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What Are You Afraid Of?
'There am one or two words that I
eltouid culeout of the English language them. ' Armee in a hatithig dileh
' if by ao doling they eould be removed layers a cooked diced potatoes and
from the tient-doneness of- the people, elked egg- Add ar"m- elatiee*
One of these words ts fees. Not thet &pinkie the top with the ,cesuanbs and
fem. hos psayed Kith a isig pal iin the bake in a 'inocknititte teven 'for 20 mid
ewes (yt Enema 1 spoakmg ,p,oprie as notes. TOM !MGT be vaned by the
in those of some Miter nations If ' addition or mimed' ham sr lefttover
St. load, we shourd root tosclaY esge bacon or the ackletiecin set tfi oup of
domocraohcist Oertalnly St was net glnited ch8000 'in the ereatm ''iacace and
tear that earned .e.ur boys ahead on a tittle cayenne pepper.
the essat'ern front E'er tiler d'id iot Oatnlled and Tomato Sou,p.-2 cups
fight; either theough rear a their a- mak, 1 °An left -ever eakneal Par-
' "freers Of of German kultur, but from ridge, 1 cup strained tomato, celery,
Sheer love of liberty. And the spirit Onion and beerleart, salt iand popper to
-whit which our men fought ought to taste. Soglel mei& Add tete oaltaniral
ahoy. .ael rulers the superlioe value of Porridge and _nog 'wen. Cook the
rein to fear as.a conmeltleng motive. Minato and seasonings and *nein
But while fear of serne snobs is for-. Add to them a l'ilhah of soda.'mlid
..lei
forms «f fear which pew havoc ereer with the mirk and oatmeal. Serve
- whieli, whieti it deems too Wiry, for .
l'Iroisif• Of -.yell hot.
PUSSY 0. F1.-- M. S.
all toe Meny of etur lives- - -.
118.1110:We st pet e bogie a Boone seat, et.---
W;Ordds, to err friends, is to ue a re-
• miller bid roan 14,thestaa., „Don't you How Cats May be Called Upon to
know people ' with ' hignitortable ' in- Serve Their King and Country.
comes who aze afeelel to spend a cent, It M. Salvage Ship Se— was
for fear they'll:ire in the poor house2 laid up .for repairs and refit after. a 1
,Ancl there are ilue mothers Nvho wont long spell at Sea saving damaged or
let Jehonie go swimming for fear deeelict vees,els, One day a small,
he'll get drowned, never Seenting to stray cat came welking up the gang -
s:0 that it is tete hay who knows hotv way, its tail stuck hopefully in the
to swim .who is usually safe. And air. The little animal was seen by one
ether Meaen° whl° meke 'Man' Ive-tT of the workmen on board, Who prompt -
flannel summer and winter for fear ltS started to "shoo" it away. The
ette'll toke cold. I skipper a the L—, ha -aliening to
There ere the women who. are al- pass along at the time, bade the man
waYs in a Fain° fel' fear they won't desist in his. efforts to rout pussy.
get their work done on throe, though i me worker. grew curious, for he
theY allve7e have Pulled threhgth` knew .that the ship already possessed
And, the men Who are conebantly
stewing for fear theyrr lose their a maitot in the shape of a thorough -
jobs, and the girls who live in a state bred British bulldog.
of meeker tension for rays ilrevious 1 joic"iWngalnyt. 'er for a pie?" he asked
The skipper grew serious.
. to examen:Wiens for fear they won't,
pass. As a matter of Oast, the meet' . "There's many s man owes his life
surprised folks on earth would be t a cat," he replied, "or even a rat!
Ito may seem a funny thing to say,
ettp of bread crumbs, sat land pepper
to test% Boll e .tite eggs and 'slim
eegn., .0.1.0- 1111140. -:nip, yet there are1V11041 03 (X0110t311 00
hat I Saw in a London Air Raid
By William, Harper Deem
PAIt'l' II
'ilbisfis-Londots ' rumbling
London, packed in fiteeete 'with thue-
dering looter beasee, taxigabs, mili-
tary ears.
Men and 'semen look lap to see the
Muirehlighte gashing the bluesbleck
night In never-teing race. There
ie no %Wen to:Alight, At, well, there
wall be no radels
And so I reasoned that night, es I
torned over ,in bed teal went la eleeP.
Boone timer later I PLIth upright, !lett
ening, The Sound, waa mindistakeiltre
the -same puleitg jar of gone you
hear at the.front or drain the night
raid, I event to my window, Care-
fully pulled beck the right -Proof eur-
*eine, and looked out, No moon -
just a star=litt might
The firing becarne heavier; leut not
a shoes As I dressed •I wondered
how eould have 'stein through those
sirene and np to tile moment wben
the Him WaS actuality over London.
