Zurich Herald, 1928-01-19, Page 3`aThe Submarine"
Poem by S-4 Victim Laughed
at the Dangers of Life
Under Sea "In u ,;
Damned . Old
Sub'
Washington.—The lure of the sub-
!marine, as well as some of the 'perils
of life in naval "pig -boats,' as the un-
•.dersea vessels are 'called by the sail.
etre, are vividly pictured in ea Poem
written some time ago by, Walter
Bishop, of 1,412 N Street, Southwest,:'
this city, radioman, who_ lost his life
When the submarine S-4 sank oft the,
Provincetown coast of • Cape Cod
The poem, Which was given out' by
Mrs. Bishop for publication in ` The,
Washington Post, is almost"prophetic
in its recital of the dengern daily en
countered by officers and enlisted men
aboard the under -water craft,.
You've 'no doubt heard the people
rave
Of battleships, spotless and clean.
But-stopi Have -you ever heard a word
•Of.life on a submarine?
I shall try, to tell you the story,
Now. that I think I' inaye:
And am hoping that you'll hesitate
Ere going your busy' way.
In. the Cankerous mind of the devil
Ther festered a fiendish scheme;
ale called his cohorts around him
ea And designed the submarine.
They planned and plotted to do their
worst
In perfecting this awful thing;
tnnd since completing their hideous
work;
.
Are awaiting what evil it will bring;
Cls try and describe this: monster
That the imps of hell have wrought:
And when I'm through there's still
the fact
I'll have left out a lot.
And all the time I'll tell about
The officers and the crew,
Some of the hardships we must stand
• And some of the things we do.
The engine room when under way
is a place- of torture for the brafa,
With the two.big Diesel engines
Roaring and shaking as though in
pain.
Throttle man and lowly oiler
Striving to• stand the pace;
While with the rag half -soaked in
fuel oil •
Theywipe the sweat from their
face.
The motor room is another hot place,
'Just motors and pumps and things;
But none the less a busy spot
While the diving signal rings.
The after battery is where we eat;
That is, when we roll the least;
While hanging on to keep our place
Like some prehensile beast.
Most of us in the battery room,
Close to a lurking death; '
With the storage cells giving off gas
That smothers our every breath.
The torpedo room is `a deadly spot,
But we .have small choice, you know;
So some sleep • there, next the over-
head
With tons of TNT below.
The C 0 G is a little place
Just crammed with levels and tools;
And let me tell you, on a dive,
It's not a place for fools.
It takes ten good men to operate
The diving gear that's there,
And each man knows that a clear,
cool brain
Insures his return to' the air.
When the diving siren sounds
There's action never seen
At any place upon the earth
• But inside a submarine.
Hatches are closed and engines se-
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cured,
All openings closed up tight,
For it takes less than a minute
To submerge clear out of sight.
Main motors are started, periscope
raised,
Bow diving planes rigged out;
All done in a very few seconds
And you've never heard a shout.
Everything silent, everything calm,
Not a sound is heard
But the orders of the Captain
Given by quiet word. -
We know it's a serious) business,
You never hear laugh or quip;
Efficiency prevails supreme,
Our lives . are forfeit for a slip.
Tea, daily we make a `risky dive,
While Uncle Sam, with his brim-
ming cup,
Bets us a dollar while we're alive,
A dollar to nothing we don't come
Up. ,
We're bottled up, just like a trap,
With nothing in between
The sea and death but a metal cap
Like the lid on a soup tureen.
We get alive -dollar bonus, •
They tall it extra pay;
But it always goes for dungereele
That the acid eats away.
The beet blood in tite 'aeratce ;,k
'you'll Lind on the old pig boat,
For it takes, more than it Colntmon
mind
To sink and still to Cloak
The oficors aro real he-men
Of character and nerve supremo;.
It takes the keenest intellect
To command a submarine.,
They must`be democratic,
Broad-minded men and strong;
Capable of quiet decision
Should anything go wrong.
The' electrician's mate has .a ^rather
hard lot, •
For labor as much as he might,
He returns from a dive only to find'
He has to charge batteries all, night.
The radio man has lits troubles, too,
Cooped up in a little shack; .•
With an Underwood mill against his
chest
And a bulkhead against his back.
Seamen, torpedo men and gunners'
mates
All have their share of woe;
They must take care of the upper
decks
And the armament below.
Vou've seen thesebronco busters
`Suffer while doing their stuff;
They don't hold a candle to what we
stand •
'When the gods of the sea get rough.
She'll roll . and pitch and twist and
squirm
With the devil's own" curse upon
her; -
The movements, like those of a mighty
sperm,
Cause her to suffer from mal de mer.
