The Lucknow Sentinel, 1939-12-14, Page 7ti
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Plan Producing
Fastest Plane
500 Miles . An Hour Made Pos-
sible by New Type of Wing
Built In United States
The .fastest ,• piano. yet built,
powered •by the most efficient
cooled aenginea, will ,emerge aeon
front .the laboratories of 'the Un-
' ited States • . National Advisory
• . _Coniniittge for Aaeronauties,'re-
' ' search workers say..
A new "kn:ife-like wing, . vrltich
is i a military •secret,. will enable -
;an :airplane to fly` at • speeds: • of
500,,miles' or more because it will •
'nearly eliihin'ate the "shoek'"
;'wavo
which develops• 'en a wing suz:fac'e
when the plane's speed .'approach
the • speed .of sound .'about '740
miles' an hour.
�• ' • . Engages 3.Times; As Powerful.
° The new engines,•sonie•of which.
'tt"i,�"1'lir�lt`11TH'•'�1`to;'jlfl'O'd•:t'[ttT6Tl`!'•st-a_ -.;.
Will. have.. three times the power
Of .present, engines: This• develop-
• ment, which. required eight years,
of research • by the committee's 1.
egin,eers, is merely a 'different
arrangement of the .fins, or strips
of metal' tinting''"the''outsicde of the
enginc..cyli,nders 'to 'carry, away
'• excess heat. •
•Such • ,terrific ', power, -increase
'created another p.ioblem' — new
. propellers'.which 'can Utilize the- ,
"1111 .,
engineers are at work on propel- '
" lett of larger diameter. They may
have fouror six blades instead
nf'the present two or.tht•ee. '
She Live To Be
- Immortal?
: Here• 'is' Baby Jean,' the five -
months -old baby adopted ' by
James, B. Schafer, .master meta-
' physician, who predicts .that if
plans for her work 'out, Jean Will
live forever. •Plans call for. Baby
.,Joan to .retrain from anent (in-
, eluding eggs, milk and butter)
and 'never to: hear the- words
"sicknese or `•'death".'Forty mast=
er metaphysicians, whose head-
quarters are •at the former Vand-
erbilt mansion in• Oakdale, L.L,
are co-operating in the "eternal
'•life" program.
RA.DE1..
THEWAR; •
.
Week. by Week.,
' Tho Allies" quarrel with Germ-
any tbo'k 'a back seat •last week.
when Russia invaded;Finland.
Newspapers, radie,- politicians o!1
all continents, dropped the war on
the Western Front•in favor of:the
more.sensational developments
i•the .; Baltic.' h,t ei ybody' condemn-
eel the , Russian. rnov.e :. than;
ls, evarypody, but,. Nazi Gerixmaary ,.
And 'George Bernard• Shaw,' •(who '
.13 1,.d 'that . the Finn *, t overnment>
was;,very 'foolish; ft .sh'otild have; -
known' b,etter•).
Startling as were the, actual
facts of the Soviet Uni.onS invas-
ion of .its.neighbor's territory,_eve'n
the:aveideaaraake
iixo'I'�'3,ii�.er1`.�t�`stl'figs=1G1,•'t
public all.lairds were the' impli-
tations in this.' aggressive .move,
and the question it raisedr Would.,
the Allies deol'are• war on Russia?
Would 'the, Scandinavian countries:
contribute'More thanmoral sap -
port 'to Finland? Wou1d'Ruasta re-
sign. from. the League..pf Nations?
• Did this move on.the ,part of Rus-
sia presage joint action • between
Germany and the 'Soviet iii •Scan-
dinavia, in the Balkans'? To stud-
ents of international, politics •one
•thing appeared o} VVious: ere was.
more in the Finnish :affair than
met the eye. Why otherwise should
Russia have risked antagonizing •
the whole World? Was Stalin play=
ing for. ea.ornioas stakes, Bret un- '
disclosed'? Was , he • eonsolidati°ng
the S•oiiet. pa•sitio.t , in' -preparation
for a coming war with the rest ,of
ciwilizatio•n.? The :world will hence-
forth• watch Russia, •• rather than
Gerinatay, to learn the outcome of
the pre•s•nt h urope•an4 conflict.
