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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-02-23, Page 7*Ara Paradise oi? Plague Spot? The World's Greatest. Gamb- ling Hell As The Croupier See It ' Blue skies and azure sea, white palaces glittering in the sunshine l everywhere life, laughter, wealth, That is Otte aspect of Monte Carlo, to which the world of fashion 1s now flocking. But this article Shove Its the other side of the picture and ex- poses the sinister underworld of 'the gamesters' 1VIeoca.. sham aulclde, card a hsrtdsome prom as reward, ."Systeme" Are. No Good, xiow can the croupier Twist the enanifoid temiitetious of his work?' The answer is that he seas every, day hat gambiing is no read to fortune. On the other hand, !ro knowe that Itis 015 ie sate as long aa he does itis work well, He eee save, and save a ot, for, beeidee hie salary, which is ,generous, there ie the bolte, or little beX for tips. b get players put considerable sums into the, belie when their luck la in.. The Casino staff divide the eoetents of these boxes every week. ,' What is the met pathetic type of confirmed gambler? Personally, I think the elderly woman, She has not the force of character to accept 'defeat no most men will, Next, I put the maniac, for she is no less, 'Wen, believes that, he has die - covered an, infallible system, Of recent years eombivations of players, with immence capital book- ing, have operated systems, at Meat° Carlo and elsewhere. I have watched the systems of the famous Greek Syndicate.'.I have seen them cleanup 100,000 francs iii an evening, But thenI have seen them lose even more. I have often been asked for ad- vice by novices. It is easy to give— :lever play! In our daily prep • the picture of two recent winners at Monte' Carle were given. following that, this. anti cle should be interesting, It appear- ed in the English Popular weekly "Aaswere.", For. over twsntY YearsI bave weni- pulated my long rake ou the smooth, green tables of Monte Carlo's famous Casino. I have. seen "fortunes made in an evening's play—• and lost with- in' hours. I .have seen men and women grow rich for a little while,and I have seen them :become oor—permanently, , And I have never made a het in niy life; I have never putt asmuch as a single franc on the green tables, Crooks at the Tables The croupier is a man apart, being In, but not of, Casino -land, This is easy to understand when the, conditionsai'e explained. The majority of people who frequent the famous rooms of Monte Carlo are just gamblers, But there remains a small minority of .people who are notorious crooks. The cremiler must avoid the very appearance of evil. Therefore,. though- I lived' more than twenty years in the principality. I had no Viands. The law of Monaco forbids subjects of the prince to eater the Casino; the unwritten law of the Casino forbids a croupier to cultivate chance aogitaintanoes. Gus day I noticed one player operatingon three tables, a. common procedure with heavy gamblers; Hav- ing staked on my table, be proceeded to another, leaving .bis money for me to rake in or to be pushed from the table plus th winnings. He won. Dealing With a Cheat Japanese Turn Light of Science On Industries Research . Brings Modern Methods to _ Every Field in National Transition; Many Economies Effected Transition from hand labor to mase production, from oxen as a vehicle of power to high tension transmission lines, from jinrikishas to motor cars, represents the pace in the present-day industrial development of Japan and foreshadows an economic advance of great significance to the Western world. In her industries, social life, amuse- ments; press and publications transi- tion is the keynote. The nation is im- pelled by the forces of research and applied science with such power that she is passing through an industrial metamorphosis which is reflected in all phases of her activities. Young Japanese engineers -30,000 of them— recent graduates of Japanese universi- ties, are gradually taking over the control of processes and methods in electrical, chemical, aeronautical, silk and other industries. Leads In Fisheries Technology. In fisheries technolog, Japan leads the world. The high degree of perfec- tton of scientific progess in this field of industry Is attested by the success of pearl culture operations. This pro- cess of aiding the oyster by a surgical' operation to grow a pearl where none grow before was originated and prac- ticed exclusively by the Japanese.It was long a guarded secret of one family. It: Is only in recent years that foreigners, and but few of them, have been permitted to visit the pearl cul- ture farms. The