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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-02-18, Page 3THURSDAY,; FEBRUARY 18, 1932 ,: I SEAFORTH NEWS. 'iPi?'l, PAGE THEE1 Services We Can, Render In the time of need P12OTECTION is your best 'friend. Life Insurance. —To protect ,your LOVEDONES. Auto :Insurance— To protect you against.LIAB3LITY to 'PUBLIC : and their PROPERTY. :Fire Insurance— ' nsurance`— `,To protein your HOME and :its OO'N 1 E'NT S, • Sickness and Accident Insurance To proteet.,your INCOME+. Any of the .above lines we can give you in strong and reliable companies.. If .interested, call or write, E. C. CHAr1BERLAIN INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 334 . / Seaforth, Ont. • Continued from Page Two. w easily have been increased to double the ntimvber, 'bu for the want of arm . t s The Duke bad brought with him from 8' the Continent bat a',scanty supply olf pikes.: and muskets'. Many of his fol- lowers hald, . therefore, no other wea- pone than suclh as could` be fashioned otlt of the tools which they used in husbandry or mining. Of these rude implements • of war the most formid- able was made by 'fas'tening the :blade of a scythe erect on a strong pole. The tithing ;nen of the country around 'Taunton and Bridgewater received or- ders to search everywhere for scythes and to bring all that could be found to the s'camp. It was impassible, how- - ever, even with the help of these con- trivances, to supply the demand: and great numbers who were desirous to enlist •were sent away. (Bridgewater is still the seaport for Taunton, iBet'ween the two places 11es the scen:e of the most important bat- tle of the uprising—lSedgemoor. The steeple of the parish church of Bridgewater is mid to be the loftiest of Soinersctsatirc, and coanunands a wide .view over the surroundi'ng; country..'Monmouth, ac"companied by some of his officers, went up to the• top of the square .tower from which the spire ascends, and observed througth a teleseo'pe the position of. the enemy. (Beneath hint lay a flat 'ekpanse, now rich with cornfields and' .apple .trees, but then, as its name inn' - ;ports, for the most part a dreary ,morass. 'When the rains were heavy,' :and the !Ferret and' its tributary; streams rose above their banks, .this, tract was often flooded. It was inn deed anciently part of that ,great swamp' which is renowned its ottr:eariyl chronicles' as having arrested the -pro-, gress of two successive races of in- waders, which long protected the Celts against the aggress'i'ons of the' kings of Wessex, and which sheltered Alfred !from the pursuit of the Danes. In those remote times this region ,could be traversed only in boats. 4,t was a vast pool, wherein were scatter- ed many Valets of 'shifting .and: treacherous soil, overhung avith .rank; c'``' ;jungle, and swarming with deer ,and I swine; Even in the days of the .Tudors,- the traveller w'h'ose journey; :lay ;from II!lc'hester to ;Bridgewater was; ;forced to snake a eincuit of several, mike' in order to •avoid the • waters.; :When Monmouth ?looked .upon Sedge- anoor., it :had •been -partially reciaiinred' lby art, and was initerse.cted by many, ,deep :and wide tr•,encllels, ,which, that „co:untry, ;are ;tailed rhines. In the mi'ds't of the ; moor rase, clustering round the ,towers Of .chundhes, a new, 'villages of wilneh the names -seem to indicate .that they once were sur-; rounded by ;waves. .one •of •these villages, 'called Weston Zoylanti :the royal Cavalry lay, Monmouth, having , observed the disposition ;of -the royal .fore's, and having -been apprised o8 ,the gtat, in'. ankh they were, lco'noeived that a, - night attack might be attended 'with' success. IHe resolved to run :the 'h'az- ard; ;and preparations, were 'ins'tantly made. That -an attack was, to be ;made under cover :of the night' was no secret in Bridgewater. The' town was full of 'women who,` •had repaired thither by hundreds ;from; the stir - rounding region, to see their hns- ba'ia'd"s, sons lavers, and brothers once more, There were •naany sad- •Part ings'that •day; and many parted never to meet again. The report of the 'in - fended attack' came to the ears of e young gird who was zealous for the King, Thougih of in dest character, she had the 'courage to resolve that, she would; herself near the intell'i'gence to ' Faversham, She stole out of Bridgewater:; and made her ,way, fo the :royal camp, but fled witho'u:t leav- ing her message, A. nd now .Nie tame nor the great hazard drew; near. The