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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-02-07, Page 2K close to tltu grqund These cluallfiva 0 < #MIS muerte fcr high Speed <tnd e'lallilht2'. Q o Attain24 Air tunnel tease nave tiemousttated that the Golden Arrow iyeete nidal• catty fie preateet speed pussibllitios, 04•n o.ix while the gaiety margin egaittat Poe- Itable inretabllity 19 Bahl to be eYen .Golden f Arrow,' W-11 Race greater than that of Major Seagrave's huge mystery S, -with witiclt leo drove. Over the Ormond -Daytona ata rate of 203,79 utiles au hoer✓ 1n March, 1927. Le low gear Major Segetive's highest speed will be eighty -ciao miles an hour, In scoucl 160 miles seed in high 246 miles. ' The newcar Is espeoielly designed British Driller Will Compete to Meet the problems of aero.dyaang With Previous Victor which face drivers who have mended into the now pians of extreme. speed, iv\iajjar II, 0. 11. Segr'ave: of London, They find strenge equations introduced will attempt to drive his' new super- ` into the guidance. and t'oactioee ce- an ontoa t 240 zoites' an .hour on Bead. Course March 1.15 Tests Show Giant Power speed rasing Gar, the Golden Arrow, at •• The Golden Arrow cannot e extreme high velocity car, Crmond•Daytona all of these am -dynamic problems; Beach, Fla., sometimes between March for much still tentaius,to be learned by 1. and March 2S. lls w111 lease London' experience,• Golden Arrow With his ear and a party of friends• The engine of the January 30. weighs almost 'et thousand pounds. This Is at a rate of four utiles in one ; The steel frame is, enormously strong. nttnute, or oma ntile,in fifteen seconds,' The carwill be gilded, hence its naive. or 369 feet per second, a velocity The springs are very 'stiff so that which was undreamed of four years I they will not give should the car, leap. ago, It was not thought thou that on striking some slight irregularity in tires .could be made to stand the heat, the .sand. Because it is expected to and friction or that cars geuerally go at a rate of 356 feet a second, could be built to stand tip under the 'Major Seagrave has au aiming device meehaaioal strain. 1 to keep the car on a straight course., But atter deducting the possible loss There is a stream -lined projection at lit ground speed through slippage, oris -[ the front of the car, joined by a black Unit and wind resistance, which, in the al hand along the top of the hood to the case of the Golden Arrow, has been rear sight, which is immediately in ascertained ey careful wind tunnel front of Major Seagrave. This should teas, the car is believed capable of be a tremendous help in keeping the making a maximum ground speed of ear on a tone 00008e between the ocean 2J6' miles an hour. New ?,larks Are Expected on the one hand and the sand dunes on the other. Oar Almed at Objective Since each additional mile in speed Nerve impulses in the human body when high velocities are reached travel almost too slowly for modern means increased peril to- the driver, high velocity drivers. By the time a why, the may ask, sloes Major Segrave man's eyes told hio. he was on the Plan to attempt suli a great itl0rease wrong course he might be seventy-five ever the present world's record of feet out of lime. It would be too late: 207.33 mile, en hour? Hence the modern driver looks a guar - The answer is that many would not tet, of a mile ahead, at which distance, be surprised to nee the present record despite his speed, he tau clearly see Good Advice Ford ShowsHow to Prevent Waste in Trade and 9 Finance eW York,---Rofarmation of the !"money system" of the United States takes an important place among the new book entitled "My. Phitosephy in. twice discussed by llenry,Ford in a InModuOaustrn;. y,'t (-published by Coward - Mr. Ford propounds a hypothetical question int finance and then proceeds to answer it. He shows how a 5000,- 000,000 pttblic improvement bond iesne is financed by the Government, the security, for which "Is nothing more or less than the energy of wealth in its moat produt,tive Perm; i.e,, natural resources," "Suppose we bor'r'ow $30,000,400 and pity 120 per cent, interest, we literally have to pay 966,000,000 for the use of. 930,000,000," he says "That is, we pay 980,000,000 for. the pnhlic improvement