HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-10-01, Page 6No doubt most Lone Scouts and gersoll; John Newcombe and John
Lone Petrels are now looking forward Frewer of Lakefield; jack Carnerie of
with considerable anticipation to the
Fall and Winter Scout Activities, after
having enjoyed a good summer. out-
of-doors,
We are glad to say that quite a few
Lollies took advantage of the Camp
Invitations sent in by the various Re-
gular Troops throughout the Province,
and those that did so all report that
they were well looked after and that
they had a good time and thoroughly
enjoyed their holiday.
It is hoped that next summer cir-
cumstances will permit the Lone
Scout Department to hold another ex-
clusively Lone Scout Camp as in pre- the older Lonies who live on farms
vious years, and are not able to get away for camp
Exhibition Visitors in the Sumer time, that it would be a
Scout Headquarters this year had a good
Lone Scouts ea to asame timnge a e'duo ng the
ther"
booth at the Canadian National Ex-
hibition in the Ontario Government winter.
Building; and this was a source of At Ebor Park Gilwell Camp; near
great attraction, and a magnet to all Brantford, Ont., the Provincial Scout
boys of Scout age, during the two Couucii for Ontario have some very
weeks of the Exhibition. suitable and cosy buildings situated in
We are glad that so many Lone a beautiful park, which would be ideal
Scouts and ex -Lone Scouts took the
Stratford; Don Armitage of Alisa
Craig; Alan Dawson of Toronto; Lloyd
Young of Newcastle; Jack Seeley of
Toronto; AlanParsons, Wesley Dew,
Charlie Gates and Gordon Patton of
King; Jack Ne\fans of Pickering; and
Douglas Warren of Fenelon Falls. Ex-
Lonies:—Melvin Prine (now A.S.M.
o fthe Paris Troop) ; Bob Manning;
AL Forrest; Jim McLean; Oscar Mus-
sellmau; Hugh Parsons; Russell
Ingram; Harry Runiball; Bruce Rob-
ertson; and Bill Park of Maple..
Proposed Winter Camp
It has been suggested by several bf
opportunity to visit this booth, and to
make the acquaintance of the officials
on duty there. We are also delighted
that some of you took advantage of
the accommodation at your disposal
at the Scout Camp inside the Exhibi-
tion Grounds, where we learned you
were very happy and comfortable.
On Saturday, September 12th, Scout
Day at the Ex, about . 20 Lonies and
ex-Lonies took part in the Scout Par-
ade, under Scoutmaster Don Hutchi-
son, of the 2nd Ont. Lone Scout; Troop,
when several thousand Scouts were
reviewed by Lieut.Governor W. D.
Ross, assisted by Mr. John Stiles,
Chief Executive Commissioner of the
Boy Scouts of Canada and Mr. G. Bar-
rett Rich of Buffalo, National Scout
Lommissiouer of the Boy Scouts of
America.
After the review, the Lorries entered
the Grand Stand and, witnessed the
Scout Display and Vaudeville.
The following reported at the Scout
Booth or to the Scout Officials in the
Exhibition Grounds: — Lone Scouts
Muir North and Percy North of Mark-
ham; Donald Sabiston, Charlie Gray
and John Young of Unionville; Charlie
Haight of Pickering; Ron Sage of In -
for a winter camp. We wonder how
many Lorries would be interested in
attending such a camp, if same was
arranged, and we invite you to write
to "Lone E," at Lone Scout Head.
quarters, 330 Bay Street, Toronto,
giving us your opinion, and stating
when you think would be a suitable
time and for what duration such a
camp should be held. The buildings
which we mention are permanent, and
can be heated, and would be very com-
fortable indeed.
Lone Scout Question Box
Don't forget the Lone Scout Ques-
tion Box, through which "Lone E" will
endeavour to answer. any queries re-
garding Scouting. Write to him at
the above address. -
How to Become a Lone • Scout
If you are between 12 and 18 years
of age, and interested in Scouting, and
unable to join an existing Troop,
write to "Lone E" at the Lone Scout
Department, 330 Bay Street, Toronto
2, who will be pleased to send you in-
formation as to how you can become
a Lone Scout.
Lone Scouting is designed principal-
ly to give boys in rural districts and
small villages a chance to become Boy
Scouts.—"Lone E."
