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The Seaforth News, 1929-02-21, Page 7Giba from LACK Treig,' Power is tee gaily raltar Tunnel thought and prgbably the nightly Alla Some Others of the engineerer A tannin oxygen -malting plant for supplying oit- plosives has iloen to use at mhos; ao Will the Straits of Gibraltar be ltal a 'gun' far ltnittg tate walls of the tunnel with eoade:to: conveyors and steam Cranes, esitentattc scoops, tytid; ail irfnds of nteellanical cottirivat-wee have been assembled; all to ono end— power" Although great reserve la beteg The Kug's U1l esu oiaiutatnod by tate Commission which 48 investigating the irossibiliten of a And Calcium Cure tunnel under the Straits of Gibraltar, there are, according to a message, re• •nerved lu London this week, good ;prospects of an actual beginning beta made with the work in the near future. The main idea of the promoter's is that the tunnel sltould form part of a •digest through service that would eon - neat Parts with a network of •railways in Africa having Tangier as its "eon - verging 'point. In view of .the revival of interest in the Channel Tunnel pro* ject, it Is natural to make some Com- .parison between the two stlhemes. From an engineering point ^ of view the greeter'dittiouitles, since the 'tun: nel would have to be driven through .rock instead of clay, Another difficulty tutees. from the Tunnelled l3efore the Eng- lish Chanel? "Modems Transport" Gives the Following Answer: We Imo all taken an iron topic at eoute time or another, but we have not 'ail roalizetk .that, we were working, a biochennea,1 exitotinteltt upon our- oplves," writes Dr. Bertratu Lee Woglt in the Christian World. "Nevertheless, such is the fact. For teen: ot the living blood show that the red colour cannot be formed unless 8 few traces of iron are constantly available: When, we feel 'ruu down; our .blood has probably lost some of the elements that help to form this. coloring matter, among other 'things, of course. Iron will help the body to replace what is lacking, hence an iron tonic is prescribed:, 'fact that the Straits of Gibraltar are "In this way the chemical comltosi- •considerably deeper than tile'CIiannel, and the tunnel would Have to be laid .at least 1,000 et. below sea level, whereas . in 'the case pf the Channel 'Ttmnel the depth is estimated at less than. 25 ft. The route which will al- most certainly be selected for the 'Gibraltar tunnel is the one now being •examined by the Commission. This is known as the Tarifa -Tangier. route, :and would involve the constinction of :a -tunnel some thirty miles long. The actual length of the undersea portion would not exceed twenty. miles, but a long approach on the Spaniels' aside is necessitated by the •fact that the Straits at this point reach a depth -of about 1,300 ft, -The route is, how ever, considered favorably in Spain because it would enable an easy con- +vection'to be made with the existing ;railway which terminates at Algeciras. According to the proposal, the tunnel will contain a single track, and its cost lia's been estimated at about £15,000,000. 'Tire scheme is of Con- the sante purooee and both are expert- +siderable importance no -Great Britain, meets in biochemistry. •singe it would only ,be a matter cf `All the it .,;:r c_ ,:1 body from the time before all -rail communication 'd'i'va to the •gaitr:c juices and so on " was established between Europe and ince a delivate chemical composition, the Union of South Africa, as well as fuel discharge a definite chlentical our African Dependencies. function. They have to dissolve, the The Channel Tuhnel proteins, the Eats, and the corbdlty- tion of the life -bearing fluid is altered; and: so enabled to enrich itself tkeu we aro 'toned up.' But besides iron,, the blood norntaily contains small quantities of many other things, which are ordinarily obtained from a proper diet. It requires .supplies of sodium, potassium, nalcium, phosphorus, and soon, "The exact function of all these ole- ments is not fully understood, but, =pug other things, lack of calcium causes rickets In young children, and excess is connectedwith rheuiaatism in adults, but thele aro, innumerable stages and symptoms besides. The blood can be analyzed to discover what proportions of the different ele- ments are present and then what is lacking can be introduced. "If the patient cannot take sufficient food or the appropriate medicine to supply the want In the ordinary way, then the needed elements can be given hypodermically. Both methods servo drates, either in the stomach or the in - Serious minded business men of testings; so that the nutriment can be absorbed by the blood: '"Whether they discharge that func- tion or not depends. on the food we eat and also upon the proper production of the 'chemicals' of our different or- gans. If anything is wrong, then the doctor may conduct a biochemical ex poriment upon us, either to discover the seat of the trouble or to remedy the defect. It is on this basis, that calcium is now being administered to the -Icing:!