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The Wingham Advance Times, 1925-10-01, Page 3IA Thursday, October art,, 1925 U. S. AMATEUR STATIONS AS- SIST TROPICAL EXPEDITION By R. M. Sherrill (Radio Engineer) Amateur radio again distinguished itself when it established reliable corn- rnuncation, between the l-lamilton- Rice Expedition and the United Stat- es, Thi.s'sxpedtion is engaged in the study of tropical diseases and in mak- ing a survey of theteitritory along the Amazon River in Brazil. The ex- plorers' were equipped with radio for communicating on the usual commer- cial wavelengths, and had made no previous arrangements for amateur assistance. When the communication on com- mercial wavelengths became unsatis- factory, the explorers succeeded in es- tablishing reliable communication with amateur stations in and around New York , City. Stations 2CVS, 2MC and 2AG have been of valuable assistance, and station 2]3R in ,New York City was in communication with the expedition almost every night for four months: Many messages relating to the work and the supplies of the expedi- tion were handled. Also many per- sonal messages to the families of the explorers. Many of these messages were delivered over the telephone and, in some instances, answers were re- turned to the interior of Brazil in less than ten minutes. Radio Reception on Pike's Peak Colorado experimenters who brav- ed the perils of a climb to the snow- capped crest of Pikes' Peak this sum- mer, report good radio reception from that point. A program from KOA came in with good volume on their.1 single tube set, and at that high alti- Aniatcurs have pointed out that— while it is true that 83 p, e. of them are operating below 150 meters -5o p. c, of the radio traffic they handle is carried on above 150 meters. ' The A. R, R, L, has carried its pro- tests to the Department of Commerce and has received assurance that the department has not yet given the plan any serious consideration. The de- partment has also assured the Ama- teurs that they will be represented whenever the plan •comes up for con- sideration. Radio Questions and Answers '(Mr. Sherrill will be glad to help you solve your radio problems. Write him in care of this paper.) Q. -W. J. G. asks: "(i) What is the proper charging rate for the Edison Storage B batteries? (2) How often should these batteries be charged? Ans.—(i) Anywhere from i to , 3 tenths of an ainpdre would make a things mean" Lesson Title --Paul in, Athens. Lenon Passage --Acts 17:0g-$4„ Golden .'ext—Acts 17:28. :Saul was forced to leave Berea by the disturbances caused by the Jews of 'Thessalonica, who, having done him all the harm they could in their own city, followed him and stirred up the people 'there. He was accompan- ied to Athens' by some Berean Chris- 'tians to whom lie gave a message to take back to Silas and Timothy, tell- ing thein \.to join hint. in Athens, While waiting for their arrival he wandered about the • city and the sights which he saw stirred him to ac- tion, It was not that 'the things 'he saw were new to him, for his native city, Tarsus, was anidolatrous city, but Athens was literally full of idols. Ancient. Greek literature tells ,us that, "the parts of Athens werecrowded on every side with temples, and adorned with statues of gold and sil- ver." • There was at this time a colony of Jews in Athens, not large, yet large enough to have a syngogue, and there Paul met with them and talked with therm, as he did also with those whom. he met in his wanderings about the ci- ty, His spirit havng been roused, he was terribly in earnest, and he thus drew the attention of the learned inch to him. The philosophers were - at- tracted by St. Paul's manner and they listened to him as he spoke of Jesus and the resurrection. It was to them a strange new doctrine and they, . be- ing the aristocracy of Athens, felt it was their duty to bring him before the court of Areopagus, the highest court which had the oversight'. of national 'religious affairs, There he was ques- tioned about this new ' doctrine whereof thou speakest for thou. bring - 'est certain strange things to our ears; we would know therefore what these citable charging rate. (2) The fre- 1 This gave Paul the ciiarice of a lis- quency of charging depends upon how much current your receiver draws and upon how much you use it. Use a voltmeter on the batteries and rechar- ge them whenever the voltage drops 15 p. c. below normal. Q. -T. A. M. says: "I have been us- lir s- a Brownlie Vernier cr st I ng y a for some time now, but, it is gradually growing insensitive I there tude the' static was negligible com- pared with what it was at the normal altitude. The men who made the climb did not complete their experiments 'due. to suffering' from the extreme cold and altitude, but they remained over night on the peak' and listened in on broad- casting wavelengths. Amateurs Fight to Hold x55-aoo Meter Wavelengths In answer to the frequent- sugges- tions, that .the broadcasting conges- t6 20o meter Amateur wavelengths, tion be relieved by taking over the 15o the Amateurs have raised strenuous objections. Through the American. Radio Relay League headquarters, the Is any way of cleaning the surface of the crystal to restore its sensitivity?" Ans.