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The Brussels Post, 1917-12-20, Page 2Don't Neglect The Starting System. and the generator. Inthe complete A few years ago automobile owners! starting and lighting system there are did not conceive of having their motors other important factors, such as the 'cranked and their lamps sighted by storage battery, regulator, ammeter, electricity, says an expert. When the starting switch, fuse box, starting first electric self-starting and lighting motor -drive, etc, a .stem appeared manywere very When the strating switeh is pressed aceptical as to itspractical efficiency. down by a pedal or some other device At first annoying troubles were ex- the electric circuit is ,closed between perieneed, but , generally these were the battery and the sig volt starting eliminated by efficient engineers, whomotor located on the hywheel case. devoted much time. to working out a The current from the battery causes Practical starting and lighting device. the starting motor armature shaft to The automobile is subjected to so rotate very rapidly, On the exten- much abuse in the bands of incompet- ent operators that to produce a simple -^ and effective method of electric start- ing has been a severe tax upon the engineering forces of most every manufacturer. To -day there is hard- ly a car without a full electric start- ing and lighting system, In fact no one would think of investing more than $500 for an automobile without it. The subject of electric starters is extensive and cannot be discussed here in detail. It may be said that there are many very efficient methods employed at present on different makes of cars. One may prove more suitable for a particular make of car than another. Then again the engineering depart- ments of factories may differ as to the merits of various systems and accord- ingly employ the kind they approve. It is safe to state that with the present advanced development of the various systems the purchaser of an automobile need not permit this factor smaller gear much faster than the to necessarily influence his purchase. starting motor could possibly drive it. It is not the purpose of this article to This causes the gear to unscrew and discriminate against or elaborate upon move forward out of mesh with the any particular system or any particul-- teeth on the flywheel, permitting the ar method of starting and lighting,; engine to run free. As soon as the but rather to give a simple explana- foot is taken from the switch, which tion of how a modern two unit system; should be immediately after the en - is employed. This particular method I gine takes up its cycle, the starting employs two units, the electric motor, motor comes to rest. cion of, the armature shaft is a hollow have lost over a hundred thousand sleeve having a course screw thread men, whose lives weregiven to pre- not dismayed. cut on the outside, A small gear is vent the victory which lhas now been "There are Canadian graves on the screwed onto the sleeve and is free to Iplain of Ypres; I s weather - achieved and which is denoted by the beaten their beaten creases this morning. If the men who sleep there know anything time previously had 'expressed that expression of opinion was asked from of this great struggle they mast rest code.of morals so absolutely opposed each of those at the table and it was content to -day." to the ideas of the world.: 'agreed that fried politick was even He was preaching in Galilee just more appetising than cod and some efter the death of John the Baptist preferred it to halibut, 'When the events occurred recorded by pollock is a'seasonable fish and St. John as follows: . • ' whet( it does appear ore the Atlantic 1. After these things Jesus went ' Coast it comes in large quantities: The leish' Committee of the Food Control- ler's eetio - ler's Office states that the question of fish supply has been carefully con- sidered,and that if the Canadian' don- sumers' want cheaper.fish they must look to -a more general use of :gray - OURTQR ON "planes,' sailing serenely through the �J �/ j gusts of smoke, FLANDERS HILLS e think I have found a it reason for the reported precipitate retirement of the Prussians from Passchendaele in - the observation of one. prisoner, He BRII,,LIAN'1' '1`R1UMI'H OF OUR said: 'We do not like the Canadians; the Germans thine they'are very dee- CANADIAN TROOPS. poste men.' They E t _Content To -day. "Two and a half years have passed The Meaning of. the Capture of Pass- since I first talked with Canadian sol- chenclaele Where Germany diers by Ypres. Few of the men who same back this morning were in that Lost 100,000 Men. historic retreat, when the flower of To keep a sense of proportion in the German Emperor's legions drove the great events of the day we must look not only