The Seaforth News, 1959-10-08, Page 7t,``',.2,1T4'G'1G'i AP:.nd
The 'ltd:v'Aul sI
The mere fact that New 'York
is so vast a news center makes
it :probable that its power blaek-
nut of Aug. 17 has been no
secret to the world. Lights went
out; subways halted; elevators
were stalled between floors; and
people depending upon fans and
air. eonditioners were stewed in
near 90 -degree humid heat. Some
500,000 people were affected for
12 hours.
So spectacular an example
compels the question every-
where: Does civilization, in
truth, mean that, more and
more, individuals must be tied
to the machine and regimented
into a machine society? Such a
question certainly gives pause,
for humanity's invention and
production of machines, in one
form or another, accelerates,
But before we abandon hope
and foresee the human race en -
snarled and destroyed by robots
of its own creation, let us listen
to what a thinker on subjects
both teohnical and philosophical
had to say on this question back
in 1936 — Peter Van Dresser,
writing in Harpers magazine. At
the time of his writing — be-
fore sputnik, before either H-
bomb or A-bomb, before the
parlor television — he was a
director of the then infant Am-
erican Rocket Society,
Said Van Dresser: "The ma-
chine itself evolves." And it may
be that we have 'seen it pass
its peak in massiveness, concen-
tration, and complexity of or-
ganization, forcing people into
an accompanying p a t t 0 r n.
"Machinery becomes daily less
mechanical — its organization
more flexible and fluid . . its
capabilities more ,adaptable."
Just for instance, said he, the
machine, generically speaking,
evolved from the wagon to the
railroad with its complex of
trackage and controls. Then
came the automobile, which the
individual can drive himself
whenever and wherever he wish-
es and on whatever the vehicle
— no longer a single cog in a
great machine can travel,
Energy, not long ago carried
laboriously across country in the
form of coal, now "darts through
slender copper wires," and elec-
tric motors have evolved in size
and flexibility to the point
where they can be "veritable
accessory organs to the hand."
One reason vast factories grew
a century ago was that the
source of power, massive steam
engines, had to be applied prac-
tically in the engine's presence
extended only by the capabili-
ties of belts and shafting. But,
skid Van Dresser, "Small shops
may now use the methods of
modern technology in a way that
none but big establishments
could manage."
What about society? Said Van
Dresser:
All machines which require
the factory system for their op-
eration are but pseudo -machines
that require human participation
hi their routineworking cir-
cles.... Not the perfection but
the imperfection of present-day
technical knowledgeforms the
only support of the theory that
the machine in itself requires in-
creasingly complete material or-
ganization of humanity.
And.the individual?
It (the machine) is becoming
more and more the effective
multiplier of man's physical
powers and at the same time
requiring less and less that man
sacrifice himself spiritually —
debase himselp to the level of an
auxiliary device.... The mod-
' ern individual can go forth into
the world with the strength of
ENTHUSIASM — Hamho nick,
Little League catcher Gregory
Pniewski leaps into the arms
of his teammate,' Arthur Deras,
after their club won the L L.
World Series.
LRE CARRIED AWAY - Juvenile trouble in Norway descends
on Oslo in the form of a rock-and-roll riot. Described as the
worst in the history of the capital, 7,000 youths took part. One
above is carried away by police and bystanders,
ten men in his hand and the
stored knowledge of genera-
tions available to his mind.
And of the future? Van Dres-
ser, with the prudence of an edu-
cated man, essays no predictions.
But he sees the goal as "coordin-
ated individualism as against the
fantastic and wholly uninviting
and mechanised superstate."
Perhaps the moral to be found
in the foregoing gloomy thesis
and in the antithesis developed
by Peter Van Dresser is: Never
draw long-range conclusions too
firmly from the situation of the
moment. Every situation, every
age, contains currents and coun-
tercurrents.
The machine, to be sure, may
still be- growing in magnitude
and concentration to the point
of a New York blackout. But as
the ancient Chinese had it: "A
tree does not grow to heaven"
—By Edward B. Orr in The
Christian Science Monitor.
Did Noah's Flood
Really Happen?
The Lord, the Book of Genesis
recounts, told Noah to build an
ark; then "it came to pass .
that the waters of the -flood
;were upon the earth." Bas re-
liefs on the Temple of Angkor
in Cambodia depict water spill-
ing over the land. Almost every-
where in the literature and
legend of ancient peoples there
is reference to a great flood.
If, in fact, there was a world-
wide inundation, when did it
occur and why? It remained for
a Columbia University geologist
named Rhodes W. Fairbridge to
offer at the International
Oceanographic Congress in New
York recently a carefully ,work-
ed -out theory which dated the
flood at 4000 B.C. Furthermore,
Fairbridge came up with an in-
triguingly plausible explanation.
