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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-11-19, Page 6It is an Interesting thing to note the progress welch the Boy Scout Movement has made during its twenty- three years of existence, from the time when Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, took a small group of boys to camp in England and . there couoeivod the idea of an International Boys' Movement. There are to -day over two million Scouts covering practically every coun- try ouptry in the world, all of them under the promise, on their honor, to be a Brother to every other Scout." That the training which the Scout Movement gives to the boy is of the highest possible value is evidenced by the following statement made by the Hon. William John Cooper, the U.S. National Commissioner of Education, who states: "Scouting is making effective meth- ods of education which the educational system has long been feeling for but has not succeeded in putting into ef- fect. "The Boy Scouts are leading the way. The schools are following as rapidly as their cumbersome machine- ry and their timid conservatism and. permit. We in the schools are slowly adopting the technique and the pro- gramme of Scouting so wisely con- ceived and so effectiee1y carried out" Dr.Cooper analyzes the success of the programme by pointing out that: "Scouting education is a system of giving rather than reeting." "Scouting provides a selection of activity fitted to the individual." "Scouting provides a unique plan of vocational exploration calculated to prevent square lags in round holes." "Scouting is a a unique scheme for associating boys with men of char- acter." "Scouting emphasizes the boy rath- er ateer than the curriculum." "Scouting tends to curriculum." creative ability." "Scouting presents its code of ideals not as a lesson but as a thing to be done. It teaches helpfulness through the daily Good Turn." Do you not think, therefore, that Scouting is just what your boy needs? Lone Scouts throughout Ontario will be very sorry to heal of the very sad and sudden death 'f one of their brothers, Lone Scout Ivan Day of •Fenelon Falls. Ivan was looking for- ward to taking part in a concert, which the .Feneloii Falls Lonies had arranged, and was busy selling tickets for this, when on Monday, October 26, he suddenly collapse'' whilst riding a wheel. The funeral took place on October 28th and was attended by Scoutmas- ter Don. Hutchison of the 2nd Troop, Lone Scout Commissioner John Fur- minger and Assistant Provincial Com- missioner F. C. Irwin, who represent- ed the Lorries of Oet rio and the Boy Scouts Association. Ivan's brother Lonies at Fenelon Falls acted as pall- bearers. We would like to express our sympathy to he parents and family and also to his bre" • Scouts in that town. 'We hear that the Lone Scouts at Markham are to hold a special meeting on November 10th to institute the new Troop which they are forming there. We wish them "Good Luck and Good Scouting." On November 14th (Saturday) the much looked -for Rally of the 1st On- tario ntario Lone Scout Troop will take place at London, under the direction of Mr. Jack Lawton, the popular Scoutmas- ter. There will be heaps of fun. It is with very great regret that the Lone Scout Department have to announce that Mr. Vic. Sheppard, of the 3rd Troop, had been forced to relin- quish the charge of that troop through pressure of business. Mr. Sheppard has done wonderful work with the Third, and his Lonies will miss him; but we know that they will "Smile and Whistle" and rally around the new Scoutmaster who we hope to in troduoe to them very shortly. The Lone Scouts at Fenlon Falls are progressing rapidly, and are now look- ing for a Scoutmaster to form a regu- lar Troop in that town. There is also wonderful scope for a Wolf Cub Pack. On the 28th October they held a con- cert at which the principal entertainer was Chief Diyakah, a full-blooded In- dian, ndian, who entertained both in his In- dian Dress and in the clothes of the 'Pale Face." The Scouts thoroughly enjoyed themselves, as did the large audience which attended, and we are glad to say that the evening 'was a great success, both financially and otherwise. Lonies, don't forget about your Xmas Good Turn, connected with the Lone Scout Toy Shops. You will hind. all particulars in "On Lone Scout Trail$," or you may obtain information from your Scoutmaster. at the address given above, and they. will send full particulars, Lone Scouting is primarily intended for boys between 12. and 18 years of age who live in small towns, villages and on the rural routes. It's lots of fun to be a Lonie.—"Lone:IL" Man of Future Will Live Closer to Boil? Washington.