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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-03-22, Page 3Porpoises May Aid Scientists To Eradicate Caisson Illness Hatteras, N, 0. — The study of whales and porpoises may aid In the "solution of caisson sickness, bane of ’the deep-sea diver, and other human ailments. It was with such an object In view that a group of scientists of the de­ department of anatomy of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, a^nd Drs. Remington Kellogg, of the United States Biological Survey, and A. Bra­ zier Howell, of the Smithsonian Insti­ tution, mammalogist of the national museum, visited Cape Hatteras re­ cently to conduct a series of experi­ ments on porpoises. The scientists took back to their laboratotries specimens of all of the ofgans of the porpoise’s body, includ­ ing six brainB. Contrary to what might be expected, the porpoise brain is described by Dr, Howell, who' is corresponding secretary of the Ameri­ can Society of- Mammalogists, as •'phenomenally developed” and “of an exceedingly high type,” “Many of the problems involved in the study of porpoiseB,” he explained, “are distinctly applicable /to human activities. If It could be ascertained how porpoises and whales manage to survive at the depths to which they go, much probably would be learned in regard to caisson sickness. And of practical interest is the question of the carbon dioxide given off by the body, through the lungs, during pro­ longed submergence. » Of no less in­ terest are the physical adjustments to the denser aquatic environment which whales (once land animals) have made, involving blood pressure, pres­ sure of spinal fluid and the mechan­ ism of breathing, as wel as the great changes in the muscle system as com­ pared to the typical land mammal," Where Crowds Are Crowds «Old Coin Discoveries * Recent Finds in Britain of Those Made by Romans Homan coins struck In Great Brit­ ain have always held considerable In­ terest for collectors of early Roinan coins. Slavery To-day Nearly 5,000,000 Human Chattels Still Remain tp Be Freed Hull, the “city of Wilberforce," very fittingly held a great public demon- Water Power Gains In Canada Listed Secretary of thelnterior Re­ ports 221,000 Horsepow­ er Increase in 1927 Total Now is 4,778,000 The annual statement of Charles Stewart, Minister of the Interior of Canada, with regard to the develop­ ment and use of water power ip the Dominion, indicates tlhat the great progress made during recent years continued in 1927, and that with the undertakings now in process of de­ velopment or in active prospect, the next few years will witness further growth of very substantial tlons. In the lastyear, hydro-electric pow­ er equipment was. ins tailed ready for operation to the extent of more than 221,000 horsepower, bringing the total installation in Canada to 4,778,000 *liorsepower. In addition, other un­ dertakings were advanced to such a . stage that a further total of 378,000 horsepower will be- in place during ‘the first six or seven months of 1928, * thus bringing t-lie total by the middle ‘ of the year to more than 5,100,000 horsepower. . The latter figure is just double the .total installation at the end of 1920. The report goes on: “Of the activities during 1927, the inmost significant feature was the In­ crease in electric transmission volt­ age above that of the lines In the 110,- ■000-volt class which have been oper­ ated throughout the Dominion for many years. In this regard the Shawiuigan Water and Power Com­ pany was the pioneer In constructing a line of 165,000 volts, 135 miles in length, through practically uninhabit­ ed territory, to carry 100,000 horse­ power’ from the Isle Maligne develop­ ment on the Saguenay River to Que- .foea City and vicinity. Construction of another line of stillg reater volt­ age was begun during the year by the Ontario Hydro-Electrio Pfiwer Com­ mission to transmit power more than 200 miles from the Gatineau River in -Quebec to the City of Toronto and the commission’s Niagara system. xThis line is designed to carry more than 250,000 horsepower at 220,000 volte and is expected to be in opera­ tion in the Autumn of 1928. ‘ Quebec Took the Lead “In installations added during 1927 the rovlnc.e of Quebec