Museum Gets d -
Rare Exhibits
• . • Ontario. Institution Reports A.
Highly Profitable Year •
•
•
Sonic ••intimation of thee, wide •
sirre•ad intri'gpe, plotting, couniCer-
plotting,., that is going on' under
'the suriface of European •politics
n'as;given last :week. in a news de
spatch front<.Itomo,• wliicli hi•nnted
, that Conservative' iiritisli. circles.
•' h•o'tild• be pleased if high-up •Get•:•n
•
, Inuit " nnot•IE t ate s" .to' sueeeed °
. in ousting Hitler. and llibbentrdp-...
m•;aking Goer• ing the: •Beall .01 n
•
pew German govt'rninent..; This
story .tied ,up withthe kitdnapping
by the Gsetapo 'of• two British as
.'nta who were wb.isked,away from ':
au inn on 'the Belgian border and.
accused of'..cemplicity in the 'Sinn-
ioh bombing. • •
• The thirteenth week of ,the way
aiso saw Pretier Daladier become '
virtual dictator .of France for the
, duration . , , renewed activity on
the Western Front, Ithine•M'oselle
sector .:. more neutral ships, were
--a'wa'keo> lie -sea-:. thP'Admiratty
.announced that Great .Britain bad
los 4 per cent. o her total naval
ton'rna.ge in three months of: war.
•
The development of the IR:oyal
Ontario Museum during the past
year has been .of a kind and qual-
ity "that surpassed my wildest
dreams of what might ei might
not ever be at the disposal of the
people of Canada," Dr. C. T. Cur=
telly, director of the eausetim of
archaeology, said in his anneal re- •
port to the board of trustees.
After 30 Years' Hund'
Dr.• Currelley noted that many
tare pieced had been obtained by
The Ontario Museum during 'the•
past year, most important , of
whcih was the acquisition of more
than 03 pieces of Buddhistic seulp-
- tore of Zisin%a. iTso Obtain -6 'sere
it French, Madonna of about 1340,
"one of the great statues in any
ii'tu caul 111 AnuuCi"ica," and. an It••
alien madonna of 1420. • After:_3ii,
years' hunting, twe of the .en-'
graved and• inlaid helmets with
the mark of Mohammed II, con-
queror of Constantinople, had
been obtained
2�iiillTti415. f0 o r Tt r41'_'
lcetions ^in the museum of zoology
during the. year in+holed 1,208
mamals 1,848 birds, 250 reptiles
and amphibians, 050 fish, 6,06:5
insects and 9,092 miscellaneous
First: Capture • .
A PtorCupine
Appreciation
Of Farm 14.4ife
Can Be Taught
Provincial Miunster of Agricul-
ture' Dewan Wow
men's. Instit'utes.'•• Objective
gf Building Up a •Rural ' Peo-
ple • !
Ilon.• P. M. De -wan, provincial'
minister of 'agriculture, endorsed
tho teaching b appreei•ation. of-
fa'rm life•`iri as address to the .38th
-annua'cronventi•on• Of 'thin .Central'
.Ontarle ,area 'of N.Vp nen'/s inst:i;
tt s .
•:'•'I a:tn•'glad' to n'etetha` ti►e Geis• .
. •tral •thenim'e of•; your prograih tentin-
ues t.o • be of •an edu.cational•. slat
ure;""Mr."D wean •said, "1 'can .think :
• 'of no•'lottier abjective'than that of
building up a rural people, healthy',
in body -add mind, ,and of iirstifling
in them a fitting, perspective and
a , e_cia:lonat:s nt.r1lfe�_�-�
.• "Fight:OWn Batti•ea ,
"1•n order that such an objective
may' be • attain€ d, it is necessary. to
make life on. the farm a.tt'raetive in
every possible manner. .Conditions,
about the farm home must riot only.
be attractive,.btit farming must be'
remunerative also, . And security'
on .our farms: will come pnly when
folk are -,qualified- to fight their
Own' battles and, when they have of-•'
festively impressed upon people is ''
• other • occupations the importance • : .
o proper' y, ' fee-
. -The minister made, e, plea to the
Women's. organization for aid to
rural bertutif icationa through weed
eradication.
