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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-8-4, Page 3Crossing the Sahara hy Motor Lorries Some pieneer tramped Wok recent eoblelee, and its purpose WAS the 66- . ly carried out by the French govern- tahliehelent of naeellee and OOPPlY stetlene for an experintental air route of needy 2,000 mllee that the Frouch government had decided to (Well. Also hl thie mune the only change.' ef the penance, mule in the motor lorrie6. was amt their front wheels had been equipped with double pneumatic tires, to give better tractlen In the sand unit better auspenslon over the reeky por- tions of the, Itinerary. The outward ney into the desert wee a successful Journey et 1,864 miles, durleg whice trip, anti Alfeblii was reached, this airmaftesupply stations were estate oases being halfway between Algiera, leahee at Inifel, Insane and Tamanrae- on the Mediterranean ewe and Thu- set, Wee completed without fecident, buktu, on the Niger. The seven tor- and the latter pont was reached one ries of this convoy were of the typo month after the etart The return trip used by the alters during the war, and or this second motor caravan was wore fitted with open beelee, the only made under Mueller condition% but deviation teem the standard practice with the vehicles carrying 'a reduced being ,the special Sitting of the wheels load. ' in Greer to overcome the tendency of The two ped0l-mance/3, while prim - the vehielee to bed in the sand and erily to the credit of the vehicles also to provide- better cushioning over dertaking It, showethe Important role the rocky parttime of the route. which motor Merles may 4112.y in open - At the best, the reed was only a lug up aerial routes garotte treekless camel trace, but, frequently this die - appeared entirely, and the first motor caravan succeasfully to invade the Sahara had to travel over Maddest/ sands alternating withrocky surfaces. The moral result of this first sum ceeistul undertaking was to overcome the skepticism pre -yelling in official circles as to the ability of niechancal- ly propelled, vehicles to accomplish *nth a Journey. The second convoy, starting from the suburbs of Algiers in July, 1920, reacted Tamanrasset, in the depth of the Sahara Desert. It, consisted of 23 ment provided further evidence of the capabilitiee of the ruedern buslueee motor vebiolo to traverse country that before the war would have been de- clared impessable to muter cars. In the instance under review the country twice travereed was the Fla- liara Desert, In February, 1919, 'dart- ing from Colonthdeelthar, the filet 1our- countriee. Nowhere in the world can be found transportation- difficulties of the kind. encountered in the Sahara Desert, and so innumerttble and varied are the obstacles met with, that it has been thought entirely impracticable for wheeled transport. That this wan an epoelemaking achievement cannot be doubted, and it it not beyond the range of poesibility that it marks the beginning of a new tranaportatlan eystem over trade routes' that have thitherto peen travel- ed exclusively by camel caravans. Bits of Canadian News. A. course, imp/feting a general know - Vans of learning le one of the most striking features. of Canadan life." Tho branebes of the Canadian char - ledge of 'negation and drainage, has tend banks may reach a total of five been added to the curriculum of the I thcusand in the present year. The University of Alberta, The engineer- last figures available are theme for ing aspects of irrigation will not be May 1, and these show that the banks touched upon to any great extent, but had in all 4,912 separate offices, leav- the student's studies will be confined ing a balance of 88 to be opened to to the hietary of irrigation, kinds or ' make 5,000. irrigation, source of water, measure.' e. e ment and distribution of water, and Filming a Looping Aeroplane. chain -der of water used and its eltect ; upon sail and' crops, ete. No other I The ingenuity of the modern IlIm camera -man is seldom put to greater Canadian educational Institution has test than when he has to climb into previdusly offered mimes which t covered tbe field al irrigation. , he clouds in an aeroplane and secure 1 t f adventures in Everything ;mints to a record apple carp in British Columbia this year, mie-adr. Aircraft diving, looping ,and sele- cted. 11 nothing happens to hamper ndng at over a hundred