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The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-11-20, Page 7The day, Novembee 20th, 1080 s. rv: ■N FN11,E IAM AD Y A C;e+'^ A Imes "The Musical Crusaders at Work Judging by the letters being received, countless thousands of Canadians and dwellers in the United States tune in every Sunday afternoon to hear the Musical Cruisaders of the Canadian. Pacific Steamship Company in their descriptive program based on the Empress of Australia's round-the- •world`cruise. The above illustration shows the Cruisaders at work under the leadership of Alfred Heather. They are in the newly fitted out radio studios CPRY at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto. These studios are among the finest in North America being,equipped with the very latest devices developed for perfect broadcasting. There are two of these studios in the Royal York and from them, week by week, programs are broadcast throughout the length and breadth of Canada over the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's telegraph. wires and chain of broadcasting stations. HEALTH SERVICE Of The CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOC- IATION COMFORTS Most undesirable things have at least one or two paints in thee;- favor, The comfort, or pacifier, has not one redeeming feature which may be put forward to balance the many bad and undesirable qualities which it possess- es. To begin with, it does not even do what its name pretends,, It does not comfort or pacify the baby. Crying is stopped for a time, because the baby always stops crying when he gets what he wants and does not want his comfort if he has been used to having one, Some parents think that because the baby criesfor the comfort it should beg given to him,as he apparently knows what hee wants. But do they give biro everything he cries and reaches for, or do they descrim:inate•` in what they give him because they know more than the baby does about what is good for him? • The constant sucking of the com- fort makes the child irritable and it tends to upset him. It quiets him for a few minutes, because he gets what he wants, but after that it only irri- tates hind. A serious result of the use of the comfort is the deformity of the mouth that results if the habit is continued. The bones of the baby's body are comparatively soft and rather easily moulded. The continued .sucking 'of the comfort forces the bones around the mouth into an abnormal shape. Projecting teeth are among the mouth deformities that follow. The most serious conditions that result from the use of the comfort are due to the introduction of disease germs into io the mouth of .the child. It is impossible to keep a conifort.clean. To do so would mean, that it should be boiled every time it is used, just as the feeding bottles and nipples are, boiled after they are used. The com- fort is moist, and as it hangs from. thel child's neck, it comes :into contact. with many articles; the result is that it touches, The use of the comfort is simply a bad habit which may do the child permanent harm ,by deforming the mouth, and one which is, no doubt, a real factor in the spread of • disease. There is no reason why a baby should be constantly sucking at some- thing. The comfort does not help to keep the baby healthy. If the child is irritable, there .is something wrong which should be properly dealt with, and most certainly the proper way to relieve him is not by sticking some- thing into his mouth. Not so many years gao, every baby was rocked in a: cradle and put into long clothes that prevented him from kicking out his legs and having the exercise he needed. The rocking cra- !die arid the long clothes have passed into disuse, and the sooner the com- fort goes the same way,; the better it will be for the baby. Questions concerning Health, ad. - dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., Toronto, will be answered personally by letter. Young Airman in Grave Difficulty Little Ted is going to be an airman some day. He has a picture book Cull of airplane pictures, and also an isr down inie the basement, t broken although he is only seven, he seems_ to know already that there. is a big 3ifference between him and other boys he hears, shouting and playing out on the lawn. And, indeed, there is a difference(. Like the broken plane, there is damage to the little uothat eselnlirhepatintnusad to mend. doctors at the Queen Mary Hospital are doing their best, and hope to re- store the wasted lungs to health and vigor. Children are very susceptible to consumption but nine out of ten can be saved if taken in time. This work requires the co-operation of many. many friends if it is to grow in usefulness. Your assistance is greatly needed. Will you kindly send a subscripts 223 College address it TMr. onto. A. Il, Ames, :: 4,n .. '�e�C '—. '�ti�:ca,�. ,.,...