ELECTRIC CHRISTIANITY.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 52, 11 July 1918, Page 1

ELECTRIC CHRISTIANITY.

RELIGION IN SHIRT SLEEVES.

ALL DEPENDS ON "BACK HOME."

The eventual power of tlic United States in -the skies will depend, however, upon) What is done at the "War Department in Washington and in the factories throughout America. The French need every tplane they can manufacture, and so do the other Allied countries. Every airman, '"both- American and French, with, whom 1 I iiavo talked agrees that the supremacy we hope 'to establish over the enemy in this branch of warfare depends upon the quality and quantity of machines made by American 'manufacturers and the speed with which they are shipped across the Atlantic. There is no lack of pilots, and there never will foe; but there is, and unless titanic efforts are made at home there will continue to be, a lamentable shortage of planes.

The ultimate success of all the diverse endeavours that is knitting the army into a compact, co-ordinated fighting force is based, of course, on the health and) well-being of the individual soldiers. General Pershing clearly realised this from the beginning, and owing to the profusion l with which 'hospital units and medical supplies were sent toward; the front in the early months of our entrance into the war the condition of the troops has 'been maintained at unprecedented standards. ALARMISTS CONFOUNDED. 'Alarmists seeking to depict the army as the prey of drunkenness and disease have 'been confounded with statistics proving the reverse. Such reports are mistaken: of disingenuous outcries. In the history of the world there never •has 'been a "body -of men of equal size so free from maladies of every kind. Nor has there ever been an army on foreign soil so orderly in its behaviour. Credit for this is chiefly due to the creation' of a vast military police covering every point, not only in the American) zone, ports and ibases, 'but anywhere Americans are likely to : go in the performance of their duties or on furlough. In a town of 5000 in which I was quartered there are somo 50 military police constantly on duty controlling traffic at cross-roads and assuring the maintenance of discipline and order. Nowadays officer's as well as men are being held to the strictest accountability for misconduct Which would have passed unnoticed 'because the arrangements were so incomplete—three months ago.

The members of the New Zealand reinforcement that recently landtd Egypt are putting up a. stiff light—with fleas. An Oamaru member of *• reinforcement says that when one siti down on the sand he immediately wants to get up again, for the fleas, in companies and battalions, dive into him head first, and keep up their predatory forays so diligently that one is compelled to walk to dissipate the notion that he will be eaten up. There are fleas everywhere, and as they were supposed to be one of tho seven plague of Egypt they have kept up their attacks on the leathery inhabitants of the country since the dawn of tHe world, and are still at it, but turn to the fairer-skinned and better-develop-ed Britisher with an avidity that keeps him perpetually on the mo/f. The sand of the desert is one vast incubator, an dtherc the Egyptian flea lives and moves and has his being, and makes everything that comes witiin his Teach move too. —'Mail.' Several South German newspapers raise a cry of alarm over the increase of bigamy in Germany during 1917. They saw the many acquittals and the lenient sentences imposed indicate that tho authorities are condoning the offence. Among the excuses pleaded by the men accused aro loss of memory because of shell shock. Some have gone so far as to declare boldly for tho nation's future. A corporal told a Munich court that he got married every time he obtained leave from the trenches, and ho believes ho had five wives. Eleven cases were tried in Berlin, seven in Cologne, and live in Munich last December. The deceived women usually are not willing to prosecute.

Some interesting facts relating to the keeping qualities of 'but'ter" in cold storage were mentioned' 'by Mr James Prouse at a meeting of the Levin Dairy Factory Company '(states the Levin Chronicle). He said that a parcel of butter —'I'2 'boxes—was overlooked in) the cold stores in Wellington; .for a period of eight years. 'A dealer bou'gfht tho 'butter, and it .opened ,up in firstclass condition. It >had been found that butter retained its quality, overt after 12 years in cold storage, so that when, they heard it said that it took a long while for New Zealand butter to get to England and that it could not 'be, therefore, as good as an article that was put. -straight' from the dairy on the market, they could conclude that the statement was made (by an interested party. a Nazol Inhaler. That will remove huskiness and prevent serious trouble, Sixty dosee 1/6,