HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-11-09, Page 7LONG FLIGHT WILL
FOLLOW TIE WAR
SAYS ITALIAN •AVIATOR NOW
IN AMERICA.
No .Attempt Will Be Made To Cross
Atlantic With a Caproni Aero-
plane Until End of War.
"The Atlantic Ocean''wil1 not be
crossed in an aeroplane until the war
is over, and when it is crossed it will
be in an Italian machine," said Lieu-
tenant Resnati, Italian aviator, when
questioned concerning the possibility
of crossing'the ocean in the huge Ca-
proni triplane he is demonstrating in
the United States.
"Signor Caproni," Resnati said,
"has thought of crossing the ocean
for a long time. He has designed a
huge machine for the trip. The craft
will be equipped with five motors of
200 -horse power each and will have a
wing spread of approximately two
hundred feet. The machine will be
the dreadnought of the air and, ,eon-
trary to the general belief, will be a
land machine instead of a flying boat.
"The flying boat is not practicable
for crossing the ocean. It is heavy,
too heavy to get the maximum speed
for a minimum amount of gasoline.
The land machine is better. It is light
and .speedy, and when the aviator sets
out to cross the ocean he will not con-
sider a safe landing at sea.
• To Make Continuous Flight.
"There are several reasons for this.
He - will attempt to make the flight
without Ianding. And when the flight
is attempted there will be boats
enough strung out across the water to
pick up the pilot and passengers if
they are forced to come down. It is
possible to land on the water with a
land machine 'without loss of life, but
not without loss of the machine. The
men would be picked up, but the ma-
chine would be a total loss."
The Lieutenant said that Caproni
and his associates have given serious
thought to crossing the Atlantic in an
aeroplane, but have given up the idea
for the present on account of the war.
Caproni has made wonderful strides
in aviation in the last few years and
now is devoting all his time to per-
fecting craft, although his fondest
dream is the crossing of the ocean in
a machine designed and built by him-
self.
The Italian flyer admitted that there
had been some talk of a flight across
the ocean in the 'Caproni triplane
within the next year or sol but indi-
catecl that the idea has •been given up
i`.or the reasons set forth above.
If an attempt is made to cross the
Atlantis in any of the machines now
in use it will be a one stop flight, Res-
nati predicted. He said it would be
possible, in his opinion, for a flyer
to go from Newfoundland to the
Azores, and- from the Azores to
the most westerly point in Spain.
Two pilots would be required,
however, as no man is able to fly long-
er than twenty-four hours without
rest. The twenty-four hours endur-
ance flight was made by a German
airman.
Four Miles to the Gallon.
"It requires about twenty-five gal -
lone of gasoline to the one hundred
miles in the Caproni," Resnati said.
"We could carry enough for a non-
stop flight across the Atlantic by car-
"rying auxiliary tanks in the body of
the car, but it would require a great
deal of work to arrange the tanks in
the proper manner."
"Were I going to attempt a non-
st9p . flight from America to England
I would select the most easterly point
of Newfoundland as my starting point
and the most westerly point of Ire -
"'land for my objective. The distance
between these points is approximately
3,500 miles. To cross the Atlantic a
machine would have to snake one hun-
dred miles an hour. This would mean
approximately eight hundred "gallons
of gasoline.
"But one man could fly only fifteen
ho irs or thereabouts without rest,
This would mean that three pilots
would have to make the trip, the first
to be relieved at the end of twelve
hours or so and the second a ; the ex-
piration of the same time."
War Work of Universities.
The universities of Canada have
been tremendously depleted by the
war, Of the 14,000 undergraduates
10,000 are linen. There are now at the
front 6,000 undergraduates and• 6,000
graduates. Of this number 800 have
already been killed while 400 are with
the staffs. The schools of applied
science: particularly have been badly
cut down, All the serums and toxins
iised by the Canadian armies have.
been made in the laboratories of , our.
own universities. These institutions
also have done great work in the To -
education of crippled soldiers, Six of
the universities have sent hospital
Units ;to the front.
Hard to r*Tops Meat ?
All depends on what you eat
as a substitute. It isa good
time to study "food value."