�cJ'���,--e,.,`�'°�'v''.�".�',�'.�� '•�-`ai�`.".`.� �;.f":.a•rG�:"'��`r"at•' IN urr,.. • : o Vt.:3 i ...et,: ,,,:.. 4.11t:3•4• c Is fuller equipped to your ed do work with neatness and dispatch and prices are reasonable. 'he Advanc Wingham, nta ,p:.rcim'M: D PUTS CleCK BPr EiUl.)I1$ - i;71'l'1Ie:1) LIIKI i4Y TO t 1aA t T1iltiK Air Obicf Jocularly Remarks That li 'Planers BBeconie Mich len ter it W Quid goon Lici Possible to i duel In Argnca•1ca Before 1juwing Old Countay. AL a recent function- a noted air chief jocularly remarked ',bat' ii eii•- planea became much faster it vro..hl soon be possible to land in Aiu r.: s. before' we have lett Eingl.and! Teat is the truth of a jester this pare,t:et may, live to he a 'platitude. ''Super speed,'; for want of a better menu, u likely to play tricks 'with' you 111 and mine in the not remote future Writes a Tit -Bits man. The Schneider Trophy 'planes Iia, .: attained nearly' 3'SO miles an il(1i:; ., 400' m.p.h. record is the next eine jet, as an achievement, tlti;; is we e. - .y a sample of the real spoil o come. Nor are we to wait lona, ler i;.. r'rof, Hermann Ober,h. u r u,ot n.• scientist with an international r •'i ration, has experimented with a a,. rocket on a small island nee.. wald which will have a nrexletet speed of one mile per second, a. :. altitude of forty Or fifty miles. mately, it is hoped to con . t;'r. : • small cabin in the rocket lee.; which a man would be peel e 11. . across the 'Atlantic at a see. d c, 3,600 miles an hour. In other he would reach America from land in less than an hour. .liet means more than that. When it is twelve noon i • a'. tvich time) in London, it is 1t a.m. in Cornwall, and 11.20 a.re he extreme West of Ireland, eel clock goes farther and farther t.,r' across the retlantic until at New `t :. it reads only 7 a.m., and 6 a.m.:n C!:. ,(ago! The rotation of the a •' causes all Eastern countries to g c c -L the morning sun,. and so reach nc r .- tide, earlier than Western territori :• The distance from Liverpool to NI Vork is roughly 3,000 miles, so till. the space rocket, moving at 3,4dn m..p.h„ would make the journey in slightly more than forty-five nen- u•tes. And that means that if a roan .eft London in his rocket car wnen `-Big Ben" showed six in the even- ing, he would arrive in New York a,. bout 1.45 p.m., or some 4> hon::. eofore he started! Confusing, isn't it? But . that':: ruts a beginning. Supposing tie :lame traveller continued his journe, ;till farther West; then by the .im. a,+ reached Asia he would have ever• taken the previous night! Yet ,.. :caching London again it would L.: .bout mzdnight on the same day tha. he had left! Here is another miracle wh.iebwill be wade possible. The earth revolve, .ince upon its axis every day. At the Equator the earth's circumference i:. oughly 24,000 miles, so that at th,. Equator the earth, by turning once in twenty-four hours, moves at a speed of roughly 1,000 miles.an hour. In Britain, which lies near the Pole:, WO have less distance to tura and :lie same time in which to do 1,, melee our speed is less. In fac , Bri- ,u is whizzing through spare at thou • 600 miles an hour. As we already have machiues cap tble of nearly 400 m.p.h, it is lair ,seumc that it will not be long lee ere a m_ichine is built capable of .. peed equal to that of the world',: urn in our own latitude, namely, ,100 m.p.h. The effect of this writ be mat if a pilot in such a rachinc: Loaves Croydon at noon and travel ',Vest, he will exac ly counterbalance ,:he earth's spin on that latitude, et uat if lie continues flying for day:, weeks, for months, it will always l.. oon to' him! The sun will always .c: at its highest point; night nil. rot exist. All high speed travellers would :v.