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The Seaforth News, 1918-07-25, Page 3WAR SURGEONS PERFORM MARVELS Pal:tz1LEGATiON OF CASES CUTS DOWN DEATH LST Hospital System Vastly Improved And Doctors Save Lives of Many Divisions of Men Marvels aro being perforated by the surgeons attached to the various Entente armies, By exercising their skill they have restored to the fight- ing strength of the allied nations with vee r since the beginning' of the err whole divisions of men who in other wars would have eked of their wounds or would have been crippled for life. The recent gigantic battles, as the result of which more wounded men than ever before have received sur- gical treatment within a chert space of time, have demonstrated the 'im- mense strides made not only in sur- gery but in the methods of removing. the wounded from the battlefields and transporting them to hospitals. So effective is the co-operation between surgeons and physicians at the front and those at the hospitals in the rear that an immensely lnrger proportion of the wounded recover than was the rase at the beginning of the war. Men whose legs or amts have been �► fractured by shells now are restored to their regiments in a minimum of time. This is clue mostly to the fact that they receive prompt antiseptic treatment and surgical attention which prevents blood poisoning and the stiffening of articulation. Their recovery is rapid In the hospitals be- hind the lines, where they can be treated under comfortable conditions far from the nerve-wracking sound the gurus. Surgery Inspires Confidence Soldiers have been inspired with confidence in the army surgeons in the great battles around Verdun and in the great German offensive which began in March. - Promptness -in the treatment of rounded men has been obtained by segregntin,• them in classes accord- ing to the nature of their wounds. This was not generally done at the Beauty beginning of the war. The plan then The rose in the in vogue was to erect large hospitals bud, as near the fighting lines as possible, And she laughed in the pride of her say ten or twelve miles from the youthful blood, front, and to send all eases there for As she thought of the gardener stand - treatment. When big bastes occur- ing by— red these hospitals were overcrowd- "He is old—so old! And soon he must diol" The full rose waxed 'in the warm June air, And she spread and spread till her heart lay bare; artillery or from airplanes. Some- And she laughed once more as she times a trainload of wounded men heard his tread— "He is older now—he will soon be dead!" o For the Summer Outfit ;Private Ross Borrowed an Auto - Strop from his churn ---he used it once and immediately wrote hone for one. Don't wait for a request from yourpoldier boy— „include an AutoStrop in your next Overseas package. Remember, that the Auto - Strop is the only razor bo can obsoletely depend on— because of its self etroppiny feature it le always ready tor service. Price $5.00 At leedier ewer everywhere AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. Limited 83-87 Duke Street, Toronto, Ont. sa s•�s and Time. garden slipped her ed, and owing to the delay in operat- ing there were many cases r, gan- grene, tetanus and other i:_._tions that resulted fatally. The enemy did not h..litate to Bombard the hospitals either with the would arrive only to find all the beds occupied, and that they must move on to another hospital. BIRDS AND TIIE WAR. Speed of Aeroplanes Compared With That of Feathered Flyers. The connection between the flight of a bird and the flying of an aeroplane is obvious; yet, in spite of the won- derful results obtained by birdmen— aces of the air—nature retains the ad- vantage over men in flying. An' ordinary swallow can travel 120 miles in an hour, and there is a record of a swallow that flew from Antwerp to Compiegne, 148 miles, in sixty- eight minutes, attaining an average speed of 128 miles an hour. The swooping vulture whizzes through the air at 149 miles an hour. Perhaps a falling aeroplane, or a Hun Taube escaping from an ace, may go that rapidly, but 100 miles an hour is a good rate to travel for a birdman. However, aeroplanes are constantly being improved, and some aro exceed- ingly speedy; 108 to 185 miles an hour has been claimed at the front, but at this speed the plane is in constant danger. Birds can fly for twenty-four hours at a stretch, but 8 hours flying is suf- ficient for an aviator. As yet no bird- man can cross the ocean, but cuckoos travel from England to Africa. It has been estimated that at 10,000 feet altitude kites and hawks can see field mice, their