miles an hour grewth, the prairie markets areRe- mixed ef n good eupply of high grade . have to be kept in the focus of a nar- row lens, a feat which requires an al - allele% according to J. A. Grant, Bri- row lens, Columbia Fruit Cemmissioner for most instinctive sense to make It pus- esible to anticipate the ICON emeuts of Alberta. Mr. Grant estimates that the machines. five tipmeand care of apples will be I Pathe, a notedm col pa y, 0119- shipped out of British Columbia this i ploy an exellYing efacer for the pur- year, which is an increase of nearly , , pose of obtaining mid-air thrills for 100% ever last yeara output. I the screen. Recently, this camera -man Point Gray (Vancouver)1011 Vic- obtained what is the first complete tone wireless - stations have been in ieop by an aeroplane in mid-air se - communication with the High River, ' eared by the Illm camera. Many hun- Alberta, air station. This is the first deeds of feet of film were wasted be - time Canadian wireless plants have fore the perfect result was registered. been In communication across the On one occasion the camera -man mountains, dived in his aeroplane on another ma- Polley:lag the lead set by Sesetatehee chine epinning earn/war/Is-et one hun- wan, Manitoba has appointed a repre- Bred and fifty miles an hour, and der- sentativo in London, England, to Ing this dizzy descent had to gauge ac - select women and girls from Great curately, the whole time, the exact Britain suitable for household work. The first party of women, numbering 35, destined for Manitoba, Is sailing this month. Sydney harbor ranked first in the speed at which to turn the handle of has camera. The Horse's Joke. Have horses a sense of humor? A South"AmerIcan dector has one which is said to be fend ot a practical joke. Visiting a farmbouse, he tied the animal to a post near syhich hung a rope attached to a large bell used as a dinner signal for the workmen, Then he went In to see his patieet. A. few minetes later the bell rang violently. The doctor looked oat, lint could see nothing. Again the bell rang, At tee third ring the doctor WORLD'S CHAMPION BUTTER PRODUCER o Bella Pontiac, 46321, holes the world's record for butter production for one Year and 'Moo for two years. Cat June 28t11 she coMpleted a year's teat with 1987,50 Ilia. butter and 27,191 lbe. milk to her ereelit. In two consecutive years she made 2,606.25 lb% butter. These tests were bold under govern- ment sapervision. Tho cow is owned by Thos. A. Barron, Brantferd, 001. SHARK INDUSTRY OF BRMSH COLUMBIA WILL' PAY WHOLE -DEBT OF THE PROVINCE. Many Substances and Articles Derived From Huge Fish— Absolutely No Waste. Catching sharks in the mud between two islands in the Gulf of Georgia about twenty miles distant from the City al Vancouver, British Columbia, is the employment of the A.B.C. Com- pany, and a week's catch recently totalled 80 sharks, with an average weight. of ono and one quarter tons each. Mr. J. J. Kerr, of Victoria, the capi- tal of British Columbia, talks inter- estingly about the industry, pointing out that the possibilities in the shark products .inclustriet3 aro tremendous on the North Pacific coast. Mr, Nelson 141actionalci of 'Vancouver Island, is of the cpinien that if the shark industry were well organized and financed there would be enough money in it, c, 'thin a short time, to pay the whole debt of the Province of British Colum- bia, "There are millions of Mimics in these North Pacific waters," says Mr, Macdonald, " d there wili never be a shortage of them. The further north you may go the more sharks you will fine, and from Vancouver to Alas- ka are their feeding grounds. Taking them from the bottom of the sea is automatic. Norway has a hundred of such industries; in fact, the only real hook for catching them works on a swivel and comes Prom Norway, as does also the so-called 'Cod Liver 011' which invades the markets of the world; it is really shark liver oil, manufactured in Norway." In the shark plant, when the huge fish is being turned into so many sub- stances and articles, there is absolute- ly no waste. Various Processes and Eli -Products. Business men from Vanceuver, Vic - tan% Seattle arid other North Pacific seaport eitie% sat around a table in Victoria, Vancouver Islaue, recently, where a firm from Seattle eltowed the ,varlous processes through which eharke passed and the results attained in glue, leather, fertilizer and other