•' lingland are seriously considering the 'Channel Tunnel and it is not beyond the realms of possibility that to the near future this connecting link be- tween England and France may be- -come a fact. • . "The year just past has been mark - 'ed by tunnel building. In spite of, or because of, the efforts of our aviator friends to make us "air.minded," some have become tunnel minded and have dug themselves deeper into the ground. 'Tunnels have become the mode in en- gineering. n rgineering. And eachone is bigger than the last. "The reverberations setup through the press and periodicals by the FIoI- land Tunnel at New York had not yet -died out when a new and stronger note was. struck by the Moffat Tunnel, for few•months America's longest. Now comes the tunnel through the .Cas- cades, 100 miles east of Seattle, and nearly two miles longer than the Mof- fat. It is about eight miles in length and exceeded by only four tunnels In the world—the Simplon, St. Gothard, -'Lootschberg and Mount Cents tunnels • in the Alps. "A tunnel nowadays' has t0 be some- thing ultra-spectamilked.ular to be milked. 'The tunnel at Detroit, crossing under the river to Canada, -now under con- struction, receives scant' notice. The tunner' onnecting Oakland, CaI., and Alameda is noticed only because it is not a tunnel at all, but a eerier of twelve segments, each 200 or 300 feet long, which wore precast in. concrete and steel, sunk and joined end to end, A Scotch Tunnel During all the fuse about the Gas - Hades' and otlier tunnels of more or less note, writers on this continent seem to have been unaware of the development of a tube through the highest mountain in Great Britain,, which tunnel is no Less than fifteen miles long. Reference to this feat of engineering skill occupied quite modest space in British newspapers. One of these clippings from a special correspondent of The Daily Mail at Fort 'Mittens, nverness-shire, and reads as follows;` '"One can now walk for fourteen stiles through Ben Nevis, the highest mountain 'in Great Britain, Tho bor- ing of a mighty tunnel fifteen miles long and fifteen feet in dameter is nearly finished, .and a week or two will see the culmination of one of the greatest engineering schemes under- taken in Great;Britatn, "'For more than three yearn the Caledonian Valley here at the foot of • Ben Nevis �las'boen transformed into a temporary townsite. With tho com- pletion of the tunnel water will pour from Loch Ti'oig to provide power for the British Aluminum Company's fac- tory, already a giant sadden of steel, while the power house is also being eructed, "From the base camp a tlreo-foot light -railway tuts been, laid 22 miles up -country, serving the dozen camps with material and taictug -feed and mails to. the Mee.. "'Power houses have been erected to provide power for the tunnel Noon to Itarueis trans release gill more .powor WHAT SHE LOOKED FOR "She beaste that she's not the kind of woman who's always ,looking 'for the latest wrinkle is clothes." "True onougli—she. spends all her itme looking' for ` the latest wrinkle in cher face.' ii[epes'#aentnYrn llaI11 — s, w�dcl Custom In England For 'Cotnade.S . .Q n ChallgU fol' a Five -Pound Bill Not. Easy tq Go Bennuse of Half Cel otse Pulp L.."s<ad 'p an Old Fear of Forgery I .she, 111 41atr Produce There, t1y'o ai•1 ever visitor to P" t 1 d•1 s h t t the t'm od Neerte y - 1 g an to que a 114 e a t o gp s are bought and offoring it ;for paymentC.P.R. afterward. According. to Sheidons T'i'cr.h 01icuttee Is arena to Cana, standard worst ou banking, lit 1ho hist dine possibilities for the ,development casenote 8 as sellertepid maytenreder, bufuse t'to11 agoodceopst'tho or a groat artitteial silk rnanuttctuflug aio discovered that 11 is difficult to eheatee £i notes for money of smaller de- nomination, The average shopkeeper or restaurant cashjor Wee away front them as if they were oovered with •germs; whereas the uotee aro in foot, almost invariably bright, new, Olean and crackly never being paid out a' 8020w1 time after