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Zurich Herald, 1927-06-30, Page 6iRwuw;,«�i ARAMFLYING 'PRIZE IS OFFERED , WILL L BE CHEAPER 1 CANADA ARTIST N S 'A VOYAGE De• i ner; of Cha Chamber Chamber " of Comm er. ce Crests to Reduction of Risks by Wea- , Receive $100 ther Reports is 1 Ono hundred dollars will get. to the Necessary Canadian artist it•h°o designs the crest; most appropriate for theuse of the FLOATING STATIONS Cari.atltan Chamb:.'r of Commerce. The. National Executivo will be the judges. New york--'The first tiling to cone This decision was reached at are eider before regulo.r Crane -Atlantic Cent meeting of the busiui ss commit. flights can bo made is weather reports, tee of the National Executive. All do - The o The rsrvice is now ;.!Ii"cteclnate. It sigue should be submitted by July 15 can be made atlegeate by giving the next to the office of W. MCL. Clarke, weather bureau an appropriation of secretary of the Canadian Chamber of $50,000 aye r, Seth:fee:ot arrange- Commerce, Board of Trade Building. Inents can' then by . Iuade with ships Montreal, at s,ee and with the broadcasting coin- Tlie executive specifies •that the panics The department of comm arca crest should depict m a graphic man - would be glad. to co clicrate, per soraetiiiilg of the aims and ecope TWO or three leind.s of weather are of the work of the national body. likely to cakt`, at the same time an the Theo aro.•opitoniized in the following ..tentic and melee lir..e.'ont, ccudit:ora 1,aragrapli taken from the oonstitution we have no :nCsns of knowing what of the National Chamber of Com- fleer: it i; run late. It is eeziential -merc•e: that rrZ l now b fer4 a flight can be ,,,The ob;eot shall''be to stimulate and more then a dein.; cd. cntu e. i maintain a vigorous Canadian national Then, too, we must have ships big sentiment and to co-operate in promot- enough to land in the North Atlantic in ing the efficiency, and in extending the oases of emergency ated sustain' them - usefulness of the baxioi-s Boards of BeanSuch ships will be multiple- 1 Tilade and Chambers of Commerce Eng:.uecl gireebably the 1.0''aveiti•--fano i throughout • the Dominion, ;and to Preferably will he air-cooled 'for the secure unity and harmony et action in sake' of endurance. They must be of enough tannage to stand a rough sea. Just Giant Wings Being big shil^s they will not need tail surfaces- in effect they will be eration by legislative bodies of various just €::int wings. The pee: engees will questions pertaining ,to the financial, be housed in the. nine, so will the fuel ; eoonomcal, commer ' ;1, industrial and r• the wins the • ag leultural interes of the country at end the car; a. Wong g loac_s tit •Il Lc- comely distributed. large. , The profits of a company maintain- Mg regular air esrvie•e to Europe reference to commercial usages, cus- toms and laws; and especially that a unitel opinion should be obtained 'so as to secwre a peeper and careful eonsi-l- should be large. The fuel expense on IN BRIT ISH ISLES Lindbergh's. night was about five cents a mile, and en such a giant plane as will be making regular trips in the not - distant future the fae1 cost per milo will be small. The crew cost wibl not be large. With an •all metal plane of !air endux'c u ane siiip ev.e einem in service soverT.-'yeai'e. The ctual running exr•enee l Kill last for o 30 lours or so and tibee, will mean sav- tag an'food. Alj'.er trip. to E'repe wi{ii be cheaper tl'ee a r•t+a trip Have itevlgators EXHIBITION TOUR Senator' Beaubien 'Explains Plan Before Board'of Trade. Canade may be advertised directly, in every town and village in . the Bri- tish Isles by means of a touring ex - Whiten en train of motor trucks. Both the Products of the country and the advantages awaiting immigrants into Canada would be demonstrated there- by. Senator C. P. Beaubien explained' Complete rad o ca."lppm•;;t inlest. of the plan in detail at a •meeting of the ,course, be carried ae, 1 the$1aee must Board of Trade council. Ho did not have navibatop:+zbi s eele"e It was all believe such a scheme would be in very well fereeeeree'1:adrtele and Chamber- the nature of an experiment, because lira to seder -by oompaez or reckoning, i of the experience Canada had gained but no passengers. should be entruz'ed in the tour of the Canadian exhibi to a reane without navigators. 1tion train in France and Belgium a lelost;ng stations will be :maiutain•ed few years ago. He believed suck a in rend -ocean. While they might be project would stimulate trade be - hard to find in a fog, nevertheless they tureen the countries and encourage ehouid be kept for emergency pur-'immigration. pose's. I The council decided to give Senator The whole problem can be solved Beaubien's proposal immediate atten- without great difficulty. It .ins problem tion, although it already had adjourn - not of finance, but of safety. Flying: ed for the surriner. across the Atiant,1e is now extremely _---.