at the .Venetian plains but also at the hills of Flanders, whose summits are crowned with victory. The Germans say they have captur- ed,hundreds of thousands of Italians. On the Flanders hills the Germans "GATHER UP THE- FRAGMENTS" LESSONOF TRUE CHRISTIAN THRIFT. The Most Impressive Admonition. of All Time Against Waste. Thes impressiva anti pertinent •� i i St /Food„. Control .Corner Fish at Low Prises. Ponaumere in cities of Ontario and Quebec desiring to secure wholesome fish at low prices will do well to ask their dealers to secure a quantity' of pollock, A large supply of fish .is available and has been offered f.,o,b. shipping point M the Atlantic seaboard, with heads off and dressed, at 5 coats, per pound, packed in boxes with ice and no charges for packages. Un- fortunately the public isnot familiar with this cheaper fish and large quan- HE MARRIED N]ELIJII Ala TER ANLL Because a girl laughed at him, .Jim- mie Stillwater abandoned the ministry and took to farming, The other day my little road -eater hummed up the Fairview hill, and .Q, ,stopped. at the Stillwater gate, Jim- • mle bid me welcome, "Well, how is your farm?;" be ask- ed, after we were seated, "There is room for Improvement," I John our thin battle front below the slopes replied modestly, We hold to -da '. Yet they have not for- words from the GoePe oftities are wasted for lack pf a market."Precisely. Did 1 ever tell - you gotten the stand of that first little have a direct relation to food economy Op Saturday one of the large,,fish about my experience? The whole so neeessarpresent in ever band of Britons from -,the Dominion Y at -Y see - distributing . companies sent a two course of my life was; changed in one who came back fighting doggedly tion of the worlds hundred box of pollock .to the Food day,' All because a girl said my state- ter of their reluctant journey, They take you to that eloping hill- Controller's Office, It reached Ole meat about Jonah and the whale was every s 1 C J y, pressed by the most'formideble army sideeeof Ain Tabigah on the -western tawa on Seinday and was served at a inaccurate." - . thew orld had ever seen beaten but chore of the Sea of Galilee, where oc -luncheon on Tuesday, Those present He paused a minute before proceed- carred the first miracle of the loaves were not informed of: the variety of ing with his story., and fishes. the fish which -they were eating and u "It was wheat haevest tune in Okla - Nearby is the•.mount of the Beats dumber of remarks were made about hems, I was holding a protracted'( tudes, where the Saviour but a short the fine quality. After the meal an meeting. One morning at the Linn's breakfast table I started to explain about'Jonah and the whale. "'Pd have to see that before I could believe it!' Nellie Linn said. "'You don't believe: -it?' T question- ed. She shook her head and laughed, "'Arman once tried to tell us a similar story, about choking a steam - thresher.' She laughed again. • "Now°to `choke' or `stall' a steam- thresher is a man-sized job. Few can do it. Yea must feed the machine a perfect avalanche of sheaves to ac- complish it. I told Miss Linn that l'd stall -that,old steam -thresher to the Queen's taste, and then I'd,argue the Point about Jonah and the whale, She said if I succeeded she'd believe 'apy- thing I said—whales included. "I secured .5' stout pitchfork, and move forward and backward when the capture of Passchendaele. sleeve is turned. The armature shaft The Ypres Salient. drives the sleeve through a heavy coil spring so the sudden starting of the - "Passchendaele," says Mr. Philip armature shaft causes "the gear to Gibbs, war correspondent, "is the move backward along the threads un- crown and crest of the ridge which til it meshes with teeth cut in the rim limade a great barrier Ypres and hemmedround the in the DRASTIC SURGERY of the engine flywheel, p' When the gear is fully meshed it flats and swamps. After a heroic at- BOOTS comes upagainst a stop and then ; tack by the Canadians, they fought FOR AR M turns with the sleeve, thus allowing ;their way over the ruins of Passchen- the starting motor to turn the fly-daele and into ground beyond it. wheel, which cranks the engine. It I "The Canadians have had more may be noted that the coil springluck than the English, New Zealand furnishes a very flexible drive which spring! and Australian troops, who fought the prevents the load being thrown on the battles on the way up with most heroic starting, motor too suddenly when the endeavor, and not a man in the Army - gear comes up against the stop and will begrudge them the honor which A Boot hospital Where Discarded starts to rotate with the sleeve. As they have gained, not easily, nor with- Footwear Is Restored To soon as the motor is started the fly- out the usual price of victory, which