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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1917-11-8, Page 2Cooling System Needs Care Now. "The great danger in summer is overheating and the great danger in winter is over -cooling," says an ex- perts "A few hints at the present time, just as winter is approaching,. should be not -d. "Few motorists realize why an au- tomobile engine does not pull well when cold. It must be understood that it is a heat engine and that it is the expansion of the burning gas in the cylinder which furnishes the pow- er. The more this gas expands the more push or power the piston re- ceives. The heat necessary for this expansion is produced by the burning of the mixture of gasoline and air after it is compressed in the cylinder. The temperature of the resulting flame is between 2,000 and 3,000 de- grees Fahrenheit. Naturally this cruses an enormous pressure on the piston, but if any of the heat is lost and so is not used in expanding the gas the resulting pressure drops, with attending loss of power. When the engine is first started the cylinder head and walls are cold, likewise the valves and piston head and the water in the cooling system. Most of the heat units must be lost in warming these parts, and so the engine lacks power. "This explains why the engine does not develop its full power until it has, been run several minutes. The greatest efficiency is obtained when the engine is hot. Even with the most efficient systems the power loss approximates fifty per cent., which, unfortunately, is unavoidable with the' internal combustion type motor. "To prevent excessive loss at the start some systems use thermostats to control the water flow, preventing it from passing into the radiator until it has warmed the engine to the pro- per temperature. Others use a set of adjustable louvres in front of the radiator to allow sometimes more and sometimes less air to pass through the radiator. This may be an auto- matic control by thermostat or may he , controlled by the driver from the seat. All these systems are designed to heat the engine rapidly at the start and so save time and gasoline "It is evident that over -cooling pre- vents the engine from developing its full power, thus wasting gasoline, In hill climbing the loss of power be- comes more serious. If the car can n ot make it in high gear the inter- mediate is used, running the engine at a more rapid rate than in high gear and so wasting still more gasoline. Apart from this it delays the progress of the car, which is sometimes im- portant. "Here is where a ear with adjust- able louvres has an advantage over one not similarly equipped. In cold weather the louvres may be very near- ly closed, thus taking away a mini- mum amount of heat, watehing care- fully, of course, to see that no steam comes from radiator cap or over -flow tube. If the radiator is not. pro- vided with adjustable louvres use a piece of sheet metal, cardboard of fibreboard, cutting o'F half or more of the radiating surface. Some drivers attach the strip in front of the radi- ator, but this detracts from the ap- pearance of the car. Place it back of the radiator, but do not wire it to the tubes, as it will start them leaking sooner or later. Usually there are holes in the strip on which the hood rests which may be used or holes may be made there without harm. The metal strip is apt• to be noisy, card- board is too readily broken, so that fibreboard would seem to be the best material, It may be obtained at large hardware stores, "To prevent freezing is also import- ant. There are many auto freeze pre- parations on the market, but they are apt to contain chlorine, which attacks the solder in the radiator, causing serious leaks to develop. Glycerine is sometimes used, but it rots the rubber hose at top and bottom of the radiator. Alcohol is the only sub- stance which does not harm any part of the system, but it has its dis- advantages: It lowers the boiling point and evaporates readily, so that more has to be added from time to time. Use about one-third alcohol for the climate of Ontario. Add an- other pint occasionally. If water is added do not fill radiator to overflow- ing, as the expansion of the water will cause it to overflow, wasting more alcohol. Of course, any leaks must be repaired immediately. "Keep the car in a warm garage over night not merely to prevent freezing, but to make' starting easier. Also blanket the radiator carefully, covering every part, as that is most likely to freeze." ACCURACY IN BOMB -DROPPING. WARTIME HYMN. Aviator Must Make a Careful Coleus 0 Lord of Hosts and God of Love, lotion Based on Speed and Height. Ruler of earth and heaven above, The difficulty of dropping bombs In Jesus' name for