night was not`i'll suited ' for such an enterprise. The moon was indeed at the full, and the northern : streamers were , shitting brilliantly. (But the marsh fog lay act thick on SSedgenloor''that no ;abject could be 'discerned 'there at the dis- tance on fifty paces; The dank r struck 'eleven:; and the. Duke with his body guard rode oast o'f the IOas'tle. IHe was not in the frame of mind which befits one who is about tostrike_ a decisive blow, The very children who pressed to. see him p'a'ss observed, and long remembered, that his look 'was sad and full of evil augury. His army marched by a. cir- ctiitotns path, near siic •miles in ,length, towards the royal .eacamp'meirt on Sedgemoor, Part of the route .is 'to this nay called War Lane.. The font were led by Monmouth himself. Orders were given that strict' sil- ence s'houid be preserved, that fro drum sh'oul'd be beaten and no shot fired, The word by which the insur- gents were to recognise one another in the darkness ,was !Soho, It had doubtless been selected in allusion to Soho Fields in London, where their leader's palace stood. At about one in the merining of Monday ,the sixth o'f July the rebels were on 'the open moor. But 'between them and the enemy lay three- broad rhines filled with water and soft mind. Two of these, called the Black Ditch and the L:angmoor Rhine( Monmouthi knew that he must pass. But, strange to say, the existence of a trench, ed the IBlussex Rhine, which immed-i lately covered the royal encampment,i had -not' been mentioned tohim by any' of his scoutt`s. There was some de- lay in crossing the first two ditches' and in the co'nfusion. a pistol went off. Some men o'1 the Horse Guards who, were on watch, heard the repent 'and: gave the'al'arm to the camp and, Mon- mouth found himself unable to reach, the camp on account of 'the Bussexi Rhine. - When morning carne three hundred. of the soldiers had been killed or'. wounded. Of the rebels more than a thousand fay dead oh the moor. 'Mon- mouth's army was completely 'routed. rt was• the `last fight deserving the name of battle, that has been 'fought' on English ground. The impression lett on tthe• inhabitants of the •neigh- borhood was deep .and lasting. For'' even in •recent times the plough and; the spade have not seldom turned sup ghastly memorials of the slaughter,; skulls ,and thighbones, and strange w'ea'pons made out of implements of husbandry. 'Ol'd peasants related very recently that, in their childhood, they were accustomed to play on the moor at the fight 'between King James' men and 'K'ing 'Mnnntouth's men, and that King Monunaufl's men 'always raised the cry of Soho. (Monmouth• was captured and exe- cuted at Tower Hill, 'Loudon. Mac-, auday describes ;the horror of the! event, caused by an ineffic'ien't execu-, tio'ner• who 'failed. to sever the Duke's neck. The Doke struggled, rose .from the bionic and :looked reproachfully at the executioner. The head sunk down, once mare, The stroke was repeated again and again; 'but still' the :peek ;was not severed and the body continued to move. Yells of , nage rose from the .crown. When at length the 'last remains of =,life had been eatingttished the executioner Was in danger .of being torn to pieces by the enraged crowd, Taunton a and (Somerset. again figure in historyas the scene of the. Bloody Assizes Shortly atter the rebellion was HOW FAST'CA.N WE FLY. ;Man will be able to fly great dis- tances .,at tremendous attitttdes and with unheard-ofsspeed, as soon as -he. can train his body, his nerve's' and his eyes• to take advantage of the mach- inery engineering genius will put at his disposal; This is my answer to the three questions of how ,'fast ?—ho;w', high? lion soon? -that are tonitin'irally being asked by every person ,remotely inter jested in aviation. IFIlofw soon the human machine can be trained along these lines >still re- mains to be seen. Qtr the light of the achievemenits, of our present-day fliers. I would say that the'.day isnot far off. Many records" have been broken in recent years. ?lands have climbed: d'i'stances into the skies'. hitherto •be- lieved. Im'pa'ssible.' Over 40,000 feet above the earth, pian -trade machines pti'loted by human eagles, have soared and came down safely.' The feat of remaining in the air for weeks at a time has passed into the realm of the usual, And to the public, asking just how suloh records' affect comMei•ciai aviati•on,my answer is: The whole fixture of commercial fly- ing is bound up in these experiments. The machinery that