I -went out and stiarted for the
lobby. Doorways were opening and
dosing. all •along the ileitis -way. Men
and women-ettlicierre end
their wives and' daughters -hastily
dfessed, were snaking in the same
direction as I. 111 the hallway of
the second floor I passed between 11
double rank of maitlit etanding with
their backs to the walls. They were
wrapped in blankets thrown over
them nightdresSee,
The lobby was filled, se were the
tee -rooms, music -room, writing-reetn.
Some -were reading, °there writing.
003110 g• ,
ting. But there was a PolPobht ten-
sion, You •could fed it.
• "I didn't ligar the eirms," I said 130
a 13r1tesh officer in midttary overcoot
and pajamer.
"Oh, no; we dont use them any
more, you know. Maroons give -the
woromg-hear them?"
• So they had rert been. gene that
roused Me -just the .ineisting of
eignal bombs high ep the air to warn
sleeping London that tbe Hun was
over the Channel tied would soon aa.
lets, We were merely waiting fee
the stem to break,
The Maroon ceas.ed 'Pim a
long, tense. siSence.
Sachtertly-KRUMM!
You could feel the air beat against
your eardrums. The windows rat-
tled. That wos the first ,gun or the
first bomb, no telling which. The
next moment hell wag loosed. -
The women' clerks behind' the desk
pebbled their account books; stuffed
them into the safe' and turned the
combination. Then they sat down,
folded their hands in their taps and
thesse same earararty seekers if the
things they are afraid of should come
to pass. They knew very well thltngs
will NV.Ork oat all right, butt they seem
to enjoy keeping in a stew.
Probably the &rifest sort of fear,
though, is the kind that gets us to
spend money for things we caret af-
ford for fear or what kakis say. Some-
tionee it is simply "being a good fel-
low," and a.gain it is the "good fel-
tondo VIVO" whoSpends the money for
dealer or furniture SO her sat won't
talk about her. As a matter of fret
spending the money peobabliy occa-
stoles more gesigip among friends than hold and keep it there for a minute
paving 1.6 •wouRd. Per friencle-so or two. Then we pull him up. Some -
called -ha -Ye a way a figraing out times he's all right, just as alive and
just whet you can afford to spend kicking as 'when he was let down, so.
and calling yea a feel -when you 11.1Efl we know we can get on with the ex -
in debt to keep up appearences and amination of the hold. But some -
keep thole friendship. times the creature is pulled up dead
I •suppose this suet of fear comes or dying; then We know it means -toes
from not realizing that the world Is a of life for my men if they go below.
reidior large reace and your own par- So let the little joker come aboard,"
tinter Get only takes a tiny cornet he concluded... "She may be the means
of i.e. If you should move into the of lessening the Navy's casualty list"
next township the folks yeti have beer; So the kittenduly became a incen-
se anxious to please would forget you ber of the L—'s crew, and, like that
over neght. And you world find that crew-, eveuld be called upon, perhaps
your townts big man had never beento give its life in the service Of 'its
heard of in yeur new ocananunity. So country, .
but 1 wish 1 had -a few rats aboard."
."You see," he continued, Puffing his
pipe, "we never know what we are
up; against. When We come across a
dereliet ship. There's all sorts and
Conditions' of. craft I have to board
to examine, and sometimes it's un-
safe." •
"Why?" asked the worker.
"Gases or poisonous fumes," was
the rejoinder, "Sometimes there is
cluite sufficient to kill a man. When
we get aboard a stranger, I first of
all have a Mt lowered daWil into the
-why take so much pains to stand in
with people? Better stand in with
your own selferespect and yeter con-
science. It es the host way to whi
the reopect of others.
Perhaps ible most tragic fear is tilie
fear of dicath. Most of us, happily,
con put that off our minds but ocea-
simally 10,0 find 5001100110 ,Atio lieVer
, gets a -way from ithe temegfhit• of death.
It, ,seeros to hang over them always, the -world to coal More them any,
even tholig11 they are iii the best or thieg else, says an English newspa-
health. I rerriember one boy of :tour. per. If beneath her soil and her river
tem end a veceneen of thiety Who soth. beds she had pessessed as much gold
fend in this way. Ilkley could never as Australia, or California,' or South
talk to .34170110' for long without re- Africa, it would not have availed her
ferring to their borree.of dying. This
unotaturail fear kept them from enjoy-
ing Ife, enclinetrientally gave most of
their • friends eold dents when they
wen about.
As a mattee of foot, whet there
BRITAIN'S BLACK DIAMONDS
,
PrOduces One -Quarter if All the Coal
Used in the World.
