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The Seaforth News, 1929-07-04, Page 3Aimiversary of Courageous Flights When Alc�ck and Brown Flew Atlantic This Early Conquest of the Atlantic Out- strips Lindbergh's Perfoimance So Far As to Make Comparison Farcical KING fGRROWS SWORD In the "Montreal Standard," Charles /funding of Rayham's badly wrecked Harrison Gibson, a Canadian Writer Martlneyde went forward night and and aviator of note, tells of the epoch day,,,the task of the workers being Making flight which established area- somewhat like taking a perfectly good a ord for speed and performance never radiatorcap and fitting a new motor - ,equalled in, flying, at'a time when 'air- ear motorcar to it, crafts were in their fiifancy, His tale He had smashed while injudiciously ht. part is as fotloo s; trying to foliow Hawker out, Morgan, 'inauspicious Start his navigator, who already had lost a Tlie publicity value of the big race foot in the war, sustaining iu this nits - In his view had petered out, • hap Nitrite through which he lost The edge is off it," lie growled— his eight. Kerr and the Handley -Page ?'Public's fed" up," were at Harbor Greece, forty odd In large degree he was right- Rev. miles away as the crow and the air - tea been all keyed up with ehnotion men Ry, tuning up and almost eel, • for exciting days, while Harry Hawker - Atcoolc, at St. John's, was ready. and hie mate Grieve was "missing," The three outstanding rivals in the the audience lead relaxed; 'Ila fickle test ;had raced for a hectic week. in luterest for the' time being was lost the work of getting ready, each cdmpletely; and for, the full- front spurred by ambitionto complete in - pages Hawker's_' unlucky and ill ad, in- stallations and try -outs and steal a marchon the others. ,,, ;visedtrial had commanded, Alcock, And all ai org the mostsacred.vietorloua,�was lucky to get scant superstition. of orthodot sailormen, columns. In world attention, his great aspired o . ' 'achievement even at the gime suffered p t call, if 14th,possible,h the pate - ' cruel neglect as it has .in the alter insular day, theof l m, with the bone years. diotton 04 the Yell moon. If Hawker and Grieve had not ;nye-, The outstanding significance and tertously lost' themselves .just long purpose of that maiden trans-Atlantic enough' to invest their dramatic exper- flight dvby yet is but csuperficially It 'once with universal hum n . test ed by the lay public. re was a a interests, test of navigation skill and resource - and it Ameriean`seaplanes had not - in fulness under wholly unfamiliar con- their own leisurely fashion,' testing Onions—a to -i n ouC.'their Liberty' .motors, •accomp- st n avigationrather ltshed a first relay serial bridging •of than aviation, already cock contended.lide- Um ia the',northern ocean, the spyglasses 6t teThe newad the ultimate a to fairly well d f the world would not suddenly have all Lynes and ultimate f aircraft, -of lost focus, upon Newfoundland and the astypes classnaes at aircraft, but' :great achievment to be entered to the theories tand monsttate unproven glory of Captain John Alcock D.S.C. and undemanstrated olds ing S.C. contraptions were all the -pioneering and navigator Arthur *hidden Brown. air navigators had to go upon, "No doubt about it," the former Thus the dietanc° cruise of the rumbled,' between pulls at a consent- American.seaplaue did not parallel or tory cigarette, "We're about as in- conflict with, the more ambitious and targeting to the public now as Dr. adventurous :.,pl'ana of . Hawker 'and Ananias" Cook. We can 'go ahead Herr et al. The crossing of the At - and make it -yes, and win the coin. Matte in a•series of hops by the con - "But the audience isn't going to be int- ' voyed N.C.'s was a trill of motor un - pressed by, our performance, Their der sustained and extreme demands Mends are so blistered clapping for upon it. Their voyaging over convoy Harry Hawker we'll be lucky to get, ships in: series, with which ships they a languid hand." were in continuous touch telegraphic - And the record shows that the air ally, could accomplishlittle or noth- eonqueror of the Atlantic wastes in ing in the ,solution of air navigation this was psychic. puzzles such as must