pearl culture process consists essentially, according to Maurice Hol- land, director of the National Re- scorch Council, -in a recent copyright- ed report published with the aid of the Japan Society of New York, in insert- ing a perfect sphere of Missouri River mussel shell, about three thirty-sec- onds of an inch in diameter, in the mantle Of the living oyster. Upon the skillful execution of this delicate sur- gical operation the success or failure of cultured pearls depends. After the nucleus is inserted the oystersare set in a cage of iron shelves, which is lowered aboutfifteen feet below the surface 'of the water. In the season 200 diving girls are employed to clean the oysters, remove foreign growth and ast as "nursemaids." At Gokasho ,there are said to be 50,000 of these ifearl:oyster 'cage incubators in opera- tion, with an average yield of 140 Pearl oysters to the cage. Pearl Yield Is Profitable. The life cycle of the oyater.te twelve years. Tile nuclius is not inserted, however, unti}alio fourth year, as the shock of the operation is too great for Young oysters. me pearl oyster re - ratans in;, cultivation for live to six Years after the operation, this being the period of prime activity and maxi- mum production of pearl essence.. The allkimoto pearl stations, owned by the family of the originator of the science, have a total area of nearly 41,000 acres. Three million pearl oysters are .planted yearly and the annual. value of pearl production averages $1,000,000. Reversing the figures for America, where ten pounds of meat aro con- sumed for every pound of fish, the Japanese eat ten pounds of fish for every pound` of meat. Japanese dieti- cians and economists therefore are in- stating on a 300 per cent, increase, in basic ,production during the next .fif- teen years. Research and science come to the aid of the government and business men with plans for the full- est utilization of shallow waters to bays, intensive use of rivers and lakos for fish culture, improvement of flab- ing vedsel design to affect 000neinlo8 In operation, more extensive use ot labor' -saving devices and autotnatio machinery, The Imperial Fisheries Institute ie the national centre of scientific and technical development of the industry to Yapan. Laboratories, experlfneatal To my surprise a very pretty girl, who had been losing, leaned across the man two places from her, and said: "Could I trouble you? My win- nings." Believing the winnings of the ab- sent operator were those of the smil- ing girl, he compiled., She slipped the money into her lap and resumed play. Such occurrences are net Infrequ- ent, and the croupier must watch for such tricks. But he must not de- nounce the cheat—oh dear no! That would be to make a scandal, and there must be no scandals at the tables. I made a sign to a "peacemaker"— a suave official who mingles with the crowd, keeping- an eye upon the crou- piers for any signal. He approached me discreetly. I indicated the offender and her offence. A moment later the unhappy girl heard a polite voice at her elbow: "Madam has unfortunately made a mistake. She has takem the win- nings of another player—pardon!" No Sandal—Sy Order Of course, the culprit affected sur- prise, and handed over the stolen money. A moment later the peace- maker suggested that it was pleasant outside, and escorted her to the door. That is how all such eases are dealt with. Sometimes my eye, travelling round the table, wilt come to rest upon a character whom I have met before. I signal the peacemakoe% He invites the player to join' him for a moment. He is very polite. "Monsieur had the misfortune to be convicted of fraud," he observes, "IIere it is very warm; outside :it is cool and very plasant. Good -evening, sir!" Above all, there must bo no scandal do the Casino. Tragedy? Ah, there •is tragedy there! One can sea un- nameable things in the eyes of des- operate losers. \One rises and lurches• hrough the throng. He has lost heavily,. "Sian ne va plue! "—"no more staking! "—I. ory 'as the little ball dances 'madly g alon its grooves in the whirling wheeir: The ,game proceeds, nobody has marked. tate little drama in which I play my part—by a trick of the eye- brows. But the peacemaker has fol- lowed the unlucky one. He comes en hien in the vestibule. "Monsieur, forgive my presume- , tient," resume-;tion," be says. "There has been a mistake, The Casino owes you 1,000 framer 'You will play no more. It is understood ?" On one occasion I failed tonote a -heavy loser's departure. I)ie shot himself in the Casiuo grounds. A scandal! Terrible thought! -Officials harried to the body, crammed notes into the pockets. Voila!' A tragedy