British Convicts
Prefer Dickens
London. — Charles Dickens is de-
clared to be 'the most popular author
among British prisoners. The reason
is that his books take longer to read
than most novels, and therefore pass
away more time than the average mod-
ern book.
Other favorites are P. G. Wade -
house, the popular humorist; Edgar
Rice Burroughs, creator of the famous
Tarzan series; and E. ""fillips Oppen-
heim.
Strangely enough, convicts thor-
oughly appreciate Edgar Wallace. His
books are rarely left on the library
shelves,, and snr,P months ago there
was much discontent among prisoners
when informed ey the librarian that
the whole prison stock of Edgar Wal-
lace
allace volumes was being reserved for
the use of a man under sentence of
death.
New Airship': Cook
•
Akron's 110 -pound range undergoes test by W. F. Bucher, ships
.cook, who will prepare meals for crew of 65 enlisted men and 15
Expert Forms Mental Picture
Of Cancer After Test
Philadelphia.—Here is a clear, filum-
inating picture of cancer,' This men-
tal picture has been painted by. Dr.
Ellice McDonald, director of the Can-
cer Research Laboratories of the
Graduate School of Medicine, Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, who made his
report at the America Pharmaceutical
Association meeting.
Cancer, as he sees it, is a problem'
to be solved in the laboratory by the
Physical chemist, with the assistance
,of the biologist, who studies all living
organisms, and the cytologist, who
specializes in cull organisms.
In the background of the doctor's
picture lie shows that in order to un-
derstand cancer it is necessary to
make of it .a .mechanical model, just
as the physicist, to understand the
atom and its operation, has made mod-
els with moving orbits. The model for the cancer mechan-
ism is the living cell, with four dis-
tinct component parts—the nucleus,
the protoplasm, the semi -permeable
cell membrane and the environment
(blood and tissue juices). By means
of its environment the cell gets rid Of
its 'wastes. Glycogen, or animal sugar,
is almost the sole source or cell eller.
gy. In normal cella half the absorbed
glycogen is oxidized and half turned
to lactic acid. In cancerous cells for
every thirteen glycogen molecules
twelve split up into lactic acid and
only one is oxidized.
Other details enumerated in Dr. Mc-
Donald's cancer picture are that can-
cer blood is more alkaline than normal,:
blood, and the more alkaline the blood
the quicker the disease acts. Cancer
patients have more sugar in their
blood and the more sugar the shorter
life. Cancer cells have relatively more
potassium and less calcium than nor-
mal cells, and the greater such 'differ.
encs the more virulent the disease.
Following the picture, Dr. McDon-
ald's criteria for treating cancer come
about perfectly logically—the condi-
tion
ondition must be :produced which will do
rive things—normalize the break-up of
body sugar, normalize the blood's alka-
line state, reduce high blood sugar, in- '
crease the cell's calcium and reduce
the cell's potassium.
• officers. Woolless Lambs -
Reported By Soviet
Ice Yields Relics of Gold Supply
Rescue Expedition > Grows in Francer'owskoe, near Moscow, and housed in Toronto.—Gardeners will welcome
•
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Now comes the story of a lamb with-
out wool, born in -the village of Pok
Poison Mixtures
For Shrub Pests
the Zootechnical Institute in that these compounds to eradicate destruc•
Soviet capital. The animal is des- tive insects to flowers:
Objects Left by Nobile Rescue With U.S. Holdings Repre- cribs, b
y E. T. Popova-Wassina of
Nicotine Sulphate •
Party Found in Remark- 11. sent 65 Per Cent. of that institution.
mal coat of wool dude was a black, phate dust with 9% ounces of hydrat
tion Paris.,.—The hoard of gold metal short tailed ewe with a fleece turned ed dime. The lime may be bought at
r neatly stacked ., in the vast, under- any building supply 'or hardware store.
Stockholm.—The preserving' quail- gray and with write marks on the top Sift the dust and the lime through a
ties of ice have once more been shown :ground vaults of the Bank of France of her head and on the tip of her tail.
by a Swedish Arctic expedition, head- lives increased recently to an all-time
ed by Professor Hans Ahlmann, 01 redord of 58,576,000,000' france ($2, is keeping,"
Stockholm University- He and his' 284464,000).
party have returned to Stockholm of- The French gold reserves now total
ter many months cruising . on the •per cent. of •the world's gold, and
The mother of the ram had the nor -
Mix one-half `ounce of nicotine su
able State of Preserve World Supply
1�n
steamship Quest in the waters be-
tween Spitzbergen and Novaja Zemlja.