having been once .re- turned to the Bank of England. The difficulty found by travelers la disposing ot the notes ie shared by the Euglish pooplo themselves, and there fs so much public tnisunder- NO TEED BRITISH AIRWOMAN ORANK1NG UP PL:APif: standing and doubt about tate legal Lady Heath, well-known flier, with, Iter Moth plane at the 7lla-ni air ntoet position of the notes, iucludiitg, of "turning aver" Iter own engine. She is reported to ire applying fur Alger'. course, those of higher denomination can vat ritlization pipers: than £5, that Ietters and articles con- tinually appear itt the press in regard to it. The holder of such a noteis almost favariably asked to write Itis name and address on the back of it, This is supposed to assist la detec- tion ff the note proves to be a for- gery, although ob'vi'ously any one at- tempting to pass such a note know- ing it to be forged would never write. his real name 0r address. Tile Bank of England itselt asks holders to write their names and ad- dresses, although it 'has no legal au- thority whatever to contpel such ac- tion. Nevertheless, the pubile is so used to doing it that apparently no. Due ever refuses. AA to legal tender, the position of a £5 note is peculiar.' Lu England and Wales there Is a.differenee of which few people aro aware between offering Notwithstanding European preee. cupation. with air travel, two women, ono from ]?arts and ole from Stock- holm, lately rode horseback across the Continent to Rome, and three Taoist you t have nn d t 'a1 n to cross The u Enigma -... _ann. I There is prOceeditgto-day la' a debate the ultimate consequences of which are likely to have a profound effect on the history not only of India itself but of the whole wood. -For when the British Government, in 1917, announcedthat the purpose of the British Raj was to develop responsible government in India as rapidly as pos- sible, it committed itself to the task of lntrodnctng-drastic changes into an Oriental country of enormous size without that destruction of individual liberty or those manifestations of war, revolution, or t3'renny which have so often characterized such en- deavors 'elsewhere,' as in Russia after the late war, or more receutly in Fas- cist Italy or China. Au understanding of what is going on is India to -day is only possible in the light of the central political facts about Inida. India contains" nearly 3220,000,000 inhabitants. It has more races and languages titan Europe. It has never been united except under an autocracy. It has never had tself- governiug institutions outside the vii- lege panchayats. It bap no common language. Its people are mainly ad- herents of Hinduism -or Mnhamma• danisnt, the Hindus numbering about 220,000,000 and the Muhammadan about 70,000,000. One-third of India is governed by some hundreds of here- ditary princes who. feint no part of British India and refuse to be brought La any way under the control of an Indian Assembly. The problem is to introduce responsible government into suck a country without war, or revolu- tion, or breaking hp the unity of the couutry itself. • In 1920 the new Indian Constitution was brought into existence. Au elec- torate, totalling about 5,000,000 people for the whole of India, was enrolled, Legislatures were elected with- unof- ficial majorities in each of the nine provinces to which were delegated cer- tain of the . powers of government. while control over the rest was kept in British hands. An All -Indian As- sembly was elected 1»' the provinces with more restricted powers. A large proportion of both the provincial, and the Indian ministers, and the topmost I branch of the Indian. Civil Service, previously almost wholly British in composition, was largely Iudtanized. Unfortunately, perhaps; this immense step forward had to . be taken at a moment when Incl an opinion, like world opinion; had not yet recovered from the strain and propaganda of the war era. If such reforms had been introduced before the war it is certain that -they would have been welcomed with. enthusiasm by even the most advanced of Indian poli1 Octane.,As it was, influenced 'partly by the ar-time slogans of the 'allies, partly by the Bplehevist propaganda of social' revolt, partly by Mahatma Gandhi's rejection of Western indus- trial civilization as enslaving and ma- h orte. terlallstic, the reformed Constitutor Asia on army mounts. was rejected by the more extreme wng, and the Non -Co -Operation- move- ment was inangttrated. The new Con stitution, therefore, has never re- ceived a full trial. Tho