HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-10-13, Page 6'1iuC'"I
Lindbergh Furnishes Theme
for Toy and Invention Exhibit
Show in French Capital Proves the Most Animated of Air"-
clromes for Children—Household Appliances and
Labor -Saving *vices Are Displayed
Paris: Charles A. Lindbergh has This airplane, built by an enterpris
furnished the thence for the annual ing French constructor, is offered for
Toy and Invention Exhibit of the, sale at $600. In the information sup-
plied attention was especially drawn
Concours Lepine, which has opened. to the fact that this airplane •(called
here at the Parc Des Expositions. •an "avionette" ,or little airplane) was
Meant for the manufacturer chiefly, made to serve only two purposes,.
this exhibition has proved the most namely, as an instructional machine
animated of airdromes for the ehil- for learning flying, and as a machine
dren. : for aerial touring which could' be op -
It is the twenty-fifth showing of erated at very small cost.
the Concours Lepine, as the fair is For this avicnette a motorcycle en -
known locally. It is the place where gine of 3.5 horsepower is said to be
the "Petits Fabricants et Inventeurs sufficient, but one of the 13-horse-
Francais?'—as the official program power is sold with it, and it is also
states—leave a hearing. But not only built to carry an engine of 70 horse -
is the "small i a:iufacturer" interest- power. With its 13 -horsepower motor
ed. The man ifacturer on a large the maximum speed is about 60 miles
scale also conics to see what ideas he an hour and minimum 35. Its length!
can buy, and the public attends for over all is 15 feet and plane width
the tio''1 cf .seeing the new inventions' from tip to tip about 20 feet, It is a'
and also tc buy reticles offered for monoplane.
sale. Down the centre of the hall are. Besides the airplanes in the form
the 1tai s, draped in red, on which' of toys, there seemed to be almost
are hewn the new inventions •of the' every description of other mechanical
past year. Te left and right, and,toys and blocks and other children's ,
around the sides of the building, aregames. Then there were the hundred
the. stalls covered with a red cloth on end more inventions dealing with
whish are ch; acts from previous ex- household appliances, labor-saving de-
hibticrs which can be bought by the vices of one sort or another. There
public. The new inventions aim: re -1 were, too, innumerable gadgets for
served agairet orders and are kept' automobiles and a variety of radio
for the award of prizes. They can -'sets and apparatus. It seemed, in
not be acquired during the exhibition. ij fact, as if everyone in France who
Never before has the airplane fig-hadhad had any idea which could be ex-
ured so largely in the Concours Le- '.pressed in metal, paper or wood, had
pine. It apyars in all sorts of forms, I developed it to the. point where he
in toys, airplane accessories, and even, could expose his object at this Con-
in ane airplane which can be flown.' cours Lepine.
British Device
Aids Wireless
Service at Sea
Invention Included at the Ship-
ping and Engineering Ex-
hibition at Olympia
London.—It is now no longer neces-
sary for ships at sea to keep an oper-
ator on duty throughout the day and
night to be certain of picking up any
S. O. S. message that may be sent
out. An invention which is shown at
the twenty-first shipping and engin-
eering exhibition, recently opened at
Olympia, enables the wireless operat-
or to go off watch with the knowledge
that should any ship within wireless
range send out an S. 0. S. message,
an alarm bell will ring in his cabin
-as well as in the wireless room and
on theh bridge—and will continue to
ring until he switches it off in the
wireless room. •..
This invention, which is proving of
immense value to ships to which the
co:: c of maintaining three wireless
operators is prohibitive, is, however,
ouly one of many on view, designed
to simplify the problems of naviga-
tion and communication at sea. There
are 300 stands at the exhibition, and
plenty to look at.. For £100 he can
secure a very comfortable folding
boat, holding three persons and
driven by a motor weighing only 26
pounds. Made of three-ply wood, it
is literally sewn together along its
folding joints with a sewing machine,
and it weighs so little that it can
easily be carried by two people. For
a larger outlay he can buy a cruiser
30 feet long which is claimed to be
the most successful small seagoing
craft yet built. So compact are its
internal arrangements that it con -
tales sleeping accommodation for six
people, while its motor drives it at a
speed of six knots.
