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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1931-04-30, Page 3Scientists Seek t t Save. Whale From Extinction Modern Mechanized Ships Threaten End of Species Even in Far -North Refuge 1. group of ecientiflc men have taken the field of defense of the whale and are asking lawmakers to save the whale from total extinction ' at the hands ot whale butchers as prosaic and as efficient as -tine em- ployees of a Modern stockyard. Mod- ern whalers pursue their •luckiest prey in fast steamships, shot them with explosive harpoons, pull them alongside withmachine-driven spring gear and dispose of their carcasses. as efficiently as the stockyard men dispose of a'pig. The whale, being a primeval sort Iof creature at best, 'is quite naturally getting discouraged in the face of 'the&e modern improvements, writee i Haz'oid M. Weeks in "The Mentor- ;World entor-tWorld Traveler." Finding his ranks !getting increasingly thin, he le tak- ing refuge more and more in the polar ice fields. But now .Germans Ian building whale ships even more }mechanized than those in use by the ;Scandinavians, ships equipped with airships to pursue the doomed whale' even into the very heart of the polar I ice. Ali that will be necessary I then will be to drop a bomb on him i and let him lie until the ship can I break through 'at its leisure and pick I up the carcass. Science Needs Specimens The reason all this.worrles the scion - W L TWELVE CENTS The Canadian Wool Co. Ltd. 2 CHURCH ST., TORONTO Your Chief Steward gold stripes zigzag . ® . is Wise in the way aF providing: your person- al comfortb. You'll look Forward to your mealsf-For his menus are designed cape, chilly to satisfy that tee -air appetite. They are based on 91 years of experience in the art of pleasing passengers, eincc 1 $4Q. Salim9 Yld t e wefrom Montreal Cabin rata from t f m '.5130 TowleThird Cabin ....8105 Third Class Round Trip 8155 Special Seasonal Third Class Round Trip Excursion Rats 4129. Information from Cor. Bay and Wellington Sta. (Phone Elgin 3471) Toronto or any steamship agent • •Salt ANCHQit c4 Siete;is that there is a lot pricy deu't know about whalers yet and they want e few specimens left alive for, pule lenses of study, They • knew, ot course, that tate whale "le a mantnal, but they haven't yet figured out haw, being a mammal and breathing through uostrile instead of gills, lie is able to hold his breath below wa- ter for •ltoui•s, Nur can they under- stand how rte is able to withstand the tremendous pressure -far below the surtate where the'atrongeat sub- marines would cave in. like eggshelle. And, since all: mammals must sleep,:, they are interested to learn—wheat- er he does it while under water or floating on the surface. .There are two main dR'isiohs of the whale family, whalebone whales and the toothed whales. The whale- bone variety is most Important in the eyes. of the modern .whale 'but chefs, The toothed whales include Ore poreolse and the great sperm whale, prize of the Yankee whaling days. The "sperm" whale bee uo whalebone in his mouth, (tut strong, sharp teeth, that have bitten *hale. 'boats in 'two. Back in 1819, a ferocious whale at- tacked the wltalealtip Essex and sank her. The crew, took to open hats and three months later seven of them were saved, more dead than. alive. And its 1851 another ugly whale attacked and sank the Ana Alexaaider, though this time the crew had better luck in gettlag picked up. But though it is 'Duly the excep- tional sperm whale that goes ugly, his smaller cousins, the orca or, lciit- ere are ruffians to the last wale. Altltouglt they average not more than fifteen or twenty feet in length and are indeed members, of the - Por- poise family they are as ruthless as gangsters. They will attack the largest whale afloat, hurt themselves directly at his jaws, tear at his lige with their sharp teeth until he open his mouth, rill out his tongue and eat it and then continue to stash at him until he is dead. Whalebone whales many times their size 'get stupefied with, fear whets they see the killers coming and :Hake no attempt to protect themselves, but roll over on their backs and wait for death. The killer is no respecter of mankind, either. He will attack a man just asquickly, if the man happens to be the nearest full meal M sight: But Wren, being more in. tweeted in wealth than revenge, have never bothered with suck small fry as the killers. it Is the big fellows they have gone after. s ----- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself,—Ralph Waldo Emerson, When in Toronto Make Your Home at H tel Ford Bay St., at Dundas St. RATES -••$1.5O fo $2150 Singio Every hotel service in a clean. quiet, fireproof building. 750 rooms. 