—A prophecy that the building of large cities will cease and that future generations will be brought by the progress of science to live closer to the soil was made to- day by engineers participating in the meeting here of the administrative board of the American Engineering Council. Americans will quit creating New Yorks and Bestow, Chicagos and De- troits, and, aided by cheaper power, will turn their attent°.on to establish- ing smaller communities, it was pre- dicted. This chance, it was asserted, has been made possible by advances in science and engineering and when brought about will minimize the force of depressions. The council voted to study the prob- lem of integrating industryand agri- culture in connection with its program to relieve unemployment, which is be- ing'carried out by committees of en- bineers in every state. Plans Southern Flight Mrs. Dibble Stanford of Guelph, Ont., is making ,plans in St. Louis, Mo., with Mrs. , Ruth Stewart, American aviatrix, to fly over the torrid zone, that is, the equator. A. scene that will cause manyee, bold hunter a pang of jealousy. Here we see a typical scene downein; the Vermillion River district, Quebec. Ghosts of No Man's Land By Grantiand Rice No one can hear the sound of feet When dead men rise and march. again; No one can hear the measured beat Of ghosts that move by hill and glen New Process Makes Synthetic Rubber Acetylene, Salt and Water Form Basis of Formula Akron, Ohio—Discovery of a pro- cess to make .synthetic rubber out or acetylene and salt a'd water was an- nouneoe to the rubber division of the American Chemical Society meeting here recently. Three du Pont Company chemists explained the tricks in a scientific paper. They said the synthetic material 15 not a substitute for natural rubber, but a supplement, which may be em- ployed in some of the thousands of uses. Also the artificial substance is expected to find uses in some lines where real rubber is not suitable. For example, the new material is gasoline - resistant. Acetylene is treated to obtain chloro prene, and that in tur nis converted in - 50 -Year -Old Books to a plastic mass by a chemical pro - Found In Wisconsin cess called poly.nerization. The paper Milwaukee, Wis.—Students are per- said the development is the result of bag ova a 350 -year-old set of dusty, work of a score of chemists over a gnbound books recently discovered in period of years. Me Marquette University Library at Certain important differences .from Milwaukee, Wis. The volumes, which natural rubber are claimed. One is To find some broken, shattered trench ;are brown with age and long forgot - They left to make 'one final stand, ;ten, were found to be a literary tree - Before each knew the sudden wrench ;sure as well as a valuable aeset.to Death sent in flame through No the library of, the'philosophy depart- inent. The set of ten volumes, containing the complete ''`Latin works of St. Augustine, Were' brought to light by "Dr. John O Redl, instructor of phil- Man's. Land. No ono can hear when dreamless dust Stirs from its clay, to take old form,' more resistance to swelling action of gasoline, kerosene and other solvents. It is also more resistant to oxygen, ozone and some other chemical com- pounds which attack pure rubber. It vulcanizes with application of heat alone. The new material is a milk -white latex. Natural rubber also is a white Before life knew the closing thrust latex but the artificial fluid was de - And passed before the blood -red osophy in the College ox Liberal Arts. dared to differ radically through its storm— Dr. 'Iteidl, while rummagng about on increased penetrating power, Thus, Youth, born for morning and the sun; the -tipper floor of the university lib - Where dreams and hopes move hand tail', examined the• volumes and found said the paper, it can impregnate some porous articles which resist real rub - in hand,._.-,-,,,-. an index: which surpasses the famous ber. Youth brighter than the poppies spun 'Benedictine index. The Benedictine Above their sleep in No Man's Land. iiidex of the Migne Patrologia Latina eries, in 221 volumes, is renowned No one can hear—but from their sleep for its exactness. The newly discovered books are un- bound but are in good condition. The 'title page of each volume bears this I know they meet again to -day To find lost mates, up from the deep And gripping coverlet of clay; e To dream lost dreams that passed too hand-written inscription in Latin, soon, "Father Lenar i Coquaei Aurelius, Of life and love by starlight fanned, confessor of the Grand Duchess, Blue eyes, red roses and the ,moon Christina .of Lotharingia, 1606." The They never knew in No Mai a Land, books must have passed through ,French ownership, for a fleur-de-lys is Can ghosts see ghosts that aizight have imprinted below the Latin inscription. been le? Of children calling in the 1 e? Can unborn shadows still be By eyes that hold the inner est 'ht? Shadows that dance upon tl'ne , lir- And call iu vain, forever b Bled; Of song and laughter and of ilegtet;e— These, too, are ghosts of : Man's Land. • Through misery of rain and mud, work is his "Confessions," written in Of tangled wire, they played thethe ',.ear 400. His "Essays. on Music' game; . An"d "Soliloquies" are among.;the more They wrote their records In the blood interesting,disceurses. "' That gave the poppies brighter No one remembers how the vol-imes • flame; reached the boishelves at Marquette. And where their thinning dust is spread Americans Leave U.S. They wait again the next command; One cup then to the deathless dead That meet to -day in No Man's Land. Another inscription n Volume 1 is "Now it is mine, Raymond Calyti, who legitimately bought it in November of the year 1815." .e. The books a contain the works of Aurelius Augustine, theologian and philosopher. Questions affecting reli- gious dogmas written after his con- version as a; priest and bishop consti- tute ono volume, St. Augustine's best Further Rise Noted In Footwear Output Ottawa.