help we plead; from an airplane with accuracy of Great are Thy mercies, great our need marksmanship is manifest when one Dark clouds of war above us lower; considers the fact that the bomb, after Grant us the aid of Heavenly Power; the aviator has released it, does nol, We will not fear what may betide fall directly downward, but, still If Thou, 0 God, be on our side. driven by the momentum of the hying' machine, keeps en in the same direct- Not for vain glory do we go tion and speed. To war against the ruthless foe; Suppose that the airplane is travel- Fighting for righteous cause and just, ling sixty miles an hour. In the first In Thee we put our hope and trust. second after being dropped the bomb Free us from vengeful hate, we pray; travels forward eighty-eight feet Vengeance is Thine; Thou wilt repay; while falling sixteen feet: In the next Thou wilt help them who suffer wrong, second it moves forward eighty-eight Nor give the victory to_ the strong. feat and falls sixty-four feet, and so on, descending in a parabolic curve, Our soldiers on the battle plain, Thus, when it reaches the earth it is Our sailors on the perilous main— a long way from the place at which it May they be true of heart to fight' was aimed unless proper allowance Aa serving Thee and in Thy sight. has been made by the aviator. Support the dying, Lord; and bless Obviously, to reach its mark, the The widows and the fatherless; bomb must be dropped several seconds Bindheups and broken hearts lessthat mourn before the flying man arrives above For them who never will return. the target, the time allowance requir- ed depending on the speed of his ma- Comfort the wounded in their pain; chine and its height in the air. The prisoners•,with Thy grace sustain. :"-"— Not unto us, but unto Thee Was It the Cow's Fault? Shall be the praise for victory. Supposing that you keep a cow giv- ing five thousand pounds of milk in a Their task according to Thy Will: year, for which you receive seventy Speed the glad day when wars shall dollars cash, how much profit does that cow make? This is not a riddle, but And all the world may bo at peace. Amen. W. C. Benet. cease, simply a query that every dairyman should be in a position to answer. Leaving aside the "higher accounting" side of revenue and expenses per cow —those persistent items of rent, in- terest, n terest, taxes, depreciation, etc.—and taking only income from milk or fat,,. and cost of feed, are -you then in a position to say definitely that each cow you keep does make a good clear profit above feed cost? Whether the feed is valued at forty or eighty dollars, whether the income is fifty or one hundred and twenty dollars, is there such profit that a fair return is made to you for the labor expended? For if revenue and ex - Traffic in Oleomargarine. A despatch from Ottawa says; An Order -in -Council has been passed upon the recommendation of the Food Controller allowing.). on and after Nov. 14th, the manufacture and sale in Canada of oleomargarine and its im- portation free of duty. Suspension of the prohibition of its manufacture, import or sale is a war measure only, and will apply while the present ab- normal conditions continue. The con- clusion of such period is to be deter - pease just balance showing you no mined by the Governor -General -in - margin of profit at all, there must' Council. surely be something wrong; your la- The recommendation of . the Food bor has to be paid for. Controller was made because the high Milk and feed record forms may be had free on application to the Dairy Commissioner, Ottawa, so that the profit made by each cow may be as- certained. Perhaps some cows would show profit if fed better; some won't. Many men in all provinces on the cow testing register at Ottawa show thirty and sixty dollars clear profit per cow above feed cost. You may have made more than that, if you made less, was it entirely the cow's fault? .An Insult To Royalty. cost of production and the demand for export were putting the price of but- ter so high that many people were un- able to purchase it. To reduce the price arbitrarily would have been un- fair to the producer. The Food Con- troller states that the dairy interests will not suffer by reason of the sale of oleomargarine in Canada. A Conflict of Authority. A Dutch journalist, Mr, J M. de Beaufort, tells in his book Behind the erman Veil of an amusing incident G FEEDING GERMANY BY CARD AMERICAN OBSERVER TELLS OF CONDITIONS. Workman Still Goes to His Bench With a Full Dinner Pail But Children Are Suffering. Leather is so expensive in Germany that only the upper class burger will be able to have real leather shoes this winter and starch is twenty marks a pound. But in spite of all this no German will go to work