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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1930-01-30, Page 6Ten -Meter Waves Span the Ocean Station in New Jersey Talks Back and Forth by Voice With Denmark and South Africa—World-Wide • Competition Stirs Interest Fresh from the conquest of many discarded radio wavee, even the ten - meter channel, which has been called barren for communication work, amateur radio operators—more than 18,000 in the United States alone— are planning a campaign to make world-wide telephony commonplace on twenty meters, their most recent wave itermieition. One ot the most recent ten -meter wave triumphs was two-way com- inenication established by C. K. At- water of Upper Montclair, N,J., and amateurs in Denmark and South Af. rice. Those two-way tests were ef- fected on Jan, 1, 1930. Atwater is the amateur who, on April 29, 1928, first reported and verified two-way corn- muttication ac.roan the Atlantic on ten meters. All of those contacts were made in the international Morse code. Now the radio amateurs are turning ready resources to the problem of making the human voice audible around the world en the new twenty - meter band with comparatively little power, and as casual as ordinary con- Canada. Some new members in tho venation. exclusive "WAC" or "worked all con - Contest Begins Saturday tinents" club are expected as a re - salt. Cpmparatively few amateurs. are fully equipped at the present time for voice transmission because the ap- paratus for telephony costs about three times that of the code -sending equipment. The competition next month will be carried out with the sending key. However, next year is expected to have a sufficient number of the amateurs equipped with voice - sending apparatus to make possible a telephony contest on a world-wide Free State, South Africa, Mr. At - water's conclusions are that weather has little to do with transmission on ten meters, and that the host season is between about Sept. 1 and April, through the cool season. Comment - cation was very steady and free from interference, he said, except near tho ends of the best daily time period, when fading sets in. In keeping with the amateur activi- ties of informal communication over great distancee, world-wide code tests are held yearly and prizes are oftered for the operators making the best scores. This year ail -sections sweep- stakes contest will he inaugurated. It will be carried on for two weeks, with the amateurs devoting all energy to contacting with as many distant op- erators as possible. Next month the third International relay competition will be held for the two-week period beginning on Feb. 15. Sixty-four cer- tificates of merit are to be awarded for the ,bestemores made by the wire- less men of the United States and The amateurs have discovered that the ten -meter wave band is best for transoceanic work between 9 a.m. and noon during the Winter season and practically useless during other hours and seasons, Mr, Atwater's first New Year's Day communication was af- fected at 9 a.m., Eastern Standard The, with station 01e7LY, operated by 3. Stannow, of Bolbrovej, Rung- sted, Denmark. The second contact was made one and a half hours later with amateur station ZSIM, operated by C.ILIIIII, of Bloemfontein, Orange scale. Beaverbrook Plan Plan Safe and Safety Gam• • ing Support Manifesto Urges Liberals to Support Empire Free Trade Crusade LontIon.—Notable support for Lord Beaverbrook's Empire Feet) Trade crusade, which has aroused Fre- Traders, is contained in a manifesto under the caption "An open letter to iberals and Free Traders." These elements are appealed to and are asked to realize: "First, that the insular free -trade such as Britain now carries on is the ghost of a dead ideal; second, that Britain must create an economic basis upon which to rebuild her industries to meet the mass production method); of her com- petitors; third, that no physical rea- son exists why the British people ehould hot achieve for themselves an industrial prosperity equal to the 'United States; fourth, that the Em- pire Crusade is tee first serious at- tempt since the days of Cobden to extend the area of free -trade for Bri- tain; flfth, that Empire free -trade will be of immense advantage to the Dominions and Colonies as well as to Great Britain," The manifesto le Issued by C. A. McCurdy, Lord Islington, F. Norrie - Miller, Sir Thomas Clement, Walter Forrest, who are all Liberals of many years standing. The Daily Express printe a form of application for Empire Crusade membership for Liberals to sign, TO -DAY Each morning is a fresh beginning. We are