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The Seaforth News, 1919-02-13, Page 9UN! OF MR . PILOTS IIA it GING A MOUNTAIN AND OTHER EXPERI.ENCES Such as a Flight With an Eagle and. Having. One's Machine Inter- locked With a Hun Plane. To 'Jiarge into a mountain is' not altogether a common experience of the air, but this is what happened to Flight -Commander A. W. Walston when he was returning from a bomb- ing raid. The gallant airman badset out to bomb Chanak, and he reached his ob- jective in safety. Having dropped his "eggs," and evaded the attention of the anti-aircraft gunners below, he turned for. home. The night had grown intensely dark, however, so that it was impossible to see very far ahead. As cautiously as existing circumstances would permit, Flight Commander Waistell continued the flight: Then of.a sudden a huge mass darker even than the night itself loomed up before him. To avoid the imnact was impossible, and as the machine crashed it caught fire, throw- ing a lurid glow over the side•ff the mountain into which the unfortunate pilot hod barged. Although badly in- jured about the face and knees, the flight -commander managed to get clear of the burning wreckage, and With wonderful endurance and ten- acity mane his way hack to the aero- rlrnme from which he had set out, to report the result of the raid, Objected to Trespassers. For his -^bravery be was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, and it ds• doubtful if a war honor has ever before been awarded as the outcome of such a strange incident. It was not very long before the war that a French aviptor. M. Gilbert, during the. air race from Paris to Madrid was challenged by an eagle to a rtesperate strulrcle for suprem- acy near San Sebastian. Gilbert ilid not lose his nerve. He managed to get at his revolver, and was thus enabled to frighten the eagle away. A unique incident, which ended in the capture of•a German air prisoner, befell a French aviator in the -course of an aerial. combat v-th the enemy. The two atagonists manoeuvred this way and that for battle advantage. Suddenly the Frenchmen, believing himself to be iii an excellent position, dived on the tail of the blark-c' seed machine. The German attempted to avoid the onslaught, with the result that the French machine spun vie- lently, and the tail got stuck between the wings of the Hun 'plane. ' In quite a neat, seirnl the inters locked machines came crashing into k some trees. Neither nilot happened to he hurt. and so ludicrous was the situation that each burst into fits of hearty laughter before the Boche was marched off as a prisoner. Trouble With the Clouds. Clouds have been the cause of many a thrilling experience to a pilot. On one occasion the late Major "Jimmy" McCudden, V.C., on returning from a reconnaissance, ran into a huge bank of cloud that had come up sud- denly and taken him, unawares. I -ie commenced to make an effort to climb above lt, but it seemed without limitations. There was nothing for it but to plunge right into the cloud. The rain beat in his face, and the wind tossed and buffeted the machine like seine frail boat on a howling, angry sea. To add to the confusion, the compass -needle swig round and round, so that all idea of direction was lost. When he believed he had continued his flight sufcieptly long, he put the nose of the machine down, and des- cended to an altitude of about 1,500 feet. Whistling;` shrieking bullets went racing -past him, and he heard the racket of hammer from the ma- chine guns below. So into the howl- ing tumult of cloud he turned again, When next he emerged it was be- hind the British lines; but he con- fessed that on-fessed,that he•would have much pre- ferred meeting any number of the enemy to undergoing that battle with the elements. Mysteries of the Air. Id its The air also holds mysteries, i en upthe secret of yet has it given g Cecil Grace or Gustav Hamel. To the list 'df such secrets of the air must. - be added the case of Capt. Picton Warlow. Tta was towards the close 'of 1914 that the Bleriot two-seater monoplane was discarded by the military author- ities as being too slow in climbing with the full' military load. Suchs 'buses of this type as could be spared from service at the Front, and were serviceable for school purposes, were allowed to be flown back by officers. coming on leave. With a sufficient supply of petrol to last him for twice the distance of his intended flight; Captain Warlow, after testing the aeroplane with'a short "flip," set out for England. The weather was fine at the Vane, with a certain amount of low-lying cloud. Never since has he been heard of. We must wait until the sea gives up Its dead. In hanging "clothes see that they are pulled straight on the -line. p L1aekLa A brand-new idea for a school frock for the sprightly little mass, featuring the vestee effect with belt slipping