Britain owes her position in the
world of commerce and industry,
•which means, hr tiaancial status in
nearly so much as her wealth • m
'black diamonds," • Not only do they
Ind IMployment for upwaiide of a
million Men, but Indira* they pro-
duce employment for the cotton,
woollen, iron, shipbuilding, and many
to be so afnottleof-lienng or doing. other great; industries, without which
If we piety the •gasne square we need this countey would soon be plunged
101 povertet
It is an amazing :feet that Britain'
produces a fourth of all the coal used
in all the world. Coal is money to
,Britatet. She pelts hi coal for thee -
sande of commodities* which are im-
ported into the couetry, and which no,
anlountitef "recenstruction" could 011-
30
able us to preduce within our own
' Groomed Caltbiage.-1 cans Mop. borders. let Itritem s coal Is by no
ped cabbage, cup mem„sneer eatennears inexhaustible, and it is esti.'
rue pepper, nor gee 3301)10317411)111)11. elated that at •tho present late of
3130)7 eeorse gen rogri, teoeorrery. consemption •it can only. last about
Add the cream 41331310 3134 emenning. fire Inmdrad Yeare;
enel retheiiet. Serve very het
• 0abbitge 310419.'- 113 tents oablecon,
% chip tomato, 1.4, cup 'or ,ossion ewer Do Not Forget the Point of Thie Otte,
'OS nip eta:Tote (heed Seasonings
pepper, istioleat, if(Synie, perrlieSc.*ars
P
fear no one while 1133 live, and! surety
there will, be as little -to fem1 when we
.91181 beyond. Fear 13naleitheur name
for bondage. 11;1133 no place -in the
voettbelwry of free inert and Wonnen.,
SO if tom have risen, incluilging in It,
' now is the thee to east it but-DII,
•
Thrift Redees.'
holl etobbage end draft, Pet on
, lt Waif Dean SWift,who said that".
it required a sergieal °post -ion to
mate a Seas -Mae me the point of e'
waited. The perions Opera(' the deort
to let tin theee men 'who had bow*
meght in tele ttrest and f341•Owee
those arrows on the bltae-Coatea street
lighbr Whiell lead to air-eald ahelt,
04180 Their 001111hipt wais Ter all the
9Tho11 134)41 ;69rViteent'711011:110.dt inth '34 at:11°12r::
An ()Meer on leave 'Promenaded 'with
hits wife dinging to hits 510111 .aa she
°hatted and taugleecl. The /alto!
Writers coutinned oto write, the tee,
drinkers Seemed the sacieltarene tab-
lets in then' ettne, Over in 30 earner
• white-bitiest British, <Afton slieltit
in a deep leather 01134141,
Two ghettoes" fell to getrafing”
the "beendlie! bodies," bectrose belie
Were ringing fee Shoes -warioh had
been left outside doors and evere now
downeetanre tor Cele midnight
polishing,
• 'An' 110111 100 'ave la tyke 'ern eli
up agle11 are bring "ein 510W/I again
• pollish 'ent 'em heel<
again! The blighters!"
I went over the. music-rooni
stand i11 the dooewtry while,a wound-
ed officer -a mere bey -teat at the
piano and through the swelling
-mom 0± 3he im y e et
wskis' Fourteenth Minuet,. A Cana -
chest Red Gross nurse jetliner 7110 and
through the rest of the raki, ;She
the officer. set at the piano, she clis-
cottilsed upon the marvels of.evar-tirne
surgetw.
Next morning all' London Went
about its work 113 neuter There were
O few 001)130801311mndo on the fact
that this waii the first starlight raid
I ever made on the cite, and thiet dos-
ed the MSG,.
Biot the next night the vaudeville
1 houses feetumed rade -with ration-
ing. I happened to be at the 03113s.
0313111.
"Another raid last night, Mrs.
Spriggins," said the woman to the
next in rine in the Meal -queue skit.
Really. replied Mrs. Spriggs -ins
aver ter eltmelder as she began a mad
search for heir meat souposte.
'ere they are! Now; you know, Ien
,rather hied .of fearild, Mrs. Ltnnsden,
but 3 thought I <Id 'ear those syringes
Igooff n
last ight. I"
"37311131051 You Mean sirens, Mrs
Speiggins. But we don't use tivose
any move, you ltnow; now we 'sive
the nutearocmsl"
Pour y,eaite eighteraids reducied
, the British to this 1311000 31f mind. As
a psychologist the Gramm is a
splendid egoist, for lre took the mea-
sles or his own spleit and Nvikh it en -
'flea -mead to gauge trait of the British
and the French. -te
A'MARVELLOUS
STORY OF THE SEA
FACTS CONCERNING SALVING oF
MEN IN SUBMARINE K13
Through an Accident in Testing a
New British Sub, the Crew Were
5413' Hours Under Water.
