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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-10-02, Page 7Under Ice To The North Pole It all began twenty-one years ago when Sir Hubert Wilkins got to within nine degrees of the North Pole by sailing under the ice in his submarine "Nautilus?' This method was so novel and so un- orthodox that British, American, and Russian scientists began to think of the possibilities of using submarines for "other ends than that of war. Reseach work continued through- out the war years, and one result of it was the historic occasion when, during the height of the raids on Malta, the submarine P6Porpoise" delivered gasoline, food, and ammunition to the island. For the first time a submarine was used as a cargo carrier. • Sir Hubert Wilkins had proved the possibility of sailing for miles under a fifteen -feet -thick ceiling of solid ice, and he and Borg Mersh, the Swedish explorer, pointed out that it would be possible to sail right through the Arctic ice cap, with a mach greater thickness of ice. This, • they argued, would cut down the distance between Wes- tern estern Europe and the Antipodes, and between Vladivostok and the rest of the world by at least half. This was no exaggeration, for the distance between Liverpool and Yo- kohama is 11,000 miles by the Pa- • name Canal route, and 12,500 miles via the Suer Canal. Sailing direct, under the North Pole, the distance is only 6,000 miles. Secret Scheme Simon Lake, the well-known American Submarine expert was the first to back the views of Wil- kins and Mersh, and he eventually produced plans of a giant submar- ine which could carry 7,000 tons of cargo and travel at the speed of twenty knots. In Russia the explorer, Schmidt, boosted- Wilkins' ideas from the angle that, if they could be made workable, the solid ice shores of Siberia need no longer be a bar- rier to the all -the -year-round sea trade. The Russian engineer, Tarassov, developed Simon Lake's plans to the extent that not only could a Freddy Gets The Birds—Freddy, 16 -month-old Hereford steer, hopes the pigeons roosting on his neck aren't an ill omen. He's been entered in the livestock competition at the County Fair, and he hopes the judges won't give him the bird. His pretty mistress, 4-H Club adviser Gloria Ward, 19, has also entere5l the pigeons in a judging event. submarine sail under a greater thickness of ice, but that the crew would he safe. Another inventor had devised special bumpers to protect sub- marines from jarring against the ice ceiling. There is no doubt that the Russians were taking the idea of under -Arctic travel very ser- iously. The last news to filter through, before all information was sup- pressed, was that the authorities had planned a system of aero- dromes, ice -breakers supply sta- tions right across the Arctic so that two hundred miles, if neces- sary, for repair or refuelling. Contact between the stations would be maintained by aeroplane and amphibious tank in good weather, and by dogs at other tithes. Eating bran—which so many do eti doctors' orders — needn't be considered a "chore" when you use the flakes like this. RAISIN -BRAN MUFFINS Sift together into mixing bowl I. cup sifted flour, 3 tsp. baking powder, % tsp. soda, 1 tsp. salt. Cut in with pastry blender t/3 cup hortening. Stir in 1 cup raisins, 134 cup bran flakes. Combine 1 egg, well beaten, 3/4 cup milk, %4 cup molasses. Add all at once to dry ingre- dients; stir only until dry ingredi- entsare well moistened. Batter should be lumpy. Spoon into greased muffin tins, filling about % full. Bake in hot oven (400°) 20 min- utes. Makes 12 medium-size muf- fins. * * Here's a very ancient cake recipe —at least a century old and prob- ably more than that — but still worth trying. And treasuring! CREAM CAKE 1 cup sugar 2 whole eggs 1 tablespoon butter 1 cup sweet milk 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder Wash butter in water (in sum- mer use ice water) and cream until very light; add sugar and cream well .together. Add milk and flour alternately (sift baking powder with last cup of flour). Beat egg stiff and fold in very last thing. Line bottom of pan with waxed paper and brush over with brtish dipped in melted short- ening. Put in cool oven and bake with increasing heat. After first 15 minutes of baking increase heat a Iittle, and when cake has risen to top of pan increase heat a lit- tle more. Total baking time should be about 35 minutes. Determine doneness by inserting straw; when no batter adheres to the straw the cake is done. * * * FILLING FOR CREAM CAKE 1 egg 34 cup sugar Y4 cup flour (rubbed smooth in little milk) 1 pint milk (boiling) 1 teaspoon vanilla Powdered sugar Beat egg stiff; add sugar and flour rubbed smooth in a small amount of milk; stir into boiling milk; add vanilla and cook until PLANELESS PILOTS, MAYBE?