HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-10-08, Page 3Oce Yvt Bed at Deepest Point
Remains Unsolved Mystery
While Man continues his conquest
of the air and tho upper atmospheric
regions by means of airplanes and
balloons, the vast depths of the ocean
remain ivaccessiblo, except to sound-
ing instruments. A diver in a suit has
touched foreysix fathoms, or`270 feet,
and lived. William Beebe and Otis
Barton descended last year to a depth
of 1,426 feet off Bermuda in a steel
slihere, and various specimens of mut-
tacolored and illuminated fish have
been obtained from a mile below the
surface, but the rest of the under-
water world is impenetrable.
Yet an ocean depth of ground 35,000
feet has been reported, a distance
which exceeds the greatest known
height above sea level—Mount Ever-
est in the Himalayas, which is more
than 29,000 feet high. Ocean depths
greater than 13,000 feet are called
deeps and have names, as do moun-
tains. The 35,000 -foot measurcenent
was made in Mindanao Deep, between
the Philippines and Japan.
Nearly sixty deeps have been chart-
ed, more than half ot them in the Pa-
cific. The largest, the Valdiva, ex-
tending around Southern ,Africa, Part-
ly beneath the Indian Ocean, covers
an area caluculated to be 1,136,000
square miles, while the Murray, in the
Northern Pacific, have reaches almost
as great. Very deep soundings have
been made comparatively near land,
Particularly off the western coast of
South America, on Japan and ore the
South .Sea Islands. The Nares Deep,
the greatest lying wholly in the At-
lantic, bas a very irregular outline,
and in the vicinity of the West Indies
sinks to depths of more than 30,000
feet. It has an area of nearly 700,000
square miles.
A. hundred miles southeast of New
York City, lying a mile below the sur-
face, is Hudson Gorge, the nearest
deep-sea canyon. Twenty-five thous-
and years ago, when the oeean's level
was 300 feet lower than now, man
could have walked the 100 miles out
to sea dry -shod. A million years ago,
scientists 'estimate, the whole region
was dry soil.
To Wage W
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What New York
sect Pests Is We ring
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An appeal to take up the cudgels BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON
of war against flies, mosquitoes and
other insect pests is made by Wade
Morrow, Canadian Director of the
Rex Research Foundation, of Toronto,
Ontario.
The Rex Research Foundation is an
international organization devoted to
warfare on harmful insects. Mr. Mor-
row stated that, since the severe out-
break in 1912, the public has been lax
in keeping down these pests.
Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur'.
nished With Every Pattern
Warm, moist weather in many sec-
tions has aided e widespread increase
of flies and mosquitoes. He urged that
an extermination campaign be under-
taken, not alone for its immediate re-
sults but as a precaution against lar-
vae deposits that will result in hordes
of insects infesting this locality next
year.
"Beet authorities agree that there
are about 6 species of mosquitoes in
Canada which feed on the blood of
human beings," said Mr. Morrow.
"Although a majority of them are
most annoying in the woodlands, they
often cause people considerable
trouble indoors. In autumn they are
generally found in cellars and base-
ments.
"Too many of us are inclined to
think of flies in terms of personal dis-
comfort and annoyance. There are
no other insects that spread so much
disease—they are known to carry.
germs of 30 different 'ailments • Many
of which are 'Very often fatal. The
yearly toll of life from "fly borne dis-
eases" is nicire than the annual auto-
mobile fatalities. One fly can carry
as many as 6,000,000 germs on its
body from its common breeding place
in the most filthy places.
"Now is the time to exterminate
both these dangerous and deadly
pests. The best and most efficient
method is for every householder,
storekeeper or farmer to spray homes,
stores and barns twice daily with good
insecticide. Swatting the fly or the
use of flypapers in homes is ineffici-
ent, destroying only a few.
"Spraying not only destroys flies
and mosquitoes present; it will keep
other insects from entering for a per-
iod of time.
"Cool weather causes insects to hide
in places inaccessible to extermina-
tion methods other than a mist spray.
And fall filet are a greater menace
than those in summer because of their
propagation possibilities for the fol-
lowing season. Exterminate one fly
this fall and you prevent millions
from hatching in the spring."
