HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1938-01-20, Page 3THURSDAY, ,JANUARY 20, 1928
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
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• Montreal.
10.00 pan.' "Kraft •Music Hall
From Hollywood.
Friday, I]'an.trary 311:
.6,30 p.m. "'Golden 'journeys", direc-
tion Roland -Todd; organ and piano
duo with jean 'Haig, soprano: From
Toronto.
'7.45 p.m. Canadian 1Portraits"—Ibi-
ographical sketch of •Charles !Bayley
by Dr. A. S. 'Marto!), From Saska-
toon.
10100 p.m, Running commentary
Farr-)3raddock Heavyweight 10n:;ing
Match direct from ringside .Madison
Square Gardens, New York City by
Bob Bowman. Froin New York:
Saturday,'janitary 22:
2.00 p.m, (Metropolitan Opera •Coni-
pany—NB•C-CBDC international ex-
change .program. From New York.
'8.30 p.ni. "'Let's All Go to the Mu-
sic Illall"— orchestra, dramatic cast
and soloists. 'from 'Toronto.
110.30 p.m. 'NBC Symphony Orch-
estra— international exchange pro-
gram. From New York.
Sunday, ljansary 23:
7.30 p.m. "Canadian Mosaic"
Songs of Many Races". Produced by
j. i\Iurray 'Gibbon with Frances
James, soloist, and The Toronto Con-
servatory 'lltrislg Quartet. 'Front 'To -
rim to,
9.00 p.m. "CBC Music Hour" -or
chestra alio clorfls directionGeoffry
Waddington. Front 'Toronto.
,110,30 p.m. 'Along the Dandb•e"—
soloists and orch'estra direction ;lean
Deslauriers, From Moetreal,
iionday, jaii.uary 214:
6,30 p.m. "17anfare"—soloists and
orchestra direction Brace Holder.
From Saint john,
9.01) p.m, Lux Radio Theatre. From
Los Angeles.
10.45 p.m. "Acadian Serenade"—so-
loists with orchestra. From Halifax.
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Tuesday, 'ja»uary 215:
4.001 p.m. "Seeing Pictures"—talk by
Graham \'lclnness oe fatuous paint-
ings in Canadian .galleries: ;From T'o-
ronto,
9,00 p.m. UDC Symphonic Series—
orchestra direction Jean Marie I3eau-
7.15 to 5.00 P'1"''S S, I' by ,Dr. A. S det with 'Charlotte Cook, .pianist.
From 'Montreal.
Morton,- of Saskatoon. Dr. Morton is'
New Talk Series
The 'Canadian 'Broadcasting Corp atio tor-
atlon, incnco-operationwith the :Nation-
al
fiat t t-
al ;.Research Council of Canada, $'ill
present over 1$s, . national network
every Wednesday for eight •weeks'
starting J'anuarv.2.6, 7',45 to 8 p.m.
EST, a sordes of talks to be entitled'
"Science At Work." 'These talks
which will describe sante of the recent
,experiments in practical .science
which have 'been coed's' ted by mem-
hers of the :Research Council, also
will include discussions on snare of
the more 'theoretical aspects 'of mod-
ern science.
The opening talk will he delivered
by Dr. C. S. W'hifby, Director of the
,Division of Chemistry, .who will
speak on "Rubber," a 'field of re-
search in which he is a specialist.
Other subjects will include "Aviation
Research in Canada," ''i'Plant ,Cirowtlt
Stimulants" and 'Radium,"
"The Art of the Fugue"
}c•hann Sebastian Bach's mon u-
in•ental "The Art of the IFugue," rare -
1y •penfornted anywhere, •will be
broadcast by 'Heinz and Robert
Scholz, eminent duo -pianists of the
Mozarteunl in Salzburg, Austria, in a
special .programme to be heard over
the combined networks of the Na-
tional Broadcasting Company and the
'Canadian 'Broadcasting Corporation
on. Friday, U'anuary _18, from '3.45 to
13.00 p.m, 'BST.
Once called "the greatest work Irl
Occidental art", the 'Bach work was
the last he composed. It was published
in 71750, the year of his death at the
age of sixty -Eve years, in "The Art
of the Fugue" the .great 'German rias -
ter incorporated all the different kinds
of legal treatment kmowe to the con-
trapuntal era that had its close and
climax in Bach's life. 'The Scholz bro-
thers will play it in the arrangement
•for two piano: by Erich Schwe'bsch,
'lectureronBach at the Salzburg Fes-
tival.
