HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-05-11, Page 3THURSDAY, MAY 11, +1933
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Painful Piles
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I.telting, •bleediit'g, or protruding
piles go quickly and don't come _back,
if you 'really '-remove itibe cause: ;Bad
blood °circula,tion in the lower .bowei
and;' hem:orrh'oid'al veins causes ' piles
by making the; affected ;parts' weak,
flabby, almost dead. (Salves and sup-
potittories fail :.because ' only an in-
ternal medicine titaat Stimulates. the
•circulation and .drives .out the impure
b''lrood ca nact'iially•dorrect the cause of
piles. Dr. J. S. ILconiharck discovered
a real 'internal Pile ..remedy. After
pres'cribing- it for .11,000, patients ::,,with
success in over 900 cases,' he named
it HEM-ROS,D. Chas. , Aberhart and
druggists everywhere sell • eDivi,-
RO'ID Tabletswith guarantee they
will ,end your ,'Pile n'isery or money
back.
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IN THE S!KIES
,Get away from •theec'ifylights or' the
,next ' clear, moonless m'i'ght, and, for-
getting Prohibition, 'graft' and racket-
eers, the general depression, give your-:
self up, if anliy far an hour, to the
pure enljoymient• of the, night sky. IUo-:
aminating the sky, as 'you face south,
you will see the selorious lime of stars
in the constellation Sacompi'ot curving.
east and south from the kite -shaped
!figure centring upon the great zed star'
,Antares, to the stair in Sagittarius.
!Stretching north arid 'aa little, east
,from the 'Scorpio -Sagittarius region,
through Alqui'la, with its, bright star,
Altair, and Cygnus, with its'• great
,crass, on to Cassiopeia, in . the afar
northeast, runs the delicate silvery
tracing of tihe' milky way,' wh'i'le here
and 'there, west, east and north, are
brilliant single stars, like . Arcturus
and Vega, and groups of stars, like
• those in the Great 'Bear ,(iUnsa Major)
that lend themselves easily to myth
and 'legend.
Merely as a speotadle it is a glorious
'display,'lent to the thoughtful mined it
i, far more tilta'n a spectacle. Consider
•tui these objects are.and where they
ar ci what we 'have 'learned a'b'out
si
t r�r matin theire-
i mations, t et nature and the s
lations to our °earth and sunt by using
the telescope and its a'cces'sories to
analyze the' bight they send us and to
mote the directions, from ...which it
comes. 'The wh:aie story is there,in,
the 'light from the stars, anid' we' are
slowly learning to read it, even.
though it is all written in code, the
keys to which are to be found only
through the most prolonged and con-
cen'trated research.
We 'have learned, for examipte, that
Antares, in Sicorlpio, is a giant star of
almost unimaginable size, its diamet-
er exceeding 400 million miles. If we
co'tld place our solar system in .81,
set t"t the stun at its centre, our
e •r
ninety-three millions
„of miles
.front t!he sun, would be more than
100,00.0,000 miles 'be'laig the surface of
the star, We know, too, that notwith-
standing Antares's enormous volume,
its mass is only about ,. thirty times
that of the sun; for we are able not
'only to mea's'ure the size of .the larger
stars hint also, to weigh the stars, to
measure their masses in terms-o'f the
isun,.
Again, we know that the misty light
of the Milky 'Way testifies to the 'ex-
' istence of myriads of stars at en'orm-
ous distances 'from us. In some ,d'irec
,tions, as in the S,eompio-Sagittarius
region, our photographs' shbw* these
stars heaped into vast clouds, setoff
• lin relief by dark lanes and apparently
vacant areas thaat.proclaim the wide-
spread dis'tr:tibultion ,of finely divided
matter capable of dimming or even
blotting out bhe light from the rstars
that must exist 'far'beyond it. Inottth-
er regions,' as in the constella't'ion of
Orion, we find the stars involved in
,gaseou's.' masseswlhiich ,„they, .the'm-
selves, cati:se'to shine by, the 4stimulus
ed. their, radiant energy.
iWe halve learned' than the 'meat
'circle ,marked out Inc ups by the Mi'l'ky
• ;Way,' with its 'stars anid its, bri'gh't and
dark irr,egu'lai- 'masses off",etekelosiby is
structepa16, ,the babe or'foundgtion of
our stellar, system, and that this sys-
tem, vast as it is, occupies after all
but a finite voiunne of 'space and has 'a
flattened, dis'hl'ike or lenticular form,
qts' diameters ire the plane of the Mil-
ky Way b'ein'g .penhaalp's front six to
ten tinges as great 'as the diameter
°psrpendictrta'r to that plane. 'And we
iknidt+„ that every single -unit , in this
.whole vast system is in nuotron,.