has so lighten- ed ` the work of the farmer was achieved' through ex'peridnentation. The automobiles that now travel at so swift a pace over our roads came from the first un'cer'tain "gasoline buggy after years of hard gruelling High Class PrintIn We can give you prompt and satisfactory service at a moderate price inthe ,following 'lines pf printing:— Letterheads Envelopes Statements. Bill -heads, Private Cheques Circulars Tags •. Cards Tickets Sale " Bills Dodgers Menus Factory Forms.. Society Stationery Blotters Booklets Business Cards Visiting Cards Wedding Station- ery Invitations The News has an up-to-date commercial printing plant andwe are equippedto turn out all classes of job work. Give its call. We have a new automatic press with great speed, recently installed, to produce printing, well done, with speed, and at .mod- erate cost. THE l6EnFoItrw DEWS Just so 'the airplane of the future will emerge from its present adoles- cent stage into a thing of now 'un- dreamed perfection. Nothing is impossible in connec- tion with airplanes. ;Twenty-five years. ago the thought of man flying is heavier than -air ,craft was regarded as ridiculous. lA,nd yet; look what man has accomplished. , iHe has not only learned to keep himself aloft, but has been able to fly olccan:s, oanquer. alt sorts of hazards .and even carry on success'fu'l warfare from the clouds, What, then, can we not accomplish in the sante amount of time in the 'Future, 'We can only judge the possibility of future accomplishments in the fight cif past ones, and, taking the last twenty-five years of grogres's as a s!tand'ard, :the vista that opens out before students of avi'a'tion is practic- ally unlimited in its scope df poasi'bil- itlies and prob'ab'ilities. Think of arising at a fairly early hour on the East Coast,. having break- fast and, due to the 'difference its time, arriving on the West Co'aslt in time to do a d'ay's work! This is not idle dreaming. rIt is pos- sible. The great strides aviation has made in the last few years bring. -nearer and nearer the possibility of m'an's being able to bend time and. space to his will. ;This fast time, according to scien- tists, will be made in the :u'pper regions of the air, The efforts, made by fliers today to re'a'cih tete ultimate ceiling are far more imp'ortan't than a mere desire to s'ha't - t ter a 'record. It is up there, at a height incompre- hensible to the ordinary person, that air lanes may be found over which the planes of the, future will fly at light- afing speed, I't is al•re'ady'known that in these upper :regions there are winds that War at 'hundreds olf miles an hour. lit requires no great stretch of the imag- ination to realize the d'esirabi'lity of a fast plane''s• taking advantage of a wind blaw'inig 300 miles an hour. .. • j'We "tuft that pianes' can be fl'awn at more than 400 'miles an hour. We, 'also 'ktibiw that there are swift trade winds fn the tipper•regionls. Kn'o'wing these two things, the next step is . to contlbi'ne the two land Thus imncrease the speed of our finings !These upper regions lure every flyer on. 'They hold mysteries, and at the same time they hold the great- est posstlbilifies. Here again a -flyer's p'hys'ical ability is taxed to the utmost. (Thin air, Jack of oxygen and sulbzero Weather are the great foes of flyers at the mann mum "ceiling." ',There' are many menaces to altitude flying but ano't'her pant of flying ex- acts its physical toll also from the aviator—speed flying. ,Iii the Pulitzer race in 1922, Lieuten'ant 'M'au'ghan's plane reached a speed of more than 200 miles' an hour. He came down from the griteliling test completely 'ex- bantsted,'and said that at trines when the plane was travelling alt<this then uiipreoedenited' speed he was absolute- ly lost in a haze. On every turn • he said he was shunned almost into ten cons'ciousness, and at ane time he was completely "out" Were it not for the fact that he recovered himself almost ins'tan(tly that race would have ended in tragedy !After snaking` -'sharp. turns, flying .at ffastt speeds I nave gone "Wind." !Thin eou•dition is caused by the blood being dratv,n from' the brain by.'a sudden turn in dtreetion.;:'IWthile uncomfoi?t-. able, it is only a temporary;, condition; for when' the snip gets ]rack on,, an even keel the head • clears instantly, 'The sensation is somewhat like hay- inn a bright sun suddenly dispel a 'dark cloud, Alt the present, time the strain of fast fying is terrific. Tt is tot only a physical :strain but "a nervous strain as swell, 'Whe't the upper air lanes are fathomed,' hblwever, there will be a great c'h'ange in the status' of flying.' (Earth` bound vehicles are restricted ina their possibilities for speed. They travel now as fast an they Can within the iitn.its of safety. It is not b'ecau'se they ,are unable to go faster, but be- cause it is not safe to. do -so. The ground is covered with living t'h'ings con'btantly, crossing and re- creasing each other's paths, Too great speed endangers not only rhe. life of the speeder, but the rest -of the world as well. 