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The Seaforth News, 1933-08-10, Page 7THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1933 THE SEAFORTH NEWS. kr 1 a 1 au�na--•Itnaa•auma Du l'cate Monthly ...statoote.ot.s...• 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 Blinders' and Index. The Seaforth News Phone,, 84 0 I m I 1 s a atl�tltl•�aOrtl11��11m_N11_Op_ul__•m��uu_Is•_ Q Q D. H. McInnes chiropractor Electro Therapist — Massage Office — Commercial 'Hotel Hours -Mon. and ,Thurs. after- noons and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by ,manipulation--Sun-ray treat- ment Phone 2127, 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 '100% 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 " (1On trial in Montreal and suburbs, also in 'U.S. add 'lc for every week of service. For other foreign ' coun'tri'es add 2 " cts.) POWER IWe have got used, this last half century, to thinking, df our ,own age rather complacently as the 'A'ge of Pdw*er the :age in 'which man (became is Much tess'oil io the world. !Even at+tal station on the• Rio Deseado and the present rate of use, the world''s see how it works. oil will last loss than a.ceutary, per- 1ltir'Britain the Severn estuary has haps only fifty or sixty years. And, very big tides; and there is a scheme as we now use almost twice as mild for snaking a barrage across "this. Rut oil a' year .as 'we did in '191119, there is' schemes like this have to be careful every likelihood of the end's coming not, to upset existing arrangements, much more quickly. The first ofl well and wonderfully accurate models of was bored just after telh middle of the river' bed;h'ave'been made and the 'nineteenth. Century, in 15519. 'It is effects of a barrage on currents and quite 1ikely that the end of the tw'sn- on silting up have been studied in beth century will see the last. the model. The model is .soaccurate ISo the Position is roughly .this. At that when a current of muddy water the moment, over three-tivarters of was run through it .the mud particles thepower we' usecomes from coil were' deposited so as to reproduce' and oil. The' world's demand for with extraordinary fidelity the sand power is steadily increasing, All the oil hanks and shoal that exist inthe real will beused, up iu about one genera-' river. The results seem conclusive tion., The coal will last longer, but will that a barrage could have .no serious )become increasingly difficult to mine, effects on shipping. as we have to go further afield. 1So it At the best, 'however, river's and is clear that, if we want to go forward, tides can serve only limited areas instead of backward, we shalt have to with power. What about wind? 'The look about pretty quickly 'for new greatest trouble about wind as a sourd,es of energy. In the long run, source of power is that it is so irre- coal rand oil could obviously be only gular. :Pro'fessor Haldane once sug- tenrporary makeshifts, because by us- gested that the energy should be ing them we are living on capital long used to decompose water into oxy- ago slowly accumulated by nature. gen and hydrogen, which could then We are burning up coal and oil at a be liquefied. In this ;form they can rate at least ten thousand times faster 'be stored, and used when required than the rate at which they were orig- to drive a motor. If science can dev- inally formed, or at which any new elo,p this, or some electrical method supplies are forming flow. We human of storage in place o'f :the expen's'ive beings and our descendants can look and ' cuntibersome storage battery, forward to several hundred million wind might become a powerful ally years' lease of this planet, and that is of man, and we might expect to see why I say 'in the long run,' for the the bare plains of the world covered power we need must obviously find with enormous battalions of wind - some supply which is not capital but mills• income, renewed year after year. !However, there is one fact about .There are a number of possible wind power that ought to be men- sottrces to which we could turn. ,First, tioned, At considerable heights above there is the sun. We could go to the the groatnd—between 2,000 and 3;000 sun direct and use its heat. Or we :feet—a wind is always blowing. It. could use some indirect effect of the has been. 