HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-02-26, Page 6Britons Declared Self -Landing Plane
"Not So Sloe" • Latest In Aviation
e 4 k Daily Says Britain Ship Alights With Pilot Hold-
NW'Y•r
Far in Lead in This ing Hands in Air
Machine Age • North I3ea.eh, L.I.—An airplane
Captain 1Vlalco,nr Catuiibz1i is the which lands itself when the pilot
'Wor'ld's automobile .speed Wing. This adjusts its movable suing, to t.ha
Britain, piloted. a British ear over an correct angle for alighting was
American beach recently at a speed successfully demonstrated at Glenn.
of 245.73 utiles per hour, or more Curtiss airport here an Feb. 12th
than four tunes a minute.
than 100 per,o te, most of
It's the latest speed record to be whom. were icieutihe'i with aeronau-
ang up by a British speed demon. tics or were interested in the c•ont-
And the auto record which this Brit -m arcial possibilities of the aircraft,
isher broke was mads by another gathered at the tee-ooveeect field to
Britisher, the late Sir Henry Segrave. t;•fitness the cienionstratiou.
On land and water and in the air, 1 klenry White, test pilot who took
the British at present hold the the airplane aloft, told the spectators
-world's speed champiouships. Their that after adjusting the wings to a
aeroplane epeecl record -357 miles an landing angle, he would hold bis
Stour, made by Major A. H. Orlebar i white -gloved hands above the cock -
in tile 1929 Schneider Cup races— pit to convince theist that the stick
meats our by ninety nt.p.lt S.egrave was uncontrolled.
was killed in the process of estab- 1 The airplane, whose inventor,
Iisiting ;.he world's motor -boat speed .Albert Adams Merrill, was a colla -
record of More than 100 milds an borator of Langley and Chanute and
hour, • I experimented with flying machines
before the Wright Brothers
H'e're able to beat the British at made the
gall and tetruia. Our plug-uglies
fust flight in history, tools off easily
can "usually beat theirs in the ring. 01111 circled the field. Then Mr.
Every few years we demonstrate our i White adjusted the wings to an
angle of incidence of 14
superiority in the ar3 of getting ten degrees with
miles an hour or so out of a sailboat. respect to the fuselage, by means of
Thi: last time we presented. the . a crank and pushrod arrangement
i in
British loser with a $5,000 silver cup the cockpit, and throttled his�
to show our sportsmanship. How; motor.
about presenting Campbell with a { As the airplane glided downward,
gold cup encrusted with diamonds? the group of spectators saw the
He deserves it, even if he wasn't ad-, pilot's hands waving above the fusel-
vertising tea, age. The airplane struck the ground
In short, the British are far in the with its tail well in the air. This
lead iu the most important conquest position is one of its characteristics
that man is carrying on today, the when landing, but because the centre
struggle for dominance over space of gravity is placed very far back, it
and w e
d time. And Americans long cannot nose over. After bouncing
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as a slow, hetvvminded muscle -1 the ground and rolled along the
ago took to thinking of the British
once'
the wheels made contact with
:Winter's Playground
Pictaresque view of bungalows up iii the Muskoka district, Ontario's winter playgrounds, showing
tate magnificent evergreens forming a; .formidable barrier against Nature's assault.
Mound race. runway until brought to a stop by
Iucfdentally, the British Labor Gov- wheelbrakes similar to those on an PicturesFlashed
ernment recently refused to pay the automobile. ° I saw :a mariner far at sea,
bill for British The pilot took off again and re- $�� NIL �� ®�s Sea Sailiug cheerily, cheerily.
participation in the 1tunt ' s
"A seasoned mariner he must be,"
Mariners
1931 Schneider Cup aeroplaue races, pealed the uneonuollecl aucuta
It was a pacifist gesture. characteris-; several tinter. This stunt, its in.-
tic of Ramsay 'MacDonald.ventor explained, is the only one the
Though Britain is hard up and her airplane is capable of, since it was
Dominions are restive, this incident designed especially to prove the
u.rig•ered enough Britishers to produce N.Y.—Engineerssafety of flying. Schenectady. of. "I'm bound for Nowhere," answered
au offer from a lady to pay the es- "It is not so much what it will do he.
will not do that is duper- the .General Electric Company plant ',T,rn learning to sail my ship at sea."
