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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-10-30, Page 2a its w a. p TRAVEL, ROAD TO IEEA One of the oustandingactivities of the automobile owner is the week -end picnic and camping parties, which pro- vide healthful recreation for the whole, family. This not only brings the color- ful bloom of health into the cheeks of his wife and children as they enjoy the out-of-door fin, but it also tends to keep, the family together as a unit. The whole family goes on these out- ings, and thus gets into the habit of doing things together. This makes for happiness and contentment in f am- ily life, which in turn makes for better health; for happy folks are more apt to keep well than those who are upset and under the strain of family ,jars, Then, too, in touring around the country there are many things of in- terest to see, These keep the' mind busy and are an education to those who, study such places. If the mind is kept busy on such worthwhile items it is less -apt to dwell on personal ail- ments, which, although largely imag- inary, do become a menace tohealth if the mind continuesto concentrate on them. In getting out into the open on camping parties many people are find- ing out for the first time that they can. breathe night air without suffering any serious consequences. So far as folks with poor appetites are concerned, the; outdoorlife,that the auto makes possible stimulates such desire for food that it is apt to be- come a• problem to secure enough. The motorist, after a few miles run, is likely to find out for the first time in months that things -to eat taste good, no matter how poorly cooked or how much dirt gets mixed with the victuals before they are served. The motor takes people out in healthful and restful clothes. Folks dress for comfort when they go one an auto tour. Of course, they ought to dress for ease always. But they think thio is impossible when in civilized communities. However, out in the wilds they do not care. Here, again, they get a taste of comfort in dressing LT:H IN MOTOR CAR,, that may. have its ,effect ' under more. formal conditions. { Nesamp exERQiSE OPTAI$1ID. The gwner of a ear gets a good deal of physical exercise in handling his machine and caring for it that he might not get in any other way. After he has pumped up a few tires and crawled: around, over and under and inside his auto he has used a good many muscles, some of which he prob- ably never knew he had before, The automobile is proving a tre- mendous factor in health in this re- spect; namely, that it enables a phy- sician to get to his patient much quick- er uick er than he formerly could with a horse and buggy. Now he can annihilate space at a rapid rate when it is neces- eery to reach a person quickly in order to save life. Automobile, ambu- lances have also conte into common use and greatly facilitate transporting sick, persons to hospitals, where ex- pert care can be given them. But there are certain warnings !which should be given automobile own- I ers regarding their health. There are some activities of a motorist that tend more against than for it. For instance, if a 'man is, going on a week -end trip he had better get an early start, so as to avoid getting into very heavy traf- fic. Driving on . roads crowded with cars puts a nerve strain on a driver which 1 t doff their income. The Ontario honey crop is marketed by the Ontario 'Co-Opera- tive.Honey Producers Co., Ltd. In 1923 the Province of Quebec had 7,1,99 beekeepers; which included 1,048 who were registered for the first-time that year. Their pro:ilii tion was 3,393,- 826 pounds of honey and 41,459 pounds of wax worth $1,983,061. The annual average in Quebec for the past seven years has boon •6,095 beekeepers,' with 68,770 colonies,' accounting for. a pro- duction of 2,617,992 pounds' of honey and 29,878 pounds of wax with a value of $1,405,025.45, All over Canada there is a very gratifying increase of interest ex- hibited in apicplture,_well illustrated In the remarkable multiplication of export figures. It is the belief that in the successful penetration of foreign markets, and the generally favorable acceptance of the Canadian product, this can be expanded to a very great extent yet. Another item of 'produc- tion has been added to Canada's varied list of agricultural products which promises in the future to occupy a very much mere important place. Chinese refugees in the war zone are shown moving their belongings into safer areas, using sampans as a means of transportation. , The scene is Shanghai harbor. `may go a long wa ower - settingthe- beneficial, health -giving factorof the outing. Then, too, a person who drives a car may get the ds that by virtue of this. fact lie is getting sufficient all-around physical exercise. As a matter of fact, the exercise that goes with owning and operating a ear should supplement regular systematic exercise rather than take the place of it hi order to get the best results. There is not much doubt that, right- ly used, the automobile is an import -1 ant factor in the health and happiness of the nation. ' And