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Zurich Herald, 1930-09-25, Page 2Radio Stations in Far North. Aid Forecasts, Says Col. Forde As Weather of the North American Continent is Made in Arctic Regions—Radio Proves Invaluable Montreal,—Enthusiastic about the services rendered by the Canadian goverument's radio stations on the prairies and in the Northwest terri- tories, Colonel E. Porde, D.S.O., assist- ant ssistant director of signals, has returned to Ottawa after a 9,000 -mile inspection trip, in the course of which he visited proposed district headquarters and signal units in military districts Nos. 10, 11, 12 and 13, and a number of pro- jected air mail stations. Colonel Forde's farthest north visits were at Aklavid and Herschel Island, at which are situated the most north- erly of all the government radio sta- tions, These stations, in the far Northwest, he explained, are invalu- able in providing weather reports. In this area the weather for the greater part of North America is made, and reports from the district enable the meteorological stations to make accur- ate forecasts. Development of civil aviation In the district has given tie stations an addl- tioual value in supplying reports to pilots, as discovery of minerals on the shores of the.Great Bear Lake has led to a large increase in the number of Planes operating in the district, To complete the chain of stations which stretches north along the water- way system of Lake Athabasca, Great Slave Lake and the .Mackenzie River, Colonel Forde thinks a new station at Fort McMurray is needed. It is a na- tural jumping-off place for air traffic, and to get weather reports from the north at present it is necessary to communicate with Edmentou by wire. Besides the northern. stations whioh were erected primarily for meteoro- logical and commercial purposes, Colonel Fordo visited the many sta- tions in the northern sections of Sas- katchewan and Manitoba which have been erected in recent years to serve the growing .air traffic in those areas. Girl Guide News The Marguerite The Marguerite grows iu the fields and flowers chiefly in the late Sum- mer. It has an irregular shaped leaf, and a long graceful flower -stalk, at the end of which the flower bud opens into a large, flat head. We cannot call it a flower, as it really consists of a flat head of little yellow flowers, surrounded by a ring of long white florets, each of which is also a true flower, although they look like petals. They are very hardy flowers and live a long time in water. I once read in a book that the Mar- guerite is the wisest of all flowers. P. H. Martin of the 5th Leyton Com- pany has sent us the following story of the Marguerite. D, Rudyerd-Helpman. Legend of the Marguerite Once upon a time there was an East- ern princess who had always seen only the dark-haired, brown -faced babies of her own country. One day Miftani, her wisest councillor, came to her with the story of a marvellous vision he had had, in which he had seen a little girl -child quite different from any children he had ever seen before. She bad short, curly golden hair, and her face was the color of the most de- licate rose. She wore a most exquisite gown of silver, and her beauty far ex- celled that of -the Princess herself. The Princess, although kind and good, was '1 little annoyed because the wise man had announced the child as being more beautiful than she, who was named by all "Marquita," which means "The most beautiful of Lotus buds." Never could she imagine a. baby with fair hair, or with a rose -pink complexion. Three years later Miftani came once again to the Princess to tell her of a vision. This time he had seen a beau- tiful lady weeping, for the child had died, Now Marquita, like all the peo- ple of her laud, believed that when a mortal died he left his soul in the keeping of a flower, and she at once commanded her slaves to seek for the flower in which was the soul of the beautiful Iittle girl. Again three years passed by and Muftani had a third vision. This time he saw an island in a blue, blue sea; a beautiful island, named England. In its grassy fields fair-haired children played among the flowers, but Miftani noticed only one blossom, in which he knew must be the soul of the little girl, for its centre was the same color as the curly hair, and the silver petals reminded him of the wondrous crown. As soon as she was told, Marquita and all her attendants came to the island. As she was walking slowly through a meadow, the Princess heard a tiny whisper which founded very much like her own name. Bending down, she found the flower she sought at her feet. "Did you call me, little Golden Head," she asked gently. "No, no," answered the dream -child. "I whispered my own name which is Marguerite." "If we let a criminal select his own way to die most of them would choose to die of old age."—Lewis E. Lawes. ♦:. "A man only becomes educated when he knows why things happened' when they did."