The Clinton News Record, 1918-5-2, Page 61
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- Jas. NORMAN N -HALL.
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CHAPTER XI,---(Cont'd,) I had been struck clown close to the one -
Within a few momenta several my's second lino, 'Two kind-hearted
lines of reserves filed into the front Gerritan sentries, to whom `he had
trench and went over the parapet in signaled, crept out at night and gave
support of the that line, advancing him hot coffee to chink, He begged
with heads /down like men bucking thew to carry him in, hut they told
into the fury of a gale. We saw him they were forbidden to take arty
their only for an instant as they wounded prieonere. .res he was un,
jumped to their feet outside the able to crawl, he must have died had
trench and rushed 'forward, Many it not been for the keen ears of the
were hit before they had passod men of the listening patrol. A- third
through the gales in our barbed wire, -victim wheal I saw ;brought in fie hat d
Those who were able crept back and break by a working party,
were helped into the trench by cone- been shot in the `jaw and lay unat-
rades. One man was killed as he was tended through at least five wet Octo-
about to reach a place of safety, He her days and nights. His eyes were
lay on the parapet with his head and swollen shit. Blood -poisoning had
arms hanging down inside the trench.; set in from a wound which would cer-
His face was that of a boy of twenty-- thinly not have been fatal could it.
two years of ago. I Barry the, mem have received early attention,
Wo knew that there must be many
wounded still alive in the tall grass
between our linea. We knew that
ory of it with nio, to -day as vividly
as when I left the trenches in Nevem,
her.
Following the attacking infantry many were dying who might be saved,
were those other soldiers whose work The Red Cross Corps made nightly
though less spectacular than that of searches for them, but the difficulties
the riflemen, was just as essential and to be .overcome were great. The
quite as dangerous. Royal Engineers, volume of tire increased- tremendous -
with picks and shovels and sandbags, ly at night. Furthermore, there was
rushed forward to reverse the par- a wide area to be searelied, and in the
apets of the captured trenches) and to too weak from the loss of blood to
clear out the wreckage, while the groan or shout, were discovered only
riflemen waited for the launching of by accident.
the first counter-attack. They were Tommy Atkins isn't an advocate of
preceded by men of the Signaling "peace at any price,' but the sight of
awful and needless suffering invaria-
bly moved him to declare himself
emphatically against the inhuman
practices in war of so-called Christian
natigns.
"Christian nations!" he would say
scornfully. "If this 'ere is a sample
o' Christianity, I'll tyke me charnces
down below w'en I gets knocked out."
His comrades greeted such outbursts
with hearty approval.
"I'm with you there, mate! 'Ell
won't be such a dusty old place if all
the Christians go upstairs!'
"They ain't no God 'avin' anything
to do with this war, I'm tellingou!
y '
.rel! fou blokes in England a t
All the g s g ;
France an' Germany ain't a-go'n' to
pray 'Im into it!"
I am not in a position to speak
for Hans and Fritz, who faced us from
the other side of No -Man's -Land; but
as for Tommy, it seemed to me that he
had a higher opinion of the Deity than
many of his better educated country-
men at home.
Corps, who advanced swiftly and skill-
fully, unwinding spools of insulated
telephone wire as they went. Bomb -
carriers, stretcher-bearers, intent
upon their widely divergent duties,
followed. The work of salvage and
destruction went hand in hand.
The battle continued until evening,
when we received orders to move up to
the firing -line. We started at five
o'clock, and although we had less than
three miles to go, we did not reach the
end of our journey until four the next
morning, owing to the fatigue parties
and the long stream of wounded which
blocked the communication trenches.
For more than an hour we lay just
outside of the trench looking down on
a seemingly endless procession of cas-
ualties. Some of the men were cry-
eing like children, some groaning piti-
fully, some laughingdespite their
wounds. I heard dialects peculiar to
every part,of England, and fragment-
ary accounts of hair -breadth escapes
and desw.rate fighting.
