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Zurich Herald, 1928-12-20, Page 7Medicine Ito the south, low .in the sky, they see Resents Slander Holds Reputation ,as Being "Lover of the Blizzard" When it Simply Tells the West of Dread Storms Ap- proach OBSERVATORY THERE Medicine Hat, Alberta is not res- ponsible for the blizzards that peri- odically go roaring down the corttin •ent, contrary to a general belief fostered for a long time. , do not necessarily always follow a "The Hat" gets the bad reputation chinook. But it frequently happens merely because it has the only weather that a severe blizzard comes in the station in an enormous territory in wake of one. the Western Canadian prairies.The' The blizzard is peculiar to North blizzards cross the international America. Other parts of the world boundary line south and east of Medi- : have severe winter storms, but no one cine Hat, and the "relief has become, of them has anything just like the almost universal that "Medicine Hat blizzard. Europe's great winter storms is where they 'originate." I come from the northeast; the blizzard But Medicine Hat's weather ob- always comes from the northwest. server declares this is false and many of the city's leading citizens support bis statement. "A stormhas no exact place of genesis," says Hugh Hassard, 75 -year -1 zero, occurred in 1913. old weather observer at Medicine Hat. Lying in 'a depression two miles wide scooped out by the South Sas- katchewan River during many ages, Medicine Hat is 200 feet beteg? the prairies that stretch away for miles in every direetion. Long ago two hos The observer at Edmonton, 200 tile tribes of Indians engaged in a miles to the northwest declares that battle a mile or two above the present blizzards are unknown up there, and site of the. town. Before the fightin' that while one may be raging at "The began one of the medicine men con - Hat,' sweeping south and east and sealed in his war bonnet some rare prostrating half a continent, the pro- herbs found only in the Rocky Moun- vineial capital basks in pleasant win tains. During the fight he lost it, ter sunshine and the calm of a wood- MEDICINE HAT'S NAME: land lake. When the battle was over and his "The blizzard came from that three- side the victors, the fnedicine man's tion, just the seine," Mr. Hassard in- war bonnet was found some distance. sists. "Perhaps a ten -mile -an -hour down the river where it had floated zephyr started away up beyond Daw- and lodged at a place where the stream son City, Alaska, followed the long snakes a great'"U" turn at a wide and MacKenzie Valley, passes over the deep depression in .the prairie. Medi" - Slave Lakes and up the Peace River; cine Hat was the name immediately thence down to the prairies, gathering conferred upon the location, momentum and size with every mile. Natural gas, which caused Rudyard By the time it reached us here i4► Kipling to call Medicine Hat "the Southern Alberta it was a blizzard town that was born, lucky," brought that grew worse beyond the line in three of- the city's chief industries Montane, the Dakotas and on east- there—pottery, flour mills and brick ward across the American prairies, ur.til finally it became dissipated fan - wise over a wide section as it neared the seaboard." THE SWEEP OF A BLIZZARD soft, dark clouds that eemetinees as- surae• the form of an arch, which is known as "the chinook .arch," If the chinook ,clouds are intensely "sleek, the warm spell will be all the more pronounced and probably of greater .duration. As the dry wind. sweeps out over the prairies the clouds will disappear, and a clear 'blue sky follows and the warm wind blows with the softness of Mareh. in Maryland. Every mild spell in winter is net, the herald of a chinook, Mr, Ha reard points out. A, chinook is a definite, distiti,et^ phenomenon. "After a chinook watch out for a blizzard!" the Medicine Hat weather: observer warns. Blizzards, being rare, Medicine Hat never sees much snow. A fall of one foot, fifteen years ago, stands today as the record. The low- est temperature, 48 degrees below "You might as well say that all the water that flows down the Mississippi River past New Orleans came from Lake Itasca as to say that blizzards originate here in Medicine Hat." Occasionally the Appalachians break it and save Charleston, Savan- nah and Jacksonville from cold spells. But all the rest of the country east of the Rocky Mo-intains feels its effects. Thermometers in. New. Orleans will. drop to 20 degrees, while a "norther" brings woe to residents of Texas and Oklahoma. There is nothing to indicate the ap- proach of a blizzard, Mr. Hassard states. They come unexpectedly, like calamities. Men who have spent years on the prairies perhaps would "call the turn"- oftener than less -experi- enced ones, he thinks. Doubtless that is why he has such a high reputation as an observer in Toronto, where, Can- adian weather data are daily assembl- ed, for he has lived fifty-four years cn the prairies. "I would never be brash enough to say that a blizzard is coming, because they cover a- vast area and I am only a dot in the region of their