Now that the roads leading out of
London are so congested with auto-
mobile traffic at the week -ends, the
makers of motorboats are seizing the
opportunity tce bring the attractions
of this form of travel to the notice. of
the public, and the fine models now
on view are well calculated to Will
many new adherents to this form of
recreation.
Ship Steered Without Man.
Many ingenious fittings for the
modern liner are also conspicuous in
this hall. Perhaps 'theg7most remark-
able of these is the gyro compass,
whereby a ship can be steered on its
coarse without human aid. The sec-
ret of this invention "lies in a small
wheel spinning at 14,000 revolutions
ninny of these are devoted to welding a minute, which causes its axle to
and cutting plants, and to the display point to the North Pole. The control
unit of the automatic helmsman, on
which is a compass operated by the
one in the gyro -room, is in the wheel
house, and each time the ship moves
out of its course, there is a faint click
as the rudder is automatically cor-
rected by a motor operated in the
ing, therefore, that many manufac- stern of the "vessel. This compass,
turers have turned their attention to which is to be given sea -going trials
the production of a non -corroding by the Admiralty, does not oscillate
steel which resists atmospheric con- and is not affected by the movements
ditaons and the action of water alike. of the earth.
One of the makes shown is capable
of withstanding also a wide range of Quality Immigration
agents, including nitric acid,
and has been used in connection with Peter Sandiford ,in Queen's Quer-
the restoration of St. Paul's 'bathed- terly: Assisted immigration, whether
rel.
of stainless and non-ferrous metals..
As the Duke of Northumberland
pointed out in his speech when form-
ally opening the show, the annual
loss from corrosion in ships is esti-
mated to amount to the immense sum
of X500,000,000,and it is not surpris-
Will'Recall Days of Whizz Bang and "Gas"!
MEMORIAL TO CANADIANS AT VIMY RIDGE
The first line trenches at grimy, where the Canadian forces suffered terrible
have been rebuilt as a permanent memorial to our fallen heroes.
losses during the late war,
A Famous Dog
Mr. E. Ryerson Young, an old
friend and contriubtor to "The Youth's
Companion," wrote an interesting
article iii the October number of that
magazine on "Jack" the dog made
famous by the late Jack London in
the "Call of the Wild" under the name
"Buck."
"I am glad to look into the face of
"Buck: a Distinguished Actor,' which
you presented to us in your issue of
June 16, and hope that he will !have
all the success that he deserves. But
he and all pure=bred St. Bernards fall
far short of the hero that Jack London
portrayed as Buck in 'The Call of the
Wild.' Buck, as Mr. London himself
acknowledged, was Jack of Egerton
R. Young's own dog -train, depicted. in
Mr. Young's book, 'My Dogs in the
Northland: Jack was a pastmaster as
a sleigh dog. Though he is called a
St. Bernard in 'My Dogs,' Jack was
really a cross between a Great Dane
father and a St.. Bernard mother. He
was a pure; black, short -haired giant,
and his great pulling and fighting pow-
ers, his wonderful speed and endur-
ance came rather from his Danish an
cestors, while the had the remarkable
intelligence, noble disposition, and the
almost human ;watchful •consideration
of his master or charge that are
characteristic of the finest of the St.
Bernards.
"When lecturing In Hamilton on his
missionary work amongst the Indians
in the Hudson Bay district, Mr. Young
told his 'hearers how much good dogs
were needed in the mission work for
the long winter journeys; and the late
Senator Sanford of Ontario gave Mr.
Young a big black pup, which grew
to be Jack, certainly one of thergreat-
est sleigh dogs that ever toiled for
the good of man on this earth.
"The account Mr. Young gave of,
Jack in 'My Dogsin the Northland'
fascinated Jack London, and be ela-
borated the story to suit himself, call-
ing his version `The Call of the Wild.'
