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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-06-14, Page 7Mine Years' Prog x1s$Eiulrapealrn " Aviation n hropOsal Made That Airway Chiefs of Europe Should As- selnble to Outline Concreted Plans for Improve- Most Urgently Needed By HARRY' ILARPEIt London—At a critical stage of their ''progress, when they awe emerging from e phase of ,experiment into one of practical ,operation, the passenger airplane lines .of Babette ape prewar, Sag to celebrate the completionot their first nine years of pioneer •flying, It was on Aug, 26, 1919, that the world's first daily airplane ertEpress was instituted between London and Paris. With the arrival this summer of the ninth anniversary of that pis- tete° occasion, it is proposed that air- way chiefs ief ir-waychiefs'uf Europe should nseet.to- gether to discuss the lessons •learned during 'these' nine years of 'trial and small colored lights. By watching error, and to outline concerted • pians these, end steertng accordingly, the for improvements now seen' to be airman, even when; „enveloped In urgently necessary. dense fog, can maneuver till he is ex - The two most urgent requirements aetly above tole cable. Then he pro - are to increase the comfort of the air- coed's to follow it round, maintaining borne passengers, and to stimulate a his position imanedhutely above it ac- larger all -the -year-round volume of cording to the toll -tale lights' "an hie aerial traffic. As examples of long- dashboard, which, inform bins itietant- distance air transport, it may be men- lY of any de -elation. At the same time tinned that this summer, ascending he gzmdually ¢•educes. altitude, -In this from London, travelers will be able to latter maneuver, also, he relies upon reach Tangier (Neethern Atrioa) its the guldanoe of the •cable. 181% flying hours, Constantinople in There is an additional instrument 26, and Teheran (Persia) he 50, whl'cli tells him from moment to Only Two Passengers moment as he creeps lower hie vary- ing distance from the ground, which air -line between London and Parts may still be invisible to bion under its layer of mist and fog. Thus guid- caat'ied two popple to a tiny cabin. ed automatically as to position and To -day, as many as 1$ and 20 pas height, One stealsdown foot •lily foot aocommodated are accommodated in the through the gioont till he comes with - 192S, of European d ale t Tiac of to view of the log -piercing lights on 1928, and .the standard of aerial cont- the lending -area, and these give hint font has been raised couvrably, visual guidance for his actual contact But it does not compare favorably, `ai,th, the ground.—Christian Scienceyet, with the luxury of a Pullman -car Monitor. train. „°The noise especially proves �trying to many aerial travelers. The British Air Ministry is now- ap- pointing official experts to fly to and, full-scale experiments, known as the "reader -cable," is an adaptation to fil- ing' of the electrified eabmarsne cable sesbams whloh stave been employed to guide steamabipe into harbor during fog/ In its aerial appll•eation the cable lar arranged in a eirole round a flying ground.. IMoro the tabic, radiating constantly upward, is a powea'ful electric current, Electrical Signals As an airplane, groping in thi'ough bad visibility, cones within the elec- trical field of this cable, an instru- ment on the pilot's dashboard begins to flash out signals from a series of A Thrill For Horse and Rider MEXICAN CAVALRY MUST BE CLEVER .A. masterful display by a Mexican army officer during the contest sponsored by Gen. Joaqulm Amara, Mexican Secretary'of 'War, in Mexico City. Euphrates, pipof of the time 01 the first kings are re An called. Unusual School Nile �� "Here at Sumer it seems that this N f practice was not a survival of a gen- TeaI1's Work Gets Soiled in the Culture Source an appendage of, the sovereign alone, nt, but Teacher so as to indicate that the sovereign is . Will Excuse Such Chaldea Diggings Show Civ- always different from ordinary men. Details At a period less dentate, in the his- Adelaide, S. Aus,—"Please excuse ilization Advanced Far torical epoch of the third In millennium Jean's papers being rather soiled this Beyond Early beEore•.Ctrtet, the kings of,Sumor and time as we are living in a tent and Egyptian eral .ancient custom, but was rather HOt Te oP Ached were deified after death, the temperature