The expedition landed at Foyn Is-
land and there struck the abandoned
camp of Captain Sora, the Italian Al-
pinist, and van Donghen, the Norweg-
ian flyer, who three years ago attempt -
Dominion's Pacific
Exports Expand
Ottawa.—According to recent statis-
tics Canada's transpacific trade is
steadily gaining, and whereas 10 years
ago the United States trade with
China and Japan was 50 times that of
Canada, it is now only 20 times. In
that period Canada's trade has', in-
creased sixfold with Japan and `four-
fold with China.
The outstanding feature of Cana-
dian trade with China and -Japan has
been an exceedingly rapid increase in
I exports.•Due to world conditions these
exports were not so great in1930':and
1931, but in 1929 they were $24,200,000
to China as against $6,700,000 in 1920
and $42,000,000 to Japan as against $6,-
500,000.
The balance of trade, formerly about,
parity, has now swung strongly, in
Canada's favor, exports being about
three times the imports. Ten years
ago Canada had only three -tenths of
1 per cent. of the import trade of
After a convict has served a month China and Japan; now it has 3 per
of his sentence and has behaved him- cent.
self properly, he is allowed a novel, The chief contributing factors to the
which supplements the books of re- great increase in Canada's exports to
iigious instruction issued to him when Japan were in aluminum, lead, wheat,
he enters the prison. wheat flour and wood pulp, and to
A month later he is allowed another China fish, lumber, silver, wheat and
novel, and after a certain period of
his sentence has elapsed he is allowed
to read one volume a week.
On library day, each convict chalks
up his choice on a slate and leaves it
outside his cell, where the prison
librarian—a convict—collects it and
takes it away to the library.
Then, having found all the books on
the prisoners' lists, and having used
his own discretion in cases where
Woks asked for having been allotted
to others, the Iibrarian loads his hand-
cart and begins his day -long journey
from cell to cell.
Competition for the post of librarian
is keen, but the `chaplain usually
choses a. man who had been a business
man before breaking the law.
Though ranking next to the cooks It takes sound 6,000 times longer to
as the pick of the prison tasks, it is travel an inch, and it would take a bul-
bard work, and has. not the compensa- let sixty times longer to pierce the
tion of the extra half pound of bread :paper on which this is printed. There
allotted daily to the :garden party and is no guesswork about these minute
prisoners in the engineering shop. measurements. They are determined
far more accurately than the average.
wheat flour.
the United States reserves total 42 per
cent., thus placing 65 per cent. of the
entire supply within the borders of
two countries..
Investigators of the League of Na-
tions sub -committee on gold, working
in their. Paris offices, contended that
ed to rescue General Nobile's Italia ex- they did not see any danger to world
pedition. They were, at the time,.:pia- trade, to the gold standard or to liv-
rooned on this island and on the verge ing costs in France ; or America even
of starvation when 'finally saved by if hoarding of gold • in the two coun-
Swedish flyers. tries continued fox another year. pn
The men from the Quest found at the other hand, there has been wide -
the abandoned camp a damaged tent, spread criticism of the vast reserves
a polar sleigh, a camera, a alvei piled up by the United States and
watch, a hip -pocket flash, a ker"gene. France.
stove and various other obje• all The League experts said the French
remarkably well preserved byaii r ; `, gold reserve was actually only $600,
so much so that :the watch when's 000,000 larger than her holdings be
wound up• at once started going. The.' fore the World War, The United
camera was not damaged.. A pocket- JI States holdings are some $3,000,000,000
book contained besides Italian end more than in 1913, but the proportion
Norwegian bank notes, photoge hs' -of wealth in America has made a simi-
and hastily penned notes, which were lar increase.- ,
still decipherable., The life rope was England, Turkey, Egypt, India, Aus-
as strong as ever. All these finds will tralia, South Africa, New Zealand and
Italy have only :a.little more gold than
be returned to their owners.