in thousands of cases it is helping individuals to build better bodies, Canada's narrowest street, Sous le Cap, in Quebec City. merely as a hobby, or an interesting side -line desultorily followed, apicul- ture has;attained to theproportionsMENT N •; and has the enthusiastic and whole- APICULTURE hearted following of a main industry. Organization of Co-operative Pools. Bee pools or co-operative societies SIX MILLION POUNDS OFmarketing ' been organ - 1924 honey haveg 1924 HONEY FOR ize•d in Ontario and Quebec, and such; CANADA'S DEVELOP - EXPORT. Dice Followed as Hobby, Api- cultureHas Now Attained Proportions of a Main Industry. The remarkable development of in- terest in apiculture and in the pros duction of honey which has featured ' the past few years in Canada, is very clearly illustrated in the announce- ment of the Dominion Apiarist that Canada will this year have six million pounds of honey available for export, figures arrived at after consultations with the ' leading Beekeepers' Co- operative Associations of Ontario and Quebec. The understanding is that outside market& can be found for this quantity, and another result that -•pro- raises much satisfaction among pro- ducers is that the home market will be stabilized. The significance of such a foresha- dowed export trade may be appreci- sled from thei, fact' that last year the - Dominion's Honey exports • amounted to only • 513,038 pounds, worth $54,561, in the -previous year to 116,363 pounds, worth $18,520; and in the year prior to that to 74,107 pounds, worth $12,840.' Canadianhoney, ' from its excellent !quality, has rapidly and favorably es- 4ablished itself on the British and ur'opelin markets, anal shipments rerseas $lona Ontario alone, in the ret six months of the present year, •*otelled nearly 1,000,000 pounds'. ,Attention has recently been directed to the remarkable ' interest 'being de- ; voted to, and the 'development of, apt- Mature pteulture in the Western provinces, There has been a similar progress in the Eastern province, where the indus- tryhas' been for years established, the Movement tending here towards a, stabilization of the industry. From rtxg regarded by Many followers is the status of the industry in West,- ern estern Canada that the Coast,, nd Prairie Provinces are expected 'to have simi- lar organizations in operation before the end of the season.. The next logi- cal and expected step in the organi- zation, and •the keystone of the enter- prise, will in all probability be a cen- tral selling organization. With these arrangements' completed according to the plans of the authorities it is ex -1 petted that the Canadian honey Indus Autos Use British Road Trod by Roman Legions The announcement that the Prince of Wales, upon returning- •from. his Canadian trip, will open the' recon- structed road between Dartford and Strood draws attention to 'one of the oldest and most celebrated) highways in. Europe. This is told in an As- sociated Press dispatch from London. This patch of road is in reality part of Watling Street,a thoroughfare of great antiquity which still traverses the heart of London and, just back of St. Paul's Cathedral, to this day bears Its ancient name. The motorist who to -day comes up to London from Canterbury traverses the same road, the famous Watling Street, which Roman soldiers took when, on conquest bent, they marched through England.' And this old road which the Prince of Wales will again throw open to the public in November is to -day what it has ever been, the most convenient route between London and the ports of Franco. Spoiled the Joke. A man named Onions had the mis fortune to fall into a puddle. A friend who was with him said,."Oh, Onions, you are in a pickle!" The joke 'was not lost on Onions, who determined to let his wife, share the 'laugh. "My dear," he said when he arrived home, "I heard a clever thing to -day. , My ,friend Smith, when I fell in that puddle, said, `Oh, Onions, yon.. are in try will be established on a perman- ent and profitable basis. The quality of Canadian honey has already won for it an enviable position in. the Old Country, , and a demand has, been created. As soon as the market price can he' standardized the supply will be assured, and 'the honeytrade d will, be an "important factor among the l �, wealth -producing commodities of the -� Dominion. Beekeeping has made rapid strikes i in the Western provinces, where more followers are being enlisted every. year. Last year British Columbia, in anadverse season, accounted for a production of more than half a million pounds of. honey. The production in i Manitoba, where the growth of tie, industry has been phenomenal., was substantially in excess, of 3,000,000' pounds. 