With all of this it may seem strange
When you ask a gob off any ,pig
boat; •
He'd rather be there than anywhere
As long ae there's a sub afloat.
There's a sort of fascination r"
Attends this job of ours
That could only be duplicated
By 'a rocket trip to Mars.
We cuss and mutter "never again"
Until we get paid off; •
But the blamed old life will drag
back,
No matter how we scoff.
We all come back,
more,
And there, friends, is the rub:
We like the life beneath the sea—
Life In a damned old sub.
US
come hack for
CLEANING A RAINCOAT
Sunday Sport
Sports on Sunday Are Pleas-
ing to God After Wor-
ship, Bishop Man-
ning Asserts
Perhaps the reader has never clean-
ed her raincoat, fearing that she
might spoil it. The method given
here will prove satisfactory in the
case of rubber `raincoats.
Prepare a large pan of suds made
from a good quality of soap or soap
powder. About four ounces of soap
are required;Let it come to a boil and
let it cool slowly, stirring the suds oc-
casionally. When almost cold; add
four or five ounces of wood alcohol.
If one • is compelled to use hard
water, soften ` it by adding ordinary
dry .soap -powder.
The coat should be spread full-
length upon a table, and the warm
solution brushed well in both on the
right side and the wrong side with a
penetrating scrubbing brush. Use
plenty of suds. If the coat is excep-
tionally dirty, go over it a second
time. Fuller's earth will usually re-
move any obstinate stain. The coat
is then ready for rinsing.
This niust be done quickly. Do not
leave it for a moment. Two or three
rinsings will be required, for "it must
be rinsed .until every trace of soap Is
removed. If any soap is left on the
coat, streaky marks will result when
the coat is dry. The first two rine-
tags must be lukewarm and the last
one cold. In the first, dissolve sal
soda (a handful to 10 gallons of
water) to assist in removing the soap'.
To the final rinsing add acetic acid (a
teaspoonful to two gallons of water)
to sot the color and give the raincoat
a fresh appearance. If the coat is
insufficiently ringed and streaks ap-
pear, rinse it again in the soda sole.
tion. Dry it in the open . air in ,the
shade. • See that all water is out of
the pockets. If left in, rings may ap•
pear which are almost impossible to
remove without repeating the whole
process. •
Raincoats that have lost their re-
sistance to water, can be reproofod af-
ter cleaning. Dissolve one-fourth
pound of alum in one gallon of ,boiling
Water. In another receptacle dissolve
one-fourth pound of sugar of lead in
one, gallon of boiling water, When
both mixtures are thoroughly dis-
solved, pour the two solutions into one
bath. Immerse the coat in the bath
and well saturate every part. Squeeze
as much liquid as possible from the
garment and hang it outside to dry.
When it is quite dry, wash It again in
cold water and dry. When nearly dry
press it with a slightly warmed iron
over a cloth. •
A mackintosh may be cleaned in
much the same way as a raincoat, but
with a paste made of four ounces of
soap shavings boiled in Pour ounces
of water, to which has been added an
ounce of light magnesia. -A fnackin-
tuah, of course, ,should not be ironed,
Rubber cement will mend any tears
so that they are hardly discernible.
Dampen a weight to prevent it from
sticking, and then place it on the
patch to help the cement to adhere,
Father (to daughter)—"So you and
Jobst Gildmore are in love, aro you?
I bnppose you want to get married."
Daughter.. -"No, I don't want to
marry fohn, I want him to marry
ieome other girl so that I can break up
:>n1 itottl ."
Asserting that religion ,is in;t1i'e 'full-
est sympathy with clean sport, Bishop
William T. Manning addressed tile
National collegiate , Athletic Associa-
tion recently. Speaking unexpectedly
at the invitation of Brig. Gen. Palmer
Pierce,, President, of the Association,
Bishop Manning stated that Sunday
sports had a place in the life of • every
one. ^ He also announced Jan. 29 as
the date on which the Sports Bay, the
,quota for which has recently been
filled, would be officially assigned,
The Ilishop's address follows in
part:
"Clean sport as represented and
promoted by your association is one
of the most powerful influences for
the upbuilding of character and for
the development of true manhood and
womanhood, and so I feel that there
should be the closest possible associa-
tion between sport and religion.
