Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1925, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free press a Monipeo. Satt Obday Tajo ust 8, 1925 i buttons and comment Lian aeroplanes will be expedite land settlement Ouranea. Great excitement what was Russia like a few of the More astute Learned from some strange source that the russian for Beer was Peeva Many muttered under their breath a useful word to know. We marched off next morning but whether North or South we knew not. When Dawn broke we bivouacked in a Wood. Every Man had instructions pasted in his pay Book to speak to no one of our destination. But we did not know it ourselves. Gossip was rampant. Someone had heard we were moving South but it was also told on Good authority that some battalions had entrained for Ypres. A week of such marches followed. We knew now that it was South Ward and at last late one night the battalion reached. A big town not much damaged and partly inhabited. We clumped Over the cobbled streets Between High houses1 grimly closed shutters and suddenly saw before us an enormous Church rear ing its Hugh bulk toward the mid night sky. What was it someone in the platoon was certain that it was Amiens Cathedral. Amiens. That was where the aussies were. Good old aussies. Sure enough next Day is several of those Long thin lounging figures with hats cocked on their Heads. Perhaps they could Tell us what was up. They did. Yes Digger. Goin Over the top Day after tomorrow. Two thou Sand tanks in action. You re on our right and it Don t hold us up we re Goin to break in our excitement we passed Over the insult. Hold up the aussies just wait and Well show those aussies a thing or two. That was on August 6, and next we were lying concealed in the Woods West of Amiens. Officers and sergeants had been Given maps and aeroplane photographs showing the ground and scheme of operations. For the first time we Learned the facts. The attack was on a big scale. Jumping off with Hansard As a Centre the corps was to Advance Over the Santerre plateau. Keeping in touch on the left with the australians and on the right with the French along the Roye Road. Meanwhile a mixed brigade of canadians had made a raid in the far Distant Ypres salient and had taken care to leave identifications in German hands. Fritz presumed the corps was in the North. He never dreamed that the highly trained Canadian corps was already in position Miles away to the South the brigade made its raid and was hurried South by train. On August 7 All attempt at be Patch riders deftly threaded their Way in the dense traffic on the Road. A staff car with red Flag darkly fluttering in the gloom Tore along. As it neared a Batta lion a tired voice went up from the rear files keep to the and the companies swung slowly Over to the Side of the Road like a great tired Snake. The car swept past to the sarcastic shout of Good old at Cross roads harassed traffic men tried to disentangle mule trains infantry lorries and guns All con verging at once upon the Corner. The hot sweat Laden air mingled with the frenzied curses of the mule skinners. In the line the night passed quietly. O clock and the air was sweetened by the impalpable freshness of the Dawn. Slowly the stars faded from the sky and far in the East stole in the first faint heralds of the coming Day. Lighter and lighter it grew and at last the softly repeated word was passed along stand close on the signal came the rum swallowed in a coughing gulp. Men gathered to Little groups in the Bays. When does the barrage what s Zero hour " a sergeant passes every Man Here got his what s them " says the platoon Jester and a feeble laugh goes up. Any kind of j6ke goes Down this morning. The Roar of Low flying planes fill the air As the squadrons sweep East Ward. Then the crashes Down and men talk no longer but wait for signals or vainly try to shout now. And again to their chums. Officers Are looking at their watches More and More often As the minutes crawl along. Men Are pulling at their equipment jerking at a strap Here and there tinkering with this and that. Suddenly after a Cen Tury of waiting the officer Waves his Arm and climbs Over the Para pet. Hustle and Bustle even where. The barrage lifts to Settle like a curtain farther away. They re off. 1 the Sun rises higher in a Blaz ing sky. On the left the aussies Are doing Well but moving More. Slowly than the canadians who Are fresh from of Weir Long rest out of the line. On the left again across the Somme among the rolling Chalky ridges the British Are held zip at Morland Ouirt fighting desperately. On the right the French surge Down the Hillside and leap the River to storm the Heights on which lie the huddled houses of Morell now a smoking ruin. In the Centre Aown the Valley of the Luce through difficult wooded country the canadians drive for Ward. Streams of prisoners carrying heir wounded shamble Back some with guards some without. The re Erves marching up them cheerfully and frisk their pockets the cheerful philosopher How we May grow wings so great was the stimulus Given to aviation by the War that at of close we Felt the air was conquered much More thoroughly than the Ger mans. Many of us had seen a wonderful variety of aircraft. Blimps and near zeppelins triplane by. Planes and monoplane big Boni Bing planes leisurely observation