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The Seaforth News, 1934-09-06, Page 7'THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER BER 6'; 1934 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN. 9)r�.■tt�rtt�■r�rr�—ur---r I I 1 I 1 ■ 1 1 Duplicate Monthly Statements ments We can save you money on Bill and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. Also best_ quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index. The Seaforth News Phone 84 0 1 a 1 1 1 I s ■ 1 I 1 I a 1 2 1 e 1 ,y xmamma■n or. 211• 2u�rr41n-....r1.1 011 rn...—rr—■ A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and =flit with Slaor a six weeks' trial subscription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Pubtlshed by .THe 0211ISTI0N SCIENCE PUELISHINU SOCIETY Boston, Massachusetts, II. 8. A. In 14 5011 will find the dally goad news of the world from its 800 specialwiitors, finance, as departments devoted to Yowomen's will be and children's twelcome interests, Your homemusic, fearless panyane the 0000 and prohibition. And don't miss Snubs. 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OCEAN TRAVEL BY •AIR (During the Mast :&Iv'e years air trans- portation in the United States and +Europe has shown co1sistera growth. if•n the past year United States planes have covered S0,0010,000 mites. (Air- stays so unite the far16uiig portions of the British Empire that Capetown now is only nil days distant from the homeland, Calcutta less than seven. Australia will ultimately be 'Tie 1111+ - days' joerney instead of more than twice as much. Airways have been es- tablisihed connecting every pr ncrpal .city iii North and 'South •A'neerica: But the airplane has yet ta spread its young wings across the oceans in ,the expansion of commerce as it 'has Josie. ever the continents. liar answer to the question of how flying acro's's the (Atlantic can he made safe, con'timnous elect cotn•nn'er- cially practicable, the iseactronte sys- tem., which •recently woe 'Favor with the United 'States Government, .s'tands nut as an ingenious, and, it 'may •be, a feasible solution. Itis a plan that' has withstood the na'as:t :laborious. engin- eering tests in a. gradual development goirhgback some 113 years, Tllve 'seadrome:.as sttbn'uitted theor- etically, is a steel and iroit •opetlw'trrk structure, coln'sistiug of a six -acne .deck, 'rising on 20 'streaml'in'ed cdl- bleak 'their trip, midway 'stay spend the 'night in ;one of' the drouroe :hotels where they will have the conven- iences .of a modern health resoi^t while 'floating on ocean water two - and -one-half miles deep. The •clronoes will be in constant communication with each other and both sides of the Atlantic by radio, while pilots 'will be guided by radio beacons from stage to stage, Am- phibian planes 'will be used sufficient- the scene from anything witnessed ly seaworthy to land safely at sea int in .Europe," he wrote in his modest an 'emergency, Should a plaln•e be account of one of the most marvel - forced down between stations for any ton's journeys on record, which 're- reason, fast ocean-going motor ends- drew the 'nap of Africa. ''`It 'has never been seen •before by (European eyes, but scenes NO lovely mist 'have been gated upon by angels in their omits, as if en a rarest of . stilts, 100 feet above the waterline and support- ed on buoyancy tanks submerged be- low water 40 feet. In order that this floating structure may have motion- less stability, circular balancing chambers, 'tilled with iron ore, extend to a •deptlr of 208 feet in the still wa- ters underlying the wave surface, In practical tests male with models in small booties of water churned into waves proportionately higher than the ocean ever knows, the morsels re- 1itained stable, including a 35 -foot one launched in the river at Cambridge Delaware, The 'waves which utterly swamped a I16,foot-to-Ill-inch model of the 'Majestic, left the drone riding on a perfectly even keel, ssvin:ging to her miniature cable like a schooner in a land -locked 'harbor. The columns, be- ing streatnlinecl, were shown to offer no resistance to surface waves, which, ruching through there unopposed, caused no damage. IOn a full-sized ;seadroire the laud- ing'dec•k, made of steel, will be al- most a •quarter of a utile long, 300 ft, wide in the centre, tapering to il50 feet at each end, The surface deck will 'be unobstructed for the landing and taking off of aircraft, but on the under decks, provision, is made for airplane 'han'gars, gasoline and oil tanks, storage rooms and hotel quer- tern. f he 'drome will be moored to a 'hu'ge buoy 11000 feet away. Power is provided for emergency use sufficient. to maintain it