'calculated that at this sun. There are the winds, for instance, height a mill with sails or vanes 30.0 which are part of the great ,air circula- feet across vlould develop. a horse - tion produced by the heating effect of power running into tens of thousand's. the sun on the land and water of the Already in Russia experiments are globe. Or differences 'of temperature, being made with windmills 500 feet like that between the warm surface of across the vanes, and it is possible the sea and 'its cold depths, could be we shall see •huge windmills on the made to work an engine. ,Or we could top of skyscrapers or lattice work use the sun's energy in a different way steel towers, grinding out power for and take it at one remove. "I Green the city below. . .plants are growth engines driven by Next there is the direct tapping of the sun. We could find some ,plant the sun's heat. iAiready 'sun engines' product suitable as a source of povver have been 'built in Egypt and in and grow what we wanted.: Then there iSouthern (California to da this. ,Curv- is waterpower to be harnessed—either ed mirrors are used to concentrate the power of rivers, or the power of the son's rays on to a steam boiler. tides: Or, fina'ily, there is the power They have to be moved as the sun locked up inside the atom, We.know it moves to keep the heat focused on the is there, and we :can at least try to 'free boiler. 'T'he plant in Egypt covers it for our own use. • nearly one-third of an acre and gen- ILet file go through these and see erates only fifty horse power, so the what our prospects are. I will begin method is rather cumbersome. With water power, as this is already (In Germany quite new methods are familiar. It is difficult to make any ac- being worked out, which take advan- curate estimate o'f the amount of water tage of the 'tact that some substances power a.vailablelfi but 'the total seems give an electric current when light to be less than: most people imagine. hits them. The most p•roiitis'ing ad - At the moment, less than ten ger vance has been made by Dr. 'Lange cent, ,of the power we use comes 'from at the Kaiser 'Wilhelm Institute. He the , energy of falling 'water, and ha's invented a 'sunlight sell' consist - though this could be considerably in- ing of a thin layer of a compound of silver and selenium and covered with a layer of another metallic substance s'o thin as to be actually transparent, which produces quite an appreciable current when struck by light..An ad- vantage Of 'the'se cells is that they do not rim down; but 'they suffer from one of the disadvantages of the mir- ror 'sun engine' in needing a great deal of space if they are to develop power on any large scale. But per- haps they could he made to serve a double purpose and a hundred years hence the public squares of towns in the hat, dry pasts of the world might be pleasantly shaded .by a roof that would also be the ,source of the mun- icipal electric supply, Then there is the project for using the difference in temperature between the top and the bottom of the esa: This sounds queer, but it was,dev'ised by a well-known French engineer, Georges 'Claude, who already has, a number of suc5ess'fui inventions to his credit. The idea is this; You go to the tropics and you sink a tube 'sev- eral feet wide and several thousand feet long 1000 the sea. You have an apparatus with two 'chambers con- nected by a tube. In the tube is a low-pressure turbine. Into one of the chambers you put some of the warm surface water. The other sharit'ber is pooled on the.outside: by cold water pumped tip from the bottom through your tube. Then you exhaust most of the air frown this second chamber. The resultis that water vapor passes off from the warm water in the first chamber and is sucked through the tube, turning the turbine as it passes Once started this process will cortin- ue indefinitely, awing to the fact that, as the second chamber is colder the vaporp.ressure in itis lower and so there will always ''be a suction exert ed through the turbine. The difference: of pressure is only about a fortieth of an attnos:phere but it goes. on acting. all the time, :The method has actually been tried out off the, coast of Cuba, with a tube 16% feet wide 'and over a mile long. Up to the present, ` it has not been .a commercial- ercial- su'ecess; but the idea is scietti'ific'ai`ly sound, and our grandchildren may 'well be ac- customed to the sight ofpower tubes dotted around the coasts of the warm- er ,parts of the world, with electric. cables leading ,off their power to. the shore, able to use the energies of nature to do his work for him. I know that this is a commonplace; but there are two, things about it that are worth rub- bing in. Doe is the extent of the change that the Power 'Age has brought into 'life. The other is the fact that the Power Age, 'though still with us, is rapidly altering 'its ohar- acter. As to 'the lfirst paint, T d.on't want to bother you with statistics, but it is worth rem'enabering that the power - producing machinery of 'the 'United States will supply abau•t thirty horse power 'for every worker. As a •man'c power p'roduction is only about ane - tenth off a horse power, this means a three -hundred -fold increase in power. bt 'is as 1f every worker bad the com- mand of three hundred 'slaves. In other word's, if America had no ma- chinery, she.would need an army of ten lthou:sand million slaves to keep up her prodttgtion of power at 'the creased, it would not seem that even present level, a thorough utilization of this source As to the second point, 'I should like to gut it this •way. Alt through the first hundred years Of the 'P'ower Age, people, intoxicated with the new resources 'eh•at science and invention had given them, were, thinking first and foremost of increasing the amount of power ava'i'lable, without worrying about the future. 