"They was a big Dutchman comin'
at -me from the other` side. Lucky
fer.me that I 'ad a round in me
breach. He'd 'a' got me if it 'ad
IV. Tommy.
By the end of the month we had
seen more of suffering and death than
life-
nit'a' been fer that ea^fridge. I lot it is good for men to see in a "im 'ave it an"'e crumpled dp like a time. There were' attacks and coun-
ter-attacks, hand-to-hand fights in
communication trenches with bombs
and bayonets, heavy bombardments,
nightly burial parties. Tommy Atkins
looked like a beast. His clothing was
a hardened -mud casing; his body•was
the color of the sticky Flanders clay
in which he lived; but his soul was
clean and fine. I saw him rescuing
wounded comrades, tending them in
the trenches, encouraging them and
heartening them when he himself was
discouraged) and sick at heart: r
"You're a-go'n"'ome, 'Arry! Blimy!
think o' that! Back to old Blightey
wile the rest of us 'as got to stick it
out 'ere! Don't I wish I was you! Not
arf
"You ain't bad 'urt! Strike me pink!
You'li be as keen as a w'istle in a cou-
ple o' months, An' 'ere) Christmas
"I couldn't get me bayonet out, ho nn Blightey, son! S'yl I'll tyke yer
said. "W'e'n 'e felt's Pulled me over busted shoulder if you'll give me the
on top of 'im. I 'ad to put me foot They
eie
against 'im an' pull, an' then it came They ain't nothin. they can't do fer
you back at the base "°spits). Mem-
out with a jerk."
We meet small groups of prisoners
her 'ow they fixed old Ginger up? You
under escort of proud and happy ain't
England, before T knew it 'arf as ahim for
• 'Pommies who gave us conflicteng re -
the man he is, I said, "Haw am I to
ports of the success of the attack. endure living with him?" And -now
Some of them said that two more
1am thinking, how am I to endure
lines of, German trenches had been living without him; without the in -
taken; others declared that we had spiratton of his splendid courage;
broken completely through and that without the visible example of his un -
the enemy were in full retreat. Upon selfish devotion to his fellows? There
arriving at our position, we were eon- were a few cowards and shrikers who
vinced that at least one trench had failed to live np to the standard set
been captured; but when we mounted by their comrades. I remember the
_ our guns and peered cautiously over man of thirty-five or forty who lay
the parapet, the lights which we saw whimpering in the trench when there
in the distance were flashes of Ger-I was unpleasant work to be done, while
boys half his age kicked him in a
vain attempt to waken him to a sense
of duty; but instances of this kind
Meanwhile, the inhumanity of a war thwere rare, There not, enough of
without truces was being revealed to deedsem wto ichserve weres a foil toy the shiningul
us on every hand. Hundreds of which of daily and hourly
bodies were lying between the oppos-i occurrence.
ing lines of trenches and there was no Tommy is sick of the war—dead
chance to bury them. Fatigue parties in minablef it. He is nwof ot mthe inter -
chance to
out at night to dispose of htsprecession of weary of
comfortless
those which were lying close to the) nights and maidaymed
He is n the
parapets, but the work was constant- tight wof maimed and of- waidingting
men—of
ly delayed and interrupted by Persia- the awful the wordsor of vattipa for
tent ,sniping and heavyshell fire, Oth-.death. Insong,he d of, tho go'ono}"
ere farher out lay here they had Butlittlthere does "want to im which But is that within which
fallen day after. day and week after says, "Hold on!" He is a compound of
week. Many an anxious mother in cheery optimism and grim enacity
England wee. Reeking news of a son which makes him an incomparable
whose bbdy had become a part of fighting man•
that Flemish landscape. � The intimate. picture of him which
During the weak followingthe cone lingers most willingly in my mind is
nienement of the offensive, the that vvhiclt I carried with meirom the
wounded"were brought back in twostrenches on the dreary November
and threes from the contested area
evening shortlybefore I
e o badeg and
ghim
which attacks and counter -at
over goo(} -bye. It had been raining a
tacks were teking Pace. One plucky sleeting for a week. The trenches
Englishman was discovered about wore knee-deep in water, in some
}qty yards in front of our trenches. laoes waist-deep,for the round was
Pee was waving a handkerchief tied as level as a flr and there was no
to the handle of his intrenehing tool. possibility of drainage. We were
Stretcher-bearers ran out under fire wet through and our legs were numb
and brought him in: Ho had been with the cold. Near our gun posi-
wounded to the foot when his company tion there was a holo in the floor of
were' advancing up the slope fifteen the trench whore the water h col -
hundred yards away. When it was lected in a deep pool. A bridge of
found necessary to -retire, he had been boards had been built around one side
left with many dead and wounded of this, but in thc darkness a peascr-
comrades, far from the possibility of by slipped and fell into the icy we-
help by friends,. He had bandaged, ter nearly ;up to his arm -pits,
his wound with his first aid field (Irene! "Now, then, matey!" said an excis-
ing, and started crawling back, a few; porabing voice, "bathin' in our private
yards at a time. He secured food I pool without a peranit'l
from the haveracics of dead ocmrades, Aud another, `"Erre, son! This ain't
and at length, after a week el' painful , '
creeping, reached our lines. a swimmin havvthl 7hats our tea
Another of our comrades was dis-
covered by a listening patrol, six days
after he had been iwoutliled. He, too,
wet blanket."