The entire work, consisting of fif-
teen fugues and four cannons 011 one
theme, was composed to teach the fu-
gal art, not thy rule. but .by example'.
It ends with a •kuyuc on three new
subjects, the hist dieing composed of
the notes,rcpresentetl by the letters
in Lath's name. "Tile cotupositiou was
written in four-siinolc staves and the
romp ,ow proba'bly had the idea that
he would arrange 'parts of it for per-
formance ,by organ, or string groups.
He died, 'however, ,before he had com-
pleted the piece. it ends with a "dying
gall", an unfinished phrase 111 a great
quadruple fugue. As it stands, how_
ever, "1'he .Art of Fugue" is Bach':,
"last testament, a summing up of tall
that he and his art stood for".
"Melodic Strings"
aPurcell's suite, "The Virtuous
"(Vile". will be the principal wort:
played by the "'Melodic Strings" or-
chestra, under the ,baton 'of Alexander
•Chuhaldin, on '\17Wednesday, January
26, 0.30 to 9.00 p.m. EST. This ,will be
a national network presentation from
the Toronto studios of the OBC.
'I?lie suite, arranged by iDpnhill, is
written in '•flue parts: t(111) 'March 029
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Minuet V30 Slaw air (gyp ,Q �tuck air
and i('5) 'Hornpipe, Two 10111 ucts 'by
Beethoven and the "Sonata in ;E 'Maj-
or No. 6", by Mandell, 'will be 'heard
on this date land the ,brilliant second
nt'ovemeet f r o au Tschaikowsky'c
" Carlson etta", arranged by C'huhald-
in, will complete the programme by
,Canada's famed string orchestra.
"Let's All Go to 'the Mnisic Hall"
Yat '.Rafferty, Red .New man, George
Patio's 'Y'votnte Miller, "The Three.
Waiters", and George Young, suave
master c35 ',ceremonies, will be the
headline attractions on the CliC vari-
ety presentation, T.et's All Go To
the Music Hall", which will be a ua-
tioilal network feature on Saturday,
jannat'y 212, at 8,30 p,ni, 18Sl',
Red Newman will take first, bow
with Billy Verson s grea4„,1iit, 'The
Spaniard That 'Blighted '1'[y Life” and
Gean•ge (Patton will follow with
"What's tite '\I atter with 1Father", the
song that put Williams and Vanstyne
in marquee lights. Pat Rafferty will
present his impression of Fred Russell
singing "1 Was Shaving Myself at the
'fine" and Yvonne \•li•ller •will he fea-
flared in "'There's Another (Good :Man
Gone Wrong," •
George Toon will stake one of his
effective solo appearances in C. W.
Murphy success, "1 Live hi Trafal-
gar tSttuare". Those nimble j'ugg'lers of
song. "'The Three Waiters", will har-
monize on "Viewing the 3ethy" and
'George Patton will supply a Stanley
Holloway triumph, "Battle of Hast-
ings 11060,"
The First Governor of Rupert's Land
"Charles Bayly, First • Governor' of
Rupert's Land," will 'be the subject of
a talk ill the CB(' "Canadian Port-
rait" series on Friday, lf'an. 21, from
n authority of Western CamWednesday, January 20:
nWesternanIiiaur 400 oat. Wlin's Who 'Today'—•
Ba}ly's career was probably more talk by t,. C. Allison. '1Fron1'Winnipeg,
romantic than that of any • 7.-Va p.m, "Science 64t Work"—tall:
,governor of.
an English colony, Ile was sorra cthittar
like a genticnrni-in-waiting on Charles
1I„ when Prince of Wales, and •was
associated with him when he ascend-
ed the throw. 'Then he .fell into dis-
favour and •was thrown into the •1'ow-
'•r of Lultrlon, where he spent sis
years. His fortune suddenly changed
when he became the first ,Governor of
the Hudson's flay Company's colony
overseas.
