HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-05-07, Page 36V TI -1 THE. LONE SCOUTS
Recently a number of Lone Scouts
who were Spending their Easter vaca-
tion In Toronto met together at the
home of the' Assistant Provincial
ommiseioner for Ontario, Mr, F. C,
rwiu, where they met also their
Scoutmasters Mr, Vie Sheppard and
the Lone Scout Commissioner.
Mr. Irwin showed them a number
of Alms depicting ti cont activities and
kindly provided refreshrnente, and
all the boys voted it to be a "Great
Time", These Lonies are members
of the "Lion" and "Bear"' Patrols,
which have their headquarters at
' Lakefiel4 School.
.We are very pleased to hear re-
ports concerning the proposed joint
(field day to be held in the near fu-
ture by the "Bulldog" Patrol or
>hortsmouth and the "Hound" Patrol
of Milford. This is excellent .vork
and an example which could be well
followed by some of the 'other Loue
Patrols in the i?rovinee. Wesug-
• gest that any other Lone Scouts who
May be located in Hastings, Lennox,
irrontenac or Prince Edward Coun-
ties should get into touch with Pa-
trol Leader John Meets of 71 King
' 61.,'Portsmouth, Ont., and obtain
teal! particulars of this Field Day,
and make a point of attending if pos-
tsible.
The Lone Patrol .et Hensall is work-
ing : together in a very fine way.
They recently sept in applications
for five. Second Class badges, which
shows that every member of the
Patrol is keen to be up to the level
of the others. We shall expect to
hear big things of this Patrol.
A11 Lone Scouts will be interested
to hoar about the unique Troop which
is being operated in Toronto by Mr,
Willenegger, in connection with the
Hospital For Sick Children. There
are always a number of boys In this
Hospital. who •are laid up for a con-
@iderable length of time, and when.
their period of convalescence comes
ground they find.time'to hang heavily
on their hands.
So Mr. Willenegger has organized
a Troop of Scouts to help the sick
iwys to amuse themselves and a
very keen bunch they are, although
most of them have to attend their
Scout meeting in bed! There a 'e
about 15 Scouts in the Troop at pres-
ent and it is called the "Robert Louie
Stevenson Troop". There is also a
Cub Pack for the entailer boys who
are not old enough to be Scouts, and.
there are about' the same num-ber of
Culls.
After the boys become well and
leave the hospital, they, of ,course,
leave the Robert Louis' Stevenson
Troop and are at liberty to link up
with atiy other Troop near to the'!
district in which they live,: but Mr.
Willenegger also has a special Troop
in the city to absorb these "Ex -hos-
pital" Scouts if they are living near
enough to attend . the meetings.
There is one little Cub now in the
hospital who has some trouble with
his lung. He lives permanently on
his stomach, with his Peet cocked
away up in the air, so as to drain the
lung,—in fact he is practically stand.
ing on his head, and in this position
he was invested as a Wolf Cub, dress-
ed in full uniform, a short titne ago!
When sick boys .in hospital are
so eager to become Scouts, how much
more keen Should all we Lollies be,
who are hi full possession of our
health and able to get out and about
and enjoy all the interesting things
that Nature and Scouting have com-
bined together to plan for us?
Now that the warm weather is com-
ing again and Summer 15 just around
the corner, the Lone Scout 'Commie -
Skater and the various Scoutmasters
will commence to roam around the
countryside in their cars and on their
wheels, Have you fixed your Lone
Scout Sign outside your home au -
flouncing that "A LONE, ..$GOUT
LIVES 'HERE", so that -when they
go by . they will see it and .stop in
to say "Hello!" to yon, and to give
you the Left Hand Shake `of the
Boy Scout Brotherhood? • "
_There is still lots of: teem in Lone
Scouting for new members and if
you are not already. a Scout and
would like to be, and If there is uo
Troop near your home, write to the
Lone Scout Department, Boy Scouts
Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto
2, and ask for particulars of member-
ship. They will be glad to hear from
you.