is 117 degrees in the and, later, even in thou lifetime. Per- Jean's hard - haps -in this it -must bo seen that the shade' Thus wrote Quebec Soleil (Lib.) : (Infantile I1ings' 'li ornbs Found at Ur ttionarchs were regarded as gods who working mother from away out in the Australian "back -blocks" to Hard Facts fro between London and the Contin- mortality is 51111 very high among the ought to be gierifled by the blood of the teach - Human Sacrifice er many miles•away in the great city. ant, tracing with ap•ecial insiteumente French•Canadien population•) The ueensland Reef Is to Be Explored by British Patty Life and Habits of Tiny Ocean Organisms Are to Be Investigated Londoxu -rl`he secret of the forma. Goa of the Great Barrier Reef, 900 Vessels Equippe l to Carry Planes to Airship's Aid Search for Italia to Be Mack by Airmen Using Steam- ers as Base of Operations Oslo, Norse—With the sealer Hobby miles north of Brisbane, will besought steaming north with the flrst expedi- by an expedition of nine ,members, tion to seek by' air. the missing dirlg- acting under the auspices of the Brit- ish Association, which just left Tilbury docks on the steamer ()monde for Australia. The party is led by Mrs. Yonge, end Atoludes several other women; it expects to spend 14 months on Low Island, not far from Cairns, a seaport on the coast of Quoenslaad,• studying the origin and the lives and. habits of the tiny ocean organisms which are responsible for building the reef. "The ultimate object of the trip is of great economic value," said Dr. Yonge before sailing, "It will cost 210,090. All are looking forward to solitude, but there will be much work to do. We have a wireless apparatus and five tons of scientific apparatus as luggage. We will live in wooden huts, but will somotlmes visit the mainland. The Great Barrier Reef extends more than 1,000 miles along the coast of Queensland and is said to be the greatest coral reef in the world. Its water. contains many marine forms which have never been classliled. The growth of the coral itself has never yet been satisfactorily explain- ed, and it is hoped that the expedition will be able to ascertain how the mollusks maintain themselves and how they are fed. According to Sir Matthew Nathan, turned to Kings Bay after encounter - Governor of Queensland, the chairman !ng strong winds and impassable ice of the committee of the British Assoc!- floes In an attempt to search for the ation, "the original purpose of the ex- Italia. The Hobby and the Citta di pedition is to investigate the food of Milano will go north together and at - living organisms in the tropical seas tempt to put the dog team and some and the growth of such organisms, men ashore to seek traces of the with special referents to corals. A Italia to the East. study is also to be made of the growth On her recent trip tate Citta dl of other organisms, some of which Milano picked up a hunter named ible Italia, another vessel is being made ready to ,carry other airplanes Into the north. The Norweigian Government took over the steamer Ingelour to trans- Port one or two navy' airplanes, and it expected she will leave in a day's time for SItitzbergen, The Ingefour is strongly built and is 'considered capable of forging her way through the ice. She will, proceed along "the coast, acting :as a'' mother ship' to aviators who will make short scouting trips over the ice -bound Arctic. The planes will be piloted by Cnptain Risser- Larsen, who is in charge of the reseue plans, and Lieut. Leif Dietrichson, These men accompanied Roald Amund- sen on his polar expedition in 1925. Lieut. Luetzow Holm, following plans drawn up by Captain Riieor- Larsen and the Ministry of Defense, will explore the northern section of Spitzbergen by plane. He is now aboard the sealer Hobby with his air- plane en route to Spitzbergen, The Hobby will stop at Advent Bay and take aboard a team of 10 dogs, a sledge and supplies and two men, the leader, named Tandberg, and a hunter named Noels. The Hobby will join the Citta di Milano, which re - •Was hart Of ,men. And no doubt Jean's well -thumbed et have high commercial value, such as the mingled sounds rwbich assail the birth rate is declining throughout the Three of tb•e four tombs were pit- Royal Funeral Rites forts were dutly excused, for South the fish, bathe -de -mer, which !s used ears of passengers in the saloons, hr entire world. The stream of German _ 