oil station, should the anchoring system become ineffective, The 'buoy will be !veld ih position by two 'mammoth steel cables secured:to a 11500 -ton reinforced concrete anchor ounle into the bed of 'the ocean two or three miles below-, Such a system (Every one has seen photographs of the IFalIls, but these convey an inade- quate conception of , their colossal size and awe-inspiring grandeur, in a transcendently lovely setting of lux- uriant tropical vegetation. The most celebrated view of theirs is from 'Liv- ingstone Island, from nvhic'h the ex- plorer first saw then in ,all their wonder, No one can .imagine ,the 'beauty of ers will be. dispatched to tow it to the nearest sead'rone. immediate plans are under way for (five seadromes to be built with gas- 'flight, The 'banks and islands dotted � 'ernmentai financial ';aid in the United over the pryer are adorned with sl - 3 iStattes, following the building and van vegetation of great variety of testing of a quarter section of sea- colour and form." drome No, S to be placed 13715 nautical Over a -precipice, 402 feet high,. miles southeast of New York. Accor- the majestic cascades plunge into a ding to construction estinoates, the narrow chasm, and from the seething transatlantic airway consisti'n'g of waters five enormous columns of vap- five seaalno'mes, approximately 500 our shoot p'erp'etually hundreds of •m:iies'apart could be built for about feet heavenwards, visible some twen- ' 314,:000,000—no more 't'han the cost of ty miles away ultimately disappear - cite -ultra modern transatlantic liner ing as clouds. There could be no of the Bremen type. It would give more appropriate site far" a memorial employment to 110,000 meso for teva of the amazing .traveller, the epic of years, whose marches across the continent iEugene L, Vidal, 'D'irector of Aero- will never lose the power to thr4'll- nautics of the ,Department of Corm- here beside one of the supreme won- inerce, points out that the first guar- eters of the world, which 'he was the ter section will be thoroughly service- 'first white m'an to cast eyes upon. tested before 'final commitment to When in 11E10 the was sent out to completion of the first fail unit, "The the Cape, all the interior of the Con - ;first island," he said, "500 miles off tent 'lay unexplored.'Behind the the Atlantic Const could be located coast of Central and Southern• Africa in such a position as to enable air, the map was blank, It 'was not long before he became convinced that his proper mies'ion was that of a pioneer, and he consecrated himself to the .op- ening up of Africa to civilising in- dluences and the stilling; of the slave trade. The deviltry of the -slave hunt - service to start from several cities 00 the const, such as Boston, New- York, Philadelphia, ,Baltimore, Norfolk, 'Charleston and Savannah. At the oth- er end of the route 'courses could branch off ill fan -shaped fashion for 'London, Paris, Lisbon, Madrid, 'Rome ers nladalened him. He saw their and points in Northern Africa." shackled captives die ' literally Of The international status of man- "broken -heartedness." 'He made the •made islands is not without interest. horrors of the accursed traffic in hu Por the 'first time in history a human man flesh and blood ring through invention makes effective and perm- Christendom. • anent occupation of the high seas Convinced that to suppress it ant possible. lust what consequences this to bring light and healing, security will have on the principle of the free- and well-ehing,_.to the 'dark -skinny dont of the seas •remain to be seen. children of Africa, the opening up n At a meeting of the International the interior was first of all imperative Aeronautical lei -ideal Congress con- he devoted himself to it througl erred in October, lend, at Budapest, many }ears of dauntless endeavour the status of a seadrome, if the coun- and clogged endurance—travelling try operating it goes to war, was thousands of utiles among tribe considered, One 'delegate ,uggested sometimes suepicioth anis occasion that seadromes be •declared neutral in ally 'hostile, crossing great waterless time of war; another .suggested that deserts under a scorching sun the seadrome should be turned over threading gloomy, stifling forests fat to a neutral state. days of end, hacking a path throngl There is also the question of law scrub and high grass, wading throngs and order. Removed hundreds of swamps, shooting down rivers 11 miles from the domestic. jurisdiction crazy canoes, in peril from wild of the Linited'States these floating is- beasts, So'metiules starving, repeated lands will have their populations— 1y in the wasting grip of dysentery permanent