A 600 Millionth of a Second
Measured by Scientist
A millennium Is nothing to a geolog-
ist, tenths of a second an eternity at
the race track, and a few thousandths
of a second often a matter of dollars
and cents in handling big electrical
machinery. But probably the shortest
time that ever worried an engineer is
on the mind of Dr, Mouromtsef:, who
is experimenting with short-wave
radio tubes in the Westinghouse Re-
search Laboratories. He must time
an electron as it travels a fraction of
an inch inside the tube—about one
six hundred millionth of a seeped.
Northern Flight Russia tort 86 per cent, of her gold
they held before • the war. Germany
and Russia have -pilfered great losses.
Establishes Record .during the. war and the revolution.
Edmonton, Alta.—Mr. W. A. Spence,'
Canadian aviator, completed on Sept..I
Not this Time
7 what is described as the northern Sandy arrived at the boarding-house
most flight in the history of commer-j and was shown to his room.,
tial aviation. He flew from Copper 'f";«There you are, sir; said the land-
ady, "that's your room."
'•'?"Looks comfortable," said Sandy.
"Yes, sir,' went on the woman, "peo-
mine on Coronation Gull to Walker
Bay on the northeast :of Victoria Is-
land, 600 miles, between sunrise and
Plane Minus Tail
Flown in Berlin
Berlin. ---An airplane without a tail, Al$rentlne Crops
designed by Capt. 7•Iermann I?`oebI, Show IncreasC
transatlantic flier, has been demon. Buenos Aires, Arg.—Argentina
Ministry of Transportations se
strafed before representatives of the
ported 2,840,000 tons of wheat and
It has a wingspread of only 45 feet flour, 1,180,000 tons 'of linseed and 4,
and is driven by a 28 -horsepower me- 830,000 tons of mato during the first
tor. Its sponsors claim it has shown seven months of this year, an official
such remarkable flying • qualities that Ministry of Agriculture report recent -
it may prove to be a turning point In ly stated.
airplane, constconstruction.Wheat production showed an in-
crease of 2,706,000 tons over the pre -
P. ," viotte year, and linseed production was
g
,,They 5
sa • finding
P, ..."Yes; blitfill some people keep 480,000 tong, greater than the total a
finding is tattle" year ago.
sunset. pie usually admit I've made them cone -
His flight was 150 miles longer than etortable here. I've always had a gift
that of Mr. Walter Gilbert and Maj,;
L, T. Burwash last year over the bleak
northern land. •
41 Tay Carpe Jaunt
man estimates how long it will take
him to wails up one flight of stairs.
for doing that."•
"Is that a fact?" .said Sandy. "Weel,
you needna' expect one from me."
Twenty -One year old .art � indent from Syracuse, 1,1".Y.,, arrives in
Paris, France, alter taking 4i days to paddle his canoe frontArrester-
dant, Holland.
The father -was a normal animal of a
short -tailed Northern breed, andwas
also black. The other lamb, which
was born. simultaneously with the
woolless one—a sister—was normal, may irritate the throat.
black, with marks on the top of its Nicotine Sulphate and Soap
head.
The ram is completely naked except This solution is prepared by dis-
for a small amount of hair on the solving one ounce of common laundry
rear surface of the hind legs, and some soap or fish -oil soap in each gallon of
hair on the tip of the tail. Its skin is water. Just before spraying, mix one
deep black, shiny and folded. The to 1.14 teaspoonful of a nicotine sul-
hairs on .the tip of the tail are white, phate or tobacco extract in each gal-
as in the case of the mother. It has I ion of the solution. This should be
well -develop horns and is growing applied, as well as the other sprays,
quite normally. with .a sprayer, as it is important to
The farmer who owned the ram has get the material on the under side of
been breeding his flock of sheep since the leaves.
1910, and . the flock has grown and. Arsenate of Lead Spray
multiplied by a system of intense in- Mix three teaspoonlsful of arsenate
breeding. From the beginning, the of lead powder to one gallon of water.
farmer bred the animals from four Adding an ounce of soap to the spray
ewes purchased from a neighbor. Ac- will help it spread and stick.
cording to his statement he has not
flour duster several times to insure a
good mixture. Apply with commercial
hand duster or blower. Dust when
the foliage is dry and the air still.
