The Seaforth News, 1930-08-07, Page 6Women's Victories
Challenge to Men
The reale population of the world
must have gasped when the news was
flashed from Risley Camp, England,
that a woman had won the King's
Prize, Their first thought would be:
What happened to the men? Nothing,
except that they found they were note.
quite good enough. And the finest'
of ere the marksmen. were there, doing
the best they could. One hundred
creek shots from all parts of the'Em-
pire, among them six former winners
of the trophy, took their places at the
historic ranges. Enough to break
the nerve of any man, but not the
cool, keen -eyed, steady -handed woman
who battledher way through to vic-
tory. Hats off to Mies Marjorie
Foster!
There appears to be no limit to the
achievements gi;, woman in the fields
of activity hith rto regarded as the
exclusive domain of man. In busi-
ness, in the professions and in the
arts she is firmly established, and In
the realm of lighter sports she is
challenging the supremacy of male
contenders. Some weeks ago an
English girl, absolutely alone, piloted
an aeroplane through the vast space
that separates the British Isles and.
Australia, thus establishing herself as
a worthy classmate of the wonderful
Lindbergh. Later another young
English woman showed the way to the
most famous aviators of the day in a
flight of several hours' duration.
And now another daughter of the
little Island, in competition with the
great marksmen of the Empire, cap-
tures the King's Prize, the most cov-
eted.trophy hat can be won at the
ranges. It all is very amazing, and
gives notice to mere man that he can
no longer regard himself as the lord
of creation. A. few humiliations of
this kind may do him good,
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Editing Own Works
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Beauty in Clover New Weapons (:)sed
Has Been Ignored To Kill Mosquitoes
Summer is the time to study the Fish, Lizards, etc., Usect in
it has for centuries been a most vale- Past Now Paris Green
clovers. This plant suffers injustice;
able forage crop, but its beauty ioEnters Battle
much overlooked. This, however, is' Science declared war against the ,1
no toes to the clover, for it does not mosquito some years age.
bloom for people, but for the bees She has now brought into use sev-
and butterflies, anal new weapons of extermination in
Emily Dickinson said: I a nation-wide attempt to completely.
"The ,pedigree of honey does not con- annihilate the troublesome and clan -
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A clover, any time, to him is anis- Raleigh in Good Health (Battle
tocracY•" Creek).
.A field. of red clover in bloom, sway- The U..S• Public Health Service has
ing 7n the wind, is a 'beautiful sight, not only tested out new mechanical
but we do not need landscapes to methods andrecommended them, but
teach us its beaaty. Just one clover has formed alliances with birds, fish,.
blossom studied carefully, and looked oils, and, in a few instances, with
at with clearseeing eyes, reveals other cannibalistic mosquitoes. We •
each floweret beautiful in color, in- read:
teresting in form, and perfect in its "Mosquito - extermination societies.
mechanism for securing cross pollena and sanitary experts are devising new
tion.. nretlrods of attack, bringing into play
The: stover is especially renowned .some of the latest inventions.
for its partnerships with member's .of . "Onceof the methods evolved recent -
the animal kingdom. It readily forms ly has proved simple, economical, and
a partuershie with man, gladly grow- yet very effective. It involves the use
ing in . bi, pasta;es and meadows, of a .portable blower -fan, similar to
while be distributes its seed. fans used for ventilation in homes and
For many years .clover was regard- offices, to Orala mixture of Paris
ed as a crop helpful to the soil, and green and powdered lime. over swamps
tire reason given wad the great and: lakes. where mosquito larvae are
length of the roots.. Thus the roots found.
of the red clover often reach to- the Tiie entire 'dusting' outfit, includ-
depth of several feet, even in heavy ing agasoline-driven generator, may:
soil, but it was also learned that little be installed in a rowboat with an out -
"nodules" on the roots of clovers are hoard motor,
able to free nitrogen o e and "Only one man is needed to accomp-
�g $� The red clover tomfo to us rom'IOu- lish the 'dusting.' Sanitary officials
Double Gas Output Power to the Future Generations Has Gushing Rival rope but is a native of Asia. It is the have used this method eoonomfcally'itt
1 lti t d in vol control has been Pound feasible.