confront the Alcock -Brown Conquestskipper of hurtling overseas liners of The Alcock -Brown conquest of the the -Flew era. • Atlantic in so many ways. differed` Place of the Sextant from the later Lindbergh'performance Could the air navigator place reli- that comparisons are ,farcical. Alcock ance on the faithful sextant of 'sea was in a race that began in land prep- paring days if deprived of his horizon arations for which he'and no one else line. on which to base his meta h si- Was responsible, and with a limitedcalculations p y hal cositen? ng for 'determination of business man's expeusd' allowance to his position? work upon._ Could the uniogged speed be even Planes were even more primitive clo el 'approximated? thing's then,' as compared witli the' s u >of St. Louis," than.a twenty- ndably ld the drift indicator showde- "Spiritse year-old automobile would be now in pe manta the o side -situ from course company with the 1930 models., the unchartede to side -setting currents of Radio was in its infancy and there `tire uncharted air? 'were no dependable meteorological How ,wirelesmigs reliance be placed' data or air or current, charts or the wireless hFosdstr ands proven air navigation instruments. ' 'sending triangulation on the known°Afar the It was in that day. a gamble :with ` sandlot stations `or ships, for the a fixing of the position of speeding air•. g eta prob the unseen seas? • fate, a gamble backed by ,high tour- craft in the great void overhanging age, rather than the facing len with the resources of fairly ex` The Set ecienaes. There was all the woo*one and a score of t to related questions of vital import to students and nerve strain of keeping one` eye of the new problems rof navigation On . a .bunch of dangerous rivals to' awa tied answer out of the escae havfn pto-be-chron- g ou eut'o P over. All lite !sled expeiienee of those shaping the. worrying de„tails- of racing intryded, courses for the first of ocean flights. on Alcock, whereas Liniilier h's flight The very essence of the problem, as was a private one againat time. well as their extent and seriousness,' Historic Flight ' could only be disclosed by daring ex- To go back to the genesis , of the perimentatiou. And the experiment- '!dock -Brown a9,110,vm eent, it was ere had to be dauntless men. sacred in competition for a £10,000 Bidding Alcock Good -Bye. purse offered by the London "Daily It was as I- was .bidding, Alcoa ck , as far back as in 1913—but good-bye and wishing, him all.. file which,” to the honor of the winged. ,world's goad hick, that I asked a :fa- guild, no airman sought to win during .vor of him. • W hen I had hoped to be the years of war -a couipetitioteopen of the winning team in crossing the to the flight men of all countries save; Atlantic by a bridge of air, I liad 'had and except the enemies of the Entente oritritsted to me by President Beatty powers. Tlie prize was for a land -to- of the Canadian Pacific ,Railway three land flight; not excluding, however, such craft as flying boats, which greeting thenletters—toMinister Hon. ` Great might under the rules atight on the George, irGeorge or Primoa ey,Of nada at water on voyage. To win, the flight iigli C; Sir sioe the ,Canadian Pim- had to be made not only first but High Commissioner at the seat: c ren within an` eYapsod ' Gine, front 'start pare; and, Sir, time the McLaren to flnlslt, of seventy-two hours. Great executive recut, et n o nice . I csn't Britain's Royal 'Aero. Club, and the flyig .t1m , London. 1 wasn't; American Aero Club on this side, Hying that time, se 1 could not myself' make delivery, I explained the aatnd- jointly supervised and , directed the tion to Alcock. He held out Iris !rand. race, Major Partridge R,A.F., repro- Give them ton mta a you ost t he seated the Former organization at 9t. offered. "T'h undertake topostthem Johns as official starter, having as -&•eon ae we make laud, ts previously rendered invaluable sorviQe He wr'aitped them up carefully in Ja ranging to allanwith suutlre Unitedry�antates 4d hY 44 In bit of oof pd Peke,a> d tucked theri u 1n a pocket, Nor did he forge*t,, bike thorities a oo-ordination of , meteor° posted t°ttd`in at Cid& /rig*, t, 4 1ogJcel. reports. from British and next day,"milt