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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-06-07, Page 7disc I t10A O 140 resettreefutnebe to 'found hos.. '7AA -in. the .way !n w11ol no makes, old Inventing Xz p;}l,d! Anemias &o'Ye his Parpose8 M ate' g friends, Titus ea one occasion, while Ivisiting Itis laboratory, he 14/inted Oen An Appreciation Deliyereeby that the thing Which had bothered him: Arthur Williams at a Din•' ner in Honor of Mr. Edison in New York on May 24th Repro. duced in Part LIFE AN INSPIRATION • most in the develepmeat of the In- Candescent lamp—the Inside blacken - Ing which greatly reduced the (*nate- power—be was usIng to advantage tp his MOM e recent work—I beliey.e In the manufacture of ale new storage battery, And it is Interesting to note that hat work !a magnetic gem - ration of iron ore le now effectively. employed in removing impurities The ancestors of Thomas Alvofrom feel before it reaches the boil - Alison, in which honor we have ers of the great Dower plants of this gathered to -night, came Isere directly city. from Heliaad, landing in this ".ountry It is almost unnecessary to men on the shore of Now Jersey, near tion that throughout his life he has Staten Inland, about 1700. There been oblivious to time, food and per - Jan, the grandfather, sort of Thomas, sonal comfort. During the Construc- the great-grandfather of the man to tion of the Pearl Street plant where whom this evening's tribute is offered, for months he worked day and. utgbt, was bora, hollowing the American on the streets and In thebuilding, a Revolution John, who took the side of bedroom wee provided on one of the the Loyalists, . emigrated to Canada, Upper -floors, that he might not lose where, in Digby, a seaport town of time going home or to a nearby hotel. Nova Scotia, in the year 1804, a son, He would sometimes come into the Samuel, the father of Thomas Alva station so exhausted that instead of Edison,' was born. In 1828 Samuel dimming the iuterveniug stairs he married Miss Nancy Elliott, the would throw his coat on a pile of eighteen -year old datighter of Rev. ,Edison underground tubing lying on John Elliott, a Baptist clergyman, the floor and snatch a few minutes Later he came, to the United States or hours of sleep as the ease might be, and in the year of• 1842 made his In material as well as human 'tome in Milan, Ohio, where, on Foto- values Edison's work is almost of uary 11, 1847, Thomas Alva Edison incalculable magnitudes, and judged was born and passed the first seven •by which he may well be called "the years of his life_ world's greatest benefactor'!', If It is recorded that as a young boy measured in terms of money, there he went through many adventures, exist to -day well established, con - perhaps his most thrilling experience, servative enterprises which owe their resulted from his building a lire in a origin or development in some part neighboring barn which was entirely to his genius, whish closely approxi- destroyed, For this young Edison was mate the value of all the gold dug 'subjected to a severe whipping, not from the earth since America was in his father's woodshed, but openly discovered. Stated in another way, in the Public square. In 1664 the these calues represent no less than family moved to Port Huron, Mtchi flue times all the mons, in circulation gan, where Edison spent three months in school lila only formal school experience of record. Perhaps one of young Edison's chief assets at the time was his cepa- ,hie and cultured mother who" chid much for his education and apparently `showed just the right degree of in- terest and sympathy in the messing up which was a necessary result of his chemical and other equipment and the early experiments in which he was constantly, engaged. At one time he engaged in the Publication of a small newspaper in which one imagines he was proprietor and manager, reporter, typesetter and pressman and probably postman as well, all in one. Telegraphy was bis next intarest. Tn the year of 1363, at the age of 16, he was considered a cull -fledged and expert operator. From here on be- gan the young Edison's marvelous career of invention and development through which modern life in every phase has been so constructively at- ' fected. His first patent was granted on July 1, 1869, for, as strange as it .may seem to -day, a vote recording ma- chine. Since that time no fewer than 1,328 separate patents -for original