with an empty dinner pail. Tho German Food Commission is the most uncanny thing in all the world. Like magic it produces a sub- stitute for any article that is scarce, says an American newspaper woman who returned from Germany three months ago. The commission has it figured so that the nourishment shall be divided proportionately each week, and it also has figured out just what each person shall receive, for every- body does not receive the same amount of food. For instance, a man or wo- man that does manual labor gets more bread than a man or woman that works in an office. Persons more than sixty years get more cereals, and the ill get more butter and eggs. These persons get what they call "Zusats" cards, besides their regular cards. Every one in Germany is getting thin, but still the German dieting sys- tem proves that much wornout state- ment that "we eat too much," for nine out of every ten Germans have never been so well in their lives as they have been since the cards have been intro- duced. You feel spry, active and; energetic and the annoyance is ment- al rather than physical, for one is constantly thinking of things to eat. Growing Children Are Suffering. The ones that are really hurt by the blockade are the growing children and the thing that they lack and long for is sweets. Before the war one never realized what an important role candy played in the game of life. The Food Commission recognizes this and very often chocolate and puddings are pro- vided for on the cards of children un- der sixteen years of age. While the food prices have been soaring all over the world the prices in Germany are almost down to nor- mal level, for everything that you buy on the cards is extremely cheap and everything that is any good is sold on the cards. Everything that is sold "ohne Kerte," or without a card, is either no good or so expensive that the ordinary person cannot afford to buy. The food situation is not the same all over Germany. In Berlin, Dres- den, Hamburg and Leipzig they have less than in other places. Bavaria, the Rhine country and East Prussia are far better off, and in some of the small villages they do not even have a bread card. The police see that every one gets his share of food. If a woman holds a servant girl's rations from her the girl can report it to the police, and the woman is fined. In a boarding house when the potatoes are passed around the landlady tells you whether you can take two or three potatoes, or one big potato and one small one. The food conditions are not always comfortable, but the food commission believes it has the things divided off so they will last for years. "Send me a ton of coal." "What size ?" "Well, a two -thousand -pound ton would suit me, if that's not asking too much." The ideas of the world change; what is unwelcome to -day becomes welcome to -morrow. There is an in- In front of a house stood two sol- ceptBritish pictures will be distributed have a distinct therapeutic value for dental character. At the same time terestingbit of evidence of that in an dress, a private in the Landsturm throw h the War Office to France the treatment of arm and leg cases, the total figures are appalling and amusing complaint, long forgotten about forty-five years of age and a Italy, Portugal and all over the British and special rooms are provided for- the amount in round figures re re, and now brought to light by the beardless lieutenant. They seemed to Empire as well as to the_United each. In these several men work to- rents a y Manchester Guardian, be in hot argument,and suddenlythegetter and competition keeps alive the property waste be and all States. Neutral countries, too, are to p p reason. It is almost criminal for Au - When postage stamps first came Landsturm man shook his fist in the be organized for the distibution of enthusiasm for which a man working gust, 1917 to show losses of $21, - into use in England, some persons de- officer's face. alone needs the stimulating interest 750,000, as compared with $10,750,000 for the same menth 1916, since, as all know, even allowing for war plots, most of these losses are die to pre, ventable causes. We pay this enornt- NEW USE FOU CELLULOID, In Treatment of Wounds Received on the Battlefield. Otte of the latest of the many in- teresting, and n-teresting,and novel accessories to the treatment of wounds received upon the battlefield is the celluloid dressing. In addition to protecting the injured part, it prevents the bandages from adhering to'the' wounds. Ordinary bandages are likely to cling, not only making it difficult' to remove them, but also inflicting unnecessary' pain, and, if the adhesion is pronounced, ap preciably retarding the'process of healing. The celluloid device, however, entirely