HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-08-25, Page 7•NOTES AND C04,11ditiTS AN ANXIOUS TIME GREAT BRITAIN
That -weli known; jou4talist. Frank
• H. Simonds, editor. of thioew York
Triburze,aekerts that Alto est Weer -
acting and hopeful sign t8be found
in the present conflict is the eIer.4
growing friendship belween Praryze
and Britain,. Mr. Simonds recently
• returned from an extensive visit to Does Not Help Them.
England and the French front. Ger-
man intrigue he says, has from the The health of children between the
beginning endeavored to drive a wedge ages, of twelve and eighteen years,
of suspicion between the two allies, particularly in the ease of girls, is a
but has failed signally and complete- source of serious worry to nearly
ly. every mother. The growth and de-
velopment takes so much of their
For nearly a thousand years Britain strength that in many cases they
and France were enemies. The feud actually seem to be going into a de -
was hereditary; its antiquity alone cline. The appetite is fickle, bright -
made it honored and instinctive. The ness gives way to depression, there
' Dukes of Normandy began it, and. are headaches, fits of dizziness, .pal -
passed it on to all their descendants. pitation of the heart at the least ex -
et the beginnings of the Entente ertion, and sometimes fainting. The
blood has become thin and watery and
the sufferer must have something that
will bring back the blood to its normal
condition: At this stage no other medi-
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Pills. Their whole mission is to make
new, rich blood, which reaches every
part of the body, bringing back
health, strength and energy. Miss
Helena Taylor, West Toronto, says:
"Two years ago I was so badly run
down with anaemia that some of my
friends did not believe I would get
better. I could not go upstair-S with-
out stopping to rest, suffered from
headaches, loss of appetite, and for
two months of the time was confined
to the house. I was under the care
of a doctor, but the medicine I took
did not help me in the least. A friend
advised my mother to give me Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills, and although I
did not expect they would help me
after the doctor's medicine had fail-
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trying. After taking two boxes
there was such a marked change for
the better that people asked me if I
had changed doctors, and I readily
told them the medicine that was help-
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until I had used eight boxes, when my
health was fully restored, and I have
since enjoyed the best of health. I
hope my experience may be the means
of convincing some sickly person that
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can restore
them to health."
You can get these pills through any
dealer in medicine, or by mail, post
paid, at 50 cents a box or six boxes
for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
ITALY'S GROWING STRENGTH.
LL. P NTS
Children Often Seem to Pine
Away and Ordinary Medicine
Cordiale were met with relief on both
sides. Before King Edward the
Seventh set to work to change a gen-
eral trend of history, both countries
were in the position of Dr. Johnson
when he explained to Bozzy why he
hated a certain man. He did not
know the man, he said; and that was
the reason.'had he known him he
might have liked him. So he refused
to meet him. The battle of Hastings
was in very truth finally forgotten at
the Marne. Nat that any people
could hold one grudge so long, but
this was a foundation on. which were
piled Crecy and Agincourt, the burn-
ing of the Maid of Orleans, the loss of
Calais, the fear -stricken years when
Napoleon hovered on the English hor-
izon like a thundercloud, and then.
Waterloo.
Besides all this, understanding was
blocked by differing ambitions, lan-
guages and traditions, and these .are
even more effective barriers than the
"unplumbed, salt, estranging sea,"
which is all that physically separated
France from England. Differences in
temperament matter less. Opposites
may like each other. So it need not
have been fatal to friendship that the
French are romantic while the Eng-
lish are sentimental; that the French
are witty and the English posses hu-
znor. These are reasonably safe gen-
eralizations. Put D'Arbagnan against
Rawdon Crawley or Sterne's Yorick;
compare Anatole France with H. G.
Wells for an extreme illustration. But
observe also that both nations accept-
ed gratefully the best of each other's
literature, and it will be clear that
here is no insuperable obstacle.'
' .
. .
Aftenthe fall of.the Second Empire
France withdrew behind the barrier of
a bitter gaiety to nurse her wounds.