"Religion stands for true and up-
right living and for obedience to the
law of God, ` but religion must do this
not only by opposing what is evil but
•by encouraging all that brings happi-
ness and gladness and wholesome
pleasure into human life. We need
to get free from the notion that re-
ligion is opposed to the happiness and
joy of life. One of the great symbolic
description& in the Bible describes
the Holy City to us 'as full of boys
and girls playing in the streets there-
of' which suggests that we shall have
our, sports and recreations, or their
equivalent in the future life as I cer-
tainly believe we shall. And there-
fore while Sunday Is the Lord's Day
and on that day worship should have
first place, my own view is that •pro-
vided our boys and girls perform
their -religious duties on that day they
should then feel quite free to enjoy
thir tennis or golf or other sports, and
I believe it is pleasing to God for
them to do so.
"As you perhaps know, there has
been some discussion and some dif-
ference of opinion as to the propriety
of our having a Sports Bay in the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine. I
have received hundreds of Tetters upon
the subject, not all of them approv-
ing the idea. My own conviction up-
on the matter, however, is entirely,
clear. I feel that it is a splendid and
most significant thing that here in
New York, in the greatst religious edi-
fice in our country, we shall have this
striking symbol of the fact that sport
has its true place in life and that re-
ligion does not frown upon clean sport
but is in the fullest • sympathy with
Henry Ford is going tosend his
friend, Thomas A. Edison, one of 'the
new model cars, but Mr. Edison says
he is going to stick to his thirteen
year-old flivver till it rusts away. Can
it be that he is trying to make a new
Edison record?
They're probably happily married
if they like the same tooth paste.
1 Short Wave Length in 1928
Seen As certain to Follow
Development of Past Year'
Turban, Scarf and 'Cuffs
Ermine trim sets off this attractive
walking suit by Worth.
Lloyd George in
Optimistic Mood
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Commissioner Caldwell Reviews 1927 and Looks Aheadt
to Many •Improvements
By O. H. Caldwell,
Washington (A. P.) -During 1928 or four frequencies instead 'of fifteen
the spotlight of public interest in
radio will turn upon the long reaches
of the radio spectrum below the
broadcasting band. For invention and
commercial: development these .chan-
nels form a vast terra incognita, in
which pioneers are now exploring and
stakingtheir claims.
In the short wave region we may
expect during the year a rush of ap-I
plications for channels which in its
commercial, industrial and economic
reverberations will make the recent
episode 'In the broadcasting band.
seem mild by comparison. Aside from
all other communication demands, it
is clear that futureaviation progress
will depend wholly on these short
waves for communication to airplanes
in flight.
In the broadcasting band through
various methods of synchronizing the
carrier frequency of stations we may
succeed in multiplying by several
times the carrying capacity of exist-
ing channels for regional stations.
Chain station operation on but three
Tells Interviewer at Lisbon,
.World's Peace is
Durable
London—A Lisbon dispatch to the
Daily News detailing an interview
with Lloyd George aboard the steamer
Avelona, quoted the former British
Premier as saying he was convinced
that the world's peace was durable.
Lloyd George compared the present
period witht he aftermath of a great
earthquake and added:
"There still are political shocks and
quivers but the equilibriu;n is being
restored to a solid basis"
The former Premier is on his way
to Brazil "where I am going to rest
and not meddle in politics or journal -
lam for some time."
Politics, he said, "brought me only
disappointment and journalism af-
forded some compensations. I have
got more during four years from
journalism than in 16 as Minister of
the Crown and Prime Minister."
cr twenty may furthereeconomize our
precious channel)),
Single sideband transmission may
cut the present ten -kilocycle separa•
tion nearly in two, further doubling
the channels. lafeanwleile broadcast-
ing service in cities during 1928 may.
start on its inevitable transfer to local
wire systems, telephone or.eleetrio
light, leaving spaceto radio to serve
the open spaces and rural comniuni-
ties
The year 1927 made radio history
In several important respects. Abasic
law for radio control and regulation
was passed by Congress. Television.
or 'seeing by radio," • was accomp-
lished and widely demonstrated. The
lamp pocket receiving set became a
commercial product, mrchandised on
a large scale. Adequate radio chap»
nets have been cleared, reaching into
every home. And by international
agreement among seventy nations fu-
ture operations and development in
the whole radio spectrum have been
outlined and protectedfrom interfer-
ence.
Wasp's Nest in Wooden Leg
London.—There is a wooden leg
with a queer history now reposing in
the Natural History Museum here. It
waseworn by a 'wounded soldier. It
began to irritate him. At 1"ast he took
it off—and out came a dozen wasps.
Analytical -minded experts have dis-
covered that eggs, from which the
wasps hatched, lay in the wood before
it was made into artificial limbs.
"-a—a-4)--
e
e Satisfied
y: "Have you been successful
in y n search for employment?"