Fairbridge •used as evidence
Louisiana peats, the remains of
an ancient dump in Venezuela,
and other specimens from
drowned forests, mangrove
bogs, and coral deposits. The
dates when each was either in-
undated or free of water were
determined by the carbon-14
dating method (carbon, a con-
stituent of all living things,
gives off radioactivity at a
known rate). On this basis,
Fairbridge suggested the world's
ocean level steadily rose from
16000 until 4000 B.C., a total of
about 350 feet in all.
"Think of it as a crescendo,"
Fairbridge said. "It is as if the
Mississippi River were to rise
an inch for 99 years and go un-
remarked, But in the 100th
year, it spills over its levees.
We think ,the water spilled
through the coast sand dunes
and river deltas drowning hun•
dreds of thousands over ,.the
world."
The sea -level rise, Fairbridge.
theorized, was due to a thawing
out of polar caps and glacier's
melted by an increase in the
amount of solar radiation. "We
have cycles of sun -spot activity.
Why not waxing and waning of
the sun heat itself over the mil-
lenniums?"
Now Can 1?
By Anne Ashley
Q. clow can I -remove spots
from photographs, painti0es, or
prints?
A. Add a • few drops of am-
monia to a cupful of warm
water. Apply this carefully with
a soft cloth that has been dip-
ped into the solution and wrung
quite dry,
Q. What is a good and at-
tractive dressing I can prepare
for a fruit salad?
A, Whip three tablespoons of
currant jelly with,a fork and
then mix gently but thorough-
ly with. a half -cup of commer-
cially -prepared sour cream. This
dressing tastes good on a win-
ter salad of bananas, apples, and
oranges.
Every Movement
Has A Meaning
To seismologists, every vibra-
tion of the earth's crust has a
meaning.
Even the rumble of a passing
truck will register on a sensitive
seismograph. But the vibrations
in which seismologists have
been particularly interested are
those associated with earth-
quakes and man-made explo-
sions.
The wiggly lines that repre-
sent these vibrations on the
seismograph record are the
earth scientist's key to his plan-
et's insides.
Some of the waves sent out
by earthquakes travel along the
surface, often making a number
of circuits of the globe before
they die out. These tell little
about the earth's hidden plane-
tary structure,
Other seismic waves travel
deeply before they are bent up-
ward to the surface. These are
the waves that trace the out-
line of the earth's inner layers
that men' probably can never
expect to see.
Seismologists distinguish be-
tween two types of subsurface
waves — the so-called "P" and
"S" waves.
P waves are pressure vibra-
tions similar to those set up in
the air as sound. They are the
fastest of the seismic waves, the
ones that . appear first on the
seismograph'xecord.
By analyzing the pattern of
arrival times of P waves at a
number .of different seismic sta-
tions, experts, can fix the time
and location of an earthquake
fairly accurately with the help,
of the known characteristics of
travel of these waves below
ground.
S waves are associated with
sidewise movements of a ma-
terial rather than with its .com
pression. In other words, where
P waves, like sound, make par-
ticles move backward and for-
ward in the direction of move-
ment of .the wave, S waves
make particles of a material
move from side to side. They
are .somewhat slower than P
waves and are the second ones
to show up in a seismograph
trace.
The difference in travel time
gives seismologists another way
of locating earthquakes. The
farther a seismograph is froin
the earthquake center, the
longer will be the time spread
between arrival of the different
types of wave, Plotting the dis-
tances measured by three or
more stations then pinpoints the
quake's location.
But there is more to these
studies than locating. earth-
quakes.
Whenever a seismic wave goes
from 0110 layer of material to
another, its characteristics are
changed. These changes can be
detected by painstaking analysis
of recordsfromseismograph sta-
tions around the world, In this
way, the current picture of the
earth's inner structure has been
pieced together.
For example, a liquid usual-
ly will not transmit S waves,
but it will transmit P waves.
Seismologists have found that
there is a layer deep within
the earth that does not appear
to transmit S waves. This is
thought to be a liquid shell sur-
rounding the innermost core of
the earth,
As it now is generally pie-
- toted, the 'earth 'has a solid in -
.tier core, 1,600 miles its diameter.
Surrounding this is the 1,400 -
mile -thick liquid 511e11 of the
outer core, Next conies the man-
tle, a shell of solid material
1,800 miles thick, Surrounding
this is the crust which is only
20 tc 30 miles thiole under the
continents and about six miles
thick under the' nee0ne,
The crust :5 senaratcd from
ths nirnile by a narrow zone of
material known as the Moharo-
viole Discontinuity whose pres-
ence shows updistinctly in
seisrnle studies.
