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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1931-09-03, Page 3ich an. tidy Building T itam ns Made in Canada by rhe Makers of Velveeta and Kraft Salad Dressing Greenland Guards Geology Secrets. Though Depths of the lee Cap Have Been Sounded, a Vast Land Area is Unknown Fixing the depth of the Greenland mike at Ivigtut.Ss not only one of the ice cap at 8,850 feet, as the German most northerly mines in the world but scientific group recently did by sonic also the only place at 'which cryolite depth soundings, has . solved a puzzle occurs in commercial quantity. The which has perplexed investigators royalties on it go far 'to pay the ex sineo the earliest days of Arctic ex- penses of government. The Eskimos ploration, writes Russell Owen, in the called it "ice which woul&not melt in N.Y. Times. Greenland has turned out Summer." It is, miner: in an open pit to be a rim of .mountains encircling a right on the edge of a fjord, and ap- bowi of lee. It is an anachronism, a pareutly the supply is sufficient to last survival of the Ice Age relatively close indefinitely. It is used largely in the to civilization. - metallurgy of aluminum. The. known geology of Greenland Greenland will probably never be has always been meager, as is natural exploited commercially, not only be - le. a .country of which only one-sixth cause of the meagerness of its ore de. is not covered by,ice. It 1s a much posits, but also because of its climate larger land thanisusually realized, and the desire of the Danish Govern - for it covers an area of 827,000 square went to keep out all influences which miles, as big as France, Germany, will harm the natives. It will remain, Spain, Poland, England and Hungary however, one of the greatest scenic put together. spots in. the world, and of continual In its southern part the mountains interests to•acientists. rise from the sea and fold atter fold of them extends back many miles un- NeW Heat! For "MOUntieS" til they are overwhelmed far inland by the ice cap. But further north the Ottawa.—After forty-five, years in inland ice pushes out More and prore the service Colonel Cortlandt Starnes until it becomes difficult to tell where has retired from the command of the, glacier ice ends and sea ice begins, Royal Cauadl&n •Mounted Police, form - and where for many miles the entire erly known as the Royal Northwest coast line is ice, the mountains are Mounted. He' is granted a pension completely hidden beneath the white with the rank of Major General, and crust. During the great lea .Age all of goes into private life with a distin- Northern Europe and also Canada and guished record of service in a unit the Northern United States were cow- which has a unique tradition. ered with a vast shield of ice, which Colonel Starnes is succeeded as has left its traces all over the land. In Chief Commissioner by Major Gen. J. Greenland this shield /remains, held. in Ii. MacBrien, a veteran of the South by the mountain rim. African war and the World. War, It was notalways a cold country; former chief of the General Stail, in fact, it was probably semi -tropical Canadian Department of National De - at one time, tor fossils indicating that reuse, and still later president of the have been Lound, and it has coal beds Aviation League ot Canada, which supply the local inhabitants. The retired Commissioner joined The mountains, at least in the north, the force in 1886 as en inspector, and were much higher than they are now. advanced on merit through all the ranks to the chief command. He had personal acquaintance with all phases of the multiplex duties of the mount- ed Police, They patrol the interna- tional frontier, keep -peace and order in the vast sub -Arctic region, and maintain posts on the shores of Hud- son Bay, in the Yukon, en Herschell Island oft the mouth of the Mackenzie River, and on some of the Arctic is- lands. They represent Canadian authority among the native Eskimos and their record in the prevention and the detection of criminals has made them.famous throughout the world. A Chain of Islands These mountains extend westward to Grinnell Land, and eastward they run as a submarine ridge across to Spitsbergen.' and then down through Bear Island to the north of NorwaY and `form the Scandinavian chain which continues through Scotland. So the upper part of Greenland is linked geologically to Europe. But all around the edge of the island the mountains rise majestically from the sea, not always of great height, but coming as they do directly from sea level they are most beautiful and im- posing. Fold after fold they Pass back into the interior until theiee swallows them, and tiny peaks, the tops of large mountains, peep through the cruet as small snout hills or nunataks. Finally they also disappear and only the level ice is left before the traveler. When the Ice Age came on the land a little snow collected in these inland valleys and did not melt. It was add- ed to year by year