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The Wingham Advance, 1922-01-05, Page 3agine ih icrijqU,aetcmiehlue banalt who: While eegaged ,in 'ding hp a bank, should see a ,strangelmilting and foriiiidable chine? c3,1,1ndrical ill form and armed with huge claws, dash out a an oh- eoure and rush. Upon him with an intent of ob,vious menaceI • Caping he stands rooted to the . epot. The machine throwsits c1aw- )-31ce arns41,nntt him and embraces him in close hug,. .Wilding him helpless until officers Gf the. law appear and effect his oapttre: he thaehine, here descrilied ie no there figmerit of the imagination. It is contrivanee invented by a Pennsyl- vania ,inan, and is celled a Titan-eaten- JlIg' tank, the elurnese for which it is de.eigned being to grab and hold bank robbers . • , • -, • ' The tank is an armored -Watchbolx, inside of which an armed watchman is 'Con,cealecl during, the buiiness hours of the bank. 44 is provided with peep holes so that the •o•Ccupant can See what is ee•ing on outalde, and with a number of openings through which he can thrust out a pistol. At the top -is a ventilator with shutters which ,may be!ppened, or closed by turning almob. The cylindrical steel box be,s a floor .sirillcielitly elevated g,bove.it,s bottom ,to leave room' for a. email trunk on four wheels, •hicli„ !operated by an etc:tele motor, will rapidly propel the tatilt, the !steering o the latter- being done by the hand of the man inside gripping a handle„conveelently placed. He enters the tank through, a door on the side; which. he closes after him and ;secures with a steenlatehe 'Theis he seats ,hirriSele and ha,i,nothing fur- ther todo except to lteep awake and. look out from time to time through the P001? holes, unless, one •oaerneee robbers hsiyiea todrOp in an4,titart sehethlhge • , ri; he Vent attn. over is- h ea4 ihnnib es, hint with plenty cf • .• SuPPoste he arrival of .`a ,coraple 01 enteiprising 'bandits. They take eo notice of the tauilf, which is plaiitett'oh- ecerely jp an out-of-the-way earner, Perhaps out of sight. The robbers proceed to hold lIP the cashier and the payirte,' demanfieg furies. The hands of the 'bank o.ilicers, of •course, ProniptlY go up. But farther Premed - legs oil the part of the hold-up Men , are -quickly' interrupted. The w;atehman hieide the tank look - Ing through a peep' hole, eees ;what is ' going ;on. The first .thing be:does is to touch a 'button which 8.en,d:s au elec.- , • tric sisjni to thenearest pollee ata tion. Then he turns a switeli which • starts the • beneath the 'floor, 'of , the box, aii,c1 the •Machine 'rolls out 04, ' its eorner toward' the thic.elof the haul; steeredin the Manner at2Ve 1eSor11).04U( --ether' object in view being to get he- ' tween the robbers, and their. way 'of 'escape. * "; • Fastened to revolving pasts geared to two 'eppoeite sides of the tank ars six enornieus....steel • el,awa----threO, .that is ,to; •saY, •on each side. The"Se are operated froth insid•er the b;ox als; 'to be. swung outward and apart, or ,inward and, together -with an calibrating' move- ment. pee ofthe robbers, let' ve' say, attempts ta escape through the dotir • of the bank; but the machine, movixig rapidly on its ruliber-tired wheels,- ie !too quick •foe him. It gralis him with its dea-dlYiiug arid-liolds hina fast. I In the meantime •Policemen, sum - the alarni,•'have 'stetted for the banke. They rush in, grab the secoe'd 'robber, take over the captive • 'Of the tank and the perfornian.ce is at .1 an , en'd... c reit Glilf streamI land sailing againi st t too'lr. •ienger to , . . , ' neach Ameriea than ships taking a A river 3,000 times as large as the , , more northerly course, and he Wanted Missiseippi, and .10,000' times! as large eo eho,w why. , „ , . . as the Hudson! It es 'the Gulf Stream. , Cape Hatteras is the stormiest point Tills great; stream starts in a teoPic in -the world because of the GUIS gulf, flows 10,000 miles, changes the Streamli,Are the warm water of the' climate and topography of manynoun- , tropic current is. -deflected" tato the At - tries and mads. in the ice 'floes .