obviates these disadvantages. NEW HART HOUSE From, the Ocean -Shore CORPS FORMED SITS OF NEW; PROM TAA WORK OF MILITARY HOSPITALS COMMISSION, Organized to Keep the Crippled Tom- miee Working at the "Cure - Machines." A Voluntary Workers Corps,- made up of young Toronto women who wish The dressing, which is somewhat to do their bit in aiding the recovery like the shield used for protecting the of the boys who have been disabled arm in vaccination, is perforated with in serd'ice overseas, has been.formed small holes so that it resembles' a by Dr. E. A. Bott, head of the lune - finely meshed sieve. The surgeon tional re-education work being carried treats it antiseptically, places it over', on by the Military Hospitals Commis - the wound, and then applies the ordin-1 cion at Hart House, Toronto. ary bandages in the usual, manner.! These young women will be taught The perforations in the celluloid allow the use of special corrective machines, the pus• to escape, and the surrounding and:when they have been trained, will cotton absorbs it. When the bandage be given the charge of patients who. is removed, the shield falls clean from must be encouraged to keep at the the injury, which hassbeen subjected, npparatus work as part of their treat - to no aggravation. 1 meat. MARITIME PROVINCES. Items of Intermit From Places Lap• ped By Waves of the A tlantic The tussock moth is infecting the trees at Fredericton, Sergt. George Smith, a cleric in the discharge depot at St..5ohn, has, been appointed'provincial dairy superin- tendent. Major C. W. Gordon (Ralph Con- nor), delivered a stirring address at the Rotary Club luncheon at Halifax. \'t His plea was for unity. Mrs. W. A. Ross, of Fredericton, 're- ceived the Military Medal won by her , son, Pte. Fred J. Ross. The student body of the University of New Brunswick and the University directorate are on the "out" on ac- count of the, freshman initiation, which had been strictly prohibited. A steamer crashed into and sank Wounds so protected heal' more There are numerous machines at the tug W. H. Murry,iti Halifax Bay. quickly and have a cleaner appear-' Hart House, scientific wonder -workers One of the crew, Pilot John Brown, ance than those treated in the ordin- I in performance, but so simple in ap- who was taken from the water in an ary way. The shield also affords a' pearance as to deceive the man who unconscious' condition, died a few considerable measure of comfort to' associates scientific apparatus with hours later. the parent by saving him the pain finely polished steel ands delicate In the Seymour poisoning ease at that pressure upon the wound causes;l springs. North Sydney the jury rendered the the celluloid sheath is sufficiently Slow But Sure. verdict that Try�thenia Seymour came strongto act as a guard. Another to her death by arsenic poisoning ad - the } Men who have been discharged by ministered through the eating of an advantage that seems to assure its the surgeons are sent here to limber extensive use as a surgical dressing i up stiffened joints, to restore muscles Apple. is the fact that it has proved well' and put their limbs back into work- rood Controller Hanna's request adapted to the process of saline inn-' ing shape when surgery has done all that the price of milk be not advanced gation in the treatment of wounds, that it can to restore them. until October 31st was not Acceded to Lang practice at these machines is as far, as Halifax was concerned. On WAR OFFICE TAKES OWN FILMS. required and the patient's interest is British Battle Pictures Will Be Sent to Allied Countries. To its thousand and one activities the British War Office has now added the ownership and management of a British film business. The entire con- trol of the issue of what is known to the moving picture world as the 1"Topical Budget" has passed into the hands of the Army Council for the duration of the war. By the unwritten law of Whitehall, .the War Office cannot "go into busi- Iness," so the difficulty of owning and controlling this film business was ob- Iviated by the appointment of a com- Iinittee of practical men, responsible to the War Office. �• •• •• - Is Appalling. r Starting as a strictly national stir- the apparatus room, but in the gym- vey of - war's doings, the War Office nasium:where the cases of flat foot, Even the fire Iosses for the first "Topical Budget has blossomed etc., are treated, there are curative eight months of 1017 in Canada and quickly into an international concern games, and class work for men with the United States tell a story of the by a system of interchange with the afflictions in common. war, since the total of $180,500,000, as compared -with $111,500,000 in 1915, represents the losses in oil and muni- tion