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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-01-02, Page 3Ontario. Speeds New Rail Line To Arctic Port Route, to be Opened by' '31, Will Make Available Vast Lignite Deposits in North and Aid Forest Dem.. velopment T.N.O.R. EXTENTION . By 1931 Ontario will be linked by rail with an Arctic port. Completion Flying Blind ay DONALD KEYHOE tl1ie specter of iiylug blind, bugabocl of even the most skilled pilots, is gradually ,giving way before the ap- plication of invention and research. Recent tests have shown that one of the gravest dangers in blind flying is the pilot's disbelief in his Meru - milts, and a strong tendency to trust his own senses, which are always misleading, The tests consisted of placing skill- ed pilots, blindfolded, in a rotating chair. The ,chair was slowly turned to the right 'and stopped, The pilot stated that he was turning to the left. of the. province -owned railway to Whenever the rotation was stopped, Moose Factory has just been annonnc- or the speed retarded, the pilot an ed ..by 'she government and in little flounced that lie was turning :in the more than a year steel will run all opposite direction. If the pilot were the way north from Toronto to Tames ]3ay. The Tlniiskaming ,& Northern On: tarso Railway is now as far as•Oiloau Portage. It is to be extended im- mediately to Blacksmith rapids, 'where tho government is planning the first state-owned mining project in Canada. The lignite deposits at the rapids are only thirty miles from the present end of the railroad and are joined by a winter road. Vast Supply Blocked . Out There are millions of tons of lignite already blocked o.ut by the diamond drills of government exporers, suffi- cient low-grade coal to coli s tthe. the ince indepeiulent of supe United States. Tirecover tot s speed is ushing the railway l the work of testing the lignite fields. At Blacksmith rapids are deposits of black coal and potential . white coal found together. From the lignite beds less than sev- enty miles of road will have to be built to reach the salt water. The line will penetrate a great tract of terri- tory in which deposits of china clay and gypsum are known to exist and where a large portion is covered by the pre-oambrian shield, the source of Canada's mineral wealth. Opens New Industries The extended railway will facilitate the advance of prospectors and train- ers into the north and in time will make for the utilization of pulpwood forests and water power there. The railway •15 expected to justify its ex- tension by the exploitation of the Later, a pilot tested under identical territory through which it will pass. conditions went through precisely. There is little thought at present that maneuver- • of development of Moose Factory, a t any portant out f these g ecoements o ue On im- Ontario's only salt -water port. millions must le spent in harbor im- a pilot has been shown that he must provenients before Ontario commerce trust instruments and not his own can 'go to Europe via the northern senses, he' can learn to fly blind—U1 route. Tho government is confrdeut, definitely. Lieutenant • Doolittle re - however, that a new fishing industry cently took off in a plane with a hoOa- willn spring tupo in a roadmes is and Had- completed turnedl`tottl eew a 15 mile field, and madera aper son Bay iv turned continuously and steadily, he Would eventually think that he was sitting,s1111. Finally, if the turn were made very rapid. before stopping, there was an added feeling of falling. .A hooded chair was later made with instruments to show the actual Movement: The .pilots refused to be- lieve the instruments till the !food was lilted and the true movement dis- closed, This most natural tendency to rely. on sensations instead of. instruments has probably been responsible for the failure of many transoceanic flights. One of these was the fatal attempt of Captain 'William Edwin to rescue other ocean flyers hi trouble on the Pacific. At night, 600 miles out, his radio reported running into heavy fog, Then, "We are in a spin." Next came a reassuring report only to 1)5 follow- ed by the last one heard. "We are in another :,spin. S.O.S. . . .. Flyers ashore easily reconstructed the scene, Tossed in the bumpy air, the plane started to turn to one side. The pilot checked it suddenly, and at once his treacherous senses told him he was turning in, the opposite direc- tion, so he pushed hard on the rud- der, and in the wroug direction. The 1 ship skidded, stalled and spun. " On getting out of the spin be had the sante sensation of those tested in the chair—of turning in the other direc- tion` and falling. Believing himself in another spin, he nosed down to re- ' gain 'control—and