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But just now I want to say more about another part of flying that exacts its physical toil from the avia- tor --speed dying. In. the Pulitzer race in 1922, when I raced with Lieutenant Maughan, his place reached a speed of more than 200 miles an hour. .lie come down from the gruelling test completely exhausted, and said that at times when the plane was tra- lli Yelling at this then unprecedented speed he was absolutely lost in a haze, On every turn he said he was stunned almost into tlnoonselousness, and at one time he was completely "out" Were it not for that fact that he re. covered almost ,instantly that race would have ended in tragedy. I myself was thoroughly fagged out, and so'I could understand his state of complete enervation, After malting sharp turns flying at fast speeds I have gone "blind." This condition is caused by the blood being dray... from the brain by the sudden turn in direction. While uncomfort- able, it is may a temporary condition, toy when. the ship gets back on an even keel the head clears instantly. The sensation is somewhat like hav- ing a bright sun suddenly dispel a (lark cloud. At the present time the strain of fast flying Is terrific, It Is not only a taY8l aI strain but a nervous strain as When upper i• well. l ntheut er air lanes are fathomed, however, there will be a great change in the status of flying. Earth hound vehicles are restricted in their possibilities .for speed, They travel how as fast as they can within the limits of safety. It is not because they are unable to go faster, but be. cense it is not sate to do so. The ground is covered with living things constantly crossing and recross- ing each other's paths. Too great speed endangers not only the life of The New York"Herald-Tribune: Man will be able to fly, greet dis- tances, at tremendous altitudes and with unheard-of speed, as soon as he can 'train his body, his nerves and his eyes to take advantage of the ma- chinery engineering genius will put at leis disposal, This is my answer to the three ques- tions of how fast? -how high?—how soon?—that are continually being ask- ed by every person remotely interest- ed in aviation. How soon the human machine can be trained aloug these lines still re. mains to be seem. In the light of the achievements of our present-day fly- ers. I would say that the day is not far off. Many records have been broken do recent years. Planes have climbed die, tutees foto the sky hitherto believed impossible. Over 40,000 feet above the earth, man-made machines piloted by human eagles have soared and come down safely. A plane piloted by Squadron Leader ()Heber of the Royal Air Force has melted through the air at a speed of more than 350 miles an hour. And the feat ot remaining in the air for weeks at a time has passed Into the realm of the usual, And to the public asking just how such records affect ,commercial avia- tion, my answer is: d'he whole future of commercial flying as bound up to these experiments. The machinery that has so lightened the work of the fanner was achieved through experimentation. The auto- mobiles that now travel at so swift a pace over our ur roads cum Mom the t o on. t fir uncertain first u ice fain " 0.soIin buggy" o bn " aEteafterg years of hard, gruelling tests, Just so tate airplane of the future will emerge from its .present adolea. cent stage into a thing of now un- dreamed perfection. Nothttig is impossible in connection with eirplanes. Twenty-five years ago the thought of man flying its heavier- than-alr craft was regarded as ridicu- lous, And yet, look what utak has ac- complished. scomplished. He has not Duly learued.to keep him- self aloft, but has been able t0 fly the speeder, but the rest of the world oceans, cote -leer all. sorts of hazards as Well- and even carry on successful warfare' No such condition exists in the air. front the clouds. i The speed limits of the airplane rest What, then, can we not accomplish only on the ability of tate pilot and In the sante amount of time in the fu -1 the worth of his plane and motor. tun? I My opinion is that the pilot is the We can only judge the possibility of; chief Otte to be cousidered in the race future aocomplisiuuents iu the light of for faster air travel. Engineers to -day past ones, and, taking tite last twenty-' can transfer from paper to reality five years of progress as a standard,' faster planes than we are as yet able the vista thet opens out before atm- to By. dents of aviation is practically un.f When man is able to train his body Melted in its scope of possibilities and to steed tits strain, and his senses not pt'obabilities. 