Th'inik what that statement means
'forus`hore nip'on the earth. It mea'ts
that, all of us, whether actively going
about our,va'tiie'.d daily occupations or
stne'bel ed, ,upon, wa' invalid's coach,' 'are'
embarked ,u!oon in endless, voyage
th•to gh space, at a speed almost M-
c o'tieeivabl'y greater than the ;greatest
any ;, noir-ma'de nuac'hdne can ever
reacile Not only are we, here in our
north; j temiocrate Iatitude, rolling
round the earth's alis at the rote of
about 1',000 mi'l'es an hdeV,''hait we are
also wit; ;dins?: along'wit:h the earth in
its journey ro!nnd thesun at the speed
of. '!daunt l9"ibiles a second and' flrine
at the rate of-Isey, tellies a accon:d• with
iiic spun and all -its p ban ets tow'ard a
goal in space 'located in the direction
of the consit'eilations [Hercu'les'and Ly-
iTry to:,to1,lo1w ops actual 1liigiht, the
resuiittant of -these three motions as. it
•w.oitild aplpesr'. to a detaclhedobserver
in s!paicel If any one of:°the three could
be made apparent to •urs, as actual mo
tion ou our'lpatrt, wie s'h'ould experi
ence a thrill,greaiter than that enjoyed
,y. the most reclkless-.racer• in' speed-
boat, car or airplane; and, -if 'w'e were
sto become 'Conscious of all three sim-
ultaneously, it would be more than
ae coulld endure Ili ins• fortunete'ther'e-
ifote, that, notwithstanding the reality,
of out mad rush through space, our
earth seems "to es 't'o be fixed and aros.
tionless and Sthat the only visible eui-
idence we have of ou'r. motion consists
,of centain minute d'is'placements ' in,
the Ipostticess of the stars.
'These motions,: of the ,earth we can
ri'ueasu're iviath accuracy, :There are .o'tit
en emierioiveiiits of oan Mietioni'just as
reale of which, we are just 'bec'o!miing
aware, avid far wh'ic'h we .can'n'ot yet
setnum'eric'al •inalues 'that 'a're' better
than in'teliligeinit .guesses, 'Certain min-
ute ,aplj °rent ni'otion's,,of the stars have
been detecbed•'•ire recent years„ by .me -
glee's too itechni'ca1 • to •d'es'criibe hejre,
'that make it practically certain that
the 'whole system of 30,000,000,000 or
amore''eta'ris,' of which our. sun is just
one. unit,; is 'rotating about its- centre
of masse just as the •earth °rotates on
itis axis, It `'•wild take' 20.0,000';009 years
at least, for a single rotation, but even
with that ' hong period ,the velocities
df 'individual sitars near the boundaries
in' the p'l'ane of the milky ,way—the
eg'uaatorial'boutnldaries, so to ,speak
—
ere enormous. Our sun is only about
one-fdu'rth of the way fro'm'th'e centre
of the system toward the 'b'ounadaty,.
bait itis speed', resulting from the reta-
tion of the galaxy, is estimated to be
of the order of 200 miles a second.
And then wle'Itawe been learning that
this huge aggl'o'm'erati'on of ath!irty.
thousand Million stars, so vast in its
dimension 'that even right, with its ge-
io!city of 1106,000 miles a second, re-
quires a hundred thousand or more
years to^travers•e it from boundary to
boundary a'cros's the great circle of
the Milky Way, is bait one of more
than a million star s
s �te�ms lying Y Y ng wi-
thin the region's of space already.
brought within the range of our tel-
escopes. The beat'tiful objects long
knoiwn as spiral .nebulae are really
stellar systems smaller, 'perhaps, than
our dim, but resembling it it every
other particular, They are quite uiai-
forntly ,distrib'u'ted in space and, like a
swarm of 'bee's flying ahroti'gh. the air,
every one of these. s'war'ms of stars,
inoludtnag our own swarm, is . flying
.through space, 'but with the enormous
speed of hundreds of miles a second.