dived straight into the sea Our Sister Province May Well -Be Proud of Theis' Government Building VIEW OF•PROVINCIAL LEGISLATIVE BUILDINGS AT QUEBEC City. The photograph here shows an aerial view of the parliament buildings at Quebec Sensational. Case Opens In Germany Outcome of Attempted Ship. ment of Ammunition to China Biel, Germany. .Whether: the Ger man Reicshwehr and Navy permitted or had knowledge of an attempted shipment of 8,000,000 rounds of rifle amntpnition. worth over $100,000 from Germany to the army of the late Man- churian War Lord, Gen. Chang Tso- Lin in January, 1928, is likely to be determined at a sensational trial which opened here last week. The trial is the result of a sweep- ing investigation. which lasted nearly two years. The case has attracted in- ternational attention. Representatives of the press and public were excluded from the court "to " safeguard interests of state" on the motion of the prosecutor. The accused, who are alleged to have engineered the giant internation- al smuggle which was halted just as the ammunition was about to be loaded, on a Norwegian steamer here, are a former German army officer, a naval officer and five Berlin merchants. The entire shipment was seized by customs officers after they had exam- ined cases which had been declared as containing articles of,brass. The shipments came here in 16 freight cars. Investigation showed that the entire cargo had •been purchased by an. Italian agent. It was also learned that the cargo was to be shipped to Oslo, Norway, and thence to China. The ammunition came from a scrap- ping plant maintained by one of the accused merchants. at Sueplitz, near Torgau, leen the roar r Sect three-point lauding—without see - . lug a thing but 14s 'instrument board. France. to•Build -' The final step will probablg. be 'Mk- . Net of Gun Pits en soon when the automatic pilot is adopted, Such devices have been j successfully tested. The automatic Along Frontier pilot keeps the plane level without at- tention from the human pilot. This completely frees the phot from the strain' of constantly reading two or three shifting ifisti'uments: The Sat- urday Evening Post. The Peasant Population of France Andre Siegfried in. the Atlantic Monthly (Boston) : Even after a cen- tury of intense industrial life, the social structure of France is essen- tially built up of peasants, artisans, and bourgeois. In spite of the drift to the cities, which seems to be part of the normal development of our 'Western civilization, the mainstay os French life is still the peasant. The, census of 1921 estimates at 54 per cent. the rural population of France, as against 49 per cent. in the United States and only 20 per cent. in Eng- land. In contrast with the English farmer and the grain grower and stock raiser of the United States, the Frenchman may 1)5 considered as the very type of the peasant; a small landowner and solitary worker, who lives by cultivating his own plot of land. Out of 8,591,000 farmers is France, 5,000,000 are their own mas- ters. This is a fact of supreme im- portance in our study of the French point of view,. for the peasant heri- tage is always close at hand even in the heart of the cities; and although they mvay be far from the land the French continue to feel and react like peasants. Defense kine of Subterranean • Forts Will Stretch From •,Belgian'to -Swiss Border . Metz, France.—A continuous bar- rage of. fire from the Swiss to the `Belgian frontier, protecting Alsace- Lorraine against surprise invasion, is the -Way the new French fottifiCati011S were described by Deputy Desire Fer- ry,..-niember of the Parliamentary Arrey' Oommission, in a speech here. Machine guns in concealed pits every .150 yards are said to be the backfiene of France's nett line .of de - tense: • - '11 is' no longer a q"hestion of sink- ing billions of francs in obsolete Porti iicatlets which cannot resist more .thaan'a few hours the fire of modern gains,". Deputy Ferry said. i • Adapted to Modern Warfare Owing to what 3s believed to be the ' legitimate anxiety of eastern France at 'the moment when the troops of occupation in the Rhineland were re- tiring e- tiri g behind thefl; tier of 1915. the army •committee of the dhi%mber . of`bread to the British consumer, Uu Deputies bad asked •M. Ferry to �make,•would'n1ake. t•,possible to ftbntniue to an investigation. prbduce wheat in Britain " • an, line of defense will protect * Metz; Thionville and Strasburg and the metal ore districts and permit de- b Cl hampered;" 'Ferry told ,the. commis MacDonald has blundered y sion. "The new fortifications are perfect- ly adapted to moderlt'warfare Mad will bear not the slightest resenibIan'ee to the pro -1.914 forts. Everything to pro - tett the