through slashes at each side of front and fastening under the vest. Mc- Call Pattern No. 8730, Girl's Dress. In 5 rises, G to 14 years. Price, 20 cents. This neva side-c:oa:ng dress may be converted into quite a dressy affair by adding the overdress, which consists of back and front panels with broad belt cut in one. ; McCall Pattern No. 8746, Ladies' Convertible Dress. In 8 sizes, 34 to 44 buit Price, 25 cents. Transfer Design No. 944. Price, 20 cents. tinese patterns may pe from 'Nur'. local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. London's Net Defences. One eof the great secrets of Lon- don's defences against air raids is now revealed. _ That was the great screen of nets .which were suspended in certain directions%to keep off the raiders. These were not nets in the ordinary sense. At first they were really strings suspended at a certain height from balloons, so that if a raider happened to come against them his machine became entangled and disabled and brought to earth. A man who stands on slippery ground cannot play his stroke.—Lloyd George. Chi lt:her- 1.0Ve s tJ to xti�y v •N` g i The. natural con- stituent ,of lea l '. an,clt . wheat,.swG'c?t -- crted'",` .':%3� s ,ar d0iveti~'b: "ed.from the•:r•,a i'ns them - se Ives in the tri, ,I int$ of this famous food, bpr �Qvide. a true uildn6 nour- ishment not found so com- pletelyin other- cer�eas . w . . "7he're:s a Reason" '. Conde rood Board License Naeop seen - MAKING THAT IDLE SATELLITE JUSTIFY ITS EXISTENCE Plan to Utilize' the Power of the Tides_ For the Production of Mech. aniutl Leer"gy. It seems a fair guess that"the next great epoch-making invention—in- colnperpbly more important to the future of mankind than the flying machine—will furnish : means for harnessing the moon, whereby that long idle satelite may be compelled to justify its existence by working for the benefit of the earth's inhabitants. As the `earth revolves, the moon, by the attraction of its enormous mass (73,000,000,000,000 tons), raises that part of the ocean nearest it to a height of about three feet, thus form- ing a wave that travels around the globe once in twenty-four hours. We call this wave the tide. To utilize the power of the tides for the production of mechanical en- ergy is a problem that has been much discussed, and which, in a small way, may be said to have been measurably solved. Such being the case, it seems very odd that the method employed, undeniably successful on a minor Iscale, should not have beep developed on a large and compreherisive plan, Already 'Used on Atlantic Coast. One might say, indeed, that the invention in question was long ago an accomplished fact. For during many years past there have been in operation along the New England coast, at points where tidal inlets offered opportunity, flour mills and sawmills run literally by moon power. Where such local condition exist it is an easy matter to dam the in- let, thus providing the reservoir into which the sea flows as the tide rises. On the ebb'`` 6f the tide the water is allowed to flow out through a gated opening, causing a wheel to revolve and driving the machinery that grinds the grain or saws% the lumber. In some cases the tides are made to do "work both going and coming. To make this method efficient on a large scale, it is necessary merejy to construct reservoirs of great size, with the requisite machinery, in places where huge bodies of water can be handled. Why has not this been un- dertaken? , Nobody knows. But at the present time (so news despatches say) capital is being enlisted for the purpose in England—one scheme con- templated being that of damming the waters of the River Dee and equip- ping an immense power plant with turbine and electric genetators to furnish energy and distribute it for long distances oyer wires. Not merely inlet's but large estu- aries can, it is claimed, be used in I this way for tide storage and the production of transmissible energy on an enormous scale. The little flour mill or saw mill of the New England coast that derives its power from the moon is properly to be regarded as a mere suggestion of the vast things practicable in the same line. Consider the Gulf of California a great arm of the sea with a twelve - foot rise and fall of tide. If a dam were built across it, say competent engineers, it could be made to drive every mill, locomotive and street car on the Pacific slope. Possibilities of Bay of Fundy. Separating Nova Scotia from the mainland is an arm of the sea called the Bay of Fundy. Therethe moon. gets in some very picturesque work. Its attraction piles up• the water in the bay to such an extent that the later rises and falls twenty feet twice in twenty-four hours. Why not provide extensive reser- voirs for the reception of some of this water, and allow it (in flowing out), to operate turbines? A small fraction of the power that