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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1921-10-20, Page 6i University Standards. I Ten Commands of Business. I and your made he Nurseries. of a few acres of ele­ one the a powdered with a most in a photo­ per got com- with Year that are 'TXE Geneva LARGE FIELD FOR PRIVATE FORESTRY CONSERVATION BY CITI­ ZENS OF CANADA. Pulp Companies Wide Awake to Evils Following Whole­ sale Destruction of Timber. The heavy toll exacted on the forests of the world which has increased so enormously in recent years disclosed the fact, of which but slow and limited cognisance was taken, that the inex­ haustible forests of many countries were indeed very capable of exhaus­ tion and their ultimate depletion with­ in sight. Competent authorities, for instance, state that the destruction of the spruce forests of the United States, east of the Rockies, is nearing completion and that fifteen years or more at the present rate of consump­ tion will see the end of spruce and balsam. This in a .country which pos­ sessed one of the greatest reserves of timber a bountiful nature had to be­ stow, considered at one time unlimited and inexhaustible. Canada stands in a position at once enviable, and considered in another light, calling for care and forethought. Possessed of far-reaching stretches of valuable timber, constituting some of the richest reserves left in the world, she is the cynosure of timber-depleted countries which have avaricious eyes cast upon her woodland wealth and would, if permitted, in many cases, carry out the same systems of des­ truction as have left them poverty- stricken in regard to timber posses­ sion. The Dominion has, however, the • lamentable experiences of these coun­ tries to profit by, painful lessons in. conservation, which she has taken to heart and instigating governments and private corporations alike to the neces­ sity of preserving the country’s. rich heritage of timber to posterity. National Preservation Forethought. Many of the larger corporations, lilmber and pulp concerns, who have in their hands the exploitation of Canada’s forest wealth for good or ill, have shown h gratifying national fore­ thought in preserving this birthright, treating their woods as a crop to be resown after harvest rather than mines which once exhausted lose all virtue. They have given the Dominion authorities the most active and thor- onerh co-oneration realizing that their work ia not only a national one, but one which self-interest prompts if they are to go on manufacturing year after year. There is a steadily increasing move­ ment towards the employment of trained foresters by private concerns, principally pulp and paper companies. Not less than fourteen such com­ panies in Eastern Canada now employ foresters for various woods operations including forest research, nursery work, tree planting or a combination of activities. A notable work has been done for some time by the Laurentide Pulp and Paper Company at Grand’Mere, Que­ bec, where this organization has built up a garden city about the scene in their industrial activities, and has in its inevitable destruction retained the beauties of the pristine wilderness. The company has timber holdings ag­ gregating 2,300 square miles under the surveillance of one of the most com­ petent foresters on the continent, with a regular staff of six men, which at certain seasons, is increased to 30 or 40. an extensive and far-reaching sys­ tem cf conservation and reforestation has teen carried out. In 1916 nurseries were established on cut-over lands and in ilie brief period which has elapsed since more than two thousand acres have been replanted. Nearly a million sapplings were planted last year, and the alm of the company is to reach a yearly capacity of four million new work of re- the cutting • trees. This keeps the planting well ahead of operations. Establishment of Forest Last year the Abitibi Company or­ ganized a forestry department in con­ nection with its limits in Northern On­ tario. In addition to other lines of forestry work this company has es­ tablished a forest nursery and has un­ dertaken planting operations. Young trees and saplings are raised in the nurseries, and then transplanted to the cut over lands there to grow to maturity and provide a crop for the next generation when the operations of this one shall have taken their toll. Recently an extensive plan of re­ foresting its timber limits was decided upon by the Chicoutimi Pulp and Paper Company of Quebec. The com­ pany obtained the services of the Que­ bec Forestry Department to make a complete survey of its serves in order to determine the best and most economic method of their exploitation. The company will put no limit on their measures to ensure the permanence of their forest crop, and in addition to the enforcement of the most rigid regulations in conservation and the establishment of nurseries, has sent one of its employees to Europe to study European methods', which are the most successful in the world, and to consult with the best known authorities