1 to give way under the terrific pressure Thine of arising at a fainly early of tremendous speeds and great hour in New York, having breaicfast itotgltts, he will find waiting for him, I and, due to the difference in time, ar-' atm sure, tate plane that will make" 11 riving on time West Coast in tlnle to 1 possible to eat up distance at a pace carry oti a day's Rork( I beside which the present 350 miles an This is not idle dreaming. It Is pos- hour will be but child's play. sible. The great strides aviation has 1 As the airplane industry grows old - made In the last few years bring near- i er, we are oonstautly finding out more er and nearer the possibility of urates being able to bend time and space to Itis will. This fast time, according to scien- tists, wilt be trade in the upper re• glens of the air, The efforts made by flyers to -day to reach the ultiinate ceiling are farmere important than a mere deetre to shat• ter a record: It is up.there, at a height incompre- hensible to the ordinary person, that air laues'tnay be found over which the planes of the future will fly at light. Meg screed, Itis already known that in these up• Der regions there are winds that blow at hundreds of miles an hour, It re- quites no great stretch of the imagine. tion to realize the desirability of a fast plane's- taking advantage of a wind blowing 300 utiles an hour. We knew from Lieutenant OrIebar's record that planes can be flown at more than 300 miles an hour, We also know that titers are swift trade winds iu the upper regions. Euowing these two things, •the next step is to com- bine the two and thus, increase the speed of our flying. These Upper regions Sure every flyer on. They hold mysteries, and at the Kennedy &': Menton 421 College 8t., Toronto Harley-Uav!dson Distributor? Write at once for our bargain lust of used motorcycles. Terms arranged. 1 and more about fuels. It Is amazing, 'in the light of recent discoveries, how Ilittle we really knew at. first about this most important part of flying. Our main struggle tow M to get an I ideal fuel -roue that will weigh less and furnish more power—and to find ' a means 'of ,lubricating the motor .et- ' flciently under all weather conditions. As for the motor's that are being I made to-day—they are marvels of en• gineering construction. They steed up under hours of flying at terride speeds. The motor of the future plane will undoubtedly be better, however, along with the reit of the machine. No matter to what degree of effi- ciency the plane itself is developed, unless we find some way of success- fully combating the lack of oxygen and the low' temperature of the upper regions we Cannot fly there.. The ordinary person cannot—and will hot -travel by air unless it is made comfortable for him. It is our business as pilots and explorers oftho air tc undergo hardships to prove that fast flying is feasible. But we must offer comfort and safety before the world will fly with u • Every one can use his imagination as; to what the all liners of the future will be, what they will look like and whether they can le comfort span the continent in six home, Salome and the capacity of human beings for in- vention will bring these things to us. But no matter whether the coming plane han a hermetically retitled cabin or something else; of one thing I ant sure—all things are possible in the future of aviation, • Owl Laffs .About the beet you ✓can do is to go. straight ahead, working all the time, minding your own business, drinking plenty of water, fighting for fresh air, dodging' motor" cars and hoping for the best. WoUld You? If I thought that a word of nine, Perhaps unkind and: untrue, Would leave its trace, on a loved one's face, ...� I'd never speak 11— Would yon? • If I thought that a smlle;,ot mine Might linger the whole' day thru And lighten some heart with a heavier part, rci not withhold it— Would tWould you? When men in an older day jilted a girl she took it to heart, but now site takes it to court Wits No 999—"And do you love me, your majesty?" lCing Solomon -"f certainly do, my. dear. Why, you are one in a thous- and." _ Three 'days of Spring weather and :Some folks are already kicking about the heat. A young married couple have to pull together to mdke ends meet. Money isn't everything, but it's the only thing, that keeps- breaking from being a crime. Theinstant a mart brings up the subject 0f thrift, his wife demands that he quit smoking cigars and playing golf, The objea. tion to unemployment is that it affects the wrong people. Like fattier, like son—but like daughter and you don't give a darn for the rest of the tateily He -"Just as Burgess and the widow Jones started up the aisle to the altar, every light in the church went out." She—"What did they. do then?" He—"Kept right on going. The widow knew the way." Hely to the. waistline, let the hips fall where they may. Gladys—"After I'd sung my encore, I heard a gentleman from one of the papers call 'Fine! Fine'!" Harry—"Goodness! And did you, have to pay it? Riddles Why is a dog biting his tail a good y, manager? Because he makes both ends meet. What is the difference between a butcher and a flapper? Ono dresses to kill and the ether kills to dress. What sleeps in the daytime and flies around at night? A bel, Sometimes youngsters display an amazing grasp of popular ideas. Like the little boy who vas asked by his mother recently: 14fotlter•—"Were you a good little boy at school to -day?" The Son—"Yes, tnantma, I didn't get caught once." When your wife leaves home don't stake the mistake of suggesting that site take along some fiction to while away the time—You'll write her that lito r letters. Y U e s. Jud6e—"Y