The Clinton News Record, 1928-06-21, Page 6ig Program of Air Activity.
arks the : Coning Season
PreTimis for long ciistanoo flights across 'oceans (tad for t11e,
pulq�oao'of establishing new-records,a •a toulay lit all
ports of the world, "The following i a list of ease It the owtsta d-
- Ing among these projects:
PirsL—Cosgoo Sabeilii, New York to home. Base,`ll.oesevelt Field,'`
I :I. Personnel," Sabelli, Roger Q. t\'iliiams, ci ie pilot;; Peter Bent;'
16111, navigator, Plane, Ballanoa eeeuiplane Rome, powered with
Pratt S;'W1rii.neY Wasp.
Second—Thea Raselro; Naw York to Boz1in. Base,. Cur -UE s F1. -e
' L.I., Personnel, Phattleht Hasdbe, Chief pilot;- tllrich':Koerheelarur,
navigator,.. Plane, Belloncarnonopla:re, powered with Wright 'MAO -
Third ---Mexico goodwill flight, Mexico City to Washington, non-
stop. Base' Mexico Oity. Personnel, Major Emilo Carranza. !.'lane
Ryan Mex i'co•Excelelor, Power...unit, Wright Whirlwind.
Four-2Lcars's Round, the' World Rasa, --•Bann, Cui•tiste Field.. Per
sonnet, John 11, Means, paos,enger; 0. B. D, Collyer, pilot. Plane, Fair-
child folding wing cabin monoplane.
Five -:-French official navy flight, Paris to New York. Base,
Bordeaux. personnel,. Lieutenant 2. Paris and two others: Plane;
0, A. N, S. Nayy seaplane, powered -with two Isotta Fradelilui motors.
Sir -Byrd South Pole flight. Temporary base, Ford airport,' De-
troit: Flight peirsonnel Commander Richard 'E, Bryd, Bern Balaban -
mad Chief Petty Officer Harold 1. June, U S,N. Plant, 'Fora tri motored,
Wright engines
Seven-Japaneseflight, pa
offi adJa n' to San Rrenctaco.
ci Pacific
Base, Tokie. Personnel, four. Plane,a special twin lotored' land
plane.
Eight—United States marine non-stop flight, Washington to
Nicaragua. Base, Bolling Field, Pilot, Major Charles A. Lutz, II.S.M-,
winner of the Curtiss marine trophy race, 1928. Plane, 'tri -motored
Fokker.
Nine—}Courtney, England, to United' States flight. " Temporary base.
Pisa; Italy. Pilot, Captain Frank,T. Courtney. Plane, Dornier -Whale
/lying boat, •
Ten—Official navy an Francisco to Honolulu. Base, Philadelphia
aircraft station, Personnel, unannounced. Plane, PN -12, which re
candy broke four world it records, powered ;with WrlkiotCyclones.
Dleven--•Polish. trans-Atlantic,; Paris to New Ybak: Temporary
base, Le Bourget. .Pians, White Eagle, special 'twin -motored landplane.
Twelve—Ronna to Buenos Ayres flight. Base, Rome.- PensonneL
Captain Arturo Ferarin. Plane; special monoplane powered with two:
Ieotta Prasehini engines..'
DR. Q. 1• CHRISTIE, B;S.A.,
of Purdue University, Indiana,. whose'
aniTointnent as president of the On-
tario Agricultural College, Guelph, to
eucceed ,Dr, J, B. Reynolds, is an-
noanceri by Hon. John S. Martin `
of Indiana. IIe is also w member and
secretary' of the Indiana deep. water-
ways ,commission. '
Many Pubiio Services
While, Dr. 'Christie has 'thus had a
varied line of YLctivities in the state,'
he has been prominent in other circles.
[He is vice-president of the Associa
ition of Land Grant Colleges, a member
of the Committee on Economics of the
U.S. Department of ' Agriculture, and
chairman.oY the Midwest Agricultural
blconomics'Research Council.
One. of the most important of his
outside interests has been hie connec-
tion with the International Live Stock,
Exposition at Chicago. He has been
connected with' it for some time and
has served as a director. ,for the
Past three years. lie has been super-
intendent of the international Grain
and Bay Show, a branch of this expo-
sition. Each year, one or more of
those Who have been prominently'
identified with the Chicago Exposition
are asked to have their portraits paint-
ed to hang in the Saddle and Sirloin
Club, which has been the centre of
live stock men during the fair for a
great many years, This year the two
men selected for this honor were Mr.