—You can buy renewed cry- stals for this type, or you can melt the metal in which the crystal is mounted, and turn the crystal slight- ly so as to expose a new surface. Cleaning the old surface will not help. Q.—A, J. says: "I have a 6 volt storage battery which is less than a year old. This battery has not been used for several months however, and refuses to ` take a charge from my Tungar charger. Would it help to put in a fresh solution?" Ans:—No. It is likely that the/bat- tery plates 'are sulphated from stand- ing discharged so long. Take the bat- tery to a charging station and have' it charged until the sulphation is brok- en down, Mr. O. Thompson and family are now living in the Hanna house on Ed- ward St., recently vacated by Mr, Jas, Gilmour. VERY fortune has had a foundation. Every foundation, in the first instance. is laid with, the first few dollars saved. Start to save now and lay your foundation. Save seriously—save consistently. For money in the Bank is the buffer against misfortune and the barometer of future prosperity. WINGI-JAM BRANCH, J. A. WALLACE, semearmommuneemagio • Manager. 'teeing audience such as he had not enjoyed since his escape from Jerusal- em in the early days of his new life in the university city of Tarsus. Verses 22.34 --The Origin of the Christian Church in Athens In these verses we have but the outline of Paul's address; the Ieading arguments he used to build the whole structure are given. St. Paul was a practised speaker, for he knew how to adapt himselfto his audience. He began by conciliating his hearers. He referred to their devotion, but not to reprove them for it, but rather to show them the common ground on which he and they stood. He pointed out to them how in his wanderings he had seen an altar with this inscrip- tion. "To the Unknown God." They had something in cornmon, for were they not already worshippers of his God? Their Unknown God was the very deity he had come to preach.. "Whom therefore ye ignorantly wor- ship, him declare I unto you." He then showed them the nature of this Unknown God, showing how he was Lord of creation arid of :providence. There was a remarkable altar rear- ed in Athens about 6ao years before. Christ in a time of pestilence, in hon- or of the unknown god which had granted them deliverance. From this other altars throughout Athens were erected bearing a similar inscription, some of then remaining until :Paul's day and he inad.e ttse of this inscri-= tion to point his hearers to the tale, God who had really delivered them from the pestilence. He proceeded to show them how this same Being who had interposed to save them then was He who had'niade the world and all things therein. The Epicureans denied that the world was created by God or that He exercised any care over human affairs. They also denied' the immortality of the. soul, One of i their leading doctrines was that plea- sure was the chief good, and that virtue was to be practised only as it I contributed to pleasure, Ori the oth- er hand the Soics believed that the universe was created by God;. that all' things were fixed by fate and that the I fates were to be submitted to. They were stern in their views of virtue,' 1,4,4o1., nd, like the Pli'arisees, prided theta» selves on their awn' righteousness, Against the leading doctrines of both these sects ' Paul directed . his dis- eourse, showing them hove dependent man is on. God, "For of him,, and through •him, and to him, are all things," He then proceeded to con- vince theca that all men are descend ed from the sante`:ancestor and there- for that no one nation, no one indi- vidual, can claim any pre-eminnence ov- er otherst in virtue of birth or blood, All are in this respect equal and that one part of the human race has no right to enslave or oppress any other part. Furthermore, the Creator in His plan fixed the boundaries of nations. He designated the black manto Af- rica; the white roan to northern reg- ions, etc., and so disposed them to dwell' where placed. All nations though living in different regions have the same opportunity of observ- ing God's wisdom and power manifest in His works and that it is possible to find God, for "in him we live,°and move, and have our' being." Thus Paul traced our dependence on God from the lowest pulsation of life to the highest, powers of action. He re- ferred .them to what their own Greek poets had written, showing Paul's