of the''heart--nothing to do with, the tables. Onoe a shot rang out in the beauth .tut gardens, Casino officials rushed to the spot, a figura iayil, revolver in !rand, on the ground. Quickly notes were'etnffed Into the pockets and the o01elate retreated. A moment later they summoned Via gendarmes, ' Astonishment! No „corpse, It was a (lover trick. A Mother Goose China For Tiny Travellers Special attention to kiddies, travel- ling with their paronto on trains of the Canadian Natonee Ralways, bas for some time beast a feature of ser- vice on Canadian National dining cars,. Nursery rhyme menus, illustrated with all the popular nursery rhyme characters, have been provided for the youngsters to select their own meats, and special meals, salted to 'the kiddies' tastes have been provid ed. Now another attraction for the children has been provided, with the placing on each of the diners of spacial china services for the chil- it dren, each of the plates, caps, ate„ be- ing decorated with paintings from the nursery rhymes, The famous cow jumping over the moon and' Miss Mut. fet shrinking, in horror' from the spider which "sat down. beside her" are but two of the nursery rhyme characters illustrated in colors on the edges of soup and dinner plates, cups and saucers. High chairs for the con- venience of tiny travellers who are still too sural to be seated at the re- gular table, and special -bibs to pre- vent soiling of pretty dermas, are part of the equipment of eyery stand- ard dining cpr. stations and hatcheries of all forty- five prefectures of the empire serve for investigations in zoology, life his- tory, habits and migrations of various species, nutrition value of fish, shell- fish and seaweed, the development 01 byproducts and improvements in pro- cess technology, apparatus and meth- ods of capture. Setting Price. Broadcast. The practical application of fisher- ies technology can be best, seen in the Kyodogyogyo (Union Fisheries Com- pany), the largest single fisheries com- pany in Japan, and which can be just- ly compared to any of the great pack- ing houses ot Chicago. Deep ems trawlers, equipped with Diesel en- gines and radio, operate in pairs in blocked -off numbered sections. . Each morning the .central office of the com- pany telephones to the principal mar - bats in representative cities, such as Nagoya, Osaka, dobe and Tokio, to determine the selling price of the principal varieties of fish for that day. Using a weighted factor based on vol- ume of demand the wholesale price is fixed by formula each day. The selling price is then broadcast by radio to the captains of the fishing fleet, who in the mean time have re- ported their exact positions, amount of haul and kind of fish to the central office. Facilities for research are definite- ly provided in all basic induetrles. The National institute of Physical and Chemical Research compares favor- ably with the foremost research or- ganizations of the world, such as the Bureau of Standards, in Washington; the National Physical Laboratory, in England, and the Kaiser Wilhelm In- stituto, in Germany. Among unusually interesting accom- plishments of the institute is the de- velopment of pure chemical deriva- tives from human hair. Of some thirty odd derivatives developed :to date, 'one i launder investigation for the treat- ment bf reat-mentbf tuberculosl•� Research Institute Co-operates. The Tokio Research Institute La- boratory, similar to the American Bureau of Standards, operates in close contact with all industries in investi- gating new products and process technology -through its seetion for chemical analyses; a section dealing with oils, wax, canniest), wood, pig- ment and non-metallic substances; rt section for cement, tile,: building ma- terial; one for coal -tar derivatives, dyestuffs' and their applications,' and a fifth for researches in iron and steel, mechnnipai testing,- reinforced con-. oi'ete etructuees and -electroplating.'. In the ore testing.secttois, a.num- ber of..experiments are in progress for' :the recovery and refinement ot used' oil. Port of Liverpool Management Issues Interes- ing and Comprehensive Book Covering Activ- ities of Shipping Profusely Illustrated We in Canada sometimes think the motherland 1s slow. It was illumin- ating to read that she has a third more foreign investments than the wealthy neighbors to the south of us. The mail recently brought us a book descriptive of the shipping activities of the Port of Liverpool. It is hard to imagine any port in the wrold produc- ing a more comprehensive report than this four -hundred -page highly illus trated story of the Empire's second largest port (London still