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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1925-05-08, Page 6.14 You can save money and lengthen ; e life of your shoes by shining them yourself with "Nugget". You get 100 shines for 16 cents. Did you "Nagged ' your shoes this morning? "RUGG- - 44 Shoe Pbliah Made in Black, Tan, Taney Red and Darty Brown Asa While Dressing (sa e) and kik Cleaner (hgaid). 'ON. One hundred and thirty-four years ago there was 'born in the shadow of Bunker Bill Monument" which ,lard I even then becomee a historic landmark, s inn who was destined to affect civilization quite as much as did the events that axe symbolized in the !Monument itself. This was Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph, and it is difficult to think of any one man who made a greater contribution to human knowledge. comfort and prosperity. Without Morse's invention there could be none of the electric marvels of the age. Electro -magnetism, is not only at the bottom of the telegraph, but of the telephone, the radio, wireless, the electric light, electric power, even the automobile. His was as great an achievement as that of Watts who devised the steam engine. Without Morse there would have been no Bell, no Marconi, no Edison, no Ford. Without Morse there would have been no modern civilization as we understand it. Without this introductory para- graph few would understand that in the following words Morse was de- scribing the first telegraph instru- ment ever devised, one that is treasured in the National Museum at Washington:— "There [at the university] I imme- diately commenced, with very limit - means, to experiment upon my ention. My first instrument was made up of an old picture or canvas ame fastened to a table; the wheels f an old wooden clock moved by a eight to carry the paper forward; three wooden drums, upon one of hick the paper was wound, and asses over the other two; a wood - pendulum, suspended to the top iece of the picture or stretching -ame, and vibrating across the P• as it passed over the centre codon drum; a pencil at the lower nd of the pendulum in contact with he paper; an electro -magnet fas- ened to a shelf across the picture or sat] frame, opposite to an -mature to the pendulum; a type ule and type, for breaking the cir- uit, resting on an endless band corn - sed of carpet binding, which pass - over two wooden rollers, moved y a wooden crank, a lever, with a mall weight on the upper side, and tooth projecting downward at one nd, operated on by the type, and a metallic fork, also projecting down- ward over two mercury cups, and a bort circuit of wire embracing the slices of the electro-mlagnet connect- s with the positive and negative poles f the battery and terminating in the mercury cups." Police Commissioner Enright of New York who is an authority on he subject, says that the first mes- age flashed by the telegraph was of the message of tradition, namely, What hath God wrought!" It re - resented the exultation rather than he humility of the great inventor, he man who knew that he had done great thing. The message was Attention, the Universe! By King- doms and Republics, Right Wheel!" t was sent from one classroom to another in the old building which at hat time housed the New York Uni- ersity. The other message, one that Marse had no doubt pondered over a good deal, was sent from the United States Supreme Court Room, at Washington to Baltimore on May 24, 844. This message was sent after Morse, persistent, if at times despair - ng, had induced Congress to set aside a sum, enabling him to com- plate his experiments, for at that ame he had exhausted his private means. That he got a majority to favor it was surprising, for never N an inventor regarded as more crank than Morse. When the N came up one member, a Mr. Cave Johnson, who thus achieved posterity, offered a derisive amend- ment to the effect that half the sum should be devoted to experiments in mesmerism or donated to the "Mil - yeas toWe d rea lerites," then suffering a sad ' pointment because the world bad ;not. come to an appropriate end. Re got twenty-six to support him, Morse was a versatile genius whose talent first shone as a painter. When he was a student at Yale he deter- mined to become an artist and- in furtherance of this design he went abroad and studied under Benjamin West. Both in England and the S ea in. fr w w P e f w e t s a r P b 5 a ei s h e o s n if ti a " I t 1 i t - - -' �111111111111111111Oiniga iaiiigiffIl Maui aline, 3 I R. IIS . H. 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"" Ute: ve expression. td pet of his speanla*, t$Q l5 w n y citing home frons 1S. d "l fd that h wished *hat ea e in an insult Ye' could communicate the iidor* ton to his mother that he, was 'well, When he returned home as e.successful painter and became a' Professor of Art and Dem sin in the New York University, his *ought eentinued to tpi n to ' elcc- trleity rather than to canvas and pigment. . . 1 and'r�:,, rhe her They :ei4' Awl a 'few signal eV cQjc momma en was interrupte o co .ld it be tweed, thougia. the crowd:;.clamo r eaeoct on, Bventu- ally • was dial c red that a yssel in raising , anchor :;laud, rawhaithe. cable, tee, and ,ot knowing it was, had, f it.. `1! *.ereN d Jeered and dispersed:, But it w nttt crowds which Morse desired to impire s..' j e tos'1e line Iaatw' . „. . ton, when, the• t deanonstrai new pews; tui span's.. uses. • "Miserly hoarding is not conservation. In the case of the forests it is . merely wasting something that might as well have been used. "A forest is not destroyed by sound cutting: it is improved and made more productive,: "The proposed Embargo is not a reasonable regulation applied to resources in which you havi common interest. It is an arbitrary interference with Private property in which youhave absolutely no right.99 These striking statements, made by Ralph P. Bell, the chief public champion of the anti -embargo forces, are a forceful challenge to some popular misconceptions that have grown up around the Embargo controversy. "Conservation," he says, "lies in sound cutting and utilization, not in miserly hoarding; and just as thinning and pruning and cultivating a e' garden, , gives that garden a chance to thrive, so properly regulated cutting helps a forest; giving the young trees a chance to grow. If you properly manage