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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-10-30, Page 6Locomotive Megaphone Whistle Directs Sound Beam 'Dawn Trac•.. Ne More Shrieking Whistles Will Be Heard in the Middle of the Night—Latest DeviceCondenses Sound One Spot P Dallas, Tex.—Speeding locomotives M. the quiet of the night—screeching whistles—interrupted sleep, This soon may be a thing of the past as the result of successful tests with a new train whistle, built like a mega- phone, which throws sound directly down the right of way, so no one close to the tracks can fail to hear it. But the sound is reduced on eitl. er side of the track. The device has been de- signed and built by employees of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad. Officials and mechanics have devoted several years perfecting it. Work .was started by C. T. McEl- vaney, for years superintendent of machinery on the Katy. His roundC. - houseMcElvaney, jr., now 'ge house foreman at Dallas, continued Churchill to Have Modern Apartments experiments, and through his efforts the whistle has been perfected to a point ')'ere tests are hailed as suc- cessful. • McElvaney's whistle, which has been placed on two fast passenger train locomotives on the Katy line, has an amplifier and sound director which looks much like a headlight. Warning notes are produced by six pipes, with 1ow andh notes so blended that they produce n mum warning with a minimum of annoy- ance. Because of softer tones and the fact that sound will not be heard all over rile countryside the whistle is expect- ed to benefit not only train passengers but also thousands who live along the right of way, especially in large cities. Centralized Heating Plant Will Furnish Heat For Homes and Business Buildings Winnipeg. — Development of the townsite of Churchill, Canada's new- est seaport, on'Hudson Bay, terminus of the Hudson Bay Railway, is ex- pected to start next spring, according to information reaching Canadian Na- tional officers here. The entire townsite at Churchill is owned by the Province of Manitoba and it is to be developed along modern t lanning lines No property will Screening Feeds Officially Graded First Quality Now Designated As No. 1 Feed Screen- ings" Canadian farmers will be particu- larly interested in the following state- ment issued by the Seed Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture: Screenings shipped for feed from terminal grain elevators are now be- ing sold under grade certificates, un- der the new grade standards and de- signations provided by the Canada. Grain. Act or regulations thereunder. Standard Recleaned Screenings, con- sisting essentially of broken wheat and wild buckwheat, are now desig- own -p b be sold but, instead, there will be long nated "No. 1 Feed Screenings• term leases subject to reasonable•re- .A. second quality of these screenings vision at stated periods, such as every which, ldhbti buckwheat, may n to the carrywheat and. eci- three or five years. Engineers are now at Churchill I aUe 'quantities of wild oats and coarse working out plans for water works, water mains and sewerage lines. The town plan will specify locations of public buildings,. schools, churches, railway station, hotels, business streets, residential section and recrea- tion grounds. Adequate. surveys will be made this year. .A. compact settle- ment is planned with the initial resi- dential construction possibly in the form of apartment houses, heated by a central plant that would also furnish heat for business blocks, and public buildings. Settlement will adhere to a carefully devised town planning scheme with proper safeguards made for future development and attention given to recreational facilities. Many applications from those who wish to establish business houses of • Darin PhotograpI r H. B. Crisler, Seattle photographer, who trekked across Olympic Penin- sula, unaccompanied and unarmed, with no food or firearms, bolts , a few juicy morsels of a marmot caught by his own ingenuity, on a mountain top. grains, is designated "No. 2 Feed Screenings." This grade also allows a slightly greater tolerance of ball mus- tard than No. 1 grade and would be specially serviceable for feeding sheep. The product formerly known as "Oat Scalpings" and consisting main- ly of wild oats, but with small per- centages of domestic oats and barley, is now designated "Mixed Feed Oats." Terminal elevators, needed for the storage of wheat, are carrying sub- stantial quantities of these grain by- products which are, in. consequence, being offered at much lower than the usual prices. Mixtures of barley and wild oats, finely ground, are available at 89 cents per cwt., sacks included, delivered at Montreal, Sorel and Que- Invented to Halt heroicsBIs Cheques at Teller's Window � Indorsing a cheque that has been tampered with will. be like signing, warrant for his own, arrest to a pet - son presenting such a cheque at a bank that uses a newprotective sys- tem recently developed by Dr. Julian Block in Chicago, A. concealed ultra- violet ray lamp is used 'in conjunc- tion with a photo -electric cell and other little-known apparatus. Detection of a raised cheque is in- stantaneous with this device, and the apprehension of the person present- ing It can be brought about simultane- ously, according to the inventor. Explaining the system, Mr, Block said: "A bank needs "only to have its cheques printed on paper treated with an infinitesimal amount of a