and 988,000,000 for the loan. And it was the govern-. intent's money to begin with. It seems like a very childish and unbusinesslike method. - "Suppe e, for example," he says, "we decide to relieve unemployment by carrying on some necessary inr provutent and to do this the Gov- ernment needs 930,000,000, That's 1,600,000 $20 bills or 3,000,000 910 bills. The Government can issue these against the value of the thing in pros- pect and with them pay every expense connected with the work, then put the plan in operation and out of its earn- ings arni tgc retire the entire $30,000,000 worth of currency which has been issued, Economists no longer ques- tion that method of doing things. In - x, deed, it ,looks as if financial engineer- ing will come round to something very like 'it.' We shall see great im- provement when we apply engineering methods to finance." "The more alert financial men of tit.is country are thinking of these Seven-year-old of Atklelstone se reed as her matters on broader lines than ever be- i scheme o 1 P til Village Homes.fore, and that is very heartening for,. subjects in Morocco of the tali on va- twelve locomotives, tapped by a wile margin not only on the way he is going. Some drivers protege under the adoption sc e the &hewing oe the last tew speed con- have even proposed to loch their steer- t lYl has just t upbsecl one IVY was Ivy by Queen Maly Rhodesia Reports Good Strike of Tin Near Salisbury Joint Operations Developing Tanganyika, Dutch and Belgian Companies FOREIGN NOTES London,—Cables from Rhodesia re- port a promising tin strike near Salis- bury, and another is about to be ex- plored at Shamve. Meanwhile, the joint operations of the Tanganyika Company and the Dutch and Belgian companies in developing the tin Ida of Uganda and that part of the Bel- gian Congo adjacont is now actively starting, It is on the Congo side that the richest section of. the field seems to lie, It ie understood here that the nego- tiations .foe acquiring the necessary steamers for the' passenger, fruit and cargo 'service between Jamaica and London (to be put in operation by the Jamaica Banana Producers' As- sociabion) aro' now completed, artd that these will start early in the New Year. ' The Governor of. Uganda has just announced that large areas of that central African colony are now being actively .prospected for oil, and there On to ud• on Govt. Slots New Railway in Far North. Grows Apace as Data Shows Up-to-date intarnlation on the pro- gross made in the development of Canada's 1 -Judson Bay Recite is eon, twined in a report recently prepared by the Natural iteeouroes Intelligence Service of the 'Department of the Ire~ torior in co-operation with the Depart• meat of Railways and Canals, The objeotive set on the extension of the , Hudson Bay Railway' during 1928 was ,Mlle 460, tines bringing the steel with- in 00 tulles of Churchill, Actually the steel reached Mile ' 462 thus tyccom- plieling all that wee expected and leaving roily 48 miles to he pone structed during 1929 to reach the tide - Teeter terminus, The mobilization of men and mate- rials and eetalpment necessaOry to ae- compItsle the work. planned for 1928 on the railway and at the port is deait with in the report. At tho peak of operations . during the seinsoa it stated that 2200' neen' were ear ployed on the railway.. At Churchill the preliminary aporetions 011 Port de- velopment employed S49 men during the season and a feature of the opera- tions was that the week was nratoriel-. was every hope of these efforts •being ly expedited by the use of alrplanee rewarded. The Anglo -Persian Oil. which operated between Churchill and Company has the sole right to pros- the end of steel. pest and develop oII products here. The report points out that the' visit Tin is being'in increa$in to Churchill of Frederick Palmer, e ]etch vent British Bngtneer, w eminent quantities, he'remarked, and copper is re - shortly to be developed, Contrasting suited in the selection: of that port as their cotton exports he mentioned tidewater terminus, was made In that in 1926 'the export was 196,000 bales, valued at £4,686,000. In 1927, 181;000 bales were exported, and in 1928 up to the end of July, 127,000 Wes .had been exported. For the August, 1923. In a little mere than a year from the date of Mr. painter's report, the railway lead been advanc- ed 106emiles from the point'' at which' the. Churchill extension leaves the whole year the total cotton exports ;original•,rtlileto Nelson at Bette;. 