Constitution itself, however, made provision that after ten years a cemmissiott sltould be set up to report to Parliament as to what changes, if any, should be made in the light of its prhetical working. That commis- sion, kuowu: as the Sinton Commis- sion, is now in India taking evidence in associatiou with committees ap- pointed by tho Indan legislatures though the' extreme' nationalist sec- tions have refused co-operation. on, the ground that no Indian was a member of the, commission. The ad= vent of the commission, however, has naturally led to intense political activ- ity in India, and within the last fete 'weeks political conventions of great impertatte?, as showing the elements and movements iu Indian political opinion, have taken place. The Congress Party, which, in the inain, represents the left wing move- ment among the Hindus, has pro- itouuced ander Mahatma Gandhi's initiative. in favor of full "dominion status" by the end of 1929, and failing that for complete independence. The Liberals, a body of moderates, also mainly iiindu in composition, have proclaimed dominion status as their immediate objective. The Mubamma- dans have met and declared that no constitution would be acceptable to them which did'not'give Muhammadan minorities separate communal repre- sentation in the legislature and pro- tect their majority rights in prov- inces where they were in a majority. Meanwhile the Indian princes have re- affirmed their determination to have nothing to do with any Indian demo- cratic assemblyand at the same time to require their old treaties with the British Government to be respected. The problem which thus confronts the Simon Commission is about as dif- ficult as 'any .which could confront statesmanship: It iseasy enough to. construct a theoretic paper constitu- tion for India. The nationalist poli- ticians have shown that they can do this. But the practical problem is to establish a form of government which will transfer real responsibility to In- dians, which will satisfy the conflict- ing onflicting aspirations and fears of Hindus and Muitammadans, which will at in with the states of the ruling princes, which will be adequately representa- tive of the more than 40,000,000 In- dian people, and which will work sun iiciently, justly and efficiently to safe- guard any advanced form of -govern- ment in a country as immense, as di- vided, and as politically iaexporl- anted as India. Te report of the Simon Commission, that will attempt to set forth rho solution which should be applied to this complicated prob- lem, will be awaited with the groateet interest—Editorial, Christian Science. Monitor. British master bakers report that bread is the most popular food in Eng- land. delivered and a' $3 note giveal Inn pay- industry by the fact that at present meet of the bill sent It muat bo nae- hall 01 1110 celluioyo:pulp used fit the depted. The reason for this is that rnanut'aC'tu•e of vi.,cose rayon 15 pre - if it is tendet'od ie. payment of alt duce( in : Canada front Canadian antecedent debt, and, subscquently t.prt says tit( Canadian Pacific provers to be a forgery, tate debt sur.! Railwaly. As yet the Donituion ora vlves, If accepted at the time or .eatsi cupies a very Meier:Meant place fa 11 becomes, however, absolute pay the manufacturing tuduetry, a,ccount- ment and n0 recovery can be made. ling for but as infinitesimal part' of Bance notes may bo torn itt two,the world production of this couuaodt- without violating the law la England! ty, wi:itck.ie estimated to lie itt excess of $300,000,000 per year, according to• a recent bulletin on. the subject. Canada is welt launched upon, the in• and it is a commort practice to do so for safety is seeding money through the mails. There ie small danger that both pieces would fall into the bands ciustry and ban a healthy little utacleua of the salve thief if posted at differ- about witloh a great iuduulrial'activi... eat hours, and the two sections, when ty might be developed; it adds, but far again pasted together, are accepted by the Bank. The new £1 and ten shilling notes to replace the treasury note issue' in, qulrements and imports are many use since geld disappeared early ,in times larger then exports. the war year's is rapidly passing into use and within three menthe it is ex- pected that the old issue will practi- cally have disappeared. Somethiug of a problem has been created' for bank tellers and others who handle quanti- ties of the notes by the new regula- tion that any tnarlcing or writing on 497 la the corresponding