Loading...
The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-07-14, Page 3CONFEDERATION JUBILEE STAMP Says More Drunkenness in America Than in Great Britain Ijondon—King George’s personal physiol an ’recently condemned prohibi­ tion. In a speech In the House of Lords, Lord Dawson, of Penn, long chief medical adviser to the King, declared that there is far less drunkenness in ’ England than there is In America. IBs : statements were made during the sec-, ond reading of the bill aimed at in­ troducing local option In England and ■Wales And sponsored-by the Bishop of Liverpool. Lord Dawson declared that the Brit­ ish nation owes some of its sobriety to th'* part played by modern women, ’ whose athletic prowess has encour-; aged physical fitness In men. ‘ ; "This bill is aimed at establishing a tyrannical policy,” said Ixird Daw­ son, after he had approved the use of alcol-' l in moderation. “It is unlikely that fermented liquors ever can be . . .. - •• ......... J ■ banished from civilized countries.” ' steamship, the railway and the airplane. “There is hardly -a country,” the ~ -------— • King's physician continued, "where materials for mailing liquors cannot , be found. What virtues can prohibi-. tion show to offset the vices it has brought in its train, such as illicit stills, smuggling, bootlegging and an undoubted increase of drinking by the youth of both sexes? { "You will see far less drunkenness in Great Britain than in America. That’s my personal observation. r ’ n,i get away from the stale and thread- his 33rd Lure ideas of local option and prohibi- ■r tion.” ’ i........~ .U11U As proof of Increasing sobriety in ' Christian George * Andrew Frederick t^S’and, Lord Dawson cited the re-. Dovid Windsor, Prince of Wales and suit of personal inquiries .made over heir to the British throne, has been a peuod cL three years from popular "engaged" or "married” more times restauiant managers. As a result of. than any year since he was born, he these inquiries he found that 75 per still remains single, cent, of the customers drank no alco-J With the marriage of several Euro­ hol and that of the remaining 25 per pean .princesses, who wore consider- cent., three quarters of them drank, ed as fitting candidates for the posi- light wines or beer, and one-quarter of tion of future queen of England and them spirits or port. | In commemoration of the Sixtieth Anniversary of Confederation, Post­ master General P. J, Veniot has issued a set of six bilingual postage stamps, One-cent — orange portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald; Two- cent —- green, reproduction of Quebec Conference, 1867; Threocent — red, centre block of Parliament Buildings; Five-cent — purple, Sir "Wil­ frid Laurier; Twelve-cent -— blue, maps of Dominion as it is with four original * Confederation Provinces shaded; l?wenty-cent — oraflge red, stages of mail transportation in Canada, the dog-train, the mail-rider, the London.—-The idol of his future sub­ jects, the handsomest man in Europe to most women, and the best "sport” Let in the world to most men, celebrated j-E~ LL.J birthday on June' 23rd. ' After one of the most active years ■ in his life, in which Edward Albert A list of certified pilots at the be- j ginning of 1911, seven years after the ; Wrights bad demonstrated the practic­ ability of flight, showed that France ■i '(I, with 353; 57; Germany J.7; United St land, C; Swi Spain, 2; pud Sweden, 1. 1 ’.Ybruary. Glenn H. iches a flout to one of 1; rid makes successful ith the first flying beat or hydroair­ jar, o . April 12. Paprler, ins-tructcr in fly­ ing at the Bleriot School nc-ai' London, inak-iQ a first non-stop flight between that city and 1’a.ris, Ths 250 miles were flown in less than four hours. ‘ April. The Bristol firm builds and exhibits-, for the first time in England, a biplane with a tracto-r propeller. September, The first flight across the United States was completed in a number of stages by C, P, Bogel's, after several accidents and forced landings. 1912. Airplanes ore Italian-Turkish and wars. April 16, 1912. M1&3 by, of England, is the first woman to fly the English Channel. May 30. Wilbur Wright dies at Day- An Outline of Famous Flights in Their Chronological * 4 Order4 Man’s greatest qonquest over time and distance since the evc’ntion of the engine, it i&'gcm rally agreed, was made by the'Wr'ght brothers--- Orvi’.’