certain Unpublished Longfellow Poem, Given- To Museum of Peaceful Arts .A. four -line poem by Henry Wads- wrote, often visited the Dodge pot worth Longfellow, written when he tery and was fashion in into -Various was 16, and believed. to be hitherto Mr. Dodgeashion clay unpublished, has been brought' to forms, probably being inspired to light as the result of the gift to the write his poem "Keramos" while Museum of the Peaceful Arts, New there. York, of a seventeenth -century pot- Longfellow, he said, wrote the four ter's wheel. The wheel, now on ex lines, similar in theme to the "Kera- hibition in connection with the nine tnho' esslopf ohispapmaturer on which leaving itwas rR,• eum's "Men and Machines" exhibit, is the gift of Ambrose Swasey, Cleve- land. machine tool and astronomical instrument manufacturer, and his nephew, Frederick D• Swasey of Port- land, Me. In a letter accompanying the wheel, the elder Mr. Swasey explains that the wheel originally belonged to Ben- jamin Dodge of Exeter, N.H., who started a pottery in Portland in 1801, which later passed into the hands of Frederick Swasey, whose father, the late Eben Swasey, bought the busi- ness of Mr. Dodge. Longfellow, he all descriptions at the new eaport are bec. being received by the Manitoba Gov- Any danger from • the presence of ernment. Three or four hotels and weed seeds in these nutritious grain restaurants and a lumber yard will mark the initial construction at Churchill and work on these will prob- ably start this month, when the sur- vey will, it is expected, have been com- pleted. Parents Should Ignore Tantrums U. S. Children's Bureau Gives Nine Essential Rules Washington: What the U.S. Child- ren's Bureau considers the nine es- sential practices of a good parent are contained in a recent publication of that bureau entitled "Are you They traiu- ing your child to be happy?" are: 1. Tell the truth to your children. 2. Keep your promises, good or bad. 3. Decide which things are most im- portant for a child to do and then be consistent about seeing that he does them. Do not nag him about little things that do not matter much. 4. Do not say "no" one time and "yes" the next time for the same thing. 5. I3reak up bad habits by keeping the child so busy with interesting things to do that he forgets the old habit. 6. Pay no attention to him when he tries to get what he wants by temper tantrums or by whining. 7. Keep cool and quiet yourself. Speak in a quiet voice. - 8. See that he gets things (if they are good for him) only when he is quiet and happy and polite. 9. Show the child you are pleased when he tries. Ikon -Skid Rugs Will Prevent Stumbles by-products would be corrected rea- sonably well by fine grinding with high power hammer grinders, and this fact, together with the low prices at which they are now available should render them profitable to the Cana- dian feeder, even at the present low prices for animal products—Issued by the Director of Publicity, Dom. De- partment of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ont. written on the potter's wiheel. Dodge found it and made a plaque, on which the poem was inscribed. For years it hung over the wheel, but finally it was sold by Eben Swasey and lis partner, Rufus Lamson, who later tried to buy it back but could not dis- cover iscover the whereabouts of its pur- chaser. The poem follows: No handicraftsman's art Can to or art compare; We potters make our pots Of what we potters are. pearance of the paper in any Y. and to install a male ultra -violet ray producing apparatus beneath the coun- ter at its paying teller's window, The chemical employed may be applied la the ink used in cheque writing itt•. stead of in the paper, and is thus: adaptable to protective cheque -writ- ing machines, or it may be applied to both the ink and the pspbr. "The moment a cheque made witit• paper or ink so prepare is offered at. the teller's window equipped for this' process, the invisible ultra?violet rays produce a fluorescence which makes the genuine figures shine out bril- liantly., ritliantly, while any alterations in the figures or other writing, erasures or other signs of tampering show up as. Clark, non -luminous spots on a glow - chemical which does not affect the ap- ing field" Important Addition Soil Improvement To Astronomic Data 'Train in Quebec Results of Study by Dominion Observatory of Diffuse Gaseous Matter in Stel- lar System Non-skid rugs, to help save some of the thousands of falls which statistics show to occur annually from the slip- perY proclivities of the ordinary ar- ticle, have been studied scientifically by the United States Bureau of Stand- ards. Comparisons were made, a Wle- tin of the Bureau reports, between an ordinary untreated rug, a rug treated with a commercial preparation design- ed to make it less slippery 'on. its un- derside, and a third rug backed un- derneath with a commercial material used as a rug underlay. The ordinary rug slid down a polished inclined plane, the Bureau reports, when the plane was tilted at an angle of only 18 degrees, not an. unusual slope for an inclined walkway. The treated rug stayed on the polished plane repre- senting the floor until the tilt was 32 degrees, a little more than one third of the angle between horizontal and vertical. The rug provided with the non-skid underlay clung still more tightly, not sliding off until the polish- ed plane had been tilted to over 54 de- grees, substantially steeper than a one hundred per cent. slope. Were