W. M. -Jardine, Secretary of Agricul-
tore in -the Washington, and Dr. Chris-
tie. Last year, in company with a
Our Kin
is At Home in The Saddle
HIS MAJESTY PAYS A VISIT TO ALDERSHOT
Children and their guardians get a glimpse of I{ing George and his suite leaving to see the Lancers' remount
training camp at Longhottcon,
NNew0. J► .C. Head Canada than the presideriey of the director of one of the leading agricul-.
ew ::.11 d"f L+ O.A.C. Dr. Christie brings to it a tural colleges, he was asked to visit
Native of Ontario wide ekperionce, a fine intellect and Europe and make a Special study
of
attractive personality. I bespeak for the subject. The investigation occu-
him the cordial co-operationand sup- pied about three months and was very
•Gradute of 1902 ---Classmate port of all interested in agricultural complete and useful. Thus Dr. Chris -
lack Ex- development of this province." tial brings to Ontario the latest and
of Dr. W. S. $ Career of Progress best information available on this im-
.President of ManitobaTho career of the principal -cicala -
4
portant subject.
a Agricultural Got nate has been one of continuous pro • Dr' Christiehas been the author of
legeChgrass. He was born in 1881, on a several publieations.
Chosen farm near Winchester; Dundee County,. Dr. Christie married Miss EthelowM.
in Eastern Ontario, the eon of.David Carpenter, of Des Moines, Iowa, in
FINE RECORD and Mary Ann (Howes) Christie. 1906. They have one daughter., He
While all old O.A.C. students will bo After education in the local schools 18 Presbyterian in religion, and belongs
sorry to know that the kindly smile ofhe attended the O.A.C., 'obtaining his t4 several fraternal organizations, in.
Dr. Renoyltis (who remains as princi• degree ot_B.S.A. from the University chiding the following:
pal -emeritus) will no .longer , wel- of Toronto in 1902. Ile wolrt across I Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Beta,
come them to their Alma Mater, they, Iowa'State College for' post-gradu- Sigma Delta Chi, Eigma Xi, Lafayette
cannot but congratulate, the Hon. John ate work "and received the degree of ttte I<iwClub, honorary member, Leat'
S. Martin, Minister of Agriculture, on
ette is Club, Indiana Academy
'hit selectict of Dr. George I. Christie Alter Prom that lustittztion in 1903. • ,
After many years of splendid work in of Science, American Acadamey of
as .successor to Dr..lteynolds, Ole Statds, Iowa College eonierred Political and Social Science, Mason
The years 1902, 8 and 4 graduated upon him in 1926 the honorary degree Town and Gown Club, West Lafayette
some outstanding nien from the O.A.C. of Doctor of Science.
While, Chore- Country Club.
Dr. W. S, Black (classmate of the fore, he has been -engaged across the
/new pr•ettident), was, prescient' of line for many years, he has kept 1n
-.Manitoba Agricultural College, and is tough with' his dative province and 18
noW Director of Colonization for the well knower here. He has been much
Canadian National Railways. - Dr.Mel- in demand as a speaker, combining sine doctor?"
ville Cumming president of ,Truro) unusual powers of thought with vigor
N.S.. Agricultural College, ani, Pre- ( and general expression.
niter Sohn Bracken of Manitoba all
come from thts:,notable period of
college life. '
George' Christie Was one of the out-
standing inen of his class„and. Ontario
may well be proud of securing hie
Ser ices.