took the lead mainly due to the activities of the -Gatineau Power Company on the ■Gatineau River. Hydro-electric con­ struction was also active In Ontario, ■in the ’Maritime Provinces and in Manitoba and British Columbia. “In Quebec the . Gatineau Power ■Company-completed the construction ■of and brought into operation the •initial installations of its Chelsea and Farmers Rapids developments, the first of 102,009 horsepower capacity and the second 72,000 horsepower. The company also vigorously carried forward the construction of a third development on the Gatineau River at Paugan Falls, where 204,000 horse­ power is .being initially Installed. For the benefit of these three develop­ ments,-the Mercier dam, creating a very extensiv storage reservoir of .. 95,000,000,'000 cubic feet, also was ■completed and the reservoir filled •early in the year under the direction of the Quebec Streams' Commission. “Other installations placed in oper­ ation in Quebec during the year in­ cluded a 2,000 horsepower unit at Pont Rouge by the Donnacona Paper Company and the campletlon of a 2,000 horsepower development by the town of Coaticook. The largest proj­ ect under construction Is the 800,000 horsepower development of the Alcoa Power Company at Chute a Caron on the Saguenay River. “Other projects or extensions under way are a 65,000 horsepower develop­ ment by the Montreal Island Power Company on Do Prairies' River near 'Montreal; the addition of two 10,000 horsepower units to the Canada Northern Power Company's plant on •Qulnze River; the addition Of unit 11 of 45,000 horsepower to the Dulce- Price development on the Saguenay River, and,a 300 horsepower plant by the Uie d’Enterprises Publiques near Riviere a Pierre. “Contracts have been let by the City of Sherbrooke for a new velopment of 5,800 horsepower at Westbury Rapid on River, and the Ottawa River Power 'Company has au-borlae^ the addition of a 25,000 horsepower 'unit to its de­ velopment near Bryson on the Ottawa River. The Ontario Paper Compaiiy has a plant of 40,000 horsepower un-’ der way on the Riviere aux Outardes.: Ontario Developments j “In Ontario the outstanding work of the year was the commencement of construction by the Ontario Hydro-' Electric Power Commission of the 220,000-volt transmission line to carry i the 260,000 horsepower which the com­ mission has contracted to take from; the Gatineau Power Company. ^A?-1 tual installations during the year 'in­ cluded two plants at Sturgeon Falls I and Moose Lake on the Seine River of the Ontario and Minnesota Power Company with 10,000 horsepower and 14,420 horsepower capacities respec­ tively. A further. plant of 13,200 horsepower at Calm Lake on the same river will be completed early in 192S. propor-j rybej Gananoque Electric Jjiglit and Water Supply Company added 1,500 horsepower to Its Kingston Mills plant, and smalle'd installations in­ cluded 325 horsepower by the town of Smiths Falls and 75 horsepower by the town of Streetsville. “Among* .the developments under construction is the Ontario Hydro-! Electric Power Commission's, de-: velopment -at Alexander Landing ,on the Nipigon River which, when com­ pleted in T929, will -have an installa­ tion Qf, 54,000 horsepower. The 56,250 horsepower plant of the Spruce "Falls Company at Smoky Falls on the Mat- tagaml River was well advanced, and the International Nickel Company, of . THEY TAKE THEIR FOOTBALL SERIOUSLY AT *OME A glimpse of the crowd at a cup tie. The policemen are dealing with some of the casualties during the great match between the Arsenal an d Asliton Villa. ; Medway Rivers. The Bridgetown I Electric Light Company added 315 I horsepower to its plant at Bloody Brook, while the Avon River Power Company has under construction a second hydro-electric plant at Avon River Falls of 4,300 horsepower. British Clumbia Enterprises I “In British Columbia the ritisli 1 Columbia Electric Railway Company completed the construction, on the I shore of Stave Lake, of a 12,500 horsepower plant. On Vancouver Is­ land the company pushed forward the reconstruction of the flume carry­ ing Vater to its Jordan River devel­ opment. On the Bridge River, through a subsidiary, the Bridge River Power Company, extensive prepara­ tory work was carried on in connec­ tion with a