and important work have been grant- ed by the Federal Government . Their scope covers, in addition to thn vote recorder, stock tickers, typewriters, • telephonic and telegraphic instru- ments, the phonograph, the incande- scent lamp, many controlling features of central power plant construction Ind operation, electric railways, mo- tion pictures, ore milling, 'cement manufacture and poured cement houses, storage batteries, mimeo- graph, and the transmission of electric energy without the aid of wires. His application for the latter patent was made two years before the publication of the work of Hertz. It Is interest- ing to note that so great was his - appreclaton of the work of Marconi that he disposed of his patents to the Marconi Company, though its corn- petitor's offer was on a very much more favorable basis. One invention, the tasimeter, 'by which infinitesimal degrees of temperature, however re- mote, are measured, while a most im- portant scientific contribution, was not patented but wee freely dedicated to the public. This instrument is used to -demonstrate the heat values of remote stars, such as Arcturus. As important and farreaching as are the things of which we have been speaking,they become dwarfed with the man himself and his wonderful mind and charming personality. One of Mr. Edison's outstanding characteristics is his modesty; an- other his insatiable desire to obtain facts—to learn; nothing seems too small, as nothing seems too great to excite his deepest Interest, especially when au item of added information can be gained or something of human service is promised. When. visiting 'an electrical or mechanical exhibition, he will stop and carefully study every example of 'automatic machinery which eliminates arbausting human labor and the oleAisnt of monotony in one's Work, Another outstanding cbaracteristio of Mr. Edison is the directness with which he reaches his conclusions and the simplicity and clearness of the language 'with which he expresses them, An illustration is found in his roulette when he first saw the re-. markable' illumination of the Buffalo' Expositionconte years ago ---the moat extensiyo and effective up to that Unit,. 'Gazing upon it, seemingly Very much impressed, he remarked to a friend atatiding by, "Ail the In- candescent lamp filamentp through Which this tnarvelous eftoot ie pro- duced Would not :fill a small -steed roan's hat", Ln iutoresttng lndlcllr or five times the entire stock of gold in this country in the year 1927, The annual contribution of these enter- prises to the national life represents approximately one and one-half times all the money now in circulation and, through employment, the genius of Edison provides or influences the sup- port of practically one out of every ten of our population. These figures-, as extraordinary as they are, do not include many related iudustriss which, in themselves again represent enorm- ous aggregates of value, both mater- ial and human. Entering this building to night, we passed through h thet ox rao rdinat y area of publicity by light, often called the brightest spot on earbh—Time Square, Standing there, thinking of Edison and his work, we may well re- member the inscription on the tomb of Sir Christopher Wren in St. Paul's, London, "If you would see his monu- ment, look around", And,' how ap- propriate is this inscription wherever we find modern life and civilization, in every branob of which is found the genius an dapirit of this marvelous man As long as the world survives, the name of Edison will remain an outstanding symbol of immeasurable genets, accomplishment and public service. Sal: Gosh! Year new fur "ben- nie" surely is the cats! Al: You're wrong, it's the goats! 3 If woman's intuition is so wonder- 'ful, then why does Bite ask so' mane' questions?