marketable and needed products. The bead of the shark is full of glue of a highly valuable quality. The bodies make a finer fish meal than any other made. .A.8 a fertilizer it is superior to dog-ilsh because in the shark carcasses there Is only two per cent. of oil, while in the dog -fish, oil is so plentiful that it takes an exPen- sive chemical meows to separate it from the body. The fins are much prized by the Chinese as a food delicacy, and Orien- tals in Vancouver pay as much us $3.00 a pound for it. The liver contents run from 60 to 70 per cent. of finest oil, of which about ten per cent. is glycerine. The' teeth are In great demand and fetch a high price for the making of ornaments. The few bones go into the fertilizing part of the industry. The hides are of the greatest in- tere,st to the manufacturer. Several companies have been formed, and much research work has been done iu connection with their poesihnities. At the meeting a Scuttle company showed a large number of shark hides in every stage of tanning, :Many af the men assembled were "leather men" and they fingered tee products carefully, and satisfied themselves that the leather buzieesr vas entering the initial stage of making up oods of which, heretofore, they bad had no coneep on, The shark hides run from an inch in thickness in the older fish to the con- sistency of paper lu the baby shark. Soles of boots, leather for the finest suede awes, a black pigineuted pro- duct that would make club bags of most lasting quality, uncrackable lengths of leather that outstripped any patent leather ever made, and which the leather shoeme-n said was the fin- est they bad ever seen, were among the goods exhibited, and the thought of all this material right at hand was a revelation to men who lad known there were sharks, but thought of Blest Are the Ways Blest are the ways those who know of sorrow just their share, And those who have with other hearts v,.bit a fret to bear, For they shall be as humans are and not as gods may be, Rejoicing in life's simple gifts of bird and flower and tree,' Blest are the ways of those who walk content of heart and mind To see as much am they should see, be blind where love is blind; Just happy mediums in the strife that pecks a all in time, And sweet with love for sweets of life that bloom in laughter's clime. Blest sore the ways of those who dream and those who waking feel • 'rile beauty of the dreaming world upon their spirits steal; Who cannot hate nor be wijust, so balanced end so strong They find behind the hardest heart a bit of tenderest song. Famine in Russia. Faethie and peel/Ile/See 99098 (leen the Iteele of drought in RUSSIA ie mite that tortured country ei lend Of hicletem eightmare. Hines ee clistreee heve been eaming Slut et Ruesia for menthe part, eat so skeptleal Is 111e mat of the world pleat lie being pose 'sibie to know what Is really going on there that these hint* have been re. eeived withmore than a green of SUS. pielon, It somas, however, as though we have come to the paint when) We meet believe. From German SOUVCOS coffice the newe that e0,000,000 per - pans ere on the verge of starvatian in the drought-stricicen sled:lone, sub- sietinsr main'y on mese, grass and the bee* of trees. Refugees aro re. /Mini fete elotteow and portedpo g the thollSnnds. Ph there only as a peat lo seven/nem and I A New University Course. ir,aerterTedll‘leertbhy, destroyers of marketable flab, ing up great creviees and streams are Town -planning-, or "city Methods of Operation. Surgery," swallowed up. Further details are In Seattle, hiphoots from shark is el -le latest extension Course EV- roloyod out of mosow by Nmy of hides are being made, wed one Van- winged by the University of Toronto.1 thus affording confirmation f or 'the Riga, "elver boot steseer has boon using This course is offered during the two, German ii.dvices. From them. we shark leather for boots. Finer grades weeks, January 9th to 21st, 1922, °ad' learn that plague of locusts of the tanned leather are item" for up- will be broth intensive and compreheni has emended on the Kelm holstering, colored and eta/need; It is sive, It has been evitiated by Pro -i oy feasor Adrien Berrington of the De- tr ngthe crop n T Turkestan re - awl Bleck Sea provinces-, de - ever -wearing and rich to look upon. lief from the drougte is reported The .outer akin, or "shagrin," must partment of Architecture who is an come off In the 