wheel gear then begins driving the ANOTHER OF THE BRCPISH WAR GIRLS' MISSIONS. THE CONQUEST 1A Rare and Savage Feast. I depressed my hand nervously as a signal for Petersen to fire. The boat, •. noiselessly sagging ahe d, seemed to some few heaps of ragged ruins and the front coated thickly with—Flan- five barley loaves and two fishes; but' OF ��✓ NORTH POLE, ' Looking P t t d 11 But it is the symbol d d With their soles worn _ e ow was res things. men mg s or sou the paralyzed by his anxiety; he was try- to hold or retake it shows that. With that -they hardly looked like boots at men sit down NOW, there was much INCIDENT IN THE CENTURY-'! ing vainly to obtain a rest for his gun it we have the high ground of the LONG SIEGE. !against the eutwater of the boat. The whole main ridge. seal rose on its fore flippers, gazed at ' "To defend this ridge and Passchen- - ` us for a moment -with frightened curs- daele, and the crest of it, the enemy A Crisis in One of the Earlier Expedi-1 osity and coiled itself for a plunge. At has massed great numbers of guns !that instant, simultaneously with the and incredible numbers of machine - tions Led By Dr. lune {crack of the rifle, it relaxed its length guns, and many of his finest divisions. over the Sea of`Galilee, which is that of Tiberias. 2. And a great multitude followed. him, because they saw the miracles which he did on them that were disc eased. 3. Jesus therefore went up into a fl h; whiting; pollock, cask and hake. mountain, and there he sat with, his Those who have tried these varieties disciples. .-4. Now the Pesch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand. 5. When Jesus therefore had lift - commend them, highly but as yet few restaurants or hotels are using them, and they are practically unknown to is some men's death and many melee Usefulness.-- the general public. A general demand past." In a factory at the far end of Old ed up his eyes and seen that a very for this cheaper fish is certain to re- mounted the feeding platform ready "The capture of Passchendaele is Kent Road in England, the war girl great multitude cometh to him, he said sult in a better supply. Housewives to begin. Men grinned broadlyy They Ke to Philip: Whence shall, we buy bread, and patrons. of public eating places were running solid on wheat -t day. that these may eat? will aid the movement for utilization That meant start at six and qui eat drives by which we have forced our over t e co y 6 And this he said to- try him, the culmination and final triumph of is again beating all records. From,all the long series of hard hammer- h ants she ss sending the here she is mend - soldier shells, down ' of this fish by asking for the var- twelve. I did start; and when I gore, way along the ridge since the recom- for he himself knew what he would ieties mentioned and insisting that started I kept going. I had' a faint mencement of operations here on Sep- ing his boats—and those who know do. they be served. idea of hot places, but I didn't realize most about armies, have the greatest On and after December 1, it wsli be their intensity until L tried to stall tember 20. The honor of delivering 7.Philipanswered him:' Two hun- tlhis last blow was given to the Can- difficulty in deciding, which is the dred pennyworth of bread is not suf- illegal Inc any person, firm,' corpora- that steam -thresher on 571 August amore important mission. y,tion or association, to operate, without day. it sant, and no troops could have done A representative of the London ficsent foe them, that ever one -may it better. Daily News who was shown round take a little. a license from the Food Controller, "At 8.15 I had two blisters 00 each Symbol of Great Things. 8. One of his disciples; Andrew, any flour mill in Canada having a hand. By ten o'clock .they were con - this model Government workshop tied the brother of Simon Peter; caul to daily capacity of one hundred or more solidated into one. I wondered what "Passchendaele was a little place at, two labels bearing the name of the pa- this a huh barrels. Licenses are optional in the had become of my breakfast. My beet, and now is almost nothing but' per on to a pair of boots straight from! ai . il.• There is a boy here that hath case of mills,with a lesser daily cape stomach telephoned for more fuel. I me within range. at Peter- concreted cellars. ens mu what are these among so many? sen I saw that the poor fellow of great th g Hindenburg's b der through and theirtoes turned up so 10. Then Jesus said: Make all. Than he followed them through !grass in the place. Themen'` there - the wards of the boot hospital till fore sat down, in number about five forty minutes' time they had been.thousand. completely restored to strength and 11. And Jesus took the loaves: and soundness, a perfect miracle of femin- when he had given thanks he d stri- Inc surgery. buted to them that were set down. In' Process of Restoration. . like mariner also of the'fieltes, as much First they were scrubbed a bath as they would. 