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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1934-11-08, Page 3THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1934 THE. SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE THREE. SOPWITH A GREAT FLYER Wen who go down to the sea' ie. sleek and costly yachts wil.l tell you. that the new •champion of 'England's quest for the America's Cup is a worthy successor GE the late and great sportsman, Sir ,Thomes Lipton, Old Tom Was 'just that—a sportsmen. Five .thnes he tossed fortunes into the building of 'fast sailing cutters, and five times he looked on amiably while his challengers, manned by pro- fessional skippers and crews, lost to American defenders. Young Tons—Thomas lOcteve Sop- with—is IVO swivel -Chair commodore. He's a yachtsman who caa handle 'wheel and sail. It goes without say- ing that he is also a sportsman; none .other Would .spend $7100,00,fi in an effort to Capture the old ugly mug won by the New York Yacht Club in 10511.1. :Being a practical sailor, T. 0, M. Sopwith is an engineer whrflonaws what makes yachts go. Art airplane designer and ohairman of the biggest aircraft factory in the 'British Em- pire, he has been able to turn his techniclal Skill to the building of yachts. Plying and sailing, he says; eeally are allied sperts. Several times during the fourteen previous attempts to lift the Aneeri- ea's Cute, faulty rigging and inaele- gage meehanicel appointments prov- ed the undoing of the IBritieh •chal- lengers. United States defenders al- ways went to the tine with all sorts of gadgets, trick masts and booms and whittles, ,Sopwith, the engineer, has overlooked leo bets in fitting his Endeavor with foul -proof time -sav- ing contraptions, 'His mast is the tall- est ever set into a sailing vessel of any This tall, husky Englishman is 46, and this hair is graying, yet he be- longs to a younger generation of sportsmen. He became interested, in aviation when he first emerged from technical school, In 1908 Wilbur flew 56 miles at Le Mans, and the world *began to grasp a faint idea of the cooling utility of airplanes. Bleriot flew the channel in 151119. By 119110 'Tom Sopwith was learning to pilot a Ho- ward Wright biplane, and his license is No. 36 oil the Royal Ave° Chili re- .gister. Later that same year, as an un- knc,wn fledgling, be entered and non a non-stop distance cempetition with a hop of 176 miles from England to Belgium. Overnight he became a sort of Lindberghian hero and circled Windsor Castle in a commend per- formance for the King. That feat really started Sopwith on his distinguished career. He shipped three planes to the United Stag; in 11131 to make exhibition flights. Many , ProflhillCflt pereons, rode with 'IV. and Nelson Doubleday was, a passeng- er when ,Ssipwith •crashed at Garden City/L..I. Neither was. hurt, The fol - 'lowing year he brought over 0 speed- boat and captured the Harmsworth Trophy. Then he returned and out- fitted a machine shop for the menu- incture of airplanes. Flying boats were developed by Sopwith, and one of his first custom- ers, was. of all things, the Greek navy-. ,Great Britain didn't take mili- tary aviation very seriously until the war broke over Europe, Then the Sopwith factory began to hum. He turned ,out more Chian 4,000 inachines of various types, among them. the la - mons Sopwith CasneI, Paps and Dol- phins, still makes about half the ships used by the Royal Air Force. Mis recent Hawker Eery probably is the•eastest military plane in the world under lull load, Aud Sopwith is said to be designing a new type of fighting craft. One of the first attempts to fly the Atlantic was made in a Sopwith plane. ',Iarry 'Hawker, long one of his test pilots and now an associate in the business, made the try from: New- foundland and was picked up 1,000 miles at sea. Tone Sopwith was eigh, ,af course, and was able r6 buy the -marble pal- ace ,which Lord Ribblesdale had built in a select section of London's west end. He remodelled 'the 'house until it became a showpl'aco of England. Queen Mary visited it a few years ago, and Shortly afterward it was sold to the Crown. Sopwith moved nearby. He always had been Interested in boats, but the aristocratic world of yachting saw nothing 011 him until six years ago. Then he appeared with a ten -meter craft and almost immedi- ately began winning races. He. order- ed a ITOW craft, the 'Mossette, and took 