You may be , eating the
wrong foods, the foods. that
cost most and give the least
nutriment.. Shredded
Wheat iscuit contains
more real, body-building
nutriment, pound for pound,
than, meat, eggs or potatoes
and costs much less. Two
of those Biscuits with milk
and a little fruit make a
nourishing meal at a cost of
a few cents. Make Shredded
Wheat your "meat. A satis-
fying breakfast on which to
start the day's work. It is
ready -cooked and ready -to -
eat. Made in Canada.
CANADA AND THE WORLD'S
SUPPLY OF WHEAT
It was with considerable satisfac-
tion that readers in all Allied coun-
tries received the statement made a
short time ago by the Institute of Ag-
riculture at Rome, that 1917 had seen
an increase in the wheat crop of the
principal countries of the world, out-
side of the Centi"k1 Powers, of 3.3 per
cent. over 1916. These figures were
basedon returns from Spain, France,
Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland, Cana:
da, the United States, India, Japan
and Algeria, which countries are this
year estimated to show a total wheat
production of 1,665,448,000 bushels.
At the salve time these same coun-
tries show an increase in their barley
crop of 2.4 per cent; an increase in
their rye crop of 10.7 per cent; an
increase in their oat crop of 19.9 per
cent, and an increase in their corn
crop of 25.3 per cent. That such in-
creases should be possible among na-
tions, most of whom are engaged in
war, is in itself a tribute to the pro-
ductive energy of manhood.
The enormous total of 1,665, 448,000
bushels of wheat .is so great that it
refuses to be grasped by the human
mind without some units of compari-
son. If this crop of wheat were load-
ed into freight cars, 1,000 bushels to
the car, and each car occupied forty
feet of the railway track, it would re-
present one solid loaded train 12,617
miles in length—more -than enough to
reach half way round the' world at the
equator. These loaded cars, without
engines, would occupy seven -eighths
of the entire trackage of the Canadian
Pacific Railway, known as the world's
greatest transportation company,
There is, however, another point of
view, and a very appropriate' one .at
this particular period, when the agri-
cultural countries are called upon to
produce the utmost pound of food.
While the countries mentioned have
done well their accomplishment
shrinks into insignificance when com-
pared with, their possibilities. For
instance, the three Canadian provinces
of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alber-
ta could produce three bines the total
wheat crop above referred to ! This
statement may seem extravagant un-
til submitted to the test of cold figures,
Then we get data like this :
According to the Government of
Canada there are in the provinces
mentioned the following areas suit-
able for agricultural purposes :
Manitoba 74,216,000 acres
• Saskatchewan 93,459,0.00 "
Alberta 105,217,000 "
272,892,000 "
The average wheat crop in these
provinces for the last ten years has
been : Manitoba, 18.20 bushels per
acre; Saskatchewan, 18.44 bushels
Save
Au the Use
Of Wheat
By eating
aic1N
ts
All the food value
of 'the grin is used in
• making this delicious
-food ; and its blend
of malted barley' not
only adds to its nou-
rishing qualities but
produces a flavor of
unusual richness.
Ail
No
Po d = -
erste
Cariadian Pestuni Cereal Co., Ltd.,
Windsor. Ont,
per acre; Alberta, 20,19 bushels pet
acre, The average for, the tliree pro-
vinoes is therefore practically19
bushes per acro, If you multiply the
available acreage, as given, above, by
19, you will find that these provinces,
if entirely cultivated, are '.capable of
producing in an average year 6,184,-
948,-000
,184,-
948;000 bushels of wheat ---consider-
ably more than time tunes the total
which is being 'produced this year,
1917, by Spain, France, Scotland, Ire-
land, ;Switzerland, • Canada, United
States, India, Japan and Algeria com-
bined. The single province of Alberta
can produce as much 'si!heat as all of
these countries anh have mare left
over than was grown in 1917 in all
Canada.
Of course, it is impossible, -as ,a
•practicable manner., to put every
arable acre of land in any country in
wheat, but if we say for the sake of
illustration that one-third of the
arable .land iu these provinces is sum-
mer-fallewed, one-third sown to coarse.
grains or pasture, and one-third to
wheat, the proportion that is sown to
wheat will produce a greeater crop
than that already mentioned as being
grown by all the countries before re-
ferred to.
