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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-07-27, Page 7THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933, THE SEAFORTH NEWS. PAGE SEVEN pa—nn.aa�M u�au�an.n a•—en--nu.—an�ita—rp 1 a i Duplicate Monthly Statements i m We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. , Also best quality Metal. Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index, I The Seaforth News 1 a spa as—as Phone 84 ns�aa�an�ar�rt�aa�ui�a �` D. N, McInnes Chiropractor Electro Therapist Massage Office Commercial Hotel Hours—'Mon. and .Thurs. after- noons and by appointment PO,OT CORRECTION by manipulation—San-nay treat- ment Phone 227. Founded in 1900 A Canadian Review of ::Reviews This •weekly magazine offers a re- markable selection of articles and car- toons gathered from the latest issues of the leading 'Britis'h and American journals and reviews. 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Every one of the pages of World Wide is 1100% interesting to Canadians Issued Weekly 15 ots copy; $3,50 yearly On Trial to NEW subscribers. 8 weeks only 35 cts net One Year $2.00 ' (On trial ,in Montreal and suburbs, also in 'U.S. add '1.c for every week of service. Por other foreign countries add 2 cts.) on lava boulders that were moulded in earth's 'fires and poured .forth' to cool herein the midst of 'the sea eons ago. And now over the tortured, jagged .summits there clambered a lizard four feet long, pulling himsellf by his '.great curved - talons. His head was clad in . rugged scales, black and charred, looking like'ethe clinker piles of the island; along his b'ac'k extended a lane of tall spines, as if to skin of lava he had added the spike of cactus. He saw me and stop- ped, looking long and earnestly with curiosity, , not ' fear; then with his smug lizard smile unchanging he lis missed me with an emotional feat as strange as his appearance. He twice sdlemnly nodded his massive head, sniffed, sent a thin shower of water vapor„ into the air through his nostrils and e1anitbered past me. If only a spurt of flame .had followed the smoky puff of vapor, we slhou'ld have 'had a real,' o''id fa's'hioned !dragon. A bird's-eye view of the life zone of the "atmblies" would show the nar- rowest of hair lines round the rim of each island; for they never leave the immediate vicinity of the shore. Here the big black, fellows dozed in bur- rows or deep crevices or sprawled in the hot sun en the lava waiting _for low tide. Then they clambered slowly down past high -tide mark, 'do'wn to the very rim of the waves, where they found an abundance of succulent sea- , eed. One by one They came until sometimes the weed -hung rorcks were alive with them. Once when salw'a crowd of them engulfed by a roaring wave that buried them in its seething mass of foam I realized the chief va- lue of their great 'talons. As the wa- ter ,dashed against the rocks each "ambly" clutched the rugged surface with all his might,, and When the wave receded each was safe in his Place. As if they knew itwas the last effort of the. falling tide, alt began feeding, biting off pieces .of the dangl- ing algae and -chewing them with sat- isfaction. After every few bites they would blow the little spouts o'f misty vapor -from their nostrils. Challenge and courtship were inctis- tinguislrab+le in external manifesta- tion, which in either case was majes- tically simple, The lizard re'sred high on his front legs and nodded 'his ;head vigorously up and down a few. times. That was all. When two large males' passed close to each other they stop• ped, went through that formula of in- timidation, waited with. statuesque patience that omlly a lizard can achieve and then, honor satislfied, both passed on. Or a male would approach ,a fe- male with amorous inherit, stopping every few steps to send forth his little team exhaust and nod solemnly. The "anrblies" were little ,friends of 11 the +Crallap,agos world..Scarlet crabs y the hundred went with them down ,to the feasts of seaweed,. and I even saw and, photographed one of three' crustaceans creeping over a big rock lizard and plucking off the ticks that. clung hej'e and thea! to his skin. The lizards associated • with the sear lions fearlessly, sometimes crawling over them and &hawing no disposition to move when the pinnipeds "caterpil- lared" their way .dose to the reptiles sprawled in the sun. Every now and then a long gray fotnx would undlrlate past the steep ledges at the rim of"he water, and I w'ondsred•'wtether the shae s did 'not takettheir toll of liz- ards. s IS'L+A'N!D LIFE The Galapagos Islands, off " the a coast of Ecuador, are strange, isolet- h ed places which men rarely visit but in which_ animal life. 