planes and Small fast scouts hydroplane and flying boats whole squadrons of air planes crossing the sky in wedge formation like wild geese. We had seen planes whirling and spinning like Tumbler pigeons As their pilots Practised stunts above their Aird Romes we had seen them dodging shells Over the line. Sure we said the Aerial age is Here. Instead of Ocean greyhounds we shall take the air liner. Aero buses will carry us from City to City with Speed and safety. Within a few years we shall be Able to. Buy and Fly our own Small to some extent our expectations have been realized. Airships have crossed the Atlantic. Passenger planes ply daily Between the great cities of Europe running to time like trains. An air route has been established from Britain to the far Bast and one from France across the sea and the Sahara to Tibuc too. Mail planes Cross the american continent from coast to coast. Hydroplane patrol our Northern for ests. But we the hopeful individuals Are just about As far from j owning our own planes As we were ten years ago. The great Field of private ownership is practically in. We Are informed that Aero Aires Are As Safe As automobiles e know that they Are built to Fly Ems elves for hours without As stance we know they have been own by radio control and we May ave read that some firm is making widget aeroplanes costing no More Ian a medium priced car. But no catalogue comes through the Post to Rouse our interest no Salesman alls at our door or town demonstrate the Virtues of. His title plane and show us How flying we feel is still a., Job for he expert there is for s to learn the use of wings. We sed to see an aeroplane once in a Hole and May have had a ride in be at our summer fair but now we be them Only in the movies. We one at any for before we could run it we should ave to take a course of lessons at ome flying school and that would e expensive. We should then need skilled Mechanic to keep our. Plane uned up we should need accommodation for housing and we Lould need a . Given modern plane no Man would teach himself to Fly. Before or course was finished be should Lave finished our course. If the sport were now popular Ivery Small town would Nave its or souvenirs. Heinie How s she Gott my stuns scared Heinie hold hands High fearful of worse. Batteries Are moving up everywhere with horses plunging and rear Njg at the bursting shells. In its Advance the corps captures staff officers in their motor cars and hospitals Complete with nursing Sis ters. These top the Dusty roads. Trudge Back Over even a train is captured in nor runs a train com plete with Fritzie reinforcements. Tanks Sway and rumble Over the Countryside and wonder of won Ders the cavalry charge into action eastward through Fields still flowering and unhurt by War through the infantry and into action they go with lances and sabres scattering the few Fritz Les who stand up to them. The troops Are into Ripen country at last on through Aube court Bayeux Marcel ave Beau court Guill Aucourt through har Bonniere an Quesnel and on through Rosler with never a Check. V then with the evening comes the halt digging in dead fatigue a Good eight Miles from the Start. Here s a hoi from the Edmonton journal an old topic is discussed by a. E g in the Ottawa journal. A Socia gathering some years ago when on the glasses being Ulie or. D. J. Goggin then superintendent of Public instruction at Regin gave the Western salutation Wei Here e a Premier robs of on Tario who it is explained was drink ing Singer ale said that he had a been curious As to the orig of the expression. Or. Goggin is Crl bed it to the fact that Tom immemorial the signal used by the indians for the commencement of Buffalo Hunt was the fur trac Era adopting it when they attack the drinks. The journal s correspond dont states that he challenged the explanation and referred. Goggin to. Verse in Isaiah to everyone tha thl Steth he did so jokingly but some months afterwards read a article by a prominent English liter Ary Man who was present. In. Which or. Goggin s account of How the u.3 of the phrase began was Given a this was added now that is the i real the True origin of it. It is no up choking Clouds of acrid Chalky As an ignorant Westerner says scrip dust for the air was heavy and 4 close with not a Breeze stirring the Brittle leaves of the Trees. Batteries moved up and battalions marched wearily along in the Sil ence of fatigue with Heads thrown Crecy behind the line was thrown aside. The roads were jammed with troops marching up and transport moving East and West three solid lines of traffic on the great Poplar lined Highway. Scores of aeroplanes roared overhead jealously protect ing the masses of men from the prying eyes of Fritzie planes and balloons. It was the Day of Triumph for the staff which was pull ing off the Jost perfect of the kind of show that Green recruits had dreamed about in Canada Only to lose their illusions in France night fell and strings of lorries ground along the roads throwing i Art immigration bargain i from the Vancouver Pun. That Semi official statement fro the British government uttered i Vancouver through lord Burnham that Britain will extend its 50-50 61 Fer to the training and settlement Forward and shoulders Bent to immigrants is an immigration bar the weight of equipment. Ai drome with housing lanes and men to order. We should for the keep them in take our flier Tom the drome just As we take our car from the. Public garage. Lessons n aviation would at the grounds. But the aeroplane Indus try has not developed alone our Ines. The planes have from us. Our needs Are a supplied. What we require is a machine that we can safely learn to Fly for ourselves. It should be inexpensive of powered of Small bulk and with folding it should be one that we can run upon the Road As a car so that we can practise skimming just above the gravel in Short and longer flights before we venture across country. We do not want a winged car a lighter and much More simple mechanism would suit our purpose. 