"Seeven of them, an' that dazed like,
they wasna good for onything. Mon,
it would ha' been fair, murder to kill
'em! They waste weentin' to fight."
Boys scarcely out of their teens
talked with the air of old veterans.
Many of them had been given their
first taste of 2eai fighting, and they
were experiencing a very common and
natural reaction. Their courage had
been put to the most severe test and
had not given away, It was not dif-
ficult to understand their elation, and
one could forgive their boastful talk
of bloody deeds. One'highly strung
lad was dangerously near to nervous
breakdown. Ile had bayoneted his
first German and could not forget the
experience. He told ,of. it over and
over as the line moved slowly along.
man rifles, not the street lamps of
e'Berlin,
III. Christian Practice
water yer a-standin' in!"
Tho Tommy in the pool mast have
been nearly frozen, but for a moment
he made no attempt to get out,
"Ono o' you fetch me a bit o' soap,
will you?" he meld coatringly. "You
ain't et -goat to talk about tea Water to
a bloke wot ain't tad a bawth fit seven
weeks"
It is men oil 'this stamp who have
the fortunes of England in thele keiip-
ing. And they are milled, "The Bove
of the bulldog Breed,"
(The end,)
It ban Be Done.
-1 eetuit (nettously)-$hall T marls
On* tilt my feet, 61r?
Lie rtanant (earoastieally -•- 10
deer fellow, did you ever htoit et
roorking Oho with the 1lende•f
a. Aero -.u. « ri r:A.-..
LONDON BABIES
AND TIE BARRAGE
STQRIE$ O1 ENEMY AIR RAIDS
TOLD 16Y EYEWI'T'NESS,
One of the Most Remarkable Features
es the Amazing Heroism of thQ
East End Children.
T happened' to be walking along a
quiet road in the suburbs of London
at 10 o'elook the other evening when
suddenly the crash of guns broke out
and the pink maroon lights, which
serve as a warning. that enemy air-
craft is approaching, wore shot into
the sky, says a London correspondent.
There was a most unearthly scream-
ing of sirens and hooters—a really
deafening noise!
And then the bombs began to fall.
The whole thing happened immedi-
ately, before we even had time to ran.
Behind us roared a certain well-known
"Archie" -London anti-aircraft gun—
and the patter -patter from its shrap-
nel as it fell on the pavement was far
from .pleasant and rendered walking
in the 'open streets more dangerous
than did Fritz's bombs! •
But we have grown hardened these
days, anti, though we hurried a little
faster than usual, we did not feel seri-
ously alarmed, nor did we "get the
wind up" as the soldiers say,
Terrors of Air Raids.
Stories have been told me,soym, e
of the poorer Londoners concernin
the raids that run from grave to gay.
Churches, crypts, cellars and tubes
are filled with the poor East Enders
whenever the raids begin. Their own
miserable dwellings afford but little
protecteon, and—judging from the
way they flock together into so-called
"refuges"—they evidently believe
that there's safety in numbers. '
There are those among them, how-
ever, who will not leave their rickety
homes. -
I'd sooner die among me pots and
pane,' declared one old lady of eighty.
four, who clung tenaciously to her lit-
tle house, although she had "seen the
front door go past me up the front
staircase,"
Another old Londoh woman, who is
too terrified to go to bed for fear of
night raids, was saying what she
Would do when peace comes.
"I shall take Inc steckin's off," she
remarked airily. "I haven't had 'em
off for two years," '
Heroic Little Girls.
The heroism of the children in
these air raids is remarkable. Listen
to the story oflittle ten -year-old
girl, who along vv'ith her small bro-
ther, was rendered homeless `her mo-
ther missing.
After the relief 'committee had sent
them to a shelter, the little girl re-
membered that "the lady upstairs"
had a baby which was asleep at the
time of the explosion!
