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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1934-08-09, Page 7THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1934 THE SEAFORTH NEWS t7■...■a,....■ice■■ 1 ■ ■oma■ a,�r■--rx�-■■�■o�■■•�r0 1 1 1 Duplicate 1 th 1 1VIon y 1 I 1 Statements 1 I I We can saveyou on Bill and I Y money 1 Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit 1 ledgers, white or colors. 1 I It will pay you to see our samples. 1 a 1 Alsoi best quality Metal Hinged Sec- ■ i tion'al Post Binders end Index. i ■ I I ■ The Seaforth News 3 I■ Phone 84 1 m I x—■,■ x—.■ ■�■ ■n■■s■per■�■o_tt■■ d A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and mail it with$1 for a six weeks' trial subscription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Published by Tge 000010TIAN SCIENCE II urilasmbra 5000001'Boston, Massachusetts, In It you will end the dell? goad stews o1 the world from Its 000 speclol writers, finance, aedacatlon, erndioa etc. You women's be and oto rwelcome interests, your hon iso fearless 00 advocate andtof otter and luprohibition. 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McInnes Chiropractor Electro Therapist — Massage Office Commercial Hotel Hours—Mon. and •Thurs. after- noons and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray treat- ment Phone 327. las it were, among the city streets, but O vigorous, swift -running little river clearly about Its own and hag -- tried business, A certain country _flavor persists about she city here, although it is so near the roar and rush of the world mart. Trees of great age and solidity rise up verdantly in factory yards and peitrol stations, and cot - ages with gardens behind palings ,persist. And as the river winds about, ap- pears and disappears and winds away ,beyond the backs of ,hooses or through allotment gardens full of cabbages, the factories and ware - :houses and shops are further diversi- fied and brightened by milis in •full force on the \Vandle, 'the great wheels revolving and churning tip ,the stream in a spate of bub:hies: 'The river pop., in and, out beneath and beside the asphalt and the concrete with the most vigorous and purposeful air. Here is no sad and stagnant stream tiorlorlily reminiscent of better days. Nor 'have the cottages and gardens that deserted look 'which left -overs in built -over districts usually show. The autumn flowers are 'brilliantly aggressive, alto. ;There is a great cropping out over the pavements of boxes and barrels, loaded with coun- try -looking fruits, with apples and pears and walnuts and cobs most un- mis.takably from English orchards, and (half the price the West End asks. As one leaves Wandsworth for Mit- cham, nursery 'gardens become insist .eptly in 'evidence, making nothing whatever of the value of sites which should be used for warehoos'es and .shops; there are tiled houses and commons, and, if it •we're not for the surf of city streets with their hard 'Fastnesses of 'brick and concrete surg- ing up on' every side, one slight, at .Mitcham, :feel oneself in a .genuine little country village. one leaves ,the [And then, suddenly, tram lines, ,and Coates to .a ford; a 'country [ford against the road, twhe9e it .pas'se's .over our indomitable Wan - die. A ,bord in which stand cants with LONDON' RIVER ILandon's river ? 09 course, the Thames. But why not Reading's river, or Henley's river? Indeed, the Thames has a whole valley to itls name, an.d a myriad lovely little villages and towns .to claim it. The river belongs to ,London (its England) kind to 'London only, begins in the Vicinity of Wandsworth; or, if it springs. start a little further out, the couose''of the river wanders about that dlele'ctalble loca'l'ity until it flows into the Thames hard by Wandsworth Bridge, Flew enough 'know of th.e River 'Wm—idle, and yet it has a 'fire.and active 'history, and a still fines• and more important present. 1For •vvh'ere' t o carters watering ,e; h,arses else in the world 'has a lovely little .Yes, wate.rintlg !them in the pure, rush - ,river, with %t'h its country 'banks and .glorious 'trees, been caught and crib -1_ —�-- bed and 'kept .right inside a nation's icalpital? As 'far back as 111870, let his intro- Idnotion. to his : "Crow^it of Wild Olive," Ruskin appealed for its pre, servati:lit,„'II .do not know whether las passionate wends bore fruit; but eer- ,tain it is that, 11 you cross `Wands- worth (B'rid'ge today, the road will 'v'ery soon travel beside the •Wandle, the 1Wanldlie in ,d'ishabill'e with sev- eral cottages and gardens left over, 'Dust Causes Asthma. Even a little speck too snsall to see will lead to a- gonies which no words can describe. The walls of the breathing tubes con- tract and it seems as if the very life must pass. 