on. stole egge fro m this -tan's store. Hive you any excuse?" Accused—"Yes, I took them by mis- rudge—"}low is that?" Accused -"I tholtgiit they were fresh." Tite teason a Septet' bagpiper walks up and down when playing the pipes Is because it is always harder to hit a lnovillg target. Prague Fair Attracts Buyers from 37 Nations Prague. —. Moderate optimism was tate keynote of the spring exposition of the Prague International Fair which ended recently. Although many de• partmettts of industry still work at re- duced speed, ledtcatlous are that the turning point has been primed. Siack- ness may still exist for several months but a progressive, if slow, recovery is geuerally expected, Czecho-slovakia r -as been less severely hit by the de' presulou titan most industrial riatione, The fair usually provides an excel- lent barometer for measuring Czecho- slovakia's industrial pulse. It as- sembled 2,987 exhibitors, of whom 130 were foreign. Jugoslavia, Austria, holland, Latvia and France were offi- cially represented, while England, the Milted States, Germany and India were represented by private com- panies.. The number of buyers was 423,000, coming from thirty-seven countries, Another proof of the im- portance of the fair is being found le the total space occupied, it being given as about 450,000 square feet. Austria,0Tngoslavia, Rumania, Ger- many and Poland were the chief buy- ers. - Cowslips A ratan ranged cowslips on a stall, and wondered how many he should' give for a penny. - - And another man, passing, caught the gleam and odour of them, and had a vision of a blue valley touched with gold, and April scattering' desultry rains.—By T. W. H. Crossland, Taken from "Theyirhite Wallet Filled by Pamela Gray." tt w VI 232 iCE LE, ®Rea.Lalwel a eoe COW Fighting P?Ilan t��(° .t� y BABY k, .t:(SS—I S SitiLVAR- A ' 1 tA'1'1D,i, "'e and up, latalogaet �� �t e lant d free. n, 55, Switzer. Granton, Ontario, Classified Advertising EAST OEIOKS "Queen ` of Alps 'Crowned Annually in Combats Ar- ranged by Herdsmen Each nation has its sport. Spain has its bullfights; China its cricket duels; Hayti"11 cockfights. Likewise cow fights are favorite sport among the peasants of the Alpine cantons of Switzerland, says "The Pathfind- er." A long. series of ellminatiou fights are held to determine which cow shall be the champion of each cans ton and finally to decide which one shall became "Queen of the Alps" for the season. Only the canton "We ,are not what we think we champions are permitted to partici- are, but rather what we appear to be pate in the final bouts. In the eyes of others.' Tits center of this interesting sport is the Canton of Valls, high in tate Alps in southern Switzerland,, This region was the original home of Swiss cheese and its inhabitants de- pend largely on their dairy industry for a livelihood, Just as soon as the arrow Jas melt- ed on the slopes of the mountains in the spring the .herds of cows are re- turned to their pastures. Here and there among the mountains are tiny pasture villages. The cottages are opened when the cowherds arrive with their cows and provide shelter until fall. During the winter the huts are covered with show. Candidates for the cow .fighting .clampionship are selected Froin the herds just before they are started for their summer pastures. The owner of a herd usually selects sev- eral likely cows for this purpose. Sunday is the favorite day for the bouts. When the weather is nice hundreds and even thousands of peo- ple front the towns go out to see these Swiss cows contend lot• tate proud title, "Queen of the Alps." It is more than just a fight between a few cows. The people make a gala occasion of It. They tiring their lunch with then and gather ou the hilltops for a glorious picnic. As the tows battle in the forum the spectators cheer wildly. Of course there is some betting, but generally on a small scale only. The Swiss farmers Insist that the cows are sensitive animals and take considerable pride in winning the laurels of the day. Like race horses the signi- ficance seem to understand s Yg ficance of the occasion, The cows selected for the contests have large horns and frequently tete clash be. tween two good fighters is terrific. As n rule a bout floes not last more than Mean or twenty minutes. In that time one of tite otlter of tate cott- testauts routs its opponent. There le a real purpose behind• title odd sport, The Duke of Wellington is credited witit having said that the battle of Waterloo was won on the football field at Oxford. He spoke figuratively, of course, and meant that the superior training of the English in sports enabled the British army to defeat the French, The Swiss farmers long ago learned that certain cows were braver and strong- er titan others and took pride in pro- tecting the herd front dogs or other enemies, • The cow fights were organized to train cows for this purpose: A de- feated con' is said to feel humiliat- ed but the victor is a real queen. 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