—Louisville Times. Those anxious to invest in a go- ing concern should make sure which way it is going Well,Street Journal. This is the season'when a man ex- amines his 1927 straw hat and won- der it it really looked that bad when he stored it in the attic. -Louisville Times, Coast-t0..COASt Would Be Fine Around A Melon Patch Trip Shows Air Mail On the Job Correspondent Sees For Him.. self How Planes Cut 3000 Miles to 31 Hours The air mail has shortened the 3,000 miles between New York City and San Francisco to 31 hours. Mall poet- ed In Wall Street on Monday morn- ing is delivered in Market Street late Tuesday afternoon, To learn bow' this service operates, The Christian Sci- ence Monitor sent a stalk eorrespond- ent over the line, Here is his account of whatthe air. service is doing and some of the plans for the near future. all of great interest now that Ottawa is considering a trans' Canada air way. By a Staff Correspondent Now York—"Air Mail!" Men scurried to their posts in the National Air Transport hangar at Had- ley Field, N.J., the chief air snail terminal of the East. An airplane appeared overhead, circled the field, and dropped to earth with a perfect three-point landing. Two men ran out and led it to its mooring. The others removed the mail from its Iiolil and rushed it to a station where clerks sorted it rapidly. Meanwhile a mechanic was warm- ing up the airplane that would soon leave for the 'West on the first lap of a flight across the continent. I was strapped into a parachute and hoisted into the front cockpit. The motor roared, The anchor blooks were pull- ed away. We taxied down the field, turned, and took off into the wind. San Francisco at that moment was 3,000 miles away—the same destina- tion toward which the Pony Express raced less than throe -quarters of a century ago. Hard -riding horsemen, dashing over short relays, spanned the 1,400 miles from the end of the railroad at St. Joseph, .NIo., to the Goldeu Gate. Their speed thrilled the nation; they rode it in eight days. Coast to Coast And now, from coast to coast, over more than twice this distance, a letter is delivered in 31 hours. To send a letter winging on its way by air has become as simple as baying a loaf of bread at the corner grocery,. and mailis nowbeing carried over the country on more than a score of air routes. I turned amid the mail sacks and express packages 'carefully stowed before me in tate cockpit and looked at my pilot, Earl Ward, a confident - appearing young man intent cal his Job. The fields of New Jersey, occas sional towns, the rusty hills of Penn- sylvania, Were flitting by in a moving panorama, We in the plane were a tiny world apart. Only two phenomena were particu- larly noticeable. One was the bump- ing caused by air pockets; the other, the desert -clear quality of the air. At 4.20 in the afternoon the tower of the Cleveland Union Station pierced the horizon and soon our plane settled on the Cleveland field. We had been in the air three hours and a half. "I'm sorry," the airport official said, "but we can't send you on, to -night, You see, we take the mail into wea- ther where we wouldn't think of send- ing a passenger." Air Mail Looks Ahead In spite of the blue sky at Cleve- land, there was rain in the West. The air mail sees all. With its elab- orate system of radio and wire com- munication, it can tell exactly the temperature, barometric pressure,. cloud height, or '"ceiling," wind ve- locity and visibility at any spot along the route. The official said that in Chicago the planes for the West would be delayed and by taking a train I might catch the one reserved for me. On the way to the station the chaffeur told me -about Pilot Ward, "One of the crack fliers in the serv- ice," he said. "Used to be a lieuten- ant in the marines. Holds the record between New York and Cleveland of two hours and 26 minutes," In Chicago I found that the west- bound plane had left only 30 minutes !+I tnlslti!* s fes rt«: >r aa/104, .rdrtlr till.• ea *it M1,1' 103115 Ode' ■Meas za` IG t�I L: nosibIP 48i RATHER SUGGESTIVE OF A "KEEP OUT SIGN" Part of a barbed wire fence erected at the entrance to a South African diamond mine which has been temporarily closed to prevent the market from becoming flooded with the precious stones, thereby lowering their value, behind schedule. The management changed my reservation to the follow- ing day. The next night I met Pilot Wagner, a one-time army flier and veteran of seven years in the air mail service, and "one of th b 1" We talked of expansion and im- provements in the service. National Air Transport operating regular pas- senger service from Chicago to Dallas, ' will soon extend that service over the Chita/go-New York branch of the route. Boeing Air Transport, giving mail, express and passenger service from Chicago to San Francisco, is to lo. stall three giant passenger planes, three -motored and with accommoda- tions for 12 persons, for week -end ex- cursions, 9 rcaq/0 fieacons The Department of Commerce Is experimenting with radio beacons, to be placed_on either side of the charted course. As