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The Seaforth News, 1928-03-22, Page 7•a Porpoises May, Aid Scientists To Eradicate. Caisson Illness Batteres, N. 0, --'Tho study of whales and Porpoiaea may aid in the solution of caisson sickness, bane of thed'eep,sea diver, and other human ailments, ' e It was with ouch an object in ylew that a group of scientists of the de- department of, anatomy of the Johns Hopkins' Medidal School,, and Dre. Remington Kellogg, of the United States Biological Survey, and ,A, Bra- zier Howell,• of the Smithsonian Insti- tution, mammalogist of the national museum, visited Cape Hatteras re- cently to conduct a series of expert meats on porpoises. r The aoientiste topk back to their laboratotries specimens of all of the. ofgans of the porpoise's body, includ- ing six brains, Contrary to what might be expected, the porpoise brain is described by Dr. Howell, who it. corresponding secretary of the Ameri- eau Society of Memmalogiats, as "phenoxneualiy developed" and "of an exceedingly high type," "Many of the problems involved in the study of porpoises," he explained, "are distinctly applicable' to human aoti:Valea, If'it-could be ascertained how porpoises and whales .manage to Mirvive, at the depths to which they go, mueh' probablywould be learned in regard to Oeisson sickness! And.of- precticai interest is the question of the carbon dioxide given off by the. body, through the lungs, during pro- longed submergence, ro-longed:subniergence, Of no loss in- terest are the physioal adjustments to the denser aquatic environment which whales (once land animals) have made, involving blood pressure, pres- sure of spinal fluid and the mechan- ism of breathing, as wet as the great' changes.' in the muscle system as com- pared to the typical laud mammal:' Water Power Gains In/Canada Listed Secretary of the Interior Re- ports 221,000 Horsepow- er Increase in 1927 Total Now is 4,778,000 The annual statement of Charles Stewart, Minister of the Interior of Canada, with regard to the develop- ment and use of water power in the Dominion, indicates that the great' progress made during recent years continreed in 1927, and thatwith the undertakings now inpr000ss of de- velopment or in active prospect, the next Yew years will witness further growth of very substantial propor- tions. In the last year, hydro -electric pow- er:equipment was installed ready for operation to the extent of more than 221,000 horsepower, bringing the total installation in Canada to 4,778,000 horsepower, In addition, other un- dertakings were advanced to such a stage that a farther total or 378,000 horsepower will be in place during the first six or seven months of 1928, thus bringing the total by. the middle of the year to more than 5,100,000 horsepower. The latter figure is just double the total installation at the end of 1920. The report goes on: "of the activities during 1927, the most significant feature was the in- crease in electric transmission volt- age above that of the lines in the 110,- 000-volt 10;000•volt class which have been oper- ated throughout the Dominion for many years. In this regard the. . Shawinigan Water and Power Com- pany was the pioneer in constructing a line of 166,000 volts, 136 miles In length, through praet'cally uninhabit- ed territory, to carry 100,000 horse - "ower from the Isle Maligne •develop- ment on -the Saguenay River to Que- bec City and vicinity. Construction of another. •line of sting reater volt- age was begun during the year by the Ontario Hydro -Electric Power Com- miseion to transmit power more than 200 milesfrom the Gatineau River in Quebec to the City of Toronto and the commission's Niagara system.. This line is designed to carry more than 250,000 horsepower at 220,000 volts and is expected to be in opera- tion in the Autumn of 1928. Quebec Took the lead "In installations added during 1927 the rovi.nce of Quebec took the lead mainly due to the activities , of the Gatineau Power Company on the Gatineau River. Hydro -electric con etruction was also active in Ontario, In the Maritime Provinces and in. Manitoba and British Columbia. "In Quebec the Gatineau Power , Company completed the eonstruction of and brought into operation the initial installations of