period of the them will bo illegal. It bas been the previous year. Exports of artiflel'al universal custom of bank employes to sick first appeared upon 'Caaatia's mark the notes to indicate the total trade list in 1927, when, their value of each parcel, and some dissatlsfac- aggregated 984,777. In the next flacon tion has been created by' the new rule. year the value rose to $051,918, the from being a tactor to world markets production in the Dominion 14 as yet inadequate to meeting.domestic 1'e - "In, 1027," the bulletin continues, "Canada imported arttflotal silk to the 'mitts of 96,301,996, and in rho fol- lpwing year the figure rose to $7,800,» 718. In the flret six months of tits ;present fiscal' year imports kitod al 96,306,133 as compared with ,$3,270, A CONSIDERA', ,Ori "How in tho wor d did she. come to fall in love with a.drug store clerk?" "Well, she can get her hair nets for nothing," The King of Canada Natal Mercury: The King is now no Imperial Caesar, ruling from the heart of the Empire. Each Dominion, -as the Dominions Secretary has stress- ed, is entitledto regard itself as the heart of the Empire, and the Ring is King of each Dominion, with Parlia- ments and Ministers administering the affairs of his several Dominions. Therefore it is quite in keeping with the remarkable growth of the Empire that His Majesty should spend a few months auuually, or every second year, in one or other of the Dominions ac- companied by a skeleton Court. There is no constitutional obstacle, as there is no constitutional precedent, to such a procedure, heaviest purchasers being the United. This �g,���1T1�� Kingdom and BrLtish India. In tate first six months of the present fiscal Re aid Friend year the value of exports dropped _ to a decline in purchasing by the UM - Philadelphia Police Dog ted Kingdom from 9326,507 to 92,271, Nothing to Choose .. Ottawa Journal (Cons.); One does not know whch is the more mischiev- ous, or the greater plague—our ultra- nationalists or our ultra -Imperialists? Certainly they are both capable of the most titter nonsense. If there were some way of muzzling them, or of segregating them in opposing battle sines so that they night flight or task. themselves into silence, it would be a good thing for everybody. • A Splendid Study of Hunter Type MEET O}1 THE FAMOUS EEEEX AND SUSSEX FOXHOUNDSGREAT- BROMLEY HALL NEAR ARDLEIOH ides AT A. pretty scene its Old Dngland,witii,the members,'of rhe petit wafting n'l ongeide covert during the draw. The pissox and Sussex FO•OhOOUds are WY ka0wn Oblong the MantatellowArs Of the spork in the motherland. fltom$411,472 to $111,351, duo largely Wasn't Much in the Pound and also lower shipments to India, This situation has probably been but a Good Home Made a brought about by greater home con - Difference Now. • Wears sunllitfon. Medal—But Read the Story "At the rilesent time there are two enterprises manufacturing artificial P:ii:ade'p-ia—Beauty- is a German silk in Canada, both well estabi-tsked police dog v-1to has become a member and steadily expanding. Ono, . a of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred breach of a great 'British, industry, le C. Boysen and the two BOYsen 'chi1-1 situated in Cornwall, in Ontario, has dren. In fact, here name is Beauty developed rapidly since getting un- Boysen, mBoysen, just as the little boy's name I der way a few years ago. After ie Alfred Boysen and the little girl's operating a couple of years it was name is.Eiizabeth Boyson. During the found necessary to double the plant's last few days neighbors have been capacity and production is now at the coming to the Boysen house in Glen- rate of about 4,000,000 pouuds per an dale and caressing Beauty as they num. The. second, of more recent es• have never done before, and Beauty tabtiohments, fostered by Amertcau —well she is just the most important capita`;`, is located :in the Eastern tiling in seven states. Townships of Quebec, and has been Not only that but the Women's operating ,ratio more than a year. Pennsylvania So ciety for the Preven- Daily capacity at the plant is now tion of Cruelty to Animals is to give about 2,000 pounds, and there are 212 Beauty a silver medal with something looms which will be Increased even- about hero, and valor and friendship Wally to 1,500 looms. This enterprise and all that sort of thing engraved on has likewise found conditions min. it, which, of course, considering -ently satisfactory since launching. Beauty's sudden risein the world, "It is reported on good authority makes her Peel very