The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14

in his letter next Sunday, is the li- place the one with it's 300,000 books ey have three wheels, two big ones d were glad to pose for their photo see two and three-story buildings. Already more than 10000 private buildings have gone up and the new public buildings number 700 or more.
 How $20 May Win s100,08O.
 Much of the work is being dore with money raised by what might be called the national cooperative fed eration, consisting of 300 different cooperative societies which have combined. By the first of July, 1921, this association had made building loans of more than one half billion francs and it then issued a loan with lottery prizes, the highest of which was s100,000. The loan was issued in shares of 250 francs par at price of 200 francs, making each share at the current rate of exchange cost S20 or less. The shares bear 4 per cent interest and pay no income tax. Suppose our government should rec ognize loan without tax. in which we could buy per cent bonds worth s25 for $20 apiece, each bond to be numbered, and each carrying a chance in a series of lottery draw ;,o ht sch ha1d number, we might be paid back our money and win all the way from s100 to s100, ,000-would not those bonds sell? They are selling in Bel gium and those already issued are far above par. Other similar loans are proposed. They will probably be greedily grabbed.
 Big Bcrtha's Brother
 But Jules has stopped his automo- bile at sLeugenbcom, a little village near Moore, and motions to us to get out. We do so and follow him to a turnstiIe where, by paying franc. we enter woods and follow a trail to the Long Max of Moere," a little brother of the Big Bertha" that sent shells 75 miles into Paris. This Ger man gun was used to fire upon Dun kirk on the English channel, 2S miles away. It is If inches in diameter and it's barrel is so large that when l off, fered boy of F franc to crawl in that I might photograph him looking cut, he had no trouble in doing so The barrel is 42 inches in circumfer- ence, and it's long shell was. ven- ture, much taller than the boy. The gun is mounted on a great concrete foundation with a sunken pit. walled with iron, beneath it It can be raised and lowered and swung around as though on a pivot. Close by was a dummy gun which was used with a smoke and flash apparatus to draw the British fire.
 In a dugeut, which was ply used for storing ammunition, I found a Belgian peddling lace. He had beau tiful table cloths at low price, and lace collars of fine work which cost only two or three dollars. He brought saut the pillow on which he himself had made of his wares, telling us thar the finest of his stock had. required weeks of work. es
 R~constructins the Forests
 Leaving Moore, we pass grea. stacks Of barbed wire taken out of the fields and lying in sight of the new construction. We see huge tank after. tank upturned. broken. and rusting away by the roadside. There. are three in that field over there. We go by wind mills, tall white towers of brick or wood. throwing their red arms about. They make me think of Don Quixote and his fight with the wind mill. He succeeded almost as well as the Germans. The wind mills here are used to grind corn, and are operated from the farmsteads nearby.
 See that stack of stumps and logs near those houses of bright yellow bricks. They come from trees along the roadside cut off by the-shells. We ride on between rows of young trees newly planted. Farther on we go by dead thicket that looks like parts of Gatun Lake in Panama when the dam had drowned out the tropical woods. That thicket was once a beautiful forest which was destroyed by the shells During their occupation of Belgium. the Germans cut down timber worth several hum dred millions of dollars. They often cut old and young, and in some places even the. orchards were ruined, In Hainaut. Liege and Namur