• in a silent world. Sound travel. At 1,088 fent per second, whicn is , 40 miles an hour. Many a rifle but travels faster, with the result ,hat soldier has often fallen wounded ad heard the report of the gun as he .ty cn, tine ground. Thus, in any ,rac&i re of the future whose engine a 10 its tail, the passengers will :tic- in an entirely noiseless cabin. th : sound of the engines will ra.:,eh up with the speed of the. ,rletati.' And now the most amazing pos- ibility of all, Since the dawn of life r•a: th,-s.rnds have been sent oft :to space 0: a speed of about 740 i.p,h. S;very sound wave thus trans- i:tr-cl • is still journeying through for a sound wave ;goes on, like ripples from a pebble filum; in a .,keg hecoming fainter and fainter. .lr 1) 'VO)' entirely ceasing. Any air- ..tfiwith a speed greater than 741: ,,';, (dratis, duit.k,1' than 0000:1;. yl, ,lic,eferr', overtake one by one ,1 i.h••. sound wa,Ves that have left , to as; h And provided it is e qurie- 1 i suil]cealily cinsitive teec;ii- .' n` heti'. e apparatus, it. octal �..: nld be able to translate ane ';1,2,+1i.;1 su('h sound waves. 11:IA1.' no such a jonrne t i ii :in < rs etild hear Ii ii i r::n:.h and 1 uu>:ble, the horror and of title \t;ir, S1',111.ewhcle 11; ;hie elieetly cacoplionv stili i ;c hideousmessage to the wid. �q1�x ru . "F'• TABES 'TERRIFIC TOLL Whirling. WLndstoivriy Kill an .Avert age of 130 Yearly lfn the Visited eta, Although it may be true that the United States has .a few things which Canadians` would be glad to possess, tornadoes, of which they get more than their }bare, are not among item. It seems odd that there Should be praetieally none Canada while our neighbors to the south suffer an average loss of 310 People each year from that cause, but; according to the Daily Science News Bulletin, such is the case. "Tur'nadoes of America are eonfin• ed almost entirely to the mid -West,. where the most destructive one to visit this country swept through .Mis- souri, Illinois, and Indiana in Marcia, 1925, .killing 695 people, injuring 2,027, and destroying $16,&00,000 worth of property. "St. Louis 'has suffered from tor- nadoes more than any other Amer- ican city, becatise that city happens to be the biggest target in their ter- ri1ory, and they naturally hit it often. In May, 1896, one of these 'twisters' killed 255 people in the Missouri city, and again in. September, 1927, eighty-five people were killed, 1,300 injured, and $15,000,000 worth of damage was done. "In spite of the great havoc. wrought, the tornado's career ,is brief. The entire storm seldom lasts' longer than an hour, and not more than a minute in any one place, It usually cuts a path about thirty miles long and only 1,000 feet wide, so nar- row tit the U. S Weather Bureau advises that if underground shelters. are not available, one should try to run out of the path of the approach- ing storm." Concerning the make-up of a tor- nado, the article continues: "The tornado itself is a whirling vortex or funnel of winds reaching high up into the sky. It travels from twenty-five to forty miles an hour. The velocity of its whirling winds has never been measured, but, judg- ing by the destruction they do, me- teorologists say their speed must reach 400 and 500 miles an hour. In the storm's centre a slight vacuum is created which is largely respons- ible for the many miraculous feats credited to tornadoes. When this area of low pressure surrounds a house, it literally causes the struc- ture to explode, because of the higher normal atmospheric pressure rent,ain- ing in the house which must have immediate outlet. "Meteorologists have not yet satis- factorily explained the conditons ex- isting between the Rocky and Appa- lachian mountains which are best suited for the birth of tornadoes. They believe that currents of air blowing in opposite directions at the cloud level set up the initial whirl, which at certain times will extend to the ground and form a .tornado. "This is, most likely to happen in the southeastern portion of a low- pressure area that is especially well developed in a north and south direc- tion. The tornado will also be encour- aged by a.high-pressure area follow- ing close behind the low as 1t moves across the country from west to east. The cool air of the high tends to re- place the warm air of the low, and the warm air near the ground is driv- en u.p through the whirl with an enormous display of energy." Regarding the risk, we are told: "In spite of the fact thattorna- does are so :lamaging when they strike, even in the most threatened area, houses stand much less danger of being injured by tornadoes than from being hit by lightning or burn- ed. But the chances for greater total destruction are increasing as the population increases." .1 . :h.