Rich Radium Field -
Found in Canada
Northwest Territories Con-
tain World's Greatest
Deposit, Claims
Geologist
Edmonton.—Claimed to be ' the
greatest and richest deposit in the
;world,radium has been discovered
at Great Bear Lake, 1,200 miles
illorth of Edmonton iu the North-west
territories. ,
This was disclosed here recently
When Dr. J. A. Allan, head of the
department of geology at the Unlver-
t8Ity of Alberta, revealed result's of
analysis of pitchblende ore samples
taken from the area just completed
by provincial and university officials.
rr. Allan estimated the value of the.
re at $8,600 a ton.
The radium ore found at Echo
pay, on Great Bear Lake, also In
tilcated that it might be locates in
he pre -Cambrian shield that covers'
2,500 square miles of Alberta, The
h university
the u e
resamples, sent to Y
P
n supervisoryen-
gineer
A.L,a
y�y g,
�P
sneer for the Dominion government
at Fort Smith, are practically pure
ttr' itclth1eude, They run richer in
Aitchblende and with less residue
ran the ores taken from the mines
In the Belgian Congo, now the only
large-scale radium producing mines in
rhe world.
Since radium is worth approxi-
Mately $70 per milligram, a ton of
,the Echo lake pitclibiende would be
Worth about $12,700 per ton. On
this basis the ore, containing 68 per
cent. pitchblende, would be worth
about $8,600 per ton,
"The analyses show that one grain
Of radium is eontalued in every tons
libf pitchblende, Dr_Alian stated. ,
He—"Do you know it was the
happiest moment of my life when
rou promised to• be mine?"
She—"I can't bear to refuse any
saran that asks mb to marry him."
Canadian Silica Sand
The materials produced in the etltca
mining industry are : silica sand for
the manufacture of glass, carborun-
dum,.and for use in steel foundries:
Silex, the finely pulverized silica sand
which is important as a grinding and
polishing substance quartz and quartz.
ite for smelter flux, ferro-silicnu. s.td
Season of Forest
Fires Approaching
Careless Disposal of Cigaret-
tes Chief Source of
Forest Destruction
Beware of setting forest fires! One
of the most dangerous seasons of the
year is hero.
Statistics kept many years on the
causes of forest fires show that the
largest number of fires from any one
cause are set by smokers and that
the cigarette, which is used more than
outer forms of tobacco, is tate chief
offender. This is due to ttte fact that
a cigarette when thrown away con-
tinues to Mum until entirely consumed,
many serious forest fires are eet'by
thoughtless persons who throw cigar-
ettes and other forma of lighted to-
bacco
obacco and burning matches from inti -
road trains and automobiles,
The fishing•season is luringjato the
woods many smokers, who should use
extraordinary care in disposing of
f building and
their "smokes" and n b
e g
extinguishing camp fires,
Every forest fire takes money out
of the taxpayer's pocket. Fires de-
stroy recreational areas and material
that would•have furnished employment
iu many lines of industry, Forests are
not insured; every forest fire repre-
sents a total loss which always falls
upon the public purse. When forests
are destroyed everybody suffers .be-
cause not only are fish, game, birds
and recreation adversely affected but
agriculture and the Metropolitan cen-
tres also suffer through the effect that
forest destruction has upon the water
supply, If every citizen would con-
eiderhimself as a private fire warden
this wanton waste of our forests would
to a surprising extent be overcome, •
Finds Sports Mishaps Exceed
Those on Rail and Ship Lines
Accidents in sporting events and
recreational amusements are nearly
five times asnumerous as the com-
bined total of railroad, street car,
elevated, subway and steamship ac-
cidents, lit the experience of a Life
lusurance Company, which has com-
pleted a survey of tete .personal acci-
dents on its records from 1922 -to
1930 inclusive,
More persons were injured playing
golf, -the survey 'shows, titan' while
travelling on railroads., More' than '
twice as many claims welte Raid, to
those injured while playing baseball
than to those hurt in street -car ac
cidents. More persons were injured
dancing than in subway accidents.
The greatest number of accidents, 28
per cent. of the total, occurred in
buildings other than the Home, while
occupants of automobiles in aceiirents
accounted for 22.05 per cent.. rs .nnr Smith, girl pilot, set world's record for women when site
Accidents occurring in, clic .iconic . <1 ; 1ed 3_• o air over ..00 feet in to Long Island, This tops record. of
rtl l t no cell`, at the
,:.S,713 feet set by Ruth Nicholls. Sheisseenhanding barogn'a±51t to
Princes In South ,
Prince of Wales, Mitts ed by Prince George, steps down gang-
plank as his ship arrives at Sao Paulo on his torr of Brazil before
returning to ti.ls native England.