(31 an lantic and it lfecomes a tiver'hundre;ds Arctic Sea- • , of miles wide. The drift- of strange woods and 1 The l3ritish Isles and the. Scandin- . seeds en its, surface eaused Lief Erick- avian countries ,are habitable because the Norseman, to seek lan.d teethe I of it; the agricultural district Of west- west- -r•ii•,(1 discover 'America,. 13ut it tern and central, leurepe is inade pos- was not l'eogn,ze13 as e„.egne,eft current sible by it.. until years after Colintibus' time, when I No otter current in the world has ,a Spanish admiral, astonialaed by hie. ithe volimie and energy of the ,Gulf VVE-AElln' 0' THE GREEN." i=rer II,421:141.9aien...M16216Ays 4v Wait Mason WINTER NIGHT When winds are shrieking and clouds! are leaking, a cheap - John brand of snow, and things are freezing, it's doubly eleasing, a cheery home to know.' The sto,rin growe louder, and like:white powder the snow sifts through the cracks; the driftsare piling, but I am smiling, and life is slick as wan. II,ere in my shanty, ; With wife and amatie, and grandsons nine or eight, I read my paper While 'atm -infields caper and howl their hymn of hate. For I kept Inisy till I.was dizzy before the cold blasts, came; With VIM and ardor I stocked the larder and sp;oiled. Old Winter's game. The round plunks earning, DO fair job spurning, 1 banked Some Iron men; now I should worry when wild winds scurry out - Side my. comfy den. A squash named Hubbard is in the cup- board, I've loaves offltickless, bread; up in the garret there is a carrot, and cordwood in the shed. And all is paid for; the, goal I played- or my aunts declare I've won, and winter's squealings don't hurt my feelings, since I have saved my- mon. Let winter thunder! I got!_frorn under before tbe tempests came; alertand 'emus aqa noL edou pun Injecetcr ,P@ASS 1mgpseq 'rapid •progreae.'frote AnieriCa„ reported 1 ,Stream ' and ' none ..•affedte'' se large 'a , -• 10101146:511018am...eamasammax..,7....,....,.. , . to -the 'king. o.f. 5 pain: that -lie hadUfa- ''.pertioix 'il ' tile •ettrili'8...eiti'Ittee. • vel,led a go reat cean. highway. -Benjamin Franklin, where Pestnias- 1 or-ange trees have. been known to ter pf the United State5, made the first"I bear, fruit until they. were 150 years definite chart of it:. 'Ships from Eng- old. 1 How :Cedar Clieits Protect. It 15 the Pleasant aroma that does the -tridlt of protecting wool clothing ' t le s-neirof xed eha,nce to feed on your test auit: Isom Moths. 'Young moth 'Wornis asterpW s isposet torr4 Striti siniplyebannot a d tl • cedar. They die' and db not get a ! -.Flanders Fields," ,!'!the- peeni ' which,has niade the Pleaders p.oppy;as insenarable: from' Aeinis ti c e PiasDthe• dogerose -is, Irani iAleltandra. Da,Y;• Was - written by Pre.IehneMegrae, ediatoole, pa•rt.:11m. -both 7 -the 'Shah! -Afriettii .War and;lilie;iGreat WhoebetWeen these.etwe events; eVea•S' a lecturer in Pathology eat !IVIeGill!'pairo.,8•ity. •Dtt_rille the' seeortd,hattle 'ef Ypres', Colonel MaCrae, was. in ;charge' of "a _ dug -out dreeesing sta,tion„ ,,Tt. was in this :eight feet vinare, that,-AleCrae- wrote 'the' peen] '1X,hich. iran hedoine 'fanione. • • - • • Carlyle described . • 01-5 1-lae aS.the greatest war-eo.xig ineany tang:ie. It haci.,:t%wild!--liiith.! Butns:!conifitesed • . . sit -while 'riding" 'across a wild heetli duisinge•a;', ififiludersternie,•!The'!