Paradoxieally, seismologists
have a clearer over-all picture
of the earth's deep inner struc-
ture than they do of its rela-
tively close and thin crust, The
reason for this is thought to lie
in the fact that the core and
mantle are more or less homo-
genous masses with distinct
boundaries, while the crust is a
confused jumble of materials,
No one knows how many dif-
ferent layers there are in the
crust,
Some seismologists think there
are two general types of gnat-
erial under the continents, a
layerof granitic rocks underlain
by one of basaltic rocks. They
think the oceans are underlain
by only a relatively thin layer
of basalt.
However, other experts chal-
lenge this picture, Some suggest
there may be more layers. Some
think there is no layering at
all but only a gradual transition
from one type of material to
another.
The picture is confused both
by a lack of over-all data and
by the jumbled nature of the
crust where the active processes
of mountain building and other
geological changes prevent any
simple structure from emerging.
No geologist could draw a re-
liable map of the earth's crustal
structure today.
It will require detailed study
of the crust, taking a relatively
small area at a time. It means
learning to extract even more
meaning from the wiggly lines
of the seismograph records, in-
cluding those of the surface
waves that formerly were of
relatively little help. '
SWIM ANYONE? — Aemlio
Couto, 33, lawyer from Sao
Paulo„ Brazil, smiles in Wis-
sant, France, after he broke
the world record for the Eng-
land -to -France English Channel
swim. He covered the distance
in 12'hours,'45 minutes and 40
seconds.
Monkey Tricks
Over a hundred African ba-
boons are being Americanized
in a tiny, man-made "jungle."
The caves in which they live
are air conditioned and a re-
freshing breeze blows through
them on a sultry day. In winter,
they are electrically heated by
overhead equipment as unobtru-
sively placed but as effective as
the ventilation shafts.' This
unique baboonery, set up at San
Antonio, Texas, is helping scien-
tists to track down the causes of
that dreaded killer, arterio-
sclerosis.
Excessive fatness wipes out
thousands yearly, And not only
human beings.
For, as Dr. Russell Holman, of
the State University Medical
School, New Orleans, discovered,
baboons are subject to the same
fatty congestion and clotting of
the arteries as that which effects
human beings, Such fatty de-
posits write then] off, too.
So, to permit dietary experi-
ments, this mock jungle has been
hewn out of rock and fitted with
a tropical climate, The baboons
have their own running water,
an artificial waterfall and, -to
banish any strangeness about the
place, new arrivals are tempted
by bunches of bananas hung on
trees inside the arena. Gradually,
their normal diet is changed into
more fattening items,
For research purposes, those
animals considered acclimatized
are now getting daily rations of
ice cream, sweets and other foods
of high fat content, Whether, in
fact, dangerous fat deposits are
caused by particular foods re-
mains to be found out.
Dr, Holman and his colleagues
hope to unearth some interesting
data, A woman, proud of her
youthful figure, may feel insult-
ed if told that she owes 1•ra1'
curves to a baboon. But soon
that :nay be a literal truth! '
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R.R. 1, St. Thomas, Phone ME, 1.3207.
FARM on No, 7 Highway, 17 miles from
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stabling for 45 head dairy cattle, hen
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335 ELGIN OTTAWA
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Post's Eczema Salve will not disappoint
you. Itching scaling and burning ecze-
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of how stubborn or hopeless they seem.
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PRICE 93.50 PER JAR
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2065 St. Clair Avenue East
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MONEY TO LOAN
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NURSES WANTED
REQUIRED immediately for Modern 44
bed Hospital 7 registered general duty
Nurses at minimum starting salary of
$270.00 per month. Residence and laun-
dry facilities, Alberta Blue Cross and
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IMMEDIATELY
NEW 58 bed hospital to be opened In
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Ontario
ISSUE 40 — 1959
FACTORY WAREHOUSE
16 First St., London .oat
SAW CHAIN CLEARANCE
1ioneer6"$iS �. 404 Pitch.
20" — 12.00
24" — 14.00
McCulloch Saw 044 Model
7/16 Pitch,
18" — 8,00
Sa
17" — to Saw 7/16 Pitch,
17" 0.00
Rembtgton-Moll, 7/16 Pitch.
18" — 8.00
All Chain Factory Guaranteed,
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drive saw, Large Discounts, Send In
your old sow bars — $5.00 allowance
on Your new bar.
Cash with Order
NURSERY STOCK
FOR Sale. Scotch, Austrian and Mugho
Pine. Description and prices, Write: G.
Pedl(ngham, a.15. 1, Barrie, Ontario.
TREE Seedlings, Scotch and Austrian
Pine 3 year old seedlings for Christmas
treeproductlon, windbreak planting or
reforestation, iisne-
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val,e, Ont.
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PERSONAL
IS Truth Stranger Than Fiction?
(Quote) At the time of the Reforma-
tion the' Protestant Church took over
the doctrine of the Trinity without seri-
ous examination (A new Ency),
The Bible and Church History proves
water .baptism in the Name of Jesus
and not using the words, "Father, Son
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