715 firsts in three seasons, To 119,38, he purchased Shamrock V. After making a few Changes he took out against other craft Of the Royal Yacht Squad- ron, and in One season won ',24 flags to 113 for the King's cutter Britannia. Last year he captured the King'sCup. Sopwith had 'become the best amat- eur skipper in England. There could be only one other goal for him, and that the America's Cup, So he ordered Charles Nicholson to design a new boat, and tossed a challenger to the New Yurk Yacht Club in whose vault rests the oldest trophy in internatione al sport. Sopwith worked with Nich- olson in studying out the fleetest lines and sturdiest -rigging, He even helped pour the keel when construction start- ed, and hie wife christened the fin- ished emit Endeavor, Mrs, Sopwith is a yachtswoman who has sailed with her‘husband dining many of the races abroad. TO ENCOURAGE TRAVEL With a view to encouraging travel to this. country from the United StliteS, the Xlinister of the Interior supplied, during the 4934 travel sea- son, KM office, of amotnabile clubs in the leading United States cities with altractiyely mounte.1 photogra- t hie view, of representative Canadian scenes for window displays. Eaeh set eas accompanied hy a printed invita- tion to members and non-members to ''apply within" for news showing train connecting highways be, %Veen the two countries and bookkt, issued by the Department of the Interior on How to Enter Canada Vacationing in Canada, Canoe Trips, ,Sport Fishieg. and Hunting. In every caee the window displays aroused great interest and unilonbol- ly resulted in rensiderable embers bele g iuduced to visit Canada during the vacation season. In view of this success it is proposed to expand th work by extending co-operation to such other automebile clubs and ill -11'- e', bureaus a, have window display facilities. The benelficial effect froma tourist business point of view is gnite obvious. FRESH MILK A: YEAR OLD 'In an ,office an MadiSon 'Avenue, INew York, a 'visitor sat sipping zs glass of milk ,produced in Oxford county, iOnitorio, 51t was newel' milk, than ever the most modern distribue tion system can deliver in bottles to consumers ia the metropolis, but for this circumstance of the case having 'been delivered to offices for sampling, that same glass of milk, just as fresh and nourishing, night have been sip- ped' several months from non' in Tim - 'hereto°, or Peru, or ISingapore, or Stheieghai, or in any other of thirty- eight or forty countries beyond the seas which are supplied with milk from Oxford county, says 'Robert Compton, in The 'Farmer. ,Curiosity had led inc'10 ehat glass of Ontario milk in New York City. About a year ago there was a statis- tical work published showing that Oxford county, including the City of Woodstock and two or three tOW11S, has a 'larger per capita income than any other settled ;county in Canada, rot excluding 'Toronto and York and the 'island of Montreal. ?Roasting its share of women and children, 'Oxford per -person income is exceeded by only three pioneer districts deficient in seamen and children. Per Capita Income Oxford County . 0, ... . .... —8639.00 xTimiskaming .. ..... 87'5.00 York (Soronto) .„-. . . . ge ,.. 624,00 Montreal Island 496,00 esB.C. No. 1 .. .. .. . ... 710.00 xIB.,C. No 91257,00 xMining districts where women and children are comparatively kW ill number. Explanation of this comparative richnese for an old Ontario County is not merely that 'Oxford is a good 'farming area and that the farmer,: thereabouts know their bueinees, for elsetvhere in this agricultural country there are excellent farming district, and excellent 'farmers, The explana- tion simply is that Oxford county not only produces copious quantities of milk but, niku other districts, mark- ets it in far places as milk, rather than as cheese or butter. Milk sold t,, powder facteries invariably com- mands u better price than when sol to creameries. In 1633 the average per Cent. higher. There have been St:lit:F.11WD 011:1 C.11teeidefl that salvation of he- manity'lay in every man having Org. acres and a cow, whieli enggest, thet the point of consamption of the pro - duet of the cow is within a stone's throw of the milking. nut private eerses do net enable the average hi - —perhaps by a •hardworking mission- ary in the 'hinterland of iAfrica, or Per- chance meeting the 'Europeanized genes of native patrons ,ssf a native de- partment Store