HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-01-12, Page 3British Premier Amuses Savants -
At Gathering of Royal Society
Stanley Baldwin Speaks "the Common Englisllt"r in Accepting
Fellowship From Distioguished Organization -
of Natural Scientists in London
London Ac)tnoviedging, his tltanlcs on one occasion, sspeakiag to' Sir
for what; lie deolared was "one of the .loseph Larmol' in the latter's.library,
highest mpners that anyone could de -.he confided to Kiat: "There is no
etre to have in this world," the Prime einglo book. oil these eholVes of
Minister, Stanley Baldwin,,,,,spealcing which i Pan 'understand one single
as a new member, at the '265tis anal- word," to which Sir Joseph calmly
versary dinner of the Royal Society ; and confidently replied: " TrebablY
Paid tribute to the learning andin-not!"
dustry of the British natural scientists The Prime Minister recalled an in -
who are gradually ;oittalogulug the eident of his boyhood when hie father
output. of . Philosophical papers and the Tatter's brother -hi -law, Sir
throughout the world at the rate of Edward Poynter—neither of them
200,000 a year;
!without culture of a certain' ktad—
The Prime Minister, in happy vela, went with a friend to hear a paper
was frequently interrupted by the read at the Rpyal Society,
laughter and applause of his dis• ,Thanks In "common English"
anguished auditors, 60000!x117 wheat. ' 'it my ,seni.ory servos mo right,"
, making amusing allusions to the dif- be sold, "it was road by tato Father of
ference between a modern' savant tnd my friend Lord Rayleigh and the sub-
a politician, jest of the paper was 'The Principle
"My association With the Royal of` Oscillating Curves,' . I remember
Society," he said, "dates tram a re- that neithert my father nor Sir 'Ed-
cent peace or my life. I do not know ward Poynter understood a word of
why you want politicians in your it and not the least distinguished
nitltst—we live. 1-t-rtlifferent places— man, Professor Huxley, was' in the
. ` You, deal with suns and eters and same galley—and he drew on the
.electrons and 1 cleat with rates and biaakboard a picture of a life guarda-
'taxes. .1+'ith you, time and space are, man in the attire theta' fashionable, in
T am told, small inatterk;p tyitlt me the act of kiesEng a.' tiny girl and
they .are grins realities, Yon aro a under it lie wrote 'a super -oscillatory
prieethootl and you worship truth; I curve,"'
belong to a sect. • • Tho Prime Minister, in accepting
Census Follows Silence the Fellowship, said he took corniest
"You employ hypothesis as far as it in reflecting that ministers and judges
will r.,,rr; yen and then you find a and ethers not engaged in scientific
new tae. If . wo discard our hypotb- research wore -now also being elected
eses we are not said to bo pushing to the Royal Secrets. Ile craved par -
forward our minas tato the unknown; don, for some of his amusing refer-'
-once, or most of you do, until you enees before such a sedate, and digni-
we are called 'rate;' You keep sit fled assemblage.
!nary the truth—that Would impose a! "You, may thiuk,,perhaps, that on,
great strain onus—and when you an occasion like this I am treating'
have found truth you try •t0 describe the subject -matter of my speech with;
it in' a few words, Only constith,-' mere levity, .and yet you will remelts.
r
A Fatal Topa
LIFE OR DEATH ON THE TOSS', OF A COIN!
J.13, Taylor (right) and C. A Burrows (left) tossed a ;coin to see which
should take the first run in a new United States mail plane for Cheyenne from
Denver. Taylor won the toss and a few minutes later the plane crashed
and burned, burning hint to death:
-•enle grade us according to tato num-!ber the story of the little juggler who
Madonna.
icer of columns of Hansard (Parila-,tad nothing to' offer to' his Mndott
arentary reports) that wo produce -and except his own skill in tainting, and.