Avoid inhaling much of the dust, as it
bought any oteergheep :during a Poison Bran Bait
period of twenty years. Apparently Mix ' one ounce of Paris -green or
the father of this naked lamb was white arsenic with P4 pounds dry
closely related to its- mother, and it bran in a container. In another con•
appears to be a case of au extracted tainer stir four fluid ounces of moles -
recessive ' consequent upon inbreed- ses or syrup in one-half pint of water.
ing. I Prepare a 'mash by slowly adding the
t the Poison bran Scat
syrup mixture to po Scat -
Offsetting Machines•• ter thinly over the surface of the sola
along the rows after sundown.
By James Curley, Mayor of Boston, an-
flouncing
n '
nouncing.a Five -Day Week for City Airport to be Erected
Beginning in January. Shortly in Scotland
The five-day week is here. We are I A large civic airdrome is about to
going to instituteeit in Boston in. Sanu- be built at Falkirk, writes a corres-
ary and we hope the example set by!Fondant of the Christian Science
tfie' city may be generally accepted byMonitor. This will be Scotland's first
every other community in America. 1 civil airdrome, and the chosen site is
There is no other answer if the in- considered by authorities to be one of
ventive genius of the American nation the finest in Britain. Falkirk has
robs the people of America of 3,000,- shownean advanced "air -mindedness"
000 opportunities, for. a livelihood in "influenced in no small way by the ac -
ten years. If, as the economists state, i tivities of the local Publicity and De -
in the next ten years 4,000,000 more velopment Association. A company
opportunities will vanish, there is only formed with• a large amount of capital
one answer, and that is the adoption will be .known as the Scottish Air -
of the five-day week. I ways, Ltd., and a service between Pal-
You
alYou increase the number of em- kirk and London will be inaugurated.
ployees by 16 per cent., and you offset So far as suitability of site is concern -
,Employees
the vanishing job.
ed the proposed Mid -Scotland Air-
drome would seem to meet Air Minis
try requirements geographically and
Kissing is Dangerous!
topographically.•
"Don't kiss me. I don't want to be
sick!"
The "sweet young thing" who bends Warren of Persia
over a baby to salute it in the usual Become Emancipated
way must get rather a nasty shock
when she sees these words inscribed Teheran, Persia.—The ",westerniza-
on its bib: tion" of Persia has begun in earnest.
That is the idea. The bibs are 18 -Parliament have now incorporated
sued by the health department of New- • engeuics and divorce rights for women
ark, New Jersey, to every baby in the in the marriage laws.
city as part of an anti -kissing cam- I A law requiring physical examine,
paign. And Newark's public healthtion of men and women before'roar-
officer recently arrived in this country I ridge was passed. The Minimum mar -
to spread the news that kissing is ridge age was set at 16 fox women and
dangerous. 18 for men.
Mest married men will agree with Women were given the uuprecedent-
him-but for rather different reasons, ed right to seek divorce for infidelity
Our visitor thinks kissing spreads dis- of their husbands. •
ease; married men know it very often
The public reaction to the new code
spells the end of bather: freedom. was not certain, particularly in view
of the fact that various earlier laws
designed to moaernize'•Persia met
such popular opposition that it was
Lord Riddell in John O'London's necessary to abandon or modify them.
Weekly (London): Basically, the gap The earlier•'laws related to the rights.
I of women and changes in the national
costume.
Gold and Wheat
between production and distribution is.
not due ;to gold shortage, but to the
disparity between the value of labor
f different
t classes and in different
countries-. One frequently hears the .Exports and imports Decreased
remarks- "Why should there be a glut Ottawa . -Canada decreased its um
of wheat when millions could do with favorable trade balance in the ,19
it?" The point is that the labour of months ending Anig. 31. by overe$58,.
the Chinese coolie is valued on a very 000,000; imports exceeded exports dur.
different basis from that of the Cana-. ing the 1930 period by $103,.506,000 and
' sham, American, or Argentine agricul .in 1981 by $45,182,000, according to
tural labourer. When you come down the Dominion bureau of statistics.
to Bedrock; the coolie has to barter Both exports and imports fell Bras•
his own labour for that of the wheat- tioally from 1.930 figures. imports
producer. AS the coolieearn only a this year were $752,507,000' and in 1930
fraction,' of what the wheat -producer $1,114,307,000. Exports' of Canadian
I earns, he cannot pay the costs of pro- products dwindled from $988,803,000
I duction. in 1930 to $603,802,000. , -