'No such cond'iti'on exists in the' air. The spped limits: of the airplane rest only on the ability of pilot and the !worth of his plane and motor. IEnlgine'ers today can transfer from paper toreality faster p'l'anes than we are as yet able to fly, •,When man is able to train his body to stand the strain, and his sense not to give way under the terrific' pressure of tremen- d'ous speeds and great heights, he will 'find waiting for him the plane that will make it possible to eat up dis- tance at a pace beside which the present speeds .wil'1 be but child's play, IAs the airplane industry grows older, we are cong'tan•tly binding out mare and more about fuels. It is a- mazing, .innthe' light of recent discov- eries, haw little we really knew at first about this host important part of flying, Our main struggle now is to get an ideal fuel—ane that will weigh legs and furnish more power—and to find a means of lubricating the motor suf- ficiently under ail weather, conditions. As for the motors that are being made today—they are Marvels of en gi.neering construction, They stand up under hours ,of flying at terrific speed. The motor of the future plane, will und'ou'btedly be •better, however, along. with the rest of the machine. There a :re many obstacles . to be overcome before we can fly efficiently and safely at higher altitudes. And un't'il we surmount these difficulties, extremely fast flying will remain only a dream. The h'andicap of very fare air is the most important. IP rop ell er trouble . is common at high altitude's. The ordin- ary propeller, most efficient alt sea level, at a high altitude slips thriougth the air with very little effect. A great stride toward remedying this condition has been made' by the invention of the .variable pitch propel ler, which when perfected, wilt m'a'ke if possible- for the pilot to control the thrust of thepropeller when in flight. The natural tendency of the p'la'ne is to ily faster in rarified air, because of the lessened resistance, and. with the propeller resp'ondin'g to the control of the pilot, this natural fact could be utilized, n (i'f the propeller can be made to do the same amount of work at tens of thousands of feet in the air as it does at' three er four thbu's'a'nd, the cause of fast flying wil4'be grealtl advanced. A'iready a dev'i'ce cal'le'd the super- o'h4arger has done away with loss of power caused by high altit+udes.'T'his super -charger inhales the air, heats it, compresses, it and farces' it into the cai4buretor at.sea-level pressure. It is operated by an instrument similar to the standard altimeter, and under the co,n'trot of the piton Att ordinary Molter -fllown at an extremely high al- titude drops alm'os't all of its power, but by means: of the super -charger, the pilot is 'able to .presierve practically all of it, IA- 440 -'h'orsep'ower molter at 20,000 feet in the air will develop, only, one-, 'fourth of its capacity unless equipped with a super -charger. . INb Matter to what degree of effic- i d un- enc the lin itself is develo e Y plane t P less we find some way of successfully "combatnng'the lack of oxygen and the low temperature of the upper regions we cannot fly there. The ordinary p;ersoat cannot—and Will not—travel by air unless it is made com'forta'ble for him. It is the 'business of pi'l'ots and explorers to undergo hardships to prove that fast flyithg-is feasible., But we must offer comfort and safety before the world will fly with us. Every one can use his imagination as to what the air liners of the future win be, what they will look like ail whether they can in comfort span the continent in six hours. 