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Officer," by tley (Oxford University @ book is fiction, but into the lite of Colonel Enderby, the hero, the 'has put much of his own war Colonel may not be literally true, but hoy are typical. The volume was in- ~ tended to interest the youth of Eng- "Jand in the future-of the air, ~The flight described by Colonel En- . derby place in the great Somme battle, starting on July 1, 1916. Writ- ing of it the next day, he said: 'Yesterday was a historfe day; won- derful and awful, It was the culminating point of months of steady preparation, hard 'thought, hard work; and hard training. The Fourth British Army flung its full strehgth against the German posi- tions on the River Somme, supported on the left by divisions of the Third Army, and on the right by the French. For a few days previously the massed allied artillery had been 'carrying out an intensive bombardment of the Ger- man system of defenses; cutting through their barbed-wire entangle: ments, destroying their machine-gun emplacements, battering in their trenches, so preparing the way for the infantry attack. The zero hour, that {8 the schedule time for assault, was settled for 7.30 a.m. There was little sleep for any of us the night before, we were much on edge. Again and again we went over the details of the operation orders. We 'would not fail the infantry for lack of care and trouble. At last the summer morning came, calm, smiling, tranquil. The roar of the guns had died down. Only the echo of an occasional crump could be heard faintly wafted from the eastward. From the first gleaming of dawn onwards, the aero- drome became a scene of bustling ac- tivity. Finishing touches were being put to the, machines, engines tested, rigging inspected, This was the day of days. The scouts had already taken the air and were early scouring the heav- ens miles away over the lines in the endeavor to keep the opposing air- craft from approaching our trenches. 1 had been detailed for contact pa- trol, trench-plane, whose job it was to keep in touch with the attacking bat- tations, to report the progress of their advance, to watch for their sig- - mals, and to communicate their needs to the Commands of Staff. Ten minutes before the hour of sero I was floating over the front line at about 1,000 feet. The artillery bombardment had started an hour since. Guns Jf all calibres had joined in raining shot and shell on the enemy front lines and supports. The heavy dowitzers were plunking huge projec- tiles onto the German billets, onto eross-roads, and onto strong posts far in the rear. It was a stupendous spectacle! Never in the history of mankind have organs of destruction contrived by human agency heen so concen- - trated by nation against nation. The air was thick with smoke; the atmosphere suffused with the acrid smell of powder. The whole broad belt of dusty brown which marked the trench line lay under a dirty yellow pall, stretching from Gommecourt in the north way down beyond the river Bomme, The ground below lay quiv- ering as in mortal agony under the hail of staggering blows as the guns quickened their rate of firing . . .. it was "drum fire" now. Great blocks of earth shot sky- wards; shivered asunder and fell, breaking into spray like an Atlantic roller which has burst against a rocky promontory, and flooding the ground with debris, Puffs of black smoke flashed up into sight and slowly dissolved into the Jemeral haze; to be replaced by others i. yet others, Smaller puffs of white the barbed-wire absolutely and com- letely. pl I could see the men struggling to get through the tangled maze. Nor had even the heaviest guns succeeded in penetrating the dugouts which the structed. As our barrage lifted I could see their machine-gunners, their steel gray uniforms and "pickelhaubes" were easily distinguishable, bringing up their deadly weapons from the shelter 20 feet below the ground. In some cases, Where our men had over- run the first line of the trenches, the Huns: emerged in rear of them and shot them in the back. ' My time had come: the moment was at hand in which I could help. 1 came down to 200 feet. I remem- ber a pang of uneasiness. It was not pleasant flying at this altitude right in the line of the trajectory. of our own shells which were still pouring over into Hun-land. But fear is most readily banished from the mind when there is much else to think about, 1 sounded my Klaxon horn, and al- most immediately the flares showed up. I flew up and down the line, both my observer and myself busily draw- ing in the positions newly occupied by our infantry oa a trench map. In some places they had penetrated un- expecdedly far into and beyond the German line, They had taken Fri- court and had pushed on as far as Contalmaison. Over toward the Ancre the attack had not been Bo success- ful. There was obviously a terrific struggle goin on in and around Thiep- val Wood. We filled in the new line on our map fairly accurately, I think, and flew back'to the appointed spet where we dropped the information which we fs of the deep !f i et and unable to continue his active part | Montreal, too, had its taste of anti- emic, when an alder ity, a former member of of health, and an op- compulsory vaceination, if in a smallpox hospital, 3 In the agitation against vaccination. vaccinationists and soured on the type, For a dozen years or so, Dr. Coderre lectured and issued anti-vac- citation literature throughout the French-Canadian section of Montreal. When the disease was introduced in their midst, it was found that ninety per cent. of the deaths were among children under ten years of age who had not been vaccinated and who, no Vancouver