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Zurich Herald, 1931-06-18, Page 6Missionaries F With the Lone Scouts This week we have received an very interesting letter from Scout Walter Wraight, who is sleeted with the Hudson's Bay pany and lives at oue of their "eel posts in Northern Ontario. The winters are long and drear that part of the country, and there only two or three mails delivered dog tons throughout the wi mouths, Walter says that they looking for the commencement of "brealt-up" of wintry conditions a the 10th or 15th of May, and ha receive no more mail until then. Walter says "one Mock of geese already passed over head on their stop flight to the Bay. There ar few ducks 'around, and of cou plenty of crows. The windigoes (Ghosts) have ready started. thei t'annual trips. Ev Spring, without fail, the Indians br in all kinds of weird tales of being tacked by Ghosts. Last year one 1 of freight was lost. The Indians tol story of having been shot at by gin) The canoe was found with bullet ho In It all right, and as the crew w not carrying rifles it must have be someone else. Rather substant ghosts that can use 30-30 riles, do you think? The literal translation the word is, I think, "Wild Indians Waiter is living quite a hard b very interesting life up there in t north, and he says that he Is looki forward to the summer months, that he can go our exploring in canoe, as he wants to pass his Pat tinder's Badge. He also says that want e to go and sae a dentist, befo he goes cra,zy, so you see there a disadvantages too, Last week we discussed Campin and the way to select a suitable cam site, and this week we will go a little further and think about the necessary equipment to be taken. on these trips. Let us plan a short week end camp for a Patrol of Lone Scouts. We have already decided upon the place where we intend to make our camp head- quarters, and we have decided whether the trip is to be made on foot, or by wheel. If we are going on our wheels we shall be able to carry a little more equipment than if It all has to be, car- ried on our shoulders, but first of all let us think about the matter of shel- ter. On. this class of canzp, of short duration, it is better to either take • along small, light reap -teats" or else to improve some Sort of shelter on other arrival. Page 177 of your "Handbook Lone for Canada" tells you how temporary con- shelters can be inade, and if you are Com- camping in very wooded country, and ated the weather Is settled and fine, it is sometimes more advantageous to y in erect such shelters than to carry tent are age on your backs. However, If YOU. by have had no experience in erecting der these shelters it is as well to practice , 'we a little at home, before starting out. the Good waterproof sheets can also be bout improvised as shelters, and provide will very good cover. Eo having decided just what shelter we shall depend up - has on, we next come to the •questioa of non- whateach boy shal ltake along. The e a following items are essential, what- rse ever kiud of camp you propose to have: two warm blankets, a ground .j. sheet (in addition to any to be used ery for shelters), a sweater or jersey, ing sleeping suit, spare shirt and shorts, towel, soap, toothbrush, comb, eating utensils, needle and thread. Scout uniform to be warn, of course. All this can be packekinto a pack sack or Rucksack," to be carried on the back. The Stores Department at Headquarters, Ottawa, stock a very comfortable Rucksack. Care should be taken to have good wide shoulder straps, and to see that the sack fits snugly to your shoulders, otherwise you will soon be tired -and bane sore shoulders. Divided ese ingst the Patrol the fol- lowing equipment should be carried: A gocid hand axe, large frying pan, three or four large kettles or contain- ers for boiling purposes, and a large tablespoon. Food should be thought of, and your daily menus planned before you go. Often it is possible to obtain such g i things as eggs, rank, butter and vege- p i tables from farms near your camping place, and then you can save yourself the trouble of carrying them, The other food should be provided by the Patrol, each member bringing certaiu articles, and care being taken that items are not duplicated by several Scouts. • Next week we will discuss the food problem In more detail, and also con- sider the activities of a Patrol when in camp. Boys who are not Scouts and cannot join a regular • Troop can obtain par- ticulars as to how they can become Lone Scouts by writing to The Lone Scout Department, Boy Scouts As- sociation, 330 Bay Street, Toronto; 2, Ont.