HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-01-22, Page 3LaL t Addition
To Army of R hots
An Electrical Device Now
Speeds the Hand'Iing of
Telegrams Dictated
Over 'Phone
An addition was recently made to
the corps of robots which -the New
York Telephone Company hal level
aped and put into service in the last
few years. Its function is to speed
up the service given to telegrams that
are dictated over the telephone, and
It performs tills !unction so efficiently
that, ron the average, -only' one second
- passes from the time an incoming
telephone 'call reaches the device to
the time when a typist :answers the
,call, ready to take down the telegram
AL New York City 'telephone calls
in which a person .asks for Western
Union are .'handled by .this machine
'The telephone operator connects the
;party 'desiring to send the telegram
with the receiving station of the
Western •Union. Thera the call id
handled by ,the new receivinng runit,
which can connect any one of. the
120 -.incoming trunk lines with any
'one .of the 110 operators who -can
work at one time. In -other words,
this unit must select from the 110
telephones in the station .one which
does not happen to be in use, and
connect it with the trunk line on
which the call has come in. If all
the :telephone- .operators are busy, it
"'stores" the call.
The operator knows when .a call
:is 'on her *wire because -she hears
what :is known :as .an "audible" -a
tone :like that'which le heard on 'the
•ordinaey dial telephone. She #m -
mediately says "Western :Union" and
proceeds to type'tthe telegram on
'the noiseless typewriter which is on
•her desk. Wbat the device does,
'therefore, is to ,cut downtlre time re-
quired :to connect the 'party with •a
:girl who is,to take down his message
:and forward it.
• A. visitor to the .Company's new
ibuilding would see no sign -of the cam -
•plicated machinery which is 'helping
'the girls there to handle the calls.
All he 'would see would be groups orf
girls sitting at desks, their head -sets
.clamped on andtheir transmitters
hung ready, takitlg down the tele-
grams as they 'came over the wirers.
The robot is ,on 'the floor above. It
.consists .of .a .mass of wires, rotary
awitehes, relays, protective devices,
'timing circuits, etc., all mounted on
,tall 'frames.
eerieeerie.Of. *the :novel .karts of the new
,equipment is a eleare "board which
•indicates, ;ly ;names of .colored Tights,
bow 'many .of -the operators .are busy
:and .:whether :any .calla .are ,being
tamed to watt.
Predicts Musical Lighthouses
That Will Sing to Sailors,
Talking lighthouses to ;tell sellers
miles out at sea just which lighthouse
they are watching,' or, even to enter-
tain these passing mariners with news
of the day or weather • forecasts .or
the latest song and, dance hits, were
- predicted by 0. Il. Caldwell, former
United States Radio Commissioner and
now editor of 17lectronice, in a recent
addrees to the Virginia Section of the
American Chemical Society in Rich-
mond, Virginia. The secret, Mr. Cale -
well said, is the modern process by
which music, speech or' any other
sound may be "modulated" on a light
beam much es radio programs ave
sent out on the beams of radio waves
from a broadcasting station. To the
eye such a music -carrying beam looks
quite as usual' but if it is allowed to
fall on a photo -electric cell, properly
arranged 'with vacuum tube amplifiers
and other apparatus, the sound mes-
sage on the light beam may' be picked
Life
Life's more than breath and the •quick
• round ,of ,bleed;
et is a great spirit; and a busy heart,
The toward and the small in Seoul
scarce do idve. . , .
We live in deeds, not years, in
thoughts, not breaths,
In feeling,' not in figures on a dial,
We should.count time by heart throbs.
He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest,
acts the beet,
Life's but a means unto an end; that
end
Beginning, mean, and end to all
things.
God. :
Upon the summit of each mountain—
thought
Worship thou God. Keep thy spirit
pure
From worldly .taint by the repellent
strength
Of virtue. Think on noble thoughts
and deeds
Ever. Count o'er the rosary of truth;
And practice 'precepts which are
proven wise.
It matters not then what thou fear -
est,
Boldly and wisely in that light thou
hast;
There is a band above will help thee
on. —By Philip James Bailey..
--f
A Motorist's Paradise
Leipzig, Germany. ---Motorists who
violate theordinance against parking
in front of the Gewandhaus during
concerts now find, when they return
to their cars not a summons to court,
but a note readiug:
"New regulations govern the driv-
ing up to, leaving or parking in front
of the Gewandhaus. Your car was
Marked today in violation of these reg-
ulations. You will find on the back
Of this notice a clap showing the
places where parking is possible. If
further information is desired please
telephone the traffic department, No.
