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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-02-19, Page 6es=e1 w An ee Polar Eveditio, Put on xh bi on in Stockholm Stocltitcilut- An e hlbitiou of relies t,..Two items slid: attracted ep}cial found at Vital). • (the White isllnclt of ;attention were Nils Strittctberg'rr the Aittlree polar expedition i being I fountain pen and a kerosene stole. shown at Stoeltholm, ; When the fountain pen was pitted :In the exhibit are the three sledges I up, after having lain in the ice for and the .boat which Audree's party i 33 years, there was some ink left and used. There also is Anclree s sweat -lit Droved to be in perfect condition er, with his big diary whish gave to I and could be used. Whets the stove the word the deseriptiou of their long Walk across the ice. There are note -books, calendars, diaries and all was found the men tried the pump and kerosene spurted forth. After this oil was removed and ft eels put the books and maps which the ex itis the stove operated perfect°t: peditiou carried with them,. On the Tite income of Hilts exhibrttonzie to wall is the halloon'e flag. go toward the fund which was i art- III different cases are to be found ed in the autumn it, memory of the various instrutuents, clocks, money, three Swedes for: their brave cnntri- and the camera carried by the ex- button to the history of geographical •pedition. Elsewhere one duels the research- and - aircraft; Ass an ap- clotltes worn during tate expeditious predation of thanks to the Nor - the guns, tools. instruments, sewing wegians who founts Andress aur, for materials, needles and threads, tt wooden box with a number of match boxes, canisters, food tins. I.tuusehold implements, parts of the taut and poles, and C utadian snowshoes. the help ant courtesy shown In Nor- way during the transport hott•e, this fund will be open for berth S+redes and Norwegians. Canada to Stage Rifle Matches? under the heading '•A Canadian Bisley, the Montreal Star makes the following observations: Sportsmen Out of Season Fish, Streets everywhere will Commend the scheme Bare of Snow, Indicate to establish a Canadian Risley Meet on the Connaught Ranges this coin- Shift in Arctic fug summer, it is proposed to hold Current one competition in which teams re- presenting Western Canada, Eastern Canada, and the National Rifle As- sociatiou of Great Britain will shoot. This will be known as "The Canada," and will be conducted along the same lines as the competition for the famous Iiolapore Cup at Bisley. An- other competition, to be known as "The Empire," will be based upon the Fresh Salmon On Sale in Newfoundland St. • Johns, N.E.---Mans huielred • p hoid , Fever Death Rate Highest in Rural Corn u it l.y John Berke Ingram "Well, John." said 11rs, lieu), as they watched their three children: walk Clown the road to the $t'1tOollsouse halt e mile .away, "we may not have all the conveniences that city People ,.r ••F51 have been found to be almost -as claw serous ~ince frequently they gather a considerable proportion of the turtaee water. Deep wells were foetid to be best of all from a health point of view', Deep wells were found to be mors ;have', but et least u -e hove the sates- than twice as satisfactory as springs ruction of 'knowing that our youngsters jj .curl more than three times as ,itis• are being brought up In .the healthy, i factory ae shallow wells insofar ae open couutryside, and not in sante l freedom from typhoid germs is t'mt- equgested, disease -ridden city:" (Reeled. How about thatt losing', staunch Now then as to the question of speed, of Mrs. Henry's? What cio you ntillt. To one not familiar with the think of it? Do you still believe that methods used by an up -to -elate health I the country le a "healthter" place to department in preventing disease, it live its than the city? Because if you may seen, strange that mills which is 1 do, you're wrong: Once upon a time produced in the country and carried 1 -cities were disease ridden, and the to the city can be ,trade more pure at country was by comparison free from the eud o1 its journey than it was a/ ' sickness. But for ,encs medical the beginning. The answer to that. ocieuce has been learning more and little puezle is of course in the proc•ese ,)ore about the. art of keeping people o1 pasteurization, There are so many. well, and most large Cauadian cities, ways in Which typhoid germs can get with their efficient public health de- into the mills. A 11y settling upon the pai'tmenta, cam show a cleaner bill of r.tni of the milking -pail may deposit a health than can the average rural small quantity of germs which in a area, single day can breed untold millions When 1 started to write this article, A. hair froth the cow's udder can do I intended to tell