These figures may be interesting
generally for the great comparison
which they afford, but they must also
carry the conclusion that the world is
a very long way from having exhaust-
ed its 'food producing possibilities.
Any scarcity of food production which
may now exist. is traceable almost
entirely to an improper distribution
of. population. In the older countries -
population is compelled to exist on.
such limited areas that production on
a relatively large scale is impossible,
whereas in the newer countries such
as Western Canada the population is'
as yet totally insufficient to bring the
country under cultivation: These are
conditions which will doubtless right
themselves; in fact, the process of
correction is going on very rapidly,
and, whatever difficulties may be ex-
perienced in feeding the world during
the next few years, there can be–no
question that they will be solved as
soon as sufficient population is found
for the great open plains which are
still awaiting the husbandman.
SATISFIED MOTHERS
Once a mother has used Baby's Own
Tablets for her little ones she will use
nothing else. The satisfaction she de-
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They are easy to give the baby; their
action is prompt and thorough and
above all they are absolutely harm-
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Dechaine, Lacordaire, Seek., writes ;
—"I am well satisfied with Baby's
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ing them to my baby and they have.
promptly cured her of constipation.
The Tablets are said by medicine;;
dealers or by mail at .• 25 cents a. box
from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
If cereals, rice similar foods stick
to the vessel in which they are cooked
they have an adhesiveness that a post-
age stamp might envy; but put a cup-
ful of wood ashes in the pot, fill it
with water and leave it to soak, and
presto, it is easy to clean.
Minard's Liniment Co„ Limited.
Gentlemen,—I have used MIN-
ARD'S LINIMENT on my vessel and
in my family for years, and for the
every day ills and accidents of life
I consider it has no equal,
1 would not start oil. a voyage with-
out it if it cost a dollar a bottle.
CAPT. F. R. DESJARDIN,
Sehr. "Storke," St, Andre, Kamou-
- raska.
CHINA, PRINTING PIONEER.
Movable Type Devised by Oriental
Blacksmith in Eleventh Century.
Those who believe printing to have
been invented in Europe' during the
fifteenth century may have been sur-
prised to read of Cambridge Univer-
sity 'having acquired "the works of
the Chinese philosopher, Liu Tsung
Yuan, printed in 1167."
China has been credited with anti-
cipating not a few modern inventions,
but her claim to have discovered the
art of printing centuries before its
adoption in Europe is beyond dispute.
An. edition of most of the Chinese
classics was printed by means of wood
blocks in A.D. 922, and efiovable type
is said to have been devised by a
blacksmith, Pi Shing, in the eleventh
century.
Flapping Shades.
Often it is necessary to lower the
shades when the windows are open,
which causes. a constant flapping. I
remedied this in a simple; inexpen-
sive, yet effective way. I got some
small screw eyes and fastened one on
each end of the lower shade stick, one
on the top and one on the bottom on
each side of the window casing. Then
I fastened thin cord to the bottom eye-
let, ran it through the ,Shade` eyelet
and fastened it to the top screw eye.
If this is done on each side of the
shade the window can be left wide
open and the shade will stay where
you want it. Thidoes not interfere
with the raising and lowering of the
shade, and if the cord is perchased the
same color' as the woodwork it will be
unnoticeable.
FREE GIRLS'
We will give this beautiful prize free
se all charge to any girl or young lady
who will sell 40 packages of our lovely
embossed Xmas postcards at 10 cents a
package.
T, he l",xtension .Bracelet Is of rolled
gold plate and fits any arm.
Send us your name and we will send
you the cards. When sold send us the
money and we will send you the Brace-
let, Address
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DEPT. 80 TORONTO, CAN.
•
Overloaded.
• The driver of the jaunting car of
Ireland is always ready to" excuse him-
self if he is reproached for the condi-
tion of his horse.
"I say, Paddy," said a tourist one
day, "that is the worst -looking horse
you drive I ever saw. Why don't you
fatten him up ?'"