as it were, Met beginning life. We have it entirely in our own hands. And when the morning with its fresh beginning comes, all esterdays should be yesterdays, with which we have nothing to do. Sufficient is it, to know that the way we lived our yesterday has determined for us our to -day. And, again, when the morning with Its fresh beginning comes, all to -mor- rows should be to -morrows, with which we have nothing to do. Set- ficient to know that the way we live our to -clay determines our to -morrow. —R. W. Trine. "The temptation to go to the devil increases with age." --A. Lawrence Lowell, "To write well it is necessary to forget one's self in one's work,"— Booth Tarkington. I went to a ball game. And I be- held how some players score by Pru- dence and others by Adveuture. And the man by whom I sat was full of admiration for those who played not far from their base, and I was more likely to admire those who Ventured. And my friend said, Is It ever so with thee? Anti dost thou lavish all thine Applause upon those who un- dertake the plays that have Hazards? Behold is It not better to be Safe? And I said, No man even won a Ball Game simply by Playing Safe. Some men get Put Out by running, and others stand hugging Third Base until the side goes out when an Ad. venturous Run might possibly have Scored. And he said, I prefer Safety. And I said, This is a very Unsafe World. It is Dangerous to be alive, and much safer to be Dead. It is highly imprudent to Marry. It is very unsafe to be at Home; a large part of the Accidents happen there, The Bathroom is primp the most Dan- gerous room in the house; hundreds of men have slipped in the Bathtub aud injured their spines, and people there do suffer from Scalds and Shocks. Tho bathtub is perhaps civilization's most Deadly Weapon. Yet do I bathe every Saturday night and sometimes between. I do not ad- vise tnen to Live Dangerously: I simply do not know any other way to live, and I want to live. And he said, How far dost thou carry this idea of thine? And I said, It is not mine own idea, I inherited it filial a Great Adventur- er who said something like this: He that would save his soul shall lose it, and he who doth lose his soul the same shell find It. He lived danger- ously, and gave the world Salvation, WEALTH The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market; it depends chiefly on two words—industry and frugality --- that is waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. With- out industry and frugality nothing will do and with them everything,— Franklin. EAGERNESS Moro eagerness is generally as - played in the pursuit of the phantom Pleasure than M doing our duty.— James Ellis, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, and what people think of you. The Center of the Cyclone or Low Pressure Area SOMETHING THAT SAILORS PREFER TO GO AROUND Waterspout, estimated 1,000 foot high, seen by fats-engors on Empress of Australia, near Messina straits, on world -Lour, - • - • • • Captain Wilkins' Discoveries After his daring flight from Feint Barrow to Spitsbergen, great things in geographical discovery were ex- pected of Sir Hubert Wilkins in Ant- arctica, In 1928, with a base oh De- ception Island, he demonstrated that Graham Island is separated from what was supposed to be a continent by a wide strait. On the expedition in which he is now engaged he flew westward over Hearst Land, which ho put on the map a year ago. He charted the coact for 300 miles, and found that Charcot Land was an is- land. It should be realized that ho has had no Barrier for taking offe Ile has been shut on from the nearest land by an ice pack extending for more than a hundred miles. His base has been a small ship. The organiza- tion of his adventure has been on a minor scale. He has had to cecina(' with unusually bad flying weather. It was iris hope to attempt a flight across Antarctica to the Bay of Whales, Admiral Byrd was looking forward to the opportunity of playing host. Both men are high-minded and gen- erous. Co-operation in discovery was their purpose. But Wilkine has been compelled to give up the flight which would have taken him acroa a region of Antarctica not seen by Admiral Byrd. The cause was failure to find flat ice for a take -off. So he has been forced to abandon the "groat adven- ture," as he called the most ambit!. ous feature of his program, for this season. The explorer who had flown a large area of the Arctic which had never been seen by man, and kept the air for 2,000 miles, was thwarted by upheaved pack -Ice in the Antarc- tic. There is coneolation for him in the estimate made by Dr. Isaiah Bow- man of the American Geographical Society. Captain Wilkins's newest discov- eries, when combined with the explor- atory trips he made in 1928, will per- mit the scientific world to gain a fair- ly accurate idea, ot what that mys. terlous section of the earth is like, and will serve as a basis for all fu- ture exploratory endeavors. The coast is left to the courage and energy of Sir Hubert. He hopes to follow it to the Ross Sea, and at any rate may be able to map 600 miles. He remembers fellow -explorers by naming a cape after his countryman, Sit' Douglas Mayson, and another "in honor of my friend, now RearAdmiral Byrd."