New 27,000-
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on White Star motorohip, Britannic, world's largeet`cabin liner, as she arrived at New York after maiden westward transatlantic voyage.
ew Process Will Air, Water, Soil and Sunlight Will Supply Oklahoma Oil • Well bl it f th ah
make it available for plant food.
clover most wide y -. cu va e places wh ere no other method of lar-
Bucharest, Rumania.—While lettere America and a great friend of bumble- The nozzle velocity of the blower is
Standard Oil and German
Company Organize to
Control. Rights
New,York-Oil companies represent-
ing about S0 per cent. of the refining cussed by Dr. Herbert Levinstein in
capacity in the United States have his presidential address at the recent
become associated in a new organiza-1 forty-ninth annual meeting of the So-
tion, the Hydro -Patents Company, to ciety of Chemical Industry in Binning -
control and develop a process believ- ham
el to be capable of doubling the 1 "Chemical science Inas now reached
amount of gasoline new yielded 'from a stage when it can obtain direct ac-
London—George Bernard Shaw, fuel oil, according to a recent state•
pro-
velro will shortly be 74 has begun edit- meet made by the Standard Oil Coin -1 cess tob new nth sources prof coal-tar,sad
ing his whole literary output, not car- pany of New jersey. ducts by a synthetic Process, instead
iug to leave the task to posterity. AnThe new process, which is known of
being confined to geological forma-
London,—The passing of the coal
age sand the approach of a new era
when the peopleof the world will har-
ness the air, water, soil, and sun to
provide all, their requirements, was dis-
edition of.30 volumes, now in prepare as hydrogenation, consists of the ad- et
tion, is limited to 1,000 sets. He has ditioe of gaseous hydrogen at high plate reduction of' carbonic acid oh-,
laid aside all creative work for this pressures and temperatures, hi the rained from the air, to methane or coal
p gas, has been accomplished, which in
purpose. But he is bored with the:presence of chemical agents known
job.tts catalysts, to Crude oil or heavy turn can be almost completely con -
"It looks as if I shall epend the fuel oil, building it chemically into vented in an arc oven, into acetylene
rest of my life at this job," he tom- thinner oil or gasoline. The operat °r changed into tar, half of which
piained the other day. "It won't do; ing Conditions may be varied, it tivas consists of benzine. The world's avail -
it's holding up my other work and it's said, to obtain the particular product able raw material has thus become
a worrying task."mo
dleeired: i inexhaustible, as carbonic acid exists
It took a woman to outwit the Irieh The prceen: has been developed der - in the atmosphere in unlimited quanti-
sage. She wrote asking Shaw for a ing the past three years, the an-, ties.
free copy of his latest book for a t id h 'h Standard 011
nouneenrerr sa ,.. y the
' Dr Levin stein said. "A com-
a.
newly m'ganized woman e society." Company's research engineers in col -
Shaw wrote across her letters: "Damns laboration with the I. G. Farben3n
it, no; a woman's society that can-, dustrie Aktiengesellschaft of Germany
not afford to pay 15 shillings for a and is owned by the two organize-'
copy of my book bas no right toy tions,
exist" I The importance of the process in
He signed the note and returned it the oil industry was indicated by ex -
to the woman. A fortnight later shei perinrental data already obtained by,
again wrote Shaw to inform him that the Standard Oil Company's research!
a bookseller had traded her
• a copy en.,r,eers ou the multiplication of the'
of the book foe • the letter bearing yield trent Venezuelan crude oil, it!
Shaw's autograph. Wtle sad. As Venezuela is one of;
Shaw had the last word, howevere the largest producers of crude oil is
Across the bottom of the wgm'tn"s Dec- the world, the increaee of gasoline:
end letter he scrawled: from ibis source alone will make the,
"What fools women are! If you ecr.,.o: et the new prates one of the'
had taken :t to the richt place you most Important fac.ore in meeting the,
would have got $150 for it," And he' ever,',,, .tion of crude oil ar-d price'
.signed that, too, and sent it back• cettieg cf the fast few years. 1
He once rejected an offer of °nor At- sr, Example of the value of the
million dollars for his cies= lights new method. Standard 011 Company's
and when the Nobelprizefor litcra- rto',ich engineers explained that at;
Lure was awarded him tor hie play, p esent half a barrel of beery fuel
"Saint Joan," he gave the 13 000c r e. :eft ever from every barrel of
award away to further Anglo Swedish credi c'.1 eftee the clistillaticn of gaso-1
literary relations. I line. tr,,l r• pt'=per 'operating con-'
Again, when a wealthy American fillets the new proce=s may be made
woman offered Shaw a fee of 525,000 tc yield 110 gallons of gasoline from
just to ('Cross the Atlantic, dine with Every 150 gallons of crude oil. The
her, talk a little to her guests and prod-Ctien of gasoline in the United
catch the next boat home," he prompt-, States. having risen gradually from
1y declined, 1 26000,''00 barrels a year to almost
When London becomes to sooty and; 500.10.100 barrels • at present, the
foggy, Shaw hies off to his country: a moar,t of fuel oil produced in its
home, a substantial, ivy -clad, brick; manufacture far exceeds all demand
house at Aytt St Lawrence, in Hert for it.