%storiie, seerned -Suit...theAM,et's iiibed; and ,0„. f„risild7-rthq 1`ode- his side seeing him in a 'Tsita. of Silent eka,ltatiou, refrain- ed from speaking-. "Plias, timid, flash- in,g andel-01.141g thunder, this. great, War ode Was inemtriZed, But! S'OlTle thee greatest natri.otic songs• have been • written to the:, soend of the guns. Rouget de l'Isle .1y -tete the, "Marseillaise 'tlre boom of Austrian gutis d'urieg the siege, ofStrasburg and to the sante litioreing bass Set it te music' on 1410 fiddle. ; "The! Stas -Spangled Banner'! waS both 'in leilieWliat circom- stances. During the ;Wei -between' !Ting- laitti and ...iernerica;.:Frands Scott , ey, Yoititg'•American, soldier, saYi the sitarS -and striPes run 'up to !the, flag- e,tefe of Fore iiiaclienry, and, thinking ! of a Well-know,n. tune, lie immediately penned th9 ;immortal, son4g. After tlie- War every:soldier carried it herniarand • DIAGRAM . • Clelnparativ athe of money 'of forty-eight nit It became a national ,anthem, Grandmother knevr cedar chests 'We're The greatest lyric cif la;eart and Math preventersr, but ,it took the De - hearth 15 Hoine, Sweet' Heine. One partment of Agrachltme experts t� , _ . , would , think it the prodnotion. of the provelust howethe red cedar moth de - :happy, fetheredt a united family. 'But 'fence operates. The, ,adult or moth' such "ie- not the ca.e.s. It "Was written miller, its eggs and the 'pupae de not by p hemeless wanderer who never mind cedar. 'The worms or' larvae, knew .anythjng .df the joye• and coni whic,h do- the wool eating, and which forts of .which- he sang so sweetly.' . develop - into Pupae after a' satisfying . !Two Gt. Bpowning'sh e.• beat-lt,noviia wool feed, are "kitle.d shortly- after Doe that poem of galloping liOr.ses 'How tiehtly,closed eedar chest. But, say etheiet.„ to, Aix." They were written at Inllinds of unPle.aeaut smelling nalithe- S attle:" thepo hall. b d Oti 1)13,11S,,ploced in just an fully siGk. The first :is easily under. erddn'arY chest protect, clothing plait to d s c -y of the Imo • NV,0- ai well. " • c;otta.1" but the reason for choo•si g ' • - ins are '011. to 'be. in England," and hatching by the odor of tiedar that fille they braiTght the good news from the moth -fighting experts, two or three man who- said,: "011, b,e en, terra- • . 4 - the atlier su.bject is not so• obvious. -b,,ie,hy .p 5. Anglo Saxons 4.4c1 Forest Conservation. It is an unfortunate fact, but one that it is neccessary to mention, that ;w:bile our race is the least interested cf all nations in forestry' science, We are of nationsthe most active in the destruetion ef foreet re,sources Cana - (115111 saweriills; American logging or- ganizations., New Zealand and Atte- . . tralian axemcir' are the 'last word in efficiency and deSpatch. Almopt every deviliah inventian for the destruction of growing timber Owes its conception to the _Anglo-Saxon mind. Even. the , art of fire raising, whether from care- lessness in clearing' felled areas, the picnic habit or the g'entle .art of the • progressive 'settler, have to !this, day of world timber shortage enabled• 110 to continue our reputation, if not our practice, of destroying by fire a high percentage of the timber whion might _be:put to commercial. he es.--=-Loid Isp- vait, at Empire "Timid) er 'Conference, London. • •e-reat nritinber of ,atlenoid..caseS'in'':. Only one", w'olli'ane-ln,,I,•00 inSurese th.e,n tills "nhoPPY sea.l." ' • Engla,nel. . • el PER CENT F PAR 75 P0100 TO 75 M222iirAj 25 1050 -01-0 25 1'471, 1M'' • reibieVT- 13E.'Ll'EVE. ME !'e';fele•itel -rot_ti " ,11 i�ii.UL 1,)t.c-fakte.!,1 ons in October, 1921, CLA FELLER5--0 By Gene BYrnes tow. Canada, w Cu a eoneitierable range b,etween 'her Welter and, summer. ell, Mates, has in coneetrieneti Than)' lnclusr, tries which are purely eeational in Character, Among them is one of the b lefeet period of activity, but whith, for the few days of its operation, ear - ries groathr, joy and pleasure into the world than an.y other punnliti 'and is one of the few lines of commerce which the juvenil.e population would consider iediepensable to the wellzbe- in,g of the country. ThiS is! the Christ - ma -tree industry, which is respens- lble for putting the little spruce tree into the homes of the continent. For weelt,s Wo,odsmen *were busy in the wocds ef Canada and cars of little - trees went down acrose the border to the- cities and towns el the "Chatted States. This winter a bit of Canada went into the hemee of the entire con- tinent though not all kniew or recog- nised it. The Christmas