stall$ augmented by large and compelled to rest for weeks to numbers of passengers, perhaps recover his strength. stormbound, Not only Americans, but To open ftp the interior, he sought it may so happen, a cosmopolitan for- a route to rhe •coast. ;Setting out from eign group will be involved in the the. Upper Zambesi, Livingstone maintenance of order, .Assaults, rob- struggled through incredible danger; beries, ecce murders, may furnish and hardhlps until he reached the fresh thrills for masters of detective sea at 'Luanda, worn well-nigh to a fiction. Whose police will be on these skeleton. Realising the westeun route •Floating 'island,? What court will ren- was useless for his purpose, he fol- der justice lowed the✓.ambesi to its mouth on Invented, patented, financed and the East Coast. So he cane to the built in America, it may be surmised 'Stroke -That -Thunders, as the native; that the seadromes will be the equiva- call the Victoria 'Falls, lent of American -owned islands over (Always as modest as he was roses - which the United States will exer- lute, as free from a hint of boasting cine absolute sovereignty. On the 0th- as he was from fear. he was so gru- er hand, since they will 'be anchored foundly impressed by his discovery actually not within the jurisdiction of that here he indulged in the single any 'country 'but in the international touch of cismetlting like vanity that waters of the free and open ocean, 'can be detected in all his career. malty e legal technicalities may With a ,knife 'e,c harved .his initials on anise. fina tree growing on the island at the But it is not considered necessary edge of the I) •ills, That was in 1035. to ,have new international agreements Until he died in 116713 his life was to put int operation ocean airway ser- spent, except for two visits to Eng - 'ices, Co'n'sequently, regular 24 -hoer land', in travelling over vast tracts of mail, passenger and express service tae continent, once lost to the world 'between Europe and America is quite for the space of five years until possibly within two years of actual Stanley found :him. IIis inten's'e, un - accomplishment. wavering 'belief in his mission was 'su'blime. IFIe might 'bury his beloved MEMORIAL TO THE wife beside the Zambesi and his GREAT EXPLORER :heart be wrung with anguish, He still went on, 'Officialdom' might frown Nest year the little town of 'Liv- upon him, His determination cotild ingstone, 'a tfety miles• Eranh the font- never be s'ha'ken. ons Victoria 'Falls on the iZaiitbesi. "I will find a wavy into the inter - will cease to be the capital of North for or perish." On the last journey he of anchorage prevents the seadrome ern Rhodesia, It is in the extreme was shaking, with' fever, gnawed by front exerting a :sudden jerk: on the south of the territory, and Prince swarms of moslquitoes, 'poisonous. anc'hor's tending to sever the cables', spiders, stinging ants, lying do.\i^.n to sleep in a swamp, his clothes rotting on his body—still the iron will held,' He contiarued to soap his route with careful precisions, to collect his speci- mens, to record his observations, Two of his bearers 41)011e with his medicine-ch•esl. He knew well that this Sas a sentence o:f 'death, but.lie 'wrote that r'it may turn out 'for the best by taking away a source of 1111S- dlc1Qi1 aril ong more superstitious peo- ple further north." Then the last en- try in his d'iary—"April 27th: Knock ed ftp quite." just that. Two clays Int- er he died. • lin the heart of the continent for which he lived and' died, wet with the spray of the colossal .cataract which all the other natural wonders hewas the first white man to .see—there his statue will stand, a memorial of the greatest pioneer of civilisation the world ahs everr. seen. 'S'ome members of Livingstone's ;family carne to Canada, a lbrother and a sister living at (Listowel, Ont, and permits the drone . at all times to swing so this its length "is pointed wincleyan•d, An airplane pilot will situated, .nearer by hundred's of miles thus 'the able to lapd 'head-on to the to 'four-ififths of the white population. winds on a canlmoctious ocean field- 'Livingstone, 'however, :will alway,s be deck as steady as •an island. ar notable place, visited by all whso go Each seaclrome will be laid out as to 'R'hodesia, because of the Falls a miniature city with a personnel of which .the, great missionary and. ex - 11105 res'iileet enup'loyiecs and accomo- plorer discov'erecl in 1113515. The rail i clatiens .for a floating population' of way from (Bulawayo crosses the riv- 11010 persons. Included •between .decks er half a mile 'below theno. IA colossal statue of Livingstone, the work o'f \'L•. \V. 