defensive troops from shell fire and gas le being employed, and recent experiments, have given the most convincing results. Build Subterranean Trenches "I have acquired the certainty that in five years, when the line le com- pleted, our frontier 'will be defended by a barrage of fire capable of break- ing up all attacks:" Although 'the deepest secrecy is maintained, it is learned from reliable military quarters that subterranean trenches, fortified with armored cent - Beating of Human Britain's Wheat Supply Brig. -Gen. Sir Henry Page Croft in tate Empire; Review (London): (Though harvesting the finest -wheat crop for m4ny years in 1920, the Bri- tish farmer=foun-b,imself deprived of all profit hY the dumping of bounty - fed wheat from Germany.) The Bri- tish farmer does not need a high arti- ficial price; _What he needs is a stable price which. gives' him an economic, return. • The Bard wheat such as comes' from' the Dominions will al= ways be required in Britain but wheat which comes from Germany and oth- ter European ;countries, • or• from; thei;�•i;gentne, dttectly, displaces British :grown: w ea4, ,and, if 'our' conten itin is right tlt'at`wi cart .grow What we re- quire in the British Empire, it is clear that a ,reasonable duty on foreign • cereals. need not raise the price of fensive . mobilization to .proceed un - The Government's Blunder London Daily Express (Ind.) c Mrc a in let- ting the "bigger' and better dole" billhave countenanced it. Its very exi encs is a negation of everything which' the Socialists promised the nation. They were to create work --and, in- stead, they are going to give alms 'to boys. Patrolman Rises To Be Vice,Consul Edmund J, Dorsz Assigned to United States Legation at Ottawa Ottawa. --':tile rise of Edmund J. Dorso from the post of a foot -weary patrolman on the Detroit pollee fiorce• to that of United States vice-connsul at Ottawa, is reconnted"�in a special dispatch from Detroit recently. Dorn, 28 -years -old, assumed his new position on December 27. The story of how he left high school be- fore completion of his term and then, by. perseverance versed himself as a linguist In the ambition of one day entering the foreign service of leis country, was recounted by his mother, Mrs. hose G. Danz at her Detroit home on Epworth Boulevard. Young Dorsz first worked as a tool- maker, then as a clerk in brokee rage e house, always filling with study. After two' unsuccessful attempts to pass examinations to en- ter the foreign service, he signed on as a patrolman last August and re= maiued on the force until October 15 when he once again journeyed to Washington -to take another consular test. Success in the examination, fol-' lowed by a brilliant few atonths of work in headquarters of th:e foreign service resulted ht his assignment to Ottawa. f•: Heart is Exposed Chest Incision Reveals Many Wrongs in Diagnosing Ailments Ann Arbor, Mich.—Four University of Michigan surgeons recently an- nounced results of their observation of the beating of a human heart, view- ed through an opening in the chest of a patient. Through the incision made by a wound which necessitated removal of a section of the chest wall, the four physicians recorded the electric cur- rents generated by the heart's opera- tion. They discovered important in- occuraeies in the current method of diagnosing heart ailments, they said. Certain fluctuations in the inten- sity of curl snt which had hitherto been believed due to disease on the right side of the heart were found to be caused by diseases of the opposite side. Find Fishing Banks Are Not Disturbed Government Reports Do Not Bear Out Shift in Ocean Bed Ottawa.—Officials of the Marine De- partment here are not unduly alarm -'1 ed. over reports filtering through the newspapers from trans-Atlantic ship masters to the effect that the recent earthquake has disturbed the bed of the ocean off the American coast.' The previous report that the fishing banks had disappeared has been en- tirely' disproven by Nova Scotian, schooner captains who have reported to Ottawa that no such displacement has taken place. At the same time the masters of the various cable ships,' whose duty was to repair the frac- tured communication lines south of Newfoundland, have similarly report- ed no change. However, the Government Hydro-. graphic Service intends next spring to send the C.G.S. Acadia over the banks with its echo -sounding appara- tus, in order to determine whether the depths within the national juris- diction of this country have altered or not. "Women don't marry geniuses," says a psychologist. No; it takes a genius to escape. s A prehistorid sketeten . has been found'`with its legs almost round its neck.