'From this condition Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy brings the ttse.r to perfect rest. Ita al 1 relieves the passages,and norm breathing is firmly: established again, Hundreds of 'testinvonials.received an- nually prove its effectiveness. itvg stream, the "sparkling IWlandlle.” IHb'w it is .possible that the W'andle :Was ,pmesenved its integrity, 'the (proud, ,triumphant W'andle which has led us so•'high-heartedly alt the way from Wandsworth ,Bridge ? ,were are walls and 'trees behind theta 'and a ,gate om either side of the 'road on which is written "\\ratelr Meads." Then, if ,one has taken a great deal of trouble, and ap,pfted to ,the National Truest in 'whose diadem f18111117074^7-7 PAGE SEVEN. to transport all the material's of mod- ern civilization which are !imported in- to the country. Likewise the mail must .be carried by lorry, the peasa'n'ts must ride in crowded .trucks, and now that the air service has been discon- tinued, its aristocracy must spin along in imported limousines. Persia's roads are the very arteries of its present-day existence, ,From Kermanshah one makes a short run through the beautiful valley, the \\'andle is perhaps the brightest the rocky sides of which contain the 'jewel, and been -,further directed to famous trilingual inscription, known the local !.Association for the 'Probe's- as the Behisltun Inscription, which, tion of the 'Wan,dle Open Spaces, .which dispenses keys, we unlock the gates and b•ehodd on one side a love- ly path winding along beside the burbling waters, dancing over pe'b- bies with great trees on either side to shut out the hou's'es, the river batik just as it has always been, bought and kept for us. And on the other side, even more vvondedfui lie ieighteen acres of meads i and trees,with little tributaries ris- ing and joining t'he river, now so clean, the countryside just es it was 'hundreds of .years ago,. IBM a few minutes.since we were in district %IN. 17, with its trams and traffic and 'hopeless encasement of asphalt and 'co•ncrete. Now we are ther41nd Mordecai which for centuries looking at wooden cottages set among fields, and presently there is a ;plank footway across the hatch of a Lively, though beautiful, old mill and we issue onto a long stretch of still waters, In which are mirrored the ,majestic trees vvhfch_have shadowed it for centuries. ,Here 'one may walk along the short - clipped turf for a mile and store; a water rat lopes across from the ditch to the clear .water of the moving cur- rent which carries 'the autumn leaves so swiftly on their way, but other- wise one may .spend an afternoon there browsing in the fields, which. stretch indefinitely. There is no sound examples of Persian art are now made btit to y a the cawing of the rooks and the "` with similar inscriptions, made it pos- sible for 'modern scholars to be able to read the ancient cuneiform script used sen the clay tablets found in Mes- opotamia ,and front these latter to learn from contemporary accounts the same stories which the Bible had so beautifully told, and thus brought the world to realize that this famous book had an historical as ,well as an inspired basis. ,Hamadan, once the capital of Cyrus and later of the Parthiaa kings, Inc little to show ,of its former glories. Lts situation is one of great beauty with the snow-covered Elvend Range ris- ing behind, Here is the,ftsmous Jewish shrine reputed to be the tomb of Es - has been a pilgrimage for the Heb- rews. t\ much-Iwossi lion outside the city is a mute reminder of the won- ders that once were 'Ha'nvadan's. 'Next one visits Isfahan after two short days of motoring to the south- east. Islfah'an.is the jewel o9 Persian. cities and was grade so by the famous Shah Abas (1'5'35-1'629) who chose this city as his capital Time has been kind to Isfahan and the beautiful palaces and mosques built by Abas have re- mained in remarkable preservation. Also, as an indication of the modern attitude in Persia. these magnificent any bird notes and the liquid nipple a of the water. Tributaries abound, little deep streams from hidden springs, and there are noisy cascades under the 'hatches, where they join the mill stream, HIGH'WAY'S OF THE OLD WORLD -Within the last 10 years motoring in the modern sense of the word has been made possible thorughout the length and breadth of Persia, Before this era one approached Persia either by the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, or by a slow and lumbering caravan front Bagdad through the high passes of the Zagros \lountaiils, ]Cron either north or south the sante procedure. for the most part, \vas necessary- and the existing roads were