Fiayly's t', recr as Governor was
marked .by the wisdom with which he
strengthened the claims of E'ngranlI
to Hudson Bay as against the French,
Corporation Features Day by Day
All "limes Eastern Standard)
Thursday, jauuary 20:
7.-15 p.m. "Life and Learning"--
"'i'lle University and Adult Educe -
lion", by Dr. 13. C. '1Zrallace,• Princip-
al of Deceit's UJniversity, Froin King-
ston. •
11:00 p.m. "CBC Dramatic 'Hour",
produced 1111' Laurence 'Gilliam, 4Frnin
Gerniant• are officially testing. his in-
vention, and. ct•h111 te.evision is
brought out commercialo in rite roll
of fats 'birth, the United States, it is
virtually certain to be concentrated
in tiro major systems, that of the
Radio Corporation of - America, and
FarnsCworth's. Both are :based on the
Principle of scanning an. image ---that
IS, - translating light impulses 1111(1_ el-
ectrical impulses—by means of' fast
-
flying principle,
flying electrons. ] L is this
so Ile claims, which Farnsworth was
the first to give a practical laboratory
demonstration.
Farnsworth early showed the fnech-
anical-1ent that was to carry 11(111 to
greatness, at the age of .112 assuming
()Mee as chief engineer of his father's
Idaho farm. It had all sorts of mech
apicalequipment, including" a home
e'iectric-lighting system, power hoists
to lift hay into the barn, and other
intricate hoisting devices. He added
to these by converting a washing ma-
chine from grand to electric power.
actually winding an armature—an ex-
tremely intricate task as any eleectri-
cian will tell you—in order to con-
struct an electric motor-
Think of this boy, living 50 miles
ero111 -a railroad and seeing a train no
more that: twice a year, yet so keenly
absertant•that he could take one
good look at a locomotive and they
go home and stake a scale model of
it, :T -Ie dict the same ,thing with an au-
tomobile and an airplane. Lacking an
adequate library, he bought a 10-vo1-
nnite popular encyclopedia of eleetrri-
city and paid for it at the rake of till e
month For '110 months, To attend high
school he rode four utiles on horse-
back, to be admitted—even while a
gangling 'freshman—to the senior
course in chemistry.
Ensued then two years of intense
study from which he •turned aside
long enough to invent a fh[efproof
magnetic auto lock and win a $25
prize offered by an electrical maga-
zine. He needed •tile money to 'buy
his first suit of long pants and thus
make himself presentable at a high-
school dance.
When he was 'only halfway through
high school the family moved to Pro-
vo, Utah, where Philo took special
extension courses ,co vigorously that
by mid -year he was admitted to Brig-
ham Young University. 'l'here he
tried out every ;piece of apparatus he
could lay his hands on until, at 1!8, he
had worked alit She •basic concept of
a system of television, virtually ars it
stand:, today.
]lis theory' was .o far in advance
of current practice that few people
ui1't,rstood it and no one would ad-
vance him 111011ey. li\fter two years of
struggle, d11'in,g which his father died
and Ile had to help support the fam-
ily, Philo was forced to take a jolt in
Salt Lake City. He worked for
George Everson, .director of fund-rais-
ing canlpaigils for communities ani
social: organizations. Everson heard o•
the television plan and though ht
had no 'background of technology
was smart •enough to recognize gen-
ius. He tools Farnsworth along on his
next job in San 'Francisco and sup-
plied find' for his experiments. •
Finally carie the great clay in 192f
when Farnsworth, noir 19, describe(
his theories and showed his model,
and blueprints to two experts. Ont
w•a: a patent attorney, a graduate of
on rubber by 'Dr. G. S. Whitby. First
of a series of talks given in co-opera-
tion with National !Research Council
of Canada. From ''Ottaaii•a.
TELEVISION
•Here is an amazing fact of modern
life, one that just doesn't seem poss-
ible --namely, that electrically scan-
ned television, the kind of television
that seems destined to reach your
home soon, was largely given to the
world by a 1119 -year-old farm boy,
working almost without money or
equipment. 'Think what he was tip
against: eminent scientists the world
over, great corporations with million -
dollar research laiboratnries, univer-
sity staffs with latest e\lnipnlent. If
television 'becomes a reality in tAmer-
ican 'home by Christmas of 11937 .(as
is tvidel}' -predicted). it will be due
largely to the :pioneer wort: of 111is
young man, .Philo T. Farnsworth, to-
day barely turned .30.