To Make Their Own
The "Sturmvogel," organii.ation of
young German workers interested in
aviation, is not only teaching its
members how to fly planes, but also
how to make their own. According
to Berlin papas, unemployed mem-
bers of the Friedrialishain to:oup have
built a one -passenger plane,with a
14 -horsepower motor, at a ai cost
of 95 marks (worth 23.8 cents each),
of which 550 went for the motor. •
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October 11. Lesson li---0aul Ito
Philippi—Acts 16 22-34; Philip
plans 4: 4-7. Golden Text---Rejoic
in the Lord always and again
say, Rejoloe.—Philipplans 4: 4,
ANALYSIS'
Ants 16
25-34. s
I. reeNDS oPP PROurs, Acts 10: 16-24'
II. THE REWARDS OF COURAGE,
III. DEMANDING ONE'S ItIgerrs,
16: 35-40. , e
INTRODUCTION — Christianity tvi:fri;c, ,
now confronting a new eituata'e
1luc
ism. Philippi was inhabited
I '' .aganism that knew nothing
ians and Greeks, who en- ,.in04' 1114,fi,
worked the gold and silveu, as.we L'i
telhieusnteinighhibnodrehreodoclb. sr,Ttlhizidglc;reptillritsg ;6.1a
hostility, were quietly q..;, ;,,,I., ,,,
the new gospel of salvatioirnria iel
Soon the incident oedurred will*
brought Paul's activitiesesuddenly to
* close.
L HANDS OFF PROFITS, Acts 16;16-24.
The treable began nv • erne ee. ' .*
of a mentally-unbal ,1101d4n, <11:;',
She was supposed tlo ': afternu'unae
tural knowledge, and e
taking advantage of her'1ister,
made a good business out sand ma
telling, v.
lune Bug, 33 poundeShetland pony wit, ,finks a friend in Queen,
5 -pound St. Bernard, who took pity on the motherless youngster.
twie 16.
She became convinced tha
leceeac!1.:
missionaries were the inspire,
of the "Most High. God," a
nown title for the chief deet
also the agents of "salvationr b.'
sire for which was wideo.ike.
throughout the region. Her dnuae
al ehotting a greatly embaraegeeect
Paul and the others. Nor coal,. "ey
permit their message to be adve, sett
by such aeans. Paul, invoking,divine
help, restored her to normal health:
This, of course, inded her profit-mak:i
ing powers. '
When Christianity began teiinter-
fere with profits, the antagaiOn
the vested interests was at once arouse
ed. The owners of the slave:, girl
thought more about their financial
success thar,about the mea!ea by
which that success was won.The
saw in, the girl, not an unforeelnate'
member of the auman family,' but a
means to private gain. They recog-
sed that the principles of Jesus were
hnta2;onistic to the exploitingof hu-
eele
ekening they sent a message
enig their release, v. 35. Paul's
e;',31.8WeVer, had nov come. One of
tttst valued privileges of a Roman
%livas immunity from corporal
vkickgent. He, a Roman citizen,
tdutn beaten publicly—by order of
e.enagistrates—and without a
ng.
did Paul, a Christian, _demand
ree,V.Iats? More was involved than
p.ispnal privileges. For the sue -
his work, his Roman citizen-
t..`seas most valuable. Its rights,
'le...m.0 now, would be of little
eel'. again. Also a public vindica-
ee.ould strengthen the position of
emlarhom he would leave behind
4..4 went away. Therefore he
a'•'ted on his rights for the sake
Cause.
- ,
Deplete Grasshoppers
he past few weeks quite a num-
'Re:leaver and alfalfa fields and
elic'are fields have disappeared via
'i:' iter *route, says the American
eVre Herdsman, hence making
0 Mqe
1 asshopper situation a matter `e concern for the Nebraska C cle
Various methods of control
' a
r't 'cang tried, some of which are
• 'ill, some not. One farmer,
man beings for profit. Appealing to Atr. * ,„
4,0WeV,?1cont.inues the writer, had
anti-Jewish prejudicee, they trumped , ' ••
by
up a disloyalty charge (v. 21) against' eeugt t•o his attention an entirely
i!e„e
Paul and Silas. Luke and the others w Idea on pest control when he
"weo,'.flarted.
were evidently unmolested. The put bright and early one
passage ends with v. 17 The scourg- morning `-lib round up his cowl. Off
ing and imprisonment which followed xta the snieth in his pasture he noticed
".'i In prison, the courage of
are the first recorded instances of Ler: ,., .; appeared to be a game of indoor
seeution by Roman authorities. a :bal.,' 31;1, participated in by some 175
II. THE REWARDS OF COURAGE, Acts li, •*,,i , araieshire shoats. Closer in
25-34. 'yestigatien proved that these pigs
on, mere merely gathering their morning
strengthened the other. The two aa eratioi.4-Of tankage in the .form of lus-
Their .trials ..,-ev pious grEsshoppers. G. Lockhart :of
prayed—and sang. —
- Tezr-sawar votattwItear .141,(01i9. -,-.4.a!*
enabled them to rise above their,,.j r-
cumstances. No wonder that theiolh.er
prisoners "were listening earneetly"
to them, v. 25. e ale
At midnight an earth-teteenor (v.