So she and her little seven-year-old
brother sallied forth into the night to
find the baby.
The boy's courage failed him in the
darkened, bombarded streets, and he
ran back into safety. But the little
girl went on, and in the dark she
groped about among the ruins and de-
bris of the tenement where once she
lived, and which was now reduced to
atoms, until she found the baby.
It was then too dark to venture
back, so the little girl sat nursing the,
baby in the ruins alone all night and
arrived triumphantly at the relief de-
pot the next morning, with the baby
in her small arms!
Courage of Seven -Year -Old.
A Lonclon•tram conductress told me
that her five little children, the oldest
a seven-year-old girl, were all alone at
home when the raid began. -
As soon as she was off duty she hur-
ried home through the bombardment,
creeping along in shelter of walls and
houses and frightened for the safety
of her babies.
"The little, ones are timid," she
said. "They might have gone mad
with fright and rushed out into the
streets!"
But when she got home she found
that the eldest little girl—only seven
years—had got her four little bro-
thers and sisters out of bed the mo-
ment the raid had started, had dressed
them all, brought them downstairs,
gathered them all under the -kitchen
table, had lighted a candle and was
reading to them out of the Bible!
"And they were all as good as
goldle she added. "Just as I tcame
into the' kitchen one of them had be-
gun a prayer for their father, who is
fighting at the front, 'Please, God,
don't let the Germans hurt our daddy!'
—with never a fear for their own
safety, poor little mites!"
THE SIZE OF TH11 SUN.
Extra Depth of Atmosphere' Account-
able for its Appeara e,e.
During the day, when the sun is
high, nothing is near it to compare it
with in distance, so we think it ie
small; but when we see it on the hori-
zon, with houses and trees and church
spires intervening, we believe it to be
la•ge. Ilow often have you swallowed
this explanation as the truth? To be
candle), itis a sciontific fib, To prove
it, look at the moon from behind a
lace curtain or from behind a bush, It
will appear not a whit larger.
The real explanation of the sun's ap-
parent dilation is this; The sun is era
larged at sunset because the air mag-
nifies it. Of course the air.' is in a con-
dition to magnify objects all day. But
'when the sun stands high, we look up
through only a thin layer of air,
whereas at sundown our *wee have to
pieroe the entire depth of the atmos-
phone—multiplied at least 10 times,
This accounts for the enlargement of
the sun. Dust and heated air appear
to bo the causes of the magnlfloation.
Thus the phenomenon is move notice.
able in summer and autumn, our dusty
seasons,
You 'Now It's True.
Yon are only playing at forld sav-
ing ,yet, In Engiand and Eraneo
they are "doing" it,
WAR AND POOP SERIES, ARTICLE No, 14—IlYIYI,'Eg,
Canada's butter exports have been remains will be in better shape fo
another meal. •
on the downward grade for a number
of yeti's and while in 1906 her net ex-
Porte amounted to 68,886,074 pounds
in 1916 they had dropped to 8,908,100
pounds.
On the other hand, Britain's normal
imports of butter amount to 452,796,-
264 pounds and her shortage due to
the war is 209,148,784 pounds,
As much butter as possible should
be made on the farms of Canada.
Every pound that the, farmer's wife
can make will find a ready market
and if the output were inereased a
hundredfold it would stilel be sold.
Butter -making now should be one
of the most profitable sources of in-
come on the farm and it is one in
which the farmer's wife is particular-
ly interested. A considerable portion
of the butter made in Canada Is
churned right on the farms. The
trouble is that in many cases there is
a lack of proper equipment with the
result that the butter does not come
up to the standard of creamery but-
ter and therefore does not fetch as
good a price. The creamery butter -
maker is supplied with a full outfit of
utensils and apparatus which enable
him to recover the maximum quantity
of butter from the cream. On the
other hand, the farmer's wife is fre-
quently handicapped for lack of equip-
ment.
With the great demand for butter
that now prevails it would be a
profitable investment on the part of
the farmer and his wife to get the
most up-to-dateand scientific equip-
ment for their butter -making. As
time goes on the market will widen
for the mllch cows of Europe are be-
coming scarcer all the time and much
dependence will be placed on the North
American continent for a supply of
butter. In any event,whether theo
butter -making equipment on the farm
is up to date or old-fashioned the out,
put should not be allowed to flag. The
scarcity of fats is among the most
serious food problems in Europe.
Short Cuts To Housekeeping.
