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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-04-23, Page 6NISCQUT This week 'brings us news from, our most northerly Lone Scout, who lives 'at the Hudson. Bay. Post at Landsdowne House, in Northern 'On tarso. His name is . Walter Wraight, and Walter is quite' an outstanding Scout in other respects besides his northerly location, Coming from the "Old Country" last year, he brought a very flue re- cord with him,and he is the posses- sor of the coveted "Silver Cross for Bravery" which was bestowed upon him for saving. the ..life of a dog. The Lone Scout Commissioner has a picture of Walter with the dog, a mocker Spaniel, that he saved, On arrival in Canada, he was sent to one of the Hudson Bay Com- pany's Northern Ontario Posts, and he has been in that part of the eoun- •try ever since, and tells us that he quite enjoys the life, although it is a little lonely at times, especially In • the winter time when travelling is difficult and he has to wait for a long time for his mail. Walter leas learned to drive a dog team, bet he says that if you talk kindly to the dogs they thick that you are a weakling and just lie down on the track and ,won't. budge. It is necessary to use quite strong lang- uage to them, before' they will take any notice of you. The last malt which the Post received was brought hi by dog team, driven by an Italian Priest, and he was quite embarras- sed by the fact that the dogs would take no notice of ordinary language, so he .compromised by swearing at them in Spanish! Walter is a Lone Scout indeed! Lately we have noticed several people busily engaged in their gar- dens, and this reminds us that every Lone Scout will of course have a garden of his very ort, which lie will lay out and plant to his own liking,' And therefore every Lone Scout should qualify for the Gardener's Badge, and now 1s the time to com- mence operation to earn this badge. Like quite a few of the other Scout Badges the Gardeners requires quite a little,,, patience, and cannot be earn- ed overnight, It is necessary to have some knowl- edge of soils, and to actually, grow a number of,flowere and plants from seed, but all this is very 'interesting work which would be enjoyed by every Lonle.. Get busy : and ask your ,Scoutmas- ter coutmas-ter to send you particulate ot.the Gardener's Badge, so that you too can qualify for it. And talking of Gardening reminds its of a very good turn that wad per- formed last year by the Lone "Wolf Patrol" of Paris, the fouuders et the Present Paris Troop. These Lonies looks about them and discovered some old folks Who were too feeble to dig and plant their own gardens, so they armed themselves with spades and rakes and all the necessary tools and set to work to Plant these old peoples' gardens for them, and then later on they also tended them when necessary. Wasn't that a real good turn? Maybe you can do the same thing this year. And still talking of good turns in the Springtime; have you noticed how the bright sunshine shows up that dirty rubbleh heap and untidy scrap laying all around the house and which was previously buried un- derneath nderneath the snow? How about making this week a Lone Scout "Clean Up" week, and so put everything ship-shape for the bright weather which is ahead of 1189 Go to it, Lone Scouts, and then svelte to your Scoutmaster and tell him what you are doing. LONE E. Man's Sight Extended By Ten Basic Devices New York—Ten basic devices per-. mitiug mai to project his feeble sense of sight into hidden scientific won- ders have been gathered together for the first time in a display at the Ex - Mitten of the Science and Art of Color at the Museum of Science and Industry. The Stroboscope, which stows up the motion of objects moving too swiftly for the eye to see; the moil loscope which catches the movement of obieets too vibrant; the micro• scope which reveals the infinitely small; the telescope to see distant objects; tite radiometer, which de- tects the invisible infra -red, or beat, waves; the photo -cell, which ensnares the unseen ultra -violet radiations; the X-ray, which reveals things through opaque materials; the spectroscope, which sorts out the mixed radiation of white light; the pyrometer, which record:) things too radiant for the eye to gaze upon, and the spectro- photometer, which performs feats of color analysis beyond the power of the human eye, are the ten machines, ------gym-- Captain Discovers Land In Arctic Oslo, Nerve—Captain Daehll, Nor- wegiau Government whaling inspec- solation of forgetfulness is manifest tor, who returned recently from visit- in the sad spectacle .of abandoned ing the herding grounds of tho north graves. The upkeep of cemeteries Atlantic, claimed to have discover- is a sacred trust not only for fam- ed a hitherto unknown laud with lofty files, but for public authorities when peaks in the arctic regions. families die out, or for other reasons The Laud, he said, lay between the deserted tombs have become the loagitudes 27 and 72 west, an arca prey of time and disordered' vegeta- which includes most of Greenland, Baffin Bay and the east coast of Bailin Land already. Captain Daolill told Tidens Tegn, Oslo daily, that