This story has been left untold for
two years! The censor sat eit it!
1*13 was a' Fleet submarine of a
•
a -sailor, sent to 13ar31elot a telegram
of which the pUrport, rendered in the
language of the naval signal book,
ran 'Manoeuvre Well Executed.' "
Salvage Extraordinary.
It is an amazing story which Mr.
Copplestohe tells of how the salvage
ship' Ringer threw hawsers round
the 1*13 and then set to work to cut
the -nose off the submaeine, at if it
were the end of a cigar -and thus
prowide an exit for the imprisoned
men.
Before this was done the co-opera-
tion of the men within the subinarine
had to be secured. And first of all
they had to be supplied with fresh
air and communicated with by Morse
new type, more like a submersible messages hammered ea the shill of
destroyer than an 07<11113007&wee. the submarine.
'water boat. " Fairfields, of Govan
The long, flexible tubes, seven
built her, and 6.cc-en nowslt were unf, inches in ill -meter, which was to epee
wise to be too explicit in description. tm a clear passage between 1*13 and
But some few details are- neeessary the upper air arrived at 4 a.m. en
for an tinderstandin of m to • Wednesday morning, but it was not
says Mr. Copplestorie. • "She was
over three hundred feet long and dis-
placed 2,000 tons when submerged.
"She was accepted for the Royal
Navy by the Admiralty officials.
The Unexpected Happened.
"Then 13 13303 that the unexpected
happened, as it always does at sea.
Herbert decided to take once -more
dive perhaps just for luck, perhaps
to steely himself upon some nicety
of trim. He gave the order to close
down and dive, and the 1*18 dived.
Though the order had been given
to close down, and the reply received
that the order had been carried out,
the ventilators had been left open.
Instantly the water poured into the
engine and boiler rooms, drowning
those within, and the 1*13 sank by
the stern. The water flowing towards
the control -room bulkhead compres-
seclethe air in the mom, end indicated
immediately what had happened to
the alert SenSeS of Commander Her-
-bert. 'Our ears began to shim' say
theses -who welt within the 'belly of
the ship, •
g41/1 Hours Under Water.
"It was ten ,o'clock on, WednesdaY
evening, January 31, fifty-fotir end a
half hours after 1.(13 had sunk, that
her forty-nine surrivors emerged itito
the blazing arc lights which shone
form the Ranger's masts. They could
nob spealc, many of them could
scarcely walk. • One by one they were
helped by.kindly hands along a gang-.
way to a tug and thence to the shore,
They stinnbled 3511070, unconacions.of
the chews whith greeted them, gaz-
. . .
n e withoutr Logo io 3141011) 1)110
friends who welcomed them, And ze
to Shanclon, where they were put
straight into hot baths and lifted
Jhence into bed. For they NVere 11111111)
and perished With cold, • - '4
Illans:COVre Well EXectiteci,
"It its Owasso colcl in a deep -diving
sibmarine, even in high summer; in
the bowels of I1)18, lying scventy feet
dem in the Northern mid -winter, the
cold, thoitsth little noticed at the thile,
bed been peralyzing. Potty home of
bad end poisioncent alteilfty-four hours
of. bitter cold, had brought the height
flame of them morrs lives down to a
peer flicker. tut recovery was rankly
mid' not eue, of. the survivors dime -
the tiebbage Ito took in 7 Nips of vie'. joite„ arid n young Englishman, who, 'pointed by, Slyieg those who had ;caved
tee tsithrtlio seerioniegs and other tat a party conmesed moistly of Scot.'' blot.
Vegetiettlile; earoste, enicst! soul.teleatxt,I Mee, had, inet made eeveral atteilipte "TWetitr hours niter tile ltIst Inan
(Avilt unite' oat • 11ui vegetellolee etrehte creek a Joke,itud :fulled to evoke 39 -b44 bade 'flecked out of 738 the •
teelder. '13(14(1 ogi the siegolotingst riot!, $piirle `from his cofripaniorte, Itotwiteet, whjol, held leer eiperted
1o, 11 Meere 03331-33334I,r, hoer' bored tills, O11<1 eeelitifeed stiftrile: 11110 icerik to the bottoni of the Gera.
befoteS die SeelP 40,111VIshitel, • Remove! "'Why, it would- take a gimlet" to Iheli
the bog ollieb, the FieretolDot 41 leke hitt) tlle beetle of you Stiotee
veil lea, • • leen!"
' Age end Petah Floallep,---9 hetild tenlieof One of them, "hut
'hotted agree, 1 t‘ Mos 000103(34 (Heed the, gilt:let won't1 tieed tri he More-
IStifieitoee, 114, elfshe Wolin same, 44 poivittd then the delfts!"