+. machine letped onward 11. ,t'(1 i+'1't'iVI' carliet' and e'arller1 :.1' WON VS-'- . ilc:• shorts of the first •1.. -cite, and tlto tapping. of Mat' - :)re's first Messages, 'The Boer' War. '11A:.)"t'hvan War, • Napoleon t,•1'hes to las troops, the cries of b., Fr, n,•h Revolutionises, the life, f the euillot1nc; the erat.kltr or Lon-' ees ge•aa are. they -101( of 10( -all would he grad- tal'y ove r t tl:au. • \i hat .r vi.donl Listening -in to the., .istory., of the world! And who, in modern ar•,t `01' wonder's, would • a y wha 01 C111.1 11.11 V 11 01 0099e11 fatten time and space aro annihilated? 010 Yew Trees. The yew trees located in the itts- oria region inch Rannoch and Loch Pay in Scotland are said to be the ,1d'ist authentic speciurens of, vege- ' ation in, 5cotlaii1.tl LAYSAN ISLAND. 'T::ffAS..hIANY : NOW Y li ]Tr TO :lNi°si'V(,'T Mrt51i91 Its ?t.Rrlllty Sec' Weide " Objectee Without Destroying; Then- leas: at Last Been Aplreeetrtted by endue lziaii is t7�n' ihie Ttiroulb• tstunl»;. The days when the X-ray was coni- i6fdered usefulonly to a doctor or dentist have passed, its ahili e to eee. Inside objects without destroying them. has .at last been appreciated ba •ind_ustrialists, and now, as an aid to inspee,ion, it is used in factories of all kinds. An article in the Review of Reviews states: "The effect of different of, produetion. can be determined quick- ly by means of a photograph. ]i'laws• and defects may be deteeted before• costly machining : operztioris ha'- been. performed. The relative suite ability of various materials, shapes, and sizes may be readily doterzuined: beforehand. X-ray inspection Is alp ready being appliedto cast stead,:.. brass and bronze, magnesium, alum - inum, rubber; ceramics, glass, and such raw materials as coal. The in- creasing use of welding and of air- planes openstwo great fields where X-ray inspection. ought to play a vital part in 'pec .eetiag life and dim - 'mating uncerta_4,5.. "Until about 1918 X-ray examin- ations were limited to steel not e- seeding 1 inch ir. thickness. But the modern X-ray can penetrate mild`: steel S% tsr 44.Y,t inches` thiek, or. show an internal 'flaw oft 3/10th}s of: a diameter, wa to 4% inches from the surface. Within these (imitations, therefore, it is no longer necessary to destroy materials or products to determine their internal cen.ditions.. Radiography places a new inspection tool at the service of the sincerer, progressive and honest manufacturer. "Until recently it was the custom to manufacture a few sampiespeci- mens that could be cut up for in- spection. Now the X-ray may he used. This eliminates the expense and time for making the additional, pieces. : All the valves and piping re- quired on a steam system designed be work at unusually high pressure were recently inspected by X-ray. Several pieces were. rejected because. defective. And there has been an breakdown or trouble whatever with the pieces that passed the X-ray test. One shutdown, of course, would have cost many times over the cost of one X-ray picture. "It can be seen immediately what an important factor• X-ray inspection will ultimately be' :in airplane con- struction, and in checking up the welds of buildings and other import- ant mportant structures. X-ray inspection tells the story without ruining the pro- duct ar destroying the evidence. "One rubber company uses X-ray inspection on its golf balls to de- termine the eentring, of the core. An- other impregnates the cord of: its. tires with lead salts, making possible an. X-ray examination to determine the condition of the union of cord and rubber, to eliminate any faults suffered from strains during the manufacturing -process, "Another company examines its. metal radio, tubes for the proper spacing between filament and grid, each tube being viewed in two direc- tions at right angles to each other. Thermometers are now being X-ray- ed to make sure that the glass meets specifications, . and isnot a ebeaper glass containing soda. The amount of tetra-ethyllead1n commercial gasoline is being determined by means of X-ray. Ammunition also carae in for radiographic examination to determine the correctposition of the fuse and the internal mechanism, Ball bearings, heavily insulated ca- bles and wires, grinding wheels that are subjected to great strain, °fire- brick that may possess internal cracks, flaw's, or