—"Lone E." at- oad da sts. les ere en tial n't of .11 ut he ng so his he re re His Majesty Grants Anniversary Honors London—Xing George, in his an nual list of birthday honors, on June 3rd, announced, temong other distinctions, the establishment of four baronetcies, 25 knighthoods and two privy councilorships. Sir Edward Eiger, "Master of the King's Musick," is one of the new barons. He is the composer of "Pomp and Circumstance" and sev- eral oratorios. He was made a knight of the British Empire in 1904 and decorated with the Order of Merit in 1911. The other barons are Sir Thomas Jaffrey, consulting actuary of the ,Aberdeen Savings Bank; Philip Henry Devitt, founder or, the Nauti- cal College at Pangborne, and Sir Herbert Gibson, an organizer of the Empire Trade Exposition In Buenos Aires, Miss Sybil Thorndike, know a as England's leading tragedienne, was made of Dame Commander of the British Empire. Sir *William Henry Bragg, eminent physieist, was the only individual to receive the Order of Merit, regard- ed by many as the most coveted de- toration of all. Ben Turner, M.P., veteran trade unionist and former Secretary of Mines, is among the new knights. Others are Prof. Horace Lamb, Cam- bridge tmitheinatician; .Tames 33Ia,ck Baillie, vice-chancellor of Leeds Vaiversity, and Charles Reed Peers, president of the Bevel Society of :Antiquarians. The Earl of Athlone, former Gov- ernor-Genenal of South Africa, and Sir William Jowitt, Attorney -Gen- eral, were made privy councilors. Half a dozen women received minor distinotions. No new peerages were established. Shamrock V. Wins British Yacht Race Soutbend-on-Sea, Eng.—Sir Thomas Lipton's Aurelio Cup challenger, Shamrock V, won the first race for big Intents in Etiglish waters this year, defeating Astra and Candida in a 40 - mile Ilan Off Seuthend. Shamrock was away last, but quick- ly overbauled her competitors and was three minutes ahead at the 20 -mile Mark.. She increased this advantage to almost six minutes at the finish, the other two yachts finishing almost to. gather. The Times: Shamrock V., 3 hoist* 33 militatee, 46 Seconds Astra, 3:49.31.$ *Candela, 3:89384. This course was to Nere Lightship and teturn, tWiee arOund. Favor English Language Berlin. — The German languag teachers, meeting at Hamburg, nay demanded that only English shall ran as a dominant foreign language in th graded schools, taking issue with th Prussian Minister of Education, wiz had made Prenth the chief non-classi cal language in the upper school curri culum. He based his action on the belief that French was of greater cul- tural isigniacance, representing the essential Creco-Roman culture upon which European intellectual develop - anent is founded, The language teachers, however, as- sert that the citizens' choice should decide, and fifty per cent. of the Prue. slam schools affected already have gone over to English. The teachers agree with the view that unity is necessary, but they say it is irapos- sible to make, the study of French a universal major language requirement, even if it were desirable, the face of popular opposition. o e k Livestock Figures Calgary, Alberta.—Values of live- stock in the Western Provinces are given in the latest estimates as fol- lows: Manitoba, $53,741,000; Saskat- chewan, $112,846,000; Alberta, $94.- 065,000, and British Columbia, $27,- 855,000. —.s. Panama to Buy Planes Panama City.—The Government of Panama announced recently that it plans to buy four airplanes which will constitute the first national air force. eri.oresikareitioweeirot Two miesionarles who took parr in Presbyteriau exposition in basement of Syria mosque, Pittsburg. Rev. Dr. James B. Ayres, Toronto, who spent 41 years in Japan and is noted for work in that field, and Rev. Albert G. EdwardsesHillah, Iraq, modern town near ruins of ancient Babylon, who sped eleven years in Near East. Planes FacilitateMeats n a larger scale of . I of extension of triaugulatem opera- 'oa. program .,.. , Survey System Ctsadtaolitiliwehltacur denvoerltotemrieinatriesasproof ceeding so quickly. It may be mentioned itt passing sthat large areas of Canada abound in lakes and that this type of country is igiaxticularly suitable to geodetic opera - Atolls •with present types of aeroplane. .kith improved types of planes the extension of the method to other areas at preseut avoided because of L. Rennie and P. P. Steers