"The miteld did not due with news
of the stetO Which 1 have told, for
the eenem felbOde, Mit 3113 Ms,t,iety,
Willi Was a SailOe-before he. 1301) 0
Xing, end relealte fleet end elwarS
110W TIIE GERMANS
ENT IIOME
fIBRE ;AN BYEIVITNES$ TEI.4LS
031 74141 IETSAI1I 07 DEFEAT.
That Littered- France Mel Belgium 116
the Hugs Sullenly Withdrew te
the Other 514e ,the Rhine.
When in August, 101,4, the German
army marched• into Breseels, the
Streets of the capital meg foe eight
hoors tethe*clang of tron-shod heels,
the eletter of hoofa, and the rattle of,
limber and gun carriages, writes -a
13xitirth officer. The impeeesion dE
ebeolute efficiency produced in the
minde of those leho watched that 'end-
less pretension go by was posit:Weir
overwhelming. No Power on earth,
so it seemed to them, could hope to
vanquish these hundredS of thousands
of :earthing men, well equiptied, and
supplied with every modern device
for waging war successfully. The
German army appeared indeed invin-
cible in the proud unfolding of its
power as it tramped through this
streets of Brussels, Neutral observr
ets-especially the American War
correspondents -lost no time in
spreading this impression lnoadmet
through the world. The state of Ger-
many'e preparedness for war was
staggering. Such indeed was the les-
son which that impressive -311111'y 113130
Brussels was intended to teach.'
It is well to dwell for a moment on
tho recollectilki of the German Ariny
sweeping into Belgiem on the high
tide of the first month of the war, be-
cause of the contrast it affords with
the retivement of the Gorman Army
from Franco and Belgium in Novems
ber, 1918. The greetneas of German's
fall fields full eopression in this con-
trast. The army V&A preSSed fol. -
ward eager for victovy, and ready
even "to the last gaiter button," fell
back, a gaunt skeleton of its forma
self, in a state of lamentable disre-
pair sueli as the most audacious opti-
mist, ot 1914 -and there were many
sucle7-would not have drearned 34
contemplating.
. A Bit of Our Own Back. ,
-"To see the state in which -the Huns
went home was like getting a bit of
oUr onm back," say otir poor prison-
ers, who, tithed adrift by their late
torturers watched the whole tatter-
toreedines, 'had created drain OR
the German supply ter. ,army lemma
vildch had long entstrippetlete slips
AY. 'rho tiumbee lierstri elicited
to intently and. stuff' officolito.31/1314
etrietly, curtailed, 10110 '413e, einatY
Of berets dectreased to such a degree
that the French 'and Deightel peaeanta
closteee that they have na seen a
decent -looking lioree fer inbuthe. The
horses ettptered frera the Geenmee
durirg the retreat Svertgin lainoritable
condition from a long cornao of over-
work •and undelleeding. SoMe were
adeally so rayenous that they fought
with one another to get the fodder
provided for there by our men,
.
,,The horso situatien ;was . further
complicated bY the shortage of motor
cars. Gummi staff ears, which hi
the first years of the Germap occupa-
tion were seen on every road M. the
army zone, had latterly become es
rare as strawberriee in December.
Ordere were issued 'that ears • were
only to she ilsea for long joraneys
where speed was essential and
way connection was bad; otherwise
steff offieerso-at any rata hi the
"Etappen-Geblet" or the zone of the
lines of econentinication-were made
to ese carriages drawn by horses. And
such horses! Furthermore, mange
and other diseases broke out amongst
the German horses, 'so that the
Pfercle-Lazarett, or horse hospital, is
a familiar feature in every village on
the late German lines of communica-
tion. In the last instance, under the
pikestue of the advancing Allies, the
Germain did not hesitate to turn
their horses adrift without food when
they had no further -use for them.
All this accounts for the groups of
enthueiastic admirers that surround
the officers' chargers, the transport
horses, the motor -lorries, even the
despatch- riders' motoe-cycles,.111 the
towns and villages liberated from the
Huns.
:
AIRMAN'S MENTALITY
,
Army Pilots Are Subjected to Strange
Medical 'rests.