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proses. She said she didn't want taut," Mr. as what it willerrill said. It will have been conducting successl'nl ex-
h.•r Government to be a spoilsport. )eriments in radio television across
When our. Government was asked never' nose quer because of improper
1 I too; was bound for Nowhere, so
•c trol the Atlantic Ocean for the past rev- 1•1 w the winds did blow_
"Fair, said he, "if you only knew He spoke of the growth of the pro -
HOW to set your sails and let them duction of gold in Ontario. "Some
blow. time ago we achieved the third place
among the gold -producing countries
-of the world. The time is not far
distant when we will reach seeoncl
place. Canada has benefited in
many ways by the activity of gold
Television Tests Prove Hi•gh Thought I, "to sing so cheerily!"
Normal Conditions
Seen For Ontario
Toronto.— Normal business condi-
tions will soon prevail in •Ontario
ly Successful in Atlantic I signalled him; he signalled me. according to Premier George S.
Flashes I asked him whither bound was. he. Beery. Much will be accomplished
in the next. few months through the
co-operation of the federal, provincial
and municipal administrations. These
will provide a fund of $15,000,000 for
carrying on public works and provid-
to enter at least one plane la this stabthzer adlnstmeut or over ohm cI asked huu to
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eral months it was
most important flying contest, the less pilot.ThesThe machine can neitlr Officials, when asked to confirm
Assistant Secretary of the Navy er stall nor dive. It will not shin this. admitted that wave propagation
alibiki that President Hoover was fn and no one has yet been able to loop
sifting on economy. This, though
it. It is definitely an airplane to
90 per cent, of the cost of aeroplane
construction goes to labor, and fly and not to stunt, because you
Brough the building of planes for the cannot stunt it."—From "The Chris -
Schneider Cup races would give work tiara Science Monitor.")
to at lot of people, .
learned recently.
Mg employment. -
ignorant or care
Anyway, the British at this time . The Nation's Health
'hold all the important world records, Toronto Telegram (Ind. Cons.) :
and no dangerous challengers are in (The mortality rats for the industrial
sight. Speed records on land and population of Canada and the United lady licensed experimental station
sea and in the air indicate the ability States fn 1930 was 6,6 per cent. less here, it was said.
to build better engines than anybody* than the rate fn 1929, and 1.1 per cent. The tests were begun three -or four
else can build, and the ability to get less than the previous minimum of months ago when Professor Krolus
most out of those engines, Is any- 1927). It ie perhaps not to advances of Leipzig University visited the
thing more important in this machine in medical science that the improved local plant. His picture was sent
age?
geideutly Great Britain hasn't figures are dee, so much as to the to his associates in Germany, who
producing to h i and hasn't more general application of well- cabled it was so clear that even the
stopped p uc n r g known liyg'enic principles: The result professor's eyeglasses were dieting -
gent, and fearless adventurers of the is seen in the practical elimination of uisllable.
type that built the British Empire.--. typhoid fever fa'out causes of death, a The purpose of the tests, which
(From the New York Daily News.) further re•cluction in diphtheria deaths, have been conducted one way be
a reduction of tuberculosis to a new cause of lack of television 'equip -
Traffic Safety Taught in Club minimum, new minimum rates for ment in Europe, it was learned, is to
diseases of pregnancy and childbirth further the studies or. the radio wave.
Amsterdam.—in order to promote and new lowdeath rates for the tom- The experiments still are being sou-
ducted.
It was also learned that engineers
have succeeded in recording With a,.
motion picture camera television pic-
tures as they are received in Eur-
ope; as the original. This was done,
example as to how to behave in tite low. But more efficient control of dis- it was said, to keep a rocrd of the
street and who can prove that he or ease promises to give mankind in experiments.
site lives up to this desire, can jointsgeneral a more extended expectation
the club. Therefore, when applying of life. Iu that e
broadcasts were being conducted by sour ship will ride in any gale
short wave radio twice weekly, but t If yeti will set the proper sail."
declined to discuss the subject fur-
ther. I asked him If his •chart did show •
Photographs of people and objects
have been radioed across more than
2,500 utiles al ocean to Leipzig. Uni-
rsit • Lei zI' Gertnau • and 13 r-
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Einstein Refutes
Former 'Theory
German Savant Causes Sen. mai"
tion When He Declares
"Symmetrical, Spherical
Space" No. Longer
Tenable Theory
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lin and the British Broadcasting,
Company in London through a spec
alertness and strict adherence to nunicable diseases of childhood. A
traffic rules by children, Maarten drop is also noted in deaths from acci-
hlaarten Vrij, superintendent of the dents, influenza, pneumonia, heart
New School Society at Amsterdam, disease and Bright's disease. In fu -
founded the "Club for Safe Traffic." ture years epidemics may swing the
Every pupil, who desires to set au death rate higher than last year's new
for membership of the- club the pupils
have to produce a statement, signed
by five grown ups, to the effect that
they belong to the "good" users of
the road.