eyes being twenty times stronger than those of man. At the same height an aviator must have powerful glasses to see even large buildings and rivers. Birds are helping to win the war. The homing and carrier pigeons snake excellent messengers on the battle- field. Birds adapt themselves in a most remarkable manner to abnormal con- ditions and environments, and while they are naturally shy, they soon get accustomed to the terrible thunder of battle. A correspondent witnessed the fol- lowing interesting incident:—"At six o'elooh, when the sky began to lighten, it was possible to see a rolling ex- panse of grayish dead grass, the color of the prairies after a summer drought. In the half light of the dawn we put up two coveys of par- tridges, while larks sprang up from under our feet. Later, when the guns were thundering and the battle raged, crows flew cawing across the sky, in- different alike to guns and aero- planes." Cottage cheese Is delieious with fruit preserves peered over 9t, But the breeze of the morning blew and found That the leaves of the blown rose strewed the ground; And he came at noon, that gardener old, And raked them gently under the mould. And I wove the thing to a random rhyme; For the Rose is Beauty; the Gardener Time. —Austin Dobson. During May alone the additions to the Canadian Expeditionary Forces were 87,880, of which 82,200 were in- fantry. That number is equivalent to two divisions, or half the number we maintain in France as a fighting force. General Currie's army will be able to keep going at full strength all this year. as betweenPOSTUM and other table beverages is in favor of the ,Who/eysoine, R 1' eat f..h 7` 8.i/ drink. is all this and more. R's most delicious. Besides there's no waste, and these are days when one should Save. Try �S,��rTArkier seaseresseseartee If you are going to do any canning this summer you will certainly need a cooking set like the one illustrated here. McCall Pattern, No. 8408, Ladies', Misses' and Girls' Cooking Set. In 3 sizes, small, 8, 10, 12; medium, 1.4, 16, 18 years; and large, 36, 38, 40 bust. Price, 20 cents. There is nothing more popular than a cape for summer wear. McCall Pattern No. 8421, Ladies' Cape. In 1 size. Price, 20 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your local dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St„ Toronto, Dept. W. 1s The Airship. Through the far height by day or night, My ceaseless work goes on— O'er hostile coasts and marching hosts, Till the long war is won. The track I mark of the fool sea shark, The deadly submarine, I spy his way to his destined prey Beneath the waters green. I swoop from the shroud of the thund- er cloud Upon the startled foe, And the bubbles rise with his choking cries From the salt sea deeps below. With hawklike flight my foe I fight Up in the cloudland there, And send him down with a flaming crown Through a mile of empty air. A day will come when my motors hum O'er the city of blood and sin— With a rain of fire and Heaven's ire, . On thy towers and streets, Berlin! •IMMIGRATION TO FRANCE. 107,800 Settlers Have Entered Coun- try Since 1915. A considerable stream of immigra- tion has developed across the Pyre- nees and across the Alps into France, made tip of agricultural laborers and industrial workers. Statistics recently announced put the number of immigrants last year at 107,600. Before the war France, like most of the other Continental nations, had practically no immigration and had no machinery for handling new - 'comers. The movement began in 1915 with 28,300 men, women and children. Now thirty stations have bean estab- lished for examining and registering the immigrants. The service goes much further, It finds work for these people, that is, it directs them to localities where they aro needed, and looks after their liv- ing conditions, encouraging and fos- tering the movement in every way. All expenses are covered by a tax of 10 cents on oath immigrant, The name of the German Food Con- troller is said. to •bt3 General Short - 580, r - CANADA'S ANTI- LOAFING LAW AGRICUX.TUItE^. 