Women Flyers Lead Men
Airwaj Official Asserts.
Detroit,—The day when men ,could
side-step an invitation for a ride hi an
airplane with the excuse , that "my
wife wouldn't want pie to" has passed.
To -day, according to Colonel Helsey
Dunwoody, stead of the universal di-
vision of American Airways, there are
100,000 women - and girls actively en-
gaged in the aviation industry, while
many additional, thousands travel by
air at every opportunity.
Colonel Dunwoody said that women
hold the 'secret of success for air
transportation iu 1931,
"Women have a true, keen apprecia-
tion that commercial aviation is an iu
splratiou to American- achievement
and we in the industry look to then
to lead the way for 1,000,000 person.s.
to fly an average of 250 utiles each
titre year on established air.traushort
routes."
Women, Colonel Dunwoody said, can
do anything in the air that men can,
and in proof of his statement pointed
to the achievements of Elinor Smith,
Bobby Trout, Amy Johnson, ..u:h
Nichols, Amelia Batten Putnam, Edna
May Cooker and Dorothy Hester,
Field of Waterloo Yields
Bones of 7 Frenchmen
1Bruesels,—After a lapse .of more
than a century, the historic field. of
Waterloo has yielded the remains of
another group of victims iu that
mem-
orable engagement,'Workers digging
at La Hoye Sainte on the site of the
battle found the skeletons of seven
French soldiers, who were identified
as members. of the Corps of right
-wing of the French army in its
struggle against the English.
"Freedom is not worth having it
it does not connote freedom to ere
and freedom to sin."—Mahatma Gan-
dhi,
417,505 Persons
Carried In 1930
By U.S. Air Lines
Washington—Scheduled American
air Sines carried 417,505 passengers
during 1930.
The aeronautics branch of the De-
partment of Commerce in making this
annouucement added that 36,945,203
miles were Hawn during the year, au
increase of more than 10,000,000 over
1929. Mail carried amounted to 8,324;-
255 • pounds and express 2,869,255
pounds,
For the last half of. 1930 the 56
transport companies operating 137
routes reported 20,042,475 miles flown;
mail and 1,623;778 pounds of express.
Passenger's miles flown totalled 51,-
209,148 passengers, 4,562,879 pounds of
4^8,063 during the six mouths period,
a passenger mile being equivalent to
one Passenger flown one mile.
Iu operation of domestic lines 47
companies with 108 routes flew 17,-
396,719 miles in the last six months of
1930, carrying 188,979 passengers,
4,223,634 pounds of mail and 1,517,749
pounds of express.
On scheduled • air transport lines
operated by American companies Into
Canada, Central and South America,
and including threeroutes in Alaska,
three companies operated 20 routes
during the last half of the year. These
planes flew 2,646,756 miles and carried
20,169 paeseugers, 339,245 pounde of
mail and 106,029 pounds of express.
NOBLEST POWER
Never forget that the Tree use and
play of the faculties ie thesource et
the noblest power and the purest joy
in life; the pelt which they can win is
but as dust or diet in comparison,
while the range and the force of cul-
tivated and developed faculty consti-
tute the true wealth which is alone
worth reckoning in time and eternity,
Sets New Record
.;•^d rer"e',..tinn
silica triple. ;,. tt'aiter D. laird, at Roosevelt Field, Long Island.
Elegant Courtiers of Old China New Device Opens
Now Policemen and Peddlers All Books to Blind
Improved Model of Visagraph
Produces Raised Letters
from Pages of Print-
ed Volumes
Peiping, China,—About 20 years
have passed Shin the last emperor of
the Ohing dynasty abdicated. Each
year the courtiers, officials and• rela-
tives of the royal family,'knowa as
the "chi -men," are findiug it harder
to find a living in the ever -moderniz-
ing China, And since the removal of
the nation's capital to Nanking in 1928,
these people, who formerlylived in
Wealth and pomp, are gradually disap-
pearing into the lower classes of
society. • (.