Island. . Big? Oh, yes, fairly sizable. It is almost a lifework for these men to knock this British Columbia sapling down, The photograph was taken on --C.N.R. Photo 'Smallpox Is , Child Slayer Vaccination To-day is Saving Thousands of Children This is the twenty-first of a Series of Weekly Health Articles prepared knew was anxiously awaited. Then we returned to the front line, and again announced our presence by a blast upon the Klaxon horn, One by one the white letters of the code of signals were displayed upon the ground: "B.B," "HH," "The enemy are retiring," © 'Lengthen range," came up the silent cry of the units of the 34th Division, Our own barrage was holding up the advance. "2.2." "Held up by wire," said the division to its left. "FP." "PP," 'The enemy are offering strong resist- ance, reinforcements wanted." We flew back with these messages. The, long day wore on. Twice and three times the pilots returned to the aerodrome, replenished their petrol tanks and were off again to the line. When darkness came there was not one of us who was not dead beat. It had been a day of high hopes, partly realized, partly disappointed, The situation is still obscure: to-morrow we shall know better what we have gained and what the victory has cost. I fear it has cost the R.F.C. a few lives that can ill be spared. --ieem---- Wife (at 8.30 am)~--"Now, don't pull that old gag about sitting up with a dead friend." : Husband--"No--he was a live one, all right. He trimmed me for 76 in'a poker game and the landlord will have to wait until next month for his." ent cme : The first step to greatness is to be honest.--Dr. Johnson. ) | by the Canadian Social Hyglen2 Coun- cil. | Smallpox is sometimes called the children's disease, This is a rather broad statement, and as & Frenehman sald, "all generalizations are false, in- cluding this one." Smallpox is every- body's di just as ination everybody's protection. It is true, however, that smallpox is an especial danger to childhood. I have some figures before me that tell a frightful story ef what smallpox can do to children in a country, where children are cherished above all things--Englangd. . At the end of the nineteenth centry a smallpox scourge hit England, moved from city to city, leaving a ter rible trail of death and disfiguration behind it. The old country's publie men, always on the alert to better conditions for the people, made an ex- haustive investigation into tbe cir- cumstances surrounding the epidemic, I will give you the result of their search for facts, These figures refer in each instance to children under ten years of age. From the year 1891 to 1900 in Lon- don, the death rate among vaccinated children was, nil; among unvaccinated children the death rate was 22.8. For the year 1895 and the year 1896 in Leicester, the death rate among vaccinated children was pil; among unvaccinated children it was 14 per cent. The total number of smallpox cases of all ages was 367. From 1887 to the year 1888 in Shef- fleld the death rate among vaccinated children was 1.7. The total number of smallpox cases of all ages was 4,703. From 18929 to 18939 in Oldham, the death rate among vaccinated children wag nil; the death rate among unvac- cinated children was 33.3. The total number of smallpox cases of all ages was 124. From 1892 to 1893 ' in Leeds, the death rate among vaccinated children was nil; the death rate among unvac- cinated children was 37.5. The total number of smallpox cases was 200, There you have an idea of England's experience with just one epidemic. Five other citles and towns have about the same story to tell. It is the experience of doctors the world over, and shows how real is the danger from smallpox, how terrible th effects of the scourge; how remark- able the benefits of vaccination and bow largely imaginary are its hazards. During the period when these fig- ures were accumulated, smallpox was as prevalent as measles, and that was the decade when it acquired the ve- putation of bein gthe "children' dis- ease." Time has taught the medical profession that smallpox resumes its epidemic proportions of other days whenever and wherever the system of vaccination 1s habitually neglected. Through such neglect there results an accumulgtion of people who are sus- ceptible to the disease and who promptly spread it among other peo- ple. Personal experience is a great teacher, but it would hardly be fair to ask the anti-vaccinationista to try an experiment which 'was undertaken during a virulent smallpox scourge which swept hrough Boston, Mass., by Dr, Isaac Pfeiffer, a physician of that city who opposed the "germ theory" and contended that good physique, exercise, food, etc, were all the pro- tection needed against the disease. He challenged the Boston health de- partment to let him expose himself to smallpox infection. The challenge department officials and reporters-- 'was accepted and a group of health all vaccinated--went to Balloups Is- lands, where the smallpox cases were isolated, with Dr. Pfeiffer, who was the only unvaccinated person in the party, The doctor trotted into the wards with this group, then out again. He boasted that he "would inhale the breath of the smallpox cases, wipe their faces with his handkerchief, then wipe his own face with the same handkerchief." But he did none of these things. He returned to his home, some forty miles out of Boston, and was later discovered there with a de- veloped case of smallpox from which he. nearly dled. The newspapers at doubt, had been influenced by the anti- | vaccination literature of the day. That, however, was only one of the horrible features of the epidemic, Dr. Coderre, leader of the anti-vaccina- ; tionists