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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1938-02-10, Page 15THE WORLD'S GOOD NEWS Will come to your home every day through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR t• 2. An International Daily Newspaper I1: records for you the world's clean, constructive doings. The Monitor does not exploit crime or sensation; neither does It Ignore them,. but deals correctively with them. Features for busy men and alt the family, Including the Weekly Magazine Section. • The Christian Science Publishing Soolety One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts Please enter MY subscription to The Christian Science Monitor for a period or 1 year $0.00 0 months $0.50 3 months 52.25 1 month 15c Wednesday Issue, Including Magazine Section: 1 year $3.50, 6 issues 350 Name Address THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1938 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN 1 1 1 m i Duplicate Monthly Statements We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to' fit ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. Also beat .quality Metal Hinged Ses- tiolial Post Binders and Index. 1 1 1 I I I The Seaforth News iPhone 84 a �������et w r—uu• ®. --urs-on��gl I RADIUM IN THE SUN ' OR 'ELECTRIC WAVES? •The ipeoplle of Britain lately wit- nessed a marvellous display of the auroral 'borealis, seldom seen in the British Isles. So rare that in Olden days the aurora was 'held to 'he a por- tent. This ancient superstition is re- fleeted in IAytoun's "E'dinlburgh After Flodden" by the 'familiar 'Lines: "All' Last night the northern streamers Shot across the trembling sky, Fearful 'lig'hts that never beckon Save when kings or heroes die." And die they did on that ''tragic battlefield where fell James, I'V. and so many of his soldiers, and which was the inspiration of Scotland's sad- dest song, "The Flowers of the For- est!" When 'I was a small, 'boy they used to say that the 'northern lights were a reflection of the sun shining on the ice fields of the north. Little did' think then that do years to come I would penetrate far 'into the Arctic and see ;the giant snow-cappgdl ice floes which, with the vast 'Greenland ice cap, were erroneously supposed to make 'the aurora lborealis. The reflec- tion story was, of ,course, just a fairy tale. 'And in any !case the far Arctic is shrouded in •con.tinuaas darkness dur- ing most of thewinter. 'Needles's to say, Aurora was the Rbman goddess of the dawn—IA.atrora, Ont., is from an Indian word mean- ing something quite 'different. The au- rora borealis signtfies fhe phenomen- on in The northern regions of the world and the 'aurora austnalis that in the sauthe:nn'hemisphere. Its 'colors range through green, red, yellow, 'vi- o'let. 'Displays of theaurora increase in frequency as Ione goes northward to certain 'limits,. but decrease as one nears the (North !Pete. For Europe and Asia the latitude of maximum .fre- quency is 1610 degrees north latitude, In. fact the 'finest 'eyh.ib'itiott 'I ever saw of the northern lights was one might at Fort Smith, N.W.T., 40:10 miles northeast of IEdtnon'ton and almost' aptly on latitude 60, Waiting ,arrival of the Hudson's Bay Co.'s steamer from the 'Maoken- zie ,River, I emerged late one night from a ;party held at a locall trader's house about 'August. I saw 1(and 'I had had •nothing stronger than 'coffee to .drink) the whole sky suffused with panoply Of pale green light which flickered nip and down 'from every horizon ,to a !central aura in the heav- ens. eavens. !No wonder That the redman used to think The lights spirits of the de- parted 'dancing in the sky. 'Years dater when up in the Arctic at IE'llesrnere .Island an latitude 179, some I1,3100 miles farther north than Smith, 24-hour summer sunshine de- nied me any view of the lights. But down on Hudson 'Bay on the return journey we saw the northern !tights, the afterglow of the sun and the near - full moon cast their combined mild radiance on the smooth sea. By 'photographing the aurora ag- ainst a 'background of stars and tak- ing observations with a transit from two ground station, a 'known distance apart, scientists have measured the 'height of the aurora. The rays, it seems, :have been estimated as reach- ing from 1510 to as 'much as 1600 miles from the earth. An 'unusual aurora, occurring in Norway in 111906, was said to have had THAT MEANS A'BIG SAVING iN MONEY FOR YOU What could be more complete than a combina- tion offer that gives you a choke of your favourite magazines -Sends you your local newspaper— and gives yourself and family enjoyment and entertainment throughout the whole year - Why not take advantage of this remarkable offer that means a red saving in money to you? 