you something about the --same thing, Typhoid germs fre- typhoid fever, Perhaps I have wan- fluently find :'heir way lute the milk tiered a little from my subject, but if pail from, the hands of the milker. The so, the wandering is justified, because entire journey of the milk from the typhoid fever furnishes an outstand- moment it leaves the cow until it Is ing example o1 batt health -manage- taken into the human mouth is ment its rural areas. In big, congested fraught with clanger. At almost any cities whera you would expect to find stage o1'' its journey typhoid germs Barely showing his. age, Lioie 'Urge; national figure in English politics• is seen (above),' on biesei e, eighth birthday, spent on his farm at Chart, eseeseeege. most typhoid, you actually find the may contaminate the milk. In last least, and in :'ural Canada, where you when I say Ghat from the moment it would expect the fresh air and sun- leaves the cow's body the milk is it, light to keep this d sense clown, you clanger of contamination I am under- stating the case. The cow herself may not be hoalthyand the contamina- tion may take place even before milk- ing.. Of course 111 addition to the danger of typhoid spreading by means o2 water, milk and food there Is the obvious and ever-present possibility of the spreading from person to per- son. Quarantine regulations clo much to stop this in the city and where they are enforced also in rural parts. Unfortunately quarantine regulations are not enforced as strongly in niaw: rural parts as they are iu cities. actually find 0 death. rate from typhoid pound', of atlantic ,adman fresh frons 4 i fever that is not merely as high, but nets of local fishermen have been on y anco ver Sets { oaf He•ads List here, creating 0 situation in Newfoundland. Streets are salet g `ituation uui Januar Record ,:: if Unemployed many times higher, than the rate for a city like Haainllt.on, or `Coronto. And • e ^.r i • t the fact that these valuable rural lives as bare of snow as in October. Grass - I are being walked emphasizes our great is green and plants are growing out Hio•heS1 Average Tem erature "hada Has Lowest Percent- national need—a system of full-time of doors. here mildness of neatly e P ed might be attributed to a freak of Recorded in Last 25 l gas of Unemployment of Years Any of the Principal conditions governing the :1lackinnou nature, but the presence of salmon Cup competition at Risley, and will in quantity in these waters indicates be open to marksmen from all over that ocean currents have something the Empire. I to do with It. By thus augmenting the annual Do- I Salmon are caught stere in May minion of Canada rifle matches, the; and June on their way to ascend D.c'.R.A. is providing greater facilities , rivers for spawning, and sometimes for Canadian marksmen to improve! in November ou their way but. Be - their shootings and at the same time 1 fug found in shore waters at this sea - is doing something vital for the cause son would indicate that the ' Arctic et sport in Canada. Rifle shooting enrreut, which is usually supposed to demands nerve, self-control, endue- wash these shores. Ira., been detlect- anee., the ability to lase gracefully, ed and some offshoot of the Galt and a very keen sense of sportsman- Stream Is sweeping near these coasts, ship. These qualities the Bisley Last season, codfish and bait fishes Meet has encouraged and developed failed to appear in the south coast for many years past. waters of Dewfountllancl. Canada, by virtue of her pre -emirs- Local opinion is that the earth ems position so many times at Bis- shocks of November, 1929, when a ley. is surely entitled to have .a tidal wave took twenty-seven lives modest Risley of iter own. It is not and destroyed 85Q0,000 fishing prop - too much to expect that the proposal ' erty In the Burin area and smashed will be received sympathetically in a score of 'telegi•t-Oh cables were re - other parts of the Empire. It may, indeed, be the beginning of what will eventually be a series of Empire Bis- leys, held from year to year in the self -Governing Dominions in rotation. Such a scheme would have many at- tractions, and would serve to stim- ulate r,till further interest in one of the finest of sports. Do Drivers Ignore the residents. Road Sign. Warnings Vancouver.