"Fat him up, is it?" quefied the
driver, as if he could not believe his
ears. "Fair, the poor baste can hard-
ly carry the litte mate that's on him
now!"
LEMON JUICE IS
FRECKLE REMOVER
Girls ! Make this cheap beauty lotion
to clear and whiten your skin.
Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
a bottle containing three- ounces of
orchard white, shake well, and • you
have a quarter pint of the best freckle
and tan lotion, and complexion beau-
tifier, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will sup-
ply three ounces of orchard white for
a• Sew cents. Massage this sweetly
fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and hands each day and see how
freckles and blemishes disappear and
how clear, soft and white the skin be-
comes. Yes ! It is'harmless.
'Stale bread for puddings should be
soaked in cold milk or water ? 11
put in a hot liquid it becomes heavy.
Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria.
A Large Edition.
"May I print a Idss on your lips?" I
ded her sweet 'permission.
Sb we went to press, and I rather
guess
We' printed a large edition.
RINE Granulated Eyelids,
`'G�'"l Sore Eyes, Eyes Inflamed by
i Sun, Duet and end quickly
FOR 4" relieved by Murine. Try it In
��� your Eyes and In Baby's Eyes.
No Smart!ng, Just lye Cemiort
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Arlt ITh rine Eye Eentedy Co.. Chicago a
You can remove perspiration stains
from your clothes by soaking the gar-
ments in strong salt water before
laundering?
From indications, the Stock Show to
be held at the Union Stock Yards of
Toronto, December 7th and 8th next,
will be bigger than ever. The 1916
show had 376 entries, comprising in
all 2,309 show animals, which sold for
the Christmas trade, some of which
brought record prices. Premium list
has been enlarged and each class car-
ries a handsome prize. For further
particulars write O. F. Topping, care
of Union Stock Yards of Toronto.
Educate the mother and save the
child.
One Chinese province annually ex-
ports more than 150,000 tons of pea-
nuts, all because an American mis-
sionary several years ago gave a na-
tive, convert a quart of California
seed.
reinard's Liniment Cures Distemper.
Potatoes showing signs of .dry rot,
caused by blight, should be well dried
before storing, and all affected tubers
put away by themselves until fed to
the live ..stock or otherwise disposed
of. This disease will spread in the
bin.
To the Nurses of the Empire,.
We did not need to ask you,
You came with loyal heart,
And, faithful to your calling,
With zeal, to da your part,
You knew the cause was righteous,
You heard the great appeal,
And willingly you offered
To soothe, to cheer, to heal.
We do not needto tell you
How great your trials be;
We bless you for your goodness,
And pray for victory;
Whate'er may yet befal us,
In .conquest or defeat;
A nation kneels to thank you,
A suppliant—at your feet.
We do not need to thank you,
Mere words would not suffice;
Ten thousand lives restored—
This is your sacrifice;
Ten thousand, 'aye, ten thousand,
Lift up their hearts to -day
To thank you, bless you, lave you,
This is your victory. _
=John Light, London, Eng.
Kitchen windows should always be
lowered from the top to allow heated
and impure air to escape, and raised
from the bottom to allow fresh air to
come in.
MONEY ORDERS
It is always safe to send a Dominion
An effect of the labor shortage is
seen this year in the reduced num-
ber of turkeys and geese at the Fall
Express Money Order. Five dollars exhibitions- Women of the farms
costs three cents. have been driven to devoting much of
their time formerly spent on topouf-
t1 '
corn
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ED. 7,
ISSUE 45—'17.
men folk
in the fields,
&Sinard's F.ajnrment Cures CTarget in Cows
The Minneapolis and St. Paul rail-
way is planting trees by machinery
to repla,ne snow fences.
S2rNC81LEJS ITO0 E9
BEAGLE HOUND PUPS, TA nem
months old, of the world's best
breeding, fifteen and twenty dollars each.
Thos. Gilbert, Box 664, Walker vine, Ont.
CANCER. TUMORS. LiTMPg. BTC.,
intern& and external. cured with-
out pain by our home trPatrnent. Write
vs before too late. Dr. Berllrnan Medical
Co., Limited, Colltngwood. Ont.
The Soul of a Piano is the
Action. Insist on the
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