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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-07-16, Page 6pition Sails ' To Map 2004 le Labrador Coast •Arenfell Scientists to Chart Arctic Using Aircraft Photography for Mapping Neponset Mass.—Setting forth on a three months' cruise to the northern- most section of Labrador for the pur- pose of making accurate maps and charts of the whole northern 200 miles of the Labrador coastline, the Gren- fell northern Labrador charting ex- pedition left Lawley's shipyard re- cently aboard the 100 foot schooner Raman. Dr, Alexander Forbes, of the Harvard Medical School, is in charge of the expedition, which was first con- ceived and suggested by Sir Wilfred Grenfell, In addition to correcting charts of the region which at present are en- tirely inaccurate, particular attention will be paid to exploring the Torngat Mountains, a rugged, snow-capped and as yet unexplored range. The map- ping is being done by aerial photo- graphy, for which purpose two air- planes are scheduled to fly from Bos- ton on July 1, arriving at the scene of operations at about the same time as the schooner. Radio equipment, supplied particu- larly for communication between the ship andthe mapping planes, and with friends and sponsors in the United States through schedules with ama-, teur radio stations, has bee: installed by Edwin D. Brooks, Jr., radio amateur and Harvard student, who is accom- panying the expedition as radio oper- ator. The short-wave equipment will operate on the accustomed ship fre- quencies by special grant of the Fed- eral Radio Commission, and amateur contact arranged through the Ameri- can Radio Relay League will be relied upon principally for outside communi- cation. On the departure of the schooner it was stated that the party was pro- ceeding first to St. Anthony's, New- foundland, where several members of the crew 1vi11 be taken aboard. There also Sir Wilfred will join the schooner in his steam yacht, the Strathcona. With only a brief pause, the two ves- sels will continue north to the region where mapping will be begun. London Skyline is Undergoing Change Chimney -Pots and Other. Rapid Islands Off Alaska . Have Rocky Surface The thousands of islands of Alaska's southeastern "panhandle" are rugged and offer few places suitable for land planes to alight. But for the plane equipped with pontoons there are in- numerable resting places in bays and covers. Harbors with gasoline sup- plies are available at a; number'of ports inthisof Alaska, includ ing I(etchikan, Sitka and Juneau. - Eastward across the Gulf otAlaska, Kodiak_:Vielage on Kodiak Island fur- itishes the last possible base before the beginning ' of the long crescent sweep of the Aleutian Islands, which extend for 1,500 miles almost to the peninsula of Kamchatka, eastern out- post ut post of the Soviet Union. After the survivors of Bering's dis- covery voyage to Alaska in 1745 re- turned to Kamchatka, Russian adven- turers poured into the islands in search of furs, exploiting, enslaving and killing the natives. Few survived and since that day the islands have been sparsely settled, many of them. uninhabited. It was because they were opened up from the east that the islands are known as the Aleutians. The name is derived from that of a Kamchatkan cape, the National Geo- graphic Society says. Although the Aleutians are as far north as Central Canada their climate is not severely cold. Rather they may be said to be always "chilly," damp and foggy. Fog is anything but an asset to the flyer; but the Aleutian 'fog has the good point, at least, of be- ing less dense than the fog of more southern lands. Dutch Harbor, .Unalaska, is the first harbor of importance in the islands. This deep, landlocked harbor is one of the'finest in the North and has played an important part as a way es to the Yukon and to Nome. It is station for ships during the gold rush - by a radio station. Dutch Harbor is connected with the rest of the world on the shortest route from Seattle to Tokyo, and with the establishment of coating stations may conceivably be - tome such a Pacific way station for the northern route as Honolulu is for the southern. Stacks ly Disap- peering London.—The new London is to be a London without' ohimuey-pots. All over central and west end London new buildings are going up with flat roofs. Gas fires and electric radiators are displacing coal fires. The 'traditional open grate is passing and is taking away with it those infinitely varied Rue -problems which still give the old London a skyline all chimney -pots and stacks and cowls. No other metropolitan skyline is quite like it. Its rows upon rows of red pots, clustering two or four or eight to a chimney, astonish and puz- zle every newcomer to London—,par- ticularly newcomers who land at Southampton or down the Thames, be - cense the boat trains from these ports eater London on elevated structures whence the •newcomer's first view of London consists almost exclusively of chimney -pots. Except in parts of the east end, where the streets consist of rows of cottages exactly alike, there is usual- ly an astonishing variety of pots and cowls to be observed.. This is because chimneys have diseases and chimney doctors do their prescribing with lengths of stack and bends of cowl. The Causes of War Boston Christian Science Monitor: War is, in aiarge sense, a social econ- omic. problem. It is out of distress, unemployment, upheaval and