It has been found that flying, in
the sense of actuabpilotingedemande
rather more than mere physical fit-
ness. It requires a certain- tempera -
/I -10113e certain .clistinctive psychologi-
cal chatheteristics -to make a really
good pilot. The discovery and classi-
fication of these charaeteristics has
for a long time been the subject of
exhaustive study and investigation. by
the medical service of the Royal Air
Force •
One of the first mental qualifica-
dermalion procession of Germany's eons required by a good pilot is keen
beaten armies defile past them on the alertness. Action must follow thought
hard Belgian highways. The eight, with lightning rapidity. To deter -
they say, consoled them for Shale mine -capacity for this, certairgtests;
sufferings. It showed them in a flash known as action tests, are applied.
beyond all doubt that the Allies had Ono of the simplest of these is the,
won the war. The roads over which light Jest. An electric light is sod -
the victorious armies are now ad- denly switched on, 4131 the flying offi-
vancing towards the German frontier, cer is told immediately ho perceives
strewn with the litter of this, the it to prees a key. By this means the
gmatest debacle in the Bisthey of the time, to the thousendth pert of a
world, are in themselves eloquent second, is nleasurea which elnpses be-
tween the lighting of the lamp and
the action of the pilot which follotvs
his conception of it.
But mentality is not the only fac-
tor. The emotional element is also
irnPertant, and -is the basis of an-
other series of taste depending upon
blood pressure for their accurate re-
cerroboration of our prisoners' stories.
I am not retelling to the manner in
villa the great Getman retreat woe
carried out. That seems to have var-
ied considerably, according to the
army and ite commander. In the
case of settle bodies of troops, dis-
cipline appears to have been well
Maintained, and the battalions march- 1 cording.
ed toward the German frontier in For instance, fear has certain
good order With their bands at their I known effects upon blood pressure;
head, Elsetehere the retrera generat- as also, of course, have enact., and
ed into the disordeety progress of a other emotions. It is not desired that
rabble of dirty soldiery, over whom , n' -pilot should be without fear. Fear
until four hours later that it was in the officers had no control, selling their is one of natures safegeards. But
arms and ecolipment to the highest what is imnertent is the effect of foav
bidder, and looting and pilfering as upon the inclividual. TI; leis two very
the fancy took them. As a general different effects upon different organ -
rule the front line troops seem to isms; paralysis and stimulation.
0101/1091317, the livinn
e em must he
haBestit prineseervveerdy thenesebestihdeiPsetipatlione'of capable of fear stinmlation, and by
squalid misery to which the British means of stranze looking instrument;
blockade had reduced the German -combined all along, of course, with a
Army sprang to the eye. It is of close,. exert study of the OSNrcholocw
these outward and/visible sions of f the pilot under MS eare-the doctor
gauges his temperamental suitability
‘fvoort.707:1111nisgai.11.7011 voince on. and the data
months thie inmortant
obtnined will be invalumble in the
place and in effective operation" says
Mr. Copplestone. "To the eager salv-
ors the delays were exasperating;
there were many more delays, even
..more exasperating, to be suffered be-
fore their job was finished. They had
to explain to -the enfeebled folk within
Precisely whetie the tube was to be
flxd up and how they were themselves
to °complete the open passage. The
tube was designed- to screw, by means
of an adaptor,. into azt ammunition
hoist, and, when this was done, it
needed but the removal -of the retain-
ing plate inside to put the device to
immediate use. .
, By Morse.
"When the salvors had done their
part it was for -the peisoners to do
the iest-to remove the inner Plate
as quickly as they pleased. But when
it came to explaining, this not very
complicated operation by tapping out
messages in Morse on the deck it was
by no menet; easy to get 1*13's sur-
vivors to take it in, By patient -repl-
etion that was done at last, and then
-the divers brisieethernselves with fix-
ing up the tube.
"They had to measure the screw
threads, so that the adaptoreatight be.
elide' to fit aceurately and to prepare
31 peeking of tow soaked in tallow to
exclude the water. A salvage steam-
er is a traVelling workshop and divers
11110 skilled mechanics, so that this
Part of the jab, though it might con-
sume time, presented to difficulties.
By eight o'clock on the Wednesday
morning, the tube had been screwed
firmly into place, the inner plate of
the hoist had hten removed, and the
men, who had -,tor forty and a half
hours lain burled in a steel coffin,
were at Ingth enabled to' draw into
their impoverithed lunge air which
was free from pollutions,",
Rad No Eas Meek.
The wee being now virteally over,
the following story,' recently, related
with great gusto NY flenevatelletain,
is perhaps a bit out-of-date. Ilut it is
a vatting good ono, so hare goes.
An Americae soldier in a front line
trouch (said Petah)) tthe smoking
futiottely one of those black ci-
gars • our tvans-Atlantie allie5. so
greatly favor.
Suddenly he took it feom between
his lips, and offered it te a Evench
sehlier standing (10311) 340 him.
"Here., Leon," he said, "hold !hie
Cigar 813100181113 while 1 lteeve'a bomb
Pio the Granite trench." •
Bet the Fecechnine recoiled le
m a 7,
"Non, Mot, Monsieur!" he loudly
ejeettleted. "Non non! I will bola me
131111143 7031 thrOW See oigw,"
disrepair into which the German
Army had :Wien that I wish to .speak.