b
And yet so va's't are the dimensions
of the`reg'ion• of infinite space occupied
by the systems that .we can tow see,
and so beatt'tiftd1y are all of the mo-
tions •of these countless bodies order-
ed, that collisions', are sinvply un-
known! 'We risk our lives every time
we take a ride in an automobile on
our city streets or along our great
ltighways, Travel by airplane, by
steamer or by train is far from being
without danger, as the annual re•coa'd
of tragedies fo'o• painfully bears 'wit-
ness; but , on jibes great voyage
through space on which, we are 'ems
liaarked, our good` ship Earth is a:bsol-
utelyy safe. Safe, too, are all the., count-
less other bodies moving through
space in overy direction. The reason
is, of course, that every one of these
bodies, all 'too unlike 'human beings,
travels in abso'lu'te obedien'ce;to:lasv,
Last year's e'cl'ipse of the sun offers
a strileiiug illustration, 'The , laws ,f
mdtion of the earth and of the moon,
relative to, ;each other and to 'bhe sen,
are scs well establisahed that• for years
we had .known •wiithin a seemed' just
when this eclipse would. 'begin and
end at any'poin't along ..the sihado'w
Path, and could, with corresp,ond'i•ng
;acoueacy, have ;land off on the sprface
of the eanth the central line of the
broad path along which. the m'oon's
sh'adloiw would, sweep, We coul'd.' have
selected ou'r'o'bservin'g site and set up
,our in's'truments on it fifty years ago
with perfect" assurance that the eclipse
'wlou1d occur as predicted,
And 'here' - is something else that
may appeal 'to the iinaginaition. Since
many...of the. sitars areso distant that
it takes bight a hundred, a thousand,
even ae million years to reach us, we
see them net, as they now are, but as
they We°re a hundred; a thousand or'a
mi:lbion years ago, and M. wi,tnessiti-g
the phenomena they exhibit . we are
stuadenitis of ancient history,
Let me, ' give. e,spec'ifilc illustration:
In 11898 I ''he:gan to wa'tc'h two stars in
.the consatell'at'ion .H'yd'ra wlNich are
bound together into •a.double sear sys.-
te',es by' their mutual attractions 1
cat-efullykept m'ea'suring their retateve
°pos'ition's, as they relvoived abotit their
convnon'centre o!5 gran nty, Coinputitig,
their orbits, I tosird tdiitt in 05.'3 years
they should make one coniple'te recc -
lotion, I continued' my observations
tltrougth fifteen years and found that'
nay orbit was correct;' the two .sitars
were again, in the relative positions in
which I had first-- observed them.
llc!a°nlwhile, observation of another,
lurid had, proved than it , takes light'
.from this, sysitem 405 years ° to reach
es. Therefore, the 'revolution I bad
been measuring was hot the revolu=
,tion the 'wears were actually' making
d!tirinig tleose years, ;but the ,ninth pre-
ceding revolution, the one they had
Ibje'en ntlalcitng, 1135 years before.
This is not the end of the story; it
is hardly the beginning, for we.are
placed in a world cit infinite' wonder
end beauty;''Bait it may .stoic' 'a!s some-
thing 'to th!inik ab'ou't, something to
stimulate• the imagination and widen,
the rmental horizon as, one`.; watches
the sitars on, these ;Summer ' evenings.,
11 is impossi•blhe, think, , for',atay nee ,to
w'atclt the stars .and give conscious
thought to the great cosmicforces at
play in th'e' universe withobt • losi'n'g
'91the' blues," n'r, indeed, any mean or
dgndble' thought. °You may, it is truce,
;feed +hunvbl'e, veh'?n you reflect that our
'earth .is but a ."fifth rate' ,p'lanelt ne-
voliv'in!g about a second-rate sun,” in
Iansi _theft is ,of no mere importance' in
thle ge'nera'l econ'o'my, of the universe
than .any other sitar "af the thousands
to!f m'dd ons our telescopes .reveal. 'Rut
that we enc a part. of this great uni-
cerise and that wecan enjoy and ex-
plore and to scree •exiteni ,comprehend
it should help us. `to know exaltation
As ,Harry. Emerson Fosdick well sayis,
no philasolpihy 'call be 'true Which, it
!trying to explain creation, takes in the
constellations" but 1e'aves ,out the mind
that grasps them.'