—The month just past Nations was the warmest January on rectdrtl' Ott iwa,—Arcortling to a report of in Vaucow er, it was atruounced ,ie tie 1, ternational Labor Office of the Gently by E. B. Shearutan, officia • ; e ;{tmue of Dation, received here on weather observer. `"i+eb. 7th, the United States had the Not only was the mean (average) highest percentage of unemployed te,ttneralure of 43.1 degrees highest,among members ,01 trade unions in its nearest competitor, 40.05 degrees 1)eger3�ber of any or the principal wa- of 53 degrees on the 1Sth was the trade- The January, 1914, but the maximum, ,tong. The Percentage of unemployed unionists in that month were: highest thermometer reading record- • Per ()Ated in the 25 years daring whichof- ficial records have been kept. The average temperature in the 251 years period has been 35.4 degrees.', January also came close to setting a rain record with 11.24 inches, which, was exceeded only in 1925, when January set a record of 12.15 inches.. The 25 -year average had been 8.08 incites. There was 'not even a trace of snow during the past 41i:ants; Milted States Gerinab) ...•, Great Britain . Aus trail a • Hungary Denmark Norway .;Canada Total, registered unemployed in Ger- u,y was 3,977,000, and in England 2, - twelve twelve feet e.t the top of the easing sponsible for some change in ocean January 9 was the coldest day, thr currents. At airy rate, the warmest _ 2 .1 de�ieris- Italy reported '034,:,58 wholly tine,:' may ileo be a source of danger is thermometer recording 9 `ple'eecl'and -•22,125 partly unemployed• water afar flow close to the surface summer • in Newfoundland historY in the early morning'. ,lance and. :Belgium had comparative Iof the ground and get into the well e few unemployed. The biggest na- tions have yet to win the war on unem- ployment. ` 250 Canadians 19 18 20.5 is 15.3 13.0 10.5 rural health units—full-time medical departments of health, similar to those which Quebec is rapidly organ- izing in all parts of that province. Typhoid fever is a germ -produced disease. Cities have conquered it largely by keeping the typhoid germs from being swallowed by their citi- zens. Typhoid germs live and multi- ply and tlu•iv3 in milk and in water. Canadian cities kill the germs before their citizens drink the milk and the water, by chlorinating the water and pasteurizing the milk. One should remember in considering. a rural source of water 'supply the well-known scientific fact that water will not run up a hill. 1f a barnyard or any place where waste is thrown is situated on a higher level than the well then sewage may easily be car- ried down into the well. It is the tops of wells oi' -cisterns, either crack- ed or not sufficiently protected,' which will cause thetrouble. The ten •or followed last season, and now the un- seasonable presence of shoals of salmon and mild weather would indi- cate existence of some unusual phenomenon. During all the mouth the presence of large flocks of robins in various parts of Avalon Peninsula has been most marked. The whole situation is most unusual and is Puzelier, to The 'obi adage to the effect that familiarity breeds For Slipping Gears anti :achy assts contempt is as true If the car shows a teudeucy to slip of automobile drivers and pedestrians out of second or high gear when as it is of other individuals. out temporary relief can he at - The above is merely a short way of tamed by driving s10tt'ly and keep saying that the longer a driver :lips ing the hand on the gear shift lever. by a dangerous corner or school at The harder the pull the more likely high speed without. accident, or the it is to slip. So steep the throttle more often he passes a car going up a fairly closed. hill without mishai>, the more careless he gets _ _., " i'rlucation of drivers and pedestrians rather than guards and safety devices will eventually reduce the number of traffic accidents to a minimum, says Dr. A. 12, Lauer, associate professor of Psychology at Iowa State ('olle:;e, Studies have indicated that safely de- vices eliminate only about 211 per cont. of accidents. 1h'. Lauer urges the education of the public. and especially school children, in safety habits. Drivers, he says, need to be acquainted with their dan- gerous driving habits and impressed with the necessity of correcting them. Apparatus to test the ability of drivers to respond quickly to various driving situations and to avoid acci- dents is being constructed. under the professor's guidance, Alberta Wells Set New Record for 1930 'Edmonton, Alto, --Setting tt record in the history of the province, Alberta Oil Wells, in December, 1930, pro- duced 175,572 b rrels of various kinds of crude and naptha oil. Figures for the whole year ended December 31, 111:11, ,lust released 1.4 33,344. as com- pared with 9119,42 for 1929. 'I'lii' year's production according to the various fields was as follows: Napilta from Turner Valley Liine- stone, 1,314,039 barrels:. Light Crude from Turner Valley, 50,345 barrels; light crude from Iced Coulee, 53,917 barrels; heavy crude from Wain - Wright, 9,739 barrels; heavy crude from ltibstote, 1,873 barrels; heavy crude from Skiff, 3,731 barrels. Every man is like the company he is vont to lceep.