Dr, Christie ,who is a native On-
tario, and was a student at the O.A.C.,
obtained his 13.S.A, degree from. To-
ronto University, He. went to Iowa,
State College in 1808 for post -graduate
work, and thereafter engaged in a
wide range of activities across the
border, but is well known in agricul-
` tural circles on. this side of elle line,
land has a very high reputation in his
/land
calling. It 'will be several
i weeks before he will, bo able to take
1 ouver ills Der\ dutios.;'at Guelph, but
, lie Is to be installed well liefore the
ripening of the fall terra. Prof. IRey-
nolds it to understood, will be retain-
' ed as pr tncipal enler•ittis `
'•Dr. Christie,' Said Hon; Mi•. Mar-
tin, in auliciinoiil'g the appointment,
''9s regarded as one of the most brei-
' giant graduates of the Ontario Agri-
oeltural College, He 1111tf made 101
outstanding contl•ibltien to Anrerlcan
Eagriculture, rind ft Is moot gratifying
PAY° h 1 ck to his native ra:
AO v lm. l (�...... prey,
t
h
his time, 'T her o mor •
att1 is n o
roe0
e,---
Doctor--"Your temperature Seems
to live taken a drop.” Patient
A L..aagthy Flight For a Fair AViattar
FIRST WOMAN TO FLY FRO M CAPE TO LONDON
LadyHeath arrived at.eroydon after coan,pletion of her 10,000 -mile flight when her aeroplane was surrounded
by a large and .highly enthusiastic' crowd of waloonners, , 1
English Derby
and Boat Race
Called Lotteries
Ontari, Warns
Wet Tourists
"Barking -Sand&'
has a_ New " `alae
Pacific Air_Pilots Add a Touch'
of Romance to the Hawaiian
Strand That Makes
Strange Noises
Barking Sands, in the Island of
Kauai, Ilawaii, was proniiaently'mom
tinned in the cables last week'when
Captain Charles F. Kingstord-Smith
and hip • three; companions took oft
There in the monoplane Southern Cross'
for the second- leg,ottheir trans-Pacifle
fight, -
Barking Sands is another of the
I1ttl - kno.vn names which overseas
flights" in recent years have raked
from the depths of the world atlases.
Interest In the -progress of the South-
ern Cross airmen was - accordingly
rarlcod by some goueral curiosity as
to what the pane of their immediate'
springboard to the Flits actually
meant.
The island of Kauai Itself as a whole
was a little more familiar. Its name
was receded 'perhaps as that of the
most northerly of the Sandwich
Islands,' and as Captain Cook's first
landing -place on I3awatian soil. But -
BarkingSands? Was it a geological
phenomenon; or some new oddity in
geographical nomenclature? Did, the
sands there really "bark"? Or was:
the name taken from some -other
• These people are now resentful as place --as, for example,, some town,
what they believe id the injustice of named Barking in England?:
Canadian law; but they- should have
made themselves acquainted with the Kauai's iVotay Strand
-- previsionsof the act. Barking Olds, as a fact, is, named
Th Paris a er makes the fallow- for its gen ogical phenomon. ` Its
Easy to Get Liquor Permit, e p p to is
But They Should Study In"Canadag isnown all through the wind -started pe of dsana slidbee sonorous.
ow ro "rustle,"
Cl Rea and Huge Sums by Workers -Regulations United States as a land' flowing not now "rumbler Two handfuls of its
Reap Sums Bet- The advance guard of. the 1928 le. only with milk and honey, but beer, sand clapped together might sound
ting on Big Sport flux of tourists from the United wine and hard stuff. Permits are to imaginative minds like the barlciugf
Events States has arrived in Toronto. handed out to all visitors who apply of a dog, says an island naturalist.
As, during their stay, many of these for them, and he natural inference is This remote freak of physical na
visitors will be taking out permits to that a country 1n which' booze is eq ture in mid -Pacific is held by stile -
Millions Change Hands enable them to purchase liquor, -it is easily'obtained will not expect to Oats toibeone of the famous exaampl e
London. --"Social Historians of the n p miliarize them- carry betties around unopened, of the hundred "or more so-called
future," `'The Manchester Guardian"urged that theme regulations ations govern- "It is
said roles` are posted up on
°singing sands" found here and there
noted editorial] recently, "will not be selves withthe walls of liquor stores, but few throughout the world. Science has not
y ing consumption.
able. to - overtook the tremendous ex- The, Star Transcript, of Paris, Or,., think to read them. It a card con- agreed upon the cause of this strange
pension of they this sweep'." One is gives particulars of a cafe where' fail• twining full instruetto}rs were Hand- voeallty. But the ,acoustic property
tempted to say this writer is' over- ureto do Eo resulted in trouble. • ed out to snob. purchasers, ` tiarticul- these sounding hills. and beaches pas -
cautious, Historians :of the future, if visitor bought a bottle of whiskey arty tourists, much trouble and 111. eels when disturbed by the wind has
they know their jobs, will not be able and a bottle of wine, Part of the feeling might be 7rrevented," been pronounced a certain, if mysteri-
to overlook the .institution of the liquor was consumed at a lunch caun- Sir Henry Drayton has gone one nus; Pact.