Before the French Revolution had
shaken Europe bo its foundations the
French in generadl held the English to
be a fickle, excitable, hot-headed race,
who might well learn conservatism
and respect for precedent from their
neighbors across the Channel. The
French based that estimate on the
same grounds as the .English later
found sufficient to condemn the
Frendh after the Second Empire. The
French had in mind the English civil
war, and the execution of Charles the
First, just as the English were horror-
struck over the French Revolution.
"So the whirligig of time brings its
revenges," and never more completely
nor more nobly than within the last
two years. .
It is very difficult in the best of
times for nations to understand, each
other. But the present alliance be-
tween France and Britain has been
sealed with blood and is based on. com-
plete understanding. It will be cher-
ished accordingly.
A FAMOUS ROAD.
— •
It Runs Fourteen Hundred Miles
Through India.
Everyone who has read "Kim" will
'agree with the New York Sun that the
'Grand Trunk Road of India is by all
means the most romantic highway in
the world, That paper says of it :
A stately avenue of three roads in
bne—the centre of hard metal, the
roads on each side ankle-deep in sil-
very dust—fringed by double rows of
trees,, it runs for fourteen hundred
miles through the vast northern plain
that skirts the Himalayas, from Cal-
cutta to far Peshawar, Which keeps
Sentinel at the gate of Afghanistan.
From horizon to horizon it stretches
like a broad white ribbon, as straight
as if traced by a gigantic ruler. And
`dotted along the entire length are
hundreds of serats (wayside rest
liouses), .each with its arched and tura
a'eted gateway, its spacious inclosure,
where humans share shelter with oxen,
mels and goats, and its central well
Of sparkling water.
For three thousand years the Hima-
layas have looked clown on this roa,d,
and have seen it as they see it to -day.
1t has seen a hundred generations of
men come and go ; a score of dynes -
ties rise and fall. And yet to -day it
IS to the eye exactly the semis as in
the long -gone time when Ninevah was
a proud city, ,and our ancestors
gnawed bones in their caves.
In the case of a photographer sue-
eess depends on his ability to take
things as they come.
Description by a French Observer on
Italian Front
M. Pichon, who recently returned to
Paris from a trip to the Italian front,
has been giving his impressions to the
French press. He insists that out
of the 3,000,000 of men that Italy was
enabled immediately to call up, 2,-
400,000 have been enrolled and there
is no reason to fear that, if the need
arises, the figure of 3,000,000 will
not easily be surpassed. Italy, he
estimates, is faced by some 700,000
Austrians.
Her organization is perfect, both
from the military and medical stand-
points, while the aviation section has
already reached a remarkable level of
efficiency, and is continually being
improved.
In artillery Italy has a large supply
of field and heavy guns, with a con-
siderable quantity of munitions, but
he suggests in this respect that cer-
• tain advances can still be made.
One of the points that has struck
M. Pichon most is the relation exist-
ing between the officers and men.
This, he says, is one of great cordial-
ity, the example being set by the
King. M. Pichot proceeds.:
"There is no affectation, no pride,
and no pose about King Victor. He
is on terms of familiarity with all
ranks, but never loses the dignity of
his rank. In reason he is coldly logi-
cal. His language is clear cut, and
he fully realizes the difficulties to
be overcome. He rises at dawn and
leaves for the front at sunrise with a
very 'small escort, His visits to his
Generals are unannounced. He scarce-
ly eats and takes very little rest, and
is carrying out in the noblest way
the traditions of his dynasty which
inspire in all Italians a respect, ad-
miration and devotion that constitute
the best reason for believing in the
success of the arms of the country to
which he indicated the obligation of
entering into battle."
Thirty years ago a drought in Aus-
tralia destroyed ten million sheep.
A VAST,.
A
THERE ARE 4,00(C CON13tOLLED
MUNITION PLANTS.
High Tide of Output For War Pur-
poses Not Yet
Reached.