leads in gross tonnage). We hope to be able at a later date to give our readers some of the in- formation contained therein. We have asked for cuts to visualize the wonder- fuily planned docks on the Mersey, TIPS ABOUT TEA From most of the well-known varie- ties of tea -leaf it is possible to brew an average of 276 cups to the pound. Tea ie graded according to the age of the leaf from which it is made. Therefore the kind called "Pekoe," made from the tips of young shoots, is the most delicate and expensive. Tea, as well as coffee, contains caf- feine. So tea is also a stimulating drink. The Chinese, those great experts on tea -making, have a saying that only water which is well aerated should' be used in tea -making. Which is the reason why water that has been boiled a long time will not produce tea of good flavor. The caffeine and flavoring sub- stance in tea -leaves are quickly' ex- tracted by boiling water, but the Ma- tinee is extracted more slowly. Never, then, allow your tea to stetep or brew for more than from three to five minutes. ,Whilst longer infusion will make tea appear stronger, it will spoil the delicate flavor and increase the amount of .tanuln. It is the first brewing which ex- tracts the stimulating iugr.edleuts from -the tea -leaves, Because of this, fresh leaves should always be used for each brewing. As a beauty I ant no star— There are others more handsome by far, But my face—I don't mind it, For I am behind it; The people in front get the jar., RANSOM AB GONE ' Brigandage is Stamped Out Along With Ol' I Leaders So Travelers in the Lands Bordering the Mediterranean Are Now Seldom, Held for Ransoms THRILLS DEPART Brigandage 1n Mediterranean 'contn- tries, traditionalized la 01)era aria re - mance, is now, at a low ebb. One: by one the readers of bandtry iteve fallen. into the ',ands of the authorities and in, Italy, Greece, Corsica, Asia Minor and Turkey the lawless itgve been curbed. Recently "The Wolf or Sita," who was captured by troops about the middle of the last century and seutonoed to life imprisonment, dies in a Calabrian village, where lie had lived singe hs pardon, at,the advanc- ed age of 98. Styled the last of the "classical brigands," the Wolf gave the Government pi'enty of trouble be- fore the forest wilderness, of Calabria, a bandit domain for hundreds of years, was swept clean of robbers. Roananetti, slain by French soldiery, not long ago, was a brigand who mix- ed in politics as well aa carrying' on the trade of an outlaw. Bled the Brltleh The business of capturing travel- ers and holding them for ransom was revived by Mediterranean brigands about 1860 and far better systema- tined than It had been by the robber barons of, the Middle Ages, Once ,it was discovered that the British Gov- ernment would pay ransom, for those of its captured subjects who were too poor to settle for themselves, what amounted to guerrilla warfare against the British Treasury was set afoot in Italy, Spain, Greece and other places infested by brigands. The sum ot $125,049 was paid for Me release of Lord and Lady Lan- caster, seized with a party of Your in Greece, and three of the -party were slain before the money was handed over. Tho Governor of Gibraltar once paid out $135,000 as ransom for two Englishmen captured in near -by: Spanish territory, Ransom of size be- came_ the order of the day. It was extremely difficult to trap the old-time brigands, who flung gold about freely' among the peasantry, and not until the populace and been edu- cated to understand that the bandit was a menace to them did it become possible for the Mediterranealt Cov- ernmente to stamp them out, In the Pyrenees, the Apennines, Sicily, Cor- sica and.the mountains' of Greece and Turkey the brigand continued to flourish until recent years. Long ago he lost the complexion of a patriot or partisan, suck as Fra Diavolo, Pietro I4aneino and othere of ol4esica1 reputation, and became merely a prey - or on his feilow-men. Tho railroad, and still later the automobile, helped put an end to brigandage as a craft. Travelers no longer rode on horses over lonely ways or lumbered along in coaches, stopping at inne whoee proprietors might be in league with bandits. .. Killed the Goose The high raneome demanded prov- ed the final factor in the downfall of ouch brigands. The Mediterranean Governments as well as the British were stirred to action, by the pro- tests of influential citizens and called out the troops in a general effort. Even then there were reverses: An- deloro, the Sicilian brigand, destroy- ed a company of soldiers before his capture, and Tchakirdji In Asia Minor dispersed the Turkish force sent against