'Reid Dick, RA., 'London, "Inas been erected oa a high pedestal, of Pretoria granite, in a spot where tate spray of the giant cataracts 'writ's forever fall upon it. The memorial rep're:snn'ts 'him., stick in hand, as he roamed the c'h'art of inspressed trim more than the • in1- )A'f•rica for nanny years, incase lakes, tower'in'g tnaun'ta•iins, and George recently laid the'foundation- atone of 'Government buildings in a new capital, Lusaka, Mace centrally. will be a service ibuiltling for main- tenance and ship repair. ,\l o, a wea ther bureau. a radio station and beac- on light's. On the opposite area be- tween clocks Will l e the hotel consist- ing a'•€ 1510 roosts, gyninasiunt ancl swraatlnt'img pool, hrlliand room, stock quotatio 15, !notion pictures and ten- is courts. !Passengers desiring' to POSTAL STAMP PORTRAITS IPortraits of eleven commoners have appeared on Canadian postage stamps at various times, but (done Vas living at the time he was so 'honored. Once—it was before Confederation. —a provincial postmaster -general had to resign after 'bis picture tad adorn- ed one of a new issueof stamps. R. A, ,Barry writes of it in the New York Herald 'Tribune: 1In :113519 it was decided to change the currency of the province of New Brunswick 'from ;pounds and pence to dollars and cents, and a like. ;change in the potsage starn+ps then in us was also necessary. According- ly, the council of t?4 province adopt- ed dopt-ed a brief resoiutictn authorizing the. postmaster -general' to procure the anew stamps. A few months before, Charles Connell, postmaster -general, while on a visit to lKew York, .had obtained quotations on a new 'series of stamps from the American Bank Nate Company. During this rnegotia- tiota the designs ancl colors of the new stamps were decided, Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, a locomotive and a steamship were designs chosen. 'Che stamps arrived in. St i,Tohs before they were needed and much to his surprise, at least .according ti his statement afterward, 'Cannel' found that 'his own likeness had beet used by the designer as the centra': Picture on the five -cent stamp. A lirst Connell was inclined to with hold the 'issue, but as the time was too short to get a 'Herr design, he accepted the istuation and ordercc sapp'lies, 'Members of the council waited 01 the governor, accusing Connell o•' over -stepping Itis authority in not first submitting the designs to the council for approval, and calling upon the governor to suppress the stamp Newspapers decried the lose-ntajestt of a subject -who .presumed to place his ikenees in a place where only portraits of members of the r'tya family had appeared 'before and ridi culed what they called Connell' cheap attempt t publicize huu„elf. The governor ordered 'Connell to re call the offending stamps and proems, Wow 01153 showing a portrait of the Queen. He refused; ultimately re re- signed. For a time he was out public life, and then he was elected fur the House of Commons. Collectors took a great interest in the stamp, but ovben the le unused copies that had been given away by Cannell to his friends before hi: resignation were gathered, there seemed to he no further supply. Con- nell cleared the mystery! To avoir further- criticism the had himself paid for the printing and had taken the stamps, nearly a 'half million coeie' in alt, with tint when lie left office, eventually •burning them. There is a custom which forbids the use of any living person's pic- ture on a 'United States postage stamp. Even a living person's name was once 'barred. il3ecause of the importance attach- ed to Lindbergh'; flight across the Atlantic in '1B217, a 1n -cent stamp bearing 'his name made the first liv- ing -ratan to be immortalized by the 4), S. 'Post Iffice Department. Two years later the rule was broken a second time when a postage stamp appeared which carried the name of :Thomas IA, Edison: This issue hon - erred the ',50th auiniversarj• of rhe first Edison 'electric light. 