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Ion the ^.twenty-+fi'fth of Tune a reso- lution appropria't'ing 'fifty-thtonsand pounds towards the public buildings at Quebec was carried in the IASsem- tbly by e majority of fifty to forty-six. I,n the Legislative Council, however, on the motion for the second reacting of the Supply Bill, the following re- solution was adopted: "Resolved, that this House not hav- ing been oonsulltad on the subject of the fixing of any place for the tperma- ten't seat +o'f government of this'Pray- Moe, and the other branch of the Leg- islature having resolved upon Quebec as such permanent seat of 'govern- ment, and having, moreover, passed a beams reachingskyward for '600 miles esy 1 —which goes 'to show that the earth's atmosphere gsp'here trust extend for at least that distance from its surface. 'Travel- lers report having seen aurora be- tween themselves and cliffs or clouds. which evidenced that its lower por- tions were 'within a mild of the earth. It is also claimed by people who have dwelt in the far north that the aurora at times emits a 'craolding sound resembling rustling silk. But this sound does not appear to have 'been registered on instruments. Scien- tists are therefore skeptical and attri- bute the alleged sounds to the faijit .noises made in one's ears by the cir- culation of the blood and noticeable as one is straining to hear when ev- erything is still. • The aurora spectrum has been care. fully studied and lenge numbers of characteristic lines, particularly a bright green dine, are observed through a glass. 'Indeed, by sighting. on the night sky 'when no aurora is visible to the naked eye, it is possible to obtain 'this green line. The in- ference is that there is a permanent aurora. The famous 'green line has ibeen 'definitely :proved to be due to oxygen, 'Observations taken for more .than two centuries show that the number of auroras rather closely follow the number of sun spots. .It is further found' that more auroras :appear in 'March and Sep'tem'ber when the 'earth is more directly opposite the sun than in June an:d /December 'when such is not the case. It is noteworthy that when a 'brilliant aurora appears there is almost sure to 'be a magnetic storm followed by •heavy earth cur- rents 'that .distunb wire eotnsnunica- tion and the radio. I only know that when we 'saw the northern lights on Hudson Bay in 'early September one of the crew prophesied "weather" as a result, and soon afterwards came may be expected not to avoid the re - the 'worst blow of the voyage though sponsi'b•ility of expressing an opinion we had 00 thunder or lightning. of my own. It is .pretty generally conceded that "I would also satggest that the mil - the sun 'spots denoting vast cyclone itary authorities in Canada should be areas 00 the surface of ;Old Sol are forthwith consulted on this question: Holy tar each of the places named is, or is not, exposed to attack by an en- emy and haw far each such place may he easily protected in time of war," Apart from the Confidential Metn- orandum Sir Edmund said: "My own conviction was, and is, that the matter ought to he definitely settled. To keep it open' is to maintain in full flow a constant source of local .bitterness and sectional animosity. which, by a 'lit - Bill of Supply Ma'kin'g provision for erecting pulbiic buildings at Quebec, this House feels' itself imperatively called upon to declare that it •cannot concur in the said 'Bill of Supply. "Because, moreover, this House did, on the twenty -'fifth day of +April, 1115515, adopt an address to His ;Excel'l'ency the' Govern•oraGeneral, praying that His Excetiency would be pleased, in the exercise of the Royal •Prerogative, to fix permanently upon some conven- ient ;place for the annual assemibiing of 'Parliament; and, assuring His 'Ex- ellency of the cheerful concurrence of this House in any proposition His Excellency might think fit to make, for the appropriation of .public money for the accommodation of the three branches of the Legislature at the place which might' be so fixed upon by His Excellency, The Astenibly then introduced an- other Supply Bill omitting the fifty thousandthis p�qunds, and . was carried by ,both 'Houses. 