thus 'goes to waste would suffice to run the ma- chinery of all the factories on the Atlantic coast, operate all the rail- roads and trolleys, light all the cities and heat all the houses and business buildings. Many years ago a United States warship lying in a Chinese river lost one of its' big guns overboard. How the accident happened' is not a mat- ter of record, but this has nothing to do withthe story. The gun layhalf buried"in the mud. of the river bottom and all attempts to fish it up proved fruitless. Then a Chinaman came along and offered to undertake the job. The terms were no pay unless he delivered the goods. "Go ahead," said the officer in command—incredulous, of course, for 'how could a Chinaman accomplish what Americans had found to 'be impracticable? The Chinaman brought half a dozen helpers and some tall "sheerlegs," which he planted deep in the mud. The sheerlegs were provided with a sub- stantial wooden float, which was at- tached by ropes to the gun—the water being of no great depth. The next tide raised the float six feet and with it the gun. Made fast at that height, timbers were placed be- neath the float again and yet again, so that each subsequent tide lifted .it, and the gun along with it, an addi- tional six feet. The process was con- tinued until the gun was raised clear. out o4 t7tg water anti placed on the della of'the nsaxshnp. ' The U. S. na4a1 officers we're aston- ished. But it was a very old idea from fDrbainei's'tienpaint. For many Centuries they, bad been miens- to'iiied tostaee this method for lifting huge stones required in •the conetruc- tion of docksand for other purposes. Given sheerlegs long enough and plenty of timbers, any, submerged ob- ject, no matter how big or how heavy, could• be raised by such means, not only out of water but hundreds of feet into the air. -What, after all, was the secret? Whence the -power? What, nothing could be more simple. The .Chineincn who recovered` the warship's 'gun and placed it 'again on her deck were availing themselves of no earthly energy. They were em- ploying the pull of the moon. THE GERMAN NAVAL MIND ]; G MA Conduct of Crews of Scapa Flow Fleet is a Mystey to British. "'lIt is all very well to talk about psychology and ' understanding the German mind," said a nijval officer, "but I'm hanged if I know where to start" Certainly if one studies the officers and crews of the seventy odd ships in the German Scapa Flow fleet one does not . know where to start. They are so un -British, in fact, they areso un- like the rest of the world in their behavior, that there seems no logcal bridge by which one can cross to ap- preciate their mental workings. Their lack of discipline, says a writer in the London Daily Mail, has already been much commented on and may be broadly attributed to theist degeneration as a fighting force; but to what mental process can one at- tribute the fact th'ot the German sea- man slavishly obeys a direction given him by a British officer and yet pre- serves -an attitude of neutrality to- ward his own'? I For that is the general experience of our officers who have on duty visited the German ships. The German seamanwill run about at once at a hint from a British officer. Perhaps that is the spirit that made the Ger- man waiter the success he was in pre- war days, but the British naval man finds it difficult to understand, for he cannot by any stretch of the imagina- 1 tion picture himself acting likewise in similar circumstances. Yet an- other puzzle is that the German sea- men have been seen to salute their representative on the Sailors' and Workmen's Council when they have disregarded their own officers. The mental processes of the Ger- man officer, too, are no less difficult. The German officer occasionally sal - Sites a British officer. , It seems to de- pend on the nature of the German himself whether he does or not. But contrast with this is the fact that when some American mine -sweepers passed through the German lines all the officers on the deck of one of the I German ships stood to the salute as the leading American vessel passed. Why? One hazards the guess that the Germans may think the Ameri- cans more friendly than the British, but one cannot understand the reason- ing, Yet another point which astonishes i the naval officer. At the very time that the German High Seas Fleet was abandoning its proud title by refus- ing to fight, a gallant submarine offi- cer—for there. is no other adjective to most men's minds—made an at- tempt to get into Scapa Flow and work havoc among the units of the British Fleet then assembled there. He failed, and his ' submarine was blown up owing to our adequate de- fences, but it was a bold attempt and in accord with the best traditions of naval warfare. Truly, one is "hanged if one knows where to start" to understand the German naval mind. s--o—a LISTEN TO MIS SAYS