its Chelsea and Farmers Rapids -developments, the first of 102,008 horsepower capacity and the second 72,000 horsepower. The company also vigorously Carried forward the construction, of a third development on the Gatineau River at Pangan Falls, where 204,000 horse- power is being initially installed. For the benefit of these three develop- ments, the Mercier dam, creating a very extensiv storage reservoir of 96,000,000,000 cubic feet, also was completed and the reservoir Ailed early in the Year under the direction of the' Quebec Streams Commission. "Other installations placed in oper- ation in Quebec during the year in- cluded a 2,000 horsepower unit at Pont Rouge by theDonnacona Paper Company and the •carnpletion' of a 2,000 horsepower development by the town of Coaticeok. The largest proj- ect under construction is the 800,000 horsepower development of the Alcoa Power, Company at'Clints a Caron'on the Saguenay, BLver, "Other projects or extensions under way are a 65,000 horsepower develop- ment by the Montreal' Ieland Power Company on De Prairies .River near Montreal:, the addition of two 10,000 horsepower units to the Canada Northern ;Power Company's, plant on Quinze River; the addition of unit 11 of 45,000 horsepower to :the Duke - Price development on the Saguenay River, and a 800 horsepower plant by the Cie' d'Enterprises Ptibliques !tear Riviera a Pierre, "Contracts have been let by the City of Sherbrooke for a new de- velopment of 5,80.0' horsepower at Westbury Rapid on the St, li't'ancls River, ad•i the Ottawa River Power Company has aulhoilzed the addition 00 a 26,000 horsepower knit to its de- velopment near laryson on the Ottawa River. The Ontario Paper Company has a plant of 40,000 horsepewer un- der way on the Riviera aux Outardes, Ontario Developments "In Ontario the outatandlug work of the year was the commencement of Conetruetion by the Ontario Hydro. Electric 'Power Commission of the 220,000 -volt transmission line to carry the 260,000 horsepower which. the com- mission has contracted to take from the Gatineau Power 'Company. Ac- tual installations during the year in - luded •twoplants" at Sturgeon Falls. and Moose Lake on the Seine River of the Ontario"ani! Minnesota Power Company with 10,000 horsepower. and 14,420 horsepower capacities respec- tively. A further .plant of 13,200 horeapori•.er at Cm La1ce on the same river will be completed early in 1928. The Gananoque Electric Light and Water Supply Company added 1,500. horsepower to its Kingston Mills, plant, and emailed installations In- cluded 325 horsepower by: the town of Smiths Palle and 75 horsepower by the town of Streetsville. "Among tibe ,,developments under construotton is :the Ontario Hydro -i Electric Power Commission's 'de-, velopment at Alexander Landing an the Nipigon River which, when com- pleted in 1929, will have an installa- tion of 54,000. horsepower. The 56;250 horsepower plant of the Spruce Falls Company at Smoky Falls on the Mat- tagami River was well advanced, and. the International Nickel Company of Canada • is commencing; the tu-stalla- 1 tion of 28,290 horsepower on the'' Spanish River, The Maritimes "Iu. New Brunswick the .St John River Power Company made rapid progress on the construction of its 80,000 - horsepower development at GrGand Fails on the St, John River, The New Brunswick Power Commis -I sten -made an extensive Investigation of the forty -mile rreach, of. the St.' John River between Woodstock and Hawketaw which gives promise ;of, providing .a further development on` that river of 30,000 continuous horse-, power. Similar investigations were made en the same river by the St. Sohn River' Power ^Company, and on the Nlpisiguit River the Bathurst Company, carrled-on investigations at the Rough Waters site near the inoutli. Two tidal power projects are. also under investigation on the Bay of Fundy in'Ne'a Brunswick. "In Nova Scotia, Iths Nova Scotia Power 'Commission completed the construction of the 8;000 horsepower Sandy Lake development of its St. Margaret Bay system. The commis - Edon also 'carried ommis-sion'also"carried on numerous inves- tigations including a project of 3,000 horsepower at Lake Ainslie in Cape Bretd`n, a proposed tidal power proj- ect at Amherst Point on the