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2 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928 "The Submarine" Poem, by S-4 Victim Laughed at the Dangers of Life Under Sea "In a Damned. Old Sub-Washington.--The lure of the s< marine, as well as some of the perils of life in naval "pig-boats," as the undersea vessels are called by the sailors, are vividly pictured in a poem written some time ago by Walter Bishop, of 1,412 E Street, Southwest, this city, radioman, who lost his life when the submarine S-4 sank off the Provincetown coast of Cape Cod. The poem, which was given out by Mrs. Bishop for publication in The Washington Post, is almost prophetii in its recital of the dangers daily en countered by officers and enlisted mei aboard the under-water craft. You've no doubt heard the people Of battleships, spotless and clean. But stop! Have you ever heard a word Of life on a submarine? I shall try to tell you the story, Now that I think I may, And am hoping that you'll hesitate Ere going your busy way. In the Cankerous mind of the devil Ther festered a fiendish scheme; Ka called his cohorts around him And designed the submarine. They planned and plotted to do their xAre awaiting what evil it will bring. I'll 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, Borne 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 brain, With the two big Diesel engines Roaring and shaking as though In Throttle man and lowly oiler Striving to stand' the pace; While with the rag half-soaked fuel oil The motor room is another hot place, .lust motors and pumps and things; »ut. none the k,h,V>^>' SPOi •ivheii 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; Eo some sleep there, next the over- With tons of TNT below. The officers are real he-men ! Of character and nerve supreme; It takes the keenest intellect To command a submarine. They must be democratic, Broad-minded men and strong; Capable of quick, decision Should anything go wrong. The electrician's mate has a rather hard lot, For labor as nytich as he might, He returns from a dive only to find He has to charge batteries all night. The radio man has his troubles, too, Cooped up in a little shack; With an Underwood mill against his And a bulkhead against his back. Seameja, torpedo men and gunners' All have their share of woe; They must take care of the upper And the armament below. You've seen these bronco busters Suffer while doing their stuff; They don't hold a candle to what When the gods of the sea get rough. She'll roll and pitch and twist and squirm With the devil's own curse upon The movements, like those of a mighty Cause her to suffer from mal de mer. There's a sort of fascination*1 Attends this job of ours That could only be duplicated By a rocket trip to Mark 'e cuss and mutter "never again" Until we get paid off; But the blamed old life will drag i No matter how we scoff. . p!a< for fools. It takes ten good men to operate Tf'j diving gear that's there, And each man knows that a clear 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. closed and engini All openings closed up tight, For it. takes less than a minute To submerge clear out of sight. Main motors are started, periscope • Bow diving planes rigged out; AH done in a very few seconds And yru'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 lites are forfeit for a slip. Yes, daily we make a risky dive, While Uncle Sam, with his brimming cup, Bets us a dollar while we're alive, A dollar to nothing we don't come ap. We're bottled up, just like a trap, Wtth nothing in between The sea and death but a metal cap Like the lid on a soup tureen. Wfc get a five-dollar bonus, They call it extra pay; But it always goes for dungarees That the acid eats away. The best blood in the service You'll find on the old pig boat, For it takes more than a common To sink still to float We all < And fnere, friends, We like the life beneath Life In a damned old me back for the rub-" CLEANING A RAINCOAT Perhaps the reader has never cleaned her raincoat, fearing that she might spoil it. The method given here will prove satisfactory in the ,se of rubber raincoats. Prepare a large pan of suds mmie from a good quality o£ soap or soap powdlr. About four ounces of soap required. Let it come to a boil and let it cool slowly, stirring the suds occasionally. When almost cold, add four or five ounces of wood alcohol. >ne is compelled to use hard ir, 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 exceptionally dirty, go over it a second time. Fuller's earth will usually re-e any obstinate stain. The coat is then ready for rinsing. This must 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 rins-must be lukewarm and the last cold. In the first, dissolve sal soda (a handful to 10 gallons of :r) to assist In removing the soap. To the final rinsing add acetic acid (a teaspoonful to two gallons of water) set the color and give the raincoat a fresh appearance. If the coat is insufficiently rinsed and streaks appear, rinse it again in the soda solu-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 resistance to water can be reproofed af-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 gallon of boiling water. WThen both mixtures are thoroughly dissolved, pour the two solutions into one bath. Immerse the coat in the bath and well saturate every part. Squeeze 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 a cloth. 