'Today, they are beginning to realize that power is neither inexhaustible nor unlintited, and that tite power re- source's of the world need to be care- fully organized. (We are at the 'begin- nin'g of the Age of Planned Power.. (Front the down of history right down to the end of the eighteenth century, the main .sources _,Of; power were the tuus.cles of men and anima's, They were aided, to a .certain extent by , water and wind, :hut ,the extra power generated'. in these mechanlical ways was tied to the spot and could not be transported to a 'distance: Coal on the other hand; can be easily trans'portod to, wherever its !bottled -up energy is wanted. 'A'll Through the "nineteenths 'century, coal provided tnay : with far the greatest amount of power.. Even in 111900 coal Was still supreme. Today, oil and its prod- ucts, 'though slt!ild (far 'behind coal, have gt;olwn'very important las power sources, and water power comes in a good third. And alco'ho'l is just catch- ing on; it is now- in wheat ,she .position where petrol found itself at 'the be= ginning 'of the century. ),But in the meantime we !ha've 'begun to wonder about elite •continuance of some of :the sources 01 supply, and' there have 'been world power confer- ences where the. position has been, learnedly discussed. We use about fifteen hundred 'million ,ebns ;of .coal every year. 'The, reserves of `coal hidden ip the eath's crust are still' very great. They would be enough to last 'fi've hundred years or so at '' the present rate of cons'ump'tion, provided we could get at tbstn easily :Bat a great deal •o:f this coal ;is 5o deep; that it would be (b'ot'h difficult and uneco- nontical to mine it. Im countries where Cog twining 'has been going on longest, as in !Great ''Britain, ' there may less thaw a century's supply telt. Of 'oil, 'English consumption is 'less dhiaiv a tenth' of that of 'coal. alit there Power alcohol can:lrow be made' cheaply due to a quite recent discov- ery from molasses or potatoes and is used sometimes mixed with petrol, so It is possible the day will come when, power sources will be grown Like any other crop.. A single drop of water contains sub -atomic energy equival ent to a year's' continuous supply of two hundred horsepower. -l! uperirii- ents are !being made towards atomic - splitting which may ,finally be ac- complished, It !Wild Relieve a 'C'old.—Colles are thecommonest aliments of, mankind' - and if neglected may lead to serious condition Dr. , Thomas'•Eclectric 'Oil 'will relieve 'the ;bnondhiall passages 09 inflammation 'speedily`, and thor- mighty. and will :strengthen them a- gainst subsequent attack, a And as it eases the infl'am'mation •it,.^will ,usually stop the cough because it allays the irritation' in the 'throat, ' .Try it and prove it. Wars taring scars. II'f a perso n aims at nothing be will hit lhistarget without even trying. '11 is not the engine with the loud- est exhaust that :haul's the longest train. of power could ever su•pp'ly more than a fraction of our needs. You cannot get the full benefits of water power unless you can use very high voltages for transmitting it ,from where it is made to where it is to be used. ,High voltages have two advantages, 'First, they inalse it possible to send the cur- rent, farther; and secondly, the cop- per transmission „cables need not be so thick, and this makes a big reduc- tion in the 'cost. At''the present mom- ent between' 200 and 300 miles is the litg'tt to which electric power can be sent as a commercial proposition in !Britain, thatis, using currents at a pressure of about 100,000 volts. In 'Germany, voltages of oveno,200;000 are beingused,, which increases the;,prac- ticable •distance to over 400 miles, (H'ow'ever, there are naw 'laborator- ies experimenting wi't'h transmission at a -pressure• of one and even, two million volts, and it is quite likely that in the near future we shall be able team:aka commercial use of half a million volts. This would•mean that. the' usefulness of big water -power stations like - the 'Mttscie. Shoals and [Dnieprostrel would be enormously in'crea'sed; as they could then supply a radius of almost 1';000 miles, or about sixteen, times the ,arta now pos- sible 111 B'rltain. Theft there are ;the :tides, In so,nie parts of the world, the titles .rise and fall• ten or twenty 'feet or .even ,fifty feet twice. :every day. It •seems a pity to let all this source