'is abundant and charact•eris'tic. Mr. W'itliam Beebe, the naturalist, has been exploring The Galapagos. In Asia he writes enter- tainingly about : the sea lions. boobies, man-o'ewar birds end other curious inhabitants of the islands. The liz- ards too are numerous. This is what, he says about the curious lAtmigr hynohus, a rock .lizard that he foetid interesting. No creature that we en -countered on the islands seemed more in ,place then this majestic reptile' I Way flat an the sand, 'watching !?he ege'fese 'surf beat QUAiiv'r -Tri'.LES. One British Institution Is the Order of the Blind Mice. The Order of the Million Elephants has just been 'conferred on the in- trepid woman motorist and aviator, Mrs. Victor Bruce, by the French Indo-Ohinese Government. During his visit to Abyssinia the Duke of Gloucester has decorated several members of the Ethiopian Court with well-known British orders. There are some quaintly named or- ders that reward various kinds of fame or name some organization. Some of them, like the Order of the Blind 'Mice, are British institutions; this one belongs to Guernsey, and is a purely charitable one, whose motto is 'Happiness` for all." Some years ago it was proposed to Porro an Order of the Lotus, which is symbolical of Hindu kingship, to commemorate the visit to India of his Imperial Majesty the King -Emperor. Sometimes animals and birds have received decorations for conspicuous services. A French army carrier pigeon which died recently had been decor- ated with the "Mihaly Ring" for its services in carrying messages through the battle zone in the great war. c It was stuffed and preserved in a war museum, its services being re- corded ore pamphlet accompanying the decoration-, picturesquely named Japanese Order of the Rising Sun was institut- ed in 1875 as a reward for military and civil services. The white ribbon, with red border that holds in place the flaming red sun and its thirty-two white rays con- stitutes a romantic badge of the Orient that only a few white men are privileged to wear. The Order of St. Michael and St. George, often known as the "Monkey and the Goat," is a great bond of Empire, rewarding, as It does, many who have endured exile, bad health, and poor pay in Britain's outposts of Empire. Four years ago the Soviet Govern- ment issued a new ' order—the Red Half -Moon, to be bestowed on Asiatic politicians who promote friendship between Asia and the Soviet by their tactful services. ' AN AMAZING POSSIBILITY. Grandchildren May Storei Winter's Fuel Supply In n Thimble. Our grandchildren may store their whole winter's supply of fuel in a tt,-uible. •eo-day even our must effi- cient heating systems and our best maehinaty waste 99.9999599 per cent. of the fuel they use. Nature knows how to maize tho fullest -use of fuel, but this in cne cf the secrets that science hae not yet wrested frcm her, Every day the sun g:ves out light weighing 300,000 tons. Yet he has been doing this for millions of years, and will go on doing it for millions more. If the sun produced light as wastefully us we do, he would have become a burnt-out cinder long ago. Speaking the other day at• the World's Power Conference, in Berlin, Ser Arthur Eddufgton gave an indi- cation of what might happen when ^nn had discovered the secret of sun atomic. energy. Then 'a teacup could remain the whole of the fuel requir- ed to run the largest power station for a year. The world's biggest liner could voyage at top speed across the atlantic and back again by consum- ing a piece of coal the size of a currant. It is believed, remarks an Old Country newspaper, that we may pos- • sibly tap this mighty energy if we man find a, way to produce tempera- tures far exceeding :those we know now. Water boils at 100 degrees cen- tigrade, . and the temperature of white-hot steel is between 2,000 de- grees and 3,000 degrees. At the Cav- endish Laboratory a temperature, near 1,000,000 degrees, has already been reached, but to release sun atomic energy something like 40,- 000,000 degrees may be necessary. If this can be done itisan aston- ishing thought that the' end of the world may be postponed by man' him- self. Even