if we keep s!isuce the renderoursel-,he turned somersaults before her, not •
yll chroll ib d Signals for Ships
.Called Preventive of Disasters
Universal Adoption of Safety evices Would "Loch the Door
A,oinst Needless Sea Accidents," Naval
Experts Declare
It the sound -making and li>tening face almost an inch .tblok. Electri-
alirtssatita for 'ships that usw. estate, CaIis' caused vibrations of this face at
slowly being adapted in the United a rate of 500 to the minute oreafe•a
Slates, were to lie 't:niversull;r used sound iii the water that le utzdlble to
it would "lock,the door against treed- nrioropltoaes for many Iniltas4
less ate d; ,t.,tsr..," :tot only n•itlt sub-� The rising signal of 0 submarine—
marhres but alio a :tong surfµee three long dashes—sounded upon the more than $26,001,000, had been as
craft's, acet,rdl:ig to naval experts in 'oscillator in the tun, sent out `such 90miiiei bjt' the National Jewellers''
Boston, a noise speech in the recant was
"lilurope its far ahead of the United 110 5 0111 1 0. The sorrnd was not unlike
States in the use: of Meseproven- that 01 a d'eop but rauctis motor horn,
tive devices," daeiered a former oWt-!greatly intensified, It was clearly
ver -of the United States Navy who evident, even to an untrained ob-
11as kept pace . with sea -safety pro- server, such a sound would be clearly
areas, "AItlrcugh they are of Maori audible without receiving instru-
eau invention it 'remained for the meats upon the deck of a vessel with -
governments of England, `Gormauy, in two blocks or more of a rising
Denmark and Malawi, alt of whom submarine,
are far more 'ship -minded' than 15 the Water Depth Shown
Government et,the United States, to A demonstration of the fathometer
bin$ uteri Into wide tree."- was also made. This instrument conversation at the ordinary ;dress.
Safety Demonstration sons out a sound from a small oscil- Parade there was a breathless- air..
An explanation and demonstration later, which travels,' to the bottom about the audience, an atmosphere of
of these devices, the submarine and is echoed bank. Knowing the t tension born of the knowledge that
oscillator and the fathometer, were speed sound travels in water a re- one of the strongest detective squads
made by Harold 3. H; Fay, vice-Presi- cording instrument translates the
hat Scotland Yard has ever seat out
dent of the Submarine Signal Co. of time into fathoms, giving the depth to a Private social function was ares?
Boston, the sole makers of these de-
beneath the keel of a ship "to within ant,'
vices that, are now coming into use three feet. According to navigators Plain -clothes men were on guard at
by almost every country in tale world this instrument is the greatest -in- "every entrance. Tickets—and on one
tndulging fn extensive ^maritiiae op• ventlon since the compass. Was admitted without one—were ecru.
oratiaons. Explaining the most modern safety tinized.closely, They had been print-
metheds for finding the d'fetance of a ed in tba country and sent out at the
iter navigation bolls down to a' ship from the shore or 'from al fight- last moment.
matter of proper distance finding,'ship, Mr. Fay said: "A simple but Candles and matches had' been stem -
Parade
y i300.. ingenious instrument makes possible ed out to all t detectives o duty
Parade of Jewels
Worth $5,000,000
Three Princes at Wender
Show Held in London
London—Royal Prineeeses end.
piain•eipthee deteittre :rubbed sboul
dere in the ball -room et the Mayfair
!Hated when a $5,000,490 jewellery and
dress display provided Leaden with
the greatest spectacle of the, kind
seen since mannequin parades began.
A collection of gem's, valued at
,Association of Great Britain and its
affiliated organizations of ,America
and Canada, and the choicest treas-
ures selected from this modern Alad-
din's cave gleaned oil the necka and
arias and the shingled heads o1 the
mannequins. so many diamonds,
pearls, and .emeralds of price have
never before - been aesem�bted in a
single room.
Breathless
In contrast to the usual ripple of
de lased Mr. Fa•"It is now i a'
siblo for a captain to know at any P
moment the amount of water be -the synchronization of the oscillator and, specie) guards placed over the
and radio. When ,eigua1e from electric light mains and switches
tureen his keel and the ocean bottom. both the the latter are sent out etmul- A double cordon of massive rope
It le 'possible forhimto know the ex- taneouely a button Is •pressed on as thick as a man's. arm was flung
act distance or his ship from.the board the ship, wishing to know its Heroes the ballroom to form a centre
shore; even in fog or at night. It is whereabouts at night or in fog or gangway for the bejewelled manna,
possible for him to know when a cub term, immediately upon hearing the ! gains, and the audience — among
marine 1s rising wit in Live miles of whom were Princess Andrew of
radio signal. As. the oscillator signal,!