Derby itself. ter, and the rest kept in the motor better and has printed the laws right The barking sands of Kauai ap-
Before 1914 some intelligent Ger- car in which the man and his wife in the face of the American permits. pear to he largely confined to one
mans thought the English so devoted were travelling. particular sand dune. This mound,
to sport that they would not be able Ag there were evidences of intoxi- Criminal records indicate youth's about 100 feet high, forms. one end
to defend themselves in war, A Brit- action; the man was arrested and the Waywardness runs too much to high -
As a mile -long range of dunes that
ish satirist of those years, indeed, minimum'penaity imposed. waywardness. -Wail Street Journal „ Parallel the south coast at the western
went so far as to sketch out imaginary
headlines of the newspapers in ease a
European war 'really did come about:
"Hampshire collapses' •att cricket:"
with .a subheading: "Germans land in
Kent." The Germans somehow proved
to be wrong. Yet the puzzle remains
why half a million or so' Britons have
elected to -regard as' two -of the most
important events every year the two
races—the Oxford -Cambridge boat,
race on the Thames and the Derby.
SEEN BEST FROM PLANE.
Neither of these contests can be wit-
nessed with any real satisfaction ex-
cept
xcept from a plane. The earthbound
would-be spectators can at best wit-
ness only one quarter of either con-
test, so far as the boat race is concern-
ed, not one per cent. of those who
throng the banks of the Thames have
the remotest connection with either
university; and as a betting proposi-
tion the boat races are, rather arwash-
out, as since the war the train ques-
tion has been the margin by which
Oxford would be defeated. But the
Epsom Derby—which is a horse race
for a mile and a half over uneven turf
—has been exploited until in addition
to being a sporting event of the first
magnitude,it is also becoming a finan-
cial one.: and discreetly refrain from noting the
By the investment of five dollars in big ones.
the Calcutta Sweepstake, the lucky Some newspaper's have raised the
citizen who draws the winning ticket point that the growth of the gambling
wins a fortune.of $1,310,000. The Lon- on -the Denby must have anti -social
don Stock Exchange sweep offers consequences and one of the news -
$625,000 for a similar investment, papers remarks these fortunes "might
while the sweepstakes in which the be as profitably thrown into the sea as
first prize is over $1,000 can be num- into the lap of one who, unless he is
bared in the hundreds. It is estimated a miracle in self-possession, will lose
that this year $16,000,000 was raised his head and fail to find hxppinese
'either for himself or others.'
On the basis of the data available as
to the winners of tho big prizes in re-
sent years this lament is absurdly pes-
simistic. Nobody can holp••being: etruck
withthe wisdom with which, on the
Whole, the winners -of the last few
The Place Where, Motor Speeding is Legal
DARING RACERS TEARING AROUND THE SPEEDWAY
Fourteen thousand people witnessed the 600 -mile automobile race when Meyer, the novice drives'• from Los
Angeles, was the victor, with Lou Moore of Hollywood second.
in all the recognized sweeps. The
British papers forecast that within a
few dream the Calcutta sweep' organ -
leers will be able to offer -a first prize
of $5,000,000.
COMPARED TO ROULETTE.
As some British commentators point
out, in these events the Derby itself years have handled their money. It
is more important than the spin of a confounds all the pessimistic easy
roulette wheel or a cast of dice. 12 is come, easy go prophecies.
One garage mechanic who won many
thousands of pounds 'established his
own garage and invested the rest of
the money.. A girl employee of a cot-
ton mill who was equally lucky wont
intothe real estate business. A clerk
'Who :won $200,000 ,this year is going
to treat himself to a three -weeks' holi-
day a Folkestone—about as exciting
really only the deciding factor in an
immense lottery which might quite as
well be settled by any other factor of
chance. And yet it is quite certain
that if these lotteries were operated
on any such terms Great Britain':
anti -gambling laws would be applied
against them 'Withthe utmost'rigor.
"Can't- you fix it so I can do the AO matters stand, the police each year
I order a few small sweeps discontinued as Flat -bush.
After completing his academic train-
ing, he continued for couple of years
on the staff of -Iowa State College, as
an assistant in agronomy, From there
he entered the service of Purdue Uni-
versify, in 1905, and has continued
in various capacities with that inetl,tu-
tion until the present time. During
the war, however, he was loaned to
the Federal Government and served..
as assistant to the Secretary of Agri-
culture for a 'couple of years, during
which he rendered excellent service.
tie also•served on the U.S. War Labor.