1S NOW MOST ESSEN 1TAI. INDUSTRY. Male Persons Eetween Sixteen and *sixty Meet Engage in Use- ful Occupations. ' Tho loafers and merely nominal workers of the North American Con- tinent have fallen upon evil days. Both in Canada and the 'United States, the law has now set its face severely against them. On July 1st the United States Federal Order, as drawn up by Provost Marshall Enoch Crowder, went in effect. All men of draft age, that is between the ages of eighteen and fifty have now to be enoaged in some productive employment or get into the army. This Federal Order is being re -enforced by anti -loafing laws, enacted by the State Legislatures, Measures in United States. The Provost Marshall has defined productive and non-productive occupa- tions and there is no escape for those who cannot be classed among the pro- ductive workers if they are of draft 'ago. Non-productive occupations in the United States are defined as fol- lows:— First, persons engaged in the serv- ing of food and drink or either in pub- lic places, including hotels and social clubs. Sccond,,passenger elevator opera- tors, attendants, footman, carriage openers and other attendants in clubs, hotels, stores, opera houses, office buildings and bath -houses. Third, persons, including ushers and other attendants engaged and occu- pied in connection with games, sports and amusements, except actual per- formers in legitimate concerts, operas and theatrical performers. Fourth, persons employed in domes- tic service. Fifth, sales clerks and other clerks employed in stores and other mercan- tile establishments. If'a man of draft age registered in due course and waiting his selection for the draft be not employed in pro- ductive occupation, or if he be idle partially or completely, he must hold himself on immediate call for the army. The regulation is applicable to idle 'registrants, to gamblers of all descriptions and employees of race tracks and bucket shops, to fortune- tellers, clairvoyants, palmists and people of such vocations. If the Board of Appeal so judge, idlers may have their deferred classification with- drawn and their names will be report- ed to the Adjutant General of the State for military service. The only excuses for idleness and non-produc- tive employment on the part of a man of military age are set down as sick- ness, reasonable vacation, lack of reasonable opportunity for employ- ment, temporary absences from regu- lar employment, not to exceed one week, unless such are habitual and frequent or domestic circumstances involving hardship to dependents if a change of employment were ordered, or where such change would necessi- tate night work on the part of women under unsuitable conditions. In the State of New York, the sher- iffs, state police, district attorneys, magistrates, other officers of the law, and the State Industrial Commission, under the State Anti -loafing legisla- tion, are combined to enforce the Fed- eral Order and assign men where nec- essary to jobs of a productive charac- ter. It is estimated that 1,000,000 will change their employment as the result:of this order of General Enoch Crowder. It is pointed out, however, that no man should give up his pres- ent employment, even though of the non-productive class, until he has either procured work at an essential industry or such work has been pro- cured for him, as it is recognized that a man employed at non-essential work is better than a man not employed at all. The Work of the Moment. Canada's Anti -loafing Law has been in operation since early in April and every male person over sixteen and under sixty years of age, unless a bona fide student, or physicially unfit, or reasonably unable to find employ- ment, must be engaged in soma useful occupation. 111. Canada the most essential indus- try at the present time is agricultural. Food production is a necessity of the present moment. More than 65,000 able-bodied men,, in addition to the mien already employed on the land, such as the Soldiers of the Soil and the boys and women of other organi- zations, will be needed to save the crops this season, There is no room for loafers; no time for idlers and there should be no mercy for tramps and mere pool -room sports. Slightly over 79 per cent. of the municipalities of Canada own and operate their own water supply sys- tems. I believe, if we cunei<lered the ultimate object of cultivating land, we would put more energy as well as wisdom into our attempts. That ultimate object is not merely more money from the crop now, but the ministering to civilization just as sincerely as a man does who sacrifices himself to win this war that civilize - tion may not perish.—Dr. J, W, Rob- ertson.. El). 7 ISSUE 29—'18 o. o q-.,e—e*.:4•w'p'xS FAIN? NOT A AIT! LIFT YOUR OORNS PR CALLUSES OFF No humbug! Apply a few drops then Just lift them away with fingers, a•--o—o.-o—c—a---.o--0--0.+0-0.—o-.