tree idea was eon- tinental- in 'origin, .thotigh America, with its deep -breasted valleys, its can - Yens, and eitbankS" clad- with spruce and.pane wotild iiggustiteelfat once as the- home of the ottetoill, and the iastltutQn Might have, been created expressly for the children of the , Ameritan 'continent, The 1I'Init,c,c1 States, as she grew and expended, found elle required her trees, for letie thelantie ahd ,se.ntiluental and, it must be confessed, need teem in a rather lavish and profligate. limnner, hot always seeing that When a , Christmas tree was out down to cheer !somebody's Chrietmas the.oe Was one Planted in' itS pla,ce for a -Christmas to Cantle, The time came when there were too many homes or not enough trees; and the United! States called upon Canada, which had not so many homes atbd a great, many -trees, , and for yeare the Donainitmthas' been sending her theni across the border to deeorate, the homes and gladden the holiday of the children of the Republic, And Canada is profiting bY the example, et other countries. Her pold`cy is to put back a tree, where one has been cut, to have b-er Clirlatnlas trees Lox yeare to come and to claees- the Christmases of fu- ture generations o•f children of the eontinen t. New Use- of "Wiovies." For Sohle months Professors Haul - thin blya .1)1rr a the Department of Mining Engineering, University ol Toronto, have been working,- in such spare hours as they could find, on a xeseareh prOblemwhich baffled them because the operations involved occur so quickly,that it is impossible for the human eye ta distinguish them. The problem is this: After gold -bearing ore has been crushed to fragmentsof about' ari hich and a half in diameter it is put into .a "tube mill" or "ball mill" 'which. looks Very much like a huge druit. Into this s•aine rnetallic drurb a quantity' of water is mit and also a number ,of halls ol m.etal or stone. The drum is then retated and the ore is ground fine --the whole pro- cess. -resembling nothing' quite so much as digestion in a fowl's "crop," where food, water, and small pebbles are "-churned" together. The resaarch workers -a.sh themselves these cones - tions: Hew fast should this .driti`n be rotated to secure best results? . HoW. many "rock bells" should he !put into the -drum ? !Should thee balls be as large as a baSebalie:cir as smali as a golf ball? Should large and s-naall balls be mixed, and if so in what pro - Portion? As about two million tons of gold -bearing ore are treated each 110T - mei mining year in Ontario, these,are ii rather important questions. But how, can answers to them be obtained -when, throUgh the specially. constru.cted glass fate of the drum, the eharp,est 'bum= -eye sees only a Vie:, a swiftly inctvin,g- mass? The ultra -speed cam- era, on the initiative of CliffordS4- ton, Jr., 13 '15, supplied the answer. A "movie," at the rate of onel hundred and twenty pictures per , second, was taken. The pictures • ! were then transferred to the' screen, but were shown at the rate of only sixteen per second. Then the whole process Was clear as daylight, Instead of watching a swiftly whirling tube nrill'•the professors watch pic- tures on the screen'study the process without difficulty (Iodcause lightning - like movements are now 05 slow as desired), and draw conclusions from the data nLesentect:-_____ A Queer Mena.. , • , You ,be .surnrised 'Inc it. -um- rnedt. 11 sni weie" 40 141 that mankind lives entirely "upon' etenes,,ttetallE, and , .0t.11er minerals. But it is true. fv-u- fobif is of two, •Itands7,714.mal , . LA. .and vegetable, and the first is. really "-the essence, no to speak, of the- second, for all mil', food animals make their flesh by eating grass.,and other Plants, then, •forin the food sUPOY c'e all Other living things. 