Submarine Escape Device Is Tested By British Sailors
-. Y ,..Book Vt.
- "THE 'SEA TOWER"
by "Hugh Walpole,
In his new book, 'The '$ca Tow•"
en," Hugh Walpole, one :of the
greatest •nlastel•s in English •qf the
psychological novel, 'brings. •us a
study. of strange and violent hu-
`' man relationships, eta. mind, warp-
ed by a singlo dominating idea. An,
uncanny' sense . of. fear • fills the
story. The' levant. of the 'Sea Tow .
• er is. Christina, a young• girl from'
the teeming streets• of London. She ':-
has married a man' from 'Cornwall, .•
in .London fos a three tonins' vis-
it,. end' at the end of that time is
• taken hack to. the old tower stand-
ing by the sea, to. ineet the mother
"who has. exercised. ab.s•olute dom5n-
a1ion oyes ;tier spas and proposes
'td brook iio:. interference In. her
conduct of their lives.ef3,er hate for.
Christina deepens and. spreads un-
•til' her mind • itself' is affected , by
the struggle tor power,
•Rising; first slowly and then by
swift degrees the story comes to
a -stormy, and brilliant climax.
"The Sed Tower" . . by Hugh •
Walpole . Toronto: Doubl-eday,,
Doran and Co.; 215 Victoria St... . •
$2.75.
Sailoieaef. the Bri-ish na'y's "pig 'boat fleet'.' 'learn, ho.a~.' to use the
•
Davis submarineescape al)paeatus in 'special .divin.g tank at. a Beit'isli
naval•school. The device, similar to. the T1.S•.Mo'enser':lung,.will.,prove
a life-saver m case, their' un
'to' the bottom. .
•
er:,sea
Slight Decrease •• .'
Municipal Debt
Gross Total 'Bonded •Indebted :,
• ;ness of Canada's
• Municipalites, Dropped in
,193.7 • ••
•
Gross total bondediltd::btediiess
of the 4,317 m' tnicipalities' in Can-
• ada :declined .to, • '$1,337,207,189 inn
• 1337,. from $1;353.134,.223 the 'prey=
lees yell•, according • to a report
from the Dountnion Bureau of Stat •
-
• ;stics. The. net •indea•teilness was
placed at $1,065,947,030 after de-.
duction. of $271,260,163 fni', sinking
' funds..
•
Where The Morey Went
While the gross indebtedness in.
'1919 was olnly'$729,ti00.,000...it was
explained• the large increase in fol-
'Jowiiig'ye•a.rs was due chiefly to the
.growtog demand fer.local improve)
meats,' the increase in educational
facilities, • the .expansion of public
and social seii'ices and' the muni-•
cipa,l charges to 'provide for un-
employment and relief' problems..
^ includingarrears and penalties,
total' tax receipts from all munici-
palities -during. 1937, amounted to
$255,866,004, 'compared lavith $263;
305,402 the previous year.. Total as-
sessment' of taxable real property
was placed at $7,648;427,488.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
North Country Chef Gives Re.
cipe • for "Delicacy", Roast'
Porcupine.
• Obie Wile, cook 'at a mining
prop'eiity-i°n tihe•:aortia coaptly •who
isfamous for his cooking, claims
that roast porcupine is a delic-
a -y•
The recipe, is passed on for the
benefit of the gastronomically in-
'.clineil eennoies ears: of the mitts;
eve:. • • .
Bali' It In; Clay
First catch a porcupine. Then,
after the due rites. of execution'
and cleaning'itadc been. observed,
make a large fire•. Now secure
about 50 pounds of clean clay
into which roll' thelate Mr. Porcu-
pine. The 'ball of clay' is then
placed on the centre of the fire
andeft for three .hours. When
the• time hhs elapsed the clay is
very hard and must be split. down
the centre With an axe. The quills •
and; the 'hide stick to the clay.