eaciiand. all reached -tile. American obeervore, addressee, A Coming Winner Thatls the sort of chap,Alcock was There was .no question hi the minds The Vickers machine, vviv Alcoa: ae ref' the eight contingent aesemnbled iu by was of the type'knoWn as a Itithfr Newfoundland a decade ago that one bomber, with overall length Of 43 feet,: •or other of the racers then there was a 78 -foot whigspan, plane width of '.a coming whutdr, and that the bag 10,6 feet, Mantling •fitteeu• Net from prize would be won before Canada the ground to top plane lintel, with a 'next celebrated 'her Dominion Day. total weight of seven American One' Hawker was, unluckily, out of it, and carrying 870 gallons of petrol, giv-, At Pleasantville, three mike out 01 big her a flight range of 2,440 miles. tthe addled d 0ntal capital, the re - Land of the )(acing to Attempt B n• eerioAg Voyage PLAN A TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT PRAM SWEDEN The Sverige, in which Capt. Albin Ahrenberg plans to flyfrom Stockholm , Stockholm from Dessau,German Stoe i elm to New York In Juno, arrives at r, where it was built. land, she had 20 odd gallons Ieft, She pots 'or ease with a scout machine to was twin -engined 'by Rolls-Royce, 700 • efigage one or more of Fritz's air fighters lending their machine-gun and, immoral support to the Turkish partner. He was one of the first pair ofaviators to bomb Adrianople and Constantinople, liesides which he was officially credited with having satis- factorily accounted for seven Hun machines, thereby winning his D.S.C. His last duel in the clouds he wasn't likely soon to forget, Por just as he had crashed irik not inconsequential h.p„ and under full power developed a maximum 103 miles an hour, or un- der throttle an average 90 -toile cruis-. ing pace. A .marvel of the trip she made with Alcock at the stick is that, with the following gale's assistance, she made the run in still unbeaten. time, at an averaged hundred and twenty-six miles per holo;, twenty three miles an hour better than her best,posgible power performance. Her structural peculiarity was that her antagonist and was on the point of two seats, for pilot andnavigator,' calling it a day and speeding supper - were placed side by ,side Instead of ward, his propellor burst and his ma- chine fell from the 12,000 foot level with himself .and his companion in hard luck, Captain Hugh Aird and Engineer -Lieutenant F. I. Wise- plump into the Gulf of Saros. None of the trlo"was injured in the Vimy is of the type of Vickers bomber graduated descent and the plane kept mobilized at Bedford for a, bombing afloat for somewhat better than two raid on Berlin just before the ArmIg- hours, during which hopes of rescue tice, that Handley -Page of the Admir- ran high, Then ' the plane, without al's is one of the very machines fitted warning and very inconveniently/ out in London for a similar expedition simply left them. The inhospitable and the 'same objective." _ enemy shbrt was a mile away, 'and in Quite so," the Admiral amllingly every other direction was water and agreed—"only, of course, we weren't yet more water. Aud this at the end getting' ready to bomb Berlin, you of a perfect day. know—just military works in aad As a choice of alternative evils, the about Berlin." shore call won. All three swimmers Captain Alcock and Lieutenant made it, cold, exhausted and desper- Brown were officers with picturesque- ate, Then they spent fifteen hours ly chequered and dramatic war rec- ords, the former enjoytug unique dis- tinction -as an inventor and builder of aircraft of his own.- He was, in 'tact, the only pilot In .the air serviette of the Allies to have designed and con- structed a -machine of his own, dis- tintly original in its outstanding fea- tures, while of decidedly active ser- vice. This was sin 1913, the A/cook' fighting scout by -plane being con- ceived and given actuality in off-duty' intervals between bombing expedi- tions from the Mudros base directed against Adrianople' and Constantin- ople. "The Alcock I, was the fastest lit- tle fighting scout of her day'" the proud father boasted, "Her feature was unobstructed visibility in all dir- ections, and she was a hit if 1 do say it. All the scouts we've been build- 'Yhtg