Bay of Fundy and investigations of the com- plete utilization of the Liverpool and Where Crowds Are C owdo THEY TAKE THEIR FOOTBALL SERIOUSLY AT 'OME A glimpse of the -crowd ata cup tie, . The policemen are dealing with sonic of the •casualties • during tbegreatmatch between the Arsenal an Medway Rivers.. The Bridgetek'uf �I. Electric Light. Company added 315 " BloodOI>rYatill fit $o ^� horsepower to its plant at y. ' t Brook, while the Avon River Power Wltlds a let Company has under construction a second hydroelectric plant at Avon :One of the most remarkable shoot - River Falls of 4,300horsepower, ing expeditions in which a woman has taken part' has just been safely ac- complished by Lieut -Col. S. Gordon Columbia Electric Railway Company Johnson, late of the South Stafford - completed the construction, on the Shire Regiment, and his wife. shore of Stave Lake of a 12,600 They have returned to London after horsepower plant, On°yancouver Is- a journey of 1,200miles from Kash - land the oompany pushedforward lair to Tibet and back across the the reconstruction of the flume carry- Himalayas and other mountain ranges. ing water to its Jordan River devel- Colonel and Mrs. Johnson, who were opment. Ou the Bridge 'River, accompanied by six native servants, through a subsidiary, the Bridge River 10 Mansholt men with 15 yaks, a herd Power Company, extensive prepara- of sheep for food, and a herd of goats tory work was carried on in comma- to provide milk, secured. a Tibetan tion with a project of 500,000 horse- antelope at a height of. 21,000 feet. power eitimate capacity, and a con- Col. Johnson told a Daily Mail re- tract was let for the construction of porter: a tunnel leading from Bridge River My wife and I made the journey, to •the power station site on Seton which totalled 2,000 miles from when Lake. The West Kootenay Power we left Kashmir on May 4 till we re - and Light Company carried' forward turned on November 4, because we are the construction of its new Keep both enthusiastic shots. Horsepower development en theLeaving Srinagar, the capital of Kootenay River at South Slocan, 1Kashmir, we crossed the Himalayas at Prairie Provinces Z6gi Pass (11,500 feet). We went 240 miles without seeing a village, and "Ie Alberta the pl et . Kootenay arrived at Leh, the chief village in the Power Company completed the con- l Ladak Range. struction of a 13,000 k.v. steam pow• Leh, whish sons perhaps 25 Euro- er 'station at Sentinel in the Crows- peans in a year, is a market of barter nest dietrict as an auxiliary to its between India and Kashmir on the one Hydro -electric planta on the' Bahl and hand and Chinese Turkestan on the Elk River% in British Columbia, and'other. the Calgary Power Company greatly Thirty miles from Leh is the moans - extended its transmission systema IH i whereattended "In easkatchewan the Provincial tery of em s, we n d the Government appointed a commission annual festival which attracts people to inquire into the, pgwer..resotirces from all over Central Asia. Grotesque of the province and a very"active pro- and brilliantly clad figures wearing gram of investigations was carried great masks or huge black hats dance out. • the dance of death or "the dance In ditanitoba the Manitoba Power of Mie black hat," or other eerie steps Company completed the superstruc• of dismal one -note music: ture of its. Great Palle plant on the During the festival you could go to Winnipeg River and brought into see the Shuehak, who aright be called operation Unit 4 of 28,000 horsepower the Archbishop. He is supposed to be capacity. • A prospective develop- ithe re -incarnation of Buddha. When went of great . importance to -the dying the Shushak has to call the northern part of the province 1s in lamas, the high priests, and tell them , view at Whitemud Falls on the Ned- where to find the newly born infant JC gd sou, River, where an installation of whom he knows, on the inspiration of from 30,000 to 40,000 horsepower is Buddha, must be his successor: When' Shy on the Rocks. proposed to serve power over a trans- the baby is found it is placed in the "j don't believe you have grit mission line 170 miles in,length to the monastery. enough to propose to a girl." Flirt Pion inining district northwest of The women wear head-dresses that: "I've al the 'grit needed, my boy - the Pas. go' down their back and bear tee - "Numerous undertakings are in the quoises. initial stages of construction and. Mrs. Johnson, who bought splendid others are about to be commenced specimens of turquoises for less than British CIumbla Enterprises "In British Colufnbia the ritish City Pawnshop of Paris Reaches Ripe Age of. 150 Paris: -.