until the valleys filled and the snow overflowed the lover peaks. Under pressure it be- came ice and then !lowed outward through the fiords, making the gla- ciers, of which there are 200 in Green- land. "Only the man who has traveled for weeks day after day along the inland ice without seeing land can rightly appreciate the nature of the Ice Period," says Koch. "The first thing which impresses one 11 the enormous dimensions with which one mustreck- on. The landscapes, which with their big fjords and huge mountains' seem so large front the sea, now le far be- neath the spectator as narrow rims of The Two Roads When he was young and days were full and bright, Ho came through every kind Of youth- ful fight • By winning well. No praising word his many friends would speak, But someone came and whispered he was weak, • And so he fell. When he was frail and bled by sor- row's pain Aud shunned the fight and would not face again A hill so long, There came a voice, as if from hope- ' less grave, -. That called hint strong and said that 'he was brave, And he was strong. —Cabal Bradley, in Songs of a- Com- mercial Traveller. Daybreak in a Garden land, quickly disappearing, to give I beard the farm Docks crowing, loud, room for a perfectly even snow Diehl/and faint, and thin, A journey across this from north to When hooded night was going and one south would be as long as from Cop- clear planet winked: enhagen to the Sahara, and during this I heard' shrill notes begin down the journey the landscape would not alter Spired wood distinct, for a single instant. Nowhere would When cloudy shoals were chinked and one see land; infinite as the sea lies gilt with 'fres of day, n life is 'represented the snow field, and P White -misted was the Weald; the neither by animal nor plant. Even lawns were silver-grey; the Sahara has its oases, between The lark his lonely field for heaven which men and animals move about; had forsaken; but here le nothing but snow—this ie And the wind upon its way whispered the region on earth most inimical to Iife." Win Honors 1 Fair Percheron filly bred by Canadia n Pacific Ry. experimental farm at Tilley, Alta,, which was reserve grand champion at recent summer exhibi- tion at Regina. Bird Orphans ®f the Wood At this time of the year the woods and fields 'are' full 'of young birds; some of these have survived many en- counters with enemies, and aro becom- ing wiser each day, but many more have fallen a prey to the wild animals. "Out of every dozen of small wood- land birds which leave their nests, writea Oliver G, Pike, F.Z.S., in Tit - Bits, "I doubt if more than three sur- vive to rear families of their own." They Never Forget Birds and mammals which have many enemies usually rear a large number of young; the small insect - feeding birds are very prolific, the tits have large families; in our garden we have had two broods of nine rear- ed, but a few days after these families left their nests, there were seen to be only two or three youngsters, waiting on the trees for food, The jays, magpies, and hawks are on the look -out for these baby birds by day, and as soon as they have gone to roost, another batch of enemies ap- pear to drag them from their roosting places. Dozens of these young birds will sit in prominent places during the day waiting for their parents to bring food, then, when night approaches, in- stead of hiding their plump young bodies among the thick leaves of the hedges, they just tuck their heads in- to their feathers and go to sleep, with the result that a pasaing awl is only too pleased to find such an easy meal: But if one of these inexperienced Youngsters manages to escape, it will never make such a mistake again, and the next night will see it hidden cun- ningly in a thick bush. Blackbirds, thrushes, and many other species of birds rear several broods durtug the spring ant summer; a very few days after the young leave the nest the parents allow them to look after themselves, and it is these little orphans of the wilds that so of- ten come to greif. The rooks, crows, ravens, and birds of prey rear one'. brood only, and when they take their young into the fields they spend weeks' and sometimes months, in teaching their young alt the wiles of woodcraft. Such birds survive longer than those which have had no training, and we find that the higher the bird is in the scale of intelligence, the fewer young it rears, I have watched a eat stacking a baby thrush; the cat sprang, but only suc- ceeded in pulling out a bunch of tail feathers. That bird learnt a lesson that it would never forget, and I doubt if ever agate it would allow a cat to get near enough to spring. - If we examine these birds . which have lost their parents, we fled many of them are cripples; some have to carry on with one leg; the other has been taken in a trap, but having es- caped they will probably live all the longer for the experience. Clever Babes The cleverest orphan birds, how- ever, are the -warblers, who remain a few weeks with their parents, then, with uo birds to guide them, they launch out on a journey of three or four thousand miles, and in rams mys- terious manner actually find their way to the country their parents will reach weeks later. The young cuckoo has rather a try- ing time after its foster parents give up feeding it; most young birds. follow their parents after they leave the nest and so discover where their food is to be obtained, but the lazy cuckoo re- mains in one spot and allows ether birds to wait upon it. The result is that when it is left to itself it has little idea where to• fnd'the insect food; however, it makes the best of a bad job and turns vegetarian, going back to insects when it has gained expert- ence.