of power nun to wa's'te, and there are already solve snt'all 'tsetory plants that fill a reservoir at high w'a- •ter'and ttse it 'to generate power by 'letting it run out through a turbine at low water, On the .coast of Pata'gpnia, ias the •Argentine, the tidies rise anywhere from fifteen to nearly !forty feet. A pro'j'ect has .teen. 1. t,, forward' to dam the San Jose Gulf, and use its tidal; power by; letting, the waster run in through one set o'ft turbines,and ou:t, again through another. This would generate a huge ,amount of energy blit i,t 'would cost about forty million pounds to set tip. Another disadvan- tage is that it is'nearly seven hundred miles Erem Buenos Aires, and to tra,nshni't posw:er for that distance is at present impracticable, H!owever,, it is proposed to set up a small expenianen- *. * * * * * * * - * * * * NEWS AND INFORMATION * * FOR THE BUSY FARMER * Furnished by 'Ontario Depart- * * ment of Agriculture.) 's * * * a. * * * * * Ontario Agriculture 'Well Repre- sented at 'Regina A very 'comprehensive picture of Ontario agriculture is (being given to the visitors at the World's 'Grain Ex- hibition and (Conference through the large educational exhibit that has been 'prepared ,by the !Exten•sion'De- partment of 10•1A.C. for the Ontario Department of 'Agriculture. The display is X120 feet ,in length, and is divided into five units that show the most recent advances in poultry and hog production, and the latest developments in cereal and legtunebreeding that have been rnad,e in Ontario, These 'four panels are bal- anced about the central unit Which provides a key to the 'whole scheme with the caption, "Ontario Agricul- ture: ,A Well Balanced 'System, (With fMuoh (Live Stock, and Regular Rota- tion of ,Crops." IThe idea of crop rotations as the most important factor in the success of Ontario agriculture is also very forcibly presented in the central pan- el by means of an eight -foot wheel, which revolves slowly, showing in .5 very stdiking manner the crops and arrangement that 'go to make up a good rotation for Ontario. Weather Conditions Setback to On- tario Cattle Business "Live stock in 'Western 'Ontario is experiencing a setback due to the drought of the past two 'months, says 'George H. iDuncan, live stock (investigator, Ontario Mark e t i n g 'Board. Pastures are dried out to such an extent that cattle are barely hold- ing their own, even on i'ncrease'd acreage of pasture land. !Without more :favorable weather conditions, many cattle will be untflnished by the coming autumn, or will reach the market later than usu'a1. To obtain best returns the !produc- er will have to exercise greater care than ever ;before in the 'marketing of such cattle, (Heavy supplies of un- finished cattle reaching the market will, undoubtedly, demoralize the en- tire live stock trade. Smproving Alfalfa Yields ;Reports 'front most of the 2!4 farm demonstration expetii•ntents 50051,05t - ed in 212 counties by the Department of !Chemistry, 10.A.'C., are in. The 'fig- ures bring out some interesting facts. 193'3 grow'in'g season 'has ,been fair- ly favorable in many sections, :but severe droughts, have reduced yields to a considerable extent. Neverthe- less, results of great interest remain. An application of fertilizers of 375 lbs. per acre in early spring resulted this year in average increase of 3,298 lbs. green alfalfa per acre. This was 311.12% 'greater yield than that ob- tained front unfertilized alfalfa. The highest yielding fertilizer was again 0-112-115, which this year gave an aver- age increase of 34.'6% ower unfertiliz- PAGE r, SEVEN. ere and. There Indications point to a fairly early harvest in Western Canada, says a late July weekly crop 're-, port of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way agricultural department. A. few points in, southern Manitoba, the report added, had already started cutting wheat and barley. Canada jumped to fourth plane in bacon exports to Great Britain, last May compared with sixth place in 1932, behind Danmark, Holland and Poland. Total ex, ports to Great Britain from,Can- ada in May were 5,566,400 lbs. or at the rate of 66,000,000 lbs. per annum. ed. The average yield :for the 321 farm fer•til!izer -experiments on alfalfa con- ducted over the province during ' the past four years shows an average its - crease For fertilizers of -1,0.3;3 lb., or 29.2%a, and in addition valuable resid- ual gain. Three common analysistested in all four years have givento follow- ing results, -0;1(3'5, 2i3. increases; 2=12-6, 219:7% increases 2-115, 40.- 5% increases: 'T'he cost 3175 llbs, of the :fertilizers used es from $5.1215' to '$7'59 per acre. 