© end Wllbur-at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in Deeembor, 1903, . > n H ey made th'-lr first flights in a * ower driven .airplane. The first r ede <n December 17, lasted ■ •- iris; th© fourth lasted . . p t...5 thft distance traveled in April of this year a ■a monoplane equipped with a w-power motor established a non-c.cp endurance record lasting 51 hours, 11 minutes1, and 25 seconds, A few weeks later Capt. (now Colonel) Cbarkis A. Lindbergh made a non-stop flight between New York City end Paris, a distance of 3,610 miles, in approximately 33% hours, and early in June, Clarence D. Chamberlin, pilot­ ing the same BeWanca plane which es­ tablished the non-stop duration record, and carrying a passenger, flew from New York City to Eisleben, Germany,, • a distance of 3,905 miles. Other cub j standing aviation events occurring be- ton, Ohio, tweon the days of the Wrights and. ■ the present, in chronological orders, Royal Flying Corps, follow: . ~ . la; j •1 me u . >r t, with > 46;4 *»Vj 32; D<ilgium 26;: Austria, 1!3; Hob m 1,. 6;Denm;irk, 3; t r Curtiss at- Vi machines, experiments used in. the Greek-Turkish Harriet Qulm- June 6. Great Britain forms the . 7. The Prince became a better rider, with virtually no serious acci­ dents to be marked against him for the past year. He realized one of the ambitions of his life this year when he won a point-to-point race, riding his own horse Carle Courtier, 8. Nothing has eyer increased his 'popularity so much as his visits dur- png the past year to the slum areas of London. The Prince has recently made it a practice to spend several- nights a month in the poorer sections of the city, going into the public bars and even drawing beer to serve eus- • tomers, mingling with the people in the saloons and bars and going into the betrothal of several others, more their homes for brief visits. His in- than one mother of the blue-blood of terest in charity has increased and any worthy appeal is usually headed with the ron. DOMINION MAKES {England has groomed her-daughter to NEW AIR RULES the eye 01 tlle Prince duri«g the' i nfa • .1 T11° fleld 'of eligible princesses hasVd\li and Ivllhtai’y Duties in; now thinned down to two or three. There is Princess Martha of Sweden, sister of Crown Princesses Astrid of Belgium. Previous to Astrid’s mar­ riage to Crown 1'rince Leopold of Bel­ gium, tea cup in Grosvenor and Bel­ gravia rattled to the tune that she would marry the Prince of Wales. Following Astrid’s marriage the tune merely changed to Martha and the Prince. Since the Princo’s recent visit to Spain, professional tea-pourers have linked him with the infanta Beatrice of Spain, but friends of the Prince scoff at the idea for the simple fact that Beatrice is a Catholic and such a marriage would be looked upon with distinct disfavor by the people of England. Ever since 1911 when the Prince . was 17, trying to marry him off has -j been a favorite sport. It was at that! time that his marriage' to Princess [ Victoria Louise of Prussia was moot­ ed. The fact that the Kaiser and Kaiserin were then visiting Bucking­ ham Palace probably gave rise to the report. Next, Grand Duchess Olga, daughter of th late Czar of Russia, became the candidate — probably based on the fact that the Prince and the Grand Duchess played together i as children. The Prince now often laughs at his ]osei>) don't you?' former "tea-cup betrothals” as much Wright’s flight of ' minutes 9 seconds This was the first flight. September 14, 1906. tos-Dumont makes a flight lasting 8! plane, seconds in a machine of his own con-’ s traction. April 12, 1907. The British War Minister declines to enter into negotia­ tions with “any manufacturer of air­ planes.” March'29, 1908. Henry Farman, of France, makes the first recorded flight in which, a passenger is carried. April 10. Leon Delagrange makes the first flight in Europe exceeding a mile in distance, July 4. G-lenn H. Curtiss, in a ma­ chine of his own manufacture, flies *.-> uouwv XXVO.UCU feet, winning the Scientific name of the Prince as pat-> American. Cup. ' i September 9. 