72823, extension 257." '
This method has brought so encour-
aging results and So much praise'1oe
the Leipzig Police Department that it
4a to be extended to cover violations
of parking ordinances. generally,
Piano Health
If your piano . sits near either a
radiator of a steam pipe running
through the room keep a couple of
pie tiffs under the piano full of water.
This gives. the piano ,the necessary
moisture to keep it in good health, •
You, will be surprised how quickly the
pans dry out. Refill thein often.
Evidently the less a bathing suit,
holds of the female wearer the more i2I
holds the man,
0if and made audible. The beam from
a • revolving lighthouse, for example,
might be• made to sing a definite note
Whenever its rays fall , on .a small
photo -electric cell mounted on a. ship's
bridge. haven the captain in his cabin
thus would know, by, the dletinctive
musical. note of the, beam, which light
house of several along a coast was
then, its• sight. Such Iighthouses now
aro distinguished by color or by the
.number and arrangement of flashes, as
the light revolves. The.use of color
necessitates. decreased Intensity -of the
light, since colored lights, are not 60
bright as pare white ones.. The recog-
nition of lights by flashes requires
considerable practice, , .It might fie
easier, Mr. Caldwell believes, to have
each lighthouse identify itself by a
m.usical note or even by spoken words,.
'although the former might require
ship's captains to possess musical ears
in addition to the manifold qualifica-
tions already necessary, for that job.
;01ss1a Also Has
A Family of Smiths
By Helen Christine Bennett.
McCall's special representative
to Russia
soviet government is frank in its
reply,
'We have no Communism yet in
Russia,." said one oflletal. "We are
but nursing the ilrst feeble germs of
Communism.. We live now under a
dictatorship of the proletariat, of the
workers. It is a transition period and
will not last. It is the first essen-
In America we have one family tial step toward Communism"
name that •crosses all boundaries. it "Is is essential." These are the
is the 'name of Smith. It may be words of a woman of the intern -
borne by Use socially elite or the wo- .gentsia. "You must understand that
man who goes out by the day. We' for :centuries what the Russian work -
knew there must be its equivalent in ers earned was the property of the
Russia. When asked, smiles came at czar,• the nobility, •or'the •church. So
once to the faces al Russian wonion, little was deft for them that they
"02 course we have such a came. In lived unspeakably; joy for them was
Russia it le'Ivanoff." It is the Smiths: nothing but vodka. There is a pm-
-the Ivanoffs of Russia who tell the erb-'Work loves a fool.' To do as
,•01023' of the new life.—The Editor 'of little as possible was a creed of self-
"McCall's " preservation. Then came the war,
One of the most revolutionary revolution, famine. If we were • to
changes brought about by the Soviets survive, it must be through a new idea
has-been.the freeing of woman to an of work. The Soviet government •cre-
extent not equaled in any country in ated a nobility of industrial workers,
the world, In Russia today woman and Russians began to work."
may vote and hold office with none Despite the money which has been
of the discriminations 'found in other- expended for health measures, the
countries. She has equal sex rights people of the .U.S.S.R.'suffer acutely
and privileges; - she may marry and .from lack of on'e of the greatest of
divorce at will; she has equal rights health assets—a sufficient allowance
in 'bet' children and all her children,
born in wedlock: or out, are legitimate.
She may do anything a man may do
without stigma. She is free as no
.woman in the world has ever been
free—as man is free..
When you .first arrive in one of
the great cities of Russia and look
at the people on the streets, you
search in vain for the smart, well-
dressed men and women you are ac-
customed to see on the North Ameri-
can continent. The Smiths wino pass
you wear the clothes of workers.
They are comfortable and useful
clothes, but there is nothing luxuri-
ous about them. Let us look at the
women. The one just passing, dress-
ed in khaki shirt and knickers, is the
foreman of a construction gaga. The
older woman, • with the red korebief
that narks the member of the Com-
munist Party, is a high official, and
the woman with her, in a drab gray, le
a factory manager. Behind them are
two doctors, a judge, and a "superior
soldier": (oibcer) in uniform. There
are in Russia women soldiers with a
rank equal to that of 'a general. All
work is open to women.
But if we want to know the more
typical Mrs. Smith of Russia, we must
go to the factories. At the. Melangi
Combinat, a textile factory at ivan-
ovo-Voznesensk, where there are 7000
workers, Martha Smith -Marfa Ivan-
off—stands before a great spinning
machine. Seven hours a day she
watches the spindles. The week is
five days.