} hazardous. Then' men who aecom- allebe•1 it had to wait days before they could stmt. Cut down the risk to a minimum and we have gone a long way to make trams -oceanic flying matter of fact. --(United Press.) GERMAN PLANS TO FLY ROUND WORLD Dr. Hugo Eckener Will Make Long Voyage in - Zeppelin l3eri:n- A round -the -world Zeppelin flight is planned by Dr. Hugo Eckener to demonstratethe ability of the dirigible as a rival for the airplane in long distance Hying. The famous pilot who took the Los An„etes, America's great . dirigible, aercai the Atlantic to the United Ste:es, Ennounced that ho would slake the world flight in 1928, using the LZ. 123, now under construction at ir'iiederichsafen. He will procede his world fl ght with a crossing of the South Atlantic in a similar craft. The latter trip tvi11' be mkde to 'siliow the praoUIorbility of a regular air service heltu'ecu Seville, Spain, and Buenos Aires, and it is in this service that the LZ. 133 will be uee'd permanently. Latest imp.rovemismte of machinery will .guarantee the LZ. 123 a cruising! radius of 8,750 miles, Eckener declared.' Ilius he expects to circle the globe in' three salts.. One mooring mast in Rus eian territory near the Pacific Coast, i is being considered, and one would be on the Pacific Coast either of the Uni- ted States or Canada, These, with the One at Ilakehurst, N.J., would be suttee eat, he said. His Zreppeiin would make the trip even in unfacorable weather within 3t0 heurs', Eeleener said, ,adding that he would fly eastward from Germany. The noted G•ermian pilot will leave for 13uenos Aires toward the one of J11110 , The authorities In the United States already have placed the Lakohurst hanger at his disposal, Eckener said. Going Too. The speaker waxed eloquent, and after his peroration on women's right, he said "When they take our girls away from our co-educational col- leges, as they threaten, what will fail- low? 'What will follow, 1: repeat'?" And a loud masculine voice in the audience replied "I will:" Wife—"Mrs. S.- said a, sentimental song always .tngvns her.'" Tubby---- "lloa;llye Lot's play 'Rome, ;Sfveot Muscle Required. 1st Flapper—"He spends most of his time on the team. I admire ath- letes so much." 2nd Flapper "Yes, he's a stable boy—takes .muscle to rub down the horses." • • An Interesting Fossil Area The Joggins section of Nova Scotia has been recognized alma the days of the -great geologists, Logan and Lyell, as affording the finest example in the world of fossil Coal Measure forests with standing trees superimposed one on another through, some thousanas.of feet of eeciinients. This remarkable ,aeotion is adequately represented in Canada's National Museum at Ot- tawa by a series of upright trunks with a background of a Carboniferous landscape and a panoramic view of the Joggins section. The stuinps with their great expanse of roots form what is considered by many familiar with foreign museums to be the finest exhibit of its kind in any museum. Playgr<ouatls Le Devoir (Ind.) : (It will not be enough to exelude children from the movies; other recreation in the form of •games must be substituted'.) We must take active measures about pro- viding piaygeounds for children,. As far as this is concerned, nothing is more simple. We need merely, `opren all the school courts which sire worth it, and utilize for the Whole year a capital which would otherwise be dead and unproductive for three months. "This 'would be a good move. But it would hot be enough. It is also avec- essary to increase the nuitller of gar playgrounds,whete the older chat& d'ren can indulge in the genies which are Suiten to their age and taste,. Almost the ont y thing " wdtneu's clothes leave • to the itnaginatioih is what snakes them so expensive. • .ONFEDERA T 1ON DAYS AND OLD "BUCK AND BRIGHT," are brought to mind by the above picture taken recently in Connecticut where oxen are still used to a small extent. t US. PRAISE FOR US Canada Gets Bootleg—Facts While We Fail Independent" calls attention to the Boston, Mass.—An editorial in "The fact that the Canadian Royal Com- mission has unearthed staggering quantities of information on bootleg- ging processes and personnel.' Tho editorial . reads: "One by one the chief traffickers on the border, Americans and Canadians alike, came before that body to testify to their colosal profits and• yield the under- cover secrets of the trade. It is simply unbelievable that American prohibition authorities lack the informatory leads which the Cana- dians developed so intelligently. Otherwise we mifst conclude that the prohibition servi'ee is manned exclu- sively by dumb -bells and "grafters. Canadians are not all Sherlocks—and Americans are not all yokels. The logical inference is that the leaders in the Volstead Act enforcement, know more :than they appear to on the 'sub- ject of international bootlegging, and that they are keeping vital informa- tion from the public to hide their own failures in administration. "Whether