London was like many other authors,
'what he thought he might requier he
went and took? And so `the great
black giant of a sleigh dog,' which
triumphed even over that wonderful
race of 'husky' dogs that have laid
mankind under such heavy obligation again that a firm understanding with Sir Norman Rae and John E. Sharman,
by their marvelous services in the Japan on the basis of mutual help two residents of Harrogate, and is. like-
cold northland, will forever have a and protection' would be a long step ly to be accepted, according to a state -
place in the memory and imagination
of mankind.
"Those who are interested in the
!historic Jack rather than the fictitious
Buck will be glad to know that he was
brought home to Ontario when his
master was recalled from the mission
field. He was petted and honored, and
his fame 'was in all the. churches,`. for
he was exhibited upon many a mis-
sionary platform. He was a big and
Telephone Works From Neck..
governmental or private, unless very
carefully planned, will lead to the
The variety of the exhibits is par- selection of inferiors who have failed
tieulariy striking, ranging as they do . in their native countries. Canada
from fast motorboats, large enough to i needs population, desperately needs
afford living accommodation ler two l it, but I; for one, am more concerned
or three persons, to samples of wire 'over 'quality than quantity. Quantity
will solve itself i
one-fifth of the thickness of the hu- in course of -time, but
lean hair. Among other marvels cal- I quality through inheritance will leave
ciliated le attract the visitor's atten- i its permanent mark n our people. We
tion are a copper tube, 450 feet long, shall be better advised to "grin and
but thinner than a needle, through • pay" taxes than to escape them at the
which oxygen is blown, and a demon- ' expense of generations of Canadians
stratiom. of steel -cutting under water still unborn.
with oxyacetylene flame. Be the
method shown the driver cuts through
a steel plate an inch thick in less than
Relying on Britain
Round Table: The (ruling) Princes
two minutes, and while at work can are concerning themselves deeply with
be in telephonic communication not
i the present trend of affairs in British
only with the diver assisting bins, but 1 India—and not without reason. They
also with those above who are direct are beginning to examine their own
ing salvage operations. position; to take stock of, their
It is in the developments of tele strength and weakness. But they.
phone facilities that a great deal of ' lock to the British Government to
tlie inventive genius of the modern establish and conserve their legiti-
manufacturer is perhaps best shown.
' ' For example, it is now possible to, ob-
tain an instrument which completely
cuts out the transinission of all noise,
the microphone being entirely insen•
sitive to the vibrations of air -borne
sounds. This instrument, which Is
called a laryngaphone, is operated di-
rectly by the mechanical vibration,
of the vocal cords, instead of by air
wares, as in.an ordi'iiary instrument,
and transmits the huntan voice dis-
tinctly and with ample volume. To
speak with it, the lower part of the
transmitter ie pressed lightly to the
side of the rieek or nretttit, and the
vibrations of the vocal ctirds, travers-
ing the walls Df the throat, act en the
"throat pad," which takes the place
Of 'the coriventionnl inottfhpiece.
Motor boat Adv'afce,
The motorboat enthusiast finds
mate rights, guaranteed by the plight-
ed faith of many kings, in any future
change in the administrative system
of British India. For their own part,
they are endeavoring to remove, more
ar' less rapidly, the defects which
their Governments still exhibit.
Uplift Needed
beautiful creature; he stood thirty-
three inches at his fore shoulder and
weighed over two hundred pounds, and
his conduct even in 'the house of God'
was that of the best of his, human com-
panions. But with Jack in the shafts
of my dog sleigh I feared not a race
with the fastest horses along the
road; once in a two-mile run I beat a
noted race horse.
"Jack died just fifty years ago, and
his body lies burled at the foot of a
noble maple tree on the old homestead
farm, near Trenton, Ontario.
Fog
Out in the fog the lonely wings of
gulls
With voices like New England witches
dying
And moaning, are wheeling invisibly
and crying
And wheeling; and out of the fog a
boatman pulls
With his squirming lobster pots,
bending and plying
Against the ebb; and the muffled
buoys are sighing
Through the fog and the sky lowers
and dulls.
•
Gulls and a gaunt black sat fight for
a fish
On a rock slimy with weeds, the cat
lashes
His tail and the gull who screams the
loudest, flashes
Like gray lightning, cramming the
coveted dish
Into his "maw; while out in the fog
the lone
Gulfs, wheeling, like witches cry and
moan.