—New York Times, MISERY If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, 'I cannot see any greater career than to be a homemaker and devote one's life to one's children."—Eliza- beth Marbury. Philip Snowden At The Hague The Hit:me—The stubborn fielit by the reprocentatIves of tho German Government at the reparations confer- ence to obtain (oneessions constitut- ing a victerY aver anil above waat the late Foreign Minister, Dr. Strese- maim, obtained for the Reich, no el bit which him blocked progress for some days, brought a sharp attack by Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the leechequer, against the Ger- man delegation. The efforts of the Germans to oppose every detail for 'the purpose et gaining advantages, Mr. Snowden said, may well cause the Young plan to he set adds and the Dawes plan to remain in operation with its heavier payments. "If you prefer the Dawes plan, say so here and now," challenged Mr. Snowden. "Every time we come to an Issue you nre not able to say yes or no. We had thought you were plentpotentlaries empowered to make deisione. I have no desire to spend the rest of my life in The Hague, We hope that by Monday you will change Your tactics and approach settlements 01 a, Pending Issues," This attack by Mr. Snowden was even stronger than Premier Tardien's of three days ago, which caused the Groats to proteet, Jew and Arab in Palestine Loudon Times (Ind.): There le evidence that political crime, chiefly In the form of egrarlan outrages against the property of Jewish col- onists, is still rife; that the anti-Jew- ish boycott continues to be a source of profit to Its organizers and of anxiety to the authorities; that il- legal associations have been formed, of course only for "defensive" per - poses, by Jews and Arabs; in short, that the relations between these two communities are nearly as had 110 they could he and show no signs of improvemeut. "That was my baby we just passed." "How could you toll?" "I recognized the num." "What is mature Judgment, any- way, but the total of our disappoint- ments and worries, our burned fin- gers and our fears?"—Bruce Barton. — e -- "Only a people who are strong and calm can work usefully for peace."— Andre Tardiem Burning of Sodom Viewed hi the Light of Science Evidence of a Great Explosion in Dead Sea Region—The New Excavations who are believed to be ruins of the Lord destroyed Sodom and Go- morrah * * Abraham (levelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwell. ed la the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners * * The Lord rained up - 00 Sotloni and upon Gomorrah brim. stone and fire Ile overthrew those titles and all the plain, and ell the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grow upon the ground." Where were the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah actually situ - tiled? Scholars have long debated this question, Some believe the water); of the Dead Sea have covered them. Other students, among them members of the expedition at present working in Palestine, think data now being salve ged will give the correct newer. Sodom and liomorralt, according le Bible students, belonged to the group of five cities that once flourished at the south eta( of the Dead Sett. Anil the recent report from Jeruealemt tells of a large city (tlie one just Un- covered) that "meet he one of the five famous cities of 'Pentapelis and most likely Sodom ithelf." New clew) to the lost cities of the plains aro being added to old clues as the search con - tines. Scientists investigating the source of tli 0 81110111r anti salt that "clesecade (el" on Sodom have picked up lumps of free sulphur on the shores of the Dead Sea. Geolegiste point b) stratum of rock salt lying along the western shore of the waters of the lower ot tile Dend Sea. This rock salt cliff, 150 feet thick, constitutes the conical mountain of Jebel Usdin, and it is close to this spot that Mel- vin Grove Kyle, au authority on Holy Land expl-rations, places tee aneleitt