Buy a soap cup, the kind that hangs
on the side Cif the bucket, and place
your cake of soap in this. Each time
you need it you have it right at hand
and don't have to look and dip your
hand in scrub water, It also•saves
marks on the floor from soap and
keeps your soap from melting away
in the water.
One of the surest ways to make a
small piece of meat go a good ways is
to have it nicely cooked and to serve it
with a very sharp knife. A good-
sized roast will not go far if cut with
a dull carver, whereas if each slice is
trimmed off just right, each person
will be satisfied with less, andtwhat
Colors That Blend. .
Not many of as are as clever at de-
tecting shades as a certain famous
Swiss ribbon manufacturer, who is
said to be able to discern twenty..
seven hundred different colors, Blend-
ing colors is even harder than finding
them in the fleet place.
Black combines well with almost all
shades except those utterly lacking in
brightness of tone, Black and pale
pink, blue, yellow, green, red, laven-
der, champagne, Blear brown, and
green ' are excellent combinations.
Brown goes well with yellow, gold,
and bronze, that is if it is a bright
shade of brown. Also with dark green,
and black. The dull browns and chocol-
ate browns go beat with old rose and
pinky shades.
Dark blue may be brightened by
lines of rich red, old rose, or clear
yellow, or peach, but cadet and elec-
tric blue are poor blenders, black 'he-
xing the only thing one can put on to
accompany them.
The Children's Menu Card.
It is always important that the chiI-
dren be well fed. But it Is one of
our gravest concerns in wartime.
Give the children plenty of whole-
some food. Do not stint them on
whole milk, and butter. These menus
are planned for the child five to seven
years old:
BREAKFAST
Baked Apple
Well -cooked Cereal with two or three
Dates, served with Top Milk
Milk to drink Toast and Butter
MIDMORNING LUNCH
'Bread Butter Milk
DINNER -
Soft -cooked Egg
• Pea Puree Baked Potato
Bread Butter
Milk to drink
Stewed Apricots Cornmeal Cooky
SUPPER
Milk Toast
Baked Custard
Sponge Cake
Cornmeal Cookies.-0ne-half cup-
ful vegetable oil, one-half cupful mo-
lasses, one-half cupful corn syrup, one
egg, six tablespoonfuls sour milk, one-
half teaspoonful soda, two cupfuls
cornmeal, one cupful wheat flour.
Combine the oil, molasses, syrup,
beaten egg and milk. Sift the dry in-
gredients and combine with the liquid
Drop from a teaspoon onto a greased
pan and bake in a moderate oven for
fifteen minutes. This makes fifty-
five to sixty cookies about two inches
in diameter.
DEATH RATHER
ER
THAN EXILE
MANY CIVILIANS IN WAR ZONE
REFUSE TO LEAVE HOMES. •
Incidents of Suffering by Flemish
People During Present Period
of Terror.
Hundreds of Flemish homes, within
the theatre of the present offensive,
have been shorn of their protectors,
who have been called to the French
colors, and for these this has been a
time of double terror, writes a war
correspondent on April 17th. During
the general exodus of civilians, now
in progress, some of the peasants
clung to their cottages, amidst the
crashing htih sol-
diers led theofmsawells,ay,unil Some Brhtisave died
fighting by their own hearths before
they could be removed. A host of
these people must have realized their
danger, but numbers refused to be
dragged from the homes which they
had been keeping so patiently, await-
ing the return of husbands or bro-
thers from the war. There were many
pitiful eases of homes in which there
were bedridden invalids, whom their
friends had no means of removing
without help from the soldiers.
ICinidness of British Officials. e
It wds'only yesterday that a British
official photographer, whe was re-
cording the history of the war on his
helpless paralytic
films, discovered a hepas 1 na1
Y
p
lying in a house which had already
been partly wrecked by shells, The
!invalid had no relatives, and hie
friends, who had looked after him,
were dead or cut off ftom him. So
'the photographer, with the assistance
of a soldier, carried the man to safety,
though their road lay through what
might have been a horrible death at
any moment. This ie one instance
among many.