AVDATf1ON SN' FRANCE '
STIAR(PF 150 YEARS AGO
This s'um'mer,' aviation celebrates its
sdsqui-centennial of scientific progi'ess;•
Tn Fe,aaice, on .the '51th of Jurse, 1703,
the 9ret real con'qu'est of the air was
triumphantly evade. 'Hot air, shorn of
its Almeni'can interpretation, Was th'e
'beginning of it all --=Molt air and paper
•itiags. Ilt was the custom of two. bro'th-
ens, the. Monitgolfiers, wlhose 'serious
ibueindss in life was the manufacture
of paper in bhe town of Ann''o'n'ay, near
Wens, •ito amuse !the'm'selves of an ev-
ening 'by filling paper 'bangs with heat-
ed air, and watching their ascent to
the ceiling. They obsenved that when
their improvised balloons reached that
point, they in'va'riably capsized, lost
the 'hot air and dropped to the floor.
Because the unusual .pastime fascinat-
ed them, Wayls .and means were
dis-
cussed of maintaining the bagsin a
vertical position. .Half in jest one ev-
ening, the housewife suggested that a
small firep'et 'should be suspended
from the toys, which would not only
keep them .right side up. but also as
long as the fuel lasted, .provide the es-
sential 'h'at air. Models were inrmed-
iatelly made on this principle, enithus-
grim increased, and on a 'bright June
day, all Annonary,, dressed in its Sun-
day finery, turned :otit to see the
great experiment.
• Straw, wood' and chopped wool fill-
ed the'firepot, Wh'ic'h rested in a pit.
Around this, a large wooden ring
was placed to sup'p'ort the pat. Om the
ground, like a hugs .flat parachute was
the bag of cloth. When a torch • was
applied to the fuel, smoke and flame
shot up, the bias inflated at once,
ropes were released, and the first full-
sized balloon was in majestic flight,
Miles abi^ay, over, a field,' the fuel
bummed out an,d•the bi1ir bag dropped
to earth. Peasan'ts with 'scythes, axes
and pitchforks rushed to the •spo't and
''slew the horrible monster.,froatn the
sikies. L,ii!t at Annonay, excited groups
of people gaped or gesticulated in
(wonder, and two smiling brothers in-
seeibed their names on the serail or
lfamet '
IOi the next Rngit, "tassetg r
s
were Ica'rrled—a'shieep, a rooster, and a
deck. They reached an altitude esti-
mated 'at 13,00.0 feet, and came down
safely, a feat, no doubt, which the
rooster at ' feast con's'id'e'red 'worth
crowing 'h•out. 'Since -bhe farmyard•
stock had serviced the flighlt a keen
'observer named Pilate. de Rozier vol-
unteered to make 'alt ascent. 'I -e did
so, but because friends insisted, took
the precaution of ooulfittlieg the trap` tp'
ithe''.linnit's of ropes 'seemed to the
;ground. In November of stile sante
year, however; ,de Mother and M'a'rquis
d'Aiilaitdes ordered •this'anchoraage
cult, grid the two valiant souls essayed
iber'+Resit authentic' balloon trip: ,
fhhey:;ndeifteld"'•'otv'er Paris and .'Fits
meighlb'arihood for -nearly hall an 'hour,
•and „ deacendeld"*ithout'' serious 'fnIs-
h'ap, 'Shill ie that same .historic 11700,
a btallilo`oei furnished by the Monbgolf
iees..was, at tlie'suggesbibn' of a chem-
ist -named Charles.-filfled with hydro-
gen, recenitly d'islcoave.red 'by'the Eng
hih physici's't, Cavendish, and made a
.s'uideessfui flight. This baalloon wasthe
first to be made of ru'bberiz'ed silk. It
was at one of these Montgdlfier as-
cents that a spectator, Benjamin
Franklin, made a famous epigram:
"O'f.'whlat 'u'se is a balloon?" another
+on'loo'ker asked sc'o'rnfully. "Of what
use is a baby?" was B'enj'am'fin's re
Ibo'rt.
4101',11.
IOne Of these "babies,". ;thno'ugih the
inlflu'ence Of Franklin, appearedin the
United States in 11791 J'e'an Pierre
1B!Ianchtaard, French aeronauit,, was in
charge of it, and he made an ascent
'fro'm th!e then A+m'erican capital, ,Phil-
adelphia, with George Wa'shauugtou an
int'eres'ted ;speotaltor. Int, .the air for six
hours or more, Bl'anichard des'ciende'd
near Wdodibury, Niew Jersey, and un-
able to.speak a wond . of English, a
letter of IWashiingtands procured the
Iho'spita1'ity of 'farmers and the trans-
+portation of his deflated bal'lo'on back
to Philadelphia on a• wagon.
