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The Seaforth News, 1932-12-01, Page 7'THURSDAY, DIEGEIVIIBER 1, 1932 anamereeeemeemeeneeareeenmeeme A 'TUNNEL AT GI'BRALT'AR. After being in a state of prelimin- ary study for a noir do'zen 'years -a, tidy not ;net completed ---'the ,idea of bui'lU nig a Genre[ tutder the strai'ts that separate tIbe Spanish 1?eltinsuia front A'it'lett hits 'leafier on'- a aiio're se�rtat9,s-_1t9h(ulaOterand p:et'memency' v,ifle;the ,eorana'teoai o'f i ocicty foe elle i\ l v'attreeineen t di elle 'Gi'b'rall ar Tunnel headed by Bret rel?ttbdican minister of (late i•It SIviti0, A'lejjanduo`Lenroux, 'an'd no Log eneiner't Spans'h `,pal ticiIaug, scllcnrtisIt, 'barris'Lcrs' and ex- perts in its • tanks. tI It•c building 'oE .the tonailerl wott1d mot only' unite Eiunope ,amd Africalbut [would bring Soltblt 'A4nei'ie'a closer to Esrope'than ''the. United, States. _Pt woohl, 'iu 'brie•f, fie one of tire nto'slt inGport'ani1 en'gineieu,ing 'feats of.. ell Inci, With, rail connections that. would tlioa't'doitbt evenitiially be made, it would bring !London. .\\ ithi1iii eight ;days (instead ,of ei'glvteen by the fastest naps) ,of tele 'Carpel I't would' br'i'ng, Dakar, Fran'ce's large ace, seaport down in ;Senegal, the juineing 'off plrace 'for.'Sowth itktrreirica, within tw'o. days of ,Madrid, and they Congo ,within four. This means that it would ha 'possible t'o. go 'from M'ad'rid to Brazil in six days, to ,A'rgen'tina 'its sevten, and Chile in tten. -Still closer in the immediate future, it yvou'lti unite the jl erench North A'f- rican p'ossetss'ions- with Paris. lass Oototnel Peden, Jievienois, father of .tlhe. ,selhem.e putts it, "Two million Frencih co'lonrial .troops could be • m.oved through It in'bo Europe in time of war," The s'chetne, it is elder, has 'man- m'o'th: pos'sibil'ities, and, difficult as, will 'be the engineering jab, it is by 'ao means wlth'ouit p'receden'ts which -nt'ake 'id +se'em lfe'asible. Colonel JeJ'- ttnois`:states, and quotes numerope ,en- ,gineering authorities to the ,sante di - ,l THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE SEVEN D, 41 Mclnnes Chiropractor Of Wingham, will be at the Commercial Hotel, Seaforth Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons Diseases of all kinds succes fully treated, Electricity used. Canadians Learn Canada Travel from the towns and villages of Canada into the major cities, and vice -versa from the cities to the towns and villages as well as inter -city travel. has been given an unprecedented impetus' by the policy of the Canadian Pacific Railway in in- troducing the low a•ate bargain return excursion feature into the company's activities during the current year.. Since February last and up to mid- November' for the East of Canada, the railtyay's passenger department gives a figure of 66,000 pas- sengers who have availed themselves of these ex- ceptional opportunities to familiarize themselves with the Dominion. The 'beautiful countryside of Canada in all its • seasonal aspects has 'been brought to the • doors of the city dweller and the people of the cities have learned to got acquainted with thebr fellow -citizens. of other cities to a degree probably unparalleled in Canadian history by this innovation in railway operation. Distances have been annihilated by these extremely low fares and trete the Maritime Provinces to Montreal; from Montreal to the bor- ders of western Ontario, to the capital of Canada, to the ancient any of Quebec, to Toronto, London and on to Windsor, Detroit and Chicago, and to scores of intermediate places, there Is scarcely a point that has not been brought into close touch with all others. fent, 'that tunnels about as big have already been built; the Simplon in Switaetrland was ;con'stru'cted' bedew a Song