despair that wars are made. Millions of men and women out of work, countries plungedinto the deepest difficulties, ruined tradesmen and impoverished fanners are the raw materials of con- flict, The profound discontent of pov- erty, with all its harmful potential- ities, is not ons a result but a cause of strife. A chimney may do its work regularly and complacently until the east wind conies along and then perhaps it falls into an acute depression and refuses to work at all. For an ailment of this prescribe a taller stack with a cowl sort the chimuey-doctor is likely to added. This variety of pots and cowls, each designed to meet its own particular variety of flue complaint, gives the old skyline of Loudon its fantastic shapes. Sometimes a chimney behaves itself for years until the erection of a taller building next door. Miles upon miles of old Loudon streets still retain their old chimney - pots, but in the heart of. London no new ones ' are 'being erected. And same who believe that coal fires and makers of fogs are not sorry to see their chimney -pot vents are the the old skyline disappear. New Type PIane May Explore Stratosphere Roswell, NT.M., July 4.—New experi- ments in rockets and airplane motors to enable the study of the stratosphere are being made here by Dr. Robert H. Goddard, professor of physics at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. He selected Roswell because of at- mospheric conditions and the absence of storni areas. A new type- of airplane motor that Will enable airplanes to travel in rare atmospheres ,and et higher.speed than aver has been attained has been de- veloped by Dr. Goddard and patented. "It has been estimated that above 600 miles an hour, rocket propulsion for airplanes will be more effective than any other type and it is on this theory that I have built and patented this motor," he said. "Although the rocket jets them- selves have more efficiency than either the Diesel engine or the steam tur- bine, this efficiency can not be utilized at lower, or present airplane speeds, because a large part of the energy passes off in the jet and comparative- ly little is given to the plane. The pre- sent invention, involving the use of a turbine and propeller, in addition to rocket jets, overcomes the disadvant- age which exists under 600 miles au hour." Dr. Goddard's rockets will carry thermometers, barometers, electrical measuring apparatus, air traps to col- lect samples of upper air strata and other specially designed apparatus to gather information from the strato- sphere. Propelled by .a newly developed liquid fuel, Dr. Goddard hopes to send the rockets 250 miles into the air. Souls 'Meson's souse of the sons of God are greater than their business; and they are thrown out, not to do a cer- tain thing; to have some sacred lineaments, to show seine divine tint of the Parent Mind from which they Finland to Preserve Folklore of Country Helsingfors, Finland.—Fiuland pos- sesses one of the largest collections of folklore in the world. "Brags," the society which fosters and guides these efforts, celebrated the twenty-fifth an- niversary of its foundation in March. Its members are drawn from all parts of the country where Swedish is spoken, and from all classes of society, and at least one-fourth of those attend- ing the festivities were in national costume. Traditional part songs and solos were rendered, old-time dances performed with so much verve and expression that all could interpret their meaning,. and a performance of excellent presentation of country life in bygone days. Five -and -Twenty Five -and -twenty la the very harVeet- tune of life, to gather precious corn and fruit of our labors against the cold storms and cloudy days of aged win- ter, when the body is weak, the eye- sight decayed, and the hands tremble. •- Bulleyn. ,tom ' Law of History • The fundamental laws of history Is, that it should neither dare to say any- thing that is false, nor fear to say any- thing that is true, nor give any just ' suspicion of favor or disaffection. - Cicero, come.—Martineau, A C:a rmin S iii The se Garden at trust share in the beauty of the old gageshare—a sort of unwritten law, in vogue summer after summer—com- prises a dozen roses to each caller. And the bestowal carries with it some- thing of a ceremonial. It means much more than a neighborly exchange. There is an exquisite graciousnessof manner in these daughters of the house. There is an affection for the flowers and for the old garden, full of memories of other summer days, an affection which both giver and re- cipient feel. For months these friends look forward to these yearly visite. Roses from the farm garden are' both a reminder and a fulfillment. the Farm (From an old diary.) Life on the farm, in this year of 1880, is satisfactory and at no time more so than in midsummer with the rose garden at its best. Nearly every- one in the near -by villages and on neighboring farms possesses roses; but no roses, it is generally conceded, on neighboring farms possesses roses; which grow in the old garden, on Texas John Smith's farm. Then are many things besides roses that are accented as a .natter of course, in these days. Among the many, rank names. The writing of Texas John, without quotation marks, is considered eminently proper and no one thinks it necessary to explain the reason for it. Not only is he a man of parts in the community, but his farm is one of the finest in a sec- tion of