5 Vedrlnes, flying a 1905. Orville'Deperussin monoplane at Chicago, at- 11,12 miles in 18 tains a speed of 105 miles- per hour, at Dayton, Ohio, j October. The world’s1 altitude re- officially recorded ’ cord which in June was 12,906 feet is j increased to 20,700 feet by G, Legag- Alberto San- neaux, in *a French Nieuport mono- i CAPE TO CAIRO BY AIRPLANE Ala* Coffimodore C. R. Samson with his machine just after making a • landing at Heliopolis during t’he Royal Air Force Cape-to-Cairo flight. Canadian Force Are to Be Separated Ottawa.—-Separation of civil duties from military organizations in the Canadian Air Force, as promised by W. L. Mackenzie King, the Prime : Minister, at the last session of 1’arlia- • meat, took place on July 1. J. l. Ral­ ston, Minister of National Defense, in his announcement of this change, said that to meet the growing needs of civil aviation three branches will' be organized under the Deputy Min­ ister, namely, civil government flying, administrative duties and aeronauti- ’ cal engineering. The civil government flying branch will deal with operations for the for­ est, survey and other Government ser­ vices which now require flying, in charge of Wing Commander J. L. Gor­ don, now assistant director of the Canadian Air Force. The adminis­ trative duties branch will function in connection with air regulation, the licensing and certification of civil air­ craft, pilots, air engineers and air har­ bors, the location of air routes and assistance to civil aviation generally, in charge of J. A. Wilson, now secre­ tary Royal Canadian Air Force. Aeronautical engineering branch will have under its control technical’ questions of design, research work, ,|\nd so forth, in charge of Wing Com- nmndet E. W. /'Stedman, at present junior technical officer of the Royal Canadian Air Force, who now be- q^es chief-.aeronautical engineer to the department. As such’ flu will serve, both military and civil needs. ’The training and organization of the Royal Canadian Air Force and its reserves will continue to be administered by Group Captain J. S. Scott, chief of the general staff. under the Mathamatical Patrick O’Halloran was a figures. He could reckon marvel at backward and forward^ and his powers were a subject of great interest among fellow-workers. Eventually the foreman himself heard rumors of Patrick’s ability, decided to put him to a test. "Here, Pat,” he said, "how many ^shirts could you get out of a yard?” A bright smile illuminated the „ cheery features of the Irishman. “Ah, to be sure,” he replied, 1 ♦ it would depend on whose yard were in intoirely.” his had and “an’ L ye You’ve heard about a dog’s ‘pants/ course? Well,* I’m well supplied-of . _ ___ now, I’ve just chewed up throe pairs/* Old Saws and Modem Instances London Round Table: nothing new In Mussolini, doubt a remarkable understand him one past. His message one as regards the is simply an old remedy for an old ill. The arguments it uses to dis­ credit liberty, democracy, Parliament, and the’ electoral system, and to ex­ tol autocracy, force, bureaucracy, obedience, etc., have often been used before. Some of them can be traced back to Hobbes. They were all con­ futed by the encyclopaedists. The Italiap converts to absolutism, the young writers for whom Fascim is the new civilization which the third Rome is to confer upon the world are simply treating us to a course in political archaeology. Fascism’s only value for the outside world is as a warning to constitutional govern­ ments and socialists. For it was the weakness of the former and the ex­ travagances of the latter that pro­ voked and.to some extent justified Fascism in Italy. ---- -------—A-----------— Congenial Souh. "I do hato to play cards with a bad !" r jlvxxxxvx — ——i j don’t know. I’d rather play as he does at all of the latest ones a loser than any kind of a ■ winner."