eemegeatee:
26) threw open the prison Awn end
loosed the prisoners. We /;iiee not to
think of the locked doors ot•ethe mod-
ern prison. Dr. Ramsay Jays that let
"any one who has seer_ a '1''i'ekish pri-
son will not wonder thaethe doors
merely closed with a barne glhe ire-
mor
force the posts apar
were thrown open. Each'. :a:::
mor as it passed alongell,:aeeroured
the bars would slip from itlker, ea?
and the doors would swing (awn.; . S-ce
too, the chains would fall from the
loosened stones of the walls.
The prisoners, probably for lie mo-
ment panic-stricken, and reeieetaineei,
by Paul—as v. 28 implies, its
attampt to escape. The jaileeeds'Aeese
own life, according to Ronian 0 ..
was held responsible for his eirlsdei;.s '
(12: 19), was about to committeejeles- '
in order to escape the disgr""‘'.';`ese ? e
court-martial death, when Piti°3,..,81-'
sured him that all wee safe. ` , ',', ,e
O 1
As the jailor was making t; and.
oners fast, he recalled, doubttaciliVeria aa.....a,
the slave girl had been shouteat the. a
"(laves of the Meet High God,',eamatel ' • The above photograpn F- ,, s
called them. They brought e La ea , captain R. C. Malin, R.D.. R.N.R.,
tion," she said. After the astou atlf 'whose appointment as Commodore
events of the night, there cOtillithe Cunard Line has just been
little doubt of it. His inquiry broutit t
-7 announced.
or
(Cunard Photo)
salvatioa to himself and his hensee , : le :
hold, 29-34. The evangelists thus wen:
the usual rewards of courage; hostile
ity and suffering, an untroubled ma'?
in spite of apparent defeat, souls foo
their hire.
In. DEMANDING ONE'S RIGHTS, Act.;
16: 35-40.
Paradox in Brita)V15
Population ate
Excess of Births Over Deaths,
It is Argued, May Yet
Mean an Actual De-
cline in Population
Although births have exceeded
deaths in England by more than 100,-
000 a year for several years, it is
still argued that the country is
threatened with an actual decrease in
population. Analysee by several com-
petent statisticians are interpreted by
Professor S. J. Holmes, of the Uni-
versity of California,to bear out this
contention.
If we disregard migration, a popu-
lation in which births exceed deaths is
obviously increasing. If the birth
rate were twenty-five per 1,000, and
the death rate twenty per 1,000, the
population would be increasing at
the rate of five per 1,000 each year.
But to infer that, if the present fer-
tility and mortality were to remain
the some, the population would keep
on increasing at the same rate, would
constitute a serious error. Curiously
enough, a surplus of births over
deaths does not insure a rate of re-
production that will continue to main-
tain a stock at its presen level.
To explain this 1.mradox, suppose
that a population contains relatively
few children and a large proportion of
women between the ages of 20 and
40, when child -blaring is most fre-
quent. The birth rate of this popula-
tion would be high. Consider the
same population twenty years from
tow when the women are older and
only a small number of children ars
born. Then, as the age composition
of the population would be unfavor-
able for rapid increase, the birth rate
would be bound to fall.
When the birth eates and death
rates are known for the various age
groups, it is possible to estimate what
the natural increase of a population
would be when the anomalies of its
age composition are outgrown. It has
been estimated, by studies in the Un-
ited States, that the true rate of in-
crease is only about half of what is
indicated by subtracting the death
rate from the larth rate.
The statistician, Kuczynski, in his
volume, "The Balance of Births and
Deaths," has estimated the population
growth of northern and western
Europe. To obtain a satisfactory in-
dex of what he calls the net fertility
rate, M. Kuczynski has calculated the
extent to which women give rise to
other women to replace them. In
1916, he finds that the rate for the
whole region did not- exceed 0.93,
times a day the sweeper goes over the which means an actual loss, and for
the various countries: Finland, 1.09;
Denmark, 1.097; Sweden, 0.95, and
Pv'Y'T:1/'" :01.434:031.1'034:p3 et, Vg&11111,,1 onae ••' i-t‘tx", '
aline. rapid gains anal - ttneet • V „ ,
„ , •
.P ate la
S1 'Ay • th3 gra.sshoppers are clisap- G s
Preserve Canada's Forests
Toronto Telegram: One Canadian
who has earned the admiration of
thinking Canadians is Frank J. D.
