole apparatus is carried on two site made several ima:m•taut naval automobile trucks. Hach establish- captures. meat is able to provide for about e'ght In 1914 Japan was reckoned as hundred men a day. fifth among sea powers, and the latest = official reports give 4035 commission- ed officers, 1553 warrant officers and 43,847 enlisted men. The country's principal dockyards are at Yokosuka, enure, Sasebo, Onohamn and Nagasaki. These are all splendidly equipped and most of the vessels of the envy are ) built in them, Bread Making for the Army. Of all the marvelous eights I have seen in this conflict none perhaps is, in some respects, more eetnarkable than the army bakeries, says a visitor to the battlefront. At a certain depot te Franco I watcher] nuc of the hugest bakeries in the world doing its work. Every day more than 100,000 loaves of bread emerge from the ovens and go speeding up and down the lines to feed the hungry troops. Oddly enough, every one of this little army of bakers is a regularly enlisted soldier, When, by.some miracle, he is tumbled to take all the flour off his clothe•, you see the tan of the khaki spewing through. • i00'R'E Noir U51146 'NAY L P110651 - `/OU'VE 13h13U dTANbi1d THERE FOR- go MINUT5S hA4 W Ire 15 oN TIIF OMR VAD you r rilE.\t 9 SAY, IF 0Ohle TO PtioNe '18 .._.;-:iti,a 4O1) RE NOY USE Their I'D 8IK5 Yo USE IT 0� 6. I', Vr X� } 4 USING li ?,� il. r CI,. ,. ' 3'.n' �'�i., i 326- "^• ,... S .g"'' / �j` '4.1. '� at 4, r.1 l a k-„ �f. ,a^; "' J `,r' •Y 5>t ��rCti i/' j „� r'T+;. - , r_ . ty.,i•,i! k'i, AND NAVEN'Y SAID A WORD!! ; a/ n� w 0� , `ur+r t „I. ev"^V1V t3 .. , t /Izr�' i..%e 1.w' r^� v 4i*9,Y u 3 y y ..y)':�.tr . ua• / /�, '• ti d Jryr 110 ,'.;.; z -i II x • .i ! �1 t �r $ ?} +' • i i F tom` lor- .�4. 't :rP �t „,,a,st GrH::..,sr Bread Making for the Army. Of all the marvelous eights I have seen in this conflict none perhaps is, in some respects, more eetnarkable than the army bakeries, says a visitor to the battlefront. At a certain depot te Franco I watcher] nuc of the hugest bakeries in the world doing its work. Every day more than 100,000 loaves of bread emerge from the ovens and go speeding up and down the lines to feed the hungry troops. Oddly enough, every one of this little army of bakers is a regularly enlisted soldier, When, by.some miracle, he is tumbled to take all the flour off his clothe•, you see the tan of the khaki spewing through. •