CORNS LIFT RIGHT our NOW You reckless men and women who are pestered with corns and who have at least once a week invited an awful death frouilockjaw or blood poison are now told by a Oincinuati'authority to use a drug called freezone, which the moment a . few drops are applied to any corn, the soreness is relieved and corn,root and all,lifts h entire soon the the fingers, with • It is a,,,eticky ether compound which dries the 'moment it is applied and simply shrivels the corn without in- flaming or even irritating the surround- ing tissue or skin. It is claimed that a quarter of an ounce of freezone will cost very 'little at any of the drug stores, but issufficient to rid one's feet of every hard or: soft corn or callus. You are further warned that cutting at a corn is a suicidal habit. The British authorities in charge of the ocupation in the German zone assigned to. the British army have ordered all the German men to raise their hats to British officers. They must do similarly when the British National Anthem is sung. Islhard's Liniment Cares tlplds, God is served as truly by a just judge as by a minister of the Gospel. —list Bishop of London. "Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be dis- Greet,"—Teltnudt NEWS FROM EL,AND NEWS .11T MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE Occurrences In the Land Thht Reigns Supreme in the Cone. enercial World. Britain has already sent a vessel of six thusaond tons, containing grain, to be sown in Serbia: Premier Lloyd George has ordered a pair of boots made by disabled sol- diers under the Y.M.C.A. A shrine has been consecrated at Dover in memory of 800 officers and men of the trawler and mine sweep- ers' section of the Dover patrol. Admiral Sturdee unveiled a monu- ment to the memory of 130 naval. ratings who were killed* in an enemy air raid on Chatham Naval Barracks in September," Lady Lincolnshire has given one thousand guineas towards the War Hospital, which'i being built at High Wyecombe. From 191a .to 1918, the Isle, of Thanet underwent one hundred and nineteen air raids and bombardments by the Germans. A giant aeroplane, named the Go- liath, of 1000 horse power, to carry twenty people, will be used as an aerobus between London and Paris. The Leeds Chamber of Commerce have taken in hand the establishment of an international air station at Leeds. The Royal South Bucks Agricul tural Association will resume their annual ploughing matches after a lapse of five years. Princess Patricia of Connaugh opened the annual sale of the Police Court Mission held at Kensington Town Hall. H. Playford, steward of the North- wood Golf Club, has one brother, a sailor, and eight brothers soldiers, seven of whom have been wounded. Itis no longer necessary to have a license to purchases farm horses for town work in Britain. The Cunard Steamship Company have placed,. orders with Vickers' Limited, at Barrow, for the construc- tion of new' liners. One thouband -five hundred tons of potatoes .is the normal supply requir- ed for one day in London. Two airmen fired at and killed a hare while -flying over Ramsay Hol- low, Huntingdon. The London Society of Compositors i have granted £600 to the Labor War !Memorial of Freedom and Peace. .. The weather has been very cold. in North Yorkshire, all the pools and ponds being frozen over. The King has received an anony- mous contribution of £10,000 for the King's Fund for Disabled Soldiers and ,,Sailors. For cutting the uppers of women's boots more than seven inches high a Bethnal Green shoemaker was fined £20. A consignment of bananas which arrived recently in London .is,being retailed to the public at fourpence a banana. "THREE ACRES AND LIBERTY" Co-operative Farms for Disabled Sol- diers Started in England. Among the myriad schemes for rendtring °disabled soldiers self-sup- porting and at the same time happyr. is the Vanguard Farm at Sutton Val- ence, Kent; Splendid acreage has been secured and the farm is worked co-operatively. Severely injured sailors andsoldierswith their families can settle on the land, each family being given a cottage, stock, seeds, I etc. The community does the farm- ing, each member contributing ac- cording to his physical ability. Any surplus products and stock are sold through the co-operative centre. There is an arangement whereby members of the colony may'purchase their cottages, land and stock by easy instalments. The work on the farm is already under way and there le a long list of applicants. Since there will, in all probability, be similar attempts in Canada to provide Garden Cities or co-operative farms, the question of up-to-date housing that is also economical and low in its first cost is one that will receive investigation. Probably one of the best of these is what is called the "pour house." In the: Self Mas- ters" Colony of Union, New Jersey, houses fourteen of these have been