until the epidemic broke out, tried to leave the province and enter Ontario. The authorities insisted that he be physically examined so that there would be no danger of the Scourge passing into this province. The examination showed how little Dr. Coderre himself trusted the theories he was broadcasting among the children--he had been vaccinated himself, } It has been charged that tubercul- osis may be caused by vaccination. Here is what Dr, Edward Baldwin, diréetor of the Trudeau Foundation for Research in Tuberculosis has to say about it: "Personally, sald Dr. Baldwin, "I have never seen a case of authenticated tuberculosis due to vaccination, Furthermore, I have seen many cases of tuberculosis who have undergone vaccination without harm. In far: vaccination in the course of tuberculosis has been the cause of improvement in some cases, and over twenty-five years ago vac- cination was seriously advocated by French Physicians, as a form of treat- ment," Does. vaccination cause syphilis? Here is a question which constantly raises its head. New York is the second largest city in the world and it is estimated that 8 to 10 per cent, of the population has syphilis, As a result New York af- fords a wide rpportunity for the study of the disease. The answer to the question -- does vaccination cause syphilis ?--which I will read to you, comes from Dr. John A. Fordyce, the professor of syphilis in Columbia Uni- versity, one of the greatest students in the interest of mankind of this dis- | ease, Dr. Fordyce says, "I have never in my experience seen a case of syph-! ilis conveyed in this manner, and do! not believe that such a mode of infec- tion is possible." It is generally considered that if a child is vaccinated within the first year of its life and again during the early stages of the adolescent period it will be protected from the danger of smallpox for the rest of its life, The mother who has charge of the health of herself and the members of her family should have no difficulty in de- ciding without a shadow of a doubt in her mind that vaccination is the safe procedure and the only safe procedure in the avoidance of smallpox. ee {esr A Conjuration The blinding storm, the hungry dis- array Of lean wet winds--these can I hold at bay; Nor do I fear heaped breakers, black as lead, Which match overhead: But, O! ye windy gods; avert from me Calms which can make a prison of the sea! --Margaret Sackville in the Glasgow erald. the frantic darkness "De Wise is making a novel cam paign, isn't he?" "Yes, he's passing out good olgars." -- © 3 ¢ J Materials Bring Symmetry of Line and Harmony Feminine imagination will receive pleasant stimulus in the fabrie sur- prises of the spring season. Many and delightful are the novelties in new 'materials and the manner of their use. When the last word has been sald, the true value of any fabric rests up- on Its ability to enhane feminine charm. Weaves and color combin- ations this spring offer the couturler wide range. Since sartorial enchant. ments depend upon symmetry of line, harmony of color, and the use of mate- rials appropriate to the cut of gowns, the more diversified styling of mate- rials is an incentive to greater origin. ality in design. Fabrics this spring combine body and suppleness. Satins of consider able weight and great elegance, some of them richly brocaded, some of soft, luscious crepe satin, proclaim the new era of formality. Flat crepes grow richly soft and take on new dignity, chiffons have more body, and laces of real worth, such as Alencon and Chantilly, supplant the sheerer and less impressive ones. Tulle, nets, and even horsehair braid add thelr originality to materials for evening and the brocaded chiffons and lames are sumptuous in their feeling and beautiful in design and color. Imported Sophistication An import from Lelong illustrates smartly the utilization of horsehair braid for evening gowns. It is an ultra-sophisticated gown, entirely of the horsehair braid, and the gleaming sheer blackness of its material gives it tremendous chic. The entire gown is formed of horse- hair braid of varying widths ,com- mencing with narrow brald which fashions the smart bolero that flares slightly over the molded body-lines of the gown. Spiraling around the body to a line well below the hips, the braid is molded to the figure, giv- ing the chic tubular line. From be- low the hips, wider braid makes a full skirt which billows like an Ir- regular umbrella, swooping to the floor in the back. The very character of the fabric] insures its unusual flare and furnishes its own trimming. The black is unre- lieved by any color and the gown re- presents one of the smartest crea- tions from Paris for spring. Lace Has Chic Role For ultra-femininity, Alencon lace has no superior for an effective and extremely serviceable evening gown. For the lace gown finds itself perfect Jy at home on the most formal oc- casions and on those where less for mality holds reign. Air Mail to India Bombay Times of India: Truth, that very shy lady, compels us to admit that the Air Mail is an interesting ex- periment and a modest convenience; but little more. . . . There is a news: paper aphorism that nothing is news which does mot come by the quickest route. The quickest route between Great Br!' .n and India is not the aerop' .