he had noted the ex - Byrd Now Positive He -Flew Over Pole Washington - He probably already knew it, but the National Geographic Society has told hear Admiral Rich- ard E. Boyd when he flow over the south pole. The society's -research committee, reporting on its study of the explor- er's record, agreed that at 1:14 p.m., Greenwich civil time, Nov. 29, 1929, Roar Admiral Byrd was "at the south pole, in so far as an observer in an airplane, using the most accurate in- struments and methods available for determining his position, could ascer- tain. "We, therefore, feel sure that at some paint in the course the plane flow within. four nautical miles 01 the south pole, with the probability that it passed much tearer than this." Nautilus Named ' Bucketful of cracked ice was used for christening at New York of submarine Nautilus for Sir Hubert Wilkins' trip to North Pole this summer, Jean Jules Verne, grandson of famous writer, aided Lady Wilkins in officiating, "Laughter --A Boon- to Mankind" Says ;Mank nd May •Declares English Professor Perish of Cold y to [Ate perseverance British Scientist Declares Ice Laughter is a peculiars human But when; thanks phenomenon; declares Abraham Wolf, of the pioneees, the novelties succeed Age May Overwt.eltn, 001=0110. Britain's Oldest Store Now Closes Doors London.—Britain's oldest big store, James Shoolbred & Co., which !has car- ried on business in Tottenham Court Road since 1817, has passed into the hands of Harrods Ltd., the largest "Shop" in the British Empire. This change, entailing removal of the ShooI- bred stock to Knightsbridge, is nacos- speed by the westward movement of London's shopping area. The locality was semirural when James Shooibred, a Scotsman, opened his small shop as "Dealer, in British Lace." In 20 years the business had aborbed 2000 employees, It was the tint store to bo lighted by electricity in Britain, and also introduced the first weekly half -holiday, The Canning Industry Montreal, Quebec.—Vegetable can- ning in Canada had aa active rear in 1930, increasing 04.8 per cent, over 1920. The pack of tomatoes Motoris- ed by nearly 104 per cent., and peas blr almost 165 per Bent. The total pack for the Dominion practically ap- proximated one can per bead of pop- ulation. It totalled 10,006,014 cans in 1930, compared with 6,182,837 cans in 1929. Neglect of Cemeteries Montreal Presse: (A bill has been introduced in the Ontario ParIlaneent providing for the creation of local commissions for the maintenance of graveyards.). This example set by the Government of Ontario deserves to be followed ia other provinces, for there are many old cemeteries throughout the country where the de - London -Australia Airway Is Planned. act poeitien of the territory on mans London — Two experimental air and had taken photographs, but he flights under the Air Ministry's aus- iefused to divulge its exact position. picas, in each direction between Lon - All details and documents have been don and Australia, were recently an handed to tate Norwegian Govern- ment. Grain Transplanted' pounced by Hon, F. Montague, under - Secretary for Air, in the House of Commons. Tbe first flight from London start - Gives Finer Yield ed on Saturday, April 4111, and is Birmingham, Eng. — Transplanted tralia, on April 19. The second grain yields a, considerably better crop flight from Loudon will start April than crops allowed their normal1 26, and will be dice in Port Darwin aclioolboY8 in the Staifordshire village The present England -to -India air of Kluwer have been carrying out. For I mail route will be followed act tar as three seasons in succession the boys` Karachi and Delhi. The route will have sown wheat in October, and in then be to Allahebad, Calcutta; Ran• the following February have trans- I goon, Victoria Poiut, Singapore,' planted part of it in another plot, They Batavia, Pourabaya and Port Darwin. scheduled to reach Part Darwin, Aus- Professor oC Login aril Scientific) : Moth• ie estabilabing themselves as new •CiVilizatian ed at the University of London, in an habits, then the older habits. .of • tile' article' in"theN.•£; Times Magazine, old-fashioned, may be•laughed'to scorn The interest shown in Sir James Some monkeys may grin, but man is because of their 'contrast with the Sean's recent forecast that the world the laughing animal par excellence. newer and more widespread habits; would end la an Ice Age many million' Ile is also the most laughed at animal, Here also it is to be noted that usually years hence is proof of the increasing the chief butt of the laughter of hie 1t is only fashions' of n0 very serious sense of responsibility amongst men. moment (long or short dresses, short 'A few centuries ago, people were in - fellows. Hence the -general -human in- terest of `the subject.' Indeed, it has been said with some justice that laugh or long' hair, for example) that are terested in the end of the world, no wttor8 titughter; the reaction is from the scientific, but from the pure - ter is one of three great gifts given to different in more serious matters, une ly religious point of view, writes Pro - men to enable them to counter the less some genius of a humorist sue.' feasor A. M. Low, in this article in