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 four ounces of water, to which has been added an :e of light magnesia. A mackintosh, of course, should not be ironed. Rubber cement will mend any tears ■ that they are hardly discernible. Dampen a weight t* prevent, it from sticking, and then place it on the patch to help the cement to adhere. Sunday Sport Sports on Sunday Are Pleas* ing to God After Worship, Bishop Manning Asserts Asserting that religion is in the fullest sympathy with clean sport, Bishop William T. Manning addressed the National Collegiato Athletic Association 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 Bishop's address follows "Clean sport as represented a promoted by your association is c of the most powerful influences for the upbuilding of character and for the development of true manhood and womanhood, and so I feel that therffl should be the closest possible assocflp tlon between sport and religion. "Religion stands for true and upright living and for obedience to the law of God, but religion must do this not only by opposing wfiat is evil but by encouraging all that brings happiness and gladness and wholesome pleasure into human life. We need to get free from the notion that religion is opposed to the happiness and joy of life. One of the great symbolic descriptions in the Bible describes the Holy City to us 'as full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof which suggests that we shall have our sports and recreations, or their equivalent in? the future life as I certainly believe we shall. And therefore while Sunday is the Lord's Day and on that day worship should have first place, my own view is that provided 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 difference 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 letters upon the subject, not all of them approving the idea. My own conviction upon 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 edifice in our country, we shall have striking symbol of the fact that spoi has its true place in life and that ligion does not frown npon clean spoi but is in the fullest sympathy wit! it." Turban, Scarf and Cuffs Ermine trim sets off this attractive walking suit by Worth. Lloyd George in Optimistic Mood 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 equilibrium 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 journalism for some time." Politics, he said, "brought me only disappointment and journalism afforded some compensations. I have a during four years from rnalism than in 16 as Minister of Crown and Prime Minister." "Sunday School Lesson January 22. Le6son IX--Jtsvs and the Law--Mark 2: 18-22; 3: 1-8. Golden Text--Think net that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.--Matt. 5: 17 . SUBJECT. the son of cod at work, emancipating and delivering. The Pharisees, who rictest upholders of the Jesus' time, aimed at bringing New York or London? How the N.Y. Herald-Tribune Answers the Question London Doesn't Worry The comparative size of New York and London has long been a subject of Anglo-American controversy. It is now brought into prominence again by the extension of the New York metropolitan district proclaimed by the Merchants' Association, with enthusiastic New Yorkers and London-citing impressive figures to prove their respective urban superiority. -- The question is one of definitions. By the whole life of tha Jewish people careful manipulation the somewhat u,nder the ceremonial requirements of doubtful honor of being the largest th»Va™- They were not content witn ,, , ,. . , , .... what the written law demanded, but city in the world may be claimed with , ad(fcd & mu]titude of observances iual facility by either metropolis. j which had n0 foun(jation except tra-The nucleus of London is the "City ditional usage. These extra observ-of London," the old financial district ances concerned matters like alms-which has vigorously maintained its giving, prayer, and fasting. For ex-independencse, still boasts of its Lord ample, whereas the written Law re-Mayor and has its own police. It quired fasting only on one day in the scorns the modern County of London, year, namely, the Day of Atonement, with its area of 11 square miles and ^J^^lILo^l Tat two its approximate population of 5 000,- d jn week and;they insisted 000, and the even larger metropolitan on all religious peop]e doing the same, police district, which embraces parts jn tne same way the Pharisees multi-of other counties in addition to the plied the rules relating to the Sab-County of London. But together the bath and other holy days. City of London and this metropolitan j it mattered not v.-hether the regula-district cover an area of 680 square j tions commended themselves to reason miles and have a population of 7,500,- and to a spiritual understanding of 000 |the divinewill. It was* enough that Greater New York--that is, the five j they had a traditional sanction, and ._______, ooq o„,.qi-0 miles that they increased the separation be- boroughs - covers 299 square miles religious and the non-reli- aqnd has a population of 6,000,000. ! cla£>ses.fe JesaS) on the ot„er Comparing this with the County of hand, declared many of these observ-Lonodn, we may boast that New York ances to be contrary to the will of the is the largest city in the world; com- heavenly Father. He insisted that God pare it with Greater London and the ; wished joy and not gloom, freedom decision must go to the English city.! and not oppression, life and of daath. But compare the new metropolitan dis-! In our lesson to-day we see him as trict, with its 9,000,000 residents,' and | Emancipator and Deliverer, the London metropolitan district, with 11, fasting and the divine will, 2: its 7,500,000, and we may once again 18-22. validate our claim. v. 1.8. The fasting regulations, Take your