'The :119'313 ;figures agar confirm the findings of ,the prev 'ears; high 'patash fertilizers t on alfalfa. !Alfalfa being , has the power to extra from the air and fix'it in virtue of the structure of ' It is logical, therefore, ' the ;figures :given to lite n the alfalfa crop is established', snp- ply 'its own nitrogen bene- fits materially from i of phosphate, and especially There were increased retail sales in Canada in May as com- pared with April and the index number of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics rose from 83.7 to 85.6. Hardware hrud the best showing, the increase being from 75.8 to 112,8. A spare blue -clad figure which to thousands of passengers through Vancouver in the past seven years represented a symbol of friendliness in a strange city will no more be seen around the wharves and terminals of the Canadian Pacific railway in the Coast city since Albert Charles Pearsall, terminal passenger agent for the company, died there recently. With rising prices for wool and a vast Chinese market for wheat caused partly by advantageous monetary exchange, Australia is rising steadily to a greatly im- proved economic position, declar- ed Warwick Fairfax, managing director of the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia's oldest news- paper, a traveller recently on the Canadian Australasian liner Nia- gara. 'potash Asthma Can he Cured. Its surlier- iitg, is as need'les's as it 'is terrible to endure. " After its many years of re- lief of She most stubborn cases no 'sniffer:or can d'ouiit the perfect effect- iv'eness olE Dr. 5. D. Keliogg.'s As- thma Re'm'edy. Comfort of body arid peace of mind return with its use and nights Of sound sleep ,conte back for good, Ask your druggist;. he can 0*94,IY You. Meeting at a time when the nations of the world were never so much in need of close co-opera- tion economically and politically, the fifth biennial conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations to be held at the Banff Springs Hotel, August 14-28, is regarded as a possible turning point in the affairs of all the stations border- ing the Pacific. . Self-regulation of motion pic- tures by producers to conform, with ordinary standards of decen- cy will ultimately render boards of censors unnecessary, predicted. Will R Ilays, Czar of Hollywood, interviewed recently at Vancouver where he arrived from a short stay at Banff and Lalce Louise. Clark. Gable was another movie star visitor at these famous moun- tain resorts. All Ontario district brother officers of Norman M. McMillan, superintendent, Bruce Division, Canadian Pacific Railway, with 11. C. Grout, general superinten- dent, as chairman, took part re- cently in a presentation to Mr. McMillan of a silver tea and cof- fee service, at the Royal York Rotel, Toronto, on the occasion of his promotion as assistant to H. J. Humphrey, general manager, eastern lines of the railway. , Unheralded, unrecognized and unexpected, l'Irs Franklin D, Roo- sevelt, after au all day motor trip through French-Canadian country east of Quebec City, motored re- cr.'.tly into the Ancient Capital tt <l nut up at the Chateau Fron- tcr.ea The wife of the President of the United States, the follow - inn flay, took in the sights of Que-' l c from the high seat of a cal?, elle. the quaint' one-horse vehicles characteristic of Quebec city 2* RATE REVISION OF LOCAL HYDRO SYSTEMS, 1933. (Toronto.—The annual study of the financial conditions of the hydro (Systems of the -Municipalities served by the Commission has just been completed for the purpose of rate ad- justmiieitts. These studies are made for the purpose of adjusting rates so that each class of service is supplied ae nearly as possible at cost, and so that the actual cost of power supplied for municipal purposes, such as Street ILiighting ,and Wa'terwor'ks, may .he ac- tually ascertained, The Power 'Com- mi'ssion Act provides that power sup- plied by local (Systems for municipal purposes shall be supplied at actual cost and any surplus accumulated during each year is handed back in cash to the General IFund of the Mu- nicipality. •In some of the Municipalities it is sometimes found advisable to actual- ly refund in cash directly to: the con- sumer a part of the surplus revenue, , rather than snake reductions in rates. In fact, in •soave of the Municipalities refund's have been made as well as rate reductions. The 'Commission is very ,pleased to announce that for the year 11932, out of a total of 3016 urban Municipalities h . served, decreases in rates avebeen 73Municipalities, uwhile authorized in it has been necessary '4o recommend increases in rates in only, 116 Munici- palities. In addition to these rate ad- justments, refunds of accumulated surplus have been recommended in `59 'Municipalities. The amount of these ni.dipalli'ties is as refunds in some Mu p great as one-six!uh of thetonal' rev- enue collected 'from the Consul -tiers during the' entire year 19!312. The total co r nantended for refund amount so e 1''dire.ctly to the consumers is approxi, mately $050,000.