project of 500,000 horse­ power ultimate capacity, and a con- Woman’s Visit to i Wilds of Tibet I Ono of the most remarkable shoot-' ing expeditions in which a woman has * taken part has just been safely ac-l complished s]by Lieut-Col. S. Gordon! Johnson, late of the South’ Stafford-1 1 shire Regiment, and his wife. j They have returned to London after j a journey of 1,200 miles from Kash­ mir to Tibet and back across the Himalayas and other mountain ranges, Colonel and Mrs. Johnson, who were accompanied by six native servants, 10 transport men with 15 yaks, a herd of sheep for food, and a herd of goats to provide milk, secured a Tibetan •- t I I IV JJ'XUVJUC mua., seuuxtu a 1 lueta.. antelope at a height of 21,000 feet. Col. Johnson told a-Daily Mail ro-” -- , mm a, coil- ■ tract was let for the construction of’P°^ei’: a tunnel leading* from Bridge River I wife and I. made the journey, to the power station site on Seton which totalled 2,000 miles from when Lake. The West Kootenay Power and Light Company carried forward the construction of its . new 60,000 horsepower development on the Kootenay River at South Slocan. • Prairie Provinces “In Alberta 'we left Kashmir on May 4 till we re­ turned on November 4, because we are both enthusiastic shots. 9 I Leaving Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, we crossed the Himalayas at Zogi Pass (11,500 feet). We went 240 miles without seeing a village, and r'A.n 16 J ,aS.t IS°°t&nay i arrived at Leh, the chief village in the Power Company completed the con-! T nda]{. pan. ’ ah-nrHnn nf n 15 OOO 1.- v ! ■L,aaaK xvailge. Leh, which sees perhaps 25 Euro- I pe^ns: in a year, is a market of barter — -------------------------...—w. ...................j , . .. . „ ,, . between India and Kashmir on the oneCanada Is commencing the install*-' ? ... r-1?® ?? . hand and Chinese Turkestan on the tion of 28,200 horsepower - • -........- Spanish River. The Marltimes | struetton of a 13,000 lc.v. steam pow- ; er station at Sentinel In the Crows- ' nest district as an auxiliary to its da the St. Francis City Pawnshop of Paris Reaches Ripe Age of 150 Paris.—The Paris “Monte de Piete,” or city pawnshop, Is 150 years old, but there wil be no birth­ day party. It is, officially, the Credit Muni­ cipal and unofficially “My Aunt,” merely a change in gender from the American appelation. Private pawnshops are forbidden in France and the public loan in­ stitution's are:- 6Hijpr$sfid by the c,authorities to insure honest and efficient administration-. Pension claims are accepted as collateral foi’ loans at only 1 per cent, a year, but other loans are at 8 per cent. At Toulouse and other cities loans are made with­ out interest. The only innovation of recent years has been the acceptance of automobiles “in hock.” i to help her I sank just as deep, and soon all our transport was in. It took us from 8.30 a.m- to 2 p.m. to get out of the snowfield, in which we moved less than half a mile.” on the 1 EIk RIver3’ ia British Columbia, and j the Calgary Power Company greatly extended its transmission system. I “In Saskatchewan the Provincial “In New Brunswick the St. John Government appointed a commission River Power Company made rapid to Inquire into the power resources-, - . , .„. ,, , .progress- on the construction of its of tho province and a very active pro- ranx ”ril“?ntly clad figures wearing) 80,000 horsepower development at1 gram of investigations was carried 01’hats dance i other. Thirty miles from Leh is the monas­ tery of Hemis, where we attended' the, annual festival which attracts people from all over Central Asia. Grotesque' The great majority date fro^,strJon recenW/;74por Z ah the later Roman period, and recent most worldwide effort now belnsr finds of theae British-minted coins ;mad0 t0 abQ118h Wvery , J* * have disclosed the fact that a large‘form< to w: me ph in<.wp^ variety came from a number pt mints ated in. the new slavery convention in different Tarts of the British Isles, K ts, to many, a startUng discovery Most of them, however, bear the de- that, ninety-four years after the pass- signating marks of the London mint Ing of the British emancipation act from which came the largest propor- the world should be confronted with tion of the Roman coins circulated in thg, task