choice, fellow citizens of j which seem only to have been imposed New York. But If we wish to be en-; at times, for example, the season of tirely fair and compare the population . the autumn-droughts, wer-a observed of an ara in and about London com- j not only by the Pharisees, but by the prised within a radius of forty miles j followers of John the Baptist, from Charing Cross, which would j correspond to the area of the new ; T__„„ John . ascetic, and bound his follow-the strictest laws of abstinence, the other hand, declined to metropolitan district, which includes countenao6 a religion of gU all territorw within a radius of forty i did. not ask h;8 disciples to friend, Thomas A. Edison, one of the 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 man if they like the same tooth paste. The science of aviation has now ad vanced to the point where the He fast, but miles from City Hall, we shall discover j interpreted the religious life as a life that the population of London is al-! of joy. Hence, the question which is most precisely equal to that of New | here put to him. York V. 19. Jesus, defending his disciples This is the conciliatory stand adopt- for not.farting, the rule ed by the Merchants' Association, observed,ly a which claims our right to parity with cBSftf uJteiE our English rival, but would doubt- ,.hamber," that is, the companions of less deny that our program should be |tne bridegroom, for it was considered construed as inaugurating an era of ! to be their duty "to increase the bride-competitive building. groom's joy." Jesus compares himself ^ and his companion to such a happy ■'--^ [company, and says that they are ' „ „„™™Ii,„n Tw „„, tn 'Jesus use Tffls illustration.' Bee temporary paragraphers who »ant to , . fc hgart of ^ know where the new Ford will be ;he knowg that God-s £ervice is the op_ parked--Arkansas Gazette. | posite of gloom. He knows also, that I God is now fulfilling his promises of ' salvation, and that a new era in The whole nation would profit if j Israel's history is beginning. Compare a reasonably safe means of; Big Bill Thompson ever got the idea -- ' - »■ • «.--that crooks and gunmen pre Rntmh transportation, if Col. Lindbergh'- flying^t.-Ohio State Journal. | propaganda-Arkansas Gazette. British Interesting Historic Ball Father (to daughter)--"So you and I John Gildmore are in love, are you?| suppose you want to get married." Daughter--"No, I don't want to marry John. I want him to marry i other girl so that I can break up kls home." Thos< LT. GOVERNOR OF QUEBEC IS HOST TO OLD TIME NOTABLES Standing, Left to Right--Premier Taohereau as D'Aguasseau; Mrs. Reginald McKenna, the Governor's daught. as Marie Leczinska; Lord Willlngdon as Charles I; Lady Willingdon as Queen Henriette Marie; Gov. Perodeau (the ftt ,eag. Host) as Louis XIV. Seated--Miss McKenna as Marie Louise de France; Capt. Inigo Freeman-Thomas (son of Lord eueuld Wniingdon), as the Duke of Buckingham; Mr*. Freeman-Thomas as the Duchess of Buckingham. ^ i the slel Isaiah 61:10. V. 20. The other side of tha happy picture. Grief and. fasting are in place when the bridegroom is "taken away," and the festivities are broken up. This may be a reference to Jesus' death, which caused his disciples to fast, or it may be an illusion to the f«te of John the Baptist. John had been taken away from his disciples, and therefore, a sorrowful mood was appropriate enough to the latter. Jesus thus explains the fasting of John's disciples, but says that his own are excused. Vs. 21, 22. Two little parables are added to illustrate the incompatibility of the religion of Jesus with such institutions as ceremonial fasting. The first parable should be rendered thus: "No one stitches a patch of new (un-shrunk) cloth upon an old coat. If he does, the piece filled in takes away from the coat, the new (cloth) from the old, and the rent is made worse/' In other words, the new religion of joy (Christianity) does not acrree with the old religion of fasting (Judaism). John and his disciples belong to the old religion, and for that reason they continue to fast. The second parable about ne-,v wine needing new bottlea (wineskins), means that Jesus cannot express the true ideal of God's service-uder the old forms of Judaism. II. jesus and the sabbath, 3:1-3. s. 1-3. A test case was provided by presence in the synagogue one day man with a withered (paralyzed) hand. Jesus knew that the spectators atching to see if he intended to heal the man on the Sabbath. The Jewish rule was that healing acts ight be performed on- the Sabbath if there was danger to life in delay. In there was no such danger. Nevertheless, Jesus determined to heal the man, and asked him to come, forward where all could see and hear. The question of Jesus must have taken .his critics by surprise. He asks, in effect, if not to do good on the Sabbath is not equivalent to doing evil, if not to save life is not equivalent to taking life away. This puts an unexpected aspect upon the problem of suffering. There must be no delay " healing even on the Sabbath. Vs. 5, 6. The sullen siltr.ee of his critics rouses Jesus to indignation. ow hara their hearts have become in spite of their profession of religion. Deliberately ignoring their-objections, therefore, he heal3 the The Pharisees retaliate by at concerting plans for Jesus' death. The Pharisees did not like the Herod-. .... the political party which supported the administration of Herod Antipas. But now m their hatred of 3 they form < party. :ity folks in many sections of' who are looking forward to. one sleig'n Fide this winter art right away to look for ■