•n STRANGLER THAN 1eJ YrIQ1<l, Row Long.Separated I1rotiier8 Met in a Fronoii Dugout. Two men who are testing.in a .dug out to escape the heavy shelling of the enemy for a few minute's cannot see each other in the blackness, but Ttris new dreg le an ether "111” common that spirit of "camaraderie" so common out there, although they are Pound discovered by a Cincinnati total strangers begin to chat After chemist. It is called freozone, and can now be obtained in tiny how ties as ]fere shown at very little cost from any drug store, Just sok for freezono. Apply a drop or two directlY exchanging the numbers of their battalions, which happen to be both Canadian and in the same brigade, elle says: "But you're, not a Johnny Canuck; you talk like an Englishman?" "That may be; I was born in Eng- land. But I am a Canadian. I've upon a 'tender corn or been out there for 17 years," the eth- eallus and instantly the er remarked, a little proudly. soreness disappears. "Indeed! I was in Canada only Shortly you will find three years. W'ere'd you come from the corn or callus SO in old England?" "Faversham, Kent" "Faversham! Wel], well, I'm blow- edl That's my 'one! What the 'ell's yer name 9" "Reggie Roberts." "Why, blime me, I'm your brother ti when Blll!" Affectionate greeting followed, then explanations. The elder brother had gone to Alberta 17 years before, while the younger was still at school. Correspondence had stopped as it loose that you can lift It off, root and all, with the fingers, Not a twinge of pain, soreness or irritation; not even the slightest smarng, D applying freezone or afterwards, This drug doesn't eat up the corn or callus, but shrivels them BO they loosen and came right out. It is often does with mon. Fourteen no humbug! It works like a oharm, years later the other boy went out to For 0 few centb you can get rid of Ontario. When the war broke out every hard corn, soft corn or corn be- they enlisted in different regiments, tween the toes, as well as painful and they met after 17 years' separa- calluses on bottom of your feet. It tion in the dark entrance to a dugout. never disappoints and never burns, Told by Capt. R. J. Manion in his bites or inflames, If your druggist hasn't any freezons yet, tell him to get a small bottle for you from his wholesale drug house. NO FOUNDATION FOR TRAVEL RESTRICTION RUMORS The volume of tourist traffic from the United States this year has been considerably lessened by misleading press despatches appearing in Ameri- can and Canadian papers regarding the Canadian Registration Act. It was unwarrantably statdd that visitors to Canada from the United States would be compelled to register at a post oglee before they could se- cure accommodation at a hotel, that passports were absolutely necessary, and more recently the absurd rumour was widely circulated that women from the United States would not be allowed to return home. This latter ridiculous report is specifically denied by Mr. W. D. Scott, Superintendent of Immigration, who officially designated it as "absolutely without any founda- tion in fact," Senator Gideon Robert- son, a member of the Dominion Cabi- net, and Chairman of the Registration Board, is equally positive in his denials of the other mischievous re- ports. The actual facts are, aocording to the official statement of the Regis- tration Board, 'that the Registration Act applies only to people permanent- ly resident in Canada and does not af- fect even remotely anyone living in the United States; that 00 registrar tion at a post office is necessary, and that no passports are required. The possession of papers showing'. .tel holders to be American citizens is all that is necessary to cross into Cana- da. anada. At the International boundary line the holders of these papers are given an identification card by the Canadian Immigration Officials, which enables the visitors to travel freely where they wish without any inter- ference on the part of Canadian of- ficials. Senator Robertson, Chairman of the Registration Board, has announced that "neither in the instructions is- sued, nor the regulations for Cana- dian registration, is there anything that would indicate desire or inten- tion to impose restrictions upon Americans or aliens, entering, travel- ling in, or leaving Canada." The experience of these American visitors who have already come to slated of wales of flour at excessive Canada verifies Senator Robertson's margins of profit, and sales of wheat many across but the unfortunatelyderwho there naot flour without proper substitutes. The many acsoss border have not case was heard before the New York read this announcement, and may Food Board, which gave the firm the opportunity of making the Red Cross donation. Mitxard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. A Lesson In Punctuation. At school one day the English in- structor put on the blackboard for hie