The enormous stride made by Great
Britain toward solving the problem of
munitions was made clear in the
course of a speech recently delivered
by F. Kellaway, Parliamentary secre-
tary to Dr. Addison (Parliamentary
Secretary to the Ministry of Minn -
tions). Mr. Kellaway said the most
prominent fact of the war was thatithe
price of victory was unlimited rand -
tions, says a London. correspondena
"The British army in the early days,"
he said, "was so out -munitioned that
the British soldier ought to have been
beaten before the fighting began. But
he proved that he was a better fighting
man than the German. What he lack-
ed in munitions he made up in devil,
in initiative, and in endurance. •
"I do not think anything that Ger-
many has ever done equals the work
this country has accompllshed in the
way of industrial organization during
the last twelve months. Great Britain,
which has throughout been the treas-
ury of the Allies, has now become their
armory. There are now scattered up
and down the country some 4,000 con-
trolled firms producing munitions of
war.
"The vast majority of these previous
to the war never .produced a gup, a
shell or a cartridge ; yet in ten
months the Ministry ofMunitions has
obtained from these firms a number of
shells greater than the total produc-
tion of all the Government arsenals
and great armament shops in existence
at the commencement of .the war.
Increase of Arsenals.
"Speaking in the House of ComMons
last year Mr. Lloyd George startled the
country by saying that eleven new ar-
senals had been provided. To -day, not
eleven, but ninety arsenals have been
built or adapted. Our weekly output
of .303 cartridge is greater by millions
than our annual output before the war,
There is a certain machine gun being
produced by the hundred every week
in a factory ordered, planned and built
during the past twelve months. The
output of guns and howitzers has In-
creased by several hundred per cent.
"We are not yet at the full flood of
our output of guns and shell. If the
Germans cannot be driven home other-
wise, our army will have such a sup-
ply of guns that the limbers„will.touch
eachaothee in a continucitis line from for country road work. Automobile
the Somme to the'sea. France, Rus- traffic cannot injure it, the surface pro-
sia and Italy have been supplied by or duced is suitable and comfortable for
through Great Britain with many of horse-drawn traffie, while last, but not
the most important munitions of war. least, the surface is easily maintained
Many thousands of tons of steel have through a term of years at a low an -
been and are being sent to France. Anal cost.
"Our Contribution toward the equip- Bituminous macadam is built by two
ment of the Belgian army has been methods—the penetration andthe
continuous, and the Serbian army has mixed method. The penetration
been reequipped and restored to a method is especially applicable to
magnificient fighting force very largely 'country road work. When refined tar
by the workshops and workers of the is used as a binder, the work may be
United Kingdorn, done for 10c. to 20c a square yard
"The labor situation has been to a less than the mixed Method, and the
considerable extent saved by our wo- results, if the work has been well done,
men. There were 184,000 women en- are not inferior for country road traf-
gaged in war industries in 1914. To- fic.
day there are 643,000. The total num- The building of a penetration ma-
ber of war workers in 1914 was 1,198,- cadam is In itself not a difficult mat -
600. It has now increased to 3,500,000. ter. At the same time it brig
There are 471 different munition pro- play all the skill and Ian lednges n
re-
ceses upon which women are now en- quired to build a first-class macadam,
gaged. The women of France are do- and, in addition, a knowledge of the
ing wonders in munition making, Irtit properties and methods of handling
our women munition workers beat the the binder. Like other road work, the
world." best results can only be obtained when
Work of the Scientists. men of experience and training are
Referring to glass Mr. Kelmway employed in supervising and building
the roads. The manufacturers of
said :
"The problem facing the Govern- standard binders can be depended up-
ment is, first, to discover the formula on to furnish the special apparatus
and knowledge required to handle the
of glasses, and having discovered it, to
establish the industry. It is fortunate binder.