'Saskatchewan in that year produced 121,600 pounds and Alberta! is also achieving a worth -while pro- ' duction, The production cf. Western. Canada ie the more significant since it is only of Very recent yearsthat any attention has been devoted to 'a cons mercial honey production. Output of Ontario and Quebec Provinces, ' According to the Deputy Minister of Agriculture for the Province of On- tario, the aggregate value of the honey crop in that province in 1923,. was slightly less than "$1,000,000, There are in the province about seven thoi.i,s and• honey producers', bat alit of these. only about six hundred 'depend`"i:,iion the industry for the greater part of A Century" of Science and Engineering. Few of those°who 'o the corn - forts and conveniencesnenJyof life in 1924 realize how recent are the develop- ments eveloP-ments in. science and engineering which have made them possible. •Yet Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ' of Troy, New 'York, the oldest'. college of science and -engineering in any English-speaking country, celebrated only the other 'day the hundredth an- niversary of its foundation. For Canadians the celebration is 'of special. interest. As Rensselaer be- came the pattern of all the colleges of science and engineering on the con- tinent, it naturally left its mark on several universities north of the boun- dary. Moreover, not a few of the young men who, .in the early days, contributed,, to the material develop- ment of the Dominion, turned to it for their education. One, John Fiske Bar- nard ('50),who had constructed a number of the lines which were merg- ed in the old Grand Trunk, became chief engineer after they were con- solidated. Another, Edward Penne- :feather •feather Rothwell ('58), of Ingersoll, betaine the most eminent mining en- gineer. of his day, founder of the Am- , erican' Institute of Mining and Metal- lurgical iEngineers and editor of.. the "-Engineering and Mining' Journal:" Two graduates,- still living are Charles Macdonald •- (i57), •:of-, Ganan- oque (where he still maintains a Sum- mer home), who designed and erected, numerous bridges such as the famous Poughkeepsie Bridge across the Hod- son, and John A. L. Waddell ,('75), of Port Hope, whose career has reached far beyond the two Americas. Among Canadian delegates to thee. centennial were Sir Robert Falconer, President of the `University of To- ronto, Dr. R. Bruce. Taylor, Principal of Queen's University, and Dean H. M. Mackay, of McGill.Univ-ersity. Mr. Arthur Suiveyer, President of ,the; Engineering Institute of Canada,"who was ono of the principal speakers, was honored with a doctorate. Great Britain Gives Books to Tokio Imperial University By passing the diplomatic and con - CONCRETE COTfAGEa' FOUR WEE ri French arehibect,paiiied Knapp is 'being blessed by the working people of France and lies discovered at the same time, net only the way to•become Popular in this crountry, but also the manner in which to become the -_busi- est architect in France, He has s'oldved the housing, problem for the poorer working classes. His idea is simple but ingenious. 'It is, besed on the principle that the work- ing people themselves are• indirectly responsible for the high east of home building in,,,France, and he has merely found the way to redcee enormously the expense of skilled labor in cottage building. He has drawn up plans.for five dif- ferent types of small houses to be en- tirely constructed of concrete. He hag built one of each of, these types of dwellings in wood. This- wooden house is in turn lined with wood throughout, thus rtorming a huge mold for the con- crete .to be poured into. When the matrix house is raised with the aid of a crane the walls of a finished cot- tage remain standing. Such a house can be oceupied within four weeks' after buildign is coni- :neared. Knalup's' plans' provide for , DUTCH .EDITO4 Sr VISIT TO, CANADA two rooms., each of which etre ten feet wide and twelve feet in length, and a kitchen, hall and cellar. The cost is 6000 francs (about $360), of which the owner -of the house has. to pay but 1200 f•anes in cash, the remainder being 'advanced. 'for him by 'the French Gov eminent, *filch lends., him, this' money for one to "thirty year,* at 'a 'very low rate of interest, under what is known as the "Loi Ribot" (the Ribot law). Eight days is the actual, time re- quired to build, these houses; the prices of which include the services of twenty workmen 'required to set up the woden •mold and the use of the mold itself. Three weeks is' required to; purge the new building of damp- ness.. Twenty such houses' have been suc cessfully ereoted at Troyes. Each of them, it is said, would cost no' less than 25,000 francs if 'built according to the methods generally 'used at pre- sent 'in France in constructing con trete 'buildings Sun -Spots Will Increase for' a Number of -Years Old Soya getting 'the "measles" again. -Between . February and Augustof last year the sun had a minimum of "spots., `Professor' George -lir Peters •of the United States Naval Observatory, • has observed. The' number of spots •now Is increasing and , will increase for a.number of' years.' "The' sun -spot cycle. occurs, every eleven and one- tenth years, says Professor Peters; and 'has Just passed the minimum in I propect for 1984. For e number of days during the middle of 1923 no spots were seen on the un's disk. :'Just whore the zero point for sun spots is gives rise to a difference of opinion. During the period of sun -spot maxima the intensity of the northern