W'hi'le the authentic history of °via -
'tiara be a,n }with'the
experiments' of
the •Montgolfiors, man had; made
many attempts at the mastery of the
air long 'before their d!ay. ItI'ha's been
suggested, indeed, 'that prehistoric
man made, oe tried to intake, flights on
the backs of the huge flying reptiles
w+ho'se mias'sive remains are 'sometimes
reconstructed in museums. More than
likely, these Rights, in cotnmon with
many other stories oaf aerial adaventur.
in times neniote, are mete flights of
°fancy. There was Daedlalus and his
son Icarus, for example; Greeks who
lived' 2000 years 'before. Christ, and
who, to es'cap+e from prison, fashioned
wings from feathers that drifted into
their cell. Wax was used to hold the
feathers together, and Idards, con-
teary to the ,frigid experiences of the
modern aviator, flew too near to the
sun, which 'ine'1'ted, the w'a-v, and sent
'h'i'nt to his death in the sea 'which now
bears his name.
iPenh'aps more reliableis the story
'of the Greek mathematician Archyatas
of the fourth century B.C., who is
said to have contrived a :wooden pig-
eon which•, flew in a,,wooden sort of
way. IGi'oavianei Danti, an Italian of the
l'S'th century AA.IO,, successfully flew,
it is recorded, with non -vibrant wings,
,Wit'h a Primitive sore of.glider is
117142,; the Marquis' de. Biacqueeille, of
Iliinaiuee ,flew from the 'to1.t of his
, is
+h'ou'seow t •tlt Seine,e eine iten'dinig to crosss
'th'e river and land in the garden of.
the Tuileries) He ntad'e , a glacefui
start, bent something went w'oing
'When he was halfway over the water
and, dropping on a scow, he broke 'this
,leg and .injured a number of women
who were conducting a floating Jaen-
.
,So;. down' the centuries a curious
mixture of fa'gt and-fablehas told of
the exp'loi'ts of the pioneers of the air,
with oac'casi'ouat flashes `of prophecy
'which aeronauitical history, hes. more
th'aat'i contfonmed.
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The National Sea Flea Hockey,
Club's tour of Europe overcame
all hitches and sailed' recently
from Halifax by Canadian Peei-
fie liner Montealm. They are
the Allan Cup holders and will
play in London, Paris, Berlin and
Prague.
Twenty-six year old veteran of
the northern British Columbia
and, Alaska route, the .old Prin-
cess Royal, once the pride of the
Canadian Pacific's B.C. Coast:
Steamships fleet, has been sold
out of the service to the Island''
Tug and Barge Company.
Edmonton's recapture of the.
Carnival Throne, the Edmonton
Hustlers' triple victory in the
ladies' hockey series, and spec-
tacular ski jumping by youngsters.
of 12 to 15 were the outstanding
featurea'of the Banff Winter Car-,
nivel recently concluded. Miss.,
Violet Davis, of Edmonton; was.,
crowned the 1934 Queen.
Canada's fifth annual raid -win --
ter golf tourney, over the spring- -
like fairways of the Oak Bay Vie-••
toria Golf links for the E. W .•
Beatty Trophy, started February--
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ebruary-21 With an entry list of 75 men.
and 65 women. They came from:
England, Scotland, United 'States;
British Columbia and the Prairie
Provinces,
Fish caught in the sea fisher-
ies of Canada in 1932 totalled
711,917,800 pounds valued at over
811,000,000. 0Y' the total catch
British Columbia accounted for
N7,631,900 pounds; Nova
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194,788,800 pounds; New Bruns --
wick; 98,594,800 pounds; Quebec,,
67,1.64,300 pounds and Prince Ed-
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its doors permanently January
31, but many and powerful repre-
sentations brought. about the
respite.
A record-breaking ride through
the Rockies on 'their three -car
special clipped four hours from.
the regular trans -continental
train schedule in what Canadian
Pacific Railway officials believe
to be the, fastest run ever wade
for the 505 miles from Vancouver.
to Field recently. 'The run, made,
for the Colbourns-Jones Compete
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