of the - . tee absence of lakes will probably L Geodetic Survey of Canada, Departs . become possible, ment of the Interior, durinanuar,'I 'Apart from the economy, the use and February, 1931. In a period of ' of aeroplanes as a means of trans- port for laying out a system of tra- angulation over large areas of Can- ada years in advanee of final opera- tions• has other advantage. In parts of the country, such as north- ern Ontario where a program of Geodetic Engineers of Depart- ment of, the Interior Make Amazing Record in Northern Ontario Quite an amazing record, when corn - pared with the possibilities a few Years ago, was made by Messrs four weeks they laid out by aero- plane a system of triangulation in northern On.tario, which would have taken several years to • accomplish by older methods of transport by canoe and back -packing. In two Royal Canadian Air Force building steel lookout towers for fire detection is itt progress, the triang- planes these Geodetic Survey' of . ---"Iniatimi stations offer the best choice ficers selected the sites for triangula - of hilts as sites for these towers. tion stations in a strip of country I The towers when built and trails and about 800 miles long (including telephone lines installed are of great branches) and from 15 to 30 miles abiletance when the triangulation is wide from Sudbury to. the northeee16ine g- 'completed. It is therefore west end of lake Nipigon. The mutually branches extended towards Tint- advantageous to forestry nd'keo date officials to have the mins and Nakina on the north and : triengalation laid out well in ad - towards Sault Ste. Marie and Port Arthur on the south, vance'of subsequent operations. When To divide up the area into suit- ' the preliminary work of the triang-e illation has been laid out well ahead ably sized sections three bases were of subsequent operations, as is pos- chosen from which to operate. In sible when it is done by• aeroplane, the selection of these banes ethree there need be no delay in complet- haportant considerations had to be 4z...the final work in any area in borne in mind, vis„ the base must be which development takes place " or on a lake large enough for aircraft where mane 'are required, and data to land and take off, it should be en can be made .available on an astron.- the eallway to facilitate transporta- omicl dtum itt plenty of time to be tion of oil and gasolene for refuel - nide use of. When the preliminary ling, and it must be possible to secure work has to be done by ground travel board and lodging for the personnel in rough -country it is sometimes of the party, seven in number. The two years or more before results first two qualifications were not are available tonellose requiring this difficult to find, but the third. was information. With aeroplanes as not so easy, a Means of transport in laying out The aircraft used on the operation the triangulation a year or more is were very speedy cabin monoplanes, saved in delivering results. An - fitted with skis and carrying equip- other advantage is that, the triang- ment to enable them to operate ulation having been laid out with its from bases remote from regular differ* grades of accuracy as need - aerodromes. By means of bell- ed, erations which are required shaped nose tents and collapsible in iselated sections can be completed wood -burning stoves the engines with the grade of accuracy which could be thoroughly warmed before will make them fit in v.'11 the final tartm* even wilen extrenielyw °- net as laid out for the whole coun- ceutly concerning a very peculiar temperatures such as forty. degrees try. class of stars known as the Wolf below zero were experienced, Em-• Rayet stars, Conditions on these ergency equipment, consisting of ra- • • 4: stars are such that streams of atoms tins, sleeping' robes, tent, rifle,;. are continually being thrown off snowshoes, axes, etc., was contiuu-.The Prince in South America from all parts of their surface. away carried in each aircraft. The Spectator (London) :The Prince of These atoms are ehot off from the performance of the planes through- Wales showed himself far more dware stars in enormous numbers and with out the whole operation was most • of 'the situation of British industry speeds often as great as 1,000 miles satisfactory, thanks largely to the then some of its leaders. We should per second. They are continually very efficient pilots and crews, who like to emphasize two of the points streaming off into space so that the kept