Policies. Board, 'and on the National
Committee for the Employment of
Soldiers and Sailors after the war.
in Indiana lits .activities -have cov-
ered
ove red a wide range,' Ile was first an
associate ,in agricultural 'exteusign
later• being appointed superintendent
of agricultural extension, . and since_
1520 combining with this the position
of !lireotor of the experiment station;
se t'ilat-both experimental, and exten-
mon activities were under his adminis-
tration. TIis services, moreover, have
been.in demand In general state activi-
ties.' lie has served est director of the
Summer school for teachers, as super -
1a endent of the Indiana Agricultural
Exhibitt thePana-ma Ex osi i n
a t0 as
,n
Chairman of the Indiana Centennial
end of the island. It is back 100 yards
Ecuador's
Trams Pollee from the sea ateaaliy being
Claim World's Courtesy Title built inward by theand winisd.
Quito, Ecuador. - Quito's traffic A Variety of Sounds
policemen probably hold the record The to» and landward side of this
for politeness. When north and south windblown dune alone seems to poi -
bound traffic is stopped to allow east ease sonority. The wind aweeps the
and west bound traffic to proceed at sand 1n widening wavelets down the
the street intersections the traffic of- slope, and the musical reverberation
!tears on duty motion to the north and varies with the ]treat, dryness and
south bound .pedestrians to keep on friction from a bound like rustling
the sidewalks and say, "With your silk to a deep -toned peal. One tree
permission, ladles and gentlemen." velar wrote that,a horse ridden down
the slope makes a noise akin to "sub-
terranean thunder." Another.has said
Immigration Permits ' that, stamped upon, "the sand cries
Saskatoon Star (Lib,): Accepting out In different cadences." "A deep
this stzgtemerit, Veal is the reason for bass tremolo' was the way 1t Ira-
pressedpermits at ail? Wiry, issue such dente a third witness. Tire sound
meats? Members of Parliament deny given cif by these 'sand rushes is
thatpermits have been a' source of heard clearly for some distance, all
profit to them. On the contrary, agree, The hatives say the Sound 1s
they have been harmed by insinua- made by the spirits of the dead, who
tions that the permit s'yetem is "grumble at being disturbed."
abused. They should therefore be The late Professor H. Carrington
very ready to see "letters to. facilitate Bolton reported to the American As -
entry" become a thing of the pant; sociation for the Adavenaeement of
__,Y_-.__: Science in 1889 that a bagful of the
i•I Kauai sand Ice brought to his Tabora -
A good book is the best of E e nds r tory in this ubuntry preserved its
the same•to-day and forever.—Martin strange properties for months, finally
F. Tupper, Iosing them after frequent manipula-
The Irish Excell in -Breeding Light ]Horses
ATGAME
A POLO IN PHOENIX PARK, DUBLIN
The A
Il•IteIurxPolo club opened the season with of three, chukker matches and provided setae eeeiti
ng
c n t e
t
s in:which
hich
IER2aag t poalaim fagrij ip Celebration and as,state food director disrlayed.
tion
British Authors Attack
• Predatory "Publishers"
- London—A black Bet of alleged dis-
reputable publishers who, it is stated,
obtain money from unwary authors
without ever selling their books has
been drawn up by the British Society
of Authors, Playwrights' and Comr-
Posers for the guldiinee of its mem-
bers.
Such pttblishers..usrru9•lY obtain their
business through advertisements ask -
log for'menusoripte 'tad promising to
Place thein. An author who sends his
lila, book will ;receive an immediate
reply telling frim that he has written.
ai work that there will be uo difficulty t.
10 selling. I
The letter will go on to say that the
cost ek'publishing-if sol great that:
the :publisher must ask the author to
contribute towards It on a oe-opera•
tato breis and to share in the profit-;.
on the 1R'rst edition.
A few copies of the book' are .print -i'
ed after. the author has contributed,
$800 or $1,000, but there is rarelya v'
profit, and the author never gets hitt'
money back, - , !
The tvotna.n 'Who''Who'desires to keep.
,
-- 61.111 ''" " her Schoolgirl complexion these days
eactuld not to out in the lean„