` Evidently even in.the old days there were new fiance .steps. -The Passing Show (London). . ent and camouflaged against airplane scouting, form the basic principles o of the work. Parliament has apt printed for it $200,000,000, distributed over a period of ftve years. see the light of day. He never should That critic of Mussolini who gets al sentence of thirty years may console ltimseif with the thought that itewon't be a crimo that long. Turkey is to make Sunday a day t of rest. Now it's up to New York to select a 'day NeW York I9veeing Port. :---- "1 see that a man fell down stairs last week and Cured himself of rhea- matism by breaking both of his Iegs." "The fellow with a sore •throat would be taking an awful chance." "Aviation from Ile Ground Up" is the title of a hely book. It sounds reasonable, --Florence (Ala.) Herald. According to a doctor , singing warms the blood. We have . heard some that has made ours positively boil,—The humorist (London). The SneaGuest Y.Y. in the New Statesmann(Lon- don): Several correspondents have been writing to the Times during the past few days on the subject of thee "sneak guest."This is app newly invented term describing a per- son who visits any house as an ac- quaintance and afterwards sells any interesting private conversation he has heard as gossip to a newspaper. It is clear that if this is done on any considerable scale it is a very grave threat to social life. If there is a spy at every dinner table, there will soon be an end of conversation, and the strong, silent Englishman will be- come stonger and more silent than ever. Luckily a woman doesn't have to wait as many months for a long dress to be delivered as she has to wait for a head of bobbed hair to grow out. Games in a Better World Bernard Darwin in the Spectator (London); I suppose we should all In a better world be much, much bet- ter than we are now, though I trust we should never get to the pitch of wishing "the best man to win," except on the understanding that the "best man" was ourselves. We should never throw our clubs about, of course, nor say that it was our partner's fault, nor call gods and men to wit- ness our ill luck. I am inclined faint- ly to hope that we should not talk about games quite so much as we do now, or that, at any rate, we should talk about them more impersonally - I am sure that, when we wrote about them, we should not call a ball a "sphere," nor a club an "implement"; neither should we call people whom we do not know by their Christian names nor describe them' as "the young guardsman" or "the forty-five year -old -stockbroker;' and we should never say of a lady player that she looked dainty and "petite" in a blue "bandeau." ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES --$y O. Jacobsson ---= t - .. .1 Sunday -School Teacher — "TOMMY,' who made the trees, the fields and the mountains?" Tommy—"I don't know, mam. We only moved here two months ago." Are War Books True? Truth (London) : War is an emo- tion at least as old as Euripides, who trampled on the Homeric glorification of it. But Euripides, being a Greek, avoided over -statement, a pitfall into• which the Remarques and the Graves fall headlong. All war is foul, and the men who wage it, according to them, are reduced to the level of beasts. Courage, self-sacrifice, en-, durance, self-control, and honor, these have no part in it. From first to last it is swinishness unredeemed; And if we recoil from the picture, we are derided as sentimentalists who will not face facts when they are pre- sented to us with fidelity at last! Bnt the point is: Are we getting the facts?,, If we are, then we are at a loss to understand how flesh and blood en-' timed the abomination' that never lifted, and why the fighting men did not return to peace, not as human be-' ings, but as raving hitt :tics and ravening wolves. Mr. Hoover and Mr. Thomas Nation and Athenaeum (London) : (Mr. Hoover has been holding con- ferences at the White House with the object of ensuring that every avail- able form of constructional work shall be pressed forward as rapidly as possible.) It is too soon, of course, to' say what degree of success will at-' tend Mr. Hoover's efforts. But at any rate, these efforts are taken very seriously, not only in America, put in the comments which appear in the 13ritish Press. We all find it quite easy to believe that Mr. Hoover's appeals and exhortations American economic situation; and yet, In our own case we have almost abandoned the hope that Mr. Thomas, Who has an essentially similar task, and is not confined to appeals and ex- hortations, will make any difference worth considering. There hasn't been a bombing in Chicago for several days now, and we can't help but wonder whether the fruit -fly has finally attacked the !sine. apple crop.