—"Tit-Bits." Finds dlassStarts Fires, the boughs of MaY, And touched the nodding peony-ffow- What the`Snow Shield Shows ars to bid them waken. An examination of this snow shield —Siegfried .Sassoon, in "Selected shows curious stratification, for even Poems?' ' .at -such an elevation and latitude the' " - sun is hot enough in the middle of the Summprio melt partially the surface, which immediately ; freezes again, farming a- crust. . Nansen found that under soft newly fallen snow there • would be a hard crust, more soft snow and then again a crust, and then two or three feet down snow so hard that o the sticks would not penetrate it. And at tithes, near rocky peaks close to the rim of the inland ice, small lakes tam - on top of the icy cap, and streams run fro =them down crevices or into ice wells, deep cavities into which the water falls hundreds of feet with a thunderous echoing roar. But although the interior of Green. land Is merely a hugeice cap, a pre- historic remnant preserved by Porten- ing for trout?" Me chance, there are some things 01 Woodson—"No, she found a, place the bare and, scoriated mountains of where' there was a splendid echo, the coast which are of value. and she enjoyed nothiug better The most important mineral lav than .to go there -and chra' - on Greenland, however, -is cryolite; the a conversation with it by tits ken," Johnsons"Wasn't your wife lot e - some at that fountain resort wh le you were spending your time fish - Star 40 Ti ;'t ;es Size : f S . , . is Called Average Members of Massive Group, However, is Puny Beside The Binary System Masses • Owl Leaffs "I refuse to send' my girls to col- lege," boasted Windy Wolf of Pea Ridge, "because after all, education Will not take the place of a husband." Softly tate leaves on the trees talked together, Early fall fashions and colors their theme; "Paint us, ,lack Frost, in the latest and gayest, The tints of the sunset's red gleam, Bach goldenrgd yelloly, her color will bring, • ' Matchless- brown aud. orange take from the butterliy'e wing." But we need not all be alike, tiler agree, so Bach chooses a color, some two or three. Round and round the orchard they danced, when Jack Frost the beauty of each - ad enhanced. They call a sailing.vessel "she," not because her rigging is so expensive, but because she makes her best show- ing in the wind. There nsay not be much fa a name, but some names have an awful lot of games in them. It's fortunate for the average man that he doesn't know half -the things he would like to know. Unavoidable poetry is the kind folks pay :, have printed. We can't recall ever having heard 'a soprano singing in, such a way that her words could be understood; but then, we never remember feeling that it made much difference, 'Even if you can't tell a mother and her daughter apart nowadays there is little that you can't tell them together. The more ignorant she is of everything else, the better posted a gossip is on domestic aifafrs of everybody in the neighbor- hood. Nature, in making the stars, has not taken much liberty with their masses which, in general, are similar to that of the sun. The sun weighs 2,000,000,- 090,000,000,000,000 tons and this is taken as the unit tor expressing the masses of the stellar bodies. Detailed investigations, however, show that stars ot exceptional mass exist. On the ono hand, a few stars are known with masses fret one-tenth to one -twentieth that of the sun, while the researches at the Dominion Astro- physical Observatory of the Depart- ment of the Interior at Victoria, B.C., have shown that the average star of the most massive group, technically known es class 0, is forty times that of the sun. A recently completed spectroscopie study of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory of a faint star named H, D. 008 in the constellation of Cassio- peia, proves that it is the most mas- sive yet discovered, The binaty sys- tem consists of two giant sons of masses 134 and fifty times our sun, separated by a distance of 150,000,000 miles, which revolve around one an- other in slightly less than fifty-six days. The orbital velocities of the two stars are 53 and 142 miles per second respectively. The analysis of their light shows that the smaller component has a tem- perature of 25,000 degrees