1 suggest the Nero motorcycle this Little flier will have an Aero engine whose Power will act on an aeroplane tractor instead on a driving wheel. Its Short monoplane wings will fold Back like a Sci Hopper s when not in use. Its front wheel filled with Canvas serve. Tis a lateral rudder to turn it left and right when in the air Asi easily As on the ground. Tall rudders will control the so Long As., the rider leans Forward on is handle bars in the cycling position his plane will be a when a sits Back his weight will work the controls and turn his Bike into n. Plane on the Hanf Lle bags will then be used to control tile a Llorona on the wings when making a Bank. When your air Bike is delivered you Willt take it Over to the fair grounds and try it out around the race track. At first you Wlsh be con tent just to feel the lift As you move your trifle Back will Rise to sail across a puddle and Glide for o. Few Yards before you touch ground and soon you will be. Competent to jump a hurdle set across your path. A few hours you will be Clearing the fences. It will much More easy than managing a horse. Here we go along the High Road. Twenty an. Hour Pace Wengi ready spread for flight. Coming if. Meet us is v As it draws a we item on the Gas. Lean Back res i from the gravel and swing out Over the grass. Ten seconds later have straightened out again above Road and we Glide along i till our wheels take the ground. Next we take a Short Cut in air across the Corner of a Section we avoid a stretch of bad Road we said High Over f. Level crossing with no need to Stop look and our Road Speed is 20-30 flying Speed is 20-60 we can make fast time in air ind come Back Home by Road on p. Pint of Gas. The wheels we Alig t Jon Are larger and stronger for our weight than those of a plane no Trail is too narrow for us to make a Linding. Expense for tires and is Small. Our flier Cost woo. To House it in the tool shed. Within a million years and that is Oaly a moment in it is a Long time to wait. This pipe of an air Bike seems to me to Point to the Only Way that most o us can Hope to get our wings. Some energetic fellow May make a for tune out of it. I Trust that someone will. The sooner the better for i want Tny wings. I feel ready for them but they won t sprout. A land settlement proposal the free press has received from or. A. J. Scott of the following letter suggesting co opera Tion Between., our provincial and Dominion governments and the Brit ish government in financing a land settlement scheme in which payment for the land would be spread Over 60 years the urgent need of for people. We millions of acres of Good land available for settlement the owners of which Are willing and anxious to sell at reasonable prices an these lands re main Idle because the people who would go farming if they had the Chance Lack the necessary capital. We shall never Settle these lands up generation unless we As Sist people to buy and develop them. And painless we place our own peo ple and new settlers on the land or unless capital will develop our natural resources on a Large scale we shall have Lett be to offer our Young people or the average newcomer. The plan i suggest would be to allow our own people and the new settler to select his to 320 . Nature of the land in an approved District an inspection and appraisal report made by competent government inspectors would then be submitted to a settlement Board for approval. On approved applications the government Dominion or provincial of would Issue to. The Vendor of the land for the full amount of the Purchase Price sixty year land Bond sat Par redeemable at the option of the government at certain periods and bearing Between four and five per cent interest. The government would then enter into. A. Sixty year Sale contract witty the land settler for the Purchase Price plus a reasonable charge for inspection and administration. Under the terms of his Purchase contract with the government the purchaser would required Sacii year commencing with the year of his first crop returns to pay a Small annual instalment of principal and interest on the amortization plan of equal yearly payments of interest and principal combined. He should however be required to apply yearly on ills contract an. Amount equivalent to not. Less than the value of one third of his crop. Partly prepared farms Vendor of unimproved Lane a Rould be. Required of break up certain acreage erect suitable build make other necessary improvements such As fencing and pro vision for water at a Price fixed and approved by the Board the Cost of these improvements would be added to the Price of the and similarly paid for in sixty year Bonds