Sometimes there is no way of sav-
itlg valuables of bulkin towns which
come first under the fire of the Ger-
men troops. Relics and treasures have
been abandoned to the flames and to
plunderers. Many things' have been
deliberately iiestroyccl by their owners
in order that tine Germane night not
get them,
The Wreck of a home,
The correepondent spent a night
recently at a small hotel in a hamlet
whosf doom seemed to be sealed. The
grey aired matron who presided over
the destinies of the itln Was getting
ready to leave. I•Ter husband le an
°Meer in the French army, and she
was left alone to plan, not only, for
her establishment, but for her three
ohlldren. It was a touching sone to
see het going sadly from room to
room of the place which had been her
home since the day she WAS married,
The correspondent found her at one
time gazing at a priceless pieta of an•
Clavi: Oriente; embroidery, which had
been intricately framed and hung on
the wall•
"Have you a knife?" she asked
suddenly, as she reached up and re-
moved the treasure.
The knife was produced. She stood
the frame before the correspondent
and said: "Cut it, please. I will not
leave this for the boche." And so the
silken fabric was slashed from the
frame. It seemed like sacrilege or
vandalism, but there was no other
way. This embroidery and a feev more
valuables were the only things which
could be removed from this combin-
ed inn and residence of one of the
most prominent families in that part
of the country. As the matron ,pass-
ed into another room she was mur-
muring softly to herself, "Oh, my
home, my home!"
.TRAP THAT NATUR•.MADE.
Asphalt Pool Furnishes Wonderful
Lessons in Book of Nature.
Six miles east of the city of Los
Angeles, Cal, is a trap. It is not
merely prehistoric, but pre-Noahian,
antediluvian, and, in fact, indescrib-
ably ancient.
It is a pool of asphalt 500 feet
across, solid at the edges, but softer
and stickier as the centre is ap-
proached. Apparently it was much
the sante many thousands of years
ago -perhaps much softer and stickier
yet,
Small animals, fleeing• from bigger
ones, took a short cut over the as-
phalt pool. If only one foot stuck
that was the end; they could not es-
cape. But elephants, mastodons, c
an-
els, sabre-toothed tigers met the same
fate. •
Strange creatures seem to have liv-
ed on this continent in ancient days.
We should never have imagined that
they did prowl about this New World
of ours if it wore not that their re -
maims have beon dug up. The asphalt
pool hear Los Angeles has told a won -
chows story,
Near the surface of the asphalt
pool are found skeletons of present-
day animals; deeper, animals not now
native to California; deeper still, ani-
mals not now known on the earth,
and deeper still animals hitherto un-
known in any age,
Recoveries from the pool have
proved that anciently there were in
that region tigers more formidable
than sty tiger of modern Bengal.
Their saber-like teeth were four tines
as long as the distance their mouths
could, open. The heist could not pos-
silt)° bite with them. They were
Weapons, used to strike the prey, tear -
Ing long palms.
Among other retrains that have beets
fenny in the pool are those of ante-
lopes with spiral horns; eagles, hawks,
condors (the last doubtless attracted
NT [initials steugaliitg in the asphalt),
and a bird inuch larger than the con-
dor--larget, in fact, than those of any
known bled; its bones actually larger
than those of ri maul
The asphalt pool is a book of na-
turo ftwaishing the most wonderful
and inetruetive lessons.
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ADDRESS OF REAR•ADMIRAL
HERR, OF TIIE AIR COUNCIL.
Sao Man Has a Greater knowledge of
Aircraft and Its Possibilities •
Than the Admiral.
War has made very incredible ,and
fantastic dreams of ten years or less
ago commonplaces of the present, Yet
no development has been more swift
and dramatic than that of aircraft,
Every day gigantic strides are being
made in the farther conquest of the
air by man, and with the arrival of
peace there will have to be laws laid
down to meet the vast aerial traffic
that is certain to become a part of the
fabric of civilization.
All air vehicles will have to be re-
gistered, like our'shipping, They will
have a Plimsoll mark, or its equiva-
lent, and no doubt a Lloyd's list will
grow up with class A 1, and so forth,
for vessels taking passengers and
mails in the air. If they do not carry
a flag they will be classed as pirates,
the police will knock them down, and
it will be a long fall.
As a matter of fact, there is in ex-
istence a large association which has
aerial laws of its own. It is an asso-
ciation of birds known as the "lost
souls of the Bosphorous'l• They have
laws clearly laid down, and.fly in large
groups, and I have never seen any of
them in collision. Almost as if using
a compass they navigate the air, and
I have noticed that those flying south-
east pass over those flying north-west.
When our own aerial laws are made
we shall have to take a hint from
those birds, and use the compass in
malting rules for passing.