lake and 'a ri'v'er, under much ,the same conditions as those at Gibraltar.. The estimated cast of the tunnel is between ,e1Z5,000,000 and 'V0,000,000, which is by ,no moans a •prohibitive sum. Cut by rip'p'ing 'tid'es and ' strong currents, 'the Straits of Gibraltar are more than 115,000 yards. eight and three-'quert'ers Miles across at bh•eir narrowest ,paint and ''from ten to twelve miles on the average. Na bridge syslbdm, is a'ppl'icable there be- cause of the gre'a't ,depths of [the sea wlhi'ch makes su'ptports . impossible. The main span df the IHudgote River Bridge is 3j500 feet; the •minimum span: in the 'Straits would have 'to 'be The Hudson tubes are roughly 1,500 and 2,000 yards long. One of the engineers who 'carefully, studied' •the [Gibra'ltar 'route reported that necessary grades Of 10 ,and 20' per cent and the high cost of 'potting i,n, supports would [make the tube solu- tion altnios.t impossible. le it were to be attempted be a'dvocated l'o'ose • BARGAIN The Seaforth News Special Offer ---New and Renewal Yearly Subscriptions To Subscribers New or Old For the next few weeks the subscription to The Seaforth News is 50c a year, new 'or renewal. No matter when your subscription expires; subscribers will save by re- newing now. 50c a Year he Seafort A PROFIT-SBARING OFFER. The Seaforth News takes pleasure in making this very special offer of 50c a year. Rather than spend large sums of money in other ways, such as premiums or contests, The .Seaforth News is giving, every subscriber who is a citizen of Huron or ,Perth, this cash advan- tage. This offer is good for the next few weeks only. SNOWDON BROS. Publishers. Nov. 5, 1932. N* wS Painful Piles Go Quick—No Cutting—No Salves Itching, bleeding pr ltrotrudimg piles go quickly and don't come back, if you really remove the rause, Bad blood circulation in the lower; bowel and hemorrhoidal veins causes piles lby making the affected parts weak, flabby, almost dead, Salves and sup- positories fail because only an internal medicine that stimulates tee circula- tion and drives' out the impure blood can actually correct the cause of piles.. Dr. J. S. Leonardt diseov.ered a real internal Pile remedy. After' prescrib- ing it for 1,000 patients with success in over 900 cases, he named it HEEM- POITID, Ohas. Atberhart and druggists everywhere sell I31EIM-RO,ID Tablets with guarantee they will end your, Pile misery or money back. buoys at a depth ,df thirty yards so constructed as to sway With the cue - rent of two Y'ards a second. Archi- unede's theory that if a body is nab - merged far en,ou'gh It will support it- self would 'thus 'be brought into prac- tical play. •The incident engineer con- cluded that a tube 'ten or twelve yards in .diameter and 'roughly ten irrehes fn thickness 'would do the job, 'B'uthere, the calculation' fell through' because the eve'ights that could 'be carried would not make the construction worth while. The esti- mated cost was V0,000;600. Without entirely dismissing rhe possibility ref tubes, the', many engi- neers and ecktt'tists who have coope'r- ated or had .some part in the years Of experimental work turned their at- tenetioa to .the prac'tic'al pro'ble'm. of building 'a tunnel which would have to run about fifty yards below the bed 'of the Straits, The first problem they faced was, that of depth. At the •nasrow0st po'en't of 'the Straits . the greatest depth is about 650 yards, Making the ne'cessary (level of the tunnel 706 yards beneath the surface. At a maximum grade [the galleries would have to be twenty-two miles a'omg on each side of 'the deepest point; ,thus forty=toter mile's of tunnel would Mare - to ,be built. This means, that the tunnel could not be constructed ait the eastern end Of the Straits near the Rock of 1Gibralta'r itself. • :Oen ;the other