on the subject. The field for private forestry is in­ creasing rapidly, as clearly indicated by the growing number of foresters who are going into the work on a consult­ ing basis in response to the demand. Not only the government of Canada but the large timber interests are wide awake to the evils following the wholesale destruction of national tim­ ber and not only a public spirit but a realization of their own best interests has determined them to preserve Canada’s magnificent heritage in its present dimension and so make Cana­ da’s forest resources truly inexhaust­ ible by putting a tree back where one has been removed. ----------*---------- timber re- And we might have had seats with all the rest of the folk. Handle the hardest job first each day. Easy ones are pleasures. Do not be afraid of criticism— criticize yourself often. Be glad and rejoice in the other fel­ low’s success—study his methods. Do not be misled by dislikes. Acid ruins the finest fabrics. Be enthusiastic—it is contagious. Do not have the notion that success means simply money-making. Be fair, and do at least one decent act every day in the year. Honor your employer. There must be a head to everything. Have confidence in yourself, and’ make yourself fit. Harmonize your work. Let sunshine radiate and penetrate. Allan Crawford, the Toronto boy who is heading Stefansson’s advance party to .the Arctic, has arrived at Wrangel Island, Indicated on the map. This is where he and his party will spend the winter. --------4.-------- New Use for Old Bulbs. Here is a valuable use for your old incandescent lamp bulbs. By adopt­ ing this suggestion one can have a fire extinguisher ready any time. Car­ bon tetrachloride bombs have foun<^ favor in many power plants for fire extinguishing, and their use has re­ sulted in the prompt quenching of fires that might have resulted in serious consequences had quick action not been taken. Burned out incandescent lamp bulbs of a suitable size are converted into bombs by removing the metal base and filling the glass bulb with the liquid. By breaking the tip from the bulb, while it is immersed in a bucket of the carbon tetrachloride the filling can be easily accomplished. A drop of wax is placed over the small hole, at the tip to seal the bulb. --------O-------- Women of the best taste use a fur coat only for occasional wear and re­ gard it as distinctly not the thing for every purpose from October until March. The present craze for fur coats may not last. A fur scarf and a muff to be worn with a woolen coat are much more certain to be a satis­ factory investment. If a girl is temp­ ted by the lower price to put all her savings into any coat, let it be into the pocket of one that she already owns. The Provincial University has menced the session of 1921-1922 a record enrolment in the First and this in spite of the fact higher entrance requirements now in force. Indeed, the raising of standards seems to act as a stimulus to intending students. Occasionally some people get the idea that the raising of entrance standards makes for exclusiveness in a university but, unless the exclusiveness of brain power is meant, such cannot be the case. By keeping its fees at the present moderate figure and by gradually in­ creasing its academic requirements the University of Toronto is exhibit­ ing the. true spirit of democracy. To demand Honour Matriculation for en­ trance, as will, no doubt, soon be done, will mean that prospective students will remain one year longer at the local collegiate institute, that they will be for one more year under parental supervision, and that they will come to the University more mature and better equipped to take advantage of the benefits of higher education. These are the motives that actuated the authorities in making the change. Higher standards result in a better type of student and, as this year’s experience would indicate, in a greater number of students. The prestige of the degrees of Ontario’s Provincial University is absolutely unexcelled on this continent. ---------------------- Started Young. “I understand you began your’ life as a newsboy,” observed the acquaint­ ance admirably. “No,” replied the millionaire. “Some­ one has been fooling you. I began life as a baby.” A Silent Tribute. I was deeply touched by a silent tri­ bute observed recently while motoring through the state of Connecticut, says an American writer. It was late at night, and the inhabitants of the little village had long since retired; not a suggestion of life anywhere; the only sound the murmur of the motor, when my attention was arrested by the bril­ liant illumination, of one of the cus­ tomary “Rolls of Honor” erected throughout New England to honor the men who fell in the great conflict. The light was arranged to throw its rays directly upon the names of the heroes from that village. All through the long hours of the night, until relieved by the light of the rising sun, this il­ luminated tribute, as silent as those it commemorates, sheds its warm, friendly rays upon tneir honored names, keeping them ever bright