—The upward trend in the production of Canadian footwear was. continued hi September, according to a bulletin issued by the Dominion Bur- eau of Statistics, and the manufacture of 1,672,437 pairs was an increase of 45,431 pairs over August, and of 56,578 pairs over September a year ago. The monthly average this year was 1,526,- 138 pairs, or a total for the nine months of 13,725,242 pairs, as com- pared with a monthly average of 1,482,- 889 pairs, or a total for the corresponi ing period a year ago of 13,346,000 pairs The imports of leather footwear into Caned in September, 1931, record a total of 104,314 pairs, as compared with 86,915 pairs In August, and 288,- 998 pairs in 'September, 1930. The total value of the imports in September,. 1931, was $208,638, to which total the imports from the United .Kingdom con- tributed $81,111, or 39 per cent., and for mthe United States $119,393, or 57 per cent. The quantity of Canadian - made leather footwear exported in Septem- ber, 1931, was 1,829 pairs. There are no questions for the Lone Convict to Take Art Course Scout Question Box this week. Montreal.—For the first time in the If you have anything on your mind history of the Queen's University, a about Scouting ask "Lone lrl," c/o Boy convict in ,Portsmouth penitentiary Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, has made application to enter an arts Toronto 2, course and do his studies in prison. Are you a Boy Scout? Would you The applicant is a youthful long - like to be? If so, get in touch with the termer. In the Met five years he has Dearest Troop and enquire allabout passed all Onbario departmental ex,. It. They will be glad to tell you. If aminationa from entrance to hih for any reason you cannot join a re- school. The university Work will be Velar Troop, by not be a Lone Scout? sent to ;nim by the head of the extra - Write to the Lone Scout Departfnent mural der:aritnerit at Queen's, To Settle in Dominion Ottawa.—The flow has reversed in regard to immigration between Can- , ada an dthe United States. Citizens of i the United States are now coming to Yale For First Time Gives !Canada. Loomis Prize to fn fli In the past three months, July, Aug- . ust and September;- no fewer than South Hadley, Mass.—Missee ier- 4,181 Americans came to Canada to inc Haring, of New Haven, Cone, a settle, and this number included 1,243 graduate of the class o '29 at Mount of English descent, 473 of Irish parent - Holyoke College, has recently become age, and 490 of Scottish descent. In the same period of time a total of 2,965 emigrated to Canada from the Brittslt Isles and E zropean countries. Those from the British Isles number - the recipient of the Loomis Fellowship of $1,500 in chemistry at Yale. . The award, for which the me t bril- liant men in the various departments of chemistry compete, is made by vote ed 212 Irish, 1,112 English, 443 Scot of the whole faculty of the department tish-and 4G Welsh. on the basis of research ability the Immigration regulations, which are average grade in all courses for the being rigorously carried out, require first two years of graduate work in that all of these new citizens must the department, competitive examine-, have enough.' money to tide them over tions in all branches of chemistry. a year. Chicago Teachers' Celebrate ar • Ileac we see a merry throw of teateeLere in, a gal, mold, cola. orating first "pay-day", in six mo rtiis.• They will have to wait: until Unitary for the next'instalnteitt!J X-rays showed the synthetic product has an internal structure, that is an alignment of molecules, of patterns similar to those of natural rubber. This similarity, the paper added, has not been attained so well in synthetic rubbers previously produced. The World War, produced one of the first large scale spnthetic rubber ex- periments in Germany. Artificial rub- ber was made successfully, but at a prohibitive cost. Price of Silver To Be Stabilized International Chamber Com- mittee Advises General Sales Agreement Paris.—Proposals for international action to ensure a stable price for sil- ver at a slightly bigger level than at present were included In the report of the advisory silver committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, made public recently. As a first step towards the rehabile tation of silver, the committee recom- mends that the Chamber of Commerce "Investigate the possibilities of bring- ing North American producers and re- finers into a sales agreement with the Government of India," "To accomplish this purpose," the report continues, "the United States producers in order to conform with their national laws, could be organized only from the viewpoint of export sales." The committee adds that other large producers and the heavier holders of silver should join in the general agree- ment. A second important recommendation made by the committee is that govern- ment resort to silver as backing for their currency, thus 'obviating the