if the sun burns out and ceases to. give heat and light, he may be able to produce sun -atomic energy and : prolong tbe existence of the world from a matter of millions' to billions of years. Am:nee'elle LEANING TOWER. Ooweb of Old Church at St. Moritz Has Pronounced Slant. While the Leaning Tower of Pisa is the most famous "monument" of its kind in the world, it isn't the only one. St. Moritz, where devotees of winter sports gather, can 'boast of a leatting.tower of lits own One of the sights of this beautiful- ly situated Swiss village, now cele- brated all over the globe, is the tow- er of the old Church, which has a very pronounced slant. It dates from 1573, and is the only part of the old church that is now standing. The most famous toboggan run in the world, the Cresta, is one of the big attractions of St. Moritz. It is • three-quarters of a mile long, and the distance hes been covered in fif- ty-nine seconds, or at very nearly the. speed of an express train. Then there is the skating. Some, of the finest skating in the world can he seen at St. Moritz, and the place would be worth visiting for that alone. Broad Arrow Symbol, The "broad arrow," used as a dis- tinguishing mark on Government pro- perty, was the "cognisance" or her- aldic symbol of Henry, Viscount Sid- ney, who was. Master -General of the Ordnance from 1693. to 1703, In time it came to be used by other Government departments besides the Ordnance Board (now the War Of- fice), with which it was first associat- ed. Curiously enough, the "broad arrow" was a symbol of power and authority among the ancient Druids. Home for II. S. Embassy. The United Skates Government has bought Blucher Palace, on tinter der 'jawolinden_ Berlin, to house the E. a, i Pomo a Link Between litoptiorito The tapir is oneof the animals that form a link between the ele- phants and the swine and rhinoceros. There are two species, the American tapir and the Malayan tapir. The American kind is about the size of a donkey, the body being heavy and powerful and the nose extends into a long upper lip, like the end of an elephant's trunk. It is coveted by a thick, heavy skin, almost hairless, anti there fs almost no tail at all. It is found inthicklywooded places along rivers in the tropics, and is an expert swimmer and diver, Its worst enemy is the jaguar, which springs upon its back from the branch of a tree. The tapir, however, rushes to the river and dives beneath the sur- face. The jaguar lets go to keep from drowning, and scrambles out. Like all cats, it hates water, while the tapir is quite at home in it. So the tapir keeps near the rivers, and feeds upon young branches and wild fruits. The tapir 1s easily tamed, it is said, and t;aots about after its trainer like a dog. It is brown in color; and has a short, erect black mane. The baby tapirs are beautifully striped and marked in fawn and yellow on brown. One can imagine that they would be delightful little creatures to have about. The other species of tapir is a na- tive of Malacca and Sumatra, and has a broad white band around its body. The ground color is black, which col- oring makes it very conspicuous. It has no mane, but a longer proboscis or nose. It is a bit larger than its American cousin, and does not swim*. but merely wades. The natives cal/ it "Kudu-Ayer," or "river -horse." Its hide is useful to make various things, but its flesh Is practically: unedible. A tapir is a gentle creature and will not attach unless wounded and driven to bay, when it will bite vic- iously. It seldom uses its voice, but can emit a shrill whistling sound. Its sight, hearing and scent are keen, and it feeds at night. A story is told of a young tapir captured in the jungle. It was hoped that the pretty creature would be- come tame. It did, beyond the wild- est hopes of the man who caught it. It became as playful as a kitten, and behaved much like one. It climbed about and thrust its nose into the faces of sleeping people, walked, on beds and couches, and became a nuis- ance. As it grew into a largo heavy animal it got impossible. and it was necessary to put it back into the for- est. Its kittenish ways in a creature of that size were a bit startling, and at times destructive, Se it returned to its sisters, cousins, and aunts, and peace was restored in camp.