him. And soon it will be possible for u n ,,, Senn rOe„ t Greece, Princess Theodora of Greece,
he de
IeIIVI�Re•I I Y.II�d AFRICA eco s Piece kn h throng • t ower, I and: Princess de Croy—were seated at
.iOlillliy Re him. And soon it w1I bap ossble for ! d h
PLANNED FOR IN
a captain to ow the course, the
f h he water s much sl
DIANS , Once there was a little .boy, whose speed, and the distance
small tables' on either side:
the button s pressed again when
away of a The mannequins, whose Pail Caret
that signal reaches the ship. The tn,
ves liable to a -.tete of censure:" � out' of any spirit of levity but because
' Pit' Baldwins. frankly admitting it was all he had to offer, ape the
himself to be a pr'of'oundly ignorant ,Madonna smiled upon him. 1 am un_
layman, said that all 'his life lie -had' able to talk to you in your language.
looked upon -the Royal Society'with I merely speak the common English,
"the awe and wonder 'common to and in that tongue 1 tbank you once
those outside of Tour bounds.!' ' He more, from my heart, for this very'
said be mats fond of bas but that groat honor you have done to me." ,
May Seize Mines
For Tax Arr aro
Ontario Government Issues
Warning. to. Affected
Owners
Toronto.—In an -effort to secure the
payment of tax arrears amounting to
more than $52,000, the : Ontario Gov
ernment may declare,forfeited and -re -
vested in the Crown the mining rights
in 60,000 acres of lands in northern
and north-western Ontario. Notice of
this policy has already been published
in the Ontario Gazette, and the own-
ers affected are advised to take ad -
Gas Tax Steady -
Duri.., _. g 1928'
No Reduction in Present Fees
Will Take Place During
Coming Year
No increase in the gasoline -tax is
eontemstlated for ,the coming year.
Neither will there be any redaction
in motor license .fees. Announce-
ments to this effect were made by
Premier Ferguson at'the close of a
protracted meeting of the Ontario
Cabinet Friday.
Legislation Discussed
The general legislative program
vantage of the six months Period al- for. the coming sessioa was discussed
lowed., them to pay up the amounts at the Cabinet Council meeting and
owing,
It is seven years since the Province,
through the Department'of Mines, last
resorted to a policy of general for-
feiture to collect tax arrears. The tax
matters relating to improvement and
reorganization in various depar'i
meats were. under consideration.
Survey 'Being Made
"'The expenditures on roads are
for which a number of claim owners not met by ;the revenues from the
in northern Ontario are in default, is traffic," said the _Premier. "The de -
the one 0f five cents each acre im- partment has been making a survey
' po`sed upon all lands which are held of the whole situation because we
in an undeveloped state. ' want to provide for the capital 'neves-
Bary by the issue of debentures for a
Persia
Protests
period covering the life of the loads
A ersila LL l otLests - so: as to take bare of the replacement.
By the exercise of very rigid economy
Treaty. of Britain Concerning•: this coming -year we will try to get
along without increasing any tax."
Bahrein Island Object- ;•
.—
ed To VESSEL OWES SAFETY
Genova.—Persia has protested to
the League of Nations against the
TO YARMOUTH SHIPP ER
• treaty between Great Britain. and the Coal Transferred to.'Distress-
ed Ship. After .Hour's'
Manoeuvring
Yarmouth, N.S.—That the Canadian
King of the 'Hedjaz concerning .Bah-
rein Islands which lie' on the Arabian
side of the League covenant. This is
the article whereby, members of the
League undertake, to respect and pre -;Government Merchant Marine steamer.
serve as against external aggression 'Canadian Carrier -reached ''St. John,'
the territorial 'integrity with the N.B.,"safely after having exhausted
League and whereby also the council , her fuel supply, instead of having -
is authorized to examine moans for been driven ashore and wrecked en
the fulfilment of- this obligation. the rocky coast of Southern Nova
The Teheran government asserts Scotia, .was due, in largo measure,.
that the treaty In question, which was to the courage and resourcefulness of
signed at Jdd'ah on May 20 last be. a 'Yarmouth skipper and his crew of
tween Sultan"t' bdul Aziz Ibn Saoud eight, who set. out in a small motor
and Great Britain,, declares thatthevessel; taxed to its 'C'apacity with 30
liedjaz undertakes to maintain friend- tons of coal, and began transferring
ly peaceful relations with the torri- thef uei to the :distressed streamer
torte of Bahrein and Kowoit and with after an hour careful manoeuvring in
the sheiks :of Qutar and the Oman rthe violent sea. The pitching of both
coast, who, it is added, are in special
treaty relations with Great Britain..