Transnort difficulties were at the bot-
tom of all Germany's troubles. Lack
of vithber, lack of petrol, lack of Inbs
ricating oil, lack of herses„ wers the comino 0111 of aerial development and
troubles which, combined with Lucien- exploitation.
dorni appalling strategic mistakes
and the irresistible •onensh of the
Allies, brought her to her knees. ,
German Substitutes.
Every road along' which the Allied
armies are adiiancing is strewn with
the jeteam of the German retreat --
VILLAGES FOR '11-111 WOUNDED
Britain Blinding :Douses for Oledical
Care and Training of Soldiers.
A new village, one of the by-pro-
ducts of the WIlr, 18 abOnt to rise near
motor -lorries, motor -cars, P. S. wag- Andover, in Hampshire, says 1111 Leg-
gons, limbers, water-earts, gems, lish rawspaper. It is the first of the
mess -carts and ambulencesS And villages which the Ministry of Pen- accomplish in 0 few years as mush AA
every one of• these is were, rusted,. virms Wends to build for the medi- could be wrought by a whole ism:vete,
ditty, dilapidated,. driven to a stand- cal treatment and training of dieabled I of olchtime kings With cerseripted
en. I labor and the lido of 1191(10040 of
Tli
1;iam
lte the motorslorties. With their. The uctuel site selected by the VII- tbouunds enslaved War captives,
cheap 0131111118 screens and iron -shod ffige 'Centres Council is at Eases The area to be redaimed lies dl.
Wheels, they make' bid n •Peor show The estate COVerS an area ot over El roCtlY 011 the route of the Berlin -to -
beside the solidly -built Well-equiPped thousend nem, with ecoommodation Bagdad Railroad, with its contene
RESTORING THE
MESPOT. DESERT
013EATE8'n RECLAMATION PRO.
:MCP IN HISTORY *
British Will Ifeeleint' the Region Bee
tween the Tigris and Euphrates
Prof Bagdad to Babylon.
The greatest reclamation project In
Mettler will soon be undertaken by
the Britieh in Mesotiotipide, , which,
will thereby be 'restored to he andee
Prosperity and agricultual produe.
avenue..
The area concerned is of more than
6,000,000 acres and is ,as large as the
whole of Egypt. Roughly speaking,
it covers the region between the
Tigris and Euphrates and extends
from Bagdad to the ruins of the dem-
lotted Babylon.
Of all regions on earth none is
more favored for the production of
cereals. Craton, sugar cane and In.
dian corn will flourish there as on the
Nilo. Tobacco Will find itself at home
as in Egypt.
Wheat NV8S there first cultivated by
man, Mesopotamia was a great food.
producing country before the dawn of
history. By -tradition the Garden of
Eden was located between the Em
phrates and the Tgiris, and one hae
only to refer to the first book of Gene-
eis in order to discover that the Para.
dise of Adam and Eve wm irrigated.
Irrigation in Ancient Days.
There lay the secret; for originally
when Mesopotamia acquired its earl-
iest population it wile a desert, as it
is to -day. Irrigation rendered it pro.
ductive. Its climate, as now, was
dry, but through it ran two -rent
riVers, and the engineers of antiquity
conducted their waters out over the
land by means of canals.
The operations were extended until
the, whole country was covered with
a Vast system 'of canals, some of
which were deep enough' and wide
enough to be navigable. There ;were
reservoirs for the storage of water
that assumed the proportions of con-
siderable lakes, on which ships sail-
ed and around whose shores were letilt
the villas and • other palatial dwells
ings of -wealthy citizens.
We know these things because re.
mains of the ancient canals and ruins
representing gigantic dams are there
to -day to tell the story. 33 18 reckon-
ed that the quantity Of water with-
drawn frOrn the Tigris and Euphrates
for purposes of irrigation must have
greatly exceeded what was left in the
beds of those stveares.
The glories of the Mesopotamia -of
3,000 Years and more ago are familiar
to all readers of history. Its teeming
wealth was the deeire of all eastern
conquerors and , its eossession the
crown of their conquests. The Power .
that held this fruitful territory in an-
cient times held the East.
Again and again it was overrun by
compering armies. Somewhat of this
-we may learn from the Bible, the cap-
ture of Babylon by Cyrus being only
one enisode of the kind, War signifies
Wholesale destruction, but apparently
a cause imnortantly contributing to
the final ruin of Mesopotamia was a
change in the course of the Tigris
River, which deserted its oldtime bed
and era 55 netv one.
Mesopotamia Will Again Flourish..