The •governments of England and
Massachusetts Institute, of Technol-
t 3 ;‘'.'1C11 IA i>t las own right. The
other was a national authority on cl-
ectrophysics..\t the end of four hours
of explanation by Farnsworth. ' the
)ateittaftone3 exclaimed: `.'It's mon-
strolls— the
on-strolls-the daring of that boy's intel-
lect." 7'he •other expert said: "'Tile
boy's theories are not only scientifi-
cally soiuld they are startlingly orig-
inal and staggering in their implica-
tions,"
They agreed that Farnsworth
should apply for patents. Upon these
patents his organization today bases phants stand off at ,a distance to
guard against distunbance.
. These young baby elephants grow
to be very playful and mischievous.
Often f have seen a mother. tap her
child smartly with her trunk.
There is always a leader in an ele-
phant group and he is the strongest
of the bulls, When the herd moves'
.from place to place, however, he does.
not go in front' of the line of march'
but follows in the rear. He places
other strong bulls, at the outside of
the line and it seems as if he really
gave directions as to what they were
to do, for, if lie stakes a sound they
all looi: to flint as if to ask what to do.
T'lie elephants feed as they go along
and they make a funny rumbling
sound in their stomachs which to one
who is watching then means .that
they are not afraid and are. quietly
eating and happy. 1'lie big bull leader
is ever on the alert, waving his trunk
high in the air, back and forth, back
and forth from side to side, to catch.
any scent in the wind that might
mean danger. For while the elephants
sight is very weak, the sense or smell
is very strong. A slight suspicion that
all is not well will cause him to flap
his ears and perhaps squeal softly.
Real danger in the wind makes .him
fairly scream and trumpet loudly and
with that the whole herd stam'ped'es,
mothers looking frantically for their
children and the bull guards shoo
theta into a line. ?away they go,
pounding the earth so that it shakes
and trembles with their weight,
Within the herd there is jealousy
of the leader just as there is jealousy
among Pimple in a community. The
young bulls grow up and want the job
and they constantly ;fight anlong
themselves to prove their strength,
trying to become clever enough to
fight the leader. Finally, a very strong
one will attack the leader and if he
is not strong enough to overcome the
younger one he is beaten and the
young one takes his place. When the
leader does meet his match and is
completely vanquished in battle he
must leave the herd for he fs no long-
er young and hardy enough to hold
his place. From then on he will wan-
der alone in the jungle. lt has often
been noted that when an old bull does
leave, a younger one accompanies
him, staying with, his father to guard
hint in his failing eyesight and sense
of smell, until the older one dies or is
killed. I have seen this happen, and
have heard others in Africa say that
it is not unusual at all.
A most interesting example of hu-
man feeling is shown when an ele-
phant is killed by either a native or
white hunter. \\T•)letl the wounded ele-
phant falls to the ground, other ele-
ments. Investigating passible vises ,' .phants will rush to the rescue. I have
electronics in medicine, lie worked !seen them gather on both sides of
with l:nircrsity of Pennsylvania •hiol
ogists in developing a process for
sterilizing mill: by passing radia
waves through it. I;Te has invented a
fog -penetrating beam to aid pilots o
ship and airplanes. 1 -tis ,finest imam
Hans are virtually incomprehensible
to the layman --tubes, processes: ane.
nieces of apparatus in the upper
realms of electrophysics—hut they
have given him a unique statidiut,
as ono of the really great minds in
modern science.
AFRICAN ELEPHANTS
The great gray African elephants
are considered to he the most intelli-
gent of the wild animals of that coun-
try. In studying their habits of life
I have found out many interesting
things that, it seems to one, make
them act almost as human beings do.
.A herd of elephants living together
do not have a regular spot to call
hone for they travel many miles
from season to season. "Phe African
elephants, which are so much bigger
than their 'brother the Indian ele-
phant that we see in circuses, natur-
ally require a great deal of water
in svhic'h to bathe and drink. So,
nheil they have used up all the water
in the vicinity in which they are Hien
living, they start on a journey in
search of a fresh supply. That jour-
ney is called an elephant mig1'etion.
Tt is a spectacular sight to see, The
huge pachyderms travel -in mass for-
mation, stretc'hi'ng like an army for
a great distance. The mothers walk
on the outside of the line, herding
their young in the noddle to protect
then The youngsters frolic and, play,
milling around so thattheline often
is stopped to straighten them out.
At the end of the journey the ani-
mals establish riving 'quarters onty';by
Tach choosing a favorite set of trees
under which to rest during the heat
of the equator's sun at midday. Soni--
t7me5, but not often, they lie d'die
i1'Iostly they stand in the shade of the •
tree, resting their heavy tusks on a
crotched linrb, d have often 'seen such
crotched worn thin by constant use.