'L1 all the voting over the seat of Government, Ottawa ,had fewer ad- vocates than any other city:, as late as 1h57 it received only eleven votes in a House of one hundred and thirty. In a recent article, contributed to the Ca- nadian Historical Review 'by James A. 'Gibson, the writer points out that there is strong presumptive evidence that the Duke of 'Nezveastle (then Secretary of State for the Colonies) advised.Queen Victoria to choose Ot- tawa. Newcastle was 'evidently influ- enced by a memorandum '(.quoted in ltd by 'Mr. ;Gibson) sent 'home by the Governor-General, Sir 'Edmund W. Head, who had succeeded Mord Elgin do which 'he considered tat length the claims of the five major cities. ,Regarding Ottawa, Sir Edanamd said: '"If 'Ottawa is chosen, Montreal will acquiesce in the choice, and the ina- jority of Upper Canada will not in any way resist, for to them it is a par- tial triumph; The whole matter is a choice of evi•Is, and the least evil will, I think, be found in placing the seat of 'Government at Ottawa. Whichever section predominates, and however D. H. McIo s Chiropractor Office — Commercial. Hotel Hours—,Mon. ,and Thurs. after Electro Therapist — Massage. noons and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray treat- ment Phone 029,, de management, can always be turn- ed against the 'Government Of the days nor is this the worst consequence of its unsettled *condition. If the ;Prov- ince of .Canada is to remain one, it is essential that its seat .of Government should be fixed and recognized' by all." Manyof the members of the (Can- adian 'Parliament were disappointed with the Queen's choice. Though the official announcement that Her Maj- esty had selected 'Ottawa, was made in the middle of January, 110516, Chris- topher Dunkin moved, and Antoine A. Dorion seconded the following proposal on the 2Rth of July of that year: "That an f'um'ble Address be pres- ented to Her Most 'Gracious Majesty the Queen, to represent that this 'H'ouse prays Her Majesty to recon- sider the selection she has 'been ad - wised to make, as a future capital of Canada, and to name Montreal as such future capital." There were other objections raised but the Queen's choice stood, and in 11560, .on the first of August, the Prince of Wales, afterwards 'King Ed- ward the Seventh, laid the corner- stone of the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa. The departmental offices were moved to their new quarters from Quebec in 1'595, and 'the •first session began in 08Is6. At 'Confedera- tion Nova Scotia and New Brunswick acknowledged Ottawa as their .choice and one after the other the remaining provinces hare come in to make one far westward the commerce of Cana- great Dominion stretching from sea to da may extend, Ottawa will be a ton- sea' And today all Canadian's are proud venient position. •of the 'beautiful Capital City that Ot- "If the Red River settlement and tawa has 'become. the Sasicatchewau country are finally to he annexed to Canada, the Ottawa route to Lake Huron and Lake Super- ior will she available, and may possibly turn out the shortest and most advan- tageous of all, "d have written this memorandum with no wish to thrust on Her Majes- ty's Government advice in a -matter specially referred to the 'discretion of the Queen: but f have thought that 'I responsible for the aurora. One the- ory is that the cause lies in the nega- tive particles shot off by the sun and caught up in the magnetic field of the earth. (Another theory is that alpha - particles, with a plus charge, conte to us from radioactive substances in the sun. Still another theory holds that the junction of terrestrial positive and negative electricity makes the illumin- ations. Raise Your Own Living Whether wditing or not the major- ity of farmers are now Obliged to supply more of their own needs. The following list may provide suggestions for further economy: 1.1, Milk a few good caws: feed re- commended rations. 2. Fatten one pig for every two ad- ult members of the family: cure the meat properly. Keep at least !1'00 good hens. tor- rectiy housed and fed. 4. Raise a good garden: water from windmill if possible. 5. 'Plant only cash crop:. which show little or no surplus. 6. Grow your own stock feed. 7. Butcher fat cows and steers; trade meat ,with neighbors. 5. Raise your own living: keep your roof tight. 9. Get down to earth and do the best you 'can today. 10. 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