hand, toward, the At- lantic the maxim'u'm depths are only 315 yard's. With a m'aaimutm grade, the length would have to be only about ten m'il'es on each side of the deep point, or twenty miles in all. T'he approaches would 'add but little to the total. The rsec'ond great problem is to ,find a po'in't at which rocks ca'pab'le of keeping the ryrate'r out tun straight across from !Spain to Africa without crops -cut flaws' so screams, that they could 'melt be 'filled in. This seems to be the most difficult job of all, a flow df 6313,000,000,000 cubic feet of water 'from the At•1'an tie to the Mediterranean yea'rl'y and a deep cross -current of ` 604,000,000;000 cubic feet tearing at great depths iu the opposite direction making sownd- ing difIicult. This subterranean cur- rent was 'first !karn'ed about when a ship sunk by !the corsair Marseilles came up by a seeming miraele to the west of where she had gone 'down, despite the heavy surface current in the opposite direction. Subsequently,; the .presence of the' cwrrnt was con finned by ate analysis : of the saline deposit's. ;Sounding is indeed 'so diffi- cult that it ,has 'had to be 'carried en by ;the expd'osion and ether system, 'T'he data required for bhe tunnel have made necessarya complete goo [logical m+aptpinlg of = the Straits on both 'sides. One authority on geology says that bah shores are p'a'nt Of .[the so-called :Med'uterralnean [A'tlas' and su;plp'o''ses 'that the Straits are merely a submersion of 'these mou'n'tains. At any rate, YebetTatri'k.-'(or [Gibraltar) and Yebel 'Mlusa in ;Africa, "The Pil- lars of Hlerca'les, which once mark- ed .the end of the world, a're' of the same geological formation. The as- sumption 'is that this guarantees u fairly impermeable rock all the way ac'ros's. The 'western part of the Straits is. chalky and the centre is e'f.they, 'but strong, none to,keep out water. Soundings showing the absence of noire [apparently' coei0rio the belief that the bottom is rock JI'!he' nest great problem to be over- come is that of seepage, It is one of the [first to occu'r to a +layman, Who can 'easi'ly .picture the .horror of caltaracts bursting in and drowning the 'workmen. Engineering experi- ence, '•however, shows shalt teenage can [be overcome, In .the S'im'plo.,i. Tun- nel under the lake; 2317 springs were found,' some producing 30,5 Ballots a seemed. .Nine shafts 'in Cornwall run under .the sea for ,two or three miles. There acre various systems by which seepage ,can be carried away.. lane then itnportant coos Hexatlon will be getting air into the tunnel. One authority hee'd's that tunnels up to twenty miles long ean. [be burnt wi't'hout intentned'iary 'veniti'fat'io•n. One proiposa•1 for an ;En'glis'h IOhan'ueb"tun- n:el was to throe up an mterntediary island.'This benrnel,.however, wotspd have to be twice as long as the one projected a Gibraltar; (Trains \voted help set the air itl 'metiou in the pro posed Gibraltar tunnel, ,though it. 'is expected that some additional mea,ns. would be em.ploy'ed. Temhetlatttre o'f the tunnel ,offers another point for study, SWVater. ,tests show a een'speratu,re ,of 54 above'. a depth of 300 yard's its the [Straits, and this bea'ds to the belief the tempera cure ie.. the 'tunnel wooled+ be some- thing less ome-thing'less than ''8, Estim'a'tes such has' Ithis have proved to be 95 'per cent right in ether.tunnels. Re'fnigeration would be comparatively easy to in- stall. 