"I get the children ready for school
before I come to the factory," she
said. "No, I give them no breakfast
—that is at the school. `My shift be-
gins at ten. Pieter and Lydia stay by
the salami two hours after my work,
that I may buy Ser the house. Dinner?
It is at the school. Mina is bete, at
the factory—My breakfast also. My
husband, he eats with me here. At
evening we make supper at home. At
night? Now—"her eyes sparkled -"I
go three time a week to the class. I
learn to read and write. The chil-
dren? The sleep, If my husband
goes, my neighbor listens."
"Every cook," insisted Lenin, "must
iearn how to run the government."
Marfa is learning. To help her,.
the government bas shortened her
working hour's, served her children
free meals at school, and given her
and her husband meals at low prices
at the factory. As a worker, Marfa
actually receives mnoh more than the
80 rubles a month she is paid at the
factory. She and her husband have
food cards, clothing cards, cards for
railways tickets at less than the ticket
office sells them, soap cards and cards To guard thel babyagainst. colds
for sweets, and through the factory ;nothing can equal Baby's Own Tab -
she may buy tickets to theatres, cin- lets. The Tablets are a mild laxative
ernes, concerts, at niucb less than box- that will keep the little one's stem -
office prices, -As she will 'eagerly tell ach and bowels, working regularly.
you, there is Meeh more. 1t is a recognized fact that where the
At almost every factory a doctor stomach and bowels aro in good order
looks after the health of the workers. that colds will not exist; that the
"If I am sick," said Marfa, "the doctor ,health of the little one will be good
will care for me.: Pay? No—I am a and that he thrive and be happy
worker!" and good-natured. The Tablets 'are
Why all this fuss' about factory sold by medicine dealers or by mall
workera•in Resale? Why should they at 25 cents a box from The Dr, Wil -
bo preferred citizens? There is jus- liams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
tico in the question. Preferment for
any Glass is far from a Communistic A scientist pays that Anrericans
Ideal of share and share alike The have strong jaws. Yes, by gum!
of house room.
Marfa showed me her apartment in
a "model" six family house. • Two
bedrooms, one kitchen, one wash-
r'oom-(sink and toilet, no bath). In
one room, Spic and span, a single bed,
a •eot, one small table, two chairs,
curtains and plants at windows, rag
rugs on the floor. Marfa and her hus-
band and their two children slept in
that room.' The pecond bed -room is
willing rented by Marfa to a married
couple who share with her the small
kitchen. Next door are eight peopiei
Yet Marfa and her neighbors do not
feel crowded. It is the remnant. of
the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie
who entree in this terrine overcrowd-
ilrg.
Yet many women of those classes
have found themselves under the new
conditions. Listen, for instance, to
Najeda-Ivanoff, my interpreter.
"I was not a revolutionist," she
said. "But now that this thing has
come, I am happier than ever before.
"I was a physician's daughter. We
had an apartment of 14 rooms for
father, mother, and six children. I
was educated ae a lawyer, but under
the czar I was not permitted to prac-
tice. I studied .languages, I lived
abroad.' But never did I feel right.
There were four porters in our apart-
ment -house, and the one at our door
had one ,room, dark, unheated. There
were his wife, a half-grown son, and a
new baby. There was one narrow cot.
The boy slept on the floor. The new-
born baby lay in a hole in the brick
wall There was a little table, a chair,
and that was all.
"They must have cooked on another
porter's stove, for they had none.
Now nobody lives like that. Next to
me: in my apartment is a charwoman..
Her work is to sweep and scrub the
nage at one of the big stores. Her
husband works in a factory. She has
two winter coats, blankets, a good
bed. Her husband has made a radio.
Her baby was born in a hospital, and
she was taught to care for it. This
costs nothing. Such things were nn -
known ten years ago. ly husband
always was a revolutionist: Now I
have learned to believe."
Such intelligent, cultivated women
in Russia today go forward, not seeing
clearly the future for themselves and
their children, :but willing to go on
and work, because justice is nearer
than before,—'The Reader's Digest."
Guard the Baby
Against Colds
l000 -Egg Incubator
No chance 'of this modern incubator failing, With capacity of
01020 titan 1,000 eggs, this new revolving incubator was one of features
DI Los,Angeles poultry show.
Owl Laffs
Brushville Judge—"See here, I'm go-
ing to. put .a stop to this here horse
stealing, or none of us will be safe."
Mary, Mary, quite contrary--
How
ontrary—How you hem -line growsl
It used to swirl above your knees,
Now it nearly hides your toes.