your forests and cut the mature grorith, the young seedlings will have a chance and in thirty to fifty years your land will produce its second crop. That is true conservation." "The advocates of this Embargo," Bell con tinues, "tell us that ninety per cent of our annual forest consumption is a total loss from fire, winds, bugs and fungi." By proper cutting we not only profit by the utilization of what we cul, but, while we are thus profiting, we are simultaneously saving a considerable proportion that might otherwise, through sheer waste, have been added to that ninety per cent. loss. Whose Resources are they? THERE has bep much talk of the necessity of saving our forest heritage. "Why do so many of you people keep harping on that word 'our all the time, ' Bell demands, "Our forests, those that we as a body of citizensactually own (and they form 85% of the total forest area of Canada) are already under Embargo so far as export is concerned. The forests that we are talking about now, in relation to the present proposed Embargo are those owned by individual fellow citizens of ours, just as you own your house acid lot or your farm. And yet you join in the cry, 'Our forest—' our land—Our national -heritage.'' Have you paid good money for theors thatyou're all of a sudden so generouslpa•triotieabout? Have you slaved for them :suffered un- believeable hardships for them ame settler owners have? Every time the -big paper- corn-;;_ panics mention their wood - resources, theyspeak of 'the' Interests of our share- holders,' but when they talk about the wood of th'e Man . who owns a little plot -of" freehold forest land they talk of 'our' national resources. They aren't 'our' resources at all. They are his and only his; and neither you nor I have anything to do with them." Private Enterprises - "But," the ready objecter interposes, "If the forests ire cut down indiscriminately, all Canadians suffer." "Yes," Bell retorts, "and if your big business gets it- self into,a jam, you are going to suffer, too.But you don tell the owtiers that their business is a( . national re- �ourcevea, and ight thtato ains tersuchfere iyou an lits management. 'No, they are private enterprises,' you say. I tell you, these businesses are no more private enter- prises, than the woodlot owner's trees are his private enterprise." "As for that indiscriminate cutting that you talk about—Do you thhI the woodlot owner is a fool? Do you think be is going to throw away his capital? ' . . Not much I ' He was born and bred among trees. He has spent a lifetime in making them his. They are his business, and by pod .large he'S taking better care of them than any other class of timber owner. You have no ore right to tell flim what be must -do with his trees or where he may sell them than he has to tell you how to run your private business. Its sheer presumption! An assump- tion that isn't supported by a shadow of right or justice." WISE CUTTING It is asserted on the excellent authority of Dr. Clifton D. Howe, Dean of Forestry at the University of Toronto, that Canada owns young forests of over 50,000,000 acres. Dr. Howe maintains that under rigid 'fire protection and wise ad- ministration this 50,000,000 acres will supply Canada with adequate timber to cover future needs. WASTE ENERGY much 'cooked' as one that is poached. A given piece of material may be just as much manufactured by hand labor in the woods as by machinery. in a mill, and the benefit to the community depends, after all, upon how much money is expended in the process. Suppose we just examine this idea a little bit: Two neighboring woodlot owners, can each cut from their woodlot logs scaling thirty-four cords. One sells to a pulpwoo dealer by whom he has been offered $8.00 rough or $10.50 peeled. He has agreed to deliver the latter, and he and his sons cut, peel and junk their wood and earn the additional $2.50 per cord over the price they would have received for their wood in the -rough state. His neighbor takes his logs to the,mfll^'where they are sawed into rough lumber for which work he has to pay the mill, $5.00 per thousand feet. When his 34 cords are sawed out, he only has 17,000 ft., 1, t,110ltlatii Why waste time an the harwhss little fellow when a big danger threatens Canada's forest wealth ? Saved from Pulp but not from Lumber BUT will the imposition of an Embargo prevent the woodlot owner from selling his wood ?" "Asulpwood, yes, as lumber, no. And will a tree cut for pulpwood decimate our forest heritage more than the same tree outpr lumber? "The cases are not quite similar," some- one says, "Oqe is a manufactured product, and provides work for Canadian workmen, the other is an unmanufactu%ed product.'!-- Pulpwood roduct.'Pulpwood vs. Lumber "A popular and perhaps natural miscon- ception," Bell replies, "But erronequs never- theless? An .egg that Is boiled is just as for it takes two cords of logs to make a thousand feet of ee lumber. The cost of making hose logs into rouge lumber is, :therefore, $2.50 a cord, which the mill earns. The cost of turning the other fel- low's logs into sap peeled pulpwood is also $2.50 a cord, but in that case the owner earns it. The one is processed at home on the wood lot by hand; the other is processed in the mill by machinery.. The expenditure is the same. The one is as much a manu- factured product�as the other. An Unreasodable Idea "But this isn't all.-- It takes two -railroad cars to carry the 84 cords of pulp- wood, while the 17,000 feet of rough lumber which re. quired the same original quantity of raw material, fine only one car. The railroads receive twice as much freight for the pulp- wood as they clo for the lumber." "So rem , , ber, that when• you advocate Imposing an t mbargo, you are simply sayings 'You may not, from this on, sell your logs as pulpwood; you may not so secure for your- self and our sons, employment for an Idle it seasgghhn, eta you ppmay • ccutsy t your �logs into per cent of the cubic eti aten tent of those loge YeQu may load only " one. car, where. you might have loaded two. IrOu ,may not eel1 your wood to an Atnerican Paper Mill in hort round sticks to manufacture into paper ut you may sell it to the -same mill in ion et sticks to manufacture into boxes i which to pack its paper.' Is such a propoela, tion either reasonable or sensible?" 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