—Ghost. There is He is no character, but to must turn to the will deceive no future, Fascism April IS, 19131 Dauccurt makes the first successful flight from Paris to Berlin, 674 miles; May 1. Air mail is carried for the first time between Ghent and Brussels. Pegoud flies upside down and loops the icon In France for the first time. With approximately 2,500 licensed aviators in 1913, there were recorded 150 fatalities to pilots and passengers. June 26-27, 1914, Landmann, of Ger­ many, establishes a duration, record of 21 horn’s', 48 minutes, and 145 seconds. July 18. Congress 'Creates an Avia­ tion of the Signal Corps, with 60 of­ ficers and 260 enlisted mem August. The World War, in which airplanes are for the first time used on a large scale, begins. There was little or no civil competi­ tion in aviation, either tn this country or in Europe, in 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1918. But soon after our entry into the World War the development of the I | July 8, Madame Peltier 1® taken for I a flight by Delagrange, the first woman to fly as a passenger. September 6. Wilbur Wright flies for 1 hour, 4 minutes, 20 seconds at Chalons, France, with a passenger, September 12. Orville Wright, flying at Fort Meyer, neai’ Washington, su£-i __________________ lei's an’ accident to his machine in ’ Liberty motor began, and the’use of which his passenger, Lieutenant Self­ ridge, Is- killed. This 13 the first re­ corded airplane fatality. . July 18, 1909. Paulhan achieves a height of 450 feet in a Voisin biplane. July 25. Bleriot makes the first crossing of the English Channel by airplane. November 3. Henry Farman makes a flight of 151 miles in 4 hours 22 min­ utes, November 5. Hubert Latham climbs to a height of 1,560 feet in an Antoi­ nette monoplane. January 10, 1910. Pa.ulhan, at Los Angeles, increases the altitude record to 4,146 feet. January 25. Brussels holds the first airplane exposition. May 28. Glenn H. Curtiss flies from Albany to New York City, 143 miles, in 2 hours 50 minutes’. September-October. Airplanes are successfully used for the first time In French military maneuvers. January 17, 1911. E. B. Ely, an American aviator, flies from the shore near San Francisco to the deck of the battle-ship Pennsylvania, lands, and flies back to shore. < the airplane throughout the war mark­ ed the beginning of a new era in aviation. May 15, 1918. First regular air-mail service in the world inaugurated be­ tween New York City and Washington. December 13, 1918-January 16, 1919. A four-motored Handloy-Fage -airplane is flown from London to Calcutta, ap­ proximately 6,5.00 miles. January, 1919. A Navy airplane is successfully launched from a dirigible in flight. February 12. Lieut. B. W. Maynard, an American Army flyer in France, loops the loop 318 times in a British machine without losing altitude. Marell 20. Secretary o-f the Navy Daniels talks to a pilot in flight by radio-telephone. April 19. Capt. E. F. White makes the first non-stop flight between New York and Chicago, a distance of •miles. May 18. Hawker and Grieve tem.pt transatlantic flight. After ing approximately 1,200 mile®, engine trouble forces them to alight near a passing steamer. May 16-31. Lleut-Com. Read, in the 727 at- fly- that are heaped upon him. The feeling is growing in England that the. Prince will ultimately turn to the solid stock of his own country for a wife. This type of amarriago by the .Prince would be the most popular he could make, for thhe peo­ ple ~of England look upon him as an excellent type of young Englishman and they would like their future queen to be just as typically English. Should the Prince wish to marry an English - girl, it would bo necessary for Parliament to alter the Royal Mar­ riage Act, which stipulates that sons in direct succession to the throne must take princesses or ladies of the royal blood for their wives. It is probable, however, that ’Parliament could adjust the Act”' without difficulty. Year’s Activities. The Prince’s present milestone marks the end of an important year in both his personal and official his­ tory. . 