little more than trails.,, Now Persia may well be proud of the mile on mile of modern highways which unite her land. .Although the roads in western Per- sia through many of the difficult passes must be credited to the British occupation Shortly after the 'World War, the present Governinent, under the farseeing 'Shah Riza Pehlevi. is carrying ot.the work of building new roads- and keeping in admirable repair these existing. Persia is fortunate in 'haying excel- lent road -making materials always near at handl A country of rocky mountain peaks and ranges makes it possible for them[ usually to have crushed stone and gravel available within a few hundred feet, All along the highways gangs of workmen arc constantly employed to repair damage dope by rains and the wear of con- stant use. 'The amazing thing to real- ize is that these roads are alt 'made without the aid of modern road -malt- ing machinery. The stone is all crush- ed laboriously by hand, the roadbed prepared and the ditches dug by means of spades. However, they have been well and carefully laid out by the highway engineers and would do eee- dit to any country, and arc especially praiseworthy in a country of steep grades and narrow mountain gaps. 'One May comfortably- travel over 3000 miles in three weeks and visit the chief cities of Persia, a feat which would have been an utter impossibil- ity only a few years ago. From Bag - clad it is possible ,to cross the high ranges of the Zagros and reach Ker- manshah in one day—a trip through one of the most beautiful sections of Persia's highlands. An American is reminded constant- ly of the pioneer days of his own country by the sight of caravans con- sisting of high two -wheeled wagons [which resemble the covered wagons of his grandfather's s time. 'These • ve- hicles slowly make their way through the mountains laden with all manner of goods which in turn are transferr- ed to trucks at the Persian border to be sent abroad. Grinding up a stiff grade are the trucks or lorries, as they are called, quite of another time and age than the lumbering wagons. • They d,o the heavy trucking,and travel throughout the whole system of Persian roads, for Persia has few railroads and is entirely depeiicbettt on the automobile vailable to the tourist. Only witltitl the last year provision has been made so that these buildings may be seen without special permission from the Shah. Now one takes along a most polite and courteous young Persian space of 120 years." and s one of our from the local government office and one may wander through the gardens of the Chahil Sutun with its striking pavilion and 20 coltunns reflected in the surface of its pool, or one may vis- it Ali Kepi, another palace which ov- ercooks the famous Shah Square, where Abas and his court watched the then popular game of polo which Is so often pictured on the Persian miniat- ures. To visit the mosques .one takes a policeman along. At the mosques the tourist beholds the intricacy of color and design of tile and arch which has made then[ so admired by people the world over. THROUGH THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH \\'hat would you es if yon could bore a hole through the centre of the earth ? ,.A central tube journey through the earth, science now .;how;, would be far toore w-onderful than we have imagined. Most people think that under the rocks there is nothing but a great porridge oft lava. melted rack coated over with this can of rocks we know. Modern science shows that this picture is far too simple and dull.' ltirst we should pass Clown through the rucks we ]snow, that is true. We should pass through thousands of feet of rot.s laid in layers, t'he sedi- mentary rocks made out of dust anti mud crushed solid by immense weight. (Going dawn .from the surface, we should pass through a great belt of the chalk which was made in this way out of slime laid down at the bottom of the sea. Then we should get down into deeper and ahrder rocks, but tsill rocks all made in that way, Yet, be- fore we got past that first skin of rock we should, he getting un- pleasantly 'hot. So here we matst face the face, we can only take this 'journey through the earth in our minds. Our bodies would soon burn and become cinders. The deepest that men have actually gone toward the earth's centre, which is some -1,000 miles under our feet, is in the great mines in the .State of Michigan. There you are only some 4,160:0 feet beton" sea -level: considerably less than a mile, and not more than a seventh of the way even to the deep- est spot in the ocean itself—the ocean which, proportionately to the thick ness of the .earth (self, is only so Hauch depth of water as can cling to a wet football 1 Yet, even at