'Science and the capacity of hunsan beings for in- vention will brin,a these things to us, But no matter whether the coming plane has a hermetically sealed' cabin or something else, one thing is cer- tain—all things are possible in the future of aviation. AT® m j. i RV , •Amid the po'l ip and, ceremony, re - fleeting British democracy and self- government, the third session of the eighteenth Parliament •in' the history of the provincewasopened Wednes- day' afternoon 'before crowded gal- leries at Parliament •tent=Buildin• s, In Buildings, brilliance of fashion and military. parade, the opening prelude takes its place among the 'time-honoured cere- monies ' since Confederation. ,the absence of an appointee to the Lieutenant - Governorship, Sir Willi'a'm, Muioek, Chief Justice cif On- tario, and Administrator, delivered the :Speech from the Throne, the au- gusI, benevolent demeanour of the Chief Justice, in his 88th year, creat- ing a. profound impression. Sir Wil- liam arrived at Parliament 'Buildings ac'cdmpanied.'by his daughter,. bii•s. A. E. Ktrkpattric,k, where she reviewed the guards of Royal Canadian Dragoons, and Royal Canadian Regiment troops, while a battery of dell gun's cras:he'd out the salute of fifteen guns. The actual ceremony was brief, !Pre- mier and Mrs. Henry preceded the arrival of the members of the Cabin- et and their wives into the Chamber, Sir William being accompanied by an especially large number of the mem- bers of the Militia, Co!, W. !Rhoades., and his ,grandson,. Col. W. Pate Mu - lack, Ylork Rangers. The Speech 'from the (Throne indi- cated that there will be legislation in- troduce'd during the session to pro- vide for a modified moratorium on mortgages, under which add' proposed foreclosures will be heard before a county judge and who will have all power to decide whether additional time is to be allowed on either prin- cipal or interest payments. There is alga' to be legislation amending the Old Age Pension Act, under which the Federal Government is to p'ay 75 per cent of the total cost, and which, according to Hon. W. G. Martin, Minister of Public Welfare, is to mean an annual laving of $1,:400,000 to the Province and $900,000 10 ntmti- cip'alities, Other measures to be in- troduced are in connecti'on with the amalgamation of the Ontario ,Railway and Municipal Beard with the Bureau of Municipal. Research, under which powers will he granted the Board to govern finances of these municipali- ties which are insolvent or in a pre- carious financial condition. There are als'o to be amendments to the indus- trial farms act dealing with the ad- ministration of provincial penal in- stitutions. "At this time," said: Sir William, "when communities everywhere are confronted with unusual problems arising out of world-wide economic conditions, we have reason for con- gratulation in the s'tabili'ty of the pub- lic credit and of our financial insti- tutions. In common with other Brit- ish citizens, our people look forward with deep interest fo the approaching Imperial. Econbnti,c Conference at Ot- tawa and earnestly hope that the momentous gathering will permant- ly advance the prosperity of the Em- pire.,, Touching on, the -development of the St. Lawrence, Sir William declared that, in view of negotiations for the proposed seaway treaty, the federal and provincial authorities have con- ferred u'p'oat the appropriate division of the cost, as between navigation and power development of the Interna- tional section of the St. Lawrence. Throttglt co-operation of Federal, Provincial and '14ti,nfoipa'1• Govern,- merits overn,merits a considerable, measure of re- lief has been extended to persons ex- periencing ,hardship on account of the prevailing unemployment. This re- lief hays taken the form of opportuni- ties 'for wank but it has been neces- sary also to provide funds for direct relief. Owing to the favourable con- ditions, much progress was made in the. construction of the 'trans-CCanada Highway and other road improve- ments. Dealing with agriculture, Sir Wil- liam said: Whil e'agricultural pro- duction was maintained at a Nigh level, the financial return was muoh belodv' normal•, New field's o'f useful- ness are being developed• by the De- partment of Agriculture. The Ontario Marketing Board recently created has organized the Fruit and 'Vege- table Growers Markets Council and is giving special attention to the grad- ing and marlcetinig of a ;number of important farm products. Lt is grat- ifying to nate that cold storage and central packing plants are being in - ,creased." Oat. Hydro, Sir William observed: "Distribution of electrical energy by the Hydro-'Electrfc Power Commis- sion was continued during the year on an expanding scale, both as regards the number of municipalities semen and .the custtoiners.supplied, The Provincial Commission and the local