356, should be 136,000 bales, valued at 62,430;000. The British Government has just authorised the extension to British In the operations of 1928 the equip- ment used on the Hudson Bay -'Rail- way woke included three steam shovels, a track.layiitg •machiue ani f the Princess Mary after nll, financial problems will have p cant land sites which the Trench Gov- The. past summer was a very busy • to be handled by financial miltds. the at Churchill m t_e cont t Crisis is replace,l b litlona Bey Lico, Thtts a t ] p on its nationals. H, B. M. s Consular of to po y i 's ou ht to be but the f ornament coustruc- Conit in orocco tas e oe a Iley Vienne, the Poreigu tlhtister, who+ ernmen oforocco . 'r" s roc ion r r Ic-and file o£ oar neo le are able to t,ar dock and tLe tom - to sea hots th ng g bI 1 th 1 uth- meneement a P a,. s ectalt,ts Mill have to create the a wi er reeietatandina of the prob• giant gun possesses great acivautagos 77gg p� i torus rnr, ut tered, particularly those over the locked gear As a whole, dli� �1��.�t�• ��� 1 th •er tlro ority tct melte British stil,lcets nn Nlor- tion• .Dating Che navigation season acco obey such dahus. @ of w.n:l i •iatance, vacums, upward i 1 d 1 ith its as t con p throe heel suction, and other un- t t behveen hY sea tom a R tests. but :deo because of the groat frig gear. but Majojr Segrave's plan improren e•me,+n high velocity cars and to aim bis car as one would aim a bi Ca net it was not .the Minister of Fuance who wss eliminated by a crisis of methods by which the 'ought -to -be' son 16,00(1 tons of material sent In r is cigar shaped a nuc wIssue 11; come into practice." The yn or an railway f • IT lif x and Sydneywere' the ca n P To udget $� �f ' tete finances are clearly tied up withpunloaded at the new port and ileo dip- long projecting tail, has an over-all War will, not be abolished until its g CasaUlanca, the commercial ntetrop alis ofk French Morocco, and Marra- per dred;es,- "Churoliitl No. 1'" and keesh, the great southern capital, at "Churchill No. 2", built at Montreal I the foot of' the Atlas Mountains, has especially for the work, appeared' ou - recently been opened by the boy Sul- the scene as well as the hopper bargo tan. In fact, he insisted on riding in "Chesterfield'. A second hopper the first train. This Iength of line barge Was also towed teem Pont' Net- is 160 miles, but, as the vicinity off son to Chm•Gcili and added . to the the southern terminus has recently equipment. The arrival: of the dredges been found to be so heavily mineral-, clears the way for an early start on :Zed, it will probably become the first i extensive development this year and section of an important system open-, large supplies of Materials are now on ing up that part of the country. For' haud Lor prosecuting the work. Up to March 31, 1923, there had been expended on the work at Churchill, 9307,960 and during the present fiscal year to November 30 there had beeu,a further expenditure of $2,501,000 raking a total of $3,458,- 950. The expenditure on the Hudson Bay Railway up to March 31, 1928, its given as $20,7S0,248. and since that date up to November' 30, the report states, all additional $2,606,000 had been expended a total of $23,386,248. The expenditures on the' railway- and , port during the 1928 season arena ex- veedecl five million dollar's. The cost , of the railway, exclusive of ocean terminals, when completed it is esti- mated will be in the neighborhood of rtue:etion of finances. In other worsts will B act certaint°-•s ,f aeradpuamics which of- length of twenty-six feet. The wheel ten deer:up phages in actual trials base is thirteen and one-third feet and b-ltich have been unforeseen in then- the distance between the wheels is Weal estimates. five feet. The minimum clearance is Opposed to the Golden Arrow in its seven "fleece, attempt to take the speed crown back As already mentioned, the ' eugine to Great Brirain w11Ybe J. M. White's is of the same type as that iu the mighty 36 -cylinder Triplex racing car. Blue Bird, Captain Malcolm Canna , the question of foreign 1•elations. roots