works, here and in the United September 29th the price of milk was apt to lag and his courage fail before °osted to 13 cents a quart. recovery is complete unless someone "LandThe fame of New Brunswick as the works with him. It is to do this sort of Comfortable Homes" has of work than the voluntary workers reached far-off Russia. The provincial have been enlisted. immigration office has. received a re - Cheerfulness All Important. The therapeutic value of a cheerful quest from •A,...P. Nech'anx, Georgie- yak, Tersicago, Oblast, Russia, for a list of farms available, spirit• is recognized in every hospital, The North British Society of Hali- but nowhere is it made to count more fax at a complimentary luncheon pre - than in the curative workshop at Hart rented R. L. Baxter with an address House where a man's own endeavors of appreciation and a purse of gold. are vitally important to his recovery. Mr. Baxter, who has been a member There are at present over sixty of the society fpr nearly half a cen- men receiving treatment at the insti- tury, has gone to Columbia, Missouri, tution. The personnel of the enroll- ment is constantly changing, of course, MILLIONS STILL BURNING UP. ascured cases are dismissed and new men come for treatment. Total Losses From Preventable Fires Allies, so that now it presents to the Special Game Rooms. that interrupted a drive with a Ger- British public scenes from every front man staff captain through Johan- on which the Allies are fighting, ex- Such games as squash racquets, bas- s, nisburg en the Prussian -Polish bort er, the Russian set ball, tether tennis, and ping pong States,. not necessarily of an acct - dared that the effigy of majesty was The captain stopped the ear, called these same pictures, and to .return too sacred to serve as a label for let certain pictures from neutral conn- tite private to him and bawled: tries will be sent to Londoefor dis- less. • "Man, have you lost your senses— tribution through the British. Isles.. "Have you seen the stamps yet?" threatening a superior officer? Do The official film photographers will wrote one ardent loyalist in 1840, you know that you can be shot for not confine their work to the front. In The American Dlagazine Dean our amount every year as a tribute to "This is the greatest insult the pre- that?" the national slouchiness in building sent Ministrycould have offered, the „ They are also to take pictures of all Herman Schneider of the School of ff At your orders, sir, replied the national events, naval, military or Engineering of the University of Cin- construction and to a gross careless - Queen," your man jumping to attention. otherwise, happening anywhere in the cinnati says: cess in the handling of properties, matter so seriously that he had a he is also my son!" we can take no pride. Now y be my superior officer,. but "A man is most efficient when he is which is one of our besetting sins, in from an assistant. When Man. ie Most Efficient. King Ferdinand of Sicily took the "He ma special postmark made in the shape of a frame so that the officials could Ashamed Enough. cancel the stamps without striking his portrait. Experimental Arithmetic. Schoolmistress—Well, what's the matter; has Johnny got the tooth- ache? Angry Mother—No, Johnny hain't got the toothachel He's suffering from your fool teaching. You told him he was to tell how long it would take him to eat twenty apples, if it took him one and a half minutes to eat one apple --and he's got stuck on the fifteenth! What Keeps Us Warm? We are accustomed to think that the sun warms the air, but it doesn't to any great extent—at all events, not directly. tit Wash tea leaves before you use them to sprinkle over a carpet, If used just as they come from the tea pot they are likely to stain anything with a light ground, Robert's mother was wont to close her reproaches with, "Pm ashamed of you as I can be," and the word asham- ed, therefore, was constantly in his ears. One day, after he had eaten up his little sister's candy, his mother said to him: "Robert, did you eat Dorothy's can- dy when I distinctly told yqu not to?" "Yes, ma'am," said Robert, in a tone of triumph, "and I'm just as ashamed osn myself as I can be, so you needn't be ashamed of me at all!" In moist climates and with rich soil, the amount of grain sown to the acre should bo larger than under arid or semiarid conditions. Lodging will result from too thin seeding on rich, well -watered soil A delightful friendship 18 that which exists between the Royal house of Britain and the ill-starred Empress Eugenie. Queen Victoria was very fond of the Empress, and very recent- ly the King and Princess Mary paid her an intimate little visit. British Isles. Asset in Camp Dishwater, Lieut. Gordon