in Tient-Sin. W. H. IGurley, export 'manager of the 'Borden Company, told me the story. The present highly developed state of dairying in Oxford county is the result of three ,separate interests establishing manufacturing processes at this source of milk supply. The St. Charles Condensing Company, begin- ning at Ingersoll thirty-tfive years ago, was the first. It was Soon followed by !Benjamin. A. Gould, who awned the Canadian rights on a process for dry- ing milk. A little later .City Dairy Co. established receiving stations at Woodstock and Embro, ita order to get Oxford county milk to consumers in Toronto, and the same company in $91118 established ,plants for the manu- facture of powdered and condensed milk; i.ike the two other Companies, in the !field, it found a broad domestic and export market for its prodects, Like strawberries, milk is a highly perishable commodity. It must be consumed immediately after produc- tion or it must be converted into a form in which it can be preserved. In other districts in Canada, local popu- lation and the local cheese factories and creameries are the only markets for milk, which is produced twice daily, 365 days per year, while the volume varies greatly between De- cember and June. IBut Oxford conetY, equipped -with factories manufactur- ing powdered milk, and 'condensed and evaporated milk, and supplying probably half of the -total distributed by one of the largest companies in Canada's second city, has a more as- sured market for all of its milk pro- duction than has any other commun- ity in Canada. According to 3h-, 'Gurley gliere is a great 111 tare for powdered whole milk. It is milk from which the moisture is removed. simply by blow- ing it through tiny apertures; it enters a heated chamber at high preesuret the beet evaporates the moisture and what is left is a white powder %Odell, when packed in vacutin1 tins, ill re- tain its freshness for years. For ordin- ary use there simply it added the -tone amount of water a. Wils tNkel1 away and it is thoroughly mixed. It thee! can he drunk with the same as- surance months later, thousand, of miles ;okay. as if it had been deliver- ed to 1 lionie 21 N 1)01 1 10 the morn- ing after milking. 31r. Gurley.- reasons for knowing :hat there a great future for the itelnetry are that the packing prove::: prevent, sneiline, even though the shipmeet 3t in the It: hold of a tramp steainer 0 treeicel waters and be- eaese there seem, 11,, pesgbilite- of sera:evil ael e.)er Lir countries flee - 1522: a loea hos1 dairy industry such exist, in North Imeriete awl Fmrope. More ,evr, there is an increas- lug demand in mei mining camps fig milk ei,wderseaeroplanes undenteeiry could take a eow to Greet Ilear Lake but it is mere prac- ticable to take t he milk in pee dere,: i.(: one will find milk from Caned- , ian coes en the teles of white peo- ple in al tiie. remote p'aces of the orld, and in mission hospitals In aivelnai t,i wen three acres ithin city limits told there are other reasons wile it is easier for a 011111e1 to enter the eye of a nvedle than for a cite to be lions - St. James Street 011 1%1111i. Street. 'Sti it 11 11A developed that the driek er of milk often is 0 itmg itt 101 from the COW that prodnces it, am the fields that pasture the cow, It e fact, every day in these times, Oxford comity milk, as street and fresh a when it first left the farm, 15 con:51101 ell ten or twelve thousand miles awa!, • gOVAletrOlt-t& "Nii0.4M • ook We Are Selling Quality Books Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. AU styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere, Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. • The Seaforth News SEAFORTH. ONTARIO. China and in India it aids in the pre- servation .01 life oT both infant " and adult •patieet. ;Chinese on the great rivers will continue for long years to milkthe water ,buffalo but the Europ- ean inifluence and modern advertising in the language of •the country are factors in annual increases in sales of cow's milk from Canada. The only 'parts of the world to which 'Canadian milk is not shipped 'by Mr. IGterley'e department are the United States and United ,States pos- SeSS1011S. Down along the 'Panama Canal, for instance, where one side of a business street may be Canal Zone and !United States soil, and ithe other side the :Republic Of Partaina, care is taken to he sure that milk powder bought in Panama is from