Zurich Herald, 1931-06-25, Page 6Figures recently released from Do -
Minion Headquarters at Ottawa indi-
Cate that Scouting is steadily growing
in Canada, and especially in this Pro-
vinee,
According tothe census there were
52,572 Scouts in the Dominion at the
end of 1930, which is an increase of.
2,404 over 1929. It is interesting to
note that Ontario increased its mem-
bership in 1930 by 2,153 Scouts, and
of course quite a few of these were
Gone Scouts who enrolled during that
year.
At the present time there .are con-
siderably over 300 Lone Scouts in this
Province, and applications for mem-
bership are received daily at Lone
Scout Headquarters.
Other interesting figures revealed
by the report show that, during 1930,
14,658 Proficiency Badges were award-
ed to .Canadian Scouts, showing that
much keenness prevails amongst the
boys tomaintain an efficient standard.
Also one bronze, eighteen silver and
six gilt exosses for bravery were
awarded to Scouts in this country, as
well as nine medals for meritious ser-
vice;,ist the Scout movement.
Thus it will be seen that of the popu-
• l ..;;;,,;tsot'""C`anada about one person in
every two hundred is a Scout, and this
is a very wonderful fact, for if every-
one was imbued with the Scout Spirit,
what a wonderful place Canada would
be to live in, wouldn't it?
We publish below two messages
which are of interest to every Lone
Scout. The first is from His Excel-
lency the Right Hon. the Earl of Bess -
borough, Chief Scout of Canada, and
Is as follows:
"On assuming the position of Chief
Scout for the Dominion, I am delight-
ed to have the opportunity of sending
my greetings to all the officers and
members of the Boy Scouts Associa-
tion of Canada.
"I am eagerly looking forward to
having many occasions, during my
term of office, of becoming acquainted
both with Canadian Scouts and Cana-
dian Scouting and of observing their
progress. It is most gratifying to me,
as Chief Scout, to know that E. W.
Beatty has consented to undertake
the important duties of President of
the Association.
"With all my heart I wish the new
President and the Boy Scouts of Can-
ada every possible success."
The second message is from Mr. E.
W. Beatty, K.C., who is President of
the Canadian Pacific Railway, and also
President of the Boy Scouts Associa-
tion. He says:
"It is gratifying to think that so flue
a movement as that of the Boy Scouts
has captured the imaginaion of the
youth of the world and become so
truly international, For Canada it is
peculiarly fitted, as the camperaft
Which it teaches is so well suited to
our geographical conditions. Nothing
could be better than its gospel of self-
reliance, self-respect, unselfishness,
and the pledge to help others whatever
it may cost; moreover, it appeals to
the boy, as lie gets a lot of fun out of
this process of developing the spirit
of true sportsmanship. The qualities
inculcated are the qualities of the good
citizen and one is not surprised that
another name for a good citizen is
'a good Scout',"
Space will not permit us this week
to continue our "Camp Hints" very
fully, but we will content ourselves
with reminding all Lone Scout Camp-
ers that "A. Scout's duty is to be use-
ful and to help others." •
Here are a few of the things which
last year's Boy Scout Campers slid as
their "Good Turns": Cut and burned
all weeds on camp property, repaired
nearby road, cleaned refuse from near-
by field, put up signs at dangerous
places ou road, built protecting fence
around plot of young trees, built a
stairway leading to beach, built a fire-
place for neighboring campers, helped
newly arrived cottagers to get settled,
took neighbors' mail to and from post
office, erected small bridge for farmer,
made rustic seats for a farmer, helped
farmer dip sheep, assisted short-
handed farmer with chores and crops,
found lost cattle, made winter wood-
pile for farmer who loaned camp site,
helped at country church garden party,
cut weeds and tidied up around coun-
try church, made rustic seats for
country churchyard, made seats near
a bus stop, put out bush fires, guarded
timber limits against Bre, gathered
firewood for future campers.
Lonies, when in. camp don't forget
your good turns, —"Looe E."
Universe Expanding
Berlin—Dr. Albert Einstein, in a
treatise submitted to the Prus-
Sian Academy of Sciences, offers fur-
ther proof of the theory of an ex-
panding universe which holds that
'cosmic masses are constautly mav-
iug outward.
The theory received confirmation
by Dr. Edwin Hubbell's observations
of the spiral nebulae and star clus-
ters from Mt, Wilson Observatory
at Pasadena.
Dr. Einstein's treatise works it out
further and adds to his earlier writ-
ings on the uniform field theory in
which electrical and gravitational
phenomena are considered together
from uniform viewpoints.
The new treatise occupies itself
especially with the so-called Riemann
spaces and teleparalielism—the non-
Euclidean
oneuclidean conception that space is
not limited to three dimensions and
that the Euclidean postulate that
parallel lines never meet is errone-
ous.