—Animal Life. THE STE;VAPTS' MAO. Seventeen Men Died For. It at the Battle. of Culloden. If ever there was a tragic bit of stuff it is the flag . which has just been offered for sale to the Stewart Society. Seventeen men died for it at Cullo- den. It was the flag under which the Stewart of Appin fought; and one after ,the other gallant men made targets of themselves by lifting the fallen colors from dying men's hands. At last, In the retreat, a Highlander saw It lying by the body of the last standard-bearer. The battle was lost, but the man could not beat' to think that the Hag should be lost,, and he found time to cut it from its staff and wrap it round his body before he escaped. We know what followed Culloden many adventures as a hunted ,fox be- fore he got to Stewart of Ballachulish and dared to show the flag. It has been carefully kept by that family ever since, and now itis expected that the Stewart Society will hang it be- • side the Scottish National War Memorial. Even after nearly two centuries Britain has no tale to surpass the sadness of Culloden, and not since then have so many brave men died for so bad a cause. The tragedy of It is that most of the Scottishlords. who took part in the rebellion of 1746 must have foreseen that the Pretender would never win the crown, and that his defect would cost them .everything worth living for. Charles Edward escaped to the con- tinent'leaaving his poor followers' to be hanged and his rich ones to be beheaded. Those Friday Superstitions. It is curious that while so many people are convinced that Fridayis a day of ill omen, others aro equally certain that it has every claim to be considered lucky. In Scotland, for example, Friday is a great day for weddings, whereas in England most brides and bridegrooms do their best to avoid it. It is difficult to say why the Friday enthusiasts attribute to the day any outstanding, merits, but we have not far to seek tbe reason for those who regard it unfavorably. It was the day of the crucifixion, In former times, moreover, it was the general: custom to arrange that the execu- tions of condemned men should take place on Fridays. Some say that the belief in "unlucky friday" is due to the mediaeval legend that fairies and elves of every description were con- verted into hideous animals on Fri- day and remained so until Monday. Multiplication Still Vexation To the rising generation as to the old, multiplication is apparently still vexation and the rule of three the school's chief perplexity. More pupils failed in mathematics in the New York high schools during 1929 than in any other subject, according to the report of the city superintendent re- cently issued. In one school more than ball the pupils failed first -term algebra, while failures in high school mathematics as a whole totalled 26.9 per cent. On the other hand, less than 5 per cent. failed in music and domestic 'science and 13 per cent. in English, though foreign languages. demanded a student toll aecand only to mathematics. A new rayon fabric resembling linen has appeared on, the Germs* market. PROM WILMS OFSPACE Dame Nature Plays One of Her Little Jokee of Which She Is So Fond. No sooner does man triumphantly announce that he has harnessed some great force for his own ,use than Dame Nature plays one of her little Jokes of which she is so fond, says.e contributor to Tit -Bits, Recently experiments in long - dts- tance teleyiston have been conducted between the United States and Aus- tralia. ,So far as could be seen be- fore the tests began, there was n0. reason why success should not be achieved, just as it had been over shorter distances. But when the images came through they were blue red and muzzy. Closer inspection disclosed the this, was due to the presence 01 ghosts! In the viewing lens the image of the sitter appeared, bun close beside it was a second faint image, and sometimes a third. These ghosts come from the depths of space. The waves which cause them have travelled something more than two million miles outfrom the earth and back again. The key to the presence of tele- vision ghosts was discovered from the experiences of operators on long. distance wireless services, for they, too, are very much troubled. The ghosts that worry them are not visible forms, but queer echoes of signals. What happens is this: Supposing that a Morse dash is seal out, it arrives at the receiving end, and at intervals ranging from one- seventh of a second to as much as thirty seconds, echoes of the dash are received. These arrive on top o1 other signals and cause confusion. For long-distance