Men who dined sumptuously and
dressed elaborately in the Forbidden
City and whose courtly salutations
were heard in every part of the royal
community have had to adapt them-
selves to their reduced circumstances.
Til,, telt, strong men have become
policemen and even jiuricksha pullers,
while others are serving as 'waiters la
restaurants and ushers in picture the-
atres.
Veteran "chi -men men adopt less
sTenuous employment by running
small exchange stands and small
shops. The more educated ones have
become private tutors. The poorer
ones are junk dealers and peddlers.
Others who have tried to preserve
their royal dignity by refusing to do
the common man's job may be seen as
Professional beggane in front of their
old palaces and homes.
The women among them have felt
the change as the men, they having
drifted into various ways of °e cling
a living, Among the Poorer groups
they, can be seen shoveling coal out-
side Chihua Gate for 50 cents as day,
while others act as junk dealers and
Peddlers with the men, Some may
be seen sitting before lamps doing
embroidery work, at wltich, the fast
Workers ' can earn 80 cents a day.
Others Have found work as actresses
and waitresses, ' the .latter being a
novelty to Chinese life. The less.
happily placed of them are even to
be seen waiting their turn at the mat
shed soup kitchens.
The near relatives of the Emperor
and the more wealthy officials are now
living in seclusiou in the foreign con-
cessions in Tientsin and Shanghai,
hoping that some Pu -Si, the "boy
-mperor," will ascend the imperial
throue again.
Th "chi -men" have a strong group
consciousness, and having established
their fame in tate north, they have
refused to scatter into the various
sections of the country.
Canadian Hospitality
Praised By Dean
"Human friendships are the great
joy of human life. As we grow' older,
life becomes richer because the world
is so full of people who brighten if
they meet you and say, 'Don't you
remember?"' says Dr. Baillie, Dean of,
Windsor, in a discourse printed in the
Cambridge Review.
"I took a wonderful tour in Canada
and America. Iu the course of many
months 2 have never stayed in an hotel
and every meal was a party. The
kindness, the hospitality, the interest
was marvellous, but the thing that
stands out as the crowning joy was
that I' never went to a single place
where someone did not ring cue up or
come and see me, to say 'Don't you
remember?'
"The very fleet day a man came who
had been a member of a boys' Bible
class I used to hold in a cellar in a
slum iu London 30 years before. We
had never met between, but he had
to come and say, 'Don't you remem- increased by the announcement of the
ber?' new debt arrangements. "The grace -
"But, glorious as human ties are, dulness of Great Britain's action Is
heartily conceded, but there is au
uneasy feeling that without the com-
plaint of politicians of a more raucous
school, relief would not have been
considered, "The Argue" added.
"Admirers of the virtue of self-re-
liance will regret if the concession
adds in the smallest degree to the
embarrassments of the British gov-
ernment."
Australian Press
Praises Action
of Great Britain
Sydney, Australia,—"Great Britain
has again acted magnanimously to-
ward Australia," declared "The Syd-
ney Morning Herald," commenting on
the revision of the Australian war debt
funding agreement to postpone pay-
ments of capital for two years.
"It was the best token of good -will
and sympathy that Britain could have
given," the newspaper . continued.
"That the Prime Minister found him-
self compelled to ask for postponement
of instalments on tate priucipat of the
loan is a matter of regret. But Aus-
tralia's appreciation of Great Britain's
action is all the deeper that she has
helped us when she was so. embarrass-
ed herself."
"The Melbourne Angus said that
Australian self-esteem would not bo
there is sadness in them. There is
always the thought of separation;
sometimes of the supreme separation
of death. There are disappointments;
a sense, of incompleteness in them all.
"Which recalls Clough's lines out-
lining this pathos of human friend-
ships:
"'Some future day when what is now
is not,
When all old faults and follies are
forgot,
And thoughts of difference passed, like
dreams away;
We'll meet again; upon some future
day.
"'When all that hindered, alt that
vexed our love,
As tall, rank weeds will climb the
blade above,
When all but it has yielded to decay;
We'll meet again, upon some future
day.
"'When we have proved, each on our
course alone,
The wider world, and learnt what's
now uukftown,
have made life clear, and worked out
each a way,
n
We'll meet again; we shall have much
to say.