soon as these beacons are oper- ating, schedules will be changed so that the flying time from coast to coast will be two nights and one day, instead of two days and one night, 'as at present. Seven -thirty, our scheduled leaving time, arrived, but not the mail from Minneapolis. We waited. Overhead a 600,000 candle-power revolving bea- con' shot its beam for miles. Finally came the cry: "Air mail!" Quickly the, sacks were stowed and we were off. I found the passenger cabin like the interior of a very small coupe. Finished in light green enamel, it had a narrow, leather upholstered seat de- signed for two lean passengers. Win- dows, 12 by'27 inches, built into each door, were adequate for sight-seeing. A small dome light hung above and a heater from the exhaust below kept the little stateroom warm enough. A license, granted by the Aeronau- tics Bureau of the Department of Com- merce, said that the airplane was made by the Boeing Company of Seattle, itad a wing span of 44 feet 221n inches; length over all, 33 feet, 3-16 inches; carried a useful Toad of 2,470 pounds; had a weight, empty, of 3,230 pounds and a gross weight of 5,700. Its engine was a Wasp, made by the Pratt -Whitney Company. The 26 planes operated by the line are almost identical in design and equip- ment, Emergency Landing The ship flew so smoothly and the motor droned so soothingly that I fell asleep. When I awoke we were circling down to the revolving beacon on the emergency field at Rock Falls, Ill. Fog ahead forced us to make our- selves at home in a cold little shack until morning, At 6 o'clock we went on to the eastern bank of the Mississippi, where, because of poor visibility, we landed 'on another emergency field surrounded by acres of cornstalks. The caretaker Idrove us to his farm home near by for a substantial morning meal. Then we were oil again for Iowa City and Omaha, where mail and bag- gage were transferred to another plane and I met my new pilot, E. M. Allison, introduced as one of Boeing's "star" men, We set out within 10 minutes and ibucked a heavy wind to reach North Platte at 3,40 o'clock that afternoon, The farms were laid out In neat 160 - acre squares, with fences running i directly east and west, north and south which is of great assistance to the pilots. Two hours Iater the bright- ly painted roofs of Cheyenne wet corned us, There I met Pilot H. A. Collinson, described as "an old-timer 10 the air mail In these parts and never had a serious mishap." We took off again immediate) makingfor a break in y. 1 the fog that covered Sherman Hill. It closed before we cpuid get through and Mr. Collinson wheeled back to town, 1Through to Rock Springs Late at night we got though to Rock Springs, Wyo., the halfway point between Cheyenne and Salt Lake. Red lights outlined the field against a jet background. We ate at Rock Springs and waited until "unlimited visibility" was re- ported. In spite of that forecast, we (melt a rim of fog over the Wasatch Mountains and climbed to 13,500 feet to top it, At that height we could see over the roof of the "stuff," as pilots call 'all water vapor collectively. The full !moon, lighting the trembling mists, 'transformed them into glowing, white baby blankets. Mail pilots see more lof the beauty of nature every day than the average city dweller In half a hun- dred two•week vacations. (Crossing the clouds we circled sharply down to the field at Salt Lake City, a drop of 9,400 feet. As soon as the mall was re -sorted, we were on our way again with a new plane and another pilot. We scraped the tops of the Ruby Mountains so closely that pebbles and leaves were easily distinguishable, and then found our- selves in Elko, Nev. Another pilot, Huking, took the ship. He informed me that the last pilot, Ellis, could "fly anything, anywhere." Over Mountain Ranges We flew over mountain ranges and tan -colored valleys, where countless sheep nibbled and on above alkali plains to Reno, with its brave green- ery, the air mail gateway to the Sierra Nevadas. There I learned that Nu- king, in spite of his seeming youth, had been in the aviation "game" for 12 years and knew all about aircraft. The next pilot was C. K. Vance. His lap in the relay led across one of The "Empire's Finest" On Parade amarrnat I NE' OLD CUSTOM ON'jHORSE GUARDS PARADE "Gourd mounting" is carried on during the month 0f May when the king a Color of the battalion supplying the king's guard for the day Is trooped; a beautiful