wireless, what is know -as the beam system is largely used, for, like light rays, wireless waves can be focused into a •beam, Most, but not all of the waves, cern be directed .forwards towards the re- ceiving station; there is always a lit- tle leakage front behind. Now, sup- pose .that a station in England Is transmitting to America, the signal duly spans the .3,000 odd miles of land and water, but about one-sev- enth of a second later there follows an echo caused by waves which have leaked from the back cf the trans- mitter and gone the other way round the world. We can understand these echoes, since they are caused by waves which keep pretty close to the earth and travel round it. But what are the echoes which occur at longer inter- vals and cause faint ghosts? Wireless waves travel at the dizzy speed of 186,000 miles a secona. Some of the echoes occur at intervals just about long enough to allow of a journey to the moon and back. It may be, then, that the moon acts as a kind of gigantic mirror and that some of the ghostimages or the ghostly echoes may be caused by its reflection. The moon, though, cannot be re- sponsible for the echoes occurring at twenty-five or thirty seconds, or for the faintest of the ghosts. In thirty seconds wireless waves travel 5,580,- 000 miles. They must, therefore, go out from the earth for over two and a half million miles and then be re- flected back. e-flectedback. PRINCE OF ELEPHANTS. Ras a Bodyguard of Females to Protect Him. Somewhere in the wilds of the East African jungle there lives a giant elephant, whose bodyguard of female elephants protects him from the prying eyes of the white hunter, "The Crown Prince, as he ]tae been named," states Frank L. Puxley, ir, his recently published book, "In Afri- can Game Tracks," "has become n legendary figure, even during 1:'= lifetime. He has never been seen nl a "white man, so far as I know, l,:•1 the natives claim for trim a pair e tusks that exceed 300 mums 1: weight apiece, "An elephant's height is near', proportionate to the dimensions ri his feet. Thus a 19 -inch spoor would point to an animal approxi- mately 12 feet in height, "What must be the size of ilii; monster? That he exists there is no doubt whatever. I have myself mea' . ured these giant footmarks, and liar, found that they scalp 293'. They cannot be mistairen, for one r.! the toenails is missing. Early this year a well-known game ranger eon - armed my belief that no white mar. has ever seen him, "And no white man ever will," lie added,explaining that the Crone, Prince maintained au escort of fe- males, who encircle him at a distancr of a mile, They were there for the purpose of giving his lordship time. ly warning," he said. THINGS :TO LEARN. Learn to laugh. A good laugh le better than medicine. When you smile or laugh, your brain fora mo- ment is freed from the load' that it ordinarily carries. Learn to tell a helpful story. A well -told story is as welcome as sunbeam in a sick -room," Learn to ]seep your troubles to yourself; the world is too busy to linger over your ills and sorrows. Learn to stop croaking. If you cannot see any good in this world, keep the bad to ourself. Learn to greet your friends with e smile. They carry too many frowns in their own hearts to be bothered with any of yours. Wool. The raising of sheet fol their wool and mutton Is as ancient as the early Scriptures ' They were the earliest form of wealth. The industry nas continued down through the centur- ies, It never fails, because the de- mand for wool is continuo». . It is the principal industry of Australia and one o1 Canada's loading sources of• revenue. The romance of sheep - tending on the hills of Judea, inter- woven as it is with the stories of David, of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; et the shepherds who tended their flocks near Bethlehem—all this has become commercialized into, dollars and cents But the gentle sheep re• main tale same -Animal Life,'; DAZZLING 'I't is some two years since Baron !Shiba, off Japan, demonstrated motion. picture .film which took place at the rate of over 40,000 a second, He em- ployed 'ordinary :motion picture film but also. a !camera in which the filet ran continuously at the Tete of over 2,000 miles a minute, inn +baron was studying such high speed phenomena as the flow of air about the wings of airplanes, or its motion as the air was brushed aside ' by the tips of the ,propeller. If the Object had !been photographed in a steady light the 'result would have been hopeless; ,merely a dark, blur- red, fogging of the whole negative. 