progress - southeastward," Hassard went on. "They come, usually, after we've had some precipitation. It gets rapidly colder after the rain, which has turn- ed to snow. The wind increases and •blows from the northwest. Each flake of snow turns to ice that pelts and cuts, and finally the air is filled with these- tiny, round pellets, fine as dust but each as round as a sphere. "The fury of the wind takes your breath away and snakes the cold seem far more intense than it really is, though the thermometer always falls much lower after the blizzard has passed. I have been lost in blizzards on the Manitoba prairies and the only way I was able to find my bearings was by feeling the grass. The pre- vailing winds over there are from the northwest and the grass always leans toward the southeast. In that manatee I .was able to reach my desination be- cause of a `compass' that never var- ied." Ranchers and: prairie dwellers have been lost and perished in blizzards while going from their houses to their barns. Sometimes they prepare for blizzards by stringing wire or ropes from ane farm building to another and to their houses. In a blizzard objects cannot be distinguished ten feet away. Often while blundering about on the prairie ranch men will collide with horses and stock which, like them- selves, were blinded by the fury of the blizzard. CHINOOKS. A Mecticine Hat. Winter is one suc- cession of chinooks. They are warm, dry winds that blow in. through the passee• of, the Rocky Mountains from the Pacific Coast. Because they came from the direction of a nearby Chi- nook Indian camp, fur men called the warm, dry winds that Brought winter rains chi,nooks. "Crows Nest Pass and Kicking Horse Pass are two of the principal low spots in the mountains that admit ehinooks, 100 miles or More west of Medicine Hat: Perhaps "The. Hat" has bad a steady cold spell,for a week or so early in ,tannery, with a thermometer never down below sero and seldom more than eight or ten inches of snow, Theft one morning residents aevakeni and off • works. The "lucky town" uses Kip- , ling's words for a slogan. Great wheat c zr vice to Puzzled and cattle ranches extend in every Parents direction from Medicine Hat, among Distracted mothers who can't under - them being the E. P. Ranch, owned by stand why their three -year-olds refuse to comply with their wishes will re- ceive some comfort in learning of be- havioristic studies of stubborn qual- ities in children from two to four years of age which have been in pro- gress at the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Teachers' College, Colum- guson, by stating clearly to -day what bra University, New York. Roumanian Peopl'e Welcome New Government • EVERY ONE SEEMS INTERE.,TED IN NEW Peasant party in Roumania, whidh• has come into p ower with the celebrated with demonstrations in Bucharest. EXPERIMENT appointment of the Maniu Stubborn Child Tells His Secret to Scientists • Welfare Research Institute, of Columbia in New York Finds He Is Trying to Express Himself , Language Lack a Factor ,feet Hirn Half Way Is the Edward, Prince of Wales, at High River, about sixty miles westward. St. Lawrence Waterway. Quebec Evenement (Cons.) : Why do our ministers not follow the ex- ample of Mr. Taschereau and Mr. Fer- is their stand on this grave question? A study of 229 children of pre - Rightly or wrongly, the 'people pre- school age by Dr, iMIartha' May Reyn- sumethat the Prime Minister of Can- ecu completed. The ada is favorable to Mr. gloover's pro- group was observed by examiners while attending the nursery school gram. Mr. King has the right to his. own opinion, and no one will deny him this. But he -would be more cl ad- mired by the public if he were to eu his lethargy and state definitely what is his policy and on what reasons it is based. Hitherto his opinions, both spoken and written, on this subject. have' been rather vague. Let him imi- tate Mr. Hoover, who did not hesitate to say that he was in favor of this much-discussed project. --•rte---,— Lights on Vehicles Le Canada (Lib.) : We have reach- ed a stage in our development where with demands is struggling to become oi'ds just has 1 which the institute operates for pur- poses of social experimentation. Spe- cial problem situations were used fol- lowing preliminary studies and data compiled. The study which Dr. Reyn- olds made is called "Negativism is Pre -School Children." Just what causes children of small age to be stubborn has not wholly.been determined, but it was found that chil- dren of two years were considerably more stubborn than children of four. LANGUAGE .LACK BLAMED One idea put forth from the study is that the child in refusing to•comply it is absolutely necessary to adopt every possible measure to protect our- selves. It is not when an accident has occurred that we should begin to think of what should have been done to avoid it. We all know that traffic on the roads has become dense and dangerous and it is important not to forget this, but to act in such a way that this should not become a cause of accidents of all kinds which it would be easy enough to avoid it we only took the trouble. , beams are be ug turned into - music • which will bring about e re- nacenee of light opera.