Imagination and Energy.
Aerial law is one of the foundations
on which the aerial communication of
the futurewill rest, Its statutes will
have to provide for regularity in wire-
less communications, rule of the air,
aerial navigation, and in addition to
this, the rights 01 states and individu-
als to pass through the atmosphere
over countries and properties belong-
ing to other peoples, and also control
of landing -places on the lines of
routes, as well as the licenses to be
granted, authorizing types of ma -
machines that may be used for con-
veyance of passengers and nails, and
testing the qualifications of those in
charge of these aircraft.
In my opinion the formation of the
Royal Air Force is a distinct advance
in aeronautics. It means the estab-
lishment of a General Staff whose
business it is to devote their imagina-
tion and energy principally to the
study of aerial problems, a subject
too great to be looked on as a by-pro-
duct of the work of any other Minis-
try. To do so would be going back to
the ancient days when the sailors
sailed the ship, and the soldiers fought
the sea -battle. • We all know the re-
sult of that system was to produce a
state of stagnation in matters con-
nected with the sear
When the blessed day of peace ar-
rives there will be a great atrug le all
over the world to get a start of others
in matters commercial, and-0no of tiro
principal features will be priority in
aerial communication.
•LLB+ -n . rnf 1 't'raining.
These things cannot b"std„`
denly. It is essential that wo most
prepare. Preparation means organize
ation, and the strength of organize -
tion is the law. As a .nation we are
prone, in things new, to wait for
others to give us the lead, and after-
wards we' generally catch them up and
pass' them; but I have ridden many
hundred races in my time, and though
in some things to ride a waiting race
is necessary, yet I Dever saw a jockey
who did not believe that one length
gained at the start was worth a good
three pounds in weight, Other coun-
tries aro already getting into training,
and we must do the cam°,
There will be ninny dilllcttlties, but
difficulties are an incentive to our
n when confronted with them
race, and ,
wo must throw our minds hack to the
great men of the past who, with the
smallest means, performed the groat -
est deeds. Sir Walter Raleigh it was
who first put into words the truth of
sea -power, He said, "I•Io who corn -
Mande the sea, commands the cern-
mance; he who commands the come
nieree, commands the world." All
the great Elizabethans realized this,
and the 'thought spurred them on in
laying out foundations on which wo
have since been building, and it is now
being gradually realized that to Sir
Walter Raleigh's dictum, the power of
the air must be added to the command
of the sea.
"Stir Up Our Sleeping People,"
Imagination and organization in the
poet, by men whose names are now'
household words, have succeeded in
building up the most wonderful fabric
that the world has ever seen. A con-
struction whose stones are nations and
peoples, cemented by the blood of
men who have died for their Ring and
Country, and whose different unite
(are bound together by a great net-
work of maritime communication oft
commerce,spread like a vast web _
over all the globe, and guarded cease-
lessly in the past by the argus-eyed,
British Navy, which must be assisted!
largely in the future by the fieets of,
the air,
This priceless inheritance, bequeath•
ed to us by our ancestors, in which
Iall component parts, whatever their
trace or creed, have an equal Interest,
and enjoy the same freedom, is known,
to'us by the name of the British Em
P
! ire. If we are not to fail In our
truat, we must call` up the same spirit,
of patriotism, imagination,' and work
to our aid, and go through with it, as'
our forefathers did and without re-,
Igard to personal �nterest, and only'
think of the glory of the empire ands
the welfare of the human race ate,
large.
Ire conclusion, I give you this quota-,
tion as a prayer that all should prays
"0! Godof the restless ocean, Lord,
Arbiter of Earth,
Sow us the patriotic seed, and multi.
ply its birth;
Stir up our sleeping people in north,C
south, each and west,
To keep themselves in second thought,
and give their land their best," •
Spring.
Spring has a thousand voices,
A thousand notes of song,
And every heart rejoices
Her chorus to prolong.
She sings of brooklets dancing
Along a pebbled way,
Of forest glades entrancing
And blue birds' roundelay.
Spring hath a thousand glories,
A thousand fairy bands,
She tells us wondrous Stories,
She reaches lavish stands.
Her gifts are golden fruited,
She pledgee joy divine;
In goblets willow -fluted
Of, maple -sweetened wine.
Plant Every Acre.
Every extra acre of wheat farmer's
can put in this spring will save some-
body from starving. Europe is
short about 500,000,000 bushels.
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