-The • Paris "Monte de PIMA," or city pawnshop, is 150 years old, but there wil be no birth - clay party.. It is, officially, the Credit Muni- cipal and unofficially "My Aunt," merely a .. change in gender from the American appelation. Private pawnshops are forbidden in France and the public loan in- stitutions are supervised by the authorities to insure honest and efficient administration. Pension claims are accepted es collateral for loans at only 1 per cent. a year, but other loans are at 8 per, cent. At Toulouse and other cities loans are made with- outinterest. The only innovation of recent Years has been the acceptance of automobiles "in hock." to help her I sank just as deep, and Soon all our transport was in. It took us from 8.20 a.m. to 2 p.m. to get out of the snowfield, in which we moved less than half a mile." 9---- L-- I'm ^ I'm shy on the rocks." • Barrister at Bow County Court: "are you. married?" East Ham Wo- whieh wit result in an addition to a pound in rupees, pointed out that man: "I am not. I have no desire theDominion total' of more than 2,- these stones, carried on the head-dress to keep a husband!' 000,000 horsepower, much of which, it were the banking accounts of the wri- ts expected, will be in place before men. the end of 1930. The capital required The journey ;continued across the for this new work will involve the Chang Chen Mo river to Tibet. direct investment -of at least 300,000,- Col. Johnson maid': 000, and many times this amount in "We encountered a snow -field at the application of power' to induatdy 18;000 feet into which my wiite sank and domestic and public use." almost totheshoulders, When I went Ale, that will be hie • first worry. ---tit--- Clubman-I've struck a perfectly priceless 'Idea. I've arranged to give a man $10,000 on condition that he re- lieves me of all niy worries, Friend -That's fine, but where are you go- ing to get the 310,0007 Clubman - The Prince of Wales Enjoys a Bout PRINCE CHARMING AT THE RING SIDE The Prince of Wales le an ardent "fight fan." Ho, is' ahown'lfere watching the match between Len Johneon and jack 'Hoed for 11 ohampione'htp, In the circle at the rlett, Hood Is seen forcing the fighting. 0 British of terve fight Old Coin Discoveries I ' Slavery 'l'o-day Recent Flock in Brittein ' z ' Ne sly. '5,000,000 Htlrlran Those Mt. ce.-by 8,5;11.11,04-13:.. ChatteI;3,Sill Rel}l�aiil to Rowel •coins' etl`ugk In .t0reatt 'Brat Be Freed sin have always 'held, oorislderabke 1u" FIu11, the 'city of W11ger4oz'q°e.,, very tercet for celled tore 'Of early Roman iltttugiy held a great public demon - wine. • The great majority data ,,fro " str'atioii . recently to support the al the tares' Raman 'period, and reben most worldwide effort now being iinde of these B'ritldliellinted detaa • made. to abolieh 'slavery In all its have 'dieclesed the fact . that a largo forme" to use the phrase lncorpor- varietyoame front a number of m10011 ated 14 the new slavery convention. 1n different Parts' of the Brltieis 101ea.' It is,. to manyF a startling discovery Most of them, bawever, bear 'the de- that, ninety -lour years after the pass- stgnating merits of the London mint ing' of the British emaucipatiou act, from which eame the largest propos- the world .should be confronted with tion of the Roman coins. circulated in the task of liberating some 4,000,000 Great Britain,. to 3,000,00e .slaves: and what is even Thomas L. Elder; sola expert of .more surprising is that territories nn, Now 'York, wiro has devoted' could, der Brltiah influence -and in Como arable study to the coins of the Rot places, under British administration - man emperors, calls attention to one I should.: -hey% been calledupon to set oe the most important (Recoveries of .freo 200,000.slaves-.w1'1h113 the last fit-- these English -minted Roman coins i; teen years;. and, further, that