Young Bride—"I haven't the heart
to fry the eggs. Tiley look up at me
so piteously out of sad yellow eyes."
Looking back over the years, the
proverbial line of least resistance
seems to be a Woman's.waistline-
Hat Clerk—"A wonderful fit, old
man."
Customer -"Yee, but suppose 'my
ears get tired?"
The life guards at the bathing
beaches ought to make good book-
keepers. They all know how to handle
figures all right, all right.
A New York salesman was staying in
a Texas hotel where he observed an
old-fashioned roller towel.
Salesman (to man in wash room)-
"Say, doesn't the owner of this hotel
know that it's against the law of the
State . of Texas to use roller towels'
now?"
Man Addressed—"He knows it all
right enough, but I reckon that law'
wasn't passed when this towel was.
put up."
Flapper Motto --"Better be fat in the
head than thick at the hips,"
A young man, who had an enormotis
mouth, became engaged to a girl, and
went to her father to ask his consent.
Youth (smiling broadly to hide his
confusion)—"I have come to—to—ask
you for your daughter's hand. I—I—"
The 'Father—"Excuse me, but will
you close your mouth for a moment
so I. can se who you are?"
One thing you never hear one girl
say to another any more is; "Why
don't you take a tuck in it?"
The young farmers were boasting
about the size of the vegetables they
had grown. Finally one of them turn-
ed to Uncle Seth:
Young Farmer—"What was the big-
gest thing you raised this year, Uncle
Seth?"
Uncle Seth—"A squash."
Young Farmer "Well, how big was
it?"
Uncle Seth (drawling)—"We navel
measured' it, but we used the seeds for
snow shoes."
First Travelling Salesman —"Being
on the road ain't what it used to be."
"Second Ditto—"Naw, I've been an
the road for ten years now and never
hast to sleep at a farmer's house yet."
Hostess -"Would you like a sonata
before dinner?"
Her Guest (giving a start of surprise
and pleasure)—"Thank you, I had a
couple on the way over here, but I
think I could manage another."
Customer—"How much will it cost
to have this guy bumped off?"
Hi-Jacker—"Shucks, partner, I leave
it to you,,You pay me aecordin' to the
good yer gets out of it"
Little Girl Neat Door—"What's the
new baby at your Moine, Johnny, a boy
or a,giri?"
Disgusted Little Brother—"Ave, it's
a girl. I saw 'ani putting powder on
t."
Horace — "you can't go out with
Kate.. She's a girl of rank,"
Manuel—Mires, and I am as rank as
she is."
Danger from Colds
Every woman beyond middle age
should . realize that a majority of the
troubles she has to fear have their
origin in what are known as common
colds. Each attack lowers her vitality
and reduces resistance to disease. At
this season of the year every wo-
man should see that her blood is
toned up to meet the rigor's of the
climate and especially that strength
should be restored after any cold,
however slight. For this Dr. Wit -
Barns' Pink Pills are a reliable tonic.
Tllese. Pills are not a mere stimu-
lant giving. temporary relief. They
build: up the body by creating that
rich red blood which imparts the
glow of health; steadies the nerves,
improves the appetite and digestion
and make the users capable of with-
standing the rigors of our Fall and
Winter months, They are sold by
medicine dealers or by mail at 50
cents a box from the- Dr. Williams
Medicine Co., Brockville, . Ont.
Excavating of Old Fort
Reveals Roman Past.
Glasgow: The fort baths brought
to light during excavation work on
the Roman fort at Cadder promise to
give very clear evidence of the vari-
ells periods of Roman occupation, said
John CIarke at a meeting of the GIas-
gow, Ar'ohaeological Society. It was
hoped to complete the excavations
next year, Mr, Clarke added. The fort
had been the sixth of the Antonine
Wali torts,from,the west end of the
wall
During the gear a large outer sys-
tem 01 defenses had been discovered
inolosing an area of 15 acres, appar-
ently anterior to both the fort and the
wall. Neither the period of this sys-
tem nor its relation to the smaller
fort were• yet certain. Several rare
objects in pottery, a coin of Gallia,
and several interestinng iron articles
had been found,
There ar'e still a great many people
who sirnply will not let the dentists do
all the looking down in the mouth.
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Care .for Your BBands
rry Daily Ore of
C ticaorat Soap
flail Linehan' and O.rrttatlone.
With Cortpl15s1'S2 0lS5t2250231
How Wo Fen Lose
Fat In England
How would you like to lose unhealthy
fat that you don't need and don't
want, and at the same time feel better
than you have for years?