fordshire. Shares in the hydro Patents Com -
His house stands at one end of tbei pany are held by the various users of
village of about 100 inhabitants. It! the process in proportion to their
commands a wide view, has much, crude oil -running capacities, the an -
:window space and is enclosed by al nouncement said, with a minimum
well trimmed hedge fence. Barbed' holding of 500 shares, In returta for
wire around the extreme limits of the control of the process in the United
estate keeps out intruders. States, the new company will pay a
'About 15 generations .will see the
exhaustion of the world's .principal
coal deposits, and as the human race
is learning how to use air, soil and
sunto the best advantage, and make
the earth more productive of food
and raw materials by using atmos-
pheric nitrogen, sothe next step must
be the extraction of carbonic acid
from the air to obtain raw materials
now produced from coal.
"Britain's wealth depends on fossil
wealth, namely coal Mr power, instead
of on tides, water, the wind and the
son's radiation. The coal age, when
passed, will have lasted a shorter
Period than the Moorish occupation of
Spain, which then seemed so import-
ant to Christendom, but vanished, leav-
ing a palace or two and a few roman-
tic tales. As the losses of the Na-
poleonic wars were made good by de-
velopment of steam and coal, so the
last war's losses must be made good
by a more effectual use of natural
forces for industrial wok."
fixed and running royalty to the two
organizations which have developed
and own it.
N.Y. Hears Aviator
5,800 Miles Away'
New York,—Capt . Lewis Yancey,
transatlantic flier on a good will tour
of South America, talked from an air-
plane 4500 feet over Buenos Aires,
with several persons in the United
States recently.
Although his voice and that of his
radio operator, Mr. Bouck, ere being
transmitted over a distance of more
than 5800 miles, they were heard in
New York as plainly as though the
conversation were being carried on
over a local telephone line.
Fred E. Meiuholtz, manager of the
New York Times radio station, was
notified that a call was coming
through from the Argentine and five
minutes later the operator said:
'Stand by, Captain 'Yancey at Buenos
Aires wishes to speak with you."
r Almost immediately the aviator's
voice was clearly distinguished. Cap-
tain Yancey said he was flying above
Buenos Aires and that the weather
was very cold. When he had talked
for six minutes, Mr. Bouck came on
the line, He said the a :plane's voice
;transmitter was operating on the 34-
' meter wave.
The conversations were intercepted
by radiophone station LSN of the In-
ternational Telephone and Telegraph
Company in Buenos Aires, where the
Youthful Princess
Goes Shopping
Forfar, Scotland—Little Princess
Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke of
York, went shopping here recently.
carrying her own purse and paying
her own bills.
She is staying with her mother, the
Duchess of York, at Glamis Castle
near here and came to town escorted
by her maternal grandmother, the
Countess of Strathmore, to buy a
book. Several were shown to her
which, after much examination, she
rejected, saying: "I've seen that al-
ready."
Finally she found one that was new
to her and asked the price. Then
she said, "I will take that," and pro-
duced her parse with dignified self-
possession and paid for it.
"Divorce ought to be so dicey that it
could be got at: Woolworth's for five
cents." --Cosmo Hamilton.
"Why so depressed, old man?" "The
horrible cost of living; constant •bills
for materials! ..paint and shingling."
"What, Your ho'ase?", "No, my daugh-
ters." `
voice was reradlocast to New York on
a 12 -meter wave. The short waves
from South America were interecepted
at the Netcong (NJ.) American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Company short
wave receiving station and carried by
wire to the New York Telephone Sys-
tem in Walker Street.