Persia insists that the Bahrein Ie•
lands are incontestably Persian, ex-
plaining
x
plaining that when Persia protested
as far back as 1869.against the spe-
cial agreement between Great Britain
and 'the great sheik of Bahrein, Lord
Clarendon recognized the- justice. of
that protest,
She used to be too proud to scrrib
the floor at Ll: a week -that wns,'ar-
rogance, Now she does it for no-
thing—that's matrimony,,
President Coolidge Is quoted as
saying that after his term expires he
will return to Vermont and whittle
for a year or. two. Still following the -
Coolidge economy program by cutting
Flown here and therel
vessels constantly threatened die -
aster to the relieving craft and its
crow, but, after three hours' strenuous
effort, the perilous task was accent -
Wished, and the motor boat returned
safely to port while'' the Carrier, no
longer a plaything of'the sea, pro-
ceeded to her destination, St. John,
Laurels for *lsroes.
Coach "Win this game in a busi-
ness -like manner to -day, men -there's
a scout from a big Now York bond
house in the stands."—Life.
An American left the bulk of Isla
fortune to his lawyer. If everybody
did this, a lot of time would be saved.
—London Opinion.
A' good lesson might be learned,
from the sky, for when it's blue it's
always pleasant,
Durban, Natal—A scheme.is on foot
to build art Indian, university at Dur-
ban. It is likely to involve an ex-
penditure of £20,000, a .largo propor-
tion of : whieb• sum has already been
collected. At present an application
is being considered ` by the Town
Council,for a grant of Jive or six acres
in Centenary Road on which to build
the university.
On bis return to Durban, SriniVasa
Sastri, who originated the scheme
will meet the finance. committee and
discuss -the matter, The. object is to
provide au establishment to give
higher training for Indian teachers
and to raise the standard'of educe-
t!oa amo the Indian community gen-
erally.
en-
eral ly
"When hubby gets a horn bill It
doesn't necessarily` mean- that. ho
bought ft eaxaphone."
name was Johan Reece, ship coming toward him regardless frocks, forecasting the fashions of
Y strument controlled by the 'button
e next ser ng on y
yards and gives he exact distance to a couple of hours before the parade
began, were jewels specially selected
hehad storeto accord in color and style with their
frocks, day and evening
-
]kept learning more, ouch as is now attached to subma- liners so that the course distance Special Lighting
He was called upon one week.
And totally forgot the Piece he was
about to speak,
And every Friday afternoon he bad too fog ors term
translates th time intomiles and
say a piece;, Oscillator in Use.
So many poems thus he learned that
In • a working demonstration of the anyone glancing at the dial,
soon a a : oscillator, a use of which is involved "The matter of extending this. "sYn-
OP recitations in his head, and still in all of these operations, a model ehronized,'signalling system to ocean
They made their entry through a
lines, was submerged in a large tub and speed of a ship coming In the uar of detectives and beneath
of water Placed in one or the rooms opposite direction may be known in bodyguard
of th Submarine Signal Company's foggy weather or at night thus pre the Powerful beans of a special light -
Isis brain he cudgeled; not a word re-' plant
malned within this head!.
And so he spoke at random and this I i f
bushel e
I eluding -the possibility off mammon ing installation, which held each coat -
is
m risoned in its light
i throughout the progressthroughthe
t 1 'b I t d' international P t t
is what he said:.
The. apparatus was' approximate) •will bbl b t 1 ly treasureP
Y
pro a y. e a ten up atthe next
o size o n use as te_ , an was - - safety y a sen -
made of heavy steel, with.a fiat steel tion."—(Christian Science Monitor,)conven-ballroom and back to the vigilant es
"My beautiful, ,ply beautiful, who
cort,- while the clear tones of the an-
standeth proudly by;, nouncer mentioned the staggering
s,
It was' the schooner Hesperus --the Sniper's P` - '�. sums represented by perhaps a single..t
breaking waves dashed high.
Why is the Forum crowded? What
means; this stir in Rome?
Under a spreading chestnuftree there
is no place like home)
When freedom' from her mountain
height cried, 'Twinkle, little star,'
Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
King henry of Navarre!
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue
castle crag of Drachenfels;
My name is•Norval, on the Grampian
Hills ring out, wild bells!
3 you're waking, call me early, to be
or not to be
The curfew must not rlr
woodman spare
Charge, Chester, cb
on! And let win/.
The boy stood on l
but I go on. fol
His schoolmates/
flnislied the last 'I/
"I see It deem(
thought, "what, -
So long as I declaim witn
display!"
—St. Louis Globe -Democrat.
sts at .
Bank of England
London.—Part of the defences of
the 'Bank of England have been re-
vealed by the re -building work in
progress.