of liberating some 4 000 000 Great Britain. J to 5,000,000 slaves; and what is even Thomas L. Elder, coin expert of. more surprising Is that territories un­ New York, who has devoted consld-jder British Influence—and in Come erable study to the coins of the Ro-^aces under British administration­ man emperors, calls attention to one should have been called upon to set of the firost important discoveries of free 230,000 slaves within the last fit- these English-minted Roman coins teen years; and, further, that we are made In 1907 at Little Orme Head, ‘ committed to the task of securing In North Wales. A bronze vessel was , this new year the liberty of over 215,- unearthed there containing several ;000 slaves In the Sierra Leone pro­ hundred coins of the Roman Emperor j teptorate. Carausluq, and with It also was found a large pottery jar filled with mors , than 5,000 Roman 'middle and small ...a aVery? sized bronze coins of British Gaulish mints. “Careful washing of these said Mt. Elder, “left'them In .perfect mint state, although 1,600 years old. The location discovery showed indications- man masonry work and this hoard Is J believed to have been i chest, kept at a Roman station, from which the coins were distributed. Tire Roman emperors depicted on the'< coins included Allectus, Maximilian ( Hercules, Maxlminus' Daza, Llclnius Pater, Quintillus, Aurelian, '’Severina, Numerlan, Diocletian, Valera and Constantine I. of British mints five and there Gaulish and other mints. About 3,^00 barni]egs institutions. Captain Coch- of the coins were of Constantine I. ;ranej wJth his full knowledge of A more recent find was made near Abyssinia, in a dispatch to the For- the British Museum In London which elgn Offlce conflrms news. contained many of the ‘Urbs Roma pap0r articles which described slav- type with the helmeted head of Rome eTy. Abyssinia as one of the worst and the reverse showing the tradl- Byatems that have ever cursed the tional wolf suckling Romulus and continent of Africa. There Is also Remus. Early In 1922 a number of tbe report presented by the Abyssin- Roman silver' coins was found In a Jan,Government Itself to the-League small caye In a cliff near East Wood ojf Nations In Geneva, In which it is Ashover, Derbyshire, England, the shown that within the last three years coins ranging from the. feigns ofjlS7 slaV0 trader3( ma^iy in the di3. Septimlus Severus to Gordian III, a * trlct of capital, have been arrest­ period of about fifty years. ‘ed and given flft0eri years’ imprlson- “The Immence 'number of coins m0nt. Slave trading leads to even struck In England at the various mor0 terrible abuses than slave own­ mints, but chiefly in London, may be aad jf |<j7 slave traders have beon Imagined from the fact that it is- al-' captured in the vicinity of the capital most impossible to find of the thou-jwe are given a glimpse of what must sands lately unearthed two coins be the. slave trading conditions from exactly the same die. The die-: throughout this vast Abyssinian terrl- makers must have been kept busy tory. with the immense difficulty of keeping I ’ DifflcuJtJea In Way the die sufficiently harder than the ! Difficulties in way. coin to prevent breakage.” j One of the chief difficulties with Mr. Elder says that the later rulers ; regard to slavery as it Is known to of Britain, following the method of oXist to-day is that of obtaining infor- the Romans, sometimes copied Ro-: mation. We know, for example, upon man coin types. Goins of St. Ethel- S°od authority, that there are at least bert, for instance, bear the design of 2,000,000 slaves in Abyssinia. We the wolf and twins. Later followed know from a book written by a mis- a widely varied coinage imitating sionary with twenty years’ experience Gaulish types with heads-, animals, that there are at least a similar num­ dots, clashes and other curous Byin-: b8r in China. But we do not know bols. These extended down to the ba-lwtiether the slaves in Arabia number ginning of the Anglo-Saxon era, when 500,000 or 1,000,000; we only know a new type appeared In the English that they represent an enormous^num­ penny. more What It h. and ITher0 aro’ of course, many labor sys- i tems which Impinge upon slavery, but coins ” i PJ'esent 0ffort 18 primarily dlrect- almost'ed aKa*nst th0 three crude forms of about ‘ slaV0ry—slave awning, slave trading of the and slave raiding; slave owning, for of t>0. i examPl°, ln 1-he sense that somebody . . Jholds as a property righthand can ft” mllltaTV 0011 as an ordInarV Chattel? the men, HHnn frATn 'women and children who comprise I the known total of from 4,00b,000 to .5,000,000 slaves. The actual phrase on "property" used in the new slavery convention Is as follows’. | “Slavery Is the status or condition . 