—Predictions that the plane of the future will be radio-controlltd or a guided missile type of craft, meet with stout denial in some quarters. The magazine, Naval Aviation News, offers a counter -suggestion for the evolution of oeronautics--planeless pilots. A prevue of things to come is given by Ensign William Videto, aboard the aircraft carrier Boxer, off Korea. He has a propeller -driven helmet, and will be catapulted off the deck by the gizmo he's grasping. Lt. A. R. Kreutz, main- tenance officer of Videto s squadron, Is ready to give him the tau! ching signal. The fanciful bit of horseplay gave a few moments of relaxation to men aboard the carrier. AUSTRALIA'S NEW CHEF—Field Marshal Sir William Slim, above, has been appointed Governor- General of Australia. Slim, 61, who will succeed Sir William McKell in the position, is expect- ed to relinquish his present appointment as chief of Britain's Imperial General Staff, in Nov- ember. thick, stiring constantly. Spread, covering top with powdered sugar. * * * There seems to be plenty of sweet corn around, so this recipe —another real old-timer — would seem fairly appropriate. CORN RELISH 18 ears sweet corn (large or me- dium) 1 2 -pound head cabbage 1 medium stalk celery 4 large onions 6 sweet peppers -3 red, 3 green 1 quart cider vinegar Salt to taste (2 tab'espoons or more) 2/ cups brown sugar Cut corn off cob, scraping cob with back of knife. Chop cabbage, celery, onions, and peppers— or run through medium food chop- per. Place all ingredients in kettle and boil gently 20 minutes after it begins to boil. Seal in jars while hot. 1\ fakes 4?. to 5 quarts. HARD TO SPELL Many persons experience fru.- tration when they encounter in their reading the varied current versions of the name of the weep- ing Iranian Premier, Their confu- sion is legitimate; a glance at some highly regarded journals on the desk discloses l,lossnclegh. \l used - dig, and nlossacieq. Which is the right spelling: The fact is that any one of these versions is as right as any other. There's a story of a proofreader sending a manuscript back to Law- rence of Arabia with a complaint that the author had spelled Hejaz, the name of the district of which Mecca is the chief city, three dif- ferent ways. "Which is right?" he asked. Replied Lawrence: "All are right and I can give you 40 other spellings of it, all equally right." We have illustrated here the dif- ficulty of rendering into English letters names and words from Lan- guages like Arabic and Russian which have alphabets differing markedly from ours. Many of the Arabic letters have no precise equivalents in the Roman alphabet; the same is true with the Russian. The best we can do with Rus- sian and Arabic names is to rep- resent theist phonetically. As, in many cases, either one of several English letters or groups of letters will serve as well as another we get varied results. For example, in Russian letters there is only one right way to spell the name of the composer Tschaikovsky but in let- ters of our alphabet it tan be spell- ed twelve different ways, any one as right as another. They are all equally phonetic renderings of the Russian, In such a case alt one can do is to adopt one generally used form and stick to it,—San Fratt- sisco Chronicle T1EPAM FRONT You folks who have trouble in getting your milking machines, thoroughly clean ntay be interested in the instructions put out by a big middle -western agricultural college. Here they are, * * * Prepare three gallons of wash- ing solution by dissolving one tablespoon of good dairy washing powder in three gallons of warm water, ' * * * 2. Immediately after milking, draw by vacuum three gallons of this solution in milker, by lifting teat cups in and out of solution to give scrubbing action. Shake milk- er to rinse inside surface. Empty into original pail and repeat pro- cess with second unit. * * * 3. 