we are made in 1807 at Little Orme Head, I committed to the teak bf securing in North Wales. A bronze vessel was this new year the liberty of over 218,- unearthed 16;unearthed there containing aeveral'000 slaves in the Sierra Leone pro - hundred •coine of 'the Roman Emperor tectorate. Caranslus, and with it also was found What It le. a large pottery Jar filled with more What do we menu .by slavery? than 5,000 Roman middle and smolt There are, of course, -many labor us - sized: bronze wine of British and tams which impinge. upon slavery, but Gaulish mints, the present effort is primarily direct - Careful washing of these ooins;'•ed against the three crude forms of said Mr. Elder, left them in almost islavery-slave owning, slave tradin perfect mint state, although about and ale's raiding; slave awning, for 1,600 years old. The location of flee 'example, in the sense that somebody discovery showed indications of Ro- I man masonry work and this hoard Is se as a property right, and can believed to have been a military 8ell ae an ordinary chattel; the men, women and children who comprise chest kept at a Roman station, from I the known total of from 4,000,000 to which the coins were distributed. The 5,000,000 slaves, The actual phrase Roman emperors depicted on the on "property" used In the new slavery Coins included Alleatus, Maximilian Convention is as 'follows: IYercules, biaximinus Daze, Lteiniva i „Slaver is the status or condition Pater, Qulntillue, Aurelian, Severina, , Y n Numerian, Diocletian, Carausius, of ap person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the.right of Valera. and Constantine I. The types ownerehlp are exercised." ' of British mints' numbered twenty -1 It is, of course, a mistake to speak five and there were seventeenof the present systems of slavery as Gaulish andother mints, About 3,500 barmleas institutions. Captain Coch- of the coins were of Constantine I, , rane, with his full knowledge of "A more recent find was. made near Abyssinia, in a dispatch to the For- tho British Mueaum in London which eign Office confirms certain news - contained many of the 'TJrbe Roma':paper articles„ which "described slav- type with the helmeted head of Rome,ery in .Abyssinia as one of the worst and the reverse showing the tradi systems that have ever cursed the tional wolf suckling Romulus and .continent of Africa. There is also Remus. Early in 1922 a •number of , thereport presented by the Abyssin- Roman silver coins was found in a:Ian Government itself to the League small cave in a. cliff near East Wood- oe Nations in Geneva, in which it is Ashover, Derbyshire, Haglund, the shown that within the last -three years coins ranging from the reigns 611187 slave traders, mainly in the dis- Septimlus Severns to Gordian III, atrict of the capital, have been arrest - period of about fifty years. ed and given fifteen years' imprison - "The immense number of cams' ment. ' Slave trading leads to. even struck in J3ngland , at the various ; more terrible abuses than. slave oevn- mints, but chiefly in London, may'lie ing, and if 187 slave traders have,been imagined from the fact that it is al-' captured in thee vicinity of the capital most Impossible to find of tee thou -I we are, given a glimpse of•what must sands lately unearthed- two coins be the slave trading conditions from exactly the same die. The die- 1 throughout 'this vast ,Abyssinian terrl- makers: must have been kept busy tory. with the immensedifficulty of keeping .the die sufficiently harder than the coin to .prevent breakage." . One of the chief difficulties with Mr. Elder says that the later rulers.regard to slavery as it is known to of Britain, following the method of exist to -day is that of obtaining infer the Romans, sometimes copied Ro- ration. We know, for example, upon man coin types. Coins: of St. Ethel- good authority, that there are at least best, for ins tance, bear the design of 2,000,000 slaves in Abyssinia. We the wolf and twins, Later followed know from a book written by a mis- e widely varied -coinage imitating sionary with twenty years experience Gaulish types with heads, animals, that there are at least a similar num- dots, dashes and other citronssyr- ber in China. But we do not know