'aged. But the robbers did net rifle Australia is Proud of the way she in China and Japan for making soup, an r " e re- •them completely e• y an we have o n 1 in "Le Journal" Ms. C. L. se treasures. The funeral alcove h corre- Woolay, the English scientist engaged of Queen Shub Ab was Intact, The spondenee school established in Ade - In archeological excavations at Ur in Queen lay in a coffin. She wore a 'aide. Chaldea, described some of the dis-cloak covered with agates lapis -lazuli This school has become such an coveries made in the royal tombs un-, and gold. Her head was weighted- essential feature of the state system covered there and discussed their im-' down with geld bands, crowns, flow - of education that a suite 01 buildings, portance from the viewpoint of the ere and ornaments resembling Span - housing a large stall, is now set apart student of the earliest civilizations. isle combs. Beside her was a crown for the purpose. There is at present Paris -4n a'ticl published Aus the cabin -walls, built more stanchly population, which was overflowing be -I t 1 d h fund brings education to the most distant the pearl oyster and the Trochus shell, than has been the case before, sound- fore 1914, is three-quarters dried up ce t y nld settlers of the bush through t e from which buttons are made and from deadening materials are to be employ- since the blood. baths of the battle ed: Engines are not only to be fitted field; In Italy, the exhortations of with more efficient ellen-ceps, but are Mussolini have not succeeded in per - to be placed on mountings Witten will seeding the Italians to bring new little absorb virbation. Impos•tant expert. Fascists into the world; in France ments are also in hand with propel- practically the same conditions exist; tars having blades curved specially to in Britain births do not exceed deaths reduce noise when rotating. Eby more than 30 per- cent.; whilst in • More Aerial Comfort the United States ... but we had bet - The result of these improvements, 'ter not talk about that. Can we be - when incorporated in new passenger- lieve that the Province of Quebec will planes, should be to carry aerial corn -escape the contagion indefinitely? fort a definite stage farther. It Is We wish it could. But are the facts to enable such developments. to be likely to conform to our wish? There carried out without undue delay that is ample room for doubt. The figures the British Government is drawing•up show a slow but sure decline. with Imperial Airways, the State -aid- ed atrplaue company, a fresh agree- ment 'which will enable new airplanes to be acqudreel much more frequently than has been the ease hitherto. The importance of this cannot be over- emphasized. veremphasized. The chief• problem that stands re- vealed, atter nine years, of aerial ex- periment in Europe, is the persist- ently seasonal . Character of airplane passenger traffic. During the sum- mer many companies have difficulty In finding enough machines to ac- commodate the influx of holiday trav- elers. But in winter the tale .is dif- terent, passenger figures fall to a low level. Regulrity of`Servlce' .Undoubtedly one of the most ur- gent needs is to insure thatein win- ter the air expresses fly with the same reliability attained during the sum- mer. The overhaul and maintenance of 'passenger airplanes his. reached such a high level of efficiency, parti- "You Parti—"Youcan start a rollby tapping cularly in the case of British ma - and the pilots have become the safe, if you can't 'budget with- chines,bo experienced, that the airways be out." ^ tween London and the Continent now C' :�-s function almost as dependably as rail- Iron and Steel - ways in all conidtions save those in- London Times (Ind.) : (The first volving mist and fog volume of the report iasued by the This question of flying in mist and fog, when viewed in the light of nine years' experience, is seen' the be one mainly of providing a pilotwith some farm of antlflcial vision to re- place ordinary vision when he Is about to alight upon a fog-obscured airdrome. At the strut of a jour- ney, provided 41e has a •olearema,aeu- veriag space before him, he can takeoff in tog and climb above it, being guided during his journey by wireless dirotion-finding. -But when he is; a mile or so from the airdrome which is h4s destination a problem arises that has not eat been •solved, Valuable Time Lost trade and of