Canada. It is stated that more than 99 per cent, of all milk .powder exported to for- eign Countries other than United States passessions is the product of Canadian •dairy farms. filk powder export is a business a little more Clan ten or twelve years old. !Each year has ,seen an increase, even through the depression. Contin- ued growth reasonably can be expect- ed because of the 'high quality of this Canadian product and because of the aggressive and ever -widening sales connections of a manufacturing com- pany with the resources necessary to developiment of foreign markets, BASE METALS (11zroirt Agricultural and Industrial Progress in Canada). lExtension of 'Camshaft industries has been the outstanding development in recent years in Canada's economic situation, according to 'Aletallurgia, the British Journal of Metals, and the progress has not been alone in physi- cal development, but has included important improvements in Mt tallurg- ical practice. The article reviews, briefly, the metal procluctim indust- ries, giving primary consideration to the base metals, including a epecittl survey prepared by Mr. A. IL A. Rehinson, Deminion Department of Mines. Ottawa. The latter was secur- ed through the Development Section, 'Department of Indnstrial Develops melte Cantulian Pacific ;Railway, by courtesy 4 itlr. L. L. 1,1.olton, Assist- ant Deputy of Mines. There 1, every indication that Can- ada is Well 011 the Y0101 to industrial recovery., says Afetallurgia. Her een- dities is, n,, donin, largely clue to the revival in demand for those prodnet, she is able to supply from her egg: natural cesonret'S. but several factors have also c mtrilmted t. the healthier l'rshsiltht' the west outstanding f4.,.1 - tare in Canada's recovery is the re. mar:sable expansion of her g.ld ing industry. The higher price for ee metal has improved the outlook for large dept. -its of lou --grade (mt., too..11 are practically assured of snecossf operation, rurther, the presence o' gold in assmdation with the base mel- als has aided the prbelnetIon 1th, latter, and has emthled some of 0 tn. ada's base -metal producers to con. thine their operation, teith mitch mor, favorable results than Wol11,1 hags leen possible otherwise. But public interest has been attracted by gold-anining development,, there has been a teedency to overli.ok import- ant work whien has been done in oth- er branches of the mining hut:eery; in most metels, for instanee, output has sharply increased. As iS Well known, the nickel pre- duced in Canada has its source 401„5 entirely in the nickel -hearing ores of the Sudbury district in Ontario. The known reserves of nickel ore in this district, being estimated at over 200,- 000,0.1) tons, carrying perhaps on the average about three per cent nickel and 2 per cent copper. The largest individual ore body— that of Frood—has been only partly explored as yet, but over 105,000,000 tons of ore are already indicated. Pro- duction and developed reserves in this district are 'entirely in the hands of two companies, International Nickel Co. and ilialconibridge Nickel Co. The former is the larger, being capable of handling 8000 tons of ore per day; the capacity of the ,Falconbridge com'pany's plant is 110W nearly 800 tons ,of ore per day. During the worst of the clepresssion, the plant of International Nickel Co. was ,operating at about 110 per cent capacity; to -clay, however, it is work- ing nearer 50 per cent of plant cap- acity, while the Falconbridge Go, 'c plant has been operatin.g at full cap- acity for over a year. While this not- able revival of the nickel mining, smelting ,and refining industry can be attributed to a general splickening in industrial activity, a second important factor is a growing familiarity with, and confidence in, nickel alloys in en- gineering, lit is noteworthy that the Falesen- bridge Co. treat the ore in a blast fur- nace when, most other smelters throughout the world use the reverb- atory furnace. The medium -grade or, 01 Falconbricigebeing higher in nick el than in copper, and possessing a high sulphur content, is found to be peculiarly suited to smelting in the blast -furnace. 