'first place, and a pro- expert as well as an enthusiast ini through heavy rains, but therm have the eobjoct of municipal improvement. only_ added another chapter of her - Professors 3. A. Dale, R. M. Mac- ewe because they beive flooded and Ivor, W. M. Treadold, and probably destroyed the irrigation works, iuter.. others, will co-operate; and emelt subs rupting rail communication, end the jests as housing and homing' Ole' local authorities have been obliged satellite city, road, ran and waterways, I to appeal to Moscow for aid. Miele self-control, vital statistics, the As we have understood it over here, ef town, the rural regions of Reseda have been one ef the greatest propertiee of the biology and the anatomy shark hide, Thio texture is woven economic aspects of housing and tewn-1 able to stand more or less alin° from tilotanuriainVed The7Vesiantgi011a,rglmhat'aips ed1u:eap-' the political defficulties that have beset the land. Indeed, deseetiseae- reading, roaels and pavements, will be; tion with the plans of Lennie and dealt with. 1 Trotzky upon the part of the agri- In the present stage of Canada's; eulturists leas seemed to be ane of development the expert' in town andi the largest Tacks that has threatened city planning is ergently needed.; the bark ,af Bolsheviem. If the h.and toss has been successfully developed which takes tide away. It has the exact propertiee of sand -paper of the rough variety, For very fine work on woad polishing, the "shagrin" of the baby shark cannot be excelled. Ina derneath, a section torn off reveels and Interlaced as if by a machine, and its extraordinary durability has never before been known in any leatter. It takes fifteen days of specialized process to turn out shark leathers, and six months, or more, treatment to pre- pare sole leather. Some at the thinnest hides puzzled Town-plenining commissions and civic of necessity has now been laid upon the gentlemen at the table, they were guilds are at work in many towns and' this class, Which was let alone be- st/ transparent looking, and yet so cities. Here is the opportunity for the cause that part of it 11101 was ac - strong that nothing like them had acquirement of the necessary tech ecssible to tee centres of political in - been inspected in the experience of Meal knowledge, Municipal autheri-, fluence had the food which officialdom experts. These were made from the ties will not be slow to see that tome neetlei for iteelf end the content of stomachs of Omits, and can be work- of their employes take advantage of the people, we ;,re likely te hear of ed up into beautiful cloths, being soft the offer of the Provincial Univers' a new adjeetment ill inteenal eliairs. and pliable. sity. The course is, it is hoped, the 1 A starving nation mum- I 1.:(.1.) its - Mr. Nelson Macdonald looks forward I first of a series of such ennui' eourees trod/les to itself. If ;t le neseeeary tu a thee. in the not distant future, 8313, perhaes, of a permanent end re -1 for the wt.rel to ge to elle aid of when Britieh Columina will have as gular curriculum in this inspertant Ithesia, as it hue gene a) tee eel of way if not more shark catching and eubjeet 1 China., it will eo so Wit:IV-1_4 heeita- . ma uuelet urine p111110 as Norway, service to the peeler ie the great lien in the name of leananey. In "Here they exe right ut our Western prinelpie pf the Univeisity of Tore Ibis ease the time will alley with it v. lima wainzeg to be made /we of, and onto. P., has 333neethieg, ef value to' lend ef reware. fee 110 1 :neer will the , the Mamas ie going to develop into offer to every .itizen 1.1 eety, town, or country that has le/feral 9') ''r the one of gicat magultude and many del- rural dletree. Anyone interested will, oppreseion of the Cztet 4 9.11 1 1101V suf- lars." he placed on tle.> University's mail-, fers uneer the cepicea't 11 (1' 'e- s - hie Het. on request, and will receive! oselutionary leeeers be vele to shemel Swatting Flies for a Living the various bulletins ane. announce -e itself behind a veil es imilete es the --' mente outlining rew developments 1 olden veil of the teniele. There will feom linie to time. Write the Director be light in Ruseia. In the swareey dietriets of Mexico Oil -Hunger. The world is eil-laingry. It is look fly resembling the Englieh bluebottle. 