that little distance, the heat in the rocks has increased some 31 degrees (,Fahrenheit). If it was only sixty at the surface .it would he ltllh deg., down there.' And as the heat continues to go up a degree every 90 'feet, by the time you had reached 110,000, feet down'—the height up, at which there. is perpetual snow on the Swiss moun- taihls—you would be enduringit eOM- perature of 171 and getting to the limit of what youcould stand. ,But you would hardly have started as yet on your journey, The ordin- ary sedimentary rocks would prob- ably have gone, but you would still be passing down through a rock you know quite well 'here on the surface —granite, with its little gleaming bits of feldspar in it. ,For seven and a half miles you f would bepassurhdo\ylt agreat a1nC lined with nothing but this. Then you would pass your first frontier, You leave the granites ski l and begin to pas through another rock -skin twice as thick, some fifteen and a half miles, but still only a skirt, lAtsd still only made of a rock, not very common, but which most of us have conte across up here—basalt, the black, smooth, very hard rock. ;Then, after traveling twenty -three - miles down, we should at last take leave of all the stuff we have ever set eyes on, - - We should come to the rock's for which., therefore, we have no ordin- ary name, and So are called ultra- basic'—beyond-the4oundation rocks. And it is doubtful whether we should call then[ rocks at all. For, down at this level, pressure and heat are beginning to change everything. The heat forty miles down ie about the heat of white-hot iron, and that .end the pressure enough to melt :tone like wax, These ultra -basic rocks are then a huge "melt," It seems they are a great layer of crys- talline.stuff, 191, then, we could sink through that layer we should sec that we had entered a fourteen -mile -deep sea of glowing fiery dark crystal. \\'hen we touched the floor of the sea we should pass the biggest frontier of all. Thor then we are finished with the skins of rocks which make tip the earth's crust and we are really get- ting down to the main body. There is nothing much then to hold our attention, because for 700 utiles. we shall be passing through nothing but a huge layer of glassy, flinty stuff mixed with magnesium, a layer callus Siena, for 1 is made of sitlica) and nta(gne s i n tit). Then another pretty sudden change and we should notice the wall ,'i our tunnel still had a lot of glassy stuff in it, hat instead of the magnesium which we had [net above, now we find more and more iron. The iron is tell-tale, for its how: we are nearly the heart of the mat- ter; we are getting to the earth', coore. And that the do reach. after going through LOW mile; of this silicon -iron layer—tire last of the layers. For the change we now make I; not into another layer. but into the central orb of the earth, round which all the other layers are coated..1s w•e are going to Australia 'we shall then go right through the centre of this tore. We shall journey some 4,000 miles through a stupendous cannon -ball of nickel iron. Yet, even if we were bodies mov- ing through it, and ,not simply minds, we should probably tinct it easier tet more through this cannon -hall centre titan through the lighter layers above it. !For this centre. it esetns, is not solid at all. 10 is liquid, though under such pressure that cannot imagine what a liquid may be like when crushed so hard. Their the worst will be past, and we shall rtt through again the 1,061) mile layer of silicon -iron, the 700 - mile lasef of the Sima, and the .little les; than forty utiles of the surface rocks, and we shall he in Australia. 'Rather a nervous journey even. if we could he simply sightseers incap- able of feeling the heat. For we should see the tremendous pressures under which that iron core of the earth can be both as solid as a cannon ball and yet be liquid. Or even, as some experts think, nothing but a huge hollowness, a gigantic cave, filled with this terribly dense iron gas, so dense that anything as hard as that here on the surface we should call solid.' 'Because of problems like that. every geologist would go on that journey if he could, And, right at the end, as Australia got closer and clos- er ahead, and he began packing up his notes, he would stilt be looking out for one last thing of peculiar in- terest. In fact, he would be so anxi- ous to see if he could catch sight of any trace of that that, that he would probably ask to be 'let alter the route just a little and not conte up at Mel- bourne cm in'New iZealend, bat on one. of the Pacific Islands. For he want, to stod'y that floor, the great sheet of rock taht carries the 'Pacilfic basin. He ,would miss out corning up through the earth's skin, the granite, and emerge into the sea straight out of the basalt. ,For the ba- salt Is so strong that it probably makes the great cup in Which the ocean is carried. Certainly, these Pitdci'fic basalts are a.; great puzzle. Indeed, they present ,Such a • problem that to accottttt for this rock arrangement there a most Oaring idea has been put forward. Those queerly arranged rocks, which the geologist would so mulch like to look through, may be a scar. 