--I'lriripidee. STEAMER GARAGEGS before it has had time to be thorough - STEAMER purified. Motorists will soon be able to go If the tops and upper parts of the clown to the sea in automobiles. .A casing are water tight ,then surface sea -going garage is now under{ con water and imperfectly filtered water strn•ction in one of the huge lin $ of can both be kept out. Tlie matter can the Dollar Line and settlings from Buenos Aires. --11 was announced be summed up by saying that the New York to Manila, via Calift�rnta, Hawaii. Japanese and CMnese -ports will begin this summer. This garage will provide first -flaw seven -league boots for motorists, fol: it will be possible to motor in Cali fornia one clay, and a week t'', drive through the streets of I. Kong or Shanghai in their own • 1 el The garage will be consuls i}tl. located so that motorists will be abl to drive their cars abroad thraugi the side without difficulty. Space for more than 100 cars Wi be provided. Isere recentlY that a delegation of 250 rOalnadian business men and incius- tirialists, headed by a delegate named br " :lie Canadian Government, will arrive in Buenos Aires :March 13 on board the liner Prince Robert. The '-stuadiau visitors will stay here until .ch '23, visiting the British Trade r,.e,,ibiti:on and the principal centres les. Argentin a. woman writes to say the domes - servant is not the only one who change. The taxidriver asks thiug most tip be avoided is the en- trance et any surface drainage, be- cause this is likely to be the means of carrying disease -producing genus from persons who have or have had certain diseases - including—(one is tempted to say especially)—typhoid fever. It is especially the shallow wells whits collect surface water that are dangerous. Surface water 01 course drains into the well, quickly bringing with it much of the surface minutae. Even spri.,gs which most people con- sider to be absolutely pure actually \V'i1lct s lei•. , -t cti i lt'la, Which is new being construe. e i tt recently 1,ce:t put in ,cite• Ouly tall e;s:,.0)17 is yet to be attlotil (fisc'. 4-4 senid"y liearial2 cumpintiott, the huge 76 -foot 11080 haying ',ted Vasa. les ,,ts's o•. of:leg on the outer fabric t'overing will hegira, Compbell Sets Goal At 300 Mi. An Hour Says New Record of 245 miles Did Not Provide Any Thrills Daytona Beach, I'la.--Captain :1Ia1- colM Campbell's greatest ambition is to drive an automobile 300 miles an hotu. The 46 -year-old British race driver, who • on•. Z eh. 59. hung -up a new . world's land speed record of 245 ranee an hour on the beach speedway here, expressed such a desire while male jug- preparations for his return trip to England. "It is my very great ambition to be able to -drive a car at that speed," he declared as he opened and read hundreds of cablegrams and tele- grams, received from all parts of the world, congratulating hien on his sec• ori -breaking achierenteut in his huge Bluebird racing car. "I have said that I em not satis- fied with my present record of 245. That is trite, but I do not contem- plate any more record trials soon. There is plenty more .speed in my Bluebird, but these trials aile so beastly expensive. "Perhaps, if I 'can find some mil- lionaire who will help finance such au undertaking, I shall shoot for the 300 -mile mark within the next few years. Tltere is nothing i should like better to do, I should say that at present it is my greatest ambition." Campbell would make no definite predictions as to when he thought an automobile speed of 300 utiles an hour would be attained. but inti- mated it would be within the ,text three or four years. Campbell declared he would have no tear in trying for a speed of 300 utiles an hoar, provided he had a cart that was absolutely stable and a course that was perfect. "I am what you call a fatalist. 1 believe that I am not going to get urine until I ata supp•osecl to. When that time comes I shall be ready to meet it, But wliy talk of that now. T. have no fear. 1 absolutely get no Sensation of thrill while traveling at so fast a speed." Advice to the Rich London Morning Post, There is al the present moment a widely held belief that the private individual can help the unemployment situation by spending less and saving more titan usual, \1'e think that this belief is mistaken, Not, indeed, that we de- preciate tate virtue of thrift; if there had been amore to it in the period eines the Warr the country would have been more prosperous than it has been. But additional thrift ab a time of depression like the ltreseuti merely adds to the capital surplus for which there is no immediate use;{ spending, on the other hand, by those' whose incomes are unitnpaired, wild 11(11) to keep the markets active antt promote employment. Ott. advice,' . therefore, is that those who rain should spend, not exlravagently, hut normally.