Fahrenheit, a volume of 135 times the sun, and is intrinsically about 350 times as bright. The larger star has a peculiar spec- trum, Besides containing the ordin- ary hydrogen and helium Iines of a high temperature star, it has in addi- tion many lines of the enhanced metals, such as iron, titanium, and. chromium, usually found fn cooler stars, This (and the additional ob- servation that all the lines are nar- row) indicates that the density is ab- normally low and that the star is an exceedingly large one. The computed volume is 3,550 times the sun, the tem- perature 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and the luminosity 1,400 times that of E the sun, Paris., To the notices warning tourists of the danger of throwing down cigarette ends and matches in dry wooded districts should be aided a warning :hat betties, even broker bottles, are the most disastrous of all causes of forest fires, according to Dr. Beroud of Marseilles, who has spent several years examining the origin of such fires in Southern France. Twenty per cent. of the eases where no cause can be found for the fire outbreak, he says, may .be safely attributed to a piece of curved glass from a broken bottle thrown away by pieknickers or hunters. These bits of broken curved glass can at.t es a magnifying glass, con- centrating the sun's rays and starting 1Sres even more easily than could be started by cigarettes. In one case a man accused of incendiarism in the South of Prange proved his innocence by the discovery of a bottle end at the spot where the fire startedt, Happiness We may safely call that man happy who, however lowly his posttion, and limited his possessions, can always hope for more than het has, and feel' that, every moment of exertion tends l . to realize his-nbpiration.—Prof, Span ley Jevonft.' Reynolds—"Worry keeps me thin." Jenkins—"Joke, what on earth have you got to worry about?' Reynolds—"I worry about getting stout." Barber—"Your hair is very dry and harsh, sir." Voice—Culture Expert—"So is your voice, but I didn't like to mention it;" In another respect the star is re. markable, One of the important as- tronomical discoveries of recent year;, in which the observatory at Victoria took a leading part, was that of an extended stratum of calcium gas per- vading interstellar spade and more or less uniformly distributed. The spec- tral lines characteristic of this gas are Present in the spectra of all very dis- tant high temperature stars. Accord- ing to Bddington's theory they should be present in the spectra of all distant stars regardless of their temperature but heretofore there has been no ob- servational evidence for the cooler stars. These so-called interstellar calcium lines are a striking feature in the spoe- trum of this interesting star which has the distinction of being the coolest star -in which they have been detected. Titus the investigation supplies infor- mation which confirms Bddington'a theory. Furthermore, the interstellar cal- cium lines have revealed the distance of this unique system. According to the hypouresis of uniform distribution, the strength of the lines should be directly` proportional to the distance of the star. The measured intensity of the lines in H.D. G98 indicates a dis- tance of 3,100 light years. An' addition al estimate is obtained from the mea-. surement of the radial motion of the intervening gas. The observed veloc- ity corresponds to a distauae of 3,700, light years, These different methods agree in assigning a distance of apo. proximately 3,400 light years or more than 20,000,000,000,000,000 miles. Children love it THEddleleu,Onvntorsatden's II Chocolate Mauad Minns sI'se an Ineshtibla a95$51101181155' sten, rte wondedolly oast he theta Coo, It restates enemy spent an work or pkv and builds Monadutdr (kilo balks, cmip ISSUE No., 36--'3i e EDitt)SE ft:Li. ... 5 . 1 " 232 ,CiM Ct �oEND;S�Re�l.a �$cOra Y o4' Counsel to a Young Sister Carry your head up, proud and high, 'Phinking no goal unworthy of a try;, Patters your life more from the ings'I preach Than from the .nold my poor ex- amples teach. . 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As the deadly yellow clouds poured Hood—"I went to a apiritualist yes- out workmen donned gas masks and terday." endeavored to close the valve, but they Fankboner -"Any good?" were overpowered, eight collapsing in Flood—"Oh, just medium," p factory fell Visitor—".Weil, Joe, how do you Iike Your new little sister?" Joe—"Oh, she's all right, I guess; but thele are lots of things we needed worse." To coin a,phrase: Richard Rich paid the bill so often the young folks all began to take him as an after-dinner mint. The following item Is taken from a Meath issue of The Corpus Cotler-Times: "HHarrell's Business School, in the Furman Building, announce the birth of a daughter, Carolyn, Friday, Febr- uary 13th." This column thanks H. S. of Corpus Chriati for this pert item. MEOW! "What are you writing?" 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