metallic particles, can be inspected internally with the radiograph— without inlury. Even coal can be examined by X-ray to de- termine its, ash content, consisting largely of calcium and iron salt. These are opaque while carbon' is transparent to they X-ray. Electrical_ Insulators may be examined to deter- mine incipient' and interna] cracks. "There is another side- to the X-ray in industry, a more human side, of probably wider, more General appli- cation. That is for inspection, fur routine supervision and observa'ion. The radiograph shows iip the care- less worker, compelling him to be more careful or lose his job. It acts as a deterrent to the overconseien tious inspector who fuels fault need- lessly for his own gain, just as it shows up the careless inspector. Be,. ing vastly more sense ive to differ- cures in intensity tie.n the human: nye, the photogt.aphie process is eet.i:r to detect flatus which c heerwise would be invisible, These ] 'rt.r.tres may le made in the frae.ion if 1c. second, en : enabling rapidly met � r, parts to be inspected. Mor eov t ' the photo- graphic process has Ile advantage of affording a permanc •et record of re- tual conditions. 51 .ss not subjee't to the whims, moods, or alertne,se o1' the individual, "Another industrial 'lpplir.niion of tit( X-ray, lees known that 1i,, apyeli- cation to detect flaws, is thatof studying minute particles goo small for: study by the hornsn eyes and un - stetted even to the microscopes. The human eye cannever beep- to see oh- jr.cts smaller than 100.000111 of an inch. But with the X-ray 1;. is pee- sible tosee the most 10routs object. because the ray is 01,, electro-luage net.ic disturbanee of the same 'gen oral nattti'e tie visible light. It. is 10,- 000 times 0,-000'timnes as short or only One hila, deed - milihmth of an inch ill wave; ' length--•-•Ytbout the size or atoms themselves, ' :ethods of X-ray diffraction are now in use to study the performance of fibrous'materials such as rayon, sil, acid wctod when :r:retched, as well as for Invest lgatiingr metals and ehcrinicals, "Ties X-rey is a new tool for in- 1%: n- 13ut rt is renals thole, It ls� the key ;to utifli: covered lroridi •demo Undreamed of Opportunities t.unities that tie still hidden to i`to armee: of doubt. 0.114 mysterry et an lndisnar'Jxtrse'i worlii.." Party Landed. to Vegetate Lonely Paeifie I tacl. A representative of the 'United States Department of Agriculture has spent last summer at Laysan Is- land, a lonely spot in the Pacific ocean, about 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu. Laysan Island, formerly had ex- tensive guano beds, but these were worked out more than a decade ago. Commercial fertilizers from South America, and the cost of handling the low-grade guano m.ade the Laysan islands uo longer profitable. So the guano station on the lonely islet was abandoned and the regular trips of supply schooners to Honolulu were discontinued. Left at Laysan were only a fast-growing family of rabbits that soon virtually denuded the is- land of its scant vegetation, while the wild Pacific winds heaped sand dunes over the roots of the herbage. Dr. Wilder hopes, however, that Laysan can be transformed into a well vegetated island: Plants and grass suitable to its coral soil were taken in boxes to the island. Two officers, two -nen, a cook and Dr. Wilder have landed at Laysan and started work. Freak Atlantic Graft. The desire to cross the Atlantic in some sort of freak craft seems to be contagious. A German production on the lines of a submarine with :a weighted keel, and with some sort of passenger accommodation up aloft is being constructed. The boat Is stat- ed to be unsinkable. It. Is made of steel, and is alleged to be absolutely Water -tight. This craft has actually materialised, and an. American tam- ed Jackson is busily engaged near Bel- fast on the building of a 75 -footer. (of .wood) oil the shores of Loch Neagh, in which he proposes to at- tempt, crossing. The greatest Depth: The: greatest depth known to the ocean is off the Philippine Islands, where the survey Ship Planet found. 82,089 Poet of water. Mount Tr,verest would There be buried so deeply that there would be 3,000 feet: of water above its' suinrnit,. Ireland's l'ot 'Witter. Despite Its eold climate, there ate number of boiling springs near Reykjavik, Iceland; water from these Is being pisodto, Vie city, to furbish° beat and rower ' the re.sidelutag.