Michigan which is renowned for its fertile farming lands. And the farm garden! It is at the rear of the spacious, comfortable house, at the left of the driveway, in- closed by yhite pickets which. in sea- son, never succeed in doing their duty. Ramblers, climbers and long-stemmed "Jacks" refuse to stay within the en- closure, but lean over, cxeep under ar twine around the outer sides of they would-be stern, •yet- •i eally friendly ; pickets. Each morning during June and July the daughters of the house pre-' pare for the daily visitors, who sold re fail to come. Into the garden early,! before the sun gets high, come these. two young women, with garden sh-acs and baskets. Deep pails, filled with cold water, receive the cuttings, and during the day the roses draw thele refreshment, waiting for what may be called their presentation hour. Sometimes the visitors arrive Sing- ly, but not infrequently as many as five or six vehicles may be seen drawn up along the driveway, between the farmhouse and the great barns which lie well to the east. Phaetons and surreys are the usual conveyances, with an occasional carryall., and upon is.re times a high -seated trap, black in its body and yellow as to wheels. Into the shaded parlor the visitors come. Their hostesses, Miss Agnes and Miss Florence, have not long to' wait 'Jefore the conversation turns to roses; and, even while remonstrances, are being uttered, the daughters of the house insist that their gusts 1 a�P Food From Coal_ May Be Possible Dortmund, Germat,y.—A scientific discoVere is announced here which, by use of a little imagination, seems a step in the general direction of event- ual i anufacture of food from coal. Prof. Wilhelm Cludd, director of the Goal 'Research Society, told members of the organization today that Ger- man natural scientists have solved the problem of producing synthetic albu- men•'role coal. Neural science has already ;pro- duced" dyestuffs, flavoring extracts and HO' uelefroni. coal. It was made VIM fiat 'the day has not yet come when synthetic steaks and chops could be made from the surpluses glutting world: coal markets, but the synthetic albumen invention apparently was a move'in that direction. r.. »+- p} " W::_tl, howla everything up tew the city?" "Everything- up tew the city is country just the same as it is here. Of course, after you get inter the city that's different," Tooth Cavities The Useful Yak � R Fill Themselves Again rn Demand M'entzl Torture at Dentist's May Cease Through New Discoveries by Dr. S. L. Davis Washington. — Carefully regulated eating was envisioned here last week as promising mankind• freedom from the misery of decaying teeth, and even the healing of those in which decay had made considerable progress. The successful healirg of decayed. teeth solely through treatment with special diets was reported at a dinner given in honor of 'Or, Sherman L. Davis, wh,, was credited with recent nutritional discoveries which may bring about profound changes in the practice of dentistry. A case of the filling of a cavity in a tooth without mechanical assistance in Washington was described. At least a dozen similar cases were said to have been reported by dentists in various parts of the country, and it was held to have been demonstrated that decay of the teeth almost al- ways can be preveated and in many cases arrested after it has made pro- gress through dietary treatment. Dr. D. C. Robinson, chief surgeon of the Youngstown and Inland Steel Corporation, describeu Dr. Davis' ac- cotnpliehment as "one that bids fair to range with thae of Louis Pasteur," and Dr. M. A. Eiigli.,h, a Washington physician, said he was "so impressed from a medical standpoint" • that he would insist on every new case of his taking an examination to determine whether there was need for the nutri- tional treatment. The Washington case of self -res- toration of a tooth was described as that of a man forty-eight years old, who presented himself for an exam- ination Febru..ry 1, 1930, and was found to have eighteen cavities, of which six were new and the others had appeared around good fillings. One, a cervical erosion cavity in the lower right first bicuspid, was left open for observation purposes and a special diet worked out by Dr. Davis was prescribed. This cavity was re- ported smaller when examined Octo- ber 4, and had entirele recalcified, or filled.up naturally, on June 2, when the patient was last examined. Dr. Davis told of 675 cases over which he had maintained personal se.- pervi:iion. After checking them for a period of six months, during which time an average of four cavities ap- peared in the teeth of each patient, each patient was examined and placed on a diet deemed best suited to indi- vidual needs. Upon examination after another six months period, he said that instead of finding the 2,700 new cavities which might have been ex- pected on the basis of, the first six months of observation, only five were disclosed in the group. Ile added that he had made numerous tests of treat- ing hypersensitive teeth with the same method and had not experienced a failure. Dr. Leo W. Solbsch, a director of the Clinic Club, described the method of procedure in diagnosis. Assuming that nutrition is of primary import• ance, he said, the first step should be the taking of X-ray pictures of the mouth. A history of the physical con- dition of the patient in the past, and various analyses should be obtained, he went on, to determine