—Atlanta Con- stitution, onstitution, Lig a personality. This was suggested by Dr. Helen T. Woolley, director of the institute and authority on behavior of children. Another, cause and one which is be- ' lieved to hold some weight, is that the child may lack adequate laguage ex- pressions, "No," Dr. Reynolds says, is about the only tool which the two- year-old has at his command to express his willingness to do as we wish him to. - "The four-year-old uses "Yes, I will in just a minute," "wait till I get through doing this," and other politer 1forms, just as adults dounder similar !circumstances, Dr. Reynolds continues. "Also, it is quite possible that the ordinary use of 'not' and 'can't' is not thoroughly at the command of some of these smaller children. "The child who says 'I can't; 'and then proceeds to do whatever it was said be cculdn't de, and the child who says 'I'm not coming with you, ain I?' and then trots •peaceably along with • more ado may be examples of this 'lack of understanding of the language involved, rather than instances of op- position," i HARSHNESS TO BE AVOIDED Dr. Reynolds suggests to mothers that they should not be harsh when their children refuse to obey. "Any suggestion for managing the stubbornness, or negativism as it is called, of the pre-school child must presuppose a sympathetic understand- ing of the nsvch gy or thi Cnlld 02 i this age, an,1 a genuine respect for him as a personality. Then, on this basis, a spirit of ca -operation should be established between the child and the adult. "Requests of the child should be, couched in the form of `Let's do this, shall we?' implying a willingness to meet .him at least half way. All but! the absolutely ne.:essary issues should be avoided, and his language refusals! hould not be taken seriously. When active resistance and defiance is en- countered a break in the proceedings is more likely to produce the desired result than persistence. Give the child a chance to capitulate and still save, his self-respect." • While offering no general rule for managing stubborn children, Dr. Reyn-, olds suggests the best plan is not to provoke the child. Sometimes it is the mother who is stubborn rather than the child, she says, and for this the child is often blamed CONTRARINESS PROPLEM The studies being conducted at the institute are considered remarkable in that children as small as seventeen', 'months of age are used for expert- mental purposes. Excellent condi-I tions are provided by the institute, affording the nursery school children educational opportunities not given to: other children. While several other' such schools exist in the country, the ` Columbia institution has been a pion- eer. In explainin" the contrariness of small children Dr. Reynolds says that! the refusal to co-operate makes smooth -running home management al- most impossible. It is not uncommon, she says, to have a mother say of her three-year-old: "I can't do a thing+ with him. He says `No' to everything, and it is often a struggle to get even been sent out, "By Royal Warrant" Means Something To Be "Appointed" Purveyoz To The Royal Famly..,,w,, Means Much To Mer chants So Honored. NINE TAILORS London.—"Nine tailors make a man," gaud the old proverb. Apparent- ly the Prince of Wales has taken it to heart, for he has nine tailors wait- ing to make his new suits of clothes when he somes back from his African tour. They aro the only toilers in the ' world who are privileged leged to display. the royal arms with the ::len, "Tailors to His Ronal Highness the Prince of Wales." Altogether the revel family hal 1.400 tradesmen who, "by •an::-oint- reent," display the coveted ewe' war- rant ever their shop windows. How many thousands in addition would like to do the same has neyer been revealed. It is known, however, that in the past twenty-seven years , 6,000 firms have been brought to court* for using the royal arms without authority. Many others have tried- to use them, but they have hauled down their colors when anyone noticed the irregularity and threatened legal actorn. The grant of a revel warrant is jealously guarded by London trades- men, and woe to any upstart who tries to use it wrong-fullyl It is not a mere matter of ceremony, but of pounds government, and shillings and pence. The mere appearance of the royal insignia ovex _ a shop is an advertisement which brings in hundreds of pounds a year especially from American visitors to London who like to buy at the same shop as the King and Queen. In the list of 1.400 firms supplying the royal family there are a few sur- prises. King George has a purveyor of angostura bitters in Trinidad, a purveyor of orange curaco in Amster- dam, and until last January he had a purveyor of lamprey pies in. Glou- cestershire. But the lamprey pie - maker died. and his unique distinction died with him. King George has a kilt -maker in Edinburgh, and tartan manufacturers in various S-ottish towns so that he can appear 'l o.,'ropr'ato clothing during his vacation in Balmor-al Castle. He has