12. And when they were filled he in 1853 . on the ice, and at the very brink of the To check our progress he devised new !water fell helpless to one side. systems of defence, and built hisconof warm water, then they were dress- h 1 fel 1 Same one has estimated that in the With a wild yell the men urged both creta blockhouses in echelonforma-sty to pp century -lou effort to reach the north boats upon the floes. .A crowd of tion, and at every cross road and in ed with castor oil; then a muscular said 'lo. his disciples: Gather up the to be knAvn as The Millers' Committee pole four hundred lives and two hun- lance seized the seal and bare it up' every bit of village or farmstead, and young woman stripped off heel and fragments that remain, lest they be'of the Food Controlle'r's Office, togeth- Bred ships were lost. One of the ear -'to safer Inc.The men seemed half our man had to attack that chain of fore -sole, to be followed ,a few mo- lost, er with an officer to supervise the pmonis later by a skilful young woe 13. They gathered up therefore flour In which shall be lieensed and Icer expeditions was the one led by we were I had not realized how mine. g its through its girdles of machine - man who stripped off the outer . skin and filled twelve baskets with the Kane in 1853, consisting of acne -'we reduced by absolute famine.' gun fire, and, after a great price of to represent the Pood Controller in teen men. The account of their hard -'They ran over the floe crying and life, mastered it. The weather fought ofde the machine with the help invented a won- fragments. of tithe five barley loaves carrying out the awith the ships as told in The Siege and Con-; :laughing and brandishing their knives. for the enemy again and again on the derful that hasbeen- which remained over and above to milling industry. arangement , p i> during the war. them that had eaten. The Order -in -Council with these quest of the North Pole, by George It was not.five minutes before every days of our attacks, and the horrorsduring After this fierce surgeryof knife 14. Now those men,when Bryce, is almost incredible, 'Scurvy , man was sucking his bloody fingers or of the spud and bogs in this great -d hthey provisions confirms the arrangement and the bitter cold made the sunless mouthing long strips of raw blubber. solation of crater -land miles deep— and pincers came the various process arctic winter of one hundred and forty! Not an ounce of the seal was lost. eight miles deep—over a wide sweep of re -building a perfect sole and heel days a continuous and horrible night- The intestines found their way into of country, belongs to the grimmest —the hest the world produces—the mare. ! the soup kettles; the cartilaginous remembrances of every soldier who mending of various injuries to the su- Their brig, Advance, was frozen into • parts of the fore flippers were cut oft has fought in this battle of Flanders. perstructure, the 'blocking into quite then great icepack, which even the re- !parts asked round to be chewed upon; t a stylish Army shape, and finally the e P , Spent His Man -Power. restaining and polishing. Only the turning sun of scanty ps enot loos- `and even the liver,twarm and raw at "fie enemy may brush aside our labels still attached made it possible en. With scurpe dsuppliesa they ritwas, sen t e fair to be eaten before compelled to spend a second dreary had seen the pot. That night, on the advance as the taking of a mud patch, to recognize this smart footwear as winter in the arctic, during which sew large halting -floe, to which, in con-' but to resist it he has at one time or the dilapidated, useless lump of lea- eral of the party succumbed to sick -'tempt of the dangers of drifting, we another put nearly a hundred divisions ther that had been picked out of a pile ness and exposure. In June, when happy men had hauled our boats, two' Into the arena of blood and the de- of similar invalids little more than their provisions were virtually gone, a' entire planks were devoted to a grand fence has cost him a vast sum of loss half an hour earlier, narrow channel opened, and the sur- cooking fire, and we enjoyed a rare in dead and wounded. I saw his dead An Amazing Record. vivors, manning two small boats, and savage feast, in Inverness Copse and Glencorse Over 300 girls have graduated' as ' fought; their way southward. Starve-: r,,------ Wood, and over all this ground the boot suegemis at this establishment— tionyoung manhood of Germany has spent girls who not longago were pickle - butquickly weakened their efforts, ; Music for the Tank. , g g P but at that