in memory. It was a simple thing, before which I reverently paused a few moments, yet like so many simple things it was beautiful. None of the names was known to me, yet somehow they seem­ ed not far away. In rain and snow the light shines nightly like a lighthouse, as if to guide the beholder to the high ideals which prompted these young men to give their all. I Other cities and towns may well follow the example of this Connecticut hamlet, as an. expression of never-dy­ ing" gratitude from the older, and a patriotic inspiration to the younger generation. / . ' “j Metals in Your Body. One reason why milk is so excellent a food is that it contains much cal­ cium, which is the principal metal of the Human body, contributing to the make-up of the bones and teeth. A grown person carries in his skeleton about four pounds of it. Your body contains about three ounces of sodium, which is a white metal so highly combustible that a piece of it thrown into water will take fire instantly. In the human system it combines with chlorine to form com­ mon salt. Hence the saltiness of your perspiration and the salty taste of your tears. In your skeleton there are also about two ounces of magnesium, which is a silvery-white metal. In state, if ignited, it burns brilliant glare—as seen grapher’s flashlight. Another highly inflammable metal contained in your body is potassium— about two and a half ounces of it. Like sodium, it is set on fire by contact with water destroying the latter. That is to say, it enters into combination with the oxygen in the water, thereby liberating the hydrogen, which burns with violence and a rosy flame, the phenomenon winding up with an ex­ plosion. and a shower of sparks. Your body contains about fifty-five ounces of phosphorus, originally de­ rived mainly from inilk, cheese, beans, fish and oysters. At all events, those are the foods which, above all others, yield this remarkable substance. In a pure state it will take fire of its own accord if exposed to air and, there­ fore, has to be kept sealed in water. Seven-eighths of the phosphorus that you carry about with you Is in your bones (going to form phosphte of lime); half an ounce is in your brain tissues; the balance is in the red cor­ puscles of your blood. Of brimstone (otherwise called sul­ phur) there are about four ounces in your bones1 and teeth. It was original­ ly a volcanic product. But one should remember that all the mineral ments here mentioned were at time contained in the rocks of earth’s crust Your body is three-fifths water one-fifth carbon. If all the hydrogen it contains, or an equivalent quantity, were separated out, it would fill a bal­ loon big enough to lift you above the clouds. Can Airplane Be Silenced? Is it possible to “silence” the flying machine? The question is one of the utmost importance from a military standpoint. During the war the only means of defense against airplanes at­ tacking at night was to determine their direction by listening apparatus on the ground, thereupon to throw searchlight beams upon them, and to go after them with pursuit planes. If the airplane could be rendered silent, it would become, for night bombing work, incomparably more formidable. Some time ago an experiment sta­ tion for investigating this problem was secretly established at Butley, - England. It has got at some interest­ ing facts not hitherto known. The noise made by an airplane con­ sists of two parts, a musical hum and an unmusical roar. The hum is usual­ ly heard first, as the plane approaches, and the roar very soon after. The hum is due to the exhaust of the engine. The roar is from the pro­ peller. Under ordinary conditions the first sound of a plane coming “up wind” is heard as a faint hum at about 5,000 yards. Soon it begins to develop into a roar, and after about a minute it suddenly increases in volume. The increase probably occurs when favor­ able air currents first concentrate the sound upon the observer. The stays of the aircraft have an aeolian song of their own, which oc­ casionally is heard at a greater dis­ tance than any other sound. It may be that vibration of the engine con­ tributes to the noise of the airplane, but this is uncertain . It is possible that means might be found for silencing the “hum,” but of what use would that be if the “roar” could not be silenced? A puzzle; and that is exactly where the matter stands at present. ----------------------A--------------------- --------- ----------- It Was a Bungalow. I can’t imagine why you call place a bungalow!” “Well, if it isn’t a bungalow what is it? The job was a bungle, and I owe for it!” THE MODERN GIRL The other day while chasing along the thoroughfare, my old bus blew a casing, and I was stranded there. I heaved a sigh abysmal, and started to perspire, and life seemed bleak and dis­ mal—I hate to change a tire. For I am old and cheesy, my hinges groan and crack, my ancient lungs are wheesy, and cricks are in my back. With rusty jack I wallowed upon the baking soil, and, toiling there, I swallowed about a quart of oil. Then on her motorcycle up came Jemima