133 using the sulphur as fuel, the percentage of coke re- quired is kept as low as 8 per cent of the weight of the change. Though there are a number of influences that might upset the balance in this type of smelting, by 'keeping wttli certain limits there is achieved, at Fatcon- brid.ge a 'better recovery of the metals and tower costs than would be pos- sible by the alternative ,methods, and this in spite ,of the fact that the capi- tal cost of the requisite plant is also considera,bly less. !Recently this com- pany installed a concentrating, and sintering Plant to treat low-grade ,ore, which formerly was either left in the mine or was treated in the smelter at a cost higher than its metal con- tent warranted. 'By taking out three- quarters of the barren rock material of this low-grade ore, the :feed for the blast -furnace ,has been made much richer in metals than it was •formerly, so that to -day the isneelting plant, with only slight additions, is able to treat 1780 tons of ore, against a former 'VS tons., 'Al further notable advance is achieved by the addition to plant at Montreal EaSt of Canadian Copper iRelfiners 'Ltd., a subsidiary of 'Nor- anda fMine, Ltd., by which selenium and tellurium are now being produc- ed in the Dominion ,for rhe first time. RISKS RUN BY AVIATORS The Lorsdon-Mellbourne air race on which the eyes of the world .were fo- cused recall the ordeals which the man in the cockpiteis so often faced with. Most air casualties occur in dir- ty weather, when visibility is almost at zero. The aeroplane either breaks up in the air or piles Up on the ground, leaving little of the original structure intact becaese of the ter- rific speed at which the crash occurs. ,Low clouds and ,ing are the deadliest enemies of elle airman. Although there are ingenious instruments to indicate to him that he is sid.eglipping or turning, etc., when he has 3,, vittnai check in the way of horizon or land- marks, uhe temptation readily arises to ignore these and fly by instinct. In clear weather all airmen control their machines instinctively. They immed- iately feel when the 'plane is behaving. abnormally, and just as naturally and automatically .ineke tile necessary eor- rution. But what an utter donkey clouds can make of even the best of pilots: The queerest and most dang- erous things 'happen in the midst of those iovely fleecy masses. which de- light the eye from the groeind, bur. gis en e eile berth ''3' the alt 1411. There was a pilot attached to a Seet tish air transport concern to e how blind flying- was as easy as pulling the machine int, a steep turn. On the way to 05.11-.1 o:ie .103' les 011111 l4 t , abget 70ne feet. where he eneenntered seine ch 111., C0111fiElently to himself, he said: -Oh. I'll just 13 through theml" ,Itirty secouds he was alarmed te hear the wire' whining clistreseedly. A quiels ,elence at his instruments showed that shill;orl.tauscii iatC;;71:e''Intlti:1111117.4,1 quer.get111to state of panic. He immediately thrig- tled •beth engines-, let the contr.!: go, and waited for the moment when he would be clear of the clonils 3,, as- ;_ertain what go S :122-. 53111, The a'- timeter revealtel that he had lost :441021 feet of heignt. Then the base of the elond thinned, and to his "um.... realised that his machine was in a wide spiral dive, By redneing the speed and letting the ctst :rsi r Ise had averted disaster. The 'plane by 11553 was in a retrieval, e poeition, and its, pulled it straight and leyel again a mere 11000 feet orf the sea, Had he been at 3000 or am feet en entering the cloud, the lives of the seven pas- sengers and the pilot would have ter - minted in disaster. "Unless you know that the weather 61 perfectly clear at your destination, never blind -fly," is the golden rule in aviation. If in doubt, always keep "under the ceiling." 'Only by a time calculation can a pilot wha has ac- curately blind -flown on a definite course say that he is over his unseen destination. Holes in the clouds have a nasty habit of rinsing up Just, as you decide to pop through them. ,Hillitops, chimney. - stalks, and church - spires may be some of the unfriendly ob- stades to his safe landing should ne decide to come down through the mist and chance a clearance. FOUND MONEY? (Another one of those tall yarns: A 'Western young lady recently atl- vertised for a husband and got him. Tile total expense of the advertising and wedding outfit was 19112 and with- in a year the husband cl ied, leaving a life insurance 0 ri_.f G17114090: TArakil:recrit9is,t, ing always pays, As a .verrhifuge an effective prepar- ation is Mother Graves' Worm Exter- minator. and it can be given to the most delicate child without fear of in- jury to the coestitution,