bola. These exteuded down to the be- whether the slaves in Arabia numbor ginning of the Anglo-Saxon era, when 600,000 or 1,000,000; we only, know a new.. type -appeared in the English that they represent an enormous_num- penuy, ber, and while the League of Nations Committee of Enquiry into Slavery disclosed the existence of one or, more of the .threeforms' of slavery in some- thing like nineteen political areas of the world, we only have a Knitted knowledge of about seven of these areas. • -Seldom has a more vigorous docu- ment on slavery been }penned than the one forwarded' by the British Government in 1926 to all States members 'of the League of Nations. The central argument of this docu- ment is contained in the following passage: "Certain crimes are regarded as be- ing, 1n a peculiar degree, crimes against the human race. His Ma- jesty's Government consider that there is a general consensus -of opini- on in civilized States that the Slave trade constitutes -a crime of this na- ture. His' Majesty's Government .do not believe that at this date the gov- ernment of any civilizedcountry would wish to challenge this opinion. It follows that, from this point of view, the slave' trade by sea may be regarded as falling into the same category of crime as piracy." Nobody supposes that this official effort can be put forward -without forces working "unobtrusively in the background, The anti -slavery people are happily very much in evidence, and their quiet work is making Maeh headway in this and . other countries, The late- editor • of the Spectator' was not only one of this band, 'bat for years held .a responsible' position in the work,'and wecan only regret: that, like William Wilberforce, he died•juet one year before the big success of hot work Was assured,. He says of slaver? that it is "the crime about which no excess can be allowed -I . mean the, kind of ex- cuses made for .the aliens Of passion or the crimes prompted .by hunger and thirst, Misery, folly, or ignorance. In the case of slavery there are n0 Mitigating circumstances to be found. Sim/cry le the supreme offense against the human race, . and it • was 'with ,a etre instleet that our ipfrltuat and physical forefathers stamped it as piracy." , We need "make no apologies for quoting the above front a spebeh made by our, late editor soma months before 81r Austin •Ohamboria.fu•d ta• mous, dtspatcir wt' pubhelsed. Difficulties In Way. Some Birds Can Fly Across Atlantic U.S. Biological Survey Cites Several Instances of Flights Washington. -"Long distance flights of birds are conesnon," 'it is asserted by the experts of the 'United States Biological Survey. The Survey has conclusiveevidence that some birds fly across the .Atlantic. "Two black headed _gulls banded at Rossiten, Germany, were recaptured, one at Bridgeton, Barbadoes, in the British West Indies, and the other on the mainland of 'Mexico,' near Vera Cruz. Two kittiwakes, banded at the Farue Istande, 'Northumberland, Eng- land, were recovered almost directly across the Atlantic at points on the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland. A common tern banded at Eastern Egg Rock, Maine, crossed the Atlantic Ocean and the Equator and was re- covered from the Delta of the Niger River, British West Africa. A young Arctic tern, banded In Labrador, was recently found dead near La Rochelle, on the coast of France." The Sprvey has no evidence that these birds hmade a non-stop flight, but tthat is the supposition.' It is ex- plained that many species that spend their Summers In the.. tilted States and Canada fly almost the length of the western 'hemisphere' 'and spend the northern Winter in the Summer of Argentina and Cline. The vicar was paying a vlelt to the, homes of ,hie poorer 'pariehionere, and in the home° of a certain Coster monger •,he welted many questlona about the family.. A. very grubby, but vary cheerful little tad attracted the kindly cleric's attention, and he ask• ed kiln l:is name. "Regihaid D'Arcy Smit, sir," replied the lad, with a grin,. Tito vicar turned to the boy's father. "Whatever did yott glee him a name-llko that for? "'Cos I,want 'Im for be a professional boxer," ,re- turned the parent, "and wiv•a name like that he'll get a bit o' practice at school:"