'But ho.v.,f, do plants get _their food? Tfiey live, entirely on mineral§ obtain- ed from the s;oil, and on chemicals dis- tilled from the air. Our hndded need these 'ehemieQc and mineralss but we. cannot nee them directly; the only two that we can use in their crude f•orm are water and. ialt. All the others. must be • worked •-ne, into different fornis,, and this is'diene• by plants. '.Their roote.bere. down into, the 00111 hreaking '•up sniall.stones• and extrnet- feg freme theta the minerals; that are needed for'their.2-'-arid our—existence. These they transform into subetan•ces that animals can eat, Over 50,000 ',species. of Plante are knoWn to botalliste. .-..manotor..emasennacrotat.Tera.coscaseenosmentocanazzanzzatiem4msnseassrAvoleterarst=11MISIt 5oss d Vt,loW (1c11O„E: &ott,,l6 t.Nr 'TILL 4t -r kM04 iN1,4)•' LpN1 tANs - Jusr soMe s(MK,v_ L1Ke. t\isV4i'VN4 col.'wUMmiJrr -(o /t\A.k?•,:ts-k-•Yt1iP MttIit c• VISCOUNT MORLEY. Veteran Horne Ruler in the House of Lords, arid twice Secretary for. Ire- land, who at the age of 83 moved in the House of Lords the adoption of the Irish Peace Treaty. .It was his first appearanoe after seven years ef silence Menus of Olden Days. ,At a luncheon given in his honor by e ea c a_ „ 11 ;It quite the thie,g elleake le 'Palle to tell 'a 1pw ,3 , E 141,iTnial;(11t4Itoti;::.;14sg 'rjj'Ill 1 j' lioving that the wer14 to -day is 11441- ,,ing. hee„rileng _ ;But it, *aTs,11,beo,i;:m.n.ii,ien.l. end ef tile world bee 00i been- prtidacted evote smee'•the worhl 'ver- a1ia,r we hwve ha ' 401l this e• t ter ,tirfies that used to be. The advelit of 'historic mankind braugirt at once a., group pf mourners for the , pre- historic animals. 14 need§ no "Ont., - line Jif Hiatory" to prove tliet the* airtediluvi•an planet was resert, It itiriew no 'ineerne tax no ; emoke traiaaace, no irkseine no suPerfleofts 11015110, 00 sessiens / of • Parliament, no e,,ee-gaiges , 5,3011 drives for charity, no transit problem. What a delightful world to occupyl Then, at long range, with the ez chantnient lent by distance, alwaye looks fax more hopeful 'and glamerene than now. A man in the retrospect et' boyhood forgets all but the fun of it, the freedlem, the irres- ponsibility. He de.esn't l'erne t!PIS the crosses. All drudgery a.,11(1 -repression have faded from fe - in Om bran ec ; the pla y -tiro es stand photographically cle•er in -the goldee bight. 'The ram itself looks back en its early days even as one by one vea, recall the exi,io.d.es of ellr Rah e 0 d behind us forever. But that is of yesterday. What of to-daythat stands on the brink pfl to -morrow? Instead. of deploring what Les been, should we riat give thanks fax that which is to be? We cannot determine what men centuries henee in their own dis,cretion ancl of their own motion are to do any more than we can undo the deeds of our ances- tors and prevent their sins and follies cominitte,d. But we can put our -best effort into. our -own time and link day to day with a chain of acts, that shall have its influence iri the story of the generations to be. The future belongs to posterity; the past is in the keepng of thRse -who lived and died; but the preeentis ours, and ours alone. What are we geing to do -with it? There is no time to 'waste in twavailing lainentatien. The study of what has been is useful only as it Serves to shed light on the ques- tion -of wh,at we should do now. The speculation as to the time to come is valuable as it. guides toward the right nation of serOice ,and duty, in. public and -private relations with our contemporaries. To -day is the material of which we th h ot Tailors the Duke of build ,a. hie that none can build foi York said: "I confess I am glad to 12E. If the days are spent as tney tnink that times ,have changed sarice should be, the fe th. • as 1- ad, of t•he, banquet given to Jathes I, when these days as a'wall is made of stones* 11 b tl e life that counts on the side I should hardny have relished tire diet Of the angels. Men and women we waregaled," fullness of living to lavish vain A reversion to- the tastes of our fore,- regrets on yesterday or anxious fcre- fathers would cause' some strange bodings upon to -morrow. dishes. to figure on the dining table. In the ;thirteenth