'The feat was to illuminate the object by a source' of light that flashed on and off with. the'jhighest possible speed or, said auotherway, in the least pos- sible time. The technical: skill .of the work then, was to make the moving 'film attain just suffieient velocity to bring an unexposed portion of the ,film. in ,place when the next flash came, Suffice it to say that 'he was able to accomplish this feat and the engineer- ing world had 'another valuable tool of research. 7Eset 'wh'at has transpired in experi- mental engineering and science dur- ing those tivo years? In what direc- tion has research in this field of high- speed photography progressed? Of this It can be said that like most re- search on sane problem which main- tains its value over a period of time +(and Baron IShiba's work has 'certain- ly done -that) and which has been started- on prinaclples ,proven correct, the later development has been to im- proveen some of the details which set up limiting handicaps, an Shiba's work there are several of these hindrances. One is the light source. I'ltthough he used a high-vol- tage electric spark in air, the same handicap exists today for the other typical light source—the Neon Blow- lamp. 'Spark gaps of low light inten- sity can 'be seen to flicker, or ,possess variations In the average light inten- sity which they .emit. While spark gaps of higher power appear to the unprotected eye as a very bright con- tinuous source of light, the use of suitable .filters discloses the same flickering in them. LAel this 'talk of the non -constancy of light from a spark gap is given to emphasize the fact that for motion ,pictures Of this type it is vital that .each individual picture be exposed to .the same amount ,of light, Lack of this produces a filminwhich parts are bright while others are weak, Neon '•tuibes htxve been used to over- come this flickering handicap. But in su'rmounting the 'problem of light var- ia'tion's they introduce photographic ,problems. 'The appearance of a Neon tube even to the eye is decidedly red- dish or orange. If examined with a spectroscope and 'broken up into its •componenit colors its characteristic lines disclose that most of them lie out toward the red end of the spec- trum. For quick photography this is thee' least thing that is desired. Pictures made in the other end of the spectrum toward the violet and ultra -violet, re- quire much less exposure time. One can think of using film inad'e sensitive to the red and infra -red by chemicals.. While this :is possible for single plates, and conceivable -even for an entire motion picture film, why ' not work toward the more obvious path of ap- proach and use light possessing more actinic effect? Why notuse light pos- sessing mere actinic effect? 'Why not use light sources that speed up photo- graphy like the spark, and -which keep at the same time the constancy of the !Neon tube? This is exactly the direction of re- cent research. The use of a Mercury arc ,as an actinic light source is des- cribed. 'While -the word stroboscopic sounds technical it 'merely means that they wish to use their mercury lamp to take what looks like stationary pic- tures of a moving object, a dynamo, a propeller, and such; or use such a lamp to make •high-speed notion pie- tures of rifle bullets iu digit05 Baron .Shiba's aerodynamic problems. They have net taken motion ,pic- tures with the speed which Baron Shiba has already used. But their work indicates that a speed of ,'50,000 pictures a second can be obtained. This can be done +because their light source is faster (flashes on and goes out quicker) than IB'amon IShiba's. At the sane time it possesses the conte stancy of illumination obtainable in the iNeon tube. To equal the Japanese • work they have only to construct a camera which will move the 'film at the necessary rate. So far Edgerson and Germeshausen have concentrated .on taking better . stroboscopic pictures o'f moving ob- jects and let the super -high-speed mo- tion pictures alone. :Tree, they have reached a speed of 400 pictures a sec- ond but the' gap between that speed and 40,000 'a second is. great; What one, can really say without exaggeration, is that they have made an improve - ,hent which, if •pursued in the right, direction enay ,equal •or surpass the peak of 40,000 p'ielturen a second.