ceremony. Contintlity (Ian yon' recall that self Of long Ago? They nein tbo sightless ones, They do not know 'chat this 'brocaded matron that 10 1, Clipon whose wit and leap:ent they rely, Is the lank child at Whom they used to mock, With pinafore exebanged for Parts frock, 8iow solemnly I wear my staid gutee, That they should think me suddenly grown wise! Qh you who with your stature change your heart, 'When the grey hair in which I play my part Is laid aside, the wrinkled skin put by, Running along the fields of morning, I Shall seek --and . find --some other child to tell How well I've fooled you all, my friends, how well, —Freda 0, Bond - the moat difficult and dangerous stretches of the entire route, "So, you see," one of the mechanics at Reno explained, "they were bound to pink an expert to fly from here to the Mast,. Mr, Vance took us over a territory in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Collimate in which there was no land- ing for 75 miles ---only pine -covered mountains and green ravines. Val- leys, canyons and streams, which never would be seen by tourists, were it not for the air line, flitted by the little cabin windows, all too transient in their loveliness. The plane came down for exactly two minutes iu Sacramento to drop a packet, and then winged Its way straight to the Oakland Municipal Airport—and journey's end. We were 17 hours behind schedule, but still two full days ahead of the mail trains. Discounting my 24-hour stopover in Chicago, I had been en route just 48 hours from coast to coast. We had been delayed by unfavorable weather, but never once by motor or other mechanical trouble. Every link in the air mail chain did Ha work perfectly. "Tom is an awful dumb-bell, isn't he?" "I'11 say so! Why, even If he had any brains, he wouldn't know how to use 'em." Best To Take Your Freckles As You Find Them If you are troubled with lentigo the only thing to do is to make the best of !t, advises Earl 0. Gregory in the current issue of "Physical Culture Magazine". Lentigo, by the Way 15 no dread disease but merely the common, though often hated freckles, Mr. Gregory says, "If you freckle, you freckle, and that's that- The sus- ceptibility is inborn. That is, who- ever once develops freckles will have them appear again under similar con- ditions of exposure to summer sun light." The writer in "Physical Culture" further points out that one has no more reason to be mortified by freckles than by a head of hair na- turally wavy, "Freckles," he con- tinues, "indicate a body high in vitaI- ity and there is something about the color and texture of a woman's skin that allows the freckles to harmonize so with the skin that the spots seem to belong; they simply fit" While freckles can be removed, ac- cording to Mr, Gregory, by such pre- parations as three pants of glycerine to one part tincture of iodine, the ef- fort is not worth the irritation it causes. "And," he concludes, "in order to keep them for reappearing a woman would .have to deprive her- self of the sun rays, which are neces- sary to make her a vitally strong wo- man. Hades she must choose between the III health of a shut-in without freckles, and the better health of an outdoor woman while taking her chances with the freckles. And what sensible woman would give up her chance of health through outdoor liv- ing, to gain a Concession to vanity?" A Chance for Canada London Dally Express (Ind. Cons;)t It has been stated before the Cana- dian immigration inquiry this week that there are 60,000 women and children living in Great Britain to -day whose men -folk have crossed the ocean to Canada. The British Gov- erument is willing to pay 60 per cent, of the cost of a great tanlly reunion scheme. We have often criticized the supineness of Whitehall in promoting engiratlon, but in this instance it is doing all that can be expected of it. What will be Ottawa's answer? The Canadian Government have here a. Chance to encourage British fmtnigrn- tion in the way that will most add to Canada's immediate and permanent ,wcllhelug. That Active Child ,STELLA kl. FULTON "Mother, 1 ant at my wit's end," Complained Altee Walton, "Jack le getting to be More slain 1 can amus• age, There isn't anything that he Cao get on top of that be hasn't beou on top of, tlor anything that be can get under that be hasn't been under. He batters the Chirniture seratcho41 the automobile and deliberately smashes hie toys, I punish him but it doesn't