mieerses of existence. Forgetfulness coeds in showing vividly that they Pearson's Weekly. have a funny side. , Now the attitude is gabber; 'eft there . This brings us to the special mistis to be a catastrophe which will lion of the greatest humorists. it -is 'sweep thehuman race from the world, obable the special gift et a genius cannot we postpone or avoid it, so that is our protection against the haunting stings of the past; tope enables us to face the future with allthat it may have in store for us; laughter helps us to get over the trials of the immediate like Mr. Shaw that be can deal with man can'pregress further towards,the present., And the greatest of these is .serious problems in a laughable way. ideal of perfection?" laughter, for present evils always He usually snores his laughs in the Wo cannot interfere with, the whole sesta' to be the wort; but "a merry 1 allzo heart goes ail the way." Over` and above its general human interest, laughter also appeals to a number of specific interests. As a highly complex 'group of human ex- periences it is a subject of scientific interest, and as such appeals at once to the biologist. It has also an artistic interest, for it is intimately connected with certain types of literature, music and the pictorial arts. Lastly, it has even a commercial interest, for the production of laughter is one of the great industries of the world of enter- talnmeut, A Sower Went Forth Under the fecund arrows of the sun A farmer plants his furrow patient- ly. So went the ancient sower of the seed Before the dawn' of Karnaks dy- nasty, O long religloa of the fruitful sunt 0 living legend of the quickened field t lire Egypt was the cycleof tate corn: The seed ... the sun . . , the full and ripened yield, Ere Nazareth, the rhythm of the wheat: The seed , , , the shower and warm- th , - . the winnowed grain. Pharaohs, prlosts and peoples change —not these: • The sower and the seed,thesun and rash! Agnes Kendrick Gray, in the New York Tinter, The first and most obvious thing about laughter is that it is, a physical or physiological activity which is gen- erally found enerally'found to be very pleasant and refreshleg. The belief that laughter serves as a tonic is very widespread. Popular philosophy has testified to this belief in the proverb: Laugh and Sellllt Bait -Latest grow fat. This, of course,. was intend - g ed to express the oommou faith in the Industry In Georgia healtie giving properties of laughter, Tifton, Ga.—Down in Soutub Georgia In an age in which slim figures are the where the' stops were not good and. rage, the proverb' might prove a danhad to - ger to laughter. Perhaps we ought to substitute it for the motto: A laugh a day keeps the doctor away: The reason why people_ enjoy laughter as such, the reason why it really does them good; is physiologically quite clear and well established. It involves certain processes �of the respiratory muscles, an extra intake of oxygen in the lunge, stimulation to the circu- latory system and to the nerves. More- over, hearty laughter is generally ac- companied by a diffuse activity of the arms and body, conducted perhaps with the play impulse. Taken 1n. moderate doses, thou, laughter is joy -giving. Oue curious but interesting result of this is that since we feel glad when we laugh, we tend to laugh when we are glad. And so laughter has become au expression j Th kind It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day, It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.—George 'MacDonald. growth, according to experiments that en May 10. Have treated the two plots of wheat exactly alike, but the transplanted corn has always :been much fitter, Course In Leadership 100,000 +C erinans Expected To Visit Paris This Summer Paris.—One bundled thousand Ger_ Outlined For Women �' mans are expected to visit I' Syracuse, N,•Y,—"What is said to he this' Summer for the French Colonial the first course of its kind in the Exposition, and the greater part of United States, combining practice and them will come by bus. theory ht leadership for women eta -I The same buses will run all Sum dents, will be started at Syracuse mer from Warsaw to Berlin aced from vorsity next tens Tile 01001170 is to , Berlin to Paris. These big oars, Prepare woolen for, entrance into per. containing thirty seats and equipped ;mune' work and for positions as ads la every way to assure the comfort yiset•s and cleans of women in high ' of the passengerS, will make the trip 60110018, normal aohools and colleges. from Warsaw to , Berlin in twelve Ten outstanding women in educe- hours and in twenty-four from Berlin tlonal work will receive graduate es- to Paris. The price from Paris to aistantserep,t equivalent to nearly $1000 Warsaw will be $12 and from Berlin each yeelrlet. to Pols $12. Men—Look To Your Laurels ways already Indicated, especially by action of Nature. But we can oc showing the incongruity either be- it. • We cannot, for instance, prevent tween professed theory and actual rain falling, but by building houses, practice, or by disclosing eke disguises or by using .modern mettods,ef weath• by which ugly ducks .masquerade in er control, such as electrified sand, we fine feathers. Of cours°,. no