pupils to punctuate what appeared to be a meaningless jumble of words. At very slowly whenever you lose your first glance it appeared to be an un. temper, and never fight again over solved riddle, but several minute& thought and the proper punctuation marks made it clear enough, The sentence was as follows: "That that is is that that is not ie not is not that it it le." When corrected 1t read: "That that is, is; That that is not, is not. Ie not that it? It is." Vinare,' Llement Cures Distemper. • MAGIC SAKI NG POWDER CONTAINS NO ALUM MADE IN CANADA„` Too Talkative. A widow, whose only son was fight- ing in France, had not received a let- ter from him for a long time, To her delight, one morning a letter came. It was of bulky dimensions, but to her surprise, on opening it, every single word had been erased by the censor, The only thing readable was a foot- note by the censor himself: "Madam, your son is quite well, but he talks too much." Miasrd's Liniment Cures Cold., Eto. When Meat is Cheap. Price per pound is not the only way to judge the cheapness of meats. The amount of bone and other waste to a. factor. MONSY ORDERS. Send a Dominion Express Money book "A Surgeon in Arms" (Apple -Order. ton), a story of a medical officer's ex- periences in the war, GIRLSI WHITEN SKIN WITH LEMON JUICE Make a beauty lotion for a few cents to remove tan, freckles, sallowness. Your grocer has the lemons and any d r EDICLY NEWSPAPER FOR SALE drug store or toilet counter will supply in New Ontario. Owner going to you with three ounces of orchard white France. Will eels 52,000. Worth double. for a few cents. Squeeze the juice of pt�tilislniilaRnCo.. Limit d, Toronto..iisonl two fresh lemons into a bottle. then "Farmers are sometimes the last to heat up; but they stay hot; and in a long fight they are always found sturdily carrying the battle across No Man's Land to the foe, in the last grim struggle."—Herbert Quick. FOR SALE put in the orchard white and shake well. This stakes a quarter pint of the very best lemon skin whitener and complexion beautifier known. Mas- sage this fragrant, creamy lotion daily into the face, neck, arms and hands and just see how freckles, tan, sal- owness, redness and roughness dis- appear and how smooth, soft and clear the skin becomes. Yes! It is harm- less, and thebeautiful results will surprise you. 400,000,000 People Lack Food. It is estimated that 400,000,000 people in Europe are short of food. In Poland, Finland, Servia, Armenia and Russia millions are actually dying of starvation and other millions are suffering from ander nutrition, while still others are living on the barest possible margin. This is to certify that fourteen Years ago I got the cords of my left wrist nearly severed, and was for about nine months that I had no use 1b1 my hand, and tried other Lini- ments, also doctors, and was receiv- ing no benefit, By a persuasion from a friend I got MINARD'S LINIMENT and used one bottle which completely cured me, and have been using MIN- ARD'S LINIMENT in my family ever since and find it the same as when I first used it, and would never be with- out it. ISAAC E. MANN, Metapedia, P.Q. Aug, 31, 1998. Food Saving in United States. A payment of $5,000 to the Red Cross in lieu of other penalties for violation of United States Food Ad- ministration rules, has been made by the wholesale grocery firm of Ober- man & Seherl, of 217 West 125th St., New York City. The violations 00n - still be influenced by the false reports to stay at home, spoil their vacation, and cause a mutual loss to themselves and to Canada. Sure He Would Be There. Private Murphy, after seven days' C.B.. for fighting in the canteen, was being lectured by hie captain. "You must," he said, "count fifty trifles.' Murphy meekly promised. A few days later the captain found Murphy in a furious temper, sitting on the head of a struggling comrade. "Didn't you promise mo," cried the officer, "always to county fifty before giving way to that temper of yours, Murphy?" "01 did, sir," replied Murphy grimly, "and that's what Oi'm doin'; O1'm just sitting on him so that he'll be here when Oi've done the oountin'." Minard's Liniment Cures etancet in Cows Every bushel of wheat saved from normal consumption on this continent will provide bread for at least ono soldier in Europe until the next har- vest. 90WELL ECIUIPPED NEWSPAPER and job printing plant In Eastern Ontario- Insurance carried 51,000. Will go for $1.200 on quick sale. Box 69, Wilson Publishing Co.. Ltd., Toronto. MISCELLANEOUS WILL PURCHASE ALTERNATING Current Motors for Cash. 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