century the heron, the crane, the erow, the cormorant, and the bittern were considered dein- ties. The hare and partridge were •clespised and were never seen on the tables -of the rich. Edward. I., when he was "Food Controller," fixed the price of pike ligher than that of fresh sal- mon- _ In the reign of 1-acenyy If. a favorite dish was fresh sturgeon served with whelks. •Roist poi -noise was also the' ght to set before a king", Au- . oth popular dish was sheeps' heads soused in ale. and scarvecl•with onions, gentle, and le•shel his son wa.s honored as I am today. e bf -owls and cuetans with which. he revere have been too busy with. the • , 1 In Tudor times• it 7aa the general practice. to pour hcn!ey over meateand mast of our ancestorS,' dishes wOuld be tea rich for modern Palates. Even the most aceamplished dinerout would shrink, from oysters stewed in 'wine, pigeons stetted with goose -berries, grapes boiled in butter, 'and niniton stuffed with-oyeterst But'we VIII still back a- boarding - 0011001 clernaltory,tor weird compounds, stela a•s sardines; : !gondensed milk, cake,.and ;ISM. The writer heard same - boys discussing tasty dishes, and-lhe lover of liaddotic and pickles seeMed to be,the leading' epicure until a (inlet lad gave an additional °ether: "Five ee.nts? worth ,of raspberry jam!" Then When hisebloater came he stuffed it with jam and ate it solemnly, to the admiration of his comrades, • Camels are !said to be the only- ani mals that cannot swim. Of !all -arts that of working gold is the_ most anCient. 1110011010.1,0A.„ e•-• • 4,3 Armaments Race Ends', On Thursday, Deceniber 15, 1921, the Race fax Armaments came to en end. The greatest single aim' Of the Conference on the Limitations of ArthaMent was reached when Balfour fax Great Britain, Hughes far the Un- ited States and Kato for t40 j'apanese lEnipire set their names to •tbo, text i•of the Tbree-PoWer ,Naval Agreement, ! Ifixing the naval ratio and the state:S. of present arisi futute fortifications -in the Pacific. There have been shiftings, comp -roan- : • rises and COncessions; but all 'these have been within the iron limitations of the great principles laid down in the namo Of the United States by Secretary Hughes en November 12. As it was -set forth on that 'day, thli, 5-5-3 ratio s.tands. For. so long 0's the world's three great naval Powers keep faith and their pledged word, naval fortes Win not be increased. above the fixed tonnages that are set down in the Three -Power Agreement. It is more far-reaching than that. japan and Britain and the United States will stop pouring millions mi - the fortified islands and naval baste of the Pacific. japan Will not fortify Forrnosa against an attack from the Philippines, The United States will go no further with froWning Cossregi- dat or at Cavite. Britain will halt Where she is with her Irangkeng and • Kowloon areas !of defence. The ram has stop -ped. Building can go so fax and no farther,. The navies Of to -morrow will ;be defensive novice; the sea tatiSeS Of, to-raorrow will bt defensive bases. Tho strong hand oil world opinion has made tseil felt arid has halted the void's 'navies where they stood, will scrap sixty-eight capi- tal Ships and wipe from the oceah total of 1,8614643 tons of fighting eratt. The bold outlines of the Ituglie$ plan emerge inta.ct from the grind and haminering of the conference. The 5- 5-3 ratio 1.5 unshaken, tiltheugh Japan eaves her sentireent-linanced Mutsu, built krona the yea and .5•en scraped front the pocket!, of her poor. Tho Unitaa, 8ta:Wsr *keep the North Dakota and the Delaware; end England, te• keep the three-Power;balance true, msu ay 'build two per-itodtis of is de- finitely limited tonnage. , This 18 the world's greateet merit f or peaee in all its long awl • ero*ded bistorN% ,36.1t the poSainil13tst. troalt and the prophets Of evii find . Sigh ,C,ottsolatien CheT • can, •'This. Ching hos hpen (106, TI:te Conference: hns,jnstilled!.-the.'kterii:f.,',Inipes and the,gryeat that gtaltitoened 14 iTit4v