These five persons who have to sign
the affidavit must beloug to different
control the efficient • An ideal may be alt right, but a
operation 01 public health departments square deal is usually better,
plays an essential part.
'ggs So Cheap in Illinois
Grocer Gives Them Away
West Frankfo. t, 111. --Eggs have be -
branches of traffic activity. One sig- come so cheap in this neighborhood
nature may be that of one of the that ou Feb. 14th one grocer could
parents or of the teacher, the second afford to give away 500 dozeu of them
• one must be that of a car -driver, the to his customers in an effort to stheu-
t.hitd that of a cyclist, tate fourth that late inhsiness. The regular retail price
of a conductor of other transport such is 15 cents a dozen. A. laying spree
ae se tram -conductor, and the fifth by hen., due to the warm weather,
signature should be that of a police was given as the reason for the low
thfllrer. prices. in Centralia eggs sold down
to 11 cents a dozen, the lowest price
in seventy -live years.
Best Way to Back Car
In reversing the car, bring it to a ; King Prefers Irish Linen
:standstill, then with the clutch re -1 Londgn.---•`1 prefer Irish linen and
leased plate the gear !ever in the ; every shirt I haus, comes from Belfast,"
art,"
Teverse notch. Allow the clutch? said, His Majesty when, with Queen
to engage gently and with the right ; '
i\Tari, he visited an exhibition rat, the
lumnrl only on the steering wheel lookLinen Industry lte earth Assoc•iatinu
backward and gauge the direction• by recently.
tit rear mutt
guard or the Tsar I•lxaauining table linen that luta been
it•het.•1. Do not ;attempt to steer 1)7 w Wiled in various lnundries, the King
watching the front wheels: always r€ntaricecl: "Stmc laundries do use ttp
look to the rear when going back Litten, but 15111)Po• e when it comes
ward, I3e careful that the tires do basic with hetes, it is good or 11(100."
net scrape along the quirts, as this is lits 1taieety has just glared several
very damaging, i acres of the royal ()visite at Sandliing-
,; 1ham, Norfolk, under cultivation for
Goats in MC - flat, though most English land -owners
i say that flax Iakes more • nut of the-.
New 'Westminster, 1;.C. --•Interest in
earth than it yielle.
goat raising continues at a highpoint; •�.. ,., ._ ... .
in British Columbia. Daring last -eere re. a Nugget i
veer five herds were entered in thegg
,. 'i t ° .ate. Nelson, Il,(".--.� $1u,•ifo gold brick
record of 1lerfot !l.a r. , t�5- for �,)
fen head having gnalifiech. 'l'he was brought to Nelson item the Reno
highest test Was made 'by, a Nubian (sold Mine the other (lay. The hricrk;
doe, "Shirley itioea"---296---ow:necw by weighed 1,.,"thtl ounees and IS the t11ir-
Htlrold G. Monson oC i
New t'4 t':cttnies- tcenth such linseed to be found in the
ter, whose milk Yield wn i 2„593 011110, 1''o total value or all of which
pounds and but -ter fl.t 132.4 peendis. tuna fa $162,1400.
That Nowhere -.,still was far to go.
"Nowhere is. everywhere,” answered mining hi Ontario."
d,
"You al.e always in
• at sea
'\Vhen. you sail for Nowhere, cheer-
%
fully."
port: disci always ti exico Extending
Rural Education
Amherst, Mass.—Mexico is rapidly
developing its education system in a;
I asked him if his ship before determination to educate the rural
lied ever touched at Nowhere's
two-thrids of its population, according
shore. to Senor Enrique C. Aguirre, who
"I've been there many times," said lectured at Massachusetts Agricul
he. tural College. • He- declared that a
"I've seen you there, it seams to me." new Mexico is in the making.
Rural schools, numbering 7500,
We drew up close that we might have been established and are in -
see— creasing at the rate of 1500 a year,
I looked at him, he looked at rate— he said. The schools, he went on,
Imagine my surprise to see are primitive and poorly equipped.
That the mariner man looked just However, the teachers have a zeal
like me! and interest which coupled with the
—Malcolm Schloss, its "Songs to eagerness of the students, are great -
,,Celebrate the Sun"
Pasadena, Calif, --A grout of fait,
ons astronomers and physicists was
intent upon prying off the lid of a
box of mystery in which they hope
to find the secret of the universe.
Literally that is as Dr. Alpert
Einstein expressed it in an an-
nouncement that swept the old .Glu'
steinian universe into oblivion and
erected a new concept in its piece.