Ruth Langland Holberg.
A Policy in China
London Morning Post (Cons.): The
British surrender ,of Hankow was one
of the several acts which laid our - - -
friends among the Chinese merchants Scene of Bronte Novel May be
at the mercy of these enemies of Purchased
mankind. Weakness, surrender, and
"defeatism" never pay in China or London.—An offer to buy Oakwell
anywhere else. Can anything be Hall, Birstall, Yorkshire, the scene of
saved from the wreckage? We have many incidents in Charlotte Bronte's
suggested before and we suggest famous noveleShirley," was made by
"Gas" Substitute
Chemists' Goal
Discovering a substitute for gaso-
line is the most vital problem for the
application of chemistry to the future,
J. B. Hill, Chief research chemist of
the Atlantic Refining Company, Phila-
delphia, stated in a report to the
American Chemical Society.
Although chemistry's contributions
to the automobile are so enormous
that they are not realized, either by
the public or by chemists themselves,
the greatest tasks of this science still
lie ahead, said Mr. Hill, disclosing the
results oe investigations showing that
the weight of gasoline going into the
automobile industry is more than five
times that of its nearest competitor,
iron and steel.
While there is no immediate pros-
pect of a serious gasoline shortage, it
is nevertheless certain, Mr. Hill says,
that the petroleum resources of the
world are not inexhaustible and that
the time will come when we must
have another source of motor fuel to
supplant or replace gasoline.
"This problem, so far, has not been
of such vital interest to chemists in
this country as it has abroad, and par-
ticularly Germany, where several pro-
cesses for a synthetic motor fuel have
already been devised," he continues.
"The most important of these at pre-
sent are the processes of Bergius and
Fischer, both usifrg coal as the raw
material.
"While we in America do not need
to worry at present about gasoline
substitutes we should look with a
great deal of interest to these de-
velopments in Germany, since they
constitute the groundwork of the ma-
jor problem of the motor fuel chemist
of the future."
H. F. Spender in the Fortnightly
Review: B,ut until the nations bestir'
themselves and compel their govern-
ments
overnments to life the whole controversy
of disat'mainent. on tot higher level,
there had better be no more of these
talks at 'Geneva. For if the. problem
is to bo worked out in terms of war
and not of peace these discns'ston3
cannoa fail to mat the good work
which the League of Nations is doling
to promote the pesee of the world, the oldest cities in Canada, it le disc) one of the most beautiful:.
on the right road. Then we should
set ourselves to protect. the Chinese
merchant and to neutralize the econ-
omic boycott. We can do so by de-
veloping ell concessions and treaty
ports into international settlements;
in fact, miniature Shanghais. As
everyone of these places is a port, a
small garrison would be sufficient,
since it would be backed by the Brit-
ish Navy.
ment in "The Times."
Oakwell Hall dates from the Eliz-
abethan period and possesses a large
oak -paneled hall with gallery and
typical bow windows. The condition
of the Rae -Sharman offer is the es-
tablishment of an endowment fund
to maintain the building in ' pee-
petuity. It was previously proposed
to pull' down the hall and remove It
across the Atlantic,
WALVIS BAY HARBOR i
OPENED BY GOVERNOR
New Wharf Will Aid South.
West. Africa
Walvis Bay.—To the ' pepul,atiglt ;of,
the South West Atriban I'rot,e0i6'ate
(formerly German South Wait Afrl'•
ca), the opening of the new harbor
of Walvis Bay by the Govtrz'no'-Geit•i
eral of South Africa Wad the occasion
for celebrating an expected r,^eduetieQft'
be the price of all imported god
Soft and hard goods, foods and ma'i
ehinery will no longer be iinported in+
to tho Protectorate from the Union
in such quantities, as the :merch ntC
of Swakopmund and 'Windhoek have
arranged to import direct from Ear'i
opo, and with the new harbor facile I
ties,the liners will now be able toe
discharge all types of cargo et the
new wharf at Walvis Bay.