sugar, albu- men and ,phosphorus requirements and disclose such condition as anemia, infection and diabetes. With the pa- tient's needs thus determined, he ;,sire a proper diet and treatment can be prescribed. It was his first day as a caddie and he had shown so much interest in the play that at the end of it his em- ployer asked him how he liked it. "0h! I'm just crazy about it," replied the youngster. "The only part I don't like is carrying this bag." "Babes in the Wood" One reason wily., children get a big kick out 4f the great out-of-doors. This tiny fawn seems tG have a fascination for 3 -year-old Shirley Russell, w410, 11x3osn, siwt ,Of lunch. British Expedition To Use Yak in Himalayan Mountain Crescent The yak, which is being used fox transport purposes by the British Ex- pedition to Mount Kamet, is consider- ed the most useful animal of the fns. tives of Tibet. He flourishes at high altitudes, and is. a strong beast, often furnishing the power by which their grain is threshed, His long black hair is woven into tent cloth or ropes; his tall serves as a "fly whisk." The milk which is not drunk is turned into but- ter and cheese. When old, the yak is killed and his flesh is dried, providing meat for a long time. His hide sup- plies leather of every kind, The wild yak is large, standing six feet high at the shoulder. This spe• cies is confined to the arid central plateau of Tibet. The domesticated typo is smaller. Evidently, however, the line between the wild and do- mesticated yak .,i :' difficult to draw, judging from the experience of moun- tain climbers. Tite Kamet .Expedition recently reported a small stamiiede of the yaks, The Mount Everest Recon- noissance of 1921 made the following comments: "The yaks supplied to us were very wild. In a few minutes af- ter starting we saw the plain strewn with our kits and stores, and the yaks careering off in every direction." Again their historian reports that the wild yaks "rapidly got rid. of their loads," but also that they are the most "satisfactory beast of burdeu; although their pace is slow—about two miles an hour—they seldom halt until daylight fails." Because of the sound of the yak's name, and of its convenient size, the animal is also useful in this country, his place of residence being found in cross -word puzzles, and in limericks and in nonsense verses and other light rhymes. Rochester, England, Marks Ancient Historic Episodes Rochester, that ancient Kentish city, with its Norman castle, its ca- thedral, is many fine old Tudor houses and its Dickensian associations, drew attention to its beauties by a pageant in which eight of the most stirring evens in its history were represented. The pageant, beginning June 22, last- ed asted a week, and opened with the Ro- man Emperor Claudius establishing his camp on the present site of the city in A.D. 43. The next episode showed Ring Ethelbert of Kent visit- ing the city with Justus, the first Bish- op of the Diocese, and St. Augustine, to decree the building of a church on the site now occupied by the cathedral, Then followed the dedication of the cathedral:,by Henry I; the Garrison of the castle successfully .resisting the final attack of Simon De Montfort's army in 1264; Chaucer'a arrival in Strood soon after the commencement of work upon the new bridge project- ed rojected by Sir John De Cobham and Sir Robert Knolles in 1383; Queen Eliza- beth's visit in 1573; and Charles II's departure from Rochester on his jour- ney to London in 1660. Finally Dick- ens recalled in a reverie incidents in his life characters from his novels. In this episode people who, as children, actually knew Dickens when lie lived at Gad's Hill Place, took part. Dame Sybil Thorudyke, who is a native of the city, impersonated the spirit of Rochester at the pageant. Porcupines Record Trip United States Ranger Croghan of Glacier National Park recently re- ported what appears to be a record movement of the slow, snail -like trav- eler, the porcupine. 'As slow-moving as he is dull-wit- ted, a porcupine wil often cover a surprising distance by his persist- ence," says Ranger Croghan's report. "The morning of March 5 I encounter- ed the tracks of a porcupine on the North Fork Road in back of Fislt Creek ranger station, Following them, I discovered that the animal had made a round trip from the top of McGee Hill some time between the snowstorm of the early evening be- fore and my arrival at 9 in the morn- ing. "He had diligently followed the road for a distance of ten miles though his footprit.ts were rarely spaced at more than six inches apart. At no place was there any evidence that he had eaten, nor had he met any others of his kind. Had he, like so many summer visitors to the park's glories, made the trip for the sheer .joy of it?" A Village Treat A. certain young man of Sparsholt, in Berkshire,—who shall be name, less—has thought for his neighbors. He is about to be married to a girl from a neighboring centre, but the wedding will not take place at the bride's 'home because, as he naively puts It, he "wants the folk from his own village to have the rare oppoi' tunny of witnessing a wedding cere- mony." It will be a "rare opportun• ity for It will be the first wedding at Sparsholt in over three years, be- cause of which the centre has been named the "village without brldee." According to the vicar there are no "eligible ,girls" itt the village, and alt the teen have to seek elsewhere for their bride,;.