In Dr, Einstein's conception, space
Is "the only theory representing
reality." In his view space is truly
non-Euclidean and Riemann is right.
The treatise deals also with com-
patible field equations as applied to
the Riemann spaces. On a rigidly
mathetmatical basis which requires
most concentrated abstract thought,
Dr. Einstein draws certain conclu-
sions regarding the structure and
movement of the cosmos consonant
with Dr. Hubbell's observations,
which indicate that cosmic masses
are moving away from our solar sys-
tem at a rate of hundreds of miles
per second.
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•
Preliminary Steps Census
of Retail and Wholesale
Trade Now Being Taken
The fifteen thousand enumerators
who have been engaged since June
lst in taking the Population Census
have also been making a record of
the name and address of every retail
and wholesale establishment in the
Dominion. These names are to be
the basis for the Postal Census of
Merchandising and Service Estab-
lishments.
It will be some weeks before all
the lists ars in the hands of the of-
ficals in the Dominion Bureau of
Statistics. When - they have been
carefully serutinized and certain
Other preliminary work done, sche-
+inles will be nailed to each retail
or Wholesale establishment, It Is
expected that somewhere between
150,000 and 20Q,000 navies will be re-
ceived and, though, - a very . great
itmenet of preparatory work is neves-
Bary before schedules can be mailed,
it 18 expected that they will be sent
ottt In August. .
�The Need of Sanity
' 111 "Q� V eatholiQ'Ev"'�"�Cw'17,-3rn79gt t3acuga uya tidy_
Sir Arthur Salter, formerly director
of the League of Nations' Economic
and Finance Section, speaking at
the luncheon of Columbia Alumni.
We swing from complacency to panic.
It is just those who, in 1929, said
that we were in a new economic era,
that there would be no more depres-
sions, who are now in the blackest
of pessimism.
In 1929 there were needed people
to say, "Steady! Things are not al-
ways going to be so good." And now
people are needed who will say,
"Steady! Things will not always be
so bad as they are now."
This tendency is also true of the
world political situation. It is those
who in times of calm go about say-
ing, "War is unthinkable," that say
in times of danger that war Is inevi-
table, support policies that bring it
nearer and press their countries to
precipitate action.
Only recently there has been much
mischievous talk of the possibility
of immediate and imminent war.
This is not true, but such talk cre-
ates situations and exaggerates un-
important ones. There will, be no
war this year or this decade.
Estate of Germany's Pre -War
Chancellor Shows Few Assets
Berlin—Appraisal of the estate of
Prince Bernhard von Buelow, pre-
war Chancellor of Germany, has
shown that he was practically im-
poverished at the time of his death.!
After liquidation of all claims only
a few thousand marks will remain
for distribution among his heirs, it is
announced.
It is learned that the Prince, who
never had a large private fortune,
had to borrow money frequently dur-
ing his long career as diplomat and
leading statesman of the Reich, in
t order to meet the costs of adequate
representation. The only assets
of the estate are the proceeds of the
sole of his home in Rome and the
royalties for his memoirs which were
published recently and created a
sensation.
Flight To Be Made
By Glider Over Alga
Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.—In
ae. effort to conquer the Alps by
tailplane the Ithoen-Rossitteen Glid-
ing
liding Plane Soelety of near -by Was-
aerkuppen has organized an expedi-
tion to the Bernese Oberland,head-
ed by Gunter Groenhoif, record hold-
er for -flights without motor,
Herr Groenhofl will use the sail-
plane in which be flew 165 miles
Into . Czechoslovakia in May. He wilt
take oft trona Jungtrau Joeh, 11,500
feet in the. air. Swiss aviation
sooietfe r Jostles oo-operation.
An .Additional Thrill
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Phcto shows Harold L. Osborn
Field, Rantoul, Ill. For forty-five,
of knife lowered by flier in pursue
strapped on his back.
dangling from his entangled parachute 2,000 feet over Chant:te
Metes Osborne was caught in mid-air before his rescue by means
ship. Osborne gently glided to earth with an extra chute he had
Calgary Exhibition Y
Calgary, Alberta.—Entry forma ,,bo
prospective exhibitors in the poultry
olasses at the Calgary Exhibition
and Stampede, to be held July 6 -to
11, are being sent out by the exhibi
tion board. Entries close on June
20. A covering letter from Dr. D. S.
Macnab, president of the Calgary
Poultry Association, urged that some
entries be made by all breeders, even
though only one or two birds:
"Shows and exhibitions are neces-
sary if we are to continue to breed
birds true to type," he says. "The
value of the opportunity of placing
your birds alongside those of other
breeders of the variety and compar-
ing them far outweighs the. value of
any money prizes you may be award-
ed—welcome as those undoubtedly
are."