ate cut, Mr. Ford holds, and Difficulty Said to- Indicate The disuti;,sal of tier• vttloni is no "one of its maim note is a false Chan e in Tirana's Relat- i ordinary matter, since he lids long money system and the high priests g been one of the strong men in Albania, thereof," tions With Italy✓loser to King Zogu than any other, and Mr. Ford ehaxacter°izes farming as Tirana, Albania,—The latest Cabinet his unwavering supporter from the "the first, important industry," and crisis here indicates a change in the first. Vrioui has also been an enthus- envisages the passing of the small herdic admirer of Italy and an ardent farmer• and the advent of "large cor upholder of the Italian -Albanian potations, whose sole business it will alliance. be to perform the operations of plow- ing, planting, ' cultivating and her - intimate relations between the Gov La -t week the contest board of the bell's famous racer. The twelve cylin- erumesits of King Zogu and the Italian American Automobile Association, ders are arranged in three rows of Premier, Benito Mussolini. The Cab - meeting. in New York, decided that the four each and at angles in the crank Met resigned on Jan. 12 because of plea -le -len as to reverse gearing would case to give au even thrust. The budget difl}oulties. The State platuly not apply int tae forthcoming trials.' cylinders are five and one -eighth -inch needed more money. But all members As Mr. White has only one gear ratio bore and five and one -halt -inch of the Cabinet were not able to agree in the Triplex. that is, high gear, be stroke and, therefore, give much on methods of securing it. ?tench of away their tools i' that way, tho 18 will not be obliged to install a reverse greater power than the Lockhart car the money used in the new Albanian ute the clock begins to strike, as if gearing in hie big car, The Tripler is and probably greater power then kingdom comes from Italy. The Al- they tools no pleasure i' their work nt equipped with three Liberty airplane Major Seagrave's Mystery S. . banian national banks are in Italian and was afraid o' doing a stroke too. much. I trate to see a man's acme engines, one of which is in front of the. In Major Seagrave's "Golden Ar- hands, Most Albanian concessions go driver's seat, the other two being set the down as f he was shot before 8 row" we find a car of much- greater to Italians, tho clock's fairly struck,. just as if side by side behind the driver's seat. cylinder capacity, coupled with a high Naturally it is to the interest of During the last trials the Triplex he's never a bit o' pride and delight missed fire on some of its cylinders when at high speed, Mr. White, there- fore, is planning to install one new Liberty motor and perhaps three in th Pleasure in Work vesting. "I can't abide to see men throw Mr. Ford sees a gap between the people and political leaders, and he holds that nowhere is it more riscern- ible titan in the matter of liquor. , "The United States is dry, not only legally, but by moral conviction," he continues. "The American home is dry,. and the American Nation gets its tone from the home and not from the wet propaganda." . Mr. Ford pays a striking tribute to machinery, which "is accomplish- ing in the world what han has failed want t0 become too (deeply involved, to do by preaching, propaganda or the e Triplex. because among the Albanian peopleSuccess. Ideals written word." The Triplex, therefore, will presum- fully .is unpopular, Tite Albanians re- Dipping briefly into foreign affairs, ably go int; the race with a higher Wby this longing, thus forever sigh - Mr. 14Ir Ford asserts that "both Russia's 900 horsepower. So the power of the sent Italian encroachment. • So the ing '• potential speed than ever, Golden Arrow is presumably greater Government wants and retains as and China's problems are fundame .. leer the far-off, unattained and dim' 11 d t 1 and will be solved by High Powered Rival than that of any other racing car in turn, and many developments equal or Italy to keep Albania. going, so me - Perhaps exceeding that of the Lock- doubtedly the Government of Tirana hart car, but, as a while, on a much could get more money from home, larger and heavier scale. • But the Albanian Government does not Also the rated horsepower is in ex- cess of the rated