" DOWN TO ZERO "

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 10, 6 October 1917, Page 7

" DOWN TO ZERO "

KECRUITING ENTHUSIASM IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

The chairman of the New South Wales State Recruiting Committee (Professor Macintyre) stated recently that recruiting had been passing through a difficult'time while, the country was engaged in internal strife. The rights or wrongs o ,- the industrial struggle, which was now coming to an end, were outside the function of the recruiting committee, but it was manifestly impossible fliat a lively interest in the prosecution of the war could be maintained while wo were SgUin s ' within our own borders. Recruiting wir!: had had many hard knocks in the

just three years,.nod while it could not but be hard, and sometimes dishe.irti>ning, xirk at.anv time, it had been :.nadi doabl.i so bj a variety of ratines whichhad. now and again blocked itfl course. The chairman went on to eay bat lie was conscious of a distinct cooling of enthusiasm, in many directions, n.d at times it seemed as if the thermometer ■went down to zero. People almost re- . sented.being reminded that tre were fighting for the freedom of the world and the future of Australia on the eoil of France, and that Australian eoldiers were there needing every ma,n wo could send them. However, there were still many who had not yielded to this feeling nor allowed their attention to be distracted from the great world issue. The war was still going on, day and night the Hanic struggle was being wa.*ed, and vacant places had to be filled, and depleted ranks to be .strengthened. Not for a day rnuld -the work nf recruiting f-'.acken. The more difficulties the more determination to get through them or over them. The more slackening of interest the more need to counteract it with increased enthusiasm. What had to be realised w.as that the work of securing reinforcements for our men at the front could never cease till the war ended, eciild give way to. nothipg, and must take preredenro' of every otlier interest. Ho trusted that the mind of thi> community would grasp again the real issue, and give itself to the supreme call whicli so many of. Australia's -sons had already answered, but which manr moro must answer if past noble sacrifices were, not to-be-cast as rubbish to the void..

Tho Queen, when risitintj thi» National WelfnTe and Economy Exhibition .in (he new building "of the London County Council, noticed that white flour npnear. Ed in the recipe shown to her, mid she smilingly remarked, "But what is the pood of Hint? We cannot get white flour at Buckingham Palace." The- Arizona. Indians have a peculiar rnd effective way of branding animals. The brand is made of steel, with a knife- edpro.. It is fixed on the head of an arrow, and shot with a. how at thoanimal to be branded with su-h force that it cuts the. mark in the hide. When the wound heale it leaves a scar, which looks as though-.burned with a branding, iron.