At all events, Mesopotamia, once
populous and prosperous, became
again a desert. But the rivers are still
there, and to restore it to its former
fruitfulness -to make it again a happy
land, rich and inviting habitation by
industrious millions -is a mere engi-
neering problem.
The gardens of Babylon and Bagdail
are historically famous. Eden is the
most celebrated of all gardens. A land
that offers the production of tierce!
and other crops in tropical profusion
as a reward for a steeply of •water
easily furnished cannot longer be el.
lowed to lie barren and desolate.
When it is considered how crn•!cl
end primitive were the methods uti-
lized by the engineers of oncient
Mesopotamieerheir achievements are
arinzieg to contemplate. With rem.
ante ancl mortars of which they knew
peeling, with the power; or steam
aid electricity available, with llast•
ing powders and dynamite. end, &hove
all, with labor-saving machinery and
dredges, it 31/111 4)0 easily possible to
vehicles of the 13711[811 Aenty's me- for 1330 men, When the village has
charrical transport Whiell are spinning been completed eines will he' 1.001n
gaily to victory .past these (3 01:10111(1 f0r 11 thollStilla people, 11.110 Will re -
derelicts. The motor -ears that may ceive simultaneous treatment and
be sem by the roedsidesre mostly of !reining to fit them for envious forms
a shoddy ,clescription, With 01d-10811- of work, es rite as their dienbtlities
lonecl carrosserie and badly upholster.. will pernit. A leredred thousand
ed mats, the thin leather often worn pounds is revived to put the scheme
into full swing. •
Latra on, 113 15 hoped to establigh
these villages ill a needier of differ-
ent entree, end they may go a long
way towerds solving one of our most
smious after -war problems.
or patched. And tvhat can one say
of the bycycles with their rope tires,
or ingenious arrengenient of speings
evelosed in a double steel band; with
rusting chains and'ehipped enamel -
such ramsbackle old machines as ore
never seen nowadays outside of the
rag-and-bone merchant's) store?
The comments of the nativee of the
liberated tcinitories of Prance and
Belgium as they wateh the 13vi3iiii
Arany missing through :furnish an il-
lumieetitg insight into the sorry pas,s
into which the equipment of the Ger;
man Army had fallen. Thoth are
three things which chiefly- excite
admiration and aatoeisinneut beyond
even their delight in the fine appear-
ance of the men and the comforting
spectaele of the liberator's strength;
the horses, the mato3)4rans4lort, the
Army's boots, especially the mounted
bilkers' and traesinut drivers' field -
!meta.
, Overworked and Undorfect
Tho grata' German ofronsive of
Mara last, followed by the retreat,
Arta egiribitked With Old file3g5ftni, raids
of the Allied aircraft on 1313 German
"COMRADES OF THE MIST"
--
Admiral Beatty's Farewell to tife
United States Navy.
Admiral Sir David Beatty WeS 113
one or Ms happiest moods when ad-
dressing the American sailors the
dther day aboard 11.3.5. New York.
"I hope," be said, "thnt in the smi-
th* which, Atheival Rodman. Mlle
me, always shines on your shores you
will not forget your comrades of the
mist mid your pleasant amend:mg
of the North Sea. This is a queer
placd, ag you Totthd, bu1 you were nola
the first to .find it out. There was a
great explorer Marco Polo, who, atter
travelling over the world thirty years,
one day -Nand himself. in the North
Sea, and then went home, Wont tO
bed, toul did -not travel any more,"
, plated extensions that will tap all
i parts of Mesopotamin. Thet road,
thanks to happy ement events, will
not be under German control, outside
of Germeny. As further develoecd.
ittwill connect the East with the West
(as the Germans meant it should)
and Mespot (as the British call it)
will ship to the Mediterranean tie
produce laimed by the West and td.
the Persian Gulf the produce demand
ed by the East,
As developed undo: the now con.
templated plans, Mesopothinia will he
in effect a vast OASIS perrennielly ir-
rigated by stew -fed rivets. It Wil
be a, "protectorate" melee Britist
control, In order that the Terme mat
be safe from the marauding Arabs
whose predatory inclieatione ere,
undo. present droned:levee is eon.
813111 threat.
TC Wits a Nerd Fly, Anyway,
A certain spinster was a Most not-
able hotetelteeper, and the intoincelat2
ne.atness and older that dietinguierati
every roo*13 la her house had made 0,
deep impreseion upon ter emell bet
observant eiece.
Gee clity the 113118 girl returnee
home after a Leg party al uunthdt
Ind in an awed tom. stild:
"Moeiler I saw a tly in ii,infief
large, bet," after a socoroN thing:Mc
ail, was ;teething limit.;