1. He travelled extensively on the Continent, including official visits to both France and Spain. ,2. Ho made more visits to various parts of England, Scotland and Wales, mixing with more people, thus giving them an opportunity to seo at close range their future King. 3. The Prince attended more State functions in preparation for the heavy duties of Kingship which some day may be suddenly thrust upon him, 4. He spent more time during tlrn evenings of th past year at official Embassy and Legation functions, thereby giving visitors and official re­ presentatives of other countries ail opportunity to know and talk with him, 5, He saved money, spending less time at theatres and night clubs and devoting more duties, 6, He became sportsmah than taking seriously ing more than an average game. time to Ilfs official an even more keen lie had been before, to golf and develop- W&Lt! i'm GOING Away to-Cay MR. ADAMSON! ADAMSON’S ADVENTURES—By O. Jacobsson. Louie’s Generosity is Overwhelming HOPS 'rbu lu ACCHPT THIS /there G-0E5) ( THE TRA'N J. x -- w Jr — — 11'd Navy flying-boat N-C4, successfully completes' the first transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to Portugal, by way of the Azores. June 14. Alcock and Brown, British aviators, complete the fl ret non-stop transatlantic flight, from Newfound­ land to Ireland, in 15 fours and 57 minutes. July 6. The R-34, a British dirigi­ ble, successfully completes the first lighter-than-air non-stop crossing of the Atlantic, from England to New York City. July 30. A new American altitude record is made by Roland Rohlfs In a Curtiss triplane, when he ascends 30,- 300 feet—almost six miles. November 12-December 10. Capt. Ross Smith flies from London to Aus- ’ tralia, approximately 11,500 miles. June 7, 1920. Lieutenant Wilson, equipped with, a parachute, leaps from a plane at an tl'titude of 20,000 feet and lands safely. July 7. Guided entirely by radio compass signals, a naval seaplane files a hundred miles to Siea, locates a bat­ tle-ship, circles' about the vessel, and returns to shore, July 15-August 24. A squadron of four de HavMand Army airplanes, equipped with Liberty motors and led by Lieutenant Street!, fly from New York City to Nome, Alaska, approxi­ mately 5.000 miles, in 55 hours actual flying time. September 8. Transcontinental air­ mail service, from New York City to San Francisco,’is started. October 31, 1921. A Navy hydroair- plane is launched from a catapult on the deck of a battle-ship. May 2-3, 1923. Lieutenants Kelly and Macready, in an Army-Fokker ma­ chine, make a record non-stop flight, New York City to San Diego,, 2,516 miles, in 26 hours 50 minutes. June 23. Lieutenant Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco, 2,540 miles, in 21 hours 48% minutes, elapsed time. October 6. Lieutenant Williams, U.S.N., In a record flight at St, L-oufe, attains a speed of 243 miles per hour in Navy-Curtiss Racer. April 6-September 28, 1924. Four Douglas transport airplanes, equipped with Liberty motors, leave Seattle on a round-the-world flight, by way of Alaska, Japan, India, England, and Iceland on April 6. Of the four, one is wrecked against the side of a moun­ tain In Alaska, another forced down at sea. Two of th© four return to Seattle practically intact, as airworthy as when they left, having flown around the globe in 371. hours, 11 minutes, actual time in the air, over a period of 175 days. Octoberl2-15. Th® German dirigible ZR-3, now Hie Les Angeles, is flown from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakhurst, New Jersey, 5,066 miles, in 81 hours, 17 minutes, and delivered to United States Navy officials; August 31, 1925. Commander Rod­ gers in a Navy seaplane flies from California to the vicinity of Honolulu, a, distance of 1,992 miles, establishing a non-sbep record for seaplanes. September 3. The Navy dirigible Shenandoah is wrecked by a stdrm in Noble County, Ohio, and fourteen mem­ bers of the crew, including Commander Landsdowne, are lost. May 9, 1926. Commander Byrd flies from Spitsbergen to the North Pole and back in approximately 15 hours. He uses a Fokker plane and is accom­ panied by Floyd Bonnett. May 11-14. The Amundsen-Ells­ worth-Nobile expedition flies in a semi­ rigid dirigible, the Norge, from Spits­ bergen, over the top of the world to Toller, Alaska, a distance of 2,700 miles. October 28-29. Cosies and Rlgnot, ETance, malto record non-stop flight from Paris' td Djask, 3,313 miles. It was this rooord which Colonel- Lindbergh shattered in his epoch-mak­ ing flight from Naw York Clty-to Paris’, -rjfltorary Digest. What Herrings Give Us From the scales of herring, sar­ dines and shad comes an essence that is oxped ted to bo an important pro­ duct of the Pacific Coast, Artificial pearls are made from it. Mixed with celluloid, it imparts