power of the Blue Bird which, ohwever, developed about in 's work. The very grindstone 11 go on turning a }lit after you loose it,"—George Eliot, in "Adam Bede." the nlomeift, its usefulness lies in handling produce and accommodating tourists. Marrakeesh, perhaps, more nearly resembles the Bagdad of the. Caliph Hamlin al Roschid than any other city on earth, and is an increas- ing•'lure for. tourists. When the sec- tion of railway on the northern sys- tem between Fez and Oudja is com- pleted, it will be possible to travel by ' train from Marrakeesh to Tunis, 'without changing, a distande of 1,660 miles. Railway Branch Line Programs Saskatoon Star -Phoenix (Lib.) : much independence as possible. There - While the beautiful, all around,thee+ta y tit us ria fore, some members hesitated to ac the application o£ ...right methods There is every indication that the $28,600;000. lying, of thinking,practically applied." heads of the two companies have not The development of the ocean ter• regarding the conditions Italy laid down fl its low, perpetual hymn' p as yet been able to get together on regarding forthcoming loans 00 act- Tenees, and the Government resigned. However, in the cabinet appointed three days later every minister re- ceived his old post back, except Elian offers Major Seagrave's car will have a the extreme velocity class except the high engem turnover, attaining about I Triplex. That enormous power plant 900 hor.epower at 3.00 revolutions of on wheels was equipped with three the engine per minute, This is not I Liberty airplane engines, one in front as past as Frank Lockhart's car, which wee driven by an adapted Miller en- gine, which had sixteen cylinders in ttvo bartkc of eight, at fifteen degrees off vertlet°, set in the same crank case and was able to turn over from 5,200, and perhaps up to 7,800 revolu- tions per minute, but much faster than ,T. 1+1. White's three -engined Triplex, which won the world's record, with of the driver's seat and two, side by side, behind. Bach of these engines had a rated power of 450 horsepower. The Triplex weighs 8,000 pounds; The Mystery S weighed 0,000 pounds. The Golden Arrow weighs about 5,000 Pounds, but she is very carefully de- signed and calculated to keep on the ground and she has a tremendous re- serve of power in, relation to her Ray Ke<ch driving. For the Tripiexlweigltt. Major Seagrave is one of the reached Its highest speed at 2,300 re world's most skillful and experienced voltaiats per minute when, barring 1 drivers. It is the car that best hangs slippage, it WAS estimated to have a! to the ground that stands the best potential :peed, though on a prelimin-1 chance of winning, The new car has dry trial Iieeclt's tachometer showed' been so carefully tested in wind tun - between 2,200 and 2,300 revolutions,' nets, and has been constructed with such "meticulous care; that hope is high, and not without reason, that the gallant British sportsman will :tang up a new world's record and let •-t',materl his speed for post of a mile at above 240 miles an hour. Atter reaching 2,300 revolutions per minute the Triplex would begin to lose power, which shows the advan- tage of the small eylindered faster revolving engine, which continues to increase in power, to "wind up" as the saying goes. Opposition to Wind Major Seagrave's new cat' will pre- sent an opposition to the wind of but twelve square feet, equal to a frontal area of three by four feat being shoved through the air at terrific speed. In fact. the theoretical speed of the new sur. based on the engine speed, Is given at 246 miles per hour. The en- gine -is a private cylinder Napier, No doubt the new car possesses the same fine qualities as Captain , Malcolm Campbell's Blue Bird, which was 'fitted with a Napier Lion engine, and kept "winding up" and increasing in speed, always, 'indeed. seeming to have a • little extra in reserve, Coupled with this great reserve of •power, which will provide cbntlnued sidoeleraticn until the maximum is reached„ Is tete deeiga' of the Goidex ,Arrow to encounter d relatively low Wound :resistance, and the Past t4E t1 pig ,.ear weighs two and orkhalt to awlzs 2984 Clean OFpr 19.04 higl!, *i,4ll ik Reaching Your Goal Favored by Fate? Smiled on by Chance? Is that what you think of the win- ning man? - Then