Barnjum. Year after year he has
put up a heroic fight for the preserva-
tion of Canada's forests. Making
wildernesses where once magnificent
forests stood results in droughts,
floods, forest fires, insects and ero-
sion, the losses from which are in-
creasing year by year at an appall-
ing rate. Moreover, as Mr. Barn -
Jam points out, the prodigality with
which pulpwood concessions have
been handed out may have helped
the promoters, but has resulted in
the loss to the public of hundreds of
millions of dollars. It is time that
the public of Canada rose in their
might and gave needed assistance in
his campaign to stop this imbecile
waste of the country's resources.
.e.
Magnetic Sweeper Salvages
Fortune in Precious Metal
When the housewife uses the carpet
sweeper she is not trying to recover
some missing pieces of costly plati-
num. However, in factories where
lamps for switchboard signals are
manufactured, this is one of the jobs
the sweeper must do.
Platinum wire is used in this manu-
facture and some of the platinum gets
lost in handling, particles dropping on
the floor. One way of getting them is
with a small magnet, but a magnetic
sweeper is also used. The sweeper
consists of several individual magnets
placed side by side on a frame which
has wheels and a handle. Several
If you're lou'eang for a wearaole
day dress—here it is. It may be worn
for every hour of the day. It has lots
of good style about it, and yet, is so
exceedingly simple in line.
It is fashioned of lustrous printed
satin crepe in brown and white are,
is destined for much popularity for
all fall.
It would also be fascinatingly love-
ly in dark green canton -faille crepe
silk.
Any of the new supple crepy wool-
ens could also be used.
Style No. 3114 may be had in sizes
14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38 and 40
inches bust measure. Size 16 requires
3% yards of 39 -inch material.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
Eighty per cent. of England's popu-
lation live in urban districts.
MU -TT AND JEFF— That
Makes it Better Than Golf.
trearn G
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esti-
per'
rows o er,
• In England and Wales, he esti-
-74 French Meteorologists Suspect
i Dinard, France. — Fishermen and which in 1921 was 1,187, was 0.88 in
mates, the netiepro uc io
• d t' n rate,
meteorologists are going to determine 1926, and 0.82 in 1927. This would
whether the Gulf Stream is growing seem to mean that the rate of those
colder or whether currents from. the countries will not maintain. the pres-
northern ice shelf have shoved it out ent population when the age composi-
•
which formerly abounded in the latiOn.
nearly to
ttoh ethpeople ursatsteitosfelfprmoporae„
The disappearance of certain fishpresent adjusts
di
of its usual path.
stream and reports of bathers that sea
___— Cheap Student Rates
In order to promote air -mindedness
Offered in Germany
water is colder than usual have led to
the decision to sink thermometers
over a twenty -mile strip of the stream.
OUR BUSINESS
OM': grand business in life is not to i Engaged
see What lies dimly at a diStanee, but
"The happiest thing in all the world
to do what lies clearly at hand.—
is having
Carlyle. 1 A maid so true," he said
among the rising generation in Ger-
Contract Plan Proposed
many and at the same time help keep
As Farmers' Solution
I London. --A suggestiou that farm the Lufthansa recently announced
the seats in its passenger planes filled,
crops be produced on contract, much that it would carry college students at
like shoes or shaving soap is menu- special rates, approximating the third -
featured on dealers 'orders, was made class railroad fare. Applicants for
at tho centenary meeting of the Bri- these rates must have vouchers pray-
. Lisle Association for the Advancement ing their identity and make their re-
ef Science. quests for passage just before the
whose paper on "The Changing Out- as passengers paying the regular
, scheduled departures of the planes,
It was made by Sir John Russell
look in Agriculture" sought to answer prices must all be taken care of be -
the British farmer's question of sup- fore room is made for the students.
plying food requirements to the coun- .
try without piling up surpluses which
the consumer. Italian Women Take
injure the grower without beuefiting
Up Study of Aviation
According to reports in European
papers, more than 1,300 yonng Italian
women. are taking advantage of free
instruction by government pilots in
the art of flying airplanes. All classes
"It's not to be compared," she answer- of the population are represented and
The magistrates, too, had felt" the Men would rather give their wives
earthquake, and, like the jailor, 'had credit for what theyed, three princesses and four duchesses do than give them I
connected it with the preachers:. atan moVey. "With having a trousseau made." are learning to fly.
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