'Remove milker pail head and rubber gasket. Wash in solution and replace. Do not let pulsator get wet. '* 4. Place teat cups and milk tub- ing in, washing solution and brush outer parts. * * * 5. Brush teat cups, especially inner edges and milk tubing with properly sized brushes. * 6. Reassemble and brush -wash outsides of milker pail. * * * 7. Rinse by drawing two gallons of hot water (180 degrees fahren- heit) into milker pail. Rinse out- side of milker. * * * 8. Place milker pail, head and rubber seal ring on utensil rack to drain dry. * * * 9. Hang teat cup assembly in solution rack and fill with lye solu- tion. To make lye solution add half cup stock lye solution to one gal- lon of water. Lye stock solution is made by dissolving a 13 ounce can of lye in a gallon of water. * * * Short tube inflations are dis- mantled each morning, washed with inflation brush, rinsed in hot water and stored dry. * * * 10. Milker must be bright, clean and free of milkstone before adop- ting this method of washing. * *• * Weekly care of milker involves dismantling milker and boiling all rubber parts that conte in con- tact with milk in lye solution (two ounces lye to one gallon of water.) Include ale hoses and pulsators in weekly cleaning and check up. CURRENT COURTESY A particularly ornery hoss thief was brought to trial in the cattle country the day after the state put its brand new electric chair into operation. The judge, bursting with civic pride, explained to the pri- soner, "Thin is an enlightened com- munity and before you get the fair and square trial' you are entitled to by law, I'm going to ask you one question. What current do you want—AC or DC?" Famous Relic Of Ancient Days Cleopatra's needle, which stands on the Victoria Embankment of the River Thames, is covered on its four sides with Egyptian beiro- glyphics. It is among the oldest relics of ancient civilization, It once stood in splendour; a single block of rose -red granite, in com- pany with other impressive obe- lisks. There were two identical needle- like obelisks which stood in Egypt's Heliopolis, the City of the Sun. They were erected about 1500 B. C. by King Thotmes III. The needle which eventually came to Britain stood in its place for nearly fifteen hundred years. Then Queen Cleopatra decided to give it to the Roman Emperor Augustus. Many obelisks weee transported to Rome. In fact, of the thirty still extant, twelve _ stand in the Italian capital to -day. But Cleo- patra's gift never reached the Ro- man Emperor. TWIST OF FATE It was moved to Alexandria, then, by some twist of fate no doubt due to its size, it was left lying in the sand. It remained in this position for eighteen hundred years. In 1801 Cleopatra's Needle was bought for Britain; but transpor- tation was the problem. Again it was abandoned, until a patriotic Englishman, Mr. Erasmus Wilson, came forword and offered to pay the entire cost of moving it to England. Even in a comparatively mod- ern age the size of the obelisk was the chief drawback. A suit- able ship was not available, so an ingenious scheme was devised. First. a huge cylinder of wrought - iron plates was built round the needle. Then it was rolled down to the sea to become the good ship Cleopatra. RAN INTO TROUBLE A narrow deckhouse with ac- commodation for captain and crew was built on top of the cylinder. Next, a mast and sail erected, a steering gear installed, and Cleo- patra's Needle was seaworthy. On September 21st, 1877, the strange vessel left Alexandria towed by the steamer Olga. It was a difficult task, but luckily the Mediterranean remained calm and was safely negotiated. In the Bay of Biscay, however, the two vessels ran into trouble. A terrific storm arose, dashing great waves across the Cleopatra. The crews of both ships did all they could, but at last Captain Carter of the Cleopatra hacl to sig- nal Captain Booth of the Olga to prepare to cut the tow adrift. This decision was left so late that there was considerable difficulty in rescuing the Cleopatra's crew. The Needle was then left to her fate. Luckily, she stayed afloat and was later discovered by a ship which towed her into a Spanish port. Soon afterwards a British tug went across to Spain to bring the Needle to its final destination on the Embankment. NPAY SC1100L LESSON By Rev. F. Barclay Warren, B.A., B.D. Christians Should Be Different Matt. 5:1-12 Memory Selection; Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which