"'Some day which oft our heaete shall
yearn to see,
In some far year, though distant yet
to be,
Shall we indeed—ye winds and waters
say—
Meet yet again upon some future day
"So 1t Is with human loves."
Prairie Provinces Favor
Tractor
Winnipeg, Man:—There are 75,211
tractors in operation in the three
Prairie Provinces of Canada-2iIatti-
toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta; 39,-
433 in Saskatchewan; 21,891 lit Al,
berta, and 1.3,887 in Maultoba, accord-
ing to au estimate made by "Canadian
Farm Implements," a Winnipeg publi-
cation. Last year 8,991 tractors were
sold in Western Canada, Sales of
harvester -combines in three provinces
iu the last five years totalled 9,543,
according to the "Nor' West Farmer,"
whioh estimates the number of thresh -
ens le the Prairie Provinces at 66,000.
Meanwhile the horse continues to
retain a place 01 populaf'lty among
the farm stock.
WRONG DOING
No one is more injured by wrong-
doing than the wrong -door, it is not
in the power of a thief to impoverish
anyone so much as lie impoverish him-
self by thieving, The man who uses
vulgar or. profane Ianguage offends
polite and reverent ears, and pollutes
the social atmosphere, but he is hint -
salt the worst sufferer. Jesus said,
"Not that which enteroth into the
month deftleth the man; but that
which proeeedebh out of the mouth,
this dedleth tine man." •
Canadian Grown Wood
Preferred by British Buyers
Ottawa—Certain British Govern-
ment departments and public bodies
are now giving preference In their
Purchasing., where conditions ren-
der it practicable, to Canadian-
growne wood, writes Harrison Watt,
son, Canadian Trade Commisioner a
London, in the forthcoming issue of
the Commercial Intelligence Journal.
"Buyers continue to be offered par-
cels of Douglas Fir and other Can-
adian timber which are stated to be
of Canadian growth, but which bear
no marks or other visible proofs of
the assertion," he declared, "This
is an unsatisfactory state of affairs,
and while adjustments will prob-
ably have to be made in the process,
I t unreasonable that buyers in
it no t tb
y
Great Britain who are giving prefer-
ence to Empire -grown woods, frequ-
ently at .ome inconvenience and ex-
tra expeudittre to themselves, should
be supplied with visible means of
identifying Canadian woods, and tutus
secure the guarantee for which they
eek,
"it siuonld- be emphasized that the
arrangements which it is tmderetood
are being considered for 'the compul-
sory branding with a national nark
of Briiish 'Columbia timber, should'
equally include timber grown in the
East, and moreover that the system
be put into effect with the least pos-
tale loss of tithe.'
•
Ontario "Rose Conscious"
Guelph, Ont.—According to Dr, J. H
sieFa.rland, president of the Ameri-
can Bose Society, "there exists In
Ontario au admirable condition of
rose -mindedness which is not prdiu-
ary, and which, indeed, I heve not
met elsewhere iu America." The
quotation is from the introduction of
a two-page description of rose condi-
tions in Ontario, as published in the
1931 edition of the American Rose
Annual. Dr. McFarland was for three
days last June the guest of the Rose
Society of Ontario on a tour of Ontario cheater terriers.
rose gardens under the direction of
Registration ` Increase
article, to the excellent condition of Edmonton, Albenta.—A general an, the rose beds at the College as well clysis of registration at the University
as in gardens visited in several On -ell of Alberta compiled by the '4'egistcad
tarso cities, eitowa increases in practically evet ,
department, the total of 1,786 betn
g� 226 higher than in )1939, The 1erg+
Floating Bridge uttered categories .this year are; Arts ani
Potsrboro.—According to a recent Applied Sciences, 718 and 266 respect
report the Oheinong floatlug bridge tively; Medicine, including dentistry
has beau so battered by wind and and uursing, 293, and Agriculture 222
waves that tratFc ie impossible and--
it will probably be mouths before it Sorrows remembered --"-
Pres
is in condition again to carry vehicles, ent Soy—Robert Pollen
New Yoric.-A new, intpoved Model
of the printing vieegrapit; "tire first
instrument in the world to produce
magnified, raised lettere from the
pages of ordinary hooks printed fn
ink, so that the blind may reed them.
by the sense touch alone," was demon:
Strafed by its inventor, Robert' Ft
Naumberg, ittechanical engineer, of
Cambridge, Mase,
The `new model, Mr, Naumberg
said, represents a great advance over
his earlier model, demonstrated three
years ago, which employed touch as
well as sound, and required a slow
exploring process in order to recognize
the lett
' The neere.w pleating visagraph rapidly
produces` enlarged, embossed tetters
on a wide roll of thin aluminum foil.