the engines and aeroplanes of his speech. One is the importance stars are probably losing material at functioning under somewhat unfays of sending out for the study of mar- orable conditions. . kets, not underling's, but principals of During the past two years experi- firins. . .., The other is the import- meuts have been made by Geodetio 1ance of advertising, and as an aid to Survey officers to test the economy ethis the need for a proper British of aeroplane transport en this class news service for South America. At or work and to perfect the technical present all British news goes to South methods by which this faster means ! America via the agencies of the Un - of *transportation is best adapted to ited States, and the natural result is British Author Fins Graduation Held at Ample Copy in Canada Montreal—Canada holds a wealthg . . Kin stou }Jospita of x'aw material for the novelist. Win "rather wistful". This Was the So niucn so, in fact, that it melee P„ ..._ty-three Nurses Represent Opinion of J. 13. Priestley, British Many Ontario Com - author, on his return to Englanct presented by Mr. Priestley had been In the south - Kingston, juTUentilit..—P ieSrIes and dip - z ern Pacific to gather material for an- tomes were. Presented Arra. Ti, A. other book, He has already written Lovell to forty-three students of the "The Glood Companions" and "Angel Kingeton General Hospital School. Pavement." The gold menet for the highest Ties grandeur and wildness " Canadian sceuery, particularlystanding in the senior year was won on the by Miss Priscilla, Dodd Orillia who railwaY journey through the Rocky Mountains, impressed Mr. Priestley very deeply, He found the people, too, likeable and more interested in good reading than those south of the boundary. Mr, Priestley names Willa Cattier as the best American novelist, de- clariug definitely that he believed her to be superior to Sinclair Lewis, recent winner of the Nobel Prize, . He spoke highly of the works of Mazo de la Roche, Canadian writer, and said that it appeared that a great deal of desultory writing was being done in Canada. The maga- zines and other literary publications he described as "creditable," Complete 12,000 -Mile Trip Through African Wastes Completing a trip of 12,427 miles across Africa, through trackless wastes of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and the Beaten Congo, Prince de Ligase and Baron Terschuren, of Bel- gium, have accomplished what is des- cribed as one of the most arduous jour- neys ever made in an automobile. The trip, they reported, took nine weeks, averaging 210 miles a day, "We have broken all speed records and traveled 20,000 kilometers with- out the slightest mechanical trouble," theywrote, "On several occasions we were stuck in the sand and in or- der to get out we had to race the motor,•tnrowing the clutch In with a, jerk to make thentar jump up vertical- ly. Much of our travel was through rock country, and itt order to keep up with our schedule we had to go very fast. Sometimes, as the wheels hit the rocks, the whole car was thrown into the air to land at a different level, the difference being sometimes as much as one meter." °holly: Er—Miss Peach, you have a pair of lips that were just made for sweets, Miss Peach: All the other fel- lows seem to think they are made of sweets. The Wolf Rayet Stars At the Dominion. Astrophysical Observatory of the Department of the Interior at Victoria, B.C., an in- teresting discovery was made, re - geodetic surveying. The operation, that where Great Britain is mentioned the rate of millions of tons per day. So massive are these stars, however, that it would take millions of years for any very appreciable fracree, in! their mass to be lost by this r Advertising also won the Board of Governors' prize for the highest standing in the senior year. Miss Vonnie MacMartin, of Finch, was the winner of the silver medal for second highest .standing itt the senior year and Mise Edith Bailer won the intermediate class prize. The junior class prize was won by Miss Ethel Rutledge. The graduating class for 1931 foe lows: Doris Margaret Allen, Kingston; Florence Elizabeth Beatty, Thomas - burg; Margaret Christine Blair, Pall - brook; Elizabeth Botting, Westport; Lillian Maude Buck, Milton; Mosalene Evelyn Burt, Westbrooke; Hazel Cain, Perth; Laura Nancy Outhbertson, Norwood; Dorothy Isobel Dawson, Britannia Bay; Mary Marjorie De Long, Zeeleys Bay; Mabel Genevieve Dietz, Renfrew; Josephine Margaret Dobbin, Peterboro; Emma