du any good." "I should think not, indeed," re- plied tier mother, "You mustn't pun- ish a child Just for having too mach.. energy and using it in ways that make trouble, Yee must learn to di root that energy. Do YOU remember the mountain stream by our summer camp? After the timber add been cut away from the mountains, that little stream almost swept our place away during spring: freshets. A dam '. was built farther uP, at lest, which stopped the water :from coming clown.. That is what you are doing by pun- ishing Jack — Just coi'icing up his energy. But the eagiueers didn't stop with the building of the dam for that would have been storing up trouble that would have been sure to break forth. They made an outlet and led out some of the water constantly in- to big ditches and from those into smaller ones, till it watered and irri- gated the whole valley. They couldn't bottle up all that energy and power, so they controlled it, "Jack is interested and curious. about everything that goes on and: how we do like Interested, enthusiastic people when theyare big! The world just needs them. So don't you spank any of that out of him, Just make. some ditches Into witch to turn his energy. "He must be out-of-doors all he can—not just walking eat, all dress- ed up, that isn't enough. He needs to wear old clothes so tilt he can get dirty and tired and hungry, Let him bave some old boxes to play with and an old wagon of some sort. What it he does clutter up the yard? In winter he can play in the snow if he is dressed for it, and in summer there are so many things. You can get a big box and have some sand put into it for a sand -pile." "But he can't be out-of-doors all the time, and what can I do when Ire's inside? He likes to cut out pictures, but it makes such a litter and ho does it so poorly." "As for thelitter, o 1 tie , Alice, I don't think any woman has a right to a :- pect to rise a child without having her house show some signs of the child's activity. It Is part of the business. But a house ought to be something more than a display win- dow. A home with a child in it is a factory, a plant. You might as well expect a carpenter to work without making shavings and sawdust as to expect to raise children in ley, -stiff primness. Work has to go on all the time, in a home, the work of building character. "So let the boy do things with his clay aid crayons. Give him old mag- azines and let him cut out pictures. It won't look so tiay around here, but there will be fewer scratches on the furniture and less paper picked off the wall. He will do neater work as his muscles learn control. And you won't find him nearly so hard to manage, for you wilt think of more and more `ditches' by which you can control that energy of his:" To Prevent Corrosion "A simple and effective way to re- move the corrosion on the terminals of the storage batery used in the auto- mobile or on the radio Is to pour hot water over the corroded terminal," writes H. B, Ouch, radio engineer in the current issue of "Capper's Farm- er". "You will be surprised," he con- tinues, "how quickly the corrosion will disolve and wash away, Take care to wipe the battery dry. To prevent the corrosion from coming back, cover the terminals with hard oil or vaseline. This will prevent the acid spree, from the battery getting into the connection and eating the metal away. As a further precaution, do not let the acid from the battery come in contact with your clothing or any fabric material, as the acid will eat a hole wherever it touches, Ammonia Is an alkali that will neutralize the acid from the battery in case of acci- dent. If ammonia Is not at band, use clear water freely to dilute and wash away the acid." Ideal Juror Judge Charles Calvird of Clinton, O., was holding court in one of the rural counties of his circuit. He was listen- ing while a prospective juror was questioned by a lawyer in the case. "Do you know anything about fire case?" was asked. "Do you know anything about thls ease?" was asked. ninon, "Have you heard anything about it?" "Have you read anything about•it?" "No. I can't read." The prospective Juror, losing his patience, turned to the judge: "Judge, I don't know nothing." "Keep your seat; you are an ideal Juror," Judge Caivird, replied, whore le a bright side to everything. In polities it is the tnstde.---'Louievittg Times. A thing we like about China is that it takes the mind off Nicaragua. --Ai• bang linickerbeeker Preps.