11 19 quite a remarkable fact in these .erswe toward the teees.nows almn the The blark mud barbers hordes of days. '''"Y'l an English "ew'll'al'er• when known and developed ficeee \i11 be these insects. we are all hoping for a still closer ! near exhaustion. 011 figenes in The weapons of the hunter are a friendship between the Mated States : dee.oease t y and it may figure ie wma. large, iinameshed net and a bag to and Britain, that the national anthem , ' Airplanes are to be weed in search - carry the "catch." of the States., "My Country, 'Tis of .0 a g for oil-fle'd possibilities in the As soon as they are disturbed, the Thee,' is sung to the same tune as 1 Amazon flies- Ilse in dense masses. strike right and left, and as quickly as he swings the net the flies are The bunter "God Save Our Gracious Ring." not the significance of the origin of 1 But, although this is a fact, It has i 1 British are back of the move. i Wherever there is hope of oil a Britisher is there or just coming up e horizon. jutiglee. The ferehanded caught and transferred to the bag, that song which reaches the heart of over oh_ man and svo- Hundreds of small boxes are ar- every linglIsh-"seaktIllg From Edmonton, two "seout planes" ranged in a. convenient epot, 'led se mau, "Home, Sweet Home," have been sent 1400 miles north written hy an American, John Howard 'heir ciesti . ti 11 ithi tbe 1 Arctic Circle. They carried eight pas - a wooden plunger, As the boxes are I sengers, equ pmen o 5. filled, the plunger is squeezed down and music might have grown together ; The MI is there, oil which does not and then subjected to heavy pre/wire, in the garden of some beautiful soul to i se): ee . , i condi/snug atot rge2lidweleeresepobrer zero, ac - Next day a solid, congealed cake oe produce so lovely a flowerirkoif song. ' presses' flies is removed front the box, There is another striking faille ''' The Britishers are not worrying as exposed for a time to the fierce sun- about this song --the man who wrote yet about getting it tack to civilieat- shine, and the ilyeakes are then ready ' the wards never had a home to call tion after the predilection is started'. for packing and exportation to every port In the world as bird -food, the chief ludo y the greater part of the native population: le hueting of Unlveisity Exteneion. ales. An Anglo-American Song. le s 4 mp. . • ing-plate of a spenee of large black fast as the fly bags are brought in they The miraculous thing is that it was searching for They have reached Payne, end composed by an English.' live stock exported to other countries hunt resumed. Each bcx is fitted with by the water route. This year ship- ments of live stock will even exceed those of past years if the present rate of expert keeps up. Thirty dollara for &bushel oe wheat! That is what W. S. Lowman, of North Dakota, paid for a bushel of Early Triumph seed wbeat purchased frona "the Wheat Wizard," Seeger Wheeler, of Rosthern, Saslmtchewan. There were express charges of $3.00 1n ad- concealed himself behind a tree le the ditien, Mr. Wheeler has figereil yard end kept a watch on the bell - among the top prize winners In wheat exhibits for years at the International agricultural exhibitions. Dominion ,of Canada for amount of are emptied into tte boxes and the man, Sir Henry Bishop; yet words with i t r drillin 44....4141m.414444. ompagemmaaranoimesammsrmamooramea nope, Then, to his astonishment, ho saw his horse lfft up its bead, seize the There are now seventy-five rural rope between its teeth, and give It a credit societies in Manitoba, seven- violent pull. After that, the doctor teen uew ones having been organized sprang out and faced the animal, since the end of the fiscal year last 'which put on n look of complete in- Nevember, according to C. Gifford, nocence. eupervisor. Leann granted total 91,- Poking ,hia nose into a basket in 640,000, which is about 967,000 'less which a eat lay curled up, the same than last season. horse got a nasty scratch tram pussy Canadians have twenty-two smiversi- ites and forty-three colleges. In addi- tion they have nearly 30,000 elemen- tary -schools, with 22,000 teachers, and have an enrolment of nearly 1,500,000 alleila. Lent Burnham, Chairman of the Imperial Press Conference, said: "Canada's achievement in its institu- err his pains. The animal, taking care- ful aim, kicked cat and basket shy high and then trotted off with a low cleckle of glee. A good place to judtge 'a woman's beeety and a man's disposition is at the breakfast table. dye' Walt Mason THE FICTION