problem, metal or otherwise, is solved' in that way. But it la a great accomplishment forcibly to direct people's attention to can to a degree make the rain fall. where we want it.. The same applies to the end of the world. The time is So far ahead that the existence of certain promises and it is impossible to speak with cep to prod them to face the problems in- tainty. It Is improbable that the acien• stead of •pretending that bhey don't tists of billions of years hence will be exist—rather like the man •wlie used able to prevent a large scale neural to barn all his bills and so made light catastrophe. But they may be able to of his troubles. avoid the reaolts he far cru the human Such laughter cannot, from the na-race is concerned. tura of bite case,' be purely joyous and Emigration to Another Planet? g Mal laughter. Tears' are ape to If the end 01 the world is to come mingle' with it. There are many forms through cold, there are four comfort- of laughter which are closely allied to sig ideas, First, there more thea a tears, And acme of the greatest possibility that new knowledge 'will. humorists have mingled them freely, show we are wrong in supposing the end will comeethrough cold. Secondly, it'may take a few pillion more years than we believe at preaent. Third, during the intervening years the human race may be able to pre- pare itself for the catastrophe. where forks have ____ ___ _ And finally,: -when people speak of plans t0 'earn a living through'the the end of the' world coming through Summer, a new industry is being built cold, they do not 'refer to the end of up. The following advertisement has the human race, which might easily appeared in The. Tifton Gazette: c tigrate to another pia! et, or even "Fish bait-- he-1ateSt.thiug just out .universe, and continue to live.happilY, of the. ground. The very best 1931 The greatest mistake • made bypro- model—fat, juicy and tough --the' kind .phets who are extremely learned- in you have been looking for. dust call One branch et science is to overlook J ko at The Gazette omoe and' have the development of the human •race• him put you -p a cup full when you Those who say that the world will die aro ready to go fishing.—dtP " of starvation and cold when our coal Now that country folks have begun and oil supplies run out, for instance, ailing angle worms that used. to bei overlook the Possibility of the dist- Gee for the digging; it would not 1)e': covert' of new sources of heat and s uprising if some farmer charges a' power, • neighbor for a "mess o' greens" or a I The man of two centuries ago prob. half-dozen "roast n' ears" for dinner ably molted at his patch of forest and before the Summer Ps gone. The whole hie growiug family and said, "In ten world seems to be getting commercial- yours all this wood Will have been lzed. burned and. my children will die of cold!" as well as a source of joy. e c n If you utilized all the energy in our Earthquake Precautionsh of association, or mental alchemy, by Eart�t coal and ail instead of a small ,frac- which this sort of thing happens is,Auckland Weekly News: No amount tion of It, our supplies would last al - familiar to psychologists who have of argument about New Zealand's 0001• most indefinitely. There can be ao studied the expression of the onto- parative freedom from eerious earth- doubt that long before the first signs tions. , quakes can dispose of the necessity, of what we believe will be the last For various reasons laughter VS of taking bilerisk of them into ac- geriat frost appear, mankind will be in been largely displaced by the mere Count, As the details of the Hawke's possession of soignee of energy be - smite, which serves as a kiud of gee. Bay disaster become more fully known youd our present bellef. teel and refined Substitute for it. One it is pitifully evident that the terrible I To euggest, for instance, that the en- of the chief causes of this fact is the 10es of life would not have occurred gihteers will harness the encroaching general tendency for cultured people had the principles of oarthquakeproof1iee and turn its power into heat may 1 el inners construction been observed in build- sound fantastic. But remember we Arlayne Brown, 14 -year-old St, Louis high school girt, whose phenomenal target shooting has earned her title of one of best marks- men in country, She bee shot her way to stardom almost Over night, never having fixed a gun until two years ago, to become quieter iu t 1 r m and habits 01 life. Professional pee' lugs of comparatively recent ereotiou. pie inevitably pass much of their time With eyes upon the future of Napier i lonely occupations,and so acquire and adjacent towns in the region so are speaking of billions of years hence. The comparatively puny engineers of u nue y to -day have harnessed the energy of "•.e habit of quietness. IIabtt some sadly overtaken by disaster, it must glaciers. What will the man of the times becomes a cult. So "loudness" be said that the promised body of far future be able to do?. He may de- of every kind is regarded as rather vul- building regulations is absolutely es- rive energy from •the rotation of the fly not sur- sandal, not for application there oulY, ! earth, from the stars, or