"The cheap car is here to stay,"
writes a metering correspondent. But
we prefer the car that will go.
01d Gardner (to his boss, on being
offered a refreshment). "Thank ye,
sir," (Receives the drink): "Did ye
put in the whiskey or water fust,
sir?" "The whisky." "Thanks. I'll
maybe come to it by and by."
ontinue to arrive tailing of the Okla- bees, Bumblebees had to be import -
1,550000
c Peet a minute and it moves forty
homa City giant gusher' Rumania's fa- ,ed into Australia before clover seed 1bic'feet of dust -laden air a min
mons ,fisher enters its twelfth month could be pradnoed there. • uta.
It retains its effectiveness up to
of brilliantly illuminating the Coen- The white clover is the most beauti- 525 feeet.
try's greatest cid field. The well, he. frit of all. Its leaves make a rug „J. Le, Prince, senior sanitary en -
longing tothe Standard 011 Company, for our feet in every possible place
came in with a terrific and unexpect- and is known -to all. It is the best $sneer, and H. A. Johnson, technical
ed ban May 28 last year, and Inci- beloved by Honey -bees;- and the per- assistant in sanitary eugineeniog of
tion of stones 111 the rest. Since then son who does not know the distinct the Public Health Service, have le -
flavor: of white cloven hooey has cleared after the tests carried on by
ita has been making Rumanian history, missed something. Itthe simple.fan,device, that this meth -
and probably world history in the an- � g•ic probably a od can be economically used where no
pals of oil well fires. native of North America, yet it is
mt,e well was one oY the first to en -I
truly cosmopolitan and may be. found other known method of larval control
ter the Meotic'or deep strata, the two in almost all regions of the temper
other layers of sand having been ex- ate sones. 7t even cheers Siberia
hausted, Although the eruption has with its Presence.
mostpowerful yet en- The yellow or hop clover is a friend- Paradise,' was selected as a place to
been one of the ly little plant, filling waste places work out the detach; of the dusting
countered in Rumania, estimates of l with brilliant green leaves, dotted equipment,' Le Prince said: This lake -
escaping crude 011 have never reached with small yellow flower beads, and is of earthquake formation, with thou- --
is not recognized as a clover by those sands of submerged stumps, the result
who are not observant. ( of decaying forest, it has large areas
The rabbit foot or ,,tome clover is of shallow and densely overgrown
water, and there are many types of
moss, duckweed, lilies, and other
plants. The lake seemed to offer the
most difficult conditious under which
to operate. Parts of the lake were
known to be producing mosquito lar-
vae profusely.
"Science has also enlistel the mos-
quitoes' natural enemies. Birds, flsh,
lizards, bats, and frogs have been
used, together with other insects and
plants, in an effort to stem the breed-
ing. The greatest destroyer- of the
mosquito larvae Is tho dragon -fly,
which feeds on them. Bladdertvorte,
plants that live in the marshes, trap
the larvae in large numbers. The
Azolia Caroliniana is another plant
deadly to the mosquito,
"Several varieties of fish are used
in furthering the cause- of the time -
quite fighters. The Gambusia, better
known as minnows; are great destroy,
ers of larvae. They have been known
to eat as much as fifty-six times their
weight in larvae in one hour. Gold -
Is feasible.
Reelfort Lake, in northwestern
Tennessee, known as 'Fisherman's
more than 10,000 barrels a day,
Method after method for extinguish-
ing oil well fires has been tried, but of
no avail. Foreign experts have come not easily recognizcrl Here the flow -
and they have failed. The sudden'1 erste oc¢m in Icing cense heads. The
shock from a field cannon has been 1 calyx is very silky, end the lobes are
known to succeed in malting the blaze longer that lire Willie corollas, thus
giving the flower b: -ad a soft, hairy
Recently the writer spent two days look, something hIe the early stages
with an engineer friend who lives of the blossom of the pussy willow.
within a mile of the well; During the Alfalfa le the veteran of all the
long evenings there was no need of clovers, for 1t bas been under mitt -
turning on electric lights, but for the ',laden, for twenty centuries. It is a
native of the valleys of western Asia.
of au oil well disappear.
sappear.
stranger it was very difficult to sleep,
due to the glare and the thundering
noise. Those living there have be-
come accustomed to the great light
and avow that they will regret the day
when it disappears.