that in this crisis we have available a The maintenance of roads already
few scientific men who have been- built Is as important as building new
working for years almost without re- ones. The tendency in this country is
cognition, and we have also institu- to neglect roads already built. This
tions such as the Imperial College at is the utmost folly. A good road is a
South Kensington and the National capital asset to the community. Not
Physical Laboratory at Teddington. maintaining it up to its original
The Government went to these men stardard is to allow the impairment
and asked them to discover the form- of the investment. No one would
ula used by the Germans in their pro- dream of allowing a building on which
&action of optical and chemical glass. he held a mortgage to fall to pieces
for lac
"These British scientists, after a few lack of repairing the roof or a coat
of paint. A community should not
weeks' experiments, discovered many
of the formulae, and it then became dream of neglecting its improved
roads. Enough money must be ap-
possible to begin manufacture on a propriate
commercial spale. The result was that d each. year to maintain them
within. a year after the outbreak of the in a condition at least equal to their
war the output of optical glass in this state ea completion. To do less is
Pen" wise and pound foolish. The
country was multiplied four and a half
plain macadam and the bituminoustimes, times, It has now increased to four-
teen times the output previous to the macadam are both easily kept in order
y- and even improved in condition by ap-
war, and there is good ground for say
that by the end of ll lineation of cold refined tar. Modern
the year it wi
have multiplied twenty -fold. spraying machines, both horse-drawn
and motor driven, have been invented,
"The Ministry of Munitions has built
or is building, housing accominoda- which. reduce the costs to a minimum.
The process repeated when necessary
tions for 60,000 persons, and canteens preserves the road with little deprecia-
s works
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ROADS AND THE MOTORIST.
Penny Wise and Pound Foolish to
Neglect Improved Roads.
By Philip P. Sharpies. -
Roads and thefarmer, until recent-
ly, was quite a different problem from
roads and the motorist. Gradually
as the farmer, through the agent of
popular priced cars, has come to con-
sider an automobile part of the farm
equipment, the taro problems have be-
come more and more amalgamated.
The farmer no longer feels that the
city auto owner is trying to put some-
thing over in the good roads move-
ment. Driving an automobile has
convinced him, as nothing else could,
that a mud road, impassable after
every rain and for two or three months
in the spring, is not the kind of road
on which he wishes his farm situated.
Ten years ago, before the advent of
the automobile in numbers, the type
of road to be built in country districts
would have admitted no question.
_Macadam would have been specified.
Macadam properly built still has its
place. Macadam must be distinguish-
ed from the apologies for stone roads
so often seen. Stone dumped on an
old road, with no proper drainage or
grading, and without the use of a roll-
er, does not resemble a macadam road
any more than a pile of loose bricks
resemble a house. The macadam must
be well built from the bottom up. If
the automobile traffic becomes exces-
sive, the surface can be protected by
surface coatings of bituminous ma-
terials. In the bituminous macadam
the bond between the stone is rein-
forced by some form of bitumen, either
asphalt or refined tar.
The bituminous macadam, where a
suitable stone is obtainable, forms a
very attractive road proposition. Its
cost is not greatly in excess of plain
1
acadam, which has _been & standard
and mess roomin. munition
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tion.
'STORAGE ATTERIES now provide decent accommodation
° 4.S.
where 500,000 workers take their meals
Magnetos every clay. , FRUITY FACTS.
_ "For ,a long time our anti-aircraft
!Starters Gnercftors gunners have been crying out for all Fruit Is Principally Composed of
improved height finder for 'Zeppelins, Water, Sugar and .Acid,
the existing height' finders being slow,
clumsy and 'having a margin of error POr those who in the summer fruit
of hundreds of feet. You will realize season like to know what they are
how that handicapped our gunners in eating, it may be of interest to learn
Canadian Storage Battery their attempt to bring clown Zeppelins. that you "eat" very little, for fruit
"Three men set to work on the prob. is practically nothing but a lot of ve-
lem, and in two or three months they ter and a little sugar! Strawberries,
produced a height finder which gave far example, are ninety per cent, wa-
rapidly and exactly the height of a ter and between five and six per cent.
Zeppelin. It is an important diseoverY, sugar! The small balance is account -
but the problem is only one of Mtn- ed for by a little protein and acid.
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Grapes have twice the quantity of
sugar compared with strawberries,
and not so much water.
In currants we get a change—a
fourth of the sugar and four times as
much acid as strawberries.
Oranges have five times as much
sugar as lemons, the same sorb of
acid, but only a sixth of the quantity.
Prunes (dried) have twenty-six
parts of water, sixty-six of sugar, no
acid, and some protein. Their excel-
lence is apparent. But for value as
food, the apple easily comes first.
Now, when you "eat" fruit, you
know that water, sugar, and acid are
what you are really eating.
Even in resisting temptation most
of us are inclined to follow the line of
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