17 of a person over whom any or all of Carauslus, {he powers attaching to the right of ine types- ownergbjp are exercised.” numbered twenty-1 Ifc lg, of courae, a mistake to speak were seventeen of: tbe preeent systems of slavery as “the dance of death” or “the dance of the .black hat,” or other eerie steps of dismal one-note music. During the festival you could go to Gi’Gand Falls on the St. John River. ‘ out. The New Brunswick Power Commis­ sion made an extensive Investigation! Company completed the superstruc- of .the forty-mite reach of the St.1 ture of Its Great Falls plant on the - _ „ John River between Woodstock and Winnipeg River and brought Into s,ee t^ie Shushak,’who might be called Hawksbaw which gives promise of ( operation Unit 4 of 28,000 horsepower!^0 Archbishop. He is supposed to be providing a further development on j capacity. A prospective develop- < th0 re-incarnation of Buddha. When that river of 30,000 continuous horse-'ment of great importance to the j dying the Shushak has to call the power. Similar investigations were ”---- —. . . . - made on the same river by the St. John River Power Company, and on the zNiplslguit River the Bathurst Company, carried on investigations at the Rough Waters ' ■ site near the mouth. Two tidal power projects are also under Investigation on the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick. “In Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Power Commission completed the •construction of the -8,900 horsepower Sandy Lake development of its St. Margaret- Bay system, .The commis­ sion also carried on numerous inves­ tigations including a project of 3,000 horsepower at Lake Ainslie. in Cape Breton, a proposed tidal power proj­ ect at Amherst Point on the Bay of Fundy and investigations of the com­ plete utilization of the Liverpool and “In Manitoba the Manitoba Power northern part of the province is in view at Whitemud Falls on the Nel­ son River, where an installation of from 30,000 to 40,000 horsepower is proposed to serve power over a trans­ mission line 170 miles in' length to the Flin Flon mining district northwest of the Pas. “Numerous undertakings are in the initial stages of construction and others are about to be commenced which wil result in an addition to the Dominion total of more than 2,- 000,00'0 horsepower, much of which, it is expected, will he in place before the end of 1930. The capital required for this new work will involve the direot investment of at least $00,000,- 000, and many times this amount in the application of power to industdy and domestic and public use.” lamas, the high priests, and toll them where to find the newly bora infant whom he knows, on the inspiration of Buddha, must be his successor. When • the baby is found it is', placed in the monastery. ’ ' ' The women wear head-dresses that’ go down their back and bear tur-' quoises. Mrs. Johnson, who bought splendid specimens of turquoises for- less than a pound in rupees, pointed out that ..these, stones/ oain’ied on the head-dress were the banking accounts of the men. The journey continued across Chang Chen Mo river to Tibet. Col. ‘ “We encountered a snow-field 18,000 feet into which my wife sank almost to the shoulders. When I went Shy on the Rocks. don’t believe you have grit enough to propose to a girl." “I’ve al the grit needed, my boy— I'm shy on the rocks." “I i wo- the Johnson said': at Barrister at Bow County Court: “are you married?” East Ham Wo­ man: “I am not. I have no desire to keep a husband.” , Some Birds Can Fly ber, and while the League of Nations Committee of Enquiry Into Slavery disclosed the existence of one or more of the three forms of slavery in some­ thing like nineteen political areas b! < * I x » the world, we only have a limitedAcross Atlantic (knowledge of about seven of these areas. '.Seldom has a more vigorous docu- Clubman—I’ve struck a perfectly priceless idea. I’ve arranged to give a man $10,000 on condition that he re­ lieves me of all my worries. Friend —That’s fine, but where are you go­ ing to get the $10,000? Clubman— All, that will be his first worr^. Uc d- 1 • ' .»