hum. The bandits of an earlier day ap- pear to have been a lougltved race, There is record of Vassill Toboumaik, condemned to twenty years in Siberia at the age of 74, escaping and finally dying in a prison hospital of injuries he had received at 98. After Business More Foreign Inventors Than American . Want Radio • Patents Washington. — Foreign inventors outnumber American applicants for radio patents at the United States Patent Office. Frequently they assign the rights to their patents to Ameri- can radio manufacturers, but for the most part their applications are made to protect their own: discoveries in a country where perhaps the greatest amount of radio experimentation is going on in all the world. • One interesting device recently patented by a foreiguer is a wireless installation for automobiles, grounded to the chassis of the car and having an overhead antenna concealed in the upholstery of the. roof. It was in- vented by Newsome Harry Clough, of London, who assigned his patent to the Radio Corporation of America. Another, London inventor, Henry Joseph Round, perfected a new va- cuum tube, which R. C. A. also ob- tained by assignment, and an invent- or of Strathlleld, in England, Arthurs E. L. Scenes, perfected a transformer which he assigned to the large British radio concern, Metropolitan -Vickers, Ltd. Among the foreigners, Germans take out most of the patents, indicating great research activity In that coun- try. A system of "wired radio" in- vented by Carl Schwarz, of Chariot- tenburg, near Berlin, was patented along with a tuning arrangement. Both have been. turned over to the Westinghouse .interests of this coun- try. An arrangement for improving short-wave radiation which may pos- sibly help develop .the extremely low channels, disregarded practically even by the recent international conference in Washington, is reported invented by Abraham Esau, living in the famed German university town 01 Jena. Human Sinal Tower. 9 There's a traffic cop six feet ten incites tall in Minnesota. I•I0 may be a good' coli but a guy as tall as' that 4uust be awful high hinded.—Farm & Fireside. Couusel (to wltuess)—"Was this motorist on the right side of the road?" Witness—"Oh, yes, he was on the left all right." Not in Keeping 'With Henry Stories `FACT AND FICTION FAR OUTDISTANCED in Eni Y g o. temporary freedom frons the or ental` veil, the Queen of, Afghanistan and her 'adios are traveling in Europe in F,tiropean costume, The queen, dressed in' black, is seen driving ill home with the Queen of Italy. Home "Movies" Due Shortly, Inventor Says C. Francis Jenkins States In- struments Will Be Sold as Cheap as Average Set; Refinement is Stub- born Worked' Years on Problem Waehingi'in. — Motion pictures in the home, received on moderately priced nets, will be available within it few months for radio listeners, C. Francis Jenkins declares. Mr. Jenkins, a leading engineer in the development of "vision by radio," is experimenting on a device which he believes can be manufactured to sell as cheaply as the average rsoeiving set. "Its refinement is a stubborn prob- lem, but we are making progress and. it looks as though within the next few months simple and rather inexpensive receiving Instruments will be avail- able whereby you will be able to re- ceive in your home inaugural cere- monies, baseball games, baby parades or even Atlantic City beach beauties," Mr. Jenkins said, Mr, Jenkins, who has been working on the problem of radio vision for Sfteen years, is credited with the de- velopment.of a device by which photo- graphs are transmitted, the first de- monstation beteg made between the naval experiment station at Anacostfa, Md., and his own laboratory. "With a telescope we. can see to great distances, but only along straight lines, whereas with radio we can see along curved lines, through obstructions, over mountains and eventually we shall see half way around the earth," Mr. Jenkins de- clared. "Vision by radio is simply a mors rapid transmission of objects which have been translated into electrical energy and at distant points changed back into a facsimile of the original, whether it be a still pletnre or a pic- ture in action. The method by which we analyze the picture reminds me of a bacon cutter. The bacon is diced up into strips by the rapidly revolving knife. - Each of these little strips is matte up of fat and lean, of light and dark. Just so each strip ot our pic- ture le made up of light and dark strips, which are then converted into electrical currents of similar values. The whites of a line across my colla' would give a strong signal, and the black of my coats a weals signal. In such linear