The new harbor works constitute
a development of first-class import;
ante not merely to the mandated ter'
ritory of South West Africa, but; in
some measure to the whole of South
Africa and Rhodesia. Walvis Bay
does not form part of the South
Africa Protectorate. For South Afri-
ca it is, however, the only natural'
outlet and It Is being developed now
on an extensive scale.
At present the chief export trade
from Walvis is frozen beef and it is
expected that this industry will now,
develop very rapidly. But it Is ins
imports, too, that the value of the
new harbor will be felt, for the new
arrangements will inevitably de-
crease the carriage of certain goods
over the railway system from the
Union, and will mean the landing at
Walvis of cargo that would otherwise
be consigned to Sape Town. Walvis
will probably never be a second Cape
Town, but there is no reason why,
without adversely affecting the Union
ports, it should not assist consider-
ably in a more rapid development et
South West Africa.
In declaring the new harbor open,
the Governor-General, the Earl of
Athlone, said that it was only a few,
years ago that Walvis Bay had one
policeman and one store. To -day they
have a fine wharf where ocean-going
ships could coma alongside with Dasa
and safety.
During the day the Italian meat -
ship, Sistiana, came alongside, and
the Governor-General and Princess
Alice and party inspected the appar-
atus for handling beef and mutton for
export.
, - ._ gas.,
Capitol of the Garden of the Gulf
AIAV/NE=W CW A•i#t,Cr'(„'i'E:Tti'1V4!'N;
Ati interestipg photographic study of this isiaiul metropolis and the
sttrroundit g farming district.
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Utah Almost Built Silver
Motor Highway
Utah came. very near to building
a silver highway' to companion Color-
ado's motor thoroughfare of gold. On
second thought, the guardians of the
Highway funds of Utah decided it
would be unwise to emulate the tra-
ditional dunken sailor.s�' in spending
money which was sorely needed to
build more miles of less costly ma-
terials.. The road is now being built
of dirt, leaving the silver for the
miners.
In projecting a Federal aid highway
in Summit County the route, as plan-
ned, lay across a dump of mine tail-
ings known _to contain considerable
silver. Not being metallurgically in-
clined the highway builders diel not
figure the dump hid- any material
value. When the highway plan bo -
came known the owners of the dump
said the State could use the route if
it would pay for the sliver which
would lie beneath tho whizzing auto-
mobiles. The State asked for an es-
timate of the silver content and the
figure was so high the State decided
to shift the road back to a point
where the earth was cheaper..
The Colorado gold highway was not
an "almost" route like the ono in
Utah. The story is d that north of
Colorado Springs, on the Denver high-
way, is a five -mile stretch in which
flour --fine particles of gold are mixed
with the concrete to the ratio of
$3,000 for every mile of road. Rock
used in mixing the cement came from
one of the ore dumps of the Cripple
Creek gold field and is said to have
assayed $1.50 to the ton..
Two thousand tons of the ground
ore to each mile would make that dis-
tance of road contain $3,000 in gold.
This hidden wealth in the Colorado
road would be exceedingly, difficult to
obtain and highway officials, are not
fearful that their five mile golden
stretch will be torn up and carried
away during .the night by prospecting
parties.
A Bigger and Better Borgia
Chicago Tribune: Mn Alf. Oftedal,'
Acting Prohibition Commissioner,
says his department is going to pro-
coed against those chemists who'
analyse liquors to see if they are
poisonous. If what the bootleggers•,
sell and some .millions of Americas;
buy is poisonous, the time to discover,
it is after and not before drinking', Mr.
Oftedai feels, The new policy will bo
defended, of course, on the theory,
that the more dangerous drinking bei
comes the less of it will be clone. The!
theory is false. The prohibition de -
pertinent has never relaxed Its efforts
Le make drinking a perilous business
as hospital, police and asylum statis-
ties amply cletnoitstrate, but there Is
aro evidence that the amount of liq;udr
coiisttmed has decreased. All that IS
likely to be accomplished by the now
l:rogram if it •succeeds will be to add
analytical chemistry to the ;growing
1 list,. of bootleg oectipatiaits and a i'ew
One of hundred names to the list of thetas
killed annually,by pelsoned booze,