lights in the lower latitudes gives` evidence of Iintense magnetic conditions. Some spots do riot --produce marked northern , lights, while others do. ' Just which solar vote the House of. C'ommons. sanctioned the gift by the British gov-, ernment of $125,000 for the purchase of books in Great Britain for the Tokio Imperial University. The library of :the university was destroyed in the earthquake of last year, and this gift is in restitution. Cypress Seeds. Though cypress trees. commonly grow in swamps their seeds cannot. germinate under water.. F• is ' :/.... .; ::',4fiSL, `l*:-''r'b T The nc} Iy corisft'ucte•d Zeppelin ZR -3,, which recently arrived, in the United °Sfates, is' sten in its recent trial Bight over I3crlin. Canada was visited recently, by a delegation of Dutch editors, H. Q. JO A, Baron. yen I,anisweerde of "De ,l,i'd,' T. Cnoseen of "De Stendaar•d," M, J. Brusee Niewe' Or, the' "Rotterdamche Courant," and XL J. 13111aSe, who mad0. an extensive tour of the Dominipn.. They had one broad purpose solely in view, 'namely' a cicee investigation in- to', the success• of Dutch settlers al- ready in Canada, and a study 'of Cana- dian conditions, with a view to return- ing and encouraging a Dutch migra- tion of some volume to Western Can a.da, The situation: In the Netherlands as: presented by 'them is this. The entire arable area of Holland is settled and under' cultivation. Farris Kaye been 'subdivided by farniera amongst their song until this can goo on no longer. Many satins of agriculturalists 'have ab- solutely no prospect of being ablate secure farms in their homeland, and'ii addition there develops a supply of ag,' ricuitural labor which is in excess ,of tris demand.'This has, for years, re- sulted in a 'migration_of,•somepwolume. { The' Netherlands own• colonies climatically, ton unsuited to the pur- suit of' the agricultural 'activities to which' :these Dutch •farmers have been accustomed,. and hitherto this flow hass gone=in the ma n to. the United •Staten, The Iast United States quota law re- duced the Netherlands immigrant quota by some three quarters', permit ting only 1,637 to enter in the year, A new bourn had to be sought, and the Holland League for Emigration gave it as its opinion that Canada was the most desirable -and suitable land for Dutch settlers. This. delegation of editors spent their time in exhaustively studying the conditions of the country spots cause probable' increase is a" working .on now. Each clear day of the year at noon Professor Peters photographs Elie -sun, A. photo -heliograph,, with iiye inches, erture and f rt feet local length is used. The image of the sun is taken on a plate four an a half inches in diameter. The light Is thrown into the camera from the surface of an un - silvered mirror. h. . Equal Rights In Chile. In Chile all the universities are open to women on equal derma; with men, and nearly all professions are open to them. Chilean Women' have already 'distinguiah'ed thems•elvea considerably in, medicine, in' dentistry and' in liters- , 'Lure. "Standing room on the earth will' be full up by'the year 3000,"said Professor' Gregory at a meeting of the British Association., The `world popu- lation 'will be 700,000,000;000;" H.M.S. Hood, the flagship of the special service squadron which recently visited Canada is, `shown steaming into the harbor of Plymouth, after com- pleting a world voyage. Natural Resources Bulletin. The Natural 'Resources Intelligence Service' of the Dept. of the Interior at Ottawa says: '. While Canada has a large area of land, amounting to approximately 3,- , square miles, and it would seem that there should be plenty for everybody, at ;reasonable prices, the settlement of certain portions and its use for business purposes has greatly increased its value. In business centres, particularly, prices have reached-sucha height that the neces- sity for accurate surveys shows the importance of this work, ar.d ' while, to the unthinking, the matter of a dif- ference of a foot more or less need hardly be considered, a few years—a comparatively brief space in,the- life of a nation—may mean the establish- ment of a community that will rapid- ly" become a metropolis, and a conse- c,ucnt enhancement of values, to un- believable heights. • It is but 131 years•, ,since,,Governor S'lmcoe, the first governor' of Upper Canada, _ret ieved'.the seat of 'governs ment, from Niagara across the lake to a tent pitchedon a site just east' of, the present, 'city of ' Toronto. Land' in the:.new provincial il' ould no doubt have ' been obtainedcapattathatctini6 very' cheaply, • and 'property on• -what are !tow the downtown streets : was forth land: .A foot frontage more or less would'hardly lie considered in re- gard to values, but the surveyor of those days, as• at present, required aC- curacy, Time has justified, this need for accuracy, as is evidenced by a <re- cent report .of the assessment commis•• sionee of Termite, which shows that tu•opf i ty located on the, wiener of King end 'Tonga Streeie is now .assessed at $13,000 per foot-fi.