an- ticipated gold -.shortage, The third recommendation is that the governments.interested in support- ing the silver market restore their sub- sidiary coinage to the fineness re- quired before the war, before the cur- rencies were debased, thus increasing world confidence in the value of the metal. A fourth proposal, and ono that holds forth a promise to chemists and sales executives, Is that the producers continually experiment and invests. gate proposed new uses for the metal. Quebec to Pay $500,000 For Housing of Colonists Montreal. — Between $500,000 and $700,000 is to be spent by the provin- cial government of Quebec in the con- struction of houses for colonists who are being placed on the land. In the Lake St. John district, where most of the people, are to be located, the de- mand for lumber has been so great that stocks are depleted. "'The Back to the land' movement, instituted in aid of the ' unemployed, and the consequent erection of colon- ist olonist homes in the various districts, par- ticularly in Lake St. John, has given an impetus to the lumber industry, as most of these houses are built almost entirely of lumber or of lumber with log foundations. When it is under- stood that in most cases at least 20,000 feet of lumber goes into the construc- tion of each home, it becomes appar ent that the lumber industry is receiv- ing much needed stimulation,"it was stated recently by G. C. Fiche, chief forester of the province. The Patriotic Unemployed London Daily Express (Ind. Cons.) : There is one feature of this election so creditable to the people chiefly con- cerned and so fine a proof of the Bri- tish ritish temper that we want our readers to do it full justice. That is the be- haviour of the unemployed. These un- happy men and women, eating the bit- ter bread of enforced idleness and thrust into the centre of political con- troversy,have splendidly refrained from any , but the most isolated acts against the canons of good citizenship. The Socialists may slobber over them; the Communists . - may incite to viol- once. These victims of the trade slump and of a suicidal fiscal policy have not ceased to be British because they are down on their luck. The demonstra- tion ,they have given of how deeply implanted is the sense of law and or- der does more than command the ad- miration of all of us. It is a fresh spur to the national conscience and in- telligence to devise the means of re- lieving their misfortunes in the only way they care about—namely, by find- ing work for them. Life Tiniest insects build- up loftiest mountains. Broad bands of solid rock which undergied the earth have been welded by the patient, constant toil of invisible creatures, working on. through the ages unhasting, unresting, fulfilling their Maker's will. On the shores of primeval oceans, watched only by the patient stars these silent workmen have been building for us the structure of the world. ' And thus the obscure work of unknown name- less agesappears at last in the sun- light, the adorned and noble theatre of that life of man, which, of all that I is dote in this universe, is fullest be- fore God of interest and hope. It is thus to in life. The quiet moments build' the years. The labors of the Obscure and unrenietbered hours edify that palace of the soul in which • it is to abide, and fabricate that organ wheeeby it is to work 'and expiess it - elf through eternity. --J II. Drown. fool must now and then be r" -i;ht :A by chance, -William Cowper. Mary and Doug. in N.Y. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks arrived in New York recently and judging by their expression they are looking forward to a pleas- ant visit. • Lindbergh To Pilot Huge Amphibian Miami, Fla.—The American Clipper, 50 -passenger airplane of Pan Ameri- can Airways, is to have Col. •Charles A. Lindbergh as pilot for its maiden commercial flight from Miami to .Cris- tobal, C.Z. Mr. V. E. Chenea, division traffic manager of the Pan American Com- pany, said Colonel Lindbergh will take the plane on a seven-day round trip voyage between the two cities starting Nov. 17. The route includes Cienfuegos, Cuba; Kingston, Jamaica; and Bar- ranquilla, Columbia. An overnight stop is to be made at Kingston and the plane will remain in Cristobal three days before the return flight.' Air way officials have limited the initial pay load of the ship to 3e pas- sengers and baggage. Fox -Hunting and . Economy Daily Telegraph. (Ind. Cons.) : (Lord Rosebery has declared his intention of "hunting as usual" this winter). Fox- hunting, which at first sight may neem an obvious extravagance, is typical of many other pursuits around which a species of industry has grown, and up- on which the employment of all man- ner of people in whole or part de• pends. No . good will come of mere abandonment of them if the money saved is to be hoarded. The social structure is so coinplicated that every interfereuce with it involves hardship for some one. The least hardship will be imposed when the consequences of curtailed expenditure are thought out carefully before they are embarked upon. On the podltive side It means that everybody who can possibly do so should contribute by Wise spending to the general well-being.