These letters may be felt by the fin-
gers of tate blind person in the same
tnanr in wlilch he reade Braille or
outer ueembossed type -
Blind May Read Any Book
"The outstanding advantage of the
product of the printing visagraph,"
Mr, Naumberg said, "over the old elle'
flossed type hat k'itl lth,.
blind o have taccessIt to anyenabe boobe
printed in ink. This will increase the
present range of reading about 1,000
times.
The machine ingeniously,combinee
the principles of the radio, televisor
and the light sensitive cell. It cow
sista of two maiu parts, the "light
house," which takes the place of the'
Immix eye, and the printer. A beam
of light from au electric lamp is, •
broken up into six different frequen
cies by meaus of a rotating scanning
disk. The six points of light which
fall through the disk are then made
to focus on the letters of the book.
Just above the printed page is e
Might sensitive selenium cell, -which
picks up the light reflected from the
book. Each spot of light watch it
broken up by tate rotating disk into
particular. distinct frequencies is • re
corded, after various stages of ampiifl'
cation and selection by the means of
Mx vacuum tubes, into an electro
magnet.
Electric Eye Plays a Big Part
When the light strikes the white
parts on the printed page the light to
reflected and consequently no current
passes through the cell. On the othet
hand when the light strikes' the blacit
letters 1. produces an electric current,
which ite turn operates six systems
connected to six magnets. These
make the various impressions on the
aluminum foil, corresponding to the
design of letters on the printed page.
When any spot of light strikes. the
printed letter, a dark spot, that ire•
queney corre.-ponding to the spot of
light i, absent, The magnet corre
spending to that spot of light is re-
leased all,' a spring brings up the arra
ature of the minuet, which is connect,
ed to a 'lus. The stylus in turn
strikes against the aluminum foil and
snakes a dot or a clash, as the case
may he. Titus the letter T comes out
in the form of a long horizontal dasb
and four vertically ground dote,
"Tire hupressione on the aluminum
roll," Mt, Nuumberg said, "may be
preserved for future reference and in•
struction purposes, or they may be
erased by paeelug the aluminum
through a pair of rollers, like a clothes
wringer. Tile aluminum may then be
used over again."
The roll of aluminum resembles is
i rollf e
n c 0
alta e the mus
size and i
pianola. The visagraph itself is about
the Ki.^.e of se office desk,
Cropping of Dogs' Ears
Forbidden in New Jersey
A.J.—A B111 prohibiting
the cropping of the ear's of dogs, of
exhibiting dogs 011080 earsbytile Navha-a
been o"oPpe•I• sponsot'ed
matte i:taier!ee 01 the State, was
Passed . recently. This bill also
provide; a penalty not exceeding
$2 0, *.'Or the, 11ereOrr w110 crops: or
Cans!•a ln' <."'oppiltg, or fol' anyone
who "+h •i' i or exhibits, or procures
to f•. s i3O a or exhibited at any ,dog
shoe o exhibition in the State, a'
Clog cvirit lit ear Cropped or cut off."
N,,1 jsr,sy is the fourth State to
prohibit I e cropping of dogs' ears
and the :1rst to forbid the exhibition
of cropped dogs. The other three
are Mats 1 ltu-"its. Connecticut i and
New York. The only exception to
the law against cropping in New
Jersey 19 in cases where a veterite
avian certifies that it is necessary,
The breeds especially affected by
the law are Boston terriers, Englisis
butt t.errlers, Great Danes, ; Dobee
nlaa Pinschers, Schnauzers and Mate
Paul B. Sanders, ' of the horticulture
departmeut of the Ontario Agricultural
College, and reference is made, in an