B. Black, formerly of the "Western Lumberman" staff, Van- couver, was recently promoted from the Canadian headquarters staff at Shorncliffe to the position of assistant to the Director of Timber Operations in Great Britain and Scotland, with the rank of captain, which was con- ferred in recognitionof the high ef- ficiency inmtroduced by him in the task of supplying the needs of the various Canadian hospitals in Eng- land. Capt. Black writes that the conservation of food in the foresters' camps in England and Scotland is a live issue, as instanced by' the fact that a new arrival was sent to the guard house for twenty days for throwing away a "hunk" of bread instead of placing it in the receptacle provided for food remnants. As a further instance of the saving meth- oda in vogue, Capt. Black notes that the dishwater in all forester dining camps is slimmed twice. The grease thus saved is sold to the Imperial Munitions Board each week, the monthly revenue amounting to a hand- some total. doing the work that gives him the' which greatest satisfaction, From the labor -.that national slouchiness -is beingvni- er to the business executive every man versally condemned, it is about limo should get three things out of work- a decent living, development and dis- cipline and satisfaction in the doing, that all forces joined together to re, move the stigma of this criminal care- lessness, which burns up its millions If your job gives these to you give every year, raises insurance risks and back to it the best work of your hand rates and forces on all sorts of sec - and brain. 11 it fails to give you these ondary losses without rhyme or rea- face the fact that you are a misfit son, and seek your appointed place. You y have no right to let life remain sep- arated from its two handmaids—lib- erty and the pursuit of happiness." Napoleon's Mistake. Napoleon was a master of flaming sentences as web as of the science of war. This sentiment, uttered at St. Helena, and quoted by James M. Beek in •an article on the war, might bo emphatically eohood by the allies to -day: "I made the mistake of my career, when I had the' opportunity, that I did not remove the Hohenzol- lerns from the throne of Prussia. As long as this house reigns and until the red cap of liberty la.evadedin Ger- many, there will be no peace in Eu- tope." u- topo" W.13.42) X31. 1. atm (02 12:413;�U, ': m MX) MAPS A NlcS. /4065 ow it IT, CALL1No 00P- 10 ER GUESTS A CouP1E oP Poop MurTs 11 Woo Am NovGoING'rb IvAboUT Irl L Go ovm R1GHT NOW AND RI To sQUAlze I CCRTAINLI .'m rlHA'r lot) OWE'fl41 M AN I'LL e=.1tPLAlII 7HAT 1 WA* J657 I PPING 7NA'r AN ELAPSF� OF 7µ127Y1 MIN B> cwE scetie SAND ToM, Is THAT 101/ ? b1D `lou do OVER AND Ni/AS -I 18 THERE ANY 'DID Teal Act' SURPii sPD WHEN THEY CAMRTo • NO t - iifi SAID }i'E WAS WAITING E DOOM? Pok MA, APOLOGH 9 AMD PREITEND f JOKE ApoLOGixfl (tAW B`cEFSfANE 1 -' cc` hilk n 4,1e 11 I IT WAS AU- A f IH 11IE ICG 50X? )T? r'-„ ' —' MV on.t. ;,!+,:-.71"M lY ��,' 1k „ A fselit ,:,'11\\I\1 iitlilli i3f 74 'OS war' rill ti JJI)�'�r'w-�'- 11110' 4I k •...;:: �tI!/1i�1•�ll ►1i r�-"` la,:,�� ...� / _ __� law \ to -, t. 1% 4-041 1 :1 � 1110.-&, mg MORE SUGAR FOR FRANCE. Reflneriee Released From German Oc- cupation Being Put in Commission. An Inventory of the forty sugar re. , fineries in the territory liberated from German occupation this year, shows that ten or twelve of them can be re- stored without difficulty, says a recent despatch from Noyon, France, The rest are nothing hut shapeless masses of debris. Very little useful material can be reclaimed from the heap. The Germans stripped all these refineries of everything in the nature of•bronzo, brass or copper, taking entire ma. chines, whore practicable, and break, ing others up to get the most useful metal out of. them, " Dynamos worth thousands of francs were destroyed for the sake of a few pounds of copper. The steam engines that were left also were rendered lyre - parable, , - The sager beet land in the vicinity of these refineries has been atrocious, ]y belabored by shells, many of which, unexploded, must be .extracted before the cultivation of the soil will be safe, Some of this land, it is thought, may be put into condition for a crop next year, and with the few refineries that can be repaired, will aid much to relieve the sugar famine in France- A New Use for the Shoehorn, Many persons Who religiously use q shoehorn for putting on pompe and oxfords never think to apply ' the handy little Instrument to refractol•y rubbers. Now that school days hive coma and there will be many rainy days among them, it Is wen fes moth er to knew that there is a way of managing rubbers that are getting' e little snug for their small owners, Let her try the shoehorn.