atop, new friend, another glance And you'll sense the tare he ran. Oh, men by ]him, as Meet by yott, And all of then striviug to win the race, P.ut he, among the very few, Found and stuck to hie pace. Work, hard work, through the long, bard hours; Olt, dreaming and planning for more work, too; Plodding along through the hardest showers--• Ie such manner fortune grew; There's work ter all, for you—for upniinals will account for an expenditure rag t rest upa bit about the question of branch line construe- of manyrniilions more and other work' notfriends with gifts; Science mgt tion, but. it may be hoped that before in the development of Canada's north"- • Purchase me-• And the chance to make, within each soul, Ourselves, our slaves, ah --then you'll seg pki-joriug behind a horse is one tl'he-peekilg oE—'vette g@91, Alps, unci it IS a great sport, Near By Katharine di[aviland 7}ayler, hind motor 0025, when thou ceasest to give, slide will cease to love.—Fuller. the origin of niers and determine wh his finish is to be. A Sport Fast Growing in Popularity q� fer�.v 3. sa>1i,19=602.M.In IS20112-232113.41.73=Iu at the Railway Committee of the House of Commons, which will have the final — say, gets down to busineas,.comprom- iees win be suggeteed which will sat- isfy not only the railway heads, bat, more important still, the people who will be affected by the lines in ques- tion, t The Tariff Threat Winnipeg Tribune (Ind. Cons.) : I Congress is now preparing to increase the United States tariff protection -' I with particular relation to agricultural products. Actually, though not in form, the purpose is to shut out more of the farm products from competition ' with the products of the American farmers Whatever effect these mea - SKIJORING iN THE ALPS • of the popular- wit tet' .pastimes or. those who take a whiter holiday in tete Toronto ;;it N,} itr 1"(inge Street It 15 not unusual to see skl-iers towing he - ern transportation route includes the establishment of modern aids to nevi gtation•in Hudson Bay and Strait. The aerial expedition establlsh,ed by tho Department of Marine attd Fisheries at three points on Hudson Strait in 1927continued its reconnaissance UM - 111 late in 1928 and much metal Me formation beating on navigation was secured. As a result strategic loose •tions for aids to navigation are being selected and these will include direcr tion-iiuding devices which will be of invaluable assistance to navigators in those northern waters. The report on "Progress in Develop- ment of Canada's Hudson Bay. Route" reviews the listory of the <develop- ment of the Hudson Bay' transports includes a considers• sures have upon our export trade will tion scheme and • be felt directly by the .farmers and tion of its economic aspects and of the mileages involved in the new rail • and water route from various centres in Western Canada to Liverpool. The report in mimeographed form is avail- able on appeleation to the Director, Natural Resources Intelligence Ser- vice, Department of the Interior, Ot- tawa. 'Good Seed Indirectly by ,every business interest in the Dominion. Gypsum in Nova Scotia Gypsutn was mined in Nova Scotia as early as 1829, hut it is in recent Years that the industry has had its moat remarkable expansion. The pres- ent output of over 500,000 tons an- aually is more than three time that of- the good need for the coming .- all the rent of Canada. An Economist The man who explores the depths of natural science and revealed truth, bringing forth that which advances the prosperity of his epodes, and mak- ing the world tate richer that he has been born into it, is the true econo' mist—Stephen Bourne, Bourne, if'..S.S, tti-- Self-Government The neeeseity for external goTQrq• ment:to man is In inverse ratio tq the ylgor of hip 5e1t1-. over.nmeat• o the,•last is, nemple e, the firs%.atl Tp st ptaated, 91'ettoe, tate more !liters. more liberty. hour, That all the days' may be calm and free; rand so ye may kind the immortal flower • In the golden sheaves of eternity, —Anonymous. Reality One of the first scientists of the age/ Ws late Benfamtn' Pierce, said; "Is t,11t 4tiagniligent dtspiay of ideality a �{ as elt ±9on,e oS-#d it a define ti@,pf• iehavens find tho oat t t ¢x�o:Ae a eRao,..04e»a�. Ii1 * ,TOY ' ' Oboe ,1 4,000 mQa11C mortar