this slope the side of the mountain it would be impossible for human beings to' climb it except by using ropes, cutting steps, or otherwise employing the technique of professional mountain climbers. Determinations of the co- efficient of friction between rug and' floor also were made by the Bureau, confirming the easy skidding charac- ter of the ordinary rug and the effec- tiveness of the two -non-skid expedi- ents. . "Just to think of Columbus going over two thousand miles on, a gal- leon." - "Get out, span, Columbus didn't even have a ear!" The presence of very tenuous gases in 'the space between the stars, pre- viously indicated and discussed by others, was definitely proved • at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory at, Victoria, B.C. about seven years ago. It was then shown that stars of the highest temperature from 30,000 to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, of the greatest mass up to about 100 times that of the sun, and of an intrinsic brightness over a thousand times greater than the sun, were rushing about rapidly in all directions through diffuse gases which were nearly stn- tionary in. the stellar system. The gaseous matter which is believed to be of the same general composition as the earth, was recognized by the ap- pearance of certain lines in the spec- tre of these hot stars and was shown to be widely extended throughout the system. About four years ago Sir Arthur Ed- dington was led, by the proof at Vic- toria that the hot stars were in rapid motion through nearly stationary gases, to investigate theoretically the physical properties . of this gaseous matter. He was able to show that it must be almost unbelievably tenuous, of thousands of times higher vacuum than an incandescent lamp. Indeed the whole volume of the earth would. contain only about a quarter of a pound of such' gases.. He showed fur- ther that these gases behaved in an almost paradoxical way, that although external space was so cold that a solid An Experiment in Spain' As an offset to the new State text- books which are being introduced into Italy by the Fascists to make young Italians militantly nationalistic from their primer days, comes the news of an experiment in international educa- tion for children beginning its third year in Spain.; Thele, in the Spanish. International gchool at Madrid; under the Association for' Plurilingual •Edu- Cation, children almost from {the gradle to college attend six hours of classes and games daily in four lang- eages—Spanish, English, French and German. Thus, presumably, they will think, 'speak, *and act internationally from the age of 3. Moreover, in the true international temper the school asks criticisms and suggestions from educators • in all part of the world. Professor Pedro Salinas of the University of Seville is chairman of the executiveecommittee. The dialogue is between a small girl and the proprietor of a corner shop. "A large tin of salmon, please, and will. you book It?" "I think there is some mistake. Your sister cane for one a quarter of an hour ago, Surely your mother doesn't want two?" "Yes, it's all right. She 'sold the other one to go to the pic- tures." We, the people, +dont' want to get rid of our prejudices. Find Under Westminster Abbey Portions of Original Edifice Louden.—The remarkable discovery has been made of portions of a church about eight and a half centuries old beneath the floor of Westminster Ab- bey, and a problem which has puzzled many archaeologists may shortly be solved. • The find was totally unexpected and was made by workmen who were alter- ing the arrangement of the heating apparatus. A fine piece of eleventh century wail Flaw stands revealed ealed and it is hoped that it will be possible to follow up the clue and perhaps to discover the Doris (expectantly): "You've seen Father? What did he say?" Tom: "Er—er-er I'm not certain whether he said, 'Take her, lad,' or 'Take care, lad!' "—Christian Science Monitor'. First Packard original dimensions of the Norman crave, a subject over which atchaeol- ogists have fought many a battle. The present abbey building owes its origin to Henry III: It took the place. of a church of totally different style with large round arches and heavy massive columns characteristic o£ the Norman builders. The early chureh was opened in the year 1065, and was•the gift of ldward the Confessor who was struck down 1 with his last illness almost at the . moment when liis great church was being consecrated. 10,000 Farmers Visit Train in • Course of Tour -1,000 Soil Samples Tested A soil improvement train has just completed its three weeks' itinerary through southeastern Quebec, having started at Coaticook on September 15thi and finished at Vercheres on 00-. tober 4th. The train was organized by the Quebec Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Agricultural Colleges in the proviuce, the Seed Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, and the C.N.R., and was part of a campaign now under way in Quebec for securing greater yields from a more intellient and more • general use of agricultural line and commercial fertilizers. Of the four coaches which made up the train, the first was used as a laboratory where samples of soil, brought in by visiting farmers, were tested for acidity, and recommenda- tions given as to the approximate quantities of lime required according to the results of the acidity tests. The second car was devoted to de- monstrating the advantages from the proped use of agricultural lime; the third, those of commercial fertilizers, while the fourth ;was the lecture car in which lectures were given by the officials 'in 4harge•• on the use of agri- cultural lime and commercial fertili- zers. Upwards of 10;000 farmers visited the trainin the course of its tour and ed.