proud. that within the next twelve months Lets see, it was just about s Year another great rayon producing plant wilt be in course of erection in .Cana:». da, and it is definitely known that an area •of New Brunswick where the spruce trees ore said to be of a sort to furnish the exact raw material re- quirements has beau under investiga- tion. Government authoritie., Have voiced the expctation that several other large plants for the manufacture of rayon will establish in the Domin- ion in. the future and Canada become a real factor in actual fabrication M- ann 02 contributing so largely to the support of industries in other cowl• tries. "Canada's position and resources justify the development of a rayon iulustry-of great proportions, cer- tainly greater than in most other countries dependent upon imported raw material, Tho main essentials, forests and water power, Canada possesses is. abundance, and these are conveniently situatedin proximity to centres of population facilitating manufacturing. Lg the phenomenal development of the newsprint Indite try, is which phase of woods °apron tatien the Dominion has retained all the benefits of manufacturing, the vast possibilities of the rayon- indus- try may be visioned. The increasing world consumption of rayon le an outstanding feature of modern com- meroo and the use or this now fabric in clothing is ceaselessly expanding. It is still an industry of the future and Canada, with iter possession of all the requlsites of the industry in a manner paralleled by no other coun- try, has wonderful possibilities. "Signs multiply that the Dominion' is laying a sound scientific foundation for future development. There is stili apparently a good deal, to be learned about rayon and the various products entering into manufacture, as well as the possibilities of other raw products. Experts in Canada areworking upon Sort of thing has gone on ever duce. alt these problems, Progress along We made a, groat song about our side the pulp and paper industry, for boundless forest wealth—even the which scientific researdis has done so goverumento .believed that we hacl much, is suggested. The pulp and 1.07,000,000 acres of forests, and look paper divston of the forest products ed on comparatively while greedy, un- laboratories of Canada, by co -opera• nitolltgent exploiters laid them waste, five agreement between the Depart* Now we know that Australia has only meat of the Interior and th Pulp. and 24,500,000 acres of possible forest land Paper Assoclatton, tsnow established that is, laud which is more profitable Eu the same building in'lleontrial as for Umber than for farming. Not until the Department of Coliulose Chenils' We realized that We hall 2been wasting try of McGill' University, Canada is very limited resources did wo begin to steadily wortttng Into 00:attest' fol' Make reasonebie plans for their eon. the (mulching el an tir4t:etry 'OE 501110 Nervattoti i proportions." ago, Mr. Boysen said, that he saw Beauty at the dog pound. She hadn't a friend in the world. Some one, finding Beauty—of course, ,eke wasn't Beauty then, just a homeless .street dog—called up' the society and tura- ed her in. It looked pretty dark for Beauty for a while until Mr. Boyson came along and decided to give her a home. There ought to be some asterisks or something in this story just about here to denote the lapse of a year, In the meantime, according to the' old saying, "handsome is that hand- some does,' the dog became Beauty. And now we come to the part about the silver medal and all the fuss that is being made over Beauty, "My wife and the two little chil- dren were sleeping 0n the second floor of our house," Mr..Beysen said, when the were awakened by Beauty, who was dragging the bed clothes off with her teeth. My wife • was very much. distressed and I was most un- comfortable. The house was filled with gas. I made my way downstairs and found that: the cat, prowling about, evidently had jumped on the gas stove and turned on one, of the cocks. "Beauty's consciousaess of the dan- ger and Ilse way site warned us is something that none of us can ever forgot. We owe a debt that we can never repay to a strange, lost dog that we befriended a little more than a year ago." Waste in e0lustralia. New Statesman (London): Exag- geration ofour natural resources leads to a careless and wasteful ex- ploitation of them, The first settlers gave early examples of this reeicless- ness1 they succeeded in ruining the, sealing grounds off 'Tasmania in a few years of haphazard killing. The same