commissions substantially increased t'h'eir reserve funeis. In the rural parts of the province, the demand for pow- er nailed for the eon's'truotion of over 1,.200 miles of new tnansnissdon=lines to supply nearly 9,000 additional con- sumers, By utilizing' the flow of the I Ottawa River at Chats Frans the commission • has secured an import- ant add'ition to its generating facili- ties second 'only in 'extent to the great Niagara d'eveloipment." IH+ighwaysl have . been :extended, there being 200 miles' adrded to the system, while payments by the Prov- inceto the municipalities for road purposes of nearly seven millions of dollars helped materially to lighten the bus -den of taxation; the Dabour Department ant'icipates chan'ge's in the app'renticeship 'act, the Factory Act and the Mechanics Lein Act as well as legisladioh to mane the Indus- trial Disputes Act of the Domint'on operative in Ontario, On Thursday, the House did not reconveen un'ti'l 41.15 o'clock,' instead of three o'clock, out of respect for the late ;lion. Thomas Orawford, former S'pe'aker of the House, who recently died. At the Opening, Premier: Henry paid a glowing tribute to the former Speaker. :Internally and tExtern'ally itis Good The crowning property of Dr. Thom- as' Eclecteic Oil is that it tan be used. internally for many cohnlplai•nts as well as externally. For sore throat, croup, whooping cough, pains in the :chest, 'c'olic and many kindred :ailme'nts it has qualities - that are unsurpassed A battle of it costs little and 'there is no loss in always having it at hand: Here and There � r Figures of United States motor cars entering New Brunswick In 1931, issued by the provincial bu- reau of information and tourist travel, show an 8 per cent. gain over 1930. The new record for 1931 is 58,583 as compared with the former record of 54,068 for 1930. Approximately $11,000,000 was saved in Canada last year in the cost of construction dwellings. and other buildings in 61 cities owing to reduced cost of build- ing materials. Aggregate value in these cities of building permits was '$110,971,410. The aid of Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, Canadian High Com- missioner in London -and of Lord Beaverbrook will be sought by the Maritime Provinces represen- tatives who left aboard S.S. Mont - calm front Halifax recently. In an effort to secure the lifting of the British Government's embar- go on Canadian potatoes. A railroad career that has seen many changes and covered much widely `separated territory wit- nesaed another movement when Robert E. Larmour, general freight agent, Canadian Pacific R;ailwtiy, .was transferred recent- ly from Montreal to Toronto. Mr, ;.armour, aside from his railway duties, is welt known as one of ennada's outstanding yachtsmen. Carnival Queen nominations from Edmonton. Drumheller and Venoouver testify to the great popularity of the Banff annual winter carnival to be held Feb- ruary 6 in 13. The Alberta hrsneh of the A.A.U. of Canada has agreed to hold figure skating championships at the carnival and man hold their ski-ing eham- prnn ,hsps there as well. Every kind of winter sport will be rep- resented. Entries are rooting in rapidly for the greatwinter event of the 1932 soortine season, the 11th an- nual Eastern International Dog Sled Derby to be .run over a course of 123 miles,' Spread over the three days February 22-24 and concluding with the Dog Derby Costume Bali at the Cha teau Frontenac, February 24. '.$t.• Godard, Seppala and 'other .names outstanding in Dog ` Sled raging are already entered., The largest shipment of Gov- ernment -approved cockerels for r y one ne breederha r t y o cher ma n in Canada arrived recently,` by ('anadian Pacific special at Ter- gus; Ont., from Winnipeg to the order of J. G. Tweddle, of the former city. The birds were se- lected by government:inspectors from the, choicest flocks from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, During the last four years Mr. Tweddle has shipped an average :. of 200,000 chickens to various points between' the Atlantic and Pacific. dnternal ,parasites in the shape of warlms in the stomach and bowels of children sap their vitality and retard development: They keep the 'child in a constant state of unrest an'd, if not attended to, endanger- life. The child can be spared much suf'ferin'g and 'the mother 'Mulch anxiety by the best woratt remeidy that can be got,: Miller's )W01,111 Powders, which are sure death to worms in any shape. Let us have the 11ames of your visitors