,
The pink meat is ready to eat. De-
licious,
licious, they say:
.Miners say' 'porcupine tastes
similar ' to rattlesnake, which is
considered a delicacy in New
York,
.Took Only Movie
Films Of Meteor
Rev. A. W. iiiantfiedd of 'Toron-
to has taken what is believed to
be the onry molting 'picture in full
-colors in existence of a meteor
flashing across the sky, it liras an
nouneed at a meeting of the To-
ronto Annateur Movie Club. Dup-
licates of the film Will be sent to
scientists and amateur astron-
omers all over the world by the
• David Dunlap Observatory - thee.
The • picture was taken by Mr.
Bannfteid during a fishing trip in
Northern British Columbia,
Jungle Ways
Of the big cat family, leopards
and jaguars Rill attack ,nian, but
pumas tnevclr.
By. Fred .Neher
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lefty
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sFAV";7�6 ' 1 , it • ,•
"Wasn't He. Supposed to, Salute You, Edgar?"
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By'ylC .'"B
AKER
' -
RECORD ARC•HE'RY MEET
The largest bow and' arrow field
shoot on. record yea. held recently;
by"the, Canadian Ai•t:in-ery Associa-'
t io •i An the vicinity of "Iileinburg;
.Ontario, and reported' a corhplete •
success, Sorapidly.•has,ilie inter,
est in, field shootibk• develope3V that .
a committee was' formed at Klein-
. burg to take over tbe,,ol'gaiizatiolt, e
and' arrangeni.etits • for 'future field
shoots. •s
• And while. we're'. ca •the subject
of .archery it's • weeth nnentioning: ,
That just •the' othel day •clown 'on
• the Tellico Plains sof T nnesee the
lone :woman member Of a party of
eleven hunting wild Russian boars
. with bow' and arrows, in the Chero-
kee. Natioin•al Forest drove a steei-
tipped arroW tl:lrou, h a 200 -pound
tusker -- the • largest >io be killed
' this season. BAGGED BOARS
Buek Allison, athletic director of
Nashville 'University, also bagged
a boar, making but one shot from
hisabow, to kill a,_1)0 -pounder. Rog-
er Raynno, president of the Knox -
vide Archer's Club, dnove an arrow
into the heart of a 170 -pound boar
to make the first kill ofthe•. three-
- day hunt. He was barred from fur-
ther hunting because of the bag
liar}t •of -arae.__ ____
Game Warden Earl said Raymo's
:tusker was almost a perfect speoi-
nien of the wild boar brought to
the .forest in 1914 -from 'the Clad
iro intailis by British sportsmen,,
DICE
or the
PRESS
BY. DECREE— UNDEMOC:R/pTIC
There is ,nothing undeniorratic
• abou•t two-year termly;, for municipal,.
,councils, states , Hon: •. Eric W.
Crass.• Certainly not, bu.t.Lhe•.meth-
of making, the change may be. The
u ar urgency . does- not justify 'goy
ernment by' decree , in' pntario.
.:,Foe ,k)rie Times -Re -view.
MORE; TrARM HORSES ' .•
'There' has :been small comfort. m
reeent • Sears' far those :Who. sigh
•fan^ the good old horse :and `lnuggY
dgya, but at. long. last,. ,-here is ;a".
•c„Ifitm,b•' It is of'ficiall'y reported that ;
' Chere"are igore li'orses. on Canadian
,farms• this year, than last. The .tet,
al ,for. 1939 is 2,3.24;340, as compat•-
ed.with,'2,$20,700 in. 1935; an in.
Standard.
CLOUD OVER THE HOLIDAYS.
Every' year • safety officials 1,9ok
with apprelie°asioti at the sePproach
of December. „They• call this month
one of .the three, "killing" ymontlis
-of •the year. Of all. the. week-eiads. in
the 'year, those of Christmas and
New Y ear's • are the inost sorrow-
• •. ftd and tragic•betause of traffic a.c-
cidents, These are :caused chiefly„
siderats and drunk while. driving-.
Tororap Stara
•
s.
Have Tallest Mei;
. Ro'nors for the...tallest men,
'iii- the -Cnnadi.agt Active Seryi:en
Force are' claimed. by the 107th
Field Battery, R -GA.,. with •
° :three recruits from Cnanbrooli,.
B C • Six feet six' sedenand- 10
inches tall,;respeetively., y.
• ,
lags and'cents because; •ft;om the
','e'ducational standpoint,, to
-the migration .routes of these birds
as to where they `are each season.