Jane Dodds, Gananoque; Ellen Priscilla Dodd, Orillia; Anna Bessie Ewiug, Westport; Hilda Lillian, Friendship, Kingston; Helen Jean Gordon, Kingston; Plots ence Muriel Harkness, Kingston; Miriam Edith Hetrick, Portsmouth; Olive Kathleen Hartshorn, Peterboro; Audrey Annie Holbert, Thomasburg; Golda Helen Hughes, Cornwall; Vero Jane Humphrey, Lansdowne; Nettie Leona Lawrence, Harroevsmith; Mare Madeline Lockhart, Almonte; Lenora Amelia Loyst, Napanee; Venni° Mar- guerite IVIacMartin, Finch; Annie Myrtle MacMillan, Madoc; Mabel Eli. mina Mason, Belleville; Helen Eliza, beth Miller, Consecon; Sarah Maude IVIII1s, Egansville; Margaret Ruth Mun- ro, Apple Hill; Mildred Clarke Murphy, Kingston; Mary Isabel Murray, West Huntingdon; Annie Margaret Putten- nam, Kingston.; Wilhelmino, Myrtle Raymond, Perth Road; Elia Grace Scott, Sharpes Corners; Inez Eliza- beth Sly, Gananoque; Doris Gertrude Smith, Kingston; Margaret Cbristena Stewart, Balderson; Helen Ruth Wal. lace, Kingston; Myra Belle Woodruff, Sydenham. "Age of Youth" Says Lord Bessborough I Montreal. ---"This is the age of , youth," the Ear: of Bessborough, Gov- ernor-General of Canada, smilingly. 1 told graduating students of McGill University recently. "Thet is not merely a welI-worn ' rhetorical generalization ---ii is also a hard fact that on be supported by statistics complied, as they say in the world of insurance, on an actuarial basis," Lord Bessborough continued. "One of the most remarkable changes in any own lifetime --and my- genera- tion ,has seen a great many changes. —is the marked decrease in the aver- age age of those holding positions of true' in every walk of life. In the services, in law, inpolitics, science and industry, young men and young women can now be found in posts of responsibility that 30 years ago, were held exclusively by greybeards. • "Your fathers have given yoa a finer heritage than was ever be- queathed by any individual emperor to his son; they have labored to build up for you, in the face of immense difficulties, a country that excites the admiration of the world, whose future is so riel. in possibilities that it taxes the imagination of the world to esti- mate them. But if the Canada of today is the handiwork of your fath- ers, the Canada of trniorrow must be yours. - Where they 'wrestled with the forces of nature, you will be face to face with forces less obvious, but n.o less formidable; seem problems will not be those of time, space and cli- mate, but problems of citizenship, el social adjustment to rapidly changing social conditions and of the sano ap- plication of scientific discoveries daily life." The respective merits of newspaper and radio publicity are concisely sum- Spain To Be Represented just completed with great economy only casually the name of the United med up by a contemporary as follows: An "ad" in the eye is worth ten'in. the At Regina Exhibition and speed, marks the commence- States is shouted from the housestops, ear.—Woodstock Sentinel Review, Regina, Sas lea tchewan. — Though One of Canada's New Destroyers 'serene* eesseeenenINI'nneeneneneeee-- --nee eseesse eh_ ...,„ , • ii ...QfnmeMseeie...4ii,,41eAnt.ei,neVein•ANiTS.tei5., see,. • ;, „.' The Saguenay, sLster ship of the Skeena, both of li.hich aro the two nevi,' destroyers built in Engialid for the Canadian navy. The sine; are built atter speeincatione ot Aeasta. class a royal navy with special equipment for althea0re ylogig..eg ogditions. S pain is busy just now reorganizing its national a,drainistration, the import. ance of the World's Grain Extibition and Conference to be held at Regina, July 25 to August 26, 1932, has not been lost sight of. A fow days ago the headquarters' office of the Exhibition and Conference was advised by the General Director of Agriculture of the Spanist Ministry of National Economy that a special committee of cereal ag- riculture had been appointed to devote * itself to the definite organization of Participation by Spate in the World'a Grain Exhibition and Conferente. Canada's Historic Sites During 1980 nineteen historic sites in Canada were suitably marked either by cairns er tablets and a num- Iber of other site acquired according to a recant statement of the Dept. a the interior. The work of conmunnor. 1 king national historic events and -On) / services of important personages le •• 1 carried out by the National Parks of , Goads Brand of the Dept, of the ' Interior in ea-opotation with the Hie - Vilna Sites and Monuments Board.