'The physicist Volta, ,pioneer in electricity forwhom the "volt” was named, was commemorated by Italy in a stamp issue. Pasteur, father of 'bacteriology, and 'Berthotdett, the xhe'mits, have both appeared ono specifications for about '150 different methods of traffic control—mostly of the three -light Variety. !A different kind of light is the one which is eoniroll'ect by pedestrians, who ,push :a button when they wish to crass the road. This' halts the traffic for about fifteen seco'n'ds, lAnd yet there` is another one which is worked by the traffic itself. It notes the arrival of every- vehicle, notes the the speed of •the vehicle and notes the order of arrival. greetings' to the 'visitors. Mayor 'Wear ige. and Fsank White, ,12.,Ps, were the other local speakers, while the' spokes- men '1011 the 'British'ers we're • James Walker, head of 'Janes Walker & Sons, grocer- ,of IBath•gate, 'Scotland, and William Collier, JJP., Managing 'Director of William Coll'i'er Ltd.,. De - re Bakery, 'Lanca's'hire,and of Ford & Sons, of 'Oldham. ':14r, !Walker pointed' out that in Scot'lan'd 'tile tracl'ittonal dish was oat- meal and "Our forefathers built iuo strung constitutions on it, Yet an ex- cellent substitute, i' am sure, has been found sit Kellogg's Core !Flakes." Mr. Collier expressed the -warm thanks of the party to the Kellogg Company for their +hospitality and spoke of the deep impression' made on the visitors by the Kellogg factory mid :other r ut dustrial e-tabiishntents they had seen. • THE ART OF .MAKING TEA No beverage in the world is as uni- versally popular as tea. It is used in nearly every civilized country, and this delightful drink 01ot only 're- freshes e-f eshes and invigorates the mind and body, but also serves as the medium by which people .meet 111 a spirit of friendship and understanding , the world over, Tf the following directions '(which •were supplied by "S'alado." Tea) are followed, each cup will yield the full •clelicious flavour that makes tea so enjoyable.. 11t Use a tea of fine quality. 2. Use fresh water always: .3. Use an earthenware tea-pot. iSeaid out the pot to make it warm. place in it a level teaspoon of tea for every- cup desired, and one for the pot. Add fresh boiling water. Allow to steep about five minutes and stir slightly before serving. Tea made according to The above rules will be fragrant, delicious and completely satisfying, THE HISTORY OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS One day in New York in 110•113 the harrying crowds at •five busy road junctions stopped and stared at three colored winking eyes. 'They watched the traffic on one road held up by a red danger light, while traffic on another road was al- lowed .to pass by means of a green light. The eallookers were watching the 'first experiment ever made in tae control of traffic by lights. 'Those early signals were crude of-' faire. worked by hand by policemen who pulled levers in control towers. But soon they were superseded by the "tine cycle" signal. This is the lcincl which gives the right of way— autontatically and at 'unvarying inter- vals. Then, in :101.22,.. traffic lights 'leaped the Atlantic. The 'French evolved a one -light signal which they still use, !Germaliy, in '1006, was the •fifirst 'European country to adopt the red - and -green type. Meanwhile, in :13ritain, the author - idea were watching developments !Germany, in '119126,' was the first three light signals—hand operated— appeared in London. They tvere soon followed by the time cycle type. Their success was assured and hundreds were erected in all parts of the country. Today their numbers run into many thousands. 'Yet -nobody 'has made a vast for- tune out of the invention. Many electrical 'firms started ex- perimenting, patenting their own de- signs, and anarleeting then' to differ- ent local authorities,, Thus, although much the same in appearance there is no standard t of-_ 'fic light signal, even to -day. !At the Patelits office there are French stamps. BRITISH TOUR TO AID CANADIAN INDUSTRY Eighty leading '',buyers and indust rialists from the 113'ritis'h ilsles .who are at_prusen't touring Eastern Can- ada, With a view to increasing trade +between the Dominion and the Moth- er •Country, •w -ere recently 'the .gq•ests of 'the 'Kellogg Company of Canada at a delightful dinner in the Hot:1 London, 'T'onidon, 1O'ult. This visit, known as the "ilaple Leaf Tour"'was arranged by the :Hop. 'G, Froward Ferguson, High 'Commis- sioner to 'Great Britain. The, visitors include .men' and 'women from .practi- cally every industry in the United ;Kingdom and 'the Irish ,Free State. at is stated reliab'ly,'that the aggreg- ate tbtty'in'g power represented' by the group runs into several millions Of pounds sterling annually. The dinner spark'l'ed with geniality :an'cl goodwill. W. P. ll3'utler, Manag- er, and C. ICratifielrl 'McCormick, IS'ales 'Manager of ,Kellogg's, extended warm Worms, by- the irritation that they cause in the stomach and intestine's, deprive infants of .the ,nourishment that they should .derive 'from food, and mal-nutrit'ion is the 'result, Mill- er's Worm IPaw^d'ers destroy worms:. and correct the morbid conditions in the stomach .and bowels theft are fav- orable to 'worms, so that the full nu- triment Of the child is assured and development in every way encourag- ed. Sod us the names of your visitors.