a golf club maker in a New Brunswick village, a taxider- mist, a philatelist and two fireworks makers—although for what purpose nobody knows. He has a turtle -soup maker, a fan -maker, a horse -hair maker, a purveyor of feathers, and even a purveyor of sheep-dip for the •- royal flocks! Queen Mary, tee, has her own lisM of official "purveyors." Among thea are antique dealers, pin rakers, hair- pin manufacturers, and even a dealer in shawls in far -away Delhi. the most essential matters of the day attended to." "One three-y•eor-old boy of my ac- quaintar.ce, whorl the above descrip- tion fit most aptly, formed the habit of entering his grandmother's home each clay, beforo anybody haa ovine asked him to do anything, with the speech 'Grandmother, I won't' His attitude was one of 'Whatever you ask me to do, I don't do it.' "This illustrates, in perhaps ex- treme form, what we popularly mean by the term 'contrariness, or negativ- ism. *Far from being an abnormal or pathological condition at tho pre- echcol ago, it has been generally con- sidered just a mood characteristic of the age. "Since there is this peculiar beha- vior common to the young child, we thought that it would be extremely valuable to know some of the mani- festations of this behavior. Our study was not one of causes but of a pre- liminary and exploratory step toward an understanding of the problems. More must be known before we can defintely decide the causes." An Industrial Tragedy Le Devoir (Ind.) : (It was decided at the pulp and paper conference to restrict newsprint production by 20 per cent.) Tho situation is not going to be put right if we stick to this de- cision. Over -production is now 25 per cent. too high, and when the new mills now under construction are completed it will stand at 50 per cent. The Gov- ernment arranges for a reduction of 20 per cent. and prices are to be maintained; but will the effects of the crisis be entirely eliminated? To re- duce production by 20 per cent. means an incredse in unemployment of 20 per cent. This aspect alone of the situation deserves' close study, when one remembers that the men thrown out of employment have been uproot- ed from, the soil where they earned their daily bread, to be cast into an industry which starves them or pushes them towards the United States. The movement for intensive industrializa- tion ostensibly for the purpose of re- tarding the flo,v of emigrants to the States has actually had no other effect':, towns, a thousand of us, under cover than to increase it. It is a tragic re-' of a gas attack by 200 motor cars. We roar through the streets, a pillar of dust by defy. We come back at night, -with one picture postcards, to dance to amplified gramophones on. promenade decks. Tourists Rudyard Kipling Sees Utility in Increased Tourist Traffic London.—"That Maritime By-pro- duct, Pas'engers," was the topic of Ludyard Kipling at the armee]. dinner of the Liverpool Shipbrokers' 3.iene- vo'ent Society. Referring be the bad old days when passengers were neglected, Mr. Kip- ling went on to say: "Now tht.t we have imposed the world -end habit on the week -end habit, the case is altered. So long es we passengers muster at boat stations with our belts on and do not try to alter the ship's course or set her alight, we can do absolutely what we please. And we do. "To take one side of our activities only. We arrive in 20.090 -ton liners to assault lovely and innocent coast - suit. In a household budget the mathem- atical athematical problem Is to make V equal R. "Money Plonds Wall Street."—, "And this traffic --this prodigious Head -line, But so far no ,S 0' S has A Choice Collection of England's Fair Maidens PRETTY LONDON STENOGRAPISERS KEEP HEALTHY Fourteen fair oarswomen iu their cute rowing oostttznes AND HAPPY EY ROWING ON THE RIVER THAMES going dovvil to the river edge to get into their boats, tourist traffic—is increasing. Time and distance only excite it to wilder effort; for there is a man at this table who expressed hi's regret to me the other day that he could not for the moment—for the moment, mark you—. include the Galapa res Islands (where the giant tortoises come from) in a tourist itinerary. "Even sepposing we may be able next year to cruise about, scratching our in'tials on turtle back s't'erns, what is the good of us? Apart from our dividend earning capacity, what moral purpose do we passengers serve in tho general scheme of things:? "This—and it is not a little matter t when we are home again, and have arranged the snapshots of ourselves standing in front of the Pyramids or the Parthenon, we have, et the lowest realized that there are other lands than ours, whore reoplo live their own lives in their own way, and touched the things wo have hitherto only read about, "Ad when interest in one's neighbor, curiosity about his housekeeping, and understanding et his surroundings are waked and can be gretified in "tion deede of theurands of hearts, trey make for tolerance, good will, and BO peace, And that is to the good." . --.- g, Wonder what the big captains :of industry do whoa they to not 'pre. dieting "oonttuuea proslia'tty"?