'Acco'rding to art least two authori- ties, a tuned, is ;like a cannon. It; must be constructed to meet resistance; 'in all directions, The .Swiss engineer, Mailiart, advises reinforced concrete. T'he process' rMolloyed on, 'tile Catsleell aqueduct provided for the use of met- al or copper plating. It has ,not yet been decided 'which could 'be e ed in the ,pro'jecbed tunnel at Gibraltar: Engineers stu'dy'ing • the Gibraltar project advocate two se'parate gal- leries with frequent communications between ehem. A stronger stratum of rock, is required' for the construction of one 'targe ,shaft than two smaller ones, they say. le 'their plan is car- ried out it will be possible for 'eigh- teem trains a day to go 'through the tunnel in each d'ireption, with allow- ance for a six'hour interruptions' of traffic for repairs and evacuateost• 61 water. CUTS OFF ARM WTrIH KNIFE From 12endota; T1'1,, comes a report of a man, Archie Smith, who cut off his left arm with a pocket knife after it had been, caught in the gears of a trac'Eo'r-'driven :corn ,picker. !Then he walked a inile for help; telephoned his wife and went to a hors'petal where physicians said his sed'( -Surgery saved his life, He was two -eking alone in the corn- field of'h'i's.brother, Richard, when be stopped the tractor and reached into the clan'kin'g machinery for a husk which had clogged near the gear. ,He tripped and fell forward.' The gear clutch e'd his hand, mangl- ed it and started to null his arca into• the mech'an'is'm. 1Smith gritted bis teeth, sent his eyes and reached in los pocket with his tight 'hand for his knife. He nate- ed the 'blade with ,his teeth, then seer- Bred the arteries elf his arm : at the el- bow. Finally he hacked away the bone, shut off the motor and walked a..nrlle 10 hies brother's house. He climbed three fec'ces.en rouute, but up- on arriving .found no one there. So ,he cranked the old-Ifashioned teleplhone. and celled his wnife. "Send De'c'k with the car," ,he said, "I'm hurt a li'tbte, but I'll walk up the road to trneet him:" He wa'l'ked hail'( a mile [before he met his brother, who took him to the hos- pital. He operated so skielfuely upon h'btnself, said •phy:slicia'tt's, than he lost but little blond. They predicted that he would be at Work within a .law d'atys, "I hated bo do it"•said Smith, "be- cause 'Hl'l ,miss that arm. But it was tut it off or get killied. Seo- I cut." UIS. PREPARES BEER RILL IThe movement to ;drive a beer bi'l'l through the short session of !Con'gress started at Washington .the other, day •when the House Ways .and Oolmmittee held' an in;formall meeting to devise procedure. None of ,the a5 .members of the cote- mlttee .attended and agreed to stela hearitrgs December Obh. •H'ous'e lltaj- ; oaity Leader Henry T. ,Rainey of IdQ- irnois, said all ,pending [beer ti'l'es—there are dozens af,them—woulyd be consid- ered. "The hearings are for the 'p'urpose of reporting out a beer bill let possible, he 'decentred, ;Factors Favorable to enactment of a 'beer bile include bhe demand for ad'- diti'onal revenue to b'al'ance the budget and the so -galled "wit mantdaate" de - leveled in the prersidential election: Factors operating against enacbmdnit of a modiftoal'ion; measure are the threat of s'tu'bbbrn; o'pposi'tion' from some senators anal the unloentain'ty as to w'hether P're'sident Hoover wound sign it, One ,df bite knotty pcobd'enes that confronts the framers of beer bi'll's is• the 'method Of distributing the bever- age. Sentiment is increasing to limit sale to boiinre consumption, hotel's and res'tau'rants, Relieves .A'st'hma at Little Expense, Thousands of dollars have been vain- ly sent upon remedies tor asthenia and seldom, if ever, with any relief, Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy, despite its assurance of benefit, costs so little that it is within easy reach of all. It is the national remedy for asthma, far removed from the class alf doubeful amd experimental prepar- ations. our dealer can supply it. ;Wivo droceivers nee o'n'ce wrongs ares who deceives me .twice serves 'nee right. [Cheerful cmap 'min ;elm etens the miles. 'Wrangle about an egg` and, 1e't the hens fly away.