desperate crisis they sight itself, makers, tailoresses, domestic servants, ed food—a seal. Dr. Kane thus de -1 For the amusemen of. soldiers pt ob- "It was not for worthless gtomul and so on—and they are "smashing" scribed the incident: ! ably no more unique donation has been that so many of them died and suffer- , to note the factory.. manager) all made than that of $50 from a woman • ed great agonies and fought deeper- q 8 It was an ursuk, and so large that output figures hitherto put up by men, 1 at first mistook it for a walrus. for gramophone records to equip a - ately, and came back again and again whether inside or outside the Army. Trembling with anxiety, we prepared ;tank. There is something grotesque, in massed counter-attacks, swept to The other day ten women stripped the to crawl down upon it. We stationed :about music emanating from this pieces by our guns and our rifle fire, soles from 1,000 pairs of boots in a Petersen, with the large English rifle,' weird iron caterpillar. Other dona-' Passchendaele is but a pinprick on a single day—a speed unheard of till in the hew, and drew stockings over tions have not lacked an element of ; fair-sized map, but so that we should they came on the scene. "Stripping" the oars as mutilers. As we neared ,Bre picturesque, as, for instance, the not take it the enemy had spent much' is the hardest job of all. the animal,'our excitement became so supplying of a hospital in Paris which; ea his man -power and his gun -power There are very few men on the intense that the men could hardly � was filled with African troopers with' without stint, and there has flowed up premises. Practically everything, keep stroke. I had a set of signals 700 fans. They were so appreciated Ito his guns tides of (hells almost as from cutting the sole leather to pack - for such occasions that spared us the - during the summer that the hospital! great as the tides that flowed up to ing the finished boots, is dgpe by the Use of the voice; and when we were !appealed for more. An accordion was l our guns, and throughout these , war -girl. And the opinioir of the about three hundred yards off, the !sent to fill a specific demand. One, months he has never ceased by day orlAimiy is that a,pair of old boots that oars were taken in, and we moved in French officer requested games for his!night to pour out hurricanes of fire have passed through her hands are deep silence with a single scull astern.`. men. What sort? In one regiment! over all these fields in the hope of. actually to be preferred to a gain of The seal was not asleep, for it rear- in which most of the soldiers were fa- , smashing up our progress. !new boots that have never seen the ed its head when we were almost with-; there of fertilise the preference, for: "Our airmen were masters of the snssde of a hospital. in rifle shot, and to this day I can re- some reason or other, was for bowl -I sky. They'swnrmed above the Ger- __-- member the hard, careworn, almost : ing. The trench, it must seem, does imam lines, noting every movement and ' ' not make a bad alley if a few balls attacking troops wYth their bombs and Humanised milk for infanta is mills despairing expression of the mens I so treated the( the caseins 18 reduced thin faces as they saw it move• their j and pins will liven a dull period. Pos-,machine-guns; at times the 'heavens to melte city than 100 barrels, -but may be wished something would break, but it granted upon application, in which didn't. Streams of sweat flowed from .case. such mills will be subject to the niy chin.. same rules as those upon whom the "Miss Nellie was sitting oe a bale licensing provisions are compulsory. of`grein sacks. She was smiling, but Licenses may be suspended or re- wouldn't meet my eye. Right there I yoked in case of violation of any of resolved to choke that machine, get a the Food Controller's regulations. The farm and marry Nellie, or die a -try - Food Controller is empowered to make inf. I'd turn these men's jeers into rules with respect to the sale, distri cheers, or give the tmdertalcer a job. bution and traospor ation of flour mill "I glanced over my shoulder—three products. He. is also given author- loaded wagons were waiting to u n - appoint a. Committee of Millers load. Now is my chance, I said to my- self! How I did make that pitchfork whiz! I poured a perfect deluge of the sheaves into that steaming thresh- ei but the automatic band -cutters still nodded for more. "But there is always an end to everything. The feeding platform was made 'of board. In my haste I jabbed my fork into a board, and before I could retard, my movements -I threw board, pitchfork and four sheaves of .,,, wheat into the cylinder. 