SOLACE. Time never drags along with me; my days are bright as days can he. When 1 have done my daily teak I get a book and loll and bask in comfort in my easy date, and bid good -by to every care. The rain may fall, the wind may blow, there may he nineteen kinds of SCOW, the storm fiend may be an a tau, but I don't care a single hoot. To -morrow may have griefe to burn, some new distress at every turn; but future woe can't make me quail, fen I've a line Jinecorking tale, of camps and courts and bygone kings, anti awords and guns and kineree things. And I am living iu a clay that's dim with. dust and far away, and I forget while reading thus the work -day world with all its fume and all its problems and its ills, its taxes and its doctor bine, I know eo many friends who yawn when evening briers are drawing on, they know net how they'll kill tee time, 101)586 drag- ging gait appears e crene. They're tired of everything in right; there's not a thing to do at night; they're tired of gee% to the shows, and clubdom hes its erouthy 100819, they're thee rf cards and erokinole, Mid there is sorrow in each soul. 13.1111 so they gasp and groan and yawn, while I read on, and on, and on. - asaesee- es -see, I ehoulen'1 be beaten by is mere hem" . tri•eta veacciesnr•Ira.o.l.comonlopillun..a.--c.enar.beaelraurssacztn...,,,x,,ire*.k.sa, REGLAR FEI .1 .LRS—By Gene Byrnes A Brave Man. With a wail of distress see threw 111 1-4190' ex . prove and make ready for develop - heart -binding seug earned into every the horrible thing tiara her. It was meet against that day when known Continent by the ubiquitous Scot, too tnuch----too much! elds are abandoned and the nation sire, "Ade Lang Syne." When songs of Her reeeetly acquired 'nu which controls new sources oe sups ''''''' bate are all buried in the deepest pit heard her eubs, ami rushee into tee ply will be in a dominant position. ' of oblivion these songs of love and kitchen. The Britisher mimes of the long- friends/lip will remain. -What fe it?" he iieltal teilerty, as 1118 CUM, 10esense. Nor are they everrynig thus far over defer on the earth, a rolling stone, bringing.ail out of the paithee,ss, reek - "Ham% Sweet Home" is truly the mg South American eungles, national anthem of the English -speak- , Their concern just now is to locate, lie drew Ler to his lteeeie. 'I can't ea she cried -I can't Ole Lees:ea mane -lolls' ea they levee do ft!" fin , private /Lee, are frequently headed Nordic stork, arid he is prov- leg it in the' worlda oil game. Homes for Our Orphans. shv pcin.:141. to a few; which lay.on t'".,u..iin‘nf.,d,.h,, Ind o'f‘ bcugbt by caula. latent reserves in baby is in a childless home end net The proper place for a friendless "Get ;Seat 'helm/ 1911911L' A light ce 198114' theme le the the weeeser es in an institution. It has been demon- nenes cees as he relied up his 1)9?".. 1, aiseeate jetereasease nen 51r4'.',1"0,re.. • etrated hundreds of times that if a tecicitel cite 1,efore, but , homeless infant is given hell a chance "I'll thi it!" lie 0::)0C.I. "l'T::, 9150019 i dlit.'F., the danger Stem grow fires mei that if I can tele lee metermav to liete 1 eel -.leek men in the ettermandierg dis- seems to 111V ' is. 9 f grtat ineeieearee to the farmers it will soon make an assured piece for itself in the affeetitms of some goal woman. The trouble vs, our homeless babies are in concentration vamps in big cities in/stead of in the little vil- lages and cosy country places eviler° they would likely be epereciated, Recently a childeeses institution was moving from one building to another and they bad a five ter six months' old infant that they dee not care to have go through all the excitement of flitting. A woman in the suburbs was asked to hoard the child for a fortnight and this she reluctantly commuted to ao. When the time came for the baby to go back to the institu- tion, the woman let it get a0 far as the door and then. completely broke down end begged! to adopt it as her ewe. The 19051.111 18 that the baby is now peanumently and satisfactorily provided for. This is variable of re. petition. Social Workersare well Ade vied in welting out proper foster ----a----- 1 11.011109.. If ace enjoy your work, do net re- tire, but keep on with it. Teethe:meet -de niwaye erste your bodily end mental 'health adversely. ifrs k5 -rtif\-c- so? siNvi BOX 1\1•1' \ VCR:H(140AV". AN' 0.% Cok01 SUP Alq PC-n.R.KVAlter MARcEt. WAVE TVW:Alf.