-ontage or $1,500 per inch- • Who could have foreseer, that the i)t'igf'nal 'tent ' of Governor r Sii lcce hi 1(93 be a city5f would 700,000 e to in 1024? pop the opening up of new areas, what is farm 'land to -day may early become a city, and what in western Caned i may to -day be bare prairie in a com- paratively few' years may be 'another Winnipeg. Canada's greatest natural reseerce is her lands, and on the surveyor must she depend for the accurate ,subdi- vision of that land, that future cit!.' siene may not have causes for disputes over measurement. Surveyors Brave Perils _ in Wilds of Far North G. H. Bianehet, government director 'of surreys, 'is back in _Winnipeg from the Barren Lands, after a lengthy trip by canoe through a country which is, "terra incognita" to moat white' men. Completing, first the survey of Great Slave Lake, begun in 1921, Mr. Bion •chat and lila party,•fifteen in all, head- ed north and east Into tare Barren Lands to survey the area contiguous to the big chain of lakes , from which the 'Cbppermitte 'Back's', ; Yellowknife,, Thelon and other northern rivers drain the area lying from Great Slave north to the Arctic and • northeast' to the shores of •Hudson Bay. • The runts .taken' was;y •wa •'Of Ar=, ,till'ery Lake past the.site of old%Fort Reliance, through the Clinton, Golden and Aylmer lakes to' Lake Mackay, It was an, adventurous -trip through terri- tory•scarcely visited by .whites, in the last two hundred years since. Herne dls•oovered it. A Prize Baby. Satisfaction and encouragement come to us from many,dircctions. This morning's mail brings a Ietter stating that the baby oi' one of our 'former wai;•ds has taken a prize at the -count �• i�elso •clef r yy fair.—J. 3.s a Lhrl- ,t y, e . • n Shelter, Toronto. di e s 5 with a`view to bearing this out and en couraging a move in `this direction thrqugh the influence of the press. , ' Movement Purely Agricultural. Uniformly they stress the fact that the constituent of such a movement would be almost purely °agricultural, The emigration. from Holland, which has always' been in progress, shows every .tendency of increasing, and it is net intended in any way to ,encour- age the 'departure of industrialists or urban re'sitleuts," Dutchfarmers are particulaly successful in mixed. farm- ing and dairying, and the editorial delegation is looking more especially into sectors of the Dominion suitable for such pursuits, and above all where Dutch settlers have already located. Canada has 'already a not insignifi- cant Dutcli population. located for the amain part in the Province of Ontario. In all, Canada has 117,5'06 citizens' : of Dutch birth. There are 50,51,2 in On- tario -A. 20,728' in Manitoba; 16,639 in Saskatchewan; •11,506 in Nova Scotia; l . 9,490 in Alberta; 3,638 in New Bruns- wick; 3;306 in British Columbia; 1,413 in Quebec; 239 in Prince .Edward Is- land! 34 in the Yukon Territory; .grid 1 in the North West Territories. Most Successful Farmers. The Dutch are- successful farmers both in their native land and wheel. transplanted to the 'North America continent. In Holland large flocks of sheep and cattle -are sept, and wheat, oats', barley and rye.:raised, ' ' "whilst Dutch. flax and dairy products are world-renowned. Sugar -beets, tobac- co, and hemp are also grown e`eten- . sively, whilst market gardening antra fruit culture are very profitable and have large followings. 'Wall experi- ence in these diversified ii los of • farth- ing they naturally make good in Can - ada as •mixed farmers. Canada has not been very well known in Holland up to recent years. Of late, however,' ,there has been a' gratifying interest ,exhibited on the part of the Netherlands Government en the possibilities of; ,the. Doihinion for the settlement of the surplus popu- lation of the country. N•ot ,long age the Dutch Settlers' Union issued a. pamphlet giving information: about ag- ricultural' 'opportunities g-ricultural''opportunities . in the Do- minion. This;.is' followed up by the visit of four of the foremost editors of the press' of ,the country, end. Canada can hardly fail to benefit extensively .' from the dissemination of their views upon their return. • g, Plan Prince, ��:e slat of Japan New ` Biological Laboratory The Prince Regent of Japan is spon- sor, for"a new biological labera•tory which 'will be erected i ethe compound of the Akasalta=Impe%isl Palace. The plans for the' laboratory 'are being drawn by the Prince himself, Since he •was' 'a boy the Prince 'Re- gent has bieen Re genthas'teen much interested -iii the study of biology: He began collIecting specimens while='he "was in the prim- `ary grade o Ptie "'Peel's a rch o01 and amassed an important, collection as lie, grew, alder. It was destroyed by fire -.in the Tairanawa palace after the groat` earthquake. He is Said to know the name of every insect and every Alpine plant in Japan. , Ancient Gold Coins Found nd on Banks of Retf'River Gold Coins, some of them ofancient vintage, and jewelled ornaineuts, the Whole probably worth $2,000, were un- earthed froma cache on the banks of the Rod- River, near Winnipeg, by boys playing on this 3,471i, Thein With the extension of iailways, art!ownership is unknown,