since have followed her baste .principles." Captain Alcock at that particular time was with the 11,N,A.S. of Great Britain. It was hie pleasant part to mice with a Manchester Sae regiment, go up every day either with a Hand from which he was transferred to the ley -Page b0 a 0 Y g tuber to drop explosive air force as an observer. se ver. 13e was shot. calling cards on Turtkisla military de- down, badly wounded and sent to Ger- tandem,- a minimum ,of discomfort, through cramping during long flights thus being' sought and gained, "It's a curious ooincidence, re- marked Alcock, chatting one clay at the Crosbie Iiouse, that while my dodging Turco soldiers and citizenry,, while searching for anything retnotely resembling: food. It didn't seem to exist in those parts. So they reluc- tautly gave themselves up and the. hospitable Turks expeditiously intro- duced them to the Civil jail, in which' they were afforded every opportunity for entomological research. Filth, ver- min and low diet are outstanding characteristics of Turkish jails, • To vary the low pressure monotony, mili- tary prisoners, under excuse of re- prisals, were •not infrequently' trans- (erred to the dark, dauk dungeons, where they as not infrequently died,. miserably and speedily. Alcock and his companions, after a month or more,. succeeded in getting transferred to an interment camp, where conditions, by comparison, were heavenly. There they stayed until repatriated oa the signing of the Armistice, Lieutenant (now Sir) Arthur Witid- den Brown had his flggt war expert - many in 191 as a prisoner -of -war, be- ing later repatriated to Switzerland and returning to his English home on au exchauge in 1917. There is one thing about the return. of Alcock and Brown to Loudon after their historic flight that is little known seemingly, yet has in it the glamour of the days of chivalry. They had barely reached the Met- ropolis from Ireland and had snatched a bite and a snooze, when they were politely commanded to attend at the Palace and tell the Icing himself all about it—which would be for Alcock a more terrifying assignment than an order to fly back across the sea, But they went, of course, and were welcomed -royally. And it was on that occasion that King George shattered precedents of a century to assert an old-time right of kingship long eubrnerged in the mechanism ,of politics, He whispered to a conveniently -near general and from him received a sword. Then he told the boys to kneel and, bewildered, they knelt. They felt their shoulders touched in turn and at His Majesty's word again stood erect before him—Sir John Al- cock and Sir Arthur Whidden Brown! U.S. Tarif and. Canadian Trade Manitoba Free Press (Lib.): Cana- dians Bright as well realize that for D unior Red Cross Goes to Geneva x y t•r Miss jean Browne ,Canadian.; National Director of the Canadian junior Red �� a i.. ,rt rr'lfi' ;+c k�,• �§?�` Cross. Will Attend, Internation Con- Convention f z{ ds Xg 1 • rk *t By ANNE ANDCR69N PERRY Early In July, Mies Jean Browne, National Director of the Caaadiau Junior Sod Cross, Will leave the na, sq t r1 tt r tional headquarters in Toronto for Geneva, where oho 17111 represent her, iii °trn �Y f i Society and country ,at an interne- tional conference of all the Junior -Red Crime Societies of the world, con- vetting. July 18th.. EXPLORER MAKES TOUR Delegates have been invited from 41 countries in which the Soolety flout- Vtlhjalinur Stefansgon, Arctic ox•tiehes. The. main object of the con- Westernplorer, will make a latter° tour 01 1 ference will be to consider in detail Canada, following Aero Con- the report 0f Everett Section, noted educationalist, who has been engaged for the past year in maleing a survey of the amount, kind and benefits 01 that international correspondence felans Cha.namong school children which is so very prominent a feature of Junior Red Cross activity in many parte of American Base at Fairbanks the world. It is through tits corree- Rather Than at Nome portfolios maintained by .picturesque pot•tfolios of letters, Sketohee, specs• Oslo, Norway,-- Tridtjof Neilsen, fa- ;Bene of fauna and flora, descriptive mous Norwegian explorer who plans material and handicraft exhibits, be- an Arctic Right in the) dirigible