—(Issued by the Director of Pub - about 5,000 soil ; amples were test- licity, Dominion Department of Agri- culture, Ottawa.) 450 body; placed in it wolrld talto shotet , Collecting Tree Seeds the mdegrees below zero Fahrenheit,' of these diffuse gases, • For Prairie Planting were so far apart, about one in every cubic centimetre, that the radiation from all the stars would give speeds to these molecules corresponding to a temperature of about 20,000 degrees. Eddington assumed these rare gases were uniformly distributed in the space between the stars but there was no proof of this uniform distribution nor knowledge of the notions. 'While the early observations at Vic- toria furnished the foundation from which Edlington deduced the physical properties of this gaseous matter; the final observational completion of the whole structure has just been definite- ly proved that this diffuse gaseous mat-er is uniformly distributed throughout the stellar system. It has also been shown that this matter is not at rest as previously supposed but partakes in the most beautiful exact way In the orderly. and majestic , o- tation of the stellar system around a Very ,distant centre, the most convinc- ing proof of the similar rotation of the stars having also been obtained at Vic- toria. The demonstration that the space between the stars contains very dif- fuse i£fuse gases, the theoretical 'determina- tion of its density and temperature, and the final proof of its uniform dis- tribution and its participation in the rotation o fthe galaxy, form a striking example of the effective combination of theory and practice. The develop - went of this interesting advance in our knowledge of cosmos may justly be considered as one of the romances of •astonomy and forms' ati important Canadian contribution to science. "Then you think you won no per- manent place in her heart?" "I'm just a notch on her pet golf club, thats' all." • As a result of the efforts of the boys and girls of Dauphin, Manitoba, there will probably be several million new trees sprouting oi, Canada's west• ern prairies next year. Again this year, as in many years past, the school children are helping Mr. F. J, Smith, Supervisor of the Riding Mountain Forest to collect seeds from the Manitoba maple trees in the vicinity of Dauphin. After collection, the seeds are shipped to the Forest st Nursery Station of the Department the Interior at Indian Head, Saskat- chewan, where they are planted in seed beds to germinate. The seeds may be planted either in the autumn or the .following spring and the next spring following, when . they have been in the seed bed eighteen or twelve months, as the case may be, the Young seedlings a,re 1:144 st t1 set out in the peinna:nent plantation, The seeds collected by the Dauphin children filled 139 sacks. This figure does not seem large, and even 3,058 pounds (a ton and a half) is a reason- able quntity; to grasp, but when it is considered that a pound of Manitoba maple seed on an average contains 13,000 tree seeds, the number of seeds in this collection reaches the astound- ing total of 39,754,000. Of course, many of these will not germinate and of those that do, a proportion will die without having reached maturity. Nevertheless, it - is a conservative estimate that as a result or the chil• dren's efforts over twenty million more maples will eventually help to beautify Saskatchewan 1es in ani andAlbert t ba,4, "I can't see whY'•they have a man to steer from the rear of the fire de- partment's ladder truck," • said Mrs. Tellum.. "Well, it's a necessary thing, I suppose," replied Mrs. Back- seat, "but 1 agree with you that it's not a man's work" Silk Tassels Popular London.—Silk tassels in gay colors are the latest thing for modern furni- ture in place of handles. They are made to fit in with the color scheme of the room, and can be changed with the seasons and the curtains. Free Glass Eyes, Made to Order, Are Given to Canadian Veterans Toronto—With the exception of Germany, Canada had the only Gov - eminent which has brought about the production of matte -to -order eyes, and this work had grown up since the war, .Dr. Clifford Taylor, director of artificial eye -work and optoinetry of • the Federal Government, told mem- bers of the Progress Club recently, 'Every ex -service man in the Domin- ion at the present time in need of Mies Molly iI3rawn, seated at first Packard ear built in 1899, will bo driven glass eyes na, procure them free of . p from Detroit to Bethlehem, Pa., to be placed it Lehigh University on exhlbi- charge. Two replicas of each eye t ld, be tion. In 1$99 this car retailed at $1,250 and presrut trade-in value le 16 cents. were' made so that they Cou '.. easily replaced incase of accident. Dr. Taylor told how at the end of the war Gertna1Y ',las the only "coun- try producing glass eyes, and service men in need of them had to send to a German firm in New "York to be fitted. In case of breakage .they had', to take the trip to New. York oVele again to obtain another eye. "Seven out of ten persons need glasses," Dr, Taylor said; "three out of ten have„, them, The aVerago citizen never stops to consider the possibility of blindness."