one approves or disap- proves of prohibition, a reading of the Windsor and Montreal proceed- ings must disgust him with the inef- ficiency or venality of enforcement on the • American side of the border. Honest prohibitionists—we use -Vie term in contrast to political prohibi- tionists—ought to join honest non- prohibitionists in demanding that a Congressional committee take up this investigation where the royal com- mission leaves off. The American wit- nesses before the commission could all be subpoenaed, from Frenchy Sa- vard, Detroit's uncrowned king of booze, . down to humble workers in the ranks. Tho revelations already of record and accessible to all are enough to shake the' country from its present disgusting apathy on the sub- ject, providing they could be given - a Washington setting --Tho Windsor Not So Easy Sirs Alan Cobham the famous Bri- tish airman, has published a state- ment which shows that Chamberlin's hope as expressed in interviews in Berlin of flying to 'America involves` a bigger task than already accomp- lished. Discussing in the Daily Mall the possibility of east to west flights, Sir Alan attributes the fact that the Atlantic has not yet been crossed in a non-stop in that direction owing to the prevailing wind which is from America to Europe. Supposing this wind was only 20 •miles per hour, it means, Sir Alan says, that an airplane able to cruise 30 miles per hour would have its speed in one direction increased to 100 miles and in the other, decreased to 60 miles. Instead of covering_ 3000 miles in 30` hours, it would do, there- fore, only 1800 or little more than half. It is thought here to follow from Sir Alan Cobbam's statement that if Chamberlin should try a re- turn nonstop flight with a machine similar to the Columbia, he would have to to make it from some such starting' points as Ireland and New- foundland, thereby reducing the dis- tance to be covered. • " Lindbergh Flies Alone" Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and Faith upon the left? Does 'solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and, Ambi - i tion reads the dials? Is there no com- parry with him for whom the air is I cleft by Daring and the darkness is I made light by Emprise? True, the fragile bodies of his fel- Iows do not weigh ';down his plane; i true, the fretful mindsof weaker men are lacking from his crowded cabin: but as his airship ' keeps her course • he holds communion with those rarer spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency . give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone/ With what other .com- investigation constitutes an unoffi- cial nofficial but . damning indictment against the prohibition service of the United States, and a stern effort should be made to find out precisely, why that service is failing down on its job so. misei ably." It is always a good plan to park alongside a new and shiny car. The owner wii, back out without scratch- ing yours, panions would that man fly to whom the choice were given? The N.Y. Sun. Afraid. Mr. Henpeck -"I ant thinking of taking a cottage about here." Farmer—"But don't you think the climate , would disagree with your wife?" Mr. Henpeck - "Disagree, indeed; you don't know my wife. Why, man alive; it wouldn't dare." NEW PLANE STOPS LIKE LIKE M OTOR CAR Remarkable "Sea Hawk" Rivals Birds in Speed Only ' six feet of air separate the plane tram the ground. Moor roaring, it flirts with the earth. Gracefully, lazily, it skime closer, throttled. so low that a fast motor car could out dis- tance it. It touches—rises again, wheels shinning from the contact—and airily circles the field- Now it lands. Rather, it "sits down." Instead of bumping for many yards along the ground, it glides to earth and .stops within a few feet! Such was the first public test recent- ly at. Mitchel Field, N.Y,, of a remark- able new fighting airplane, the Sea Hawk, built for the . S. Navy: The plane's ease of maneuvering at slow speed, and its hydraulic wheel brakes indicated, says Popular Science Monthly, that it could land directly 'upon the deck of an airplane carrier. Yet when' its' 425 -horsepower motor is .opened up, •the plane achieves a speed of 170 melee an hour. The Sea Hawk Is called the fastest plane in the world equipped with an air -coaled motor. Embodied in its construction are a thrust -back lower wing, enabling the pilot to see his landing gear; shock absorbers; staggered wing construc- tion, and curved upper wing, to avert daugem of the deadiiy tail spin: It can be converted in a few minutes into a emplane by the addition of pontoons. Under the cowling are two machine guns, which flee through the propeller. Novel safety dewicee-features meta gaily eacrifled to speed and maneuvera- bility in fighting planes—are provi edt A button in the eookpit, in case of fire, .squints extnguisher fluid on the engine, A valve .emptied the gasoline tanks into the sea in an !natant. And a rub- ber liftboat it within reach of the