from many sources the very existence of which we cannot: at present even imagine. Thought Wilt Survive uta te'ase'd ho had never considered but the' simplest an After all, life has adapted itself to to laugh. He does not say when he est way to safety should be taken by the bottom of lite oceans and to the came to the full use of his reason. making the regulations compulsory top ofhigh mountains. It exists in the Sooner or later we all reach an age everywhere. If action of the sort be, hot waters of the tropics and !n the when ,ve drop physical exercises and. not taken now, the outstanding lesson f g gar, We are Ceneequtlu but throughout the Dominion, Lia - prised to find' that the genteel Lord Chesterfield claimed it as a merit that bility to earthquake varies locally, no since he had come to the full use of doubt, when the whole Dominion is been heard `d aur loud laughter is ohs of them,• of this calamity will be lost. Although laughter is a physical ac•� tivity, le is more than that. It is usual- Report Shows Wages Drop 17 associated wibh mental experiences.' Nine Billions in States . This may bo at a minimum in merely Washington.—The incomes of wage speak of the end of the world, a few boisterous laughter, such as often ao earners in the United States are esti• million years are neither nage nor comparnea sheer ragging and rough there'. horseplay, But with the growth of mated as Itaviug been $9,000,000 lower Emigration to other planets is an - is and culture' the laughter that it 1930 than in. 1929, in a. report pre ether possibility. It may be true that to mainly physical feuds to be re- pared by its Geneva Research Commit - man, as we know him, would not live placed by what is mainly a laughter 1 110, the League of Nations Association - 1 announced stere recently. under the ceniiitions existing in the of the mind. What is meant by 1 I:Ioon or Marc. laughter of the mind" is perhaps This of the $1,000;000,000 un. But as I have pointed out, it is ab- This most obvious when exhausted with der that of rho American Federation surd to suppose that man will remain physical laughter,anizations figured the decline at 20 to funny stories and see their point, gar Cent, but cannot laugh at them. Merely p boisterous laughter, of course, has a l Moose Jaw, Sask,—A new industry thong hold.on most people. And so' is to be added` to Moose Jaw in. the sheer tooling, smacking, beating and form of a' grist and flour mill, t0 be ragging tooily, grade ate aa largo , erected early this summer at a cost. part of the stock in trade of the circus of about $25,000. r .d the pantomime. But such laugh- ter is. at best short-lived among intelli- Moose Jaw, Sask—The first Factory would die on the way, just as theme gout people. It 80011 palls on them. ands of birds die during just summer And even those who shun anythingiin the Province of Saskatchewan for migration, but the ram would Survive, "high brow" in the way of entertain -.the manufacture of neckties, was 1t is quite false to take up the ;atti- ment stili look for something more' opened in Moose Jaw recently by the tude that the world must end, and that '''''1"' intellectual than the fun of- the old! Indestructable Neckwear Menefee- : enefee- therefore any attempt to improve the type of circus clown or pantomime but -.,tigers Ltd. The factory is turninglumen race is wasted effort, E form,1 out around 100 dozen [tea per weer[ i d fills g its orders ter is an important Social weapon, lt g rozen regions of the. poles. Would it not adapt itselt to any new conditions; such as an ice Ago? It would take millions of years for the change to take place; but when we we go on listening of Labor, made public, but both or - always as he is to -day. In a few mil- lion years, scientist may forese the coming of the End, and start breeding a special race to live with far less oxygen than that required by modern In a few more million years these mei might be ready to start emigra- ting to another world, Thousands but is• bah u zu n supposing that the world does"end, and Tho -ie can be no doubt that laugh-twhtch'have bean larger thea expect that the human taco ceases to exist, thought cannot be dostroyea, and is employed to diecourge'both the new- 0d. would survive the greatest natural (angled and the old-fashioned, and so e , catastrophe. stoles to promote steady progress in1 Saskatoon, Sask.—The- Saskatch- en slowly." New fashions in dres8,Ilu an addition 01 Machineryh is teast sixty stars to accordance with the old adage, "Haat- ewan Power Commissin10consider- to the There' are at 1 g bearing, mode Of speech, or manners) Saskatoon plant,, to mat in the neigh- every man, woman, and child on the are uearly always latighed at to begin/ borhood of $400,000. No additional earth. with. And the laughter often has the buildings, however, .will be required. 2 Offect.of killing .mere affectations and Conetructlou 'of additional transmis- All hail! ye small sweet courtesies mannerisms. Such laughter is mostly .cion lines throughout .the Saskatoonof life, how .much smeller de ye provoked by incongruity or contrast istriet necessitated the enlargement make the road of it—Horace Wel- with established ouetome and habits. of the plant. pole.