¢, nor eve: will be; nor the airship, when it comes; but Ether, harnessed by the genius of Marconi. We invite the Associated Chambers of Commerce in all seriousness to con- sider which would be of the greater value to the community--an Air Mall, arriving a day or two before the Sea Post, so uncertain that every import- ant message should be duplicated, or wirelss messages at a penny a word. None can doubt what the answer should be. rr fp -- ONE DAY AT A TIME All along our earthly life. we are shut in with 'God, as it were, in little spaces. We must live a day at a time. The mornings are little hilltops from which we can look down into the valley of one little day. What lies over the next hill we cannot tell. Per- haps, when we come to it, it may re- veal to us a lovely garden through which our path shall go. Or it may show us a vale of shadows, or a path amid briers. No matter; we have but the one little valley of the day now in sight. Evening is our horizon. Here in this oue little day's enclosure we can rest as though in a refuge. To- mibrrow's storms and cares cannot touch us.--J. R, Miller, D.D. rene "It is the primitative things thet appeal to the sophisticated world #8 romentic."--Bernard Eldershaw, Legislation pending in New = state would control radld medical publicity, ] A Pioneér Journey of Service to Mankind--and Also One of Adventure Big events are often prosiac affairs, and some of the world's most daring deeds of adventure and research have been almost commonplace In execu- tion. But Sir Alan Cobham, who was the first to encircle the great contine ent of Africa, accompanied by his wife, found his eple journey full of thrills, difficulties and dangers, and these are all recorded modestly in "Twenty Thousand Miles in a Flying Boat." His recital will stand for all time, for it is a pioneer achievement, and nothing in the 'uture can take away this glory. It will delight all from "sixteen to sixty'---and over--who ap= peciate the spice of adventure, We quote as an example a thrilling ele« phant ineident which speaks for itself which Sir Alan records. "In the region below Bor," he writes, "there roams a herd of eles phants that is considered one of the largest in existence," and to his great pleasure Sir Alan's party located it on their journey, for it was hoped that Bonnett, the cinematographer, would get good results, He goes on: "Fearing that it was unwise to glide too far with by engine cut off lest some of the plugs might oil up in the great heat, I just gave both engines & burst of throttle. We were several hundred feet up, but the roar was fatal, for instantly the whole herd stampeded in all directions. A Thousard Elephants "They must have been a thousand strong, and in a few seconds we were right down on top of them, but those few seconds were too long, for in that time they had split up in all direc tions, so that Bonnett was at a loss to know which particular little group to take. In a few moments we had zoomed into the air again, and I was circling and trying to consider what our next shot would be. "In the meantime, my crew, for the first and only time on our cruise, seemed to forget themselves, I think that the figure of Bonnett standing by the camera doing nothing, and at a loss to know what he should endeav= or to take, was too much for the rest of the crew, The stampeding in all directions seemed to stimulate such interest In the work of cinematos graphy that they all started to shout at Bonnett, giving individual orders as to which particular bunch of elephants he was to take, "One was shouting, "Over here on the left, another, 'Bonnett, quick, over here on the right! Those great big tuskers'; whereas I was endeavoring to divert his attention to a wonder ful little bunch right ahead of us, to ward which I was steering th? mas chine. By this time Bonnet was turn ing wildly on anything, irrespective of whether he was taking elephants or not. Our real trouble as far as taking cinematographic pictures of such a subject was due to the fact that, ow= ing to the size of our craft, which took nearly a mile to turn, we could not circle quickly enough in order to keep our objective in the picture, "I shall always have distinct meme ores of those various little groups of elephants, upon which we continually, swooped in an endeavor to get some close-up pictures, The main herd may, have gone into four figures. Then the elephants scattered in all' directions, in little groups of about ten to twenty, and on each occasion as we came down over their heads, we could see them frantically ttruggling to escape from this monster in the sky that for the first time fn all history had invaded thelr domain. They could make but little progress, as they were wallowing belly-deep in swamp; and when we overtook them for the most part they, stood still, flapped their ears viole . put "their trunks into the air, 4 snorted with rage "In every instance, as Vie swooped down, we met with magnificent de- fiance from these wonderful beasts, the majority of whose white, gleaming tusks were so large and long that they seemed to go right down into the swamp itself. Great hunters to whom I have talked of these elephants have, on hearing my description of their tusks, usually gone into ecstasies of enthusiasm, for the herd we disturbed must undoubtedly be one of the finest in the world, "For the benefit of these same gens tlemen 1 also plotted on the map the exact position where I located the herd, and they were a little chagrined to think that they would never be ahlg to get near the elephants owing to the fact that they were in the middle of & perpeual swamp country scores miles in extent, unapproachable b; land or water; However, there werd others who rejoiced in the fact that here was a spot where Nature would be left untouched, and that these gloris ous beasts would continue to roam ay they ted done through the past ages unmolested #id unconquered by man. Sir Alan's book is Written throughs ut in this breezy entertaining style bw an adventure book Pas excelk e. = eran Ate CONTRASTS blade and the dull, red