'C -ho -o -w! Bang!' , said Mr. Steam -thresher, throwline off the belt, and stopping just as I jumped down on the ground. "I didn't tarry around that farm to receive any congratulations from my admiring friends. I just went. The next day I rented a farm," Abell rang in the direction of the house. "Ah, there goes the dinner bell," Jimmie Stillwater expl,sined. "I want you to meet my wife—she believes . that whale story, now." Together we walked across the lawn. lives dapendecl on its capture. { albly a change of noise is agreeable. l seemed to be covered with, British Tori, WN 1 DON011 WEAR THAT' FUNNY Look;tla Ate-THE.SPEED THING ON YOUR KINGS WEAR NeAD 2 °EM HALT D'GosN it more lila human milk had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said: This is of a truth the pro- phet that is to come into the world. Such was the miracle. In, His soul's laboratory was Stored the spell which ''by slow processes turns earth and air and water into hu- man food: He_o p doubles its power upon itself and concentrates its work of seasons into the space of a few words of heavenly blessing. The remains of such a feast were, the fact that a man discharged 'from relics, fit tokens, eays the Rev. Walter the army is given but an $i# clothing allowance. As'a matter of fact, the government maintains a general store of civilian. clothing at the discharge depots from which a man is fitted when ;he re- ceives his discharge. This means an outfit from head to foot. In case a man does not wish to take these clothes, a cash allowance of $8 is added to the three months pay giv- en to each man at this time. The allowance is increased to $13 in winter. made some time •ago by the Food Controller with rsep_sentatives of the milling tads. THE CLOTHING ALLOWANCE. Discharged Soldiers Receive Outfit of Civilian Garments. Comment has been widely made on Elliott, to teagh the lesson of humble Christian thrift. 411 Arrive and Depart. "Arrivals" and "departures" have a definite place in French trench philo- logy. When the American troops first entered the trenches their French comrades were very ameious to have them distinguish accurately between the noise of "arrives" and "departs." "I thought theywere talking harbor clearances first," said one Yankee lad. "Then I heard a low, whining sound, and a shell exploded behind us. 'Un arrive,' said my companion. He signi- fied that it' was a present from the Germans. Soon there was . a louder, sharper sound, It was aresponsive roar from our own batteries. 'Un de- part,' he said with great. satisfaction. 'Voila)' we had. it. The exchange of artillery fire is, after all, a matter of 'arrivals' and 'departures.' Needless to say, the 'departs' enjoy the wider popularity,"' Knitting News. • The secret of the soh you are knit- ting for the fighting man lies he the looseness of its knit. Thio is the secret, because moat persons have a tendency, in their eagerness for firm- ness and warmth, to knit .too closely. The woolen sock is more durable when it is elastic, , but' almdst more im- portant than this is the fact that the soldpiece i f able tl dao on hisee e of while knitly e pisco of g , is often unable to get into the tight one at all. '1> R UNDER] Al RE.s WHAT's 7NE fl ouBl E cN1EP r 1 HAUGNT BEER 1 1EC1t1DI HG. -THE SPEED ^"u -LIMIT 1 NO- BOT `WU M 16NT sgo 11,44 eat - Elusive Strong Man. The world loves to fancy each man in uniform a potential Napoleon. Par- ticularly does Germany cling to the be- lief that the mum shall come web will be her milltary savior, hence the rapid rise and fall of her commanding offi- cers. Von Klock was the first groat popular hero, Then cable the Marne! In the ' east Hindenburg's Mazurian Lake operations defeated the Russian invaders, and for a few months the old warrior was almost deified. Then the west front command revealed him as not capable of the prodigies of genius that had been expected. The linden burg line has not been -pnneture- proof. Tho old general's sun is set- ting. For a time here -worshipping Germany hoped that Von Macicensen would be the.'long-awaited military' MessiaheeBut Von Macicensen hat not measured up to the standard. The fatherland is losing confidence in its leaders.; And experience teaches that "strong men" are few; and far be- tween. Shield For Soldiers. ee No 'sing -le instrument of destruction is playing a more vital role in the present war than the machine gun. ,To deprive Germany of this weapote by offsetting its effect is the purpose, e of an inventor wlio 1las developed a bulletpyobt fighting shield that» -is ' perhaps worthy of study. The device is a wedge-shaped shelter mounted on one front and two rear wheels and in. .tended to accommodate ten infantry- men, The shield is designed to be e folded fiat and carrion through the %communication trenches to the firing 'lino, where it could lie aesembled quickly under never of daiermen,ready to protect our soldiers. 1