at Par. The settler buy ing the land should have the Privi lege of performing for the Vendor Al or the in effecting these improvements thus pro Volding him with a useful amount o Cash for his first year s farming operations or to apply on the Pur Chase Price. In those it uses where the purchaser could not apply his Stock and the Vendor of the land should also be required to moderately equip the farm with implements and work horses and a sufficient number of cattle hogs sheep and chickens to form the nucleus o a Small Herd of Stock and enable the purchaser to Supply the wants of i own table thus turning Over to him a moderately improved and equal pet farm in Exchange for Tota value of which the Vendor of the land would receive sixty year land Bonds. The settler should be compelled dec reside on his farm and properly cultivate and improve it until Suc time As he has paid a. Certain cent age of the Price. H Bould be required to crop and sum me fallow a specified acreage each year until the farm is paid for i full when making application the set or would1 of course furnish a Fin ncia.1 statement and satisfactory Kefei fences As to character and experience. The financial statement would determine what Cash payment hould any. As re experience it should be re Embred that Many of our most Isicc Essul Western Farmers Ity bred men who never previously Ved on the land. We must be pre ared to take a. Chance on any industrious and moderately land settler. Should be self supporting instruction and advice should be furnished to every new settler Dur no the first few years at Jove All e should be informed that ills first and most important duty is to sup by his own table from the f his own make the farm keep him and his family without duly resorting to the Village Stoie. Probably the gravest defect in our Estern farming methods in the past was furnished from he As that far too provided their own Gas butter Ohe est age store too Little of our Farmers Etc tables. Meat and provided by the u.iii1. Via would the plan of Allowi-i5 Sel lers sixty years in which to pay Tor moderately improved and equipped arms prove suffix Only attractive induce Large Nuh Bors to Settle n the land i Tofe Lieve i it would Only would Large numbers come rom the British is he United states t Anda if they could Here Are also Large Ierien ced Canadian s who would Opportunity. At the i believe or interests would y placing on the available people befit to served land our own is. Making room n our towns and cities for. British Urban immigrants who Are far in Rural Tyml ease unsuited of Allbri for farm lie. In almost Overly City town and More numerous eth Grants and in Man 3y training and Village in Canad numbers of read men who would if the sixty were initiated is not n Many respects Erms of. Paymer and More attract of the land is pit la and o Settle on our Aifoi d it tit numbers of sex roughly or at the outside. Doubtless Many will attack this on the grounds that it would Saddle the government with a prodigious liability. But would not the liability be More apparent thar real on one Side of the Ledger would be a. Bond Issue ultimately totalling or plus an annual interest charge of about and Between and of taxes. Let us examine the other Side of the Ledger. Behind the Bonds would to the land itself and the Stock and equip which would or should be Worth the amount of Bonds issued. The Ido Nib need not be redeemed for sixty years. Olio will venture to predict what these lands will be Worth sixty years hence certainly not less than three or four times their present value. The Mere settlement these lands would on Nance their value. Apart from this. Die Imperial government would prob Atily assume a portion of the liability a the Case of British settlers. Or the latter cases the guaranteeing of the Bonds might quite fairly be divided More or Leso equally Between the Imperial government on the one hand and the Dominion and Cial governments on the other. In other words 50 per cent by the Imperial government 25 per cent the Dominion government and 25 per cent by the province in which the Settlor is placed. Boy drowns three que., aug. 7. Blard Bellemari ten years old from St. Alexis pcs Monts lost ills life while bathing thursday. He sauce the Rich thick fruit sauce that makes you want to eat. And neuralgia and Tor relieving the pains in Back and limbs and reducing the fever of la Mathieu s Nervine tablets tried remedy it very 25c. J. L. Math1eu co. P Sherbrooke . Summer there Are Large by y experienced farming Tomor air payment plan it is similar to the sort for set n Many i us Lement Board pm knt except that Oie Are much longer be and the Vendor d in instead id and rim k Are a it la not it Cash and much cheaper by Ike the a spilt Irish land . Which i enat oled thousands of Freili 1 Arin Era to own their own farms Fly Siv no them the Opportunity to buy on terms of pay fiend extending years or More. Tre c. R r by improving its lands Ana Offe inn them to settlers on Twenty years to thirty five years has probably brought More if Tual land settlers into Canada Dur no the past in years than the government. Itself dividing the liability it is estimated that in Western Canada alone.7 there Are acres of uncultivated suitable for settlement within 15 Miles railway. Putting the. 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