its in heaven, Mathew 5;16 The greatest sermon on record is the sermon on the Mount in Matt. 5-7. The greatest part of that sermon is the first part, the Beauti- tudes, which comprise our lesson for today. Here is set forth a way of life different from that to which the natural man inclines. Happi- ness does not come to the proud and self-assertive but to the meek, and merciful and pure. There is blessing for those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. They shall be satisfied. The peacemak- ers are among the happy group as are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake. The word Christian is applied to more that 95% of the people in Canada. But many of those on their own confession are not liv- ing according to the pattern set forth in the Beatitudes. Many are hungering after gold, pleasure or fame rather than righteousness. One wealthy man consulting with a well-known doctor about his nervous breakdown said. "I ima- gined I was buying pleasure and I discovered T was only buying anxiety". Man trust be born again before he can truly practice the prin- ciples that Jesus Christ taught. We must have the heart for it and that can only be ours by repentance front sin and faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour. His way brings peace wherever it is follow- ed: peace in the home, and peace its the world. Jesus Christ presents the only hope for this sin -stained world. Let tis turn to Hint! SYSTEMATIC A Hollywood starlet once upset precedent by asking Kreisler for an autograph instead of giving her own to wild-eyed bobby soxers. The starlet's disarming request read —"It doesn't matter whether you write it or print it, Mr. Kreisler. I copy all my autographs over, any- how, alphabetically in my scrap- book." SALLY'S SALLIES "Oh, I'm not doing anything much and George is puttering around as usual." W Y T r° IKE T;, .T ESE BANKER'S HOURS .? By JAMES MONTAGNES TORONTO — "Banker's hours" has long been a synonym for a :,host working day. In Canada, bankers have other ideas. Take young Ed Meir, for etc- autple. An accountant in a Vancouver bank, he was uprooted to become actin.; manager of a branch in the middle of. nowhere -400 miles north of Vancouver at Kemano, where a big electric power devel- opment is underway on a moun- tainous coast. To serve several thousand work- men who are his customer~, Muir may start out from his quottset- hut headquarters at 6 o'clock on a Sunday morning in a blinding snowstorm, as he did one clay last Winter, and drive 10 miles to meet the weekly supply boat. * * * On that Sunday, there we, a 60 -mile wind off shore. The steamer couldn't get • into the dock, so Muir chased the steamer in a tug, delivered his mail and money orders by climbing a rope ladder, then hauled his heavy money bags back down the sway- ing ladder. His "banker's hours" ended late that night hack in 'Centeno. Tf banker Muir isn't meeting the steamer, he's facing equally rugged conditions in a motor boat getting hismoneyt bags from a bobbing flying o Canada's young bankers• took forward to rapid promotion as managers these days as new fron- tiers like Konau.o open up. This past Summer two of theist boarded a plane at Edmonton, Cold Cash For Frozen North is housed in this at a new aluminum refinery at Kitimat, their baggage loaded with the money t0 go into business. A thousand utiles to the north, they were landed at the Canadian gov- erniuent's uranium mine at Port Radium on Great Bear Lake, lust south of the Arctic Circle, Their branch hank is the most northern one its Canada. * * * On the Atlantic coast, on the Gaspe Peninsula, a couple of young bankers were given three small rooms in a contractor's bunkhouse—one to bank in, the other two to live in, They'll send out money orders for 500 work- men at the camp and handle finan- cial business for the contractors with the few woodsmen and farts ers in this isolated copper area The air age has made fiontier banking life a lot more attractive than it used to be, despite the adventures managers like Muir face. Only a few years al;n, banl:ers assigned to branches at new gout camps in the sub -Arctic spent the shack, British bank branch Columbia. BANKER ED MUIR pursues his motley en a rope ladder. winters in a tcnt. Log cabin batiks are not uncommon in new brining and lumber ramps. And not so long ago, bankers wetvt into new erritory by canoe.