Graf ing constantly exchanged from Zeppelin next year, announced, re- schools 1u one country to schools in oently, aortain changes in his flight distant lands, that Junior Red Cross bases in Europe and Alaska. .. children are educated tothe broader The European base will be at. Pin- aspects of brotherhood and to world marken, on the northern coast of Nor- citizenship. It is therefore of vital way, instead of at ,Murmansk, The importance that its eharaoter and American base will be at Fairbanks, volume should attain high levels and rather than at Nome, As, first an- these levels will form the , main Bounced, themes at the conference. Hansen said mooring masts would Miss Browne, in addition to lteing be erected at both places immediately. one of a small consultative committee The flight is scheduled ,to start next which will guide the affairs of the spring: - Junior Red Cross meeting, will lead.la The principal aims of the expedi- the 'discussion of the health aspects tion will be to fix the boundaries of of the movement and will take a the deep Arctic Ocean and to seek pos- prominent part in the many functions sane landing places for dirigibles in whish have been arranged in ,honor the northern R. Mileou,. There also wallice bea eidstour of the the International Director. of the delegates by M. Georges North Pole area, and later a photo- Later, Miss Browne will attend the graphic trip along the Siberian coast, meeting of the World Federation of The expedition is scheduled to tom- Education Associations which takes piete rte work in three weeks, prob. place in Geneva in the week followinS ably late in April. that of the Junior Red Cross Societtei, The Graf Zeppelin will carry a the two having been so arranged ha double crew on the trip. cause of the very definite connection of the Red Cross cut for children with; Lord Lansdownethe best educational thought of the Irish times. Quilts Irish Senate A feature of both programmes of interest to Canadians is that the defies !tion of Junior Red Cross aims, ob- TWO Vacancies Are Now to jests and ideals ascosetnfaroncforteh at ththee Be Tilled—flour Women 1928 internattonat by Already in the Field Canadian Director, has been accepted by the world societies and is now em- bodied in their official publications and agendas. South Africa's Real Problem. ventton at St, Louts, Nansen's Arctic the present, and perhaps for a gen- d oration to come, it will be. useless for 10 t them to try to cultivate and estab- T lash permanent trade relatipns with of the United totes. That country will ing continue to buy from Canada because wo her people cannot help themselves, M2 but no particular line of export buss- Du Haas to the United States is safe for the a minute in the light of the attitude. of the United States legislators. A Canadian who would invest money In Preparing a particular article for he American market would, under exist- ing conditions, take a gambling chance. To the extent that tate United States buys in 'Canada we are in luck; but the conscious effort of the Govern ment of this country and of its people ought to be to develop markets with nations who believe in international trade and are wilting to buy as well as to sell. BEAUTY ublin,—The Marquess of Lana - do has resigned his membership he Irish Free State Senate. his now leaves two vacancies, that the late Mrs.'Stopferd Green hay - net yet been filled. Already four ruen candidates are in the field,-- s. Cosgrave, vice-chairman of the blin County Council and head of Irish Women Citizens' Associa- tion who, by the way, is no relation to the President), Mrs. T. M. Kettle, chairman of the Rathmines Urban Council, Mrs. O'Donovan of Rath - mines and Miss Kathleen Brown of Wexford. It is highly probable that the Sen- ate will favor the appointment of one of the women candidates in Mrs. Stop - ford Green's place, although two men also are, standing for election -3. 