familiarity with the literature of his day. He followed up this quotation by arguing that if then we are form- ed by God, if then we are like Him, 'living and intelligent beings, is it not absurd to suppose that the original source of our being can be like gold, and silver, and stone? There were times preceding the cgming of Christ when God overlook- ed, "suffered all nations to walk in their own ways," but the time had 'come when "repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among,all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." Paul gave them the rea 'son why repentance is. necessary;: fd'r man must some day be judged, and if not penitent and pardoned then he must be condemned. From this starting point Paul preached Christ, a crucified but risen Saviour. Then it was that the Epicureans who did 'not believe in the immortality of the soul caused a disturbance which broke up . the audience, but • some of the Stoics, to whom the 'ddctrine of a fu- ture state was not unbelievable, pro- posed a future interview of which, however, there • is no record. Paul soon afterwards left the city, possib- ly never again to visit it. His work, however, was not fruitless, for special mention is made of one' man and one woman and others with them who be- lieved his message and ancient writers testify that a Christian congregation was subsequently founded in Athens which flourished in an eminent de- gree. Thus by the foolishness of preaching was the wisdom of the Greeks overcome. "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to con- found the wise; the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty," RAILWAY TIME TABLE C. P. R. 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'-O B£1'rER GET Bt)8Y 'N' FIX THAT --'N' A LOTrA OTHER T►1I14G5 AROUND HERE ,'(OA !• / -~ woe p£.R iP 1'l.i. MAVE T PRESS 'MESE OLD PAw'YS BEFORE, DiM'1E `+♦ r*B`? cloLLY , 'rM.AT Gt4C1k($ • ON TH BUNK AGAWN Ft% • lupi' T Ov) ' 1 r9 RORMSaseadgralaretianoneaves ADULTS' BEDTIME STORY Once upon a time—(it ain't a Story if it don't start like 'khat)— There was a guy over in the land of shoe - Shiners and olive oil. Let's see— They call it "It -all -lee ;' And that guy What w,e're gain' to 'tell about --oh 1 yes— . His yes-- His moniker was Christopper Columbia. His father called him "Chris" for short, And this here Chris wars• an awfully smart Bimbo. He had it in the head. One day Chris: got tired of grinding the Organ and he up and tells his fellow Spaghetti -wrestlers he "had a idea." He told 'ern the globe didn't have no Corners like a box but was all bent on The edges like a fish -bowl. And he Asked them would they be kind enough to Let hire have a coupla gondolas to go Out and discover another real estate Sub -division that he knew was hiding Somewhere behind the horizon. Nothing Doing: They told him to go to h—, or, Rather where the Spanish :onions bloomed......._ `- Sure enough, there he sold his idea. He Managed to tell the queen she looked like She was "sweet sixteen" and the queen fell For his line. She let him take three of ber Best wash -tubs what had no handles. These— Chris named the "Nina -clubs" and the "Pinta -grape Juice" and the "Santa -is it." Then he got a coupla Spanish bull -fighters To give him a shove -off and he started for Nowhere. Forforty days and the same number Of nights thrown in, he bobbed around on The Athalantic duck pond. Nobody ate any Grub because it wouldn't keep 'em company.' Then one day Chris looked through his Periscope. And he yelled "Land! Ho!" so Loud hip ;sailors fell outta their hammocks. No sooner had the words evaporated when— Bang! His boat scuttled on a sand bar. So— Chris and his colonels had to step off. They Knew it was the end of the line. But they (Didn't mind getting their genuine all -wool Tights wet. And'they waded iti to the shore Where a reception committee of a gotta cigar Store Indians was awaiting them, The Indians . Couldn't speak Chris' lingo but by their deaf and dumb signs—Chris knew it was AMERICA! And that's why you happen to be livin' here. Now go right •to bed—folks, Good-Nightl Williamsport, Pa., is educating its jay -walkers. Won- der bow? Keeping 'em in jail?. Women down at Enid, Okla., have resolved that "a cranky, clean husband is better than a dirty, good one," Yes, but— ladies—think of all the dirty towels you have to wash to keep the crank? "Shoes with feathers on the heels" are the latest for milady, according to reports. The designers evidently being convinced that she likes to keep her heels flyin' during the social season. • FAMOUS LAST LINES ."Watch Your Step!" a uumnuuuuuu,mum .. um" mu.mum"nmmouunu"n""mm.nr"umm�. Mt 4E441 MONEY-Th4E[3ES AN AWPt9L LOT 0' 114NES AarturvO HERE THAT NEED FINAN' UP - I ON THE D'YE THINK "TELE LEPHONE - I A BE'r ? START -CALL UP SOWES0OY TtNA'r KNOWS HOW TQ' PM THEM 1