Two long horizontal slits have ap-
peared, almost at the top of the blank
wall, at the Threadneedle street. and
Bartholomew lane corner. They are
loopholes designed for rifle fire in the
event of an attack on or siege of the
Rank of England.
an could stand at these
many- important
into the vast
-k." With
`hese po
-Hain
the slits are—co,...„
Hitherto the slits bass._
Mexico would be all right if its gov- by cunningly devised stones,
ernment could execute the laws as et- could be withdrawn easily by hand.
fectively as it does the revolutionists. From outside they appeared to be
Virginian -Pilot. tiny panels.
An Australian Accident
THE LAST OF FATAL FERRY.,
One-half of the ferry boat'"GerYbliffe" which was cut two by the 5,5, Tahiti, in the harbor of Sydney,
Australia. Eighty, -cis person. lost their lives in the disaster. The ferry, boat IS being raised to clear tiro harbor.
Repass.
rope of pearls,a diamond necklace, or
a pair of emerald ear•rings,'•
A mannequin in a dark brown and
copper colored three-piece walking
suit,-with'a small neat but to match.
Pulled down well over her ]read, led
off. the $5,000,000' 'procession. Her
modest pearl necklacewas valued at
93.04,000.
This was merely by way of a be-
ginning. There came in rapid succes-
sion a £30,000 shoulder knot brooch
of emeralds and diamonds, scientillat-
ing on the left eboulder of e, black
evening gown, a £'65,000 threestring
pearl necklace of perfectly graded
gears, worn with a .black verset coat
and skirt and gold flame jumper; and
another pearl necklace valued' at ST0,.
000.
Another pearl necklace,, three grad
nated ropes of matched' gems• that
•reed the wearer of asimp'1'e Maack
sr and skirt and black velvet hat,
ted $500,000—a fortune even
''me prices had become
-ad the women beg -air to
`rest in the beauty
r .style of the
Chicago — Crime in
shown to be on the increase In - the
manual report of the Municipal Court.
Charges of murder in 1927 were 213
as against 175 in 1926; manslaughter
eases increased to 311 la 1927 as
against 198 in 1926. Other crimes
shown in the report which runs from,
Dec. 1 to Nov. 30, are:
Crime 1926 1927
Larceny 3,629 10,143
Robbery .... 2,658 3;5271
Burglary 1,505 2,185.
'Vagrancy .... . 1,102 4,994
Wife abandonment and non-support
cases showed a decrease of 1,200 to
3,729 in 1927, as did motor vehicle
cases, with 130,023 in 1926 and 107,-
272 in 1927, That's the report. Bill i
Thompson must be Proud of it.
'
Names given to new shades that
will prevail in spring apparel include
"grasshopper,. This should be -.suit-
able for jumpers.
Ottawa, Ontario—The 1926 output
of Sheet metal products was valued at
$39,077,034, an increase of 14 per cent.
over" the output value of $84,442,483
reported in the, previous yearby the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics.. This
is peak production eiace'.the Bureau
began to collect records of manufac-
tures in 1917; the previous high mark
being ,$37,369,576, in 1920. Of the 135
plants reporting in this group, 95 were
located in Ontario, 19 each in Que-
bec and British Columbia; 11 in Mani-
toba, 8 in Alberta, 4 in New Brune-
wick'
,2 each in Saskatchewan and
Nova Scotia, and ono in Prieto Ed
ward Island.
•
Fish So x
Compete w r
Unfrozen
LondenHalibut frozen . in brine
when caught, and then put into ordi-
nary cold storage are declared by
London fish merebants to have prov-
ed markedly superior to those frozen
in the ordinary way. In fact, it ie
considered amply proved that fish
frozen in brine retain the qualities•
they had when multi, and when
thawed out months later can ' com-
pete successfully on the market with
fish which has not been frozen.
The system would undoubtedly
come more quickly Into use were it
not for the high initial coat, which,
at present involves the use of a par-
ent ship fitted with the brine tanks
to take the catches from the trawlers
during the three or four months that
they remain on the fishing grounds,`
One firm in Britain, the pioneer of the
system on this side of the Atlantic, is
said to have invested as much'as
t 200,000 in it. A Hall firm which
deals only in halibut sands its fleet
of 80 to 40 motor vomits and one
storage ship to Greenland sratore,
`' "They're off)" cried the monkey as
he stuck hie fingers in the- lawn
mower. ,
Praise is sometime good thing
for the diffident and 'despondent.. It
teaches then) properly 4o rely on the
Ikindness of others, Letltie H. Lau
don. '''