erected. A set of wooden moulds°is built at the cost of a few thousand dollars and concrete is poured into them. These moulds are rented to the house builders and within a week the house is finished, . a six -000m, thousand dollar house, proof against fire,'vermin and earthquakes, forever free from repairs, insurance and a non-conductor of heat or cold. When the concrete is set the moulds are re- moved and rented to the next home- steader, r�- The Queen's Flag. While the King is away the Queen's flag is flying on the stair over the front' of Buckingham Palace, where her Majesty is in residence. The Queen's flag, a standard, contains eight quarterings, four of them being the same as the King's Standard and the others four the arms of her mo- ther, who was Princess Mary of Cam- bridge, quartered with those of her father, the late Duke cif Tech. ED 7. ISSUE. 7—'19. NOW "QUEEN OF WALES" MOIST ,SCAT J5D BLACK PDX, PAY SUIT- ' Patti at Seventy4, 1%;'R les Now :in liahte r•ewar4., {told'.;ir4m Betji till. Ont. f .aF`�., . Her' Welsh eta Cle. According to -a magazine writer "Patti lives, not„only in our hearts, but really in the flesh, at the age of 76, in her magnificent castle of Craig -y -Nos, 10 railer north of Swan- sea, in South Wales, on which she has spent quite half a million. She lives there with her third husband, Baron Cederstram, and ° sometimes, when they feel inclined, they throw open their theatre, a replica of the Baireuth Theatre, to the countryside and give one of the operas in which ' Patti once thrilled the world. Until recently Patti was even sometimes prevailed upon to appear at Albert' Hall in London for the .benefit of some charity, but her beauty is quite gone—it vanished far earlier than her voice—and so, for the most part, she is happiest in her Welsh fast- nesses, among the neighbors, who will always call her the "Queen of Wales'' ." deeP Your Heart TO-NIGIHT TRY Minard's Liniment for that Cold and Tired Feeling. Get Well, Keep Well, Kill Spanish Flu by using the OLD RELIABLE. MINARD'S LINIMENT 00- Ltd. Yarmouth, N.B. Iislg's Narrow Escapes. Sir Douglas Haig has shared so far as possible the discomforts and dan- gers of his officers and men; indeed, more than once an France and Flan- ders he has had narrow escapes from death. He had only been "out there" some two months when he made a tour of the lines on the Menin road while they were being heavily shelled!,°Aug gie" displayed the coolness which characterizes all his movements, and the effect was notable, for the troops, falling back under an overwhelming attack, rallied at once and drove the enemy back. Not long afterwards Sir Douglas was actually stunned by a shell which killed some of his staff, but he "car- ried on" despite his shaking. These instances are not the only cases in which the Corps or Army Commander was in danger from the enemy's shells. ilDhard's Liniment auras Diphtheria When the Floor Cracks. The.. thin hardwood floor laid on common flooring over a. cellar fre- giiently cups or opens at the joints. That is due to the mc,:sture in the air in the cellar. To prevent thee', cover the entire sub -floor with a heavy 'building paper before the finished flooring is applied'. TWa will reduce the possibility of the wood's swelling to a minimum. There is often an unsigh'tl'y open- ing in a beautiful hardwood floor. You do not know the pause of the crack. Sometimes it will close tight in the summer and open wide in the winter. That is caused by the wood's swelling in the.'warin season and dry- ing an the .hinter when the room will have uniform heat. In most cases, if the common flooring had, been cov- ered with heavy 'building paper, the crack would not have occurred. nfinard'e Liniment euros Garget in Cow, • We are like .people who have been straggling up some stgep and difficult 'mountain range—ranges unexplored and without guides—who suddenly, before they themselves expected, find themselves on the crest of the ridge, and who Took upon all the difficulties they have overcome, and see before them, spread out under the bright sunshine of hope, a great and fertile plain of human progress,—Mr. Bal- four. 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King Charles I. may now breathe freely once more. Workmen are en- gaged in taking away the sandbags and scaffolding of the statue of King Charles I in Trafalgar Scmare, Lon- don. This is the first time,, the head of the Stuarts has been permitted to breathe freely for many months. All sorts of speculations have been rife as to thereasonfor the extensive protectionthat has been accorded this statue, one of them being that there was a Jacobite at, the Office of Works. The probable reason however statue however, is the undeniable beaut of ' y t , MONEY ORDERS Send a Dominion Express Money Order. They Ire payable everywhere. 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