Tramp: '• "Yes'm. I couldn't find
any."
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The science of aviation has now ad-
vanced to the point where the air-
plane is a reasonably safe means of
transportation, if Col. Lindbergh's
flying it. -Ohio State Journal.
LEAD UNNECESSARY
Wifle: George, there's.a burglar
In the pantry eating my pies, 1 do
believe.
Hubby: Do you think so? . Then
It won't be necessary for me to give
him a dose of lead.
The whole nation would profit if
Big Bill Thompson ever got the idea
that crooks and gunmen are British
propaganda.—Arkansas Gazette.
Blindly joining the mob won't ,get
you far.
Interesting Historic Ball
LT. GOVERNOR 6F Ql)ESE1
1S HOST TO.OLD TIME NOTABLES
au as D`Aguasseau; Mfrs. Reginald Melaenna, the "tlovernor"s daughter
Stabling, Left to I•lf lit -••-Premier 'i`aoltoY o g ,
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as Marie Leczin ka' Lord Willin don as Charles 1; Lefty Willingdon as Qtieei Ilenrlette Marie; Gov. Perodeau (the
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lost) as Louis XIV. Seated—Miss :"12cl enne as Marie Louise tie France; Capt. 'lu.igo Freeman-Th.oxnas (son of Lar
Willingdon),, as the Duke of Buckingham; Mrs: irreeman-Thomas as the Duchess of 3uckingham.
env t'rotess Stee!
Made by Wireless
In One Hour 450 Pounds Was
Melted in Furnace
London—A remarkable new pro.
cess by which steel is made by wire-
less was demonstrated at the Sheffield
works of Edgar Allen & Co., Ltd.
Four hundred and fifty pounds of
steel were metleed in an hour by'
means of a high -frequency electrical
current which was projected into the
furnace. The current induced heat
sufficient to melt the metal.
The electrical effects were similar
to those used in wireless installations.'
The walls of the crucible served as a
container; no heat passed througli,
and the wooden box containing the
furnace was so cool that the hand
could be placed on it.
First of it's Kind
This furnace, the Ajax- Northrup
high frequency furnace, is the first of
its kind in the world to be used for
the manufacture of high quality tool
steel, The old crucible furnace, fired
by coke or gas, held only 60 lbs- of
metal.
Professor C. H. Desch, Professor of
.Metallurgy, University of Sheffield
after the demonstration, said the fur-
nace provided a means of making high
class steel under strictly controlled
conditions without the slightest dan-
ger of contamination by foreign gases
or anything of that kind.
The boat consumption was remark-
ably low, because the heat vas gene-
rated exactly where it was wanted, in-
side the metal and not outside. The
process seemed to have every pros-
pect of being successful.
Leaning Tower
Of Pisa in1927
"It has been reported that the.
Leaning Tower of Pisa was begin-
ning to lean more than ever. Mind-
ful of the fate of.the.Campanile of
Venice twenty-five years ago, Italy
appointed two commissions to exam-
ine the danger at Pisa," says the
London Daily Telegraph.
"The report is that at the moment,
and in the immediate future, no dis-
aster is to be' feared, but the list of
the Tower is slowly increasing and
to ensure its stability the base must
be strengthened and the streams
which flow underground diverted. At
the present time the Tower is same
14% feet out of the perpendicular. In
1800 the list was less than 18% feet.
These figures are sufficient proof of
the need for watchful care.
"The Leaning Tower is not merely
one of the wonders of the world, fox
its equilibrium between stability and
instablity; it is the noblest building
of its kind, After the crash the Cam-
panile of St. Mark was rebuilt, to
the general admiration. But that was
a shaft of brick, and the arches and
columns of the Tower of Pisa are all
marble. It dates from 1174.
Whether Bonnano and William of
Innsbruck, who wore the architects,
meant their Tower to lean has been
disputed, but the accepted theory now
is that after building was begun the
foundations on the south:side sank,
owing, no doubt, to the underground
water against which precautions are
now, seven centuries later,to be taken.
Foundations were not the strong
point of mediaeval architects.
The foundations of the Leaning
'Tower, which is 1b�0 feet high, only
I go down 10'feet, acid are no larger in
circumference than the building
above 'ground, When the Tower was
up to the third storey, the architects
'seem to have decided that •it must be
given an inclination in the opposite
direction to counteract the subsidence:.
Nearly two hundred years went by
before 'the last arcade and the last
column were wrought and the citizens
1' would climb to the • eighth atom .
where the seven 'helps hang, and loin
Lard over the wonderful prospect of
Ilea and river and mouotaiur
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