The sic of the tusk ' can quite oa'ten
be told by size of .the worn 'groove
'When baby elephant is about
to be born the mother 'leaves the
thick forest anil goes out .into the
open Slain. While the little one is be-
ing born, other elephants stand l close
about the new -mother. Father ele-
its claire to control of electronic tele-
vision. For in 192,6 all the major
workers in television were using me-
chanical whirling disk.: to scan the
image. Ik was Farnsworth's conten-
tion, now .generally accepted, that in
order to transmit a satisfactory image
the speeds required of the whirling
disk would be so great as to lie be-
yond mechanical possibility, and only
flying electrons, moving with 1111
speed of light, could do it.
Tu build a laboratory model of this
system Farnsworth liad to invent his
own tools as he went along. He had
to learn such intricate .subject; and
skills as electrochemistry, metallurgy,
optics, photography and glass blow-
ing, The cathode-ray tube 011 which
was received the first successful elec-
tronie television image in the history
of the world was made, according to
Mr. Farnsworth, with his 'own hands
—and 210 -year-old hands at that.
George,Everson's major task was
to find financial backers, men who
would support an unknown .kid
against the massed technical and '6n
ancial resources of the ,great electric-
al corporations, acid advance lots of
good hard •money with no assets in
view. After months of patient work-
ing he succeeded, and Farnsworth.
was able to continue. For ten long
years, first in a laiboratory in San
Francisco and after 11930 in Philadel-
phia, he lalbored on.
The big companies, such as
had the situation ,pretty well sewed
up and ignored 'Farnsw-orth. Finding
himself hlooked in this coiuitry,
Farnsworth sailed for'Egrope in 8904,
seeking recognition. He got it, too,
The huge tioer-Bosch-i^ernseh in-
terests in England, allied with the
British government j1150 last year
signed ftp with "nitknown" American
The Farnsworth company has just
completed an experimental television
broadcasting stiction in Philadelphia
and extensive field tests are schetlul
cd to begun this fall. So far the Phil
co company which brought hits East
in 119.71, is the only major licensee in
this country.
Aside from Farnsworth, the other
chief factor in the television field is
of course. the Radio Corporat•iott ar
America. 'Front one or the other, or
both, television seems destined t,
reach the American itonte by the enc
of this year. Indications are that th •
image w•i1l be approximately eight h,•
ten inches in size, the picture will b •
pretty clear, and a house receiving
set, capable of picking up signals
from either system, will cost ahem.
x'200' or X300.
Television by no means represents
the ,whole of Farnsworth's achieve
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,
him and by thrusting their tusks be-
neath his body, help hint to his feet.
Then, pushing and supporting him in
this: fashion, they hurry 111111 away as
fast as they can to safety, They will
push down trees incl bushes in his
path 00 make his escape easier. If he
seems to falter they will almost car-
ry hint by force.
At waterholes they will let him rest
and •they will fill their capacious
trams with water and spray it over
!lint to refresh and cure his wounds.
Often elephants have in that way had
time to recover their strength Sp they
could walk to when, they might in
safety get well again.
Because of their keen sense of
smell, it is difficult. to get near en-
ough to take good elephant picture's.
They are so often in the dense bush
where the light is poor, too: But one
can, however, by staying carefully up
wind and climbing into a tree, watch
a herd as it lives at home in the lAtf-
ricau ,jungles.
Killed by Circular Saw
Struck 'by flying pieces of a buss -
saw which -shattered during 'operations
on a farm near )Goderioh late Monday
Clifford A11it1, 220 -year -did :popular re-
sident of 'Colborne To'wns'hip, was al-
111o8t instantly killed. 'The tragic.,
accident occurred 'without any warn-
ing. Suddenly a good-sized .piece of
the Saw flew through the air, Mr.
;Allis accidentally walked in front of
Ole saw when the ;brea.kin'g :process
occurred. Approximately one - third
of the circular -saw had been se.perat-
eel from the rest and was thrown at
the young ratan. flitting him in the
face and •neck.:Dleat'h Was instanta(ae_
nits, The accident occurred an the
farm of 'William Snider, ;Benmi]iler
road. 'Others present were Lawrence
Snyder and 'Finlay iGord•on,