Volcanoes Scatter Ashes
150 Miles Over Alaska
Dutch Harbor, Alaska.—Newly ar-
rived fur sealmen on the Pribilof Is-
lands, puzzled at the white ashes sil-
vering their golden brown coats, sniff-
ed sulphur filled air. s•,
Volcanoes in the vicinity ot Chig-
`Three Languages Warless World
of Old England
Froin 1100 English more rapidly
t .k on the form in which we know
it By 1200 every educated man was
e •ped to know three languages
English, French and Latin. Eng -
1 'h was the common speech, French
t e language of polite life and Mesa -
tare, Latin the scholar's tongue. In
tke thirteenth century, Robert of
Gloucester wrote in English a Rhym-
1 Chronicle on Britain. Professor
Lounsbury gives us some lines of it,
i.
modern English:
or unless a man knows French,
he is little thought of,
t low men keep to English and to
their own epeecli "
/rem 1272, when Edward I was
kfrowned, to the close of the fifteenth
. entury, French was used in public
'jets....
In the fourteenth century, for a
cholar to write in English took a
i degree. of mirage which may easily
he underrated now. But this cour-
age on the part of two great writ-
ers did much to shape the first liter -
c ry English.
In spite of the scorn of scholars
:vho;iacked insight into the vast pos-
sibilities of English and still used
nik are in violent eruption. Ashes French and Latin, Wyclif and Chau -
have •fallen a distance of 150 miles in .car Came forward as the fathers of
ar,.adi>rectio Mus roont-lilce cloiade, , dish literature. Wyclif finished
of cuss smokeshalls-Assatertniefit.+ai. �b,..lrstt""'tx nr.,ira.-1r1,y.2.-..08. ei.u,TGet.ew..
several.. other craters in the Alaska tures in 1280, and it is to him that
peninsula. Visitors to western Alas- - we owe much of the simplicity and
ka will witness the marvelous scenes. force' and peculiar beauty of later
say steamship officials, who expect translations of the Bible.
the eruptions to continue for zevcral
months. 1
Explorations Link Ar" ?'
Period to Christi
Cairo.—Science is polar
plorative finger into the hi
the Upper Nile valley, and ie;. first
season's work of the archaaulogkeil.
survey of Nubia has product d'aniX
new material.
Th:ce large cemeteries aro°'1\a
discovered with the tombs suu ousided. might die out altogether !—From "A
by small domes on pillars. ,! lost; New Study of English Words," by
feature is very important, fr ~' a the
standpoint of history, as this isspe of
architecture show;, the trantion
from the first centuries of the hris-
tian era to the Arab period.
"Aren't we fools?" "Speak in he
singular.' "Certainly. Aren't yon
a fool?"
What Wyclif did for the language
and literature of religion, Chaucer
did for poetry and letters. Before
this, no one dreamed of the power
s •1-:.a• id beauty latent in the English
,Past lauguiNe.... Even in 1623, two cen-
t ox -1 turies ord, a quarter after ... Lord
ory, of= Bacon turned his English works into
Latin, that "they might be "preserv-
ed"! He thought of Latin as the
universal and permanent language of
learning, while English was a hum-
ble speech for the less learned, and
"Jessie Macmiliian Anderson..
'We need beauty in everything and
culture should be a thing of practice,
slot something apart."—Henry Ford.
"Economic prosperity rests ulti-
mately on ability to defend it."—Ad-
'nisei Bradley Fiske.
Es Impossible
British Scientist Declares War
is Nature's `Pruning
Hook"
London.—Man's dream of a world
without war can never come true,
Sir Arthur Keith, the British scien-
tist, said recently in au address at
Aberdeen University, where he Is
the rector.
"Nature keeps her human orchard
healthy by pruning," he said, "and
war is her pruning hook. We can-
not
annot dispense with her services."
That "harsh and repugnant" asser-
tion was wrung from him, he said,
even though the future of his own
dreams is a time of everlasting
peace.
Even race prejudice has its place
in the development of mankind, he
said, and sooner or later the nations
will have to consider whether it is a
good thing not only to overcome such
prejudices but to eliminate them
altogether.
"I am convinced," he said, "that
these inborn dislikes must be given
an assigned place. The human race
is like a British football league with
divisions of white and yellow, black
and brown, between which no trans -
"Nature endowed'"her'°' trrear• t;eume
with a spirit of antagonism for her
own purposes. In us it creeps out
as national rivalries and jealousies.
The modern name for that spirit of
antagonism is race prejudice."