&mom nas a more viguruua uuuu-.3. niolpgicai Survey Cites ment on 9iavery b90U penned than The Prince of Wales Enjoys a Bout THE RING SIDE the match between Len Johnson and Jack Hood tbr the British welterweight PRINCE CHARMING AT The PrlnCa of Wales is ait ardent “fight fail.” He Is shown hero watching championship. In the circle at the right/ Hood la seen forcing the fighting. Several’ Instances of Flights Washington.—“Long distance flights of birds are common,” it Is asserted by the experts of the United State.^ Biological Survey. The Survey has conclusive evidence that some birds fly across the Atlantic. “Two black headed gulls banded at Rossiten, Germany, were recaptured, one at Bridgeton, Barbadoes, in the British West Indies, and the other on the mainland of Mexico, near, Vera Cruz. Two kittiwakes, banded at the Farne Islands, Northumberland, Eng­ land, were recovered almost directly across the Atlantic at points on the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland. A common tern banded at Eastern Egg Rock, Maine, crossed the Atlantic Ocean and the Equator and was re­ covered from the Delta of the Niger River, British West Africa. A young Arctic tern, banded in Labrador, was recently found dead near La Rochelle, on the coast of Franco.” The Survey has no- evidence that these birds hmade a non-stop flight, but tthat is the supposition. It Is ex­ plained that many species that spend their Summers in the nlted States and Canada fly almost the length of tho western hemisphere and spend the northern Winter in the Summer of Argentina and Chile. The vicar was paying a visit to the homes of his poorer parishioners, and In tha house of a certain, coster­ monger he asked many questions about the family. A very grubby, but very cheerful little lad attracted the kindly cleric’s attention, and ho ask­ ed him Us name. Smlf, sir,” replied the grin. The vicar turned father. “Whatever did a name like that for?" ’in) ter be a professional boxer,” re­ turned the parent, “and wlv a name like that he’ll got a b't o’ practice at school.” ‘Reginald D'Arcy lad, with a to the boy’s- you give him “ *Coa I want the one forwarded by the British Government in 1926 to all States members of the League of Nations. The central argument of this' docu­ ment is contained In the following passage: “Certain crimes are regarded as bo- in g, in against jesty's a peculiar degree, crimes the human race. His Ma- Government consider that there is a general consensus of opini­ on In civilized States that the slavo trade constitutes a crime of this na­ ture. His Majesty's Government do not believe that at this date the gov­ ernment of any civilized country would wish to challenge this opinion. It follows that, from this point of view, the slave trade by sea may bo regarded as falling into the samo category of crime as piracy." Nobody supposes that this official effort can be put forward without forces working unobtrusively in the background. The anti-slavery people are happily very much in evidence, and their quiet work is making much headway In this and other couutrtes. The late editor of the Spectator wob not only one of this band, but for years held a responsible position In the work, and we can only regret that, like William Wilberforce, he died just one year bofore the big success of hl* work was assured. He says of slavery that it is “the crime about which no excuse caa bo allowed—I moan the kind of ex­ cuses made for the crimes of passion or the crimes prompted by hunger and thirst, misery, folly, or ignorance. In the caso of slavery thoro are ne mitigating circumstances to bo founA. Slavery is the supremo offense againifc the human race, and it was with < sure instinct that oUr spiritual and physical forefathers stamped it a» piracy” 3 We uc°d make fib apologies for quoting the above from a spatch made by bur late editor' Some ifibhtli* before Sir Austin Chamberlain’* mous dispatch way irabttshed.