a lasting sheen to tC'lLiet articles. It also gives glitter to Chrisinras tree trimmings and, to the tops of parasols^ AIR EXPLORATION Canada Well in Forefront of Aviation Progress Two aeroplanes left Hudson, in Northern Ontario, recently, to fly over 850 miles of snow and ice bound -coun­ try between there and Fort Churchill, in connection with the survey to-r an alternative terminus for the Hudson Bay Railway, Under their contract the company had to carry 14 Canadian Government engineers and five tons of equipment, including dynamite. Very soon two scap-lan-es will -begin an aerial survey of ^Saskatchewan which will occupy a period of three years. Supplies of petrol and oil have been piaced at convenient spots, and maps will be taken from the seaplanes which will enable geologists- to locate areas containing minerals*. These are but twm examples of t-he Immense amount of aerial explora­ tion work that is going on in Canada, Hundreds of thousands of mile® have already been, mapped, but develop­ ments in this direction are only at a beginning yet, for there are still large areas v/hich have newer been surveyed, and to -explore them by any other means than by aeroplane would not only take many years but also cost 'enormous sums of money. To­ day it is recognized that primary re- connoissance and forest inventory’ work by air is the fastest and the ■cheapest method of obtaining informa­ tion over large and remote areas. Aerial photography has been brought to such a pitch of perfection that cer­ tain kinds of map production have r ‘ been revolutioned. The topographer; ' working in the settled areas, has found vertical photographs of the greatest assistance in the production of hia map, halving his field work and en­ abling survey parties* to cover larger tracts. A still greater scope is offer­ ed by the use of oblique photographs in the preliminary mapping of the vast areas lying north of settlement. The simple method, originated by the late Dr.. Doville. of mapping, from oblique photographs, which show the horizon, lias been utilized by the Topographical Survey in Canada with astonishing results.- By employing only thrfte or four aircraft 100,000 square miles have been photographed in th© last three years. Since 1923 flying fo-r Government Departments has been carried out by the Royal Canadian, Air Force. In accordance with the lessons of experi­ ence new aircraft, built specially for the w-ork in hand, have been provided, and the bases, have been improved by the addition of better buildings, slip­ ways, repair shops, and storehouses. Where aerial sureys are concerned the assistance of the Topographical Sur­ vey of Canada is sought. This branch deals with all requests for photographs and keeps an index of all photographs taken, thus avoiding chaos between the different Departments. In addition to surveys* end explora­ tion the Air Force undertakes as many other kinds of work, including forest fire protection, fishery protection, and Customs and Excise patrdl-ing. In the Western Alberta forest reserves last year 14 fires were detacted by aeroplanes*. In -each case prompt ac­ tion was taken, and only negligible areas were burned. During the five seasons during which aircraft have' operated in this* district no forest fires have spread beyond' The control of the permanent ranger staff, and the dam­ age from fires originating in the area has been practically nil; The main, offences against the fishing regula­ tions aro fishing with too great a length of net, using nets- of illegal mesh, fishing durjlng flh*e weekend close seasons, in restricted areas and without licence. Numerous offenders have* been brought to book, and its has been. made.evident to the fisher­ men that the orders will be enforced, Another interesting operitlx Jr* tn-s . Air t'orco was in connection with tho investljg-atiou ot wheat amst in tho p-rairte pTuV’iiCen Ci thC de­ partment of Agriculture. By no means of microscope slides lightly smeared with vaseline and exposed from aoro- planes striking results were obtained. The Information gained established the fact that epidemics of this kind in. Canada are truly wind hare, the germs causing them being high up in the air, ■—•Extract, "Timos Tftdo Supplement/ London, 11/8/27.