• of the year, where they-na•=t, en;tl
whe•fe they, spend the winter', is
• extremelyY important knowledge,
"and all•'recdrds are given to the
Departtinent of Natun al •Re,eources
at •Qttawa for s:ife,keeping; ,
With the liberation of his 20,7
000th tagged,''Canada goose, Jack
Miner'bas set ap a record for al]
conservationists to aini at, • to "say
. nothing ',f the thousands of ducks,
robins, and' nionrning d ves 'he
has handed since 1909.
JACK 1M1NER TAGS 20,000th
• 4 Q3S.E •
' Jack Miner, interna ion ally ` fa-
mous as' the owner •of. the Jack
diner Bird Sanctuary et Kings-
ville, ,Ontario, is the first, pioneer
bird -hander• ever to ;:'et a complete
record, of where a bird was, tag-
ged and when and where it was
. shot. He t.aggiid bis first bird,
• Which was a duck„in August 1009
later received a report that it
had been shot, in Januarys 1910
at Anderson, South Carolina.
This constitutes' the first com-
plete ibird-banding record.
Research Work in ,,Nature •
In 1915 Jack Miner invented- a
net to catch Canada geese and '
placed his first band on 'a goose
leg in 1915. Since then . he has
build, his net over .20 or shore
times to perfect it with the re -
suit th t•.up to last 'sping—over .
a period of 25 years—he has
caught, banded and liberated-20,-
'1)00
iberated•20,'1)00 of these largest of waterfowl
game -birds. '
This research work' in the realm:
of nature .cannot be valued in dol -
Seed Potatoes
Become .Famous
In Ontario This Year• BSC.
and Argentine Are . Heavy'
Buyers
J.• T, Cassin,potato exIert, Oat-
ario Department of Agriculture,
,ays that Ontario nernial'ly grows
150•,040 steres of potatoes. With eV -
erg 'farrier using oe.rtified seedthe
same. number .of acres would yield
much t'a•rger crops. in, some canes
certified seed has been known to
increase. yields 104; .bushels per
..acre oe.er•non-certifie3 seed.
Purchase . Bequi'rements Now
Mr; Caasin , ri crts 200'000 btifiln-
cis gf Qnt.arig Ltotatoes. have"pass•
ed ;inapeetnou ,tot e,ertif'ication „.his
• Fall; He •po•in,ts ou#:'-th,at••tiealers':
can herdlY be blamed. ,r& purchas-
ins ' these .pptatoe$: ; fo'r table use,•
and acivises,•that , farmers .should
pur hase< seed • 'egiairelnents :now,
while' they #iia3• be obtained at rea=
sonabl'e „pikes.
Ontario see'dpotatoes have,. be-
collie .quite famous' w.ith'a' 500 -bag
Coluni`iia. reC1 Utl'y. The .Argent' e
has also been .a large buyer ' t •s.
• Fall. ln; the neighborhood of 500,-
• 000. orates .of potatoes,' each crate
weighing 110 pounds;' have been,
svhippe-d. from the Maritimes to the -
South American republic • in recent. ;
weeks.
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How Russia's Move Into Finland Affected Europe
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Westward weep of . Russia into • Finland brought repercussions
•
from most of .Europe's neutrals. Soviet planes dropped bombs on Hel-
sinki (1) and Haag() (21. Iced naval forces seieed and held•HogIand,
Lavansari and Seiskeri islands (3), threatened'Aland island (4) and
from former Estonian islands of Osel and Dago (5)• sent out sea and
•
air raiders. Finland (A) his nickel,' vital for Russia and Ge'nnany. They
need high grade iron orctfrom Northern Sweden (By. Finland, Sled-
en and 'Norway (C) are li nJCed'in loose treaty of defence. Netherlands
(D), Belgium ('J)• and SWitzerinnd (F) fear attack by Germany while
°
Russia diverts world attention. Italy's (G) position is still further ag-
gravated nay Russian move, fearinie Soviets' next,move wi1I•he into the
Balkans. Hungary (H) is nfaaid 't r" ar<tn;r,t.ntze Genitally, but still
anti -Russian. • •
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