Earth Yields Building
Outlines of Paestum,
Ancient Greek City
Naples.—The excavations of the
Forum at Paestum, , the ancient city
of Greek origin, are nearing comple-
tion. The Forum, which was added
to the city in Roman times, measures
about sixty-five yards by 160s and
numerous remains of temples, law
courts, stores and houses have ap•
peered.
Paestum posesses the two finest
Greek temples out of Greece, and with
the new excavations the old city is
revealing its topography clearly.
"People are taught to be impudent
or greedy; they are not naturally so."
—G. K. Chesterton.
"Back to Earth"
Workmen dismantling huge balloon that carried Prof'. Auguste Placard and his assistant ten mites
above. earth to stratosphere, in an eiglitee- hour ex proration of -upper reaches of sky. Peelle of dis-
mantling is huge glacier near Ober Gurgl it the Tyrolean Alps, on which scientists landed.
IG.L » Plan Active
Summer Program
Thirty Camps in Ontario
Will Offer All the De.
lights of Out -door
Life -
To all Canadian Girls in Training
who read these words, r am glad to
be able to send greetings; which at this
time of year must certainty include a
wish for success at examinations. As
examinations seam like a mountain' to
be climbed, perhaps a few words about
what may be found on the other' side
of the mountain might he encouraging.
For some of you there is a •summer vas
cation in the northland; for others,
perhaps; a job at home; and for others.
camp. It is- of this last that I would
spec c,,
"Who hath smelt wood smoke at twl
light,
Who hath heard the birch logs bur&
ing,
Who is swift to read the voices of the
night?-
Let him follow with the other,
For the youthful feet are turning
To camps of proved desire and known
delight" —Kipling,
There will be In this province alone
nearly thirty camps for Canadian
Girls In Training and other girls in
the Sunday schools. There will be two
leaders' Camps at Beau Rivage, July
17-27; and Beausoleil, August 11-21.
There will be six provincial girls'
camps for senior girls, 15-18 (19th
birthday) at Normandale, July 21-31,
and August 11-21; Beau Rivage, July
17-27, and July 29 - August 8; Beauso-
leil, August 22 - September 1; Vail's
Point, July 6-16. And there will be
nineteen or twenty city and district
camps; some for seniors, others for
intermediates. Information about all
camps can be obtained by writing to
Miss Jessie Macpherson, Room 416,
299 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ont.
What camp may mean to the girls
who attend, to the groups. and Sunday
school classes from which they go,
and to their associates at home, only
campers or those who have known
campers can tell. They do cost
money. But the returns in fun, in
health, in friendship, in new ideas, in
new enthusiasm, in new purposes, are
such that the cost is relatively small. .
And even in this year of scarcity of
money, wonders can be worked with
a little sacrifice of other things for
something greater. Camp is more en-
riching than almost any other experi-
ence, and therefore worth more sacri-
fice. It is my hope that many of you
will be able to say with W. B. Yeats:
"I will arise and go now, and go to
Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of
clay and wattles made;
Z ino bean • row#' win 1 have there, a
hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee -loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for
peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morn-
ing to 'where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and
noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's
wings.
I will arise and go now, for always
night and day
I bear lake water lapping with low
sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on
the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
W. Y. Yeats.
—Jessie Macpherson.
Autogiro Foreseen
As Fighting Craft
Washington.—After several flights
in the navy's new autogiro, David S.
Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy for Aeronautics, is convinced
the windmill plane ultimately will be
endowed with double its present
speed and take its place as a formi-
dable Bghtlugg craft.
By comparison_ with his Curtiss
plane, with its cruising speed of 150.
to 160 miles an hour, the 75 to 85 -
mile gait of the autogiro, in which
he piloted Charles Francis Adams,
Secretary of the Navy, seemed
"pretty slow," Mr. Ingalls said.
"But," he added, "there are a
dozen ways in which the speed of
the autogiro can bo increased by ap-
plication of stream lining and other
well-known principles of aircraft con -
Struction. "
Mr, Ingalls predicted eventual im•
provements in design would give the
autogiro a speed almost if not quite
equal to that of a navy plane of
similar size and power. ...
Even if some slight discrepancy in
speed might remain, he said, this
would be outweighed by the advan-
tages of; being, able to take off and
land in a small space and to descend
vertically at less than the speed of
a parachute, if disabled.
Hardworking Clock Does All
But Shave Ingenious Inventor
Dayton, Ky.—Life .s a simple mats
ter for Henry Fahrcnholtz. He has
devised a robot which consists of a
clockwork' installed in a talking ma-
chine.
When the alarm sounds the talking,
machine starts and the lights are
turned on.
At the end of the record the radio
is turned on, the furnace connected,
and the t:uffee percolator started,