pities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Sodom, the biblical city destroyed for Ile wieketiness, have been discovered In TransJortlania. According to dis- patches from Jerusalem, and expedi- tion sponsored by the Pentificial Bib- lical institute has unearthed the re- mains of, an ancient city "1,9f15 feet long by 1,310 foot wide, with certain houses fairly well preserved." While authorities do not definitely name the town, ilicy aro inclined to date it from a time earlier than that of Abra- ha10. Buried treasure already excavated Indicates that Ilie city was destroyed twice, Stone foundations, mud walls, pottery and animal figures, found among layers of debris, nre being studied by archaeologists in an ef- fort to throw new light on long - buried vicilizations. Several oteleete uncovered by (tigers show it culture, it is said far higher than that of the ancient city of Jericho. Though no writings havo yet been discovered, it, is believed that some existed at that Dine, The rainy season in lealestlue has temporarily put a stop to exca- vations, which will be resented in two months. Modern selence'hae iaclined to the belief that the holocaust of Sodom and Gomorrah took place in the ear- ly part of the eighteeuth century B.G. It has found evidence that there teal) an explosion of sulphur and salt and asphalt deposits in the region where the wicked cities were said to have had their temples, But the most fa - miller ;dory of the fire that destroy- ed the tons, with practically ail their inhabitants, is 1110 One told in several chapters of the 13ool: of Gene- sis: 'And Tad lifted up his eYCS and be- hold all the plain of Jordan, that It was well watered everywhere, before __.--,-, - • • - • - 'T. _ • - -• • . Kerensky Favors Recognizing Soviet Sees It as Means of Showing Up Russia's Government "in All Its Ugliness" b;ver eine England's Libor Govern- ment resumed diplomatic relations with Ruela, Alexander Kerensky, Pro- visional President of Russia from March to November, 1917, who Is edit- ing La 'attests Opprimee in Paris, has hem asked to give his opinions on the subject. The requests came Prim (dimity from the editors ot British Conservative and Noncomformist papers, who were violently opposed to recognition. For scone weeks he declined to make a statement, but re- cently did so In The Morning Post of London. This reads in part 110 fol- lows: "11 is difficult for me, as a foreign- er, to speak on the question of t111/3 country's recognition of the Soviet Government; that is a matter of your domestic politics, although, for my part, 1 should be in favor of this re- cognitin as a meant( of showing the Soviet Government up In all its ugli- ness." The protest against recognition, he said, had been ot the greatest benefit to the Russian people as it revealed to them information of which they had been kept in ignorance, pram'. tarty that in regard to religious per- secution. But this persecution, he added, was only one manifestation of the reign of terrorism, He mentimed the revival of religious persecution during the last eighteen moths and concluded: "After that there was a pause, but last year it broke out again for two definite reasons. Stalin regarded him- self as so secure, having got rid of his rivals, that he could carry out his own belief that religion must he des- troyed. When he found that 00 amount of persecution could destroy the religious faith of tho Russian peo- ple, and that there was a steady de- termlnatiou of the peasants to wor- ship In their own way, he continued his religious persecution more out of fear than out of pecurity. This ap- parent paradox is discernible through- out the Soviet's actions. "This also accounts for the large number of priests who aro being shot at the present time. In the Pravda these executing ave (=adapt el - ways Mb -Muted to conter-Commum Ist propaganda, 'Up till now 1 have received mora support in every county) In Europe than in England. The reason for that is that Prance and Germany both know the Soviet better than you do here in England. The elorniug Post has taken the only Hue from whieh any real hope can come, and it is of the very greatest impurtake that the protest of your churcliee should be as wide au poesible. This must be ';-,e condemned, And an emphatic pro: test will be a real beacon of hope to' the Russian people." SPURNS NATIVE DRESS Twenty-five-yearold Queen of Stall who recently celebrated her birtlulail with a reception to the diplomattf corps. S'MATTER POP- -ATOmILER, To 62uI12`r ATorv1.5 By C. M. PAYNE au" wAtrr! Po "P Got -Iwo\ 'TELL ME- -A A-rcom I'M &ow wek 6ocrf A vir-r-ti -r+ft6! Ar -is .r.r..1