'T,Ive hugest scar possible on earth; the scar left �n the earth as the stark where, in the 'begin.nittg, when the earth was as :fiercely and terribly hot as its core is naw, the whole earth swelled, wobbled, blistered and burst, and a' huge molten mass—a fourth t of the whole earth's � bulk -stinal itself off—tile huge mass which to -night we may see a quarter of a million lui e, .sway—the moon, BILI Liuut "ln Marty States a. mating license entitles you to one leer and no more. - "Just like a marriage license." 1,VelI Insulated. --"1 wonder why it is that fat Wren are always gold - natured?" "Probably because it takes them so long to get mad clear through." 'Hard-iLuck Tale.—"Good morning, sir, I'm a Bonds Salesman." "That's all right, my good 'fellow. Here's a quarter—go buy yourself a square steal," Drives Asthma Like Magic, The immediate help front Dr, J. D, Kel- log Asbhma ,Remedy seems like magic. Nevertheless it fs only a na- tural remedy used in a natural. way. The stroke or vapor, reaching the most remote passage of the affected tubes, brushes aside the trouble and opens a way for fresh air to enter. It is sold by dealers throughout the land. Here and There A. C. Leighton, R.B.A., presi- dent of the Government Art College at Calgary, will again hold his summer art school for selected art students from the province of Alberta at the Kana- naskis Dude Ranch near Banff, Alta. Mr .Leighton, who is . a. grand nephew of the late Lord Leighton, president of the British Academy from 1875 to 1896, has been painting for years at Banff and through the Canadian Rock- ies. He is also head of the In- stitute of Technology, and Art in connection with the 'University of Alberta. The Kananiskis Dude Ranch operated by Mrs. Bill Brewster, is well known through- out Canada and the United States, and is surrounded by the most magnificent of Canadian Roeky Mountain scenery. Governor Prank Murphy, of the Philippine Islands, was the guest of Commodore R. G. Latta, of the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain, at Manila on March 15. Governor Murphy inspected the liner, which is engaged on her annual Round the World cruise, and wished Commodore Latta and his ship many happy returns to Manila. Captain Cyril D. Neroutsos, for many years Manager of the Brit- ish Columbia Coast Boat Steam- ship service of the Canadian Paci- fic Railway, relinquishes his duties on April lst under the pro- visions of the Company's retire- ment regulations. He is succeed- ed by 'Captain R. W. McMurray, formerly Marine Superintendent at Vancouver. Three cruises to the Norwegian fjords and the Land of the Mid- night Sun will be made by the Empress of Australia this sum- mer. The first cruise, of 14 days, leaves Southampton Juno 29, the second from London July 14, for a 19 aay trip as far north as Ham- merfest, North Cape and Spitz- bergen, and the third from Im- mingham, 12 days, to the fjords and Oslo and Copenhagen. Con- necting sailings from Canada for the three cruises are the Empress of Australia from Quebec June 21, the Duchess of Atholl from Mont- real July 6, and the Duchess of York from Montreal July 20. Your favorite picture stars, from Greta Garbo to Betty Boop will be seen as well as heard aboard the "Duchess" liners, as well as the "Empresses" of the Canadian Pacific this summer. The Duchess of Bedford and Duchess of York are already equipped with talking picture machines and the Duchess of Atholl and Duchess of Richmond will have them for their first voyages this summer. The Em- press of Britain and Empress of Australia have been showing talkies for some time now, The Easter holidays, commen- cing March 29 and extending to April 3rd, offer an exceptional opportunity for travel. The Can- adian Pacific Railway is making generous fare concessions and indications are that extensive travel programmes will be carried out by Canadians and visitors to the Dominion. A large party of Holy Year pilgrims from the Maritime Prov- inces sailed from Halifax recent- ly in the Canadian Pacific liner Montclare. On 'Easter Eve they will be received in audience by the Pope. They will visit Lon - don, Paris, Milan, Assisi and other cities in Europe before returning co Canada at the end of April, W,