No longer does Dr. Einstein be-
lieve in a Symmetrical, sphedical uni-
verse, Such a thing is not possible
under his new unified field theory,
The evolution of the theory was ex-
plained in detail by Dr. Einstein,
step by step, equation by equation,
which resulted in the final equatiou
embracing one gehterel law that cov-
ers the phenomena of gravitatidn
and electrohnagnetism and offers a
clue to the mystery of the structure
of space.
Then Dr, Einstein told his fellow
natural scientists that he presented
the unified field equatiot. as a closed
box, and that he knew of no methods
of investigation by direct or physical
experimental means of prying off the
lid to see what was. within.
Dr. Walter S. Adams, director of
the Carnegie Institution of Washing-
ton Mt. Wilson Observatory announc-
ed that he and Itis associates hoped
to have the cover off the box soon.
Dr. Adams oracle astronomical obser-
vations:establishing proof of Dr. Ein-
stein's relativity theory.
Two California scientists caused
Dr. Einstein to change his mind.
They are Dr. Edwin P. Rubble and
Dr. Richard- Chance Tolman, Dr.
Hubble sits at the turret of the
world's largest telescope and has
bared secrets of the island universes
or distant nebulae. These are great
universes like that in which the
world and some 20,000,000,000 stats
move. There are 50,000,000 such
other universe. Some of these have
been observed 300,000.000 light years
distant.
Dr. Tolman, companion of Dr. Hub-
ble, is a physicist. He has taken
Dr. Hubble's observations and evolv-
ed the theory that the major universe
is expanding with explosive force
and is running clown because matter
is being converted into energy and
thus being annihilated.
These two men found that neither
the original Einstein concept of the
universe, nor that of Dr. De Sitter,
Dutch .astronomer and friend of Dr.
.Einstein, could' fit the case. Dr. Ein-
stein's',o1d '.Concepts'.Cancepts was that hatter
determined the amount of space iu
the universe, and Dr. De Sitter fig=
tired that natter Was infinitesimal
and space -was the controlling ele-
ment. Both conceived a static or
fixed universe.
That a solution is not far distant
was the hope expressed by Dr. Tol-
man in a dinner honoring Dr. Ein-
stein. He told of the philosophical,
physical and mathematical steps
taken by Dr. Einstein ou his 25 -year
journey toward a -solution of the
problem of the structure of the uni-
verse.
"We have been greatly privileged
to walk with him for a few steps on
this journey and to look forward
with confidence and joyous anticipa-
tion to his arrival at the journey's
end," said Dr. Tolman.
A gasp of astonishment swept
through the library of the Mount
Wilson Carnegie Institution of Waste
ingtou laboratory when the Berlin
professor with a few simple words
made this revelation.
"Regardless of what field equa-
tions are used, space never can be
anything similar to the cicl sym-
metrical spherical space theory," the
professor said with a smile in clos-
ing au hour and a half talk on Itis
new unified field theory.
Canadian Bonds
Toronto.—The full year's (1930's) '
sale of Canadian bonds amounted to
$768,022,807, as compared with $653,-
388,556 for the year 1929. and $440,e
441,519 for 1928, according to Messrs,
A. E. Ames & Company's final report
w for the year. Of the total disposed
of, more than half, or $891,186,807 was
absorbed by Canadian financial
Louses, while those in the United
Stares took $354,521,500 and those in
Great Britain $6,295,000. Government
bonds made. up a total of $295,157,-
800;
295,157;800; Municipal of $113,665,007; Cor-
poration, . $215,942,500 and Eailway
$127,238,000.
Pulp and Paper Exports
Montreal, Que.—Canadian exports
of pulp and paper in December were
valued at $15,893,358, according to 0
report of the Canadian Pulp and Paper
Association. This was an increase' of
$2,019,750 over the previous month
and the highest total since May, 1930,
Wood -pulp exports for the month were
values'. at $2,577,546 and exports of
paper at $12,815,812 as compared with
$3,198,235 and $10,75,873 respective-
ly, for November. For the year 1930;
exports or pulp alld paper were Valued,
at $177,500,222, while ill 1929 the value'
of those expm'ts amounted to .93,-
287,106. ,
Books are ,enhbghised tuiti4s,- .Bessie,\
When he called next day the woman
sent word by her maid that she could
not see him. Back came the girl in
a moment.to say that the doctor wish-
ed to know why he could not see her.
„Tell him," said the patient; "that
u too ill."
ly stimulating the native crafts and
arts, he added. •
Mr. Aguirre urged that closed rela-
tionship and understanding between
Central America • and the United
States be brought about by greater
knowledge and more intimate con-
tacts between the nations.
Force is no remedy ---John Bright.
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