How would you like to lose your
double chin and your too prominent
abdomen, and at the same time make
your skin so dean and clear that it
will compel admiration ? •
How would you like to get your
Weight down to normal, and at the
same time develop that urge for
activity that makes work a pleasure
and also gain in ambition and keen-
ness of mind?
Get on the scales to -day and see how
much you weigh—then get a bottle
of Menace Salts, ,Take., one-half
teaspoonful every morning in a glass
of hot water, and when you have
finished the first bottle weigh yourself
Now you will know the pleasant way
to Pose unsightly fat, and you'll also
blow that the six vitalizing salts of
Iiruschen have presented you with
g#oIious• henitlr.
Tisat's the way lilnglishwolnon keep
slim —why not yon
ISSUE No. 2—'31
APPL1CATIONS
Are Filled As Far
As Possible in the
Order in Which
They Are
Received.
ONTARIO
DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE
APPLICATIONS
Offering n.'inuai
Work Are
invariably
Given the
Preference.
Farm Help Supplied
The Colonization and immigration Branch of the
Department: of Agriculture for Ontario will have avallable a
number of ,Experienced Married Men With Their Wives
and Famllles—Married Couples Without Children—
Mao Single Men.
verniers reeuirIng help will be well
advisee to make early application to
Geo. A. Elliott
31reator of Colonlzatton
TarToronamntoent.Bldgs.,, Ont.
Pile Your
Appl'cation
at Once
AI! Men
Placed Subject
to Trial Period
MON, THOMAS L. KENNEDY, Minister of Agriculture
Les Baux
(From Tile Atlantic Monthly)
There is; no need for vain regret. .
Fee envy of the lives` whose lot is. set
In this enchanted place,
Where grey crags' touch thesky
while far below,
Meadows, miraculously green,
Aresunk in sleep, between
Uptower'ing rocks, anti from the cliff's
sheer face
Whiteelowering bushes grow,
Should you live here, you must choose 1
The mountainetor the valla
lose, 0 soon the
For one, the other joy; to ,
when and where
Would have. you in_their customary
care.
Rather, let your dwelling here..
Be in the mind—and. you are free
Of all the range the ravished eye can
see;
May house you without fear
In the topmost pinnacle, where the
star -pricked dome
Shall roof you through the night's
slow -wheeling ' hours,
Or make your home
Among' the lilacs and the meadow
flowers
Down in the valley—at your will
Be shepherd, huntsman, poet; you
may dance
With the linen jiggling: on the line
In the cherry orchard by the water
mill,
Or where the sunbeams shine
From the blue backs of swallows, ne
they glance
In the mid-air, below
The rocky terrace, to and fro
Your insubstantial form m y go,
Now vast as night, now infinitely'
As having having nothing, yet possessing all.
—Freda C. Bond.
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Miss E. Thomson, of Clapham,
writes:—"I find that Carter's Little
Liver Pills will do more to keep the
complexion clear, and the skill free
:trona blemishes, than all the face
creams I have used. I found the real
cause of face blemishes was usually,
due to liver and stomach troubles.
My druggist recommended them as
a specific for stimulating the liver
and expelling the constipation poi-
sons from the system."
Take Carter's Little Liver Pills
for sick headache and indigestion.
All druggists 250 and 750 red pkgs.
relieve
VV HAT most people call indiges-
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stomach. Food has soured. The
Instant remedy is an alkali which
neutralizes acids. But don't use.
crude helps. Use what your -doctor
would advise.
The best help is Phillips' Milk
of Magnesia. • For the 60 years
since its invention, it has remain-
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bloating, nausea, dizzin.ess,.indiges-
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over -acid stomach and bowels.
Be sure to get genuine Phillips'.
It is always a liquid; Dever niade in
tablet form, Look for the name
Phillips on the bottle. Ml drug-
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'-lith School Boards and Boards of Education
- Are authorized by law to establish
INDUSTRIAL, TECHNICAL. AND
ART SCHOOLS
With the approval of the Minister, of Education
DAY AND. EVENING CLASSES,.
may be conducted In accordance with the regulations Issued by
the Department of Education.
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION:
Is given In various trades. The schools and classes are under the
direction of AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Application for attendance should be made to the Principal
of the school.
COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS, ' MANUAL TRAINING, HOUSEHOLD
SCIENCE ANO AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE are provided
toren the Courses of Study in Public, Separate, Continuation and High
Schools, Collegiate Institutes, Vocational Schools and Departments.
Copies of the Regulations issued by the Minister of Education may be
obtained from the Deputy Minister, Parliament Buildings, Toronto..