3. Brady, former Senator, and Laurence O'Neill, former Lord Mayor of Dub- lin. The latter will no doubt be nom- inated to succeed Lord Lansdowne_ TheIe toon" e cs will take place on June and Beauty is. truth,truth is bey ant — that all s weknow onearth,andail ow we need to know—Heats. Canadian Girls Can Handle the Wildest COMELY CANADIAN COWGIRLS CUTTING CAPERS Viola 8reotcenrldge "anti Barbara Brown, noted Canadian cr,wgit•Is of Waterton Lake When she lauded at Clitifon, fro" Meeting their' mastery oar breathes they brolte and trained, ; National Park, demos. New Statesman (London):'(By the Colour Bar Act it is an offence for a native to undertake skilled, work. Un- skilled jobs are, therefore, regarded as "IKaffirs' work," and no white man would dream of undertaking them.) The result is that, if the European is incapable of skilled work, he cannot ester the ranks of unskilled` labour, but falls below that level and becomes a "poor white," a social parasite, a loafer hanging on to the skirts of white society, a decadent slowly sink-, ing lower _into the morass of degra, dation, a feckless, hopeless figure. One white man in every twelve in South Africa is in this category today! it is the greatest social problem with which the country has to deal. This is the. price they are paying for the inti -due 19aof slavery two centuries ago, 19 20 - l foo a mafi i- anee ever sine i. wners' nom' Mtn tilde dde towards da Bio`n fl So longas manual la, hear is regarded as degrading And as E. F. Wise, C.B, In the Contempor-'Kaffir? work" with which no mo ary Review (London): The prineilileaIiramp l his hands, just so long will '$f Russo -British Relations and ideas represented by London and rnduatrial prosperity delay its coming. Moscow are in bitter and dangerous competition. The rivalry of England' and Russia in Asia Is no new pheftona- anon. Before the war it was a strug- Toronto Telegram (Ind.' Con.): gle of rival Empires for territorial ex- That, Canada cannot live by wheat pansion and commercial advauttages, alone is being amply evidenced by the 21 has since taken a different and present wheat congestion with its con - more dangerous form. Soviet Russia Sequent lower prices... . The cure stands now as the upholder of the must be found not only in diversified rights of Asiatic nations to salt -de- farming, but in diversified employ termination. She offers herself as their ment for her people. The home market champion In their struggle for free- is the greatest market in the world. dom from European Interference and It can bo controlled. But Cite home' expioitatten. England is inevitably re- market cannot be created by an Mimi. garded on account of her vast teal- ggraat,yon policy that makes wheat grewp torte influence in Asia as , the ing its objective or a tariff policy that defender of the states quo—of rights eiltbles mass production south of the and paieiieges acquired by conquest line to drive Canadian industries out in the !rine eenth century, . , , In the of business. It is all very nice fol Aelattic countries in the next 'decade the IKing government to claim that i0 there will be constant friction between has made Canada a nation, But a na. Canada and Her Markets England d R to coirtiict dangerous to the peaoo of . as use leading inevitably the (vor! d unless somehow or other friendly 'relations den be malt#aitied on a wide basis of co-operation be- tween the Iwo countries. Fear '' No paseton so effectually Yobs ilia mind of all its power 81 aotjug snit reasoning as fear; for fear being an apprehension of pain of death, it op- erates in a manner that resembles ac- tual paha.. Whatever; therefore, is ter- rible with regard tis sight, is aubliijie too, whether this dause.of terror he endued with greatness of climensioue or not; for it is Impossible to look on anything a strttting er contemptible, that ntay be dangeroas,--Burke. tion that leans on the rest of the world for its markets and turns over to th0 United States such markets as it ownii itseilf is 'not one that'•will mature thli highest foams of pattiotisrn, ,Yaax .. Fnjoyiinent . sal All roar and wholesome enloyffienti possible to. man stave bean just tilt lyoeeible to him :since Arai he wadi made of theearth as they are newt' and they are possible to hitt chiefly'' fu peace. To watch the corn grow a the blossom set, to draw hard brew over ploughshare and spade; to rest), t0 thiait, to leve, to, hope, to mill these are the things to .matte mea happy;' they have always had the power of doing these --bray Stever wilt have power to do !Bore.: Retsldn.