Blair; “Well, in the name of Michael,” she said, “you’ve grief to spare! Your clothes you’re disarranging, your whiskers are on fire; you are not built for changing a non-skid rubber tire. Go, rest—for rest is bracing— beneath yon sycamore, and I will change the casing, so don’t swear any more.” And I had said this maiden was frivolous and vain, a modern female laden with isms most insane. Because she was athletic, and wore a mannish hat, I’d said it was pathetic to see a girl like that. Because she rode her pony, one leg on either side, I’d said she was too phony to be a good youth’s bride. “I will not let you wrestle,” I said, “with my old scow: man is the stronger vessel, in theory, anyhow. But since you’ve made the offer, I doff my hat to you; and I’m the champeen doffer when great souls are in view.” REGLAR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes z- Stories of Famous People. Because of her keen practical In­ terest in the trade and commerce of her country, Queen Marie of Rumania has become known as the “Business Queen.” Recently thisy British-born Princess paid a business visit to France, and as a result a number of chemists and silk manufacturers left for Rumania to set up silk-weaving and chemical indus­ tries there. Her Majesty has a shrewd business instinct. The other c.„ _ _. manufacturer quoted his price cloth, and was surprised when the Queen pointed out that the quotation on New York Exchange was 10 cent, less than his demand. She the cloth at the reduced price. * * * * One of Australia’s most remarkable men, Mr. A. B. Triggs, of New South Wales, who has been on a visit to Lon­ don, has had a romantic career. A bank clerk for over thirty years, he arrived in Australia from England with $25 in his pocket, and proceeded to take up sheep farming. So success­ ful was he that in the course years he cantrolled 7,000,000 land and 1,000,000 sheep. Just when his fortune was was beset by ill luck, and suffered con­ siderable losses. Later the tide turned once again, and by the beginning of 1921 he was able to pay $7,500,000 to his creditors. * • * * There is nothing Sir Harry Lauder likes so much as a good day’s shoot­ ing, and he declares he has never en­ joyed himself so well as during his re­ cent stag-hunting holiday in the High­ lands. Quite an exciting adventure befell the famous comedian on the top of Ben Attow, a mountain famous for its deer. He and a companion succeeded in bringing down a stag apiece, when a Scotch mist descended upon the mountain. The hunters were lost for four hours and it was only by a stroke of luck that Sir Harry succeeded in finding the trail which led to safety. The Ocean’s Cold Bed. At the bottom of the deep oceans ice cold currents creep about unceas­ ingly, mounting gentle slopes and-glid­ ing down into hollows filled with the gloom of endless night. Sometimes they pour over great sub­ marine cliffs, at whose base they re­ sume their slow progress over the bed of old Ocean, three, four, or five miles below the surface. A vast quantity of ice-water comes from the Polar regions, especially from the Antarctic, ahd is the chief cause of the depths of the sea being so cold. There is no doubt that if the immense quantities of ice at the North and South Poles were melted, the sea would in time become warmer. The bed of the ocean is not equally cold everywhere. In the neighbor­ hood of the Poles, for example, the tem­ perature of the bottom is just below ■ freezing-point, whilst over nearly the I whole of the North Atlantic and a day a French good deal of the Pacific Ocean it is for well above freezing point. ■ When we leave the very deep seas ' and consider the shallower waters of j the hottest parts of the globe, we And [ that the water at the bottom is much warmer. The really cold and heavier water has drifted down to the lower depths, where not the faintest ray of sunlight ever penetrates, and where even the mud is so cold that it cannot be handled without discomfort. This year’s cotton crop is stated to be the smallest since 1895. Information on Natural Resources. With the dissolution of the Com­ mission of Conservation the educa­ tional and information branch of the work of that body has been trans­ ferred to and co-ordinated with the service of the Natural Resources In­ telligence Branch of the Department of the Interior. This intelligence ser­ vice has become an important fac ?r in the widespread and varied func­ tions of the Interior Department, the anticipated energetic our natural resources tensified demand for to their possibilities. development < ? creating an in- information as This interest is not confined to Canada, but is in evidence in the United States, Great Britain and Western Europe and in Japan, To those interested the Na­ tural Resources Intelligence Branch is prepared to forward literature and answer inquiries relating to Canada, her natural resources and their de­ velopment. ----------O--------- The largest farm in the world is managed by a former American, Chas. Noble, at Nobleford, Alta. It has more than 18,000 acres under cultiva­ tion.