pilot, provided with bottles of liquefied oar bon dioxide gas that inflate It in six eaoonde, and small oars for padding, it the plane should fall into the ocean! Budding Entomologist. Mother—"Why is baby crying?" Nurse (in next reont)—" He wants Mother -"Well, give hint "what he wants." The baby howls louder. Mother—"Why dide't you give him I Nurse—"I did. It was a bee?" ADAIVISGN'S ADVENTURES—By 0..laco--- --- YS� I'M eoiwG OTAKE ,YOU'ROUNDTO Tµ:E �'al CiRCUSTo MEET t"iY44,I THE KIDS, ik�� 4/. FAMILY, MA -PA -AND easeesase FOLK;1 LEY ME artRoouce MY AENiee OAMSON' Going tIi a P.rAm sc ALBANIA NOTE REFORM LEAGUE Balkan Situation Receiving' Close Attention When representatives of the live Powers and six smaller nations coin. prising the Council of the League of Nations assembled at Geneva Jae& week for their regular .quarterly meet- ing, they found that a document •pregp ant with internallionlail discord had been filed with the League bp order of President-Dietator .Armed Bey Zogu of Alhanla. Because Italy holds a virtual protea borate over Albania, the note of Dicta -j tor Zogu received the respect appro., priate to a communication uudonbteddy+ approved if not ordered written byl Italian Dictator Mussolini, It declare ted that the national honor of Albaniai had been insulted by 'brutal and. un -i soncellatory demands." made upon Aid barite by Jugoslavia, recently, to obi tarn the release of a Jugoslav espy ar- rested and jailed in Albania. When these deimande were refused by Albania, the note continued, the' Jud goslav Government last week withdrew( its Legation from Albania and gave the Albanian Minister in Belgrade just 24 hours to leave the country. Such action pertinently suggested that Jugoslavia, after breaking off re rations with Albania, would, shortly declare war. The Albanian note to the League Council last week was there- fore in the nature of a national alibi, registered with the League, . so that, if war breaks out, Dictator Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania may disclaim all re- sponsibility before the world, Actually Jugos]avia (backed by France) and Albania (backed by Italy) have been snapping and snarling at each other for so long tht if war should break out between them the r•espcnse- bility would be mutual. The League. Council Members, nota- bly Sir Aust en'.Chamherlain, M. Aris- tide Briand and Dr. Gustav Strese- mann (respectively foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany) had power last week only to scan the Albanian note, make it a matter of re- cord. They then prooeeded with the humdrum but important routine busi- ness of the League. Sweeping Remark. Miss—"I don't believe Mrs. Brown ever brushes out her house." Mister—"I wouldn't say that—it's too sweeping a. remark." Imperial. Trade Hamilton Spectator (Intl. Cons.) : (The Canadian Government have or- dered six airplanes from the united • States). The Old Country has for a long time been preaching the doctrine of buying imperially, and the several cath aigna'• put on to parsnadee the Britioh public to patronize Dominion industry have resulted in a consider- able increase In ortters. There is a reciprocal 'obligation on the part of the Dominions. Since many of the foreign markets ; upon which the Mother Country formerly relied for her trade and prosperity; are now more or loss closed to British enter- prise, the duty of supplying their places is all' the more imperative for. the Dominions. There surely could be no good reason why, in this in- stance, the preferences should have been given to the manufacturers of the United, States. The Government chould set a good example in the mat- ter of developing imperial trade. Turn to the North Regina Leader (Lib.): Hon. i r., Robb in itis Montreal address suns Bested that Canadians "tura to the north " Tltis is a view which is he. coming increasingly recognized ati sound and progressive by Canadian statesmen 'anti agriculturists anti. in- dustrialists. Ixon. 7. 0. Gardiner, the Premier° of Saskatchewan, has fr7, ineptly, alluded to the desirability, even the necessity, of Canadians gradually working away from the in- ternational boundary in their con- quest of the natural rose lrcos of Canada. The north --the 'north lit every province ---is calling as never before. Increasin development of these areas has become 'one of the demands, as well as one of ' the op- portunities, of tho time. Canada's Jubilee Year +London Free Press (Cons.): Wo have the natural resources for which the world is clainorii1g. We have the greatest gi ain pred:icitig area on the globe; wo have the finest fisheries; we have the . greatest lumber re-: soul°cosy wo have the wealthiest mill era,l mnes' of a'll kinds, anal we have water-powor ,resources fear their de- velopment. !The weird Is coiniieUed to look to Canada. Tho Dominion 13 Ori the eve of groat development. Thin. Juhilce Year promises i:o be•I',iIriada's niitetanritn: 'yc�(' tie ,th..:o 0 trearS w ', jt histol". „•.