fashion the whole picture is analyzed. At each of the hundreds of distant places this picture is reas' sembled in line, and the whole picture built Ftp agein in the same time and order that the picture at the trans• milting stations is being analyzed "This method is the one in use the world over,, and whether we are trans - photographs Or pencil sketch- es, pen and ink maps or ratite vision, the printipie is the samo. In the transmission of •still pictures—photo- graphs and the like -time is not a limiting factor and therefore still pic- tures are the easiest dela," Agatha—"Do departing cooks ask for a reterence nowadays?" Harriett —"No; they ,request letters of intro' unction." Timely Ants For Busy Famk4Ts Work enougb now for the busy man, surely. The roads;must be kola open, feeding -floors clean, Ice must be kept out of the troughs, pipes must be Watched BO ihoy won't freeze and beret, snow must be kept from weight.. Ing down evergreens --my land; is ' there anything that doesn't peril watOhing at this time of year? if "there is any time to spare in this "sleek season," the busy ivan most Nicely uses it to get up wood for next year's ilial, A fireside occupation that will 0 a much to put the farm on a bustnees basis Is that of mapping the farm sometime this month. Not only ithpi}id the outline and size of fields be placed on the map, but also ae much lxttormation as ; :possible about the treatment of those fleids and the results obtained ehouid also be in- cluded, This could very well include amouuts, kinds, and time of applica- tion of-: manures 'and fertilizers; time and rate of sending all crops grown; 10114 year's: yields, etc. This would give an intelligent basis for the year's work. Silage from shock corn, run into the silo late in winter, is worth only 6:t per tent as leucin as, silage trent corn 'fit the field: Wisconsin Experi- ment Station determined this fact by carefaily-planned feeding toots. Cultivating a 'field year after year burns out the humus, and then see what happens. The soil begins 10 wash, badly, Every big rain, or the melting snow of spring, takes away some of the surface,soii. The cheapest source of humus, this water -holding part of the soil, isde• composed stubble and roots, or crape turned under. Besides checking erosion, humus makes the soil warn, up sooner in spring, After spreading -lime (two and one - halt tons pet acre) in August, 1925, H. W. Gross, Fayette county; Iowa, sowed alfalfa on a four -acre. field., In 1927 he harvested 20 tons of hay (three cuttings). "The bay was worth $20 au Items says Gross. Spring seeding of alfalfa, with s nurse crop, is beat in Iowa, as a rule. Not only cheaper, but more, certain to make a stand, and produces a heavier crop of hay the following sea- son than summer or fall seedings. About those low yields of barley— it's ten to one :they are due to seeding too late in spring. If there is one thing barley needs more than any other, .it is early -spring seeding. I have on my farm an old mower for which repair parts are no longer made, When a pitman broke itt 1925. I consigned the machine to the junk- pile, unkpile, thinking its usefulness was over, but recently I brought it back into service by the aid of our country. newspaper. I got in touch with the editor by telephone, and dictated an advertise- ment, telling in as few words • as pos- sible, tho name ofmower, and part needed. Within the week, I receiv- ed five replies, and a repair pitman was located just a few miles from my home. The cost of the little ad- vertisement was 65 cents, and I esti- mate that it saved me at least $10. Three tons of ice for each milk cow —that's the amount to put up. It takes about 16 cakes. (22 x 22 inches) , to make a ton when ice is 8 inches thick; 13 cakes 10 inches thick; 11 cakes, 12 inches thick; 9 cakes 14. inches thick, A 30 -ton ice house would have to be 10 x 14 feet and ten feet high. Live Stock on Canadian • ' Farms Ottawa, Canada—Tho numbers of farm live stock in Canada in 1927 show increases generally as compar- ed with 1820. The official compila- tion shows there are 3,421,857 horses on the farms,. cattle 9,172,233, of which, 8,894,311 are wilch,;cows; 3,262,708 sheep; 4,694,789 swine,. and poultry 5e,178,485, . of which 46,172,095 are hens, Horses increased by 23,743 in 1927, compared with 1920. The number of much cows increased 55,1?0, while other classes of cattle make, a total gain of 5.16,239, an aggregate increase of 601,359 for all cattle. ' Sheep- in- oreased 10 1927 by 120,230, swine by 835,207 and poultry by 69,969. ' Het 1 Just ; made. a resMutlon i to marry youth's year, She:t Funny, (' Just made ent not to marry you. _