A lot of men can read their wives
like a book, but they can't shut 'em
up like one.
"Whenever you see a quitter," said
Uncle Eben, "yon's liable to see a
man dat was'n' much of a beginner
in tie fust place."
Long -Winded Speakers Warned by Lights
Not everyone can start a speech,
Even fewer can bring one to a timely
Conclusion. An orators' club In Wor-
cester, Mase., has made a. novel pro-
vision for the latter class by installing
at the chairman's elbow a series of
signal lights—yellow, green and red.
When the speaker draws near his
time limit, the yellow light warns him
to hasten toward his close. The green
light tells him his time is about ex-
hausted. The red light means "sit
down."
But why should snclt a provision be
necessary? Do speakers, once having
the body of their eddross well in liana„
neglect the conclusion, thinking it of
lesser importance? Or do they feel
that, having with some trepidation
moos the initial plunge, they have
earned the privilege of long-winded-
ness?Almost anyone who has sat through
several after-dinner oratorical bouts
must have remarked with what seem-
ing reluctance somespealiers begin a
most interesting oration and with
what Persistence they gamble on and
on to a vm'bosa and sometimes tact-
less conclusion; How nice it would
he if such worthy, but wordy, brethren
should remember the red light of the
Worcester Speakers' Club and men-
tally switch it en when teteptel to ex-
cessive lo0naeiousness.
In America it was first introduced into
Mexico by the Spaniards. It was
brought from Chile to California in
1854, where it has been ,since that
time a most important crop, In fact,
there is no better hay than alfalfa,
There are numerous other clovers,
but sweet clover must not be over-
looked. In driving through country
roads we find ourselves suddenly im-
mersed in a wave of delightful fra-
grance, and if we look for the source
we may find there in the most forbid-
ding and hardest soils of the road-
sides this friendly plant, that, grow-
ing as a weed, diffuses sweet perfume.
When the soil is generous the sweet
clover often grows very tall, sotto-
times ten feet high. It is a cheer-
ful adaptable and beneficial plant.
No wonder Andrew Lang wrote:
"Hush, ah hush, the scythes are say-
ing, Thiele and heed not, and
fall asleep;
Hush, they say to the grasses sway-
, ing, Hush, they sing to the
clover deep."
Emigrants to the number of 3,473
were helped to go to the overseas Do-
minions last year by the British Le -
Bion.
Of the 80,000 tons of blended butter
sold in England every year, 60,000 tons
contain a proportion of inferior butter
from abibad•
Three of a Kind!
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MINI Man.
Striking view of Royal Air Force seaplane squadron as they appeared recently at annual pageant at Hendon aerodrome, London.
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fish and pollywogs are others known
as destroyers of the mosquito's off-
spring"
Even the lowly and despised bat has
been brought into the war. When
placed in an infested area, .bats seem
to eat nothing but mosquitoes, and
examinations of their stomachs show
that they are capable of disposing of s`
nearly one thousand in a single ni-ght:
To quote again:
"The use of the cannibal, or French
mosquito, while not wide -spread, has
also met with considerable success.
The cannibal feeds on the common
mosquito, and has a great antipathy,
for humans. '
"Federal officials have frowned on
their use, however, fearing that after
the other mosquito is exterminated
the cannibal may lose its present dis-
taste for man,
"A great deal of oil is used in .die,
infecting stagnant pools and marshes
where the mosquito lays her eggs.
Thousands of barrels of crude oil are
being sprayed over such places, much
of;the work being done by airplane.
elf the health authorities of the
United States have their way, the
troublesome mosquito may eventually
beeentirely.eliminated, most certainly
held in check. According to one con-
servative estimate, the expenditure in
the anti -mosquito campaign in the
United States may reach one hundred
million dollar's in 1980. Cities, coun-
ties, and States are co-operating, for
malaria as ,a result of the mosquito is
found in even the largest cities."
"The truly rich' man is he who earns
a pound' .and spends nineteen shill-
ings."—Arnold Bennett.
-"A specialist is a man who kuowe 'r
more and more about less and less.'
—Dr, William J. Mayo.
"An Eskimo woman is old at forty,"
states an explorer. Other women of
that age, of -course, are only about
twenty-eight,