other'inlustries will de - Between the time when a pilot has pend on the young men who are being Committee on Industry and Trade, dealing with the metal industries, has the massacre of at least a sixtieth of awakened considerable interest among their servants and courtiers. The re. the students of the technical coltoges.) mains of nine ladies in waiting, with The history of the iron and steel es their heads bound in gold braid and dustries shows that technical discos- surmounted with gold crowns, gold meets -who claim that unless a woman i h f tl b 1 ti earrings hanging front their ears lay nay she is a -drag en the He said:. Royal Tombs Discovered in Ohaldea were highly auccessful. a finely worked calrs head," received detorted with pretty little figures, re- i a roll -call of about 600 pupils, and presenting animals, fruits and flow - since since the inauguration of the school ers. , Beside her, too, were innum-:more than 2,000 boys and girls have "Last season our excavations at Ur erable gifts, including gold vases and' , instruction in reading, writ- ing; spelling, mathematics, compost- We.disoovered in the cemetery which we opened last year five royal tombs, dating from aquas! -prehistoric period incalculable value for a museum. Not drawing. Provision has also been Four of them are undoubtedly tenths• but precedent in the last analysis is made for the older children to be of pings and .queens. The fifth is only are they specimens of the art of coached in more advanced literature, probably the tomb of a Prince who an epoch which we did not know be- through the establishment of a read - never reached the fibrous: All are fore, but they modify profoundly our lug circle, and the parents have shown in every way different from the tombs ideas of the development of civilize- their appreciation of the school by then constructed for ordinary mortals. tion. The tombs of Ur are \certainly contributing £25 for the school 11- Inside there are one, two or three older' than those of Menes, the first brary, which now numbers 1,717 books. rooms. The walls era made of lime - king of unified Egypt. We know that ) At the end of each year, the child - stone blocks, the hoofs of limestone the civilization of Egypt began with ren are examined for ,promotion, and os. bricks. The Presence of stone is in Manes. Now at that epoch the Ste, the higher grade pupils sit for the itself an evidence of wealth, for Ur merian civilization was already old. years 47 qualifying certificates, and is situated In an alluvial valley In Any one who has seen the finds at Ur one exhibition, have been gained by which one could not find even a web -cannot consider them the products of the scholars. ble. The nearest quarry is at least I an art in its. beginnings. We must , The Minister of Education (Mal - 100 miles away. conclude from this that the Valley colm McIntosh) states that the home Still more astonishing is the torch{ of the Euphrates, and not that of the supervision of the lessons is being tectnre rof balbdsa tombs. Two of them Nile, introduced civilization into the performed in a very creditable man - have corbeled ceilings. In the others known world and that Egypt, which ser, sometimes under extreme diifi- we find arches'in baked brick, the old- est known. It is marvelous to think that these first handers were fami- liar with, the art of making columns and arches, while'our Western world learned. the secret only .at a relative- ly recent period. Human Sacrifice Practiced Collection of Great Value tion, grammar, geography. English "These objects form a collection of and Australian history, poetry and took the elements of civilization from cuity. • the Bast, borrowed them directly ori "Every member of the teaching indirectly from the land of Sumer:" staff," he declares, "is animated by a high sense of the duty owing to both Women's Work !parents and pupils in these far -away places and tries to bring into the cir- •H. M. S. 5. in the Leeds Yorkshire cumscribed lives of these isolated Post (Cons.): The idea that every dwellers, not only knowledge, but a woman, to justify her existence, sense of kinship and friendliness with "The tombs of the kluge were in- should have a career over and above the world outside their own limited dicated,'moreover, by the traces found her home interests is likely to create horizon." there bf human sacrifioe. This• a feeling of dissatisfaction and an _ practice .had been undiscovered so impression that work in the home 4s of far' in Mesopotamia. No Sumerian Flavor 'With Lemon secondary mei 'in the minds or Babyloutan text meuttons it But of those women whose one thought is After picking and singeing a tough It is demonstrated by the evidence how, soon they can get through an fowl, rub inside and outside with a tht the funerals of these prehistoric unpleasant job. But those women, cut lemon. Let stand an hour or so Icings must have been preceded by "the ` •rit " who form our great in a cool place. Try this on a bough m acl Y piece of steak also a slice of salt ham. middle class, organizers of happy, p , smoothly -running homes, have every Lemon gives a nice flavor to meats. right to be disappointed with those in the forefront of our women's move - Making a Fortune le easy. It just seems hard because you neod three or four of them for living purposes. er es - have ragnan t„ y een'revo n on- '' is earning 1111 dry in their effect, and the import- p.[ •"he foot of the sepulcher. Under community, ante of research work is, therefore, the parte at the door lie the soldiers perhaps even greater than in many of the guards, with their bronze hel- other industries. That brings tee back mets and their lances. Other skate - once more to the technical research tons strew the floor, even the ox -carts institutions, the laboratory, and the are there, their drivers on the seat, individual student. There would seem, the six oxen, supported by the pole, no escape; from the conclusion that the their thighs and: their heads erne - future of the British iron and steer mented with lapis -lazuli and sliver. By. the Queen Shub Ab Ile her ladies of honor, in two rows, and also the harpist, whose arms are still crossed over the harp, an admirable instru- ment, incrusted with gold and orna- mented with a gold calf's head, whom hide 18 made of lapis -lazuli. The queen's chariot was a light, grayish one, ineruste.d with the heads of lions, bulls and leopards in silver and gold. The chariot was drawn by asses, -Near the asses Are tho skele- tons of the little servants who drove them, Intended Only for Rulers "E1 is curious enough that in the ordinary tombs not only are there no human victims, but also no traces of inelta •McGee, no •clay figure to rep- resent the real' sacrifice, nothing which resembles the 'lural paintings, The bas-reliefs, the wooden models of Egypt, in which the pitman sacrifices asked to be told his position, and the moment when. this Information reaches him by wireless telephone from a ground station,- tile machine will have moved an appreciable dis- banoa through the air. During cross- country flying this will not matter. All the pilot neetdsat such: times is an approximate indication of 'hie posi- tion. But when an airman'is snots - fug through fag quits near an ails'- • di'onte, straining Isis eyee to catch THE USE OF HOOKS Every home owner should invest In a good assortment .of hooks. To hook back doers while open 10 a con- venience onvenience as nothing has to be hunted up to hold the door from banging shut when it is wanted open, Hook doors on the ,inside. lIoolt covose on feed boxes instead of having' weights on'. them, Hook basement storm windows• sight of lowerftrl lights en the land- that have to be opened occasionally, leg area, be needs some instantam.e- Hook gates, toolboxes, and ehildren'e playhou9e doors. •'These death should never be hooked tightly or the children will some time look thenlaelves in, If ed earth beneath, but also his probe a long ataple la weed and a good deal Leight above, the ground he cannot 01 it left' en top the wood,tlie. hook see will hold tho door and yet g've 1 play An apparatus with ,which the Brit so they can Work 1t open from the in- tslh Air';Vlinlstre has ,begun"ito melte side, ons method in" asoea'tahting not only his exalt position from mdment to moment bit relation to the Yog-obecur' _'A Couple of the Big Boys which a larger industry may now b expected to develop." BRITISH LION IS 8HOWING HIS TEETH The Craw of H.M.S., Marlborough welch the llenbow and I1eu Duke pass by daring recent combined mauoouvres in battle form tiott. Guile In fora ground are 16 Mohave. a 'You're generally left out when you've been taken in." Rudi North of Magdalena Bay. It was learned" that the Italia had been ob..' served there over a week ago, flying toward the Pole, but nothing had been seen of her since, Thriller for Sure Her First Sight of a Horse and a Car at 17 Is St. Kilda Girl's Experience Fleetwood, Eng: A striking illus- tration of the simple and rugged lives of the inhabitants of the small island of 5t. Kilda, only a tew hours by. trawler from the coast of Britain, is shown by the arrival here of'Rachel Gillies, 17 years old, who had never seen a horse, a motor --car, a railroad train, or a notion picture. It is her first visit away from her nalve island. When the fishing steamer Lough- rigg made one of the infrequent calls at the island, it was found that two of the older residents wished to be brought to Fleetwood, and the young girl came with them. While staying at the house of Cap- tain Carter, of the Lougltrigg, a horse was pointed out to her. "I have seen horses in picture books, but never - saw one alive before," she said. "It is wonderful to see people going about in their smart clothes, to •sea women driving motors through the busy streets, and to hear whistles of railway trains. I have never seen a moving picture and am wondering what it is like: New Use for `dump' Womn Hikes Through Afri- can Jungle With Um- brella as Main Pro - tion Bombay—Hiking through jungles of darkest Africa with no more formid- able weapons than a sunshade and an umbrella is a form of exercise that appeals to Mrs. Alicia Renthall, an Englishwoman who makes globe-trot- ting her hobby, and is now touring India. Mrs, Renthall has already been around the world six times. For 20 years Mrs. Renthall has been walking wherever she can, using steamers and railroads only when necessity demands it. Her first big tramp was in 1909, when she covered 300 miles on foot across central Africa. Pour years later, with only seven or eight native bearers, she crossed the African continent from west to oast in 11 months, tramping nearly 4,000 mites. "I have been quite close to lions and leopards in the bush," she said, "but they have never harmed me or any of my carriers. I always go un- armed, and I think wild animals in the forests knew by instinct that I have no desire to kill. I wear just an ordinary khaki skirt, puttees, strong shoes and pith helmet, Mrs. Renthall has just crossed Africa from east to west, She has visited Tibet and the Himalayas, Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mada- gascar, Sarawak, New Zealand, French indo•China, San Pedro, Guatemala, British Honduras and the East Ins dies. DOUBLE PURPOSE A tramp was at the door Of a newly- married ewlymarried couple. "What do you want," demanded the young husband, "Dinner • Or work?" "Both, please, sir," replied' the tramp. Tire Husband disappeared and prate eptly returned with a plate of bis- cuits. "Bat those,' he exclaimed saw- agely, "and you'll have both." The History of Canada Le Canada (Lib.): blot only is Can- ada known to the world to -day, but the nations which know It have begun to study its history so as to know something of it in the pastas well as in the present. Tn this connection we cannot withhold our most cordial. thanks from the universities of the United States for having inserted in. their programs the study of the his- tory of Canada. Not only will they . thus etudy our past, to which as neighs bors they cannot be indifferent, but they will surely appreciate the pecul- iar charm of our history. An Imperialist Bill Ottawa Droit (Ind. Lib.): The Par- liamentary arliamentary debate on the Euler Bili' has focussed attention on the .Civil Service Commission. The law of the Civil Service grants to the old sole diers of the Empire during the Great War a preference over all other citi- zens of the country. It is important to note In passing the absurd imperial- istic character of this rule. The war of 1914 was made on England's ao- count. Let London herself, if she thinks fit, recompense her defenders. We have nothing to do with ie. No indeed, we take on the duties of our own mother -country and we grant the Preference to all the old warriors of England!' What filial devotion. COLD CHILLS Johnny was in the habit of swearing mildly when anything happened that did not please hire. One; day tho minister heard him, and he saidt "Johnny, don't you know that it it • wrong to swear. Why, every title I hear you swear a cold chill run down my back." "Gee," said iohnuy, "11• you'd been at my house the other day when my dad naught his nose in the clothes wringer you'd have trove to death,"