—Archbishop of York. Economy Corner Ham Baked in Milk Slice of ham 1 inch thick, 1 table- spoon flour, 1 teaspoon brown sugar, 1 cup milk, 9'� cup water. Bake in an oven until ham its tender. Hot Vinegar Will quickly reduce the pain or swelling caused by a sprain or bump. Cold in Chest A flannel dipped in boiling water and sprinkled with turpentine laid on the chest as quickly as possible will re- lieve the most severe cold or hoarse• uess. • Oatmeal Water Put 1 cup of oatmeal in a stone jar; add 1 cup of sugar and the juice and rind of 3 lemons cut thin. Cover with 2 quarts boiling water and let stand until sugar is dissolved and the water is cold. Strain and chill. Good Cure For Colds An excellent cure for cold is to cut up a Spanish oniouin thin slices and between each layer place brown sugar. The syrup resulting from this is of great value to heavy colds. A mixture of turpentine and vaseline. It is invaluable to rub on the chest in treatment of colds. Chopping Walnuts When using walnuts put them on a piece of wax paper and roll them with. rolling pin instead of cutting them up. It is much easier and the wax paper saves the oil in the nuts. . Grows Reverse Migration • Under Stimulus of Light Washington.—Why birds fly north in spring and south in. autumn may be answered as a result of tricking crows into a reverse migration. Dr. William Rowan, of the 'Univer- sity of Alberta, in reporting to the Na- tionaI Academy of Sciences his expeel- ments with crows, says the supposed- ly invariable migratory instinct ap- pears due to some hormone. This is an extremely important chemical sub- stance released in the blood stream by one of the glands of internal secretion which is believed activated by the length of day. Through use of artificial lights he changed the "seasons" for a group of crows so far as day and night were concerned. Released from their spe- cially equipped aviary, the birds, for the most part, took an opposite route from that followed by another group of -crows held captive under natural conditions and set free a few bours earlier. White Signal New Curb On Lightning Damage Schenectady, N.Y.—The latest man- made curb for lightning destruction is a small white signal. It jumps into view on high tension lice towers whenever lightning strikes or when for other reasons the electri- cal power get out of hand and flashes outside insulators: The white target is a signal for a lineman to climb the tower and look for lightning damage. It is operated by instruments capable of measuring in split millionths of a second the ex- tra. surge of power that comes over alone when lightning strikes. Largest Radio Show in Canada Will Be Held September 22 Montreal.—The largest radio show In Canada, the seventh annual radio exhibition, will be held here from Sep- tember 22 - 27, according to a recent announcement made by E. M. Wilcox, manager. Three large halls in the Windsor Motel will be used to display the latest Models of sets, and it is anticipated that, following the experience of pre- vious years, many thousands of people from Montreal and eastern Canada will visit the 'exhibition. As this marks the opening of the radio season in Canada there will be a trae attendance of dealers from On- rite 7. Rneiieo and the Maritime I io- viuces. In view of this several manu- facturers have arranged to hold con- ventions during the exhibition, and one firm has announced that 200 deal- ers will attend the conference they are planning. All the new models of sets, with the improvements effected during the last year, will he on view, and thus the public will be brought up-to-date on the developments in the radio bust - noes, now one of the largest on the continent, since the last radio exhibi- tion. Arrangements have been made for several spoelal features be the man- • neer.cl who thatlr ac st g ffolic :n oi with tinyv bt1 l 0011 - on thee: i entertliuments will be a daily feature, tures of recent mounted police lournam%et The King. in Scotland After holidaying at Cowes, •the King and Queen made their first visit to Scotland in two years. Above—The King stops to chat with Major R. D. Hunter, commander of guard of honor at Ballater station. _Praise He made his little world a place, Where mignonette in. safety grew. He edged the narrow yard with grace, Built shelters for a bird or two. His neighbors knew him as a friend, The children thought him "lots of fun." What more than this at life's louglik Do we repeat of anyone? The needs of life he understood, 1 -re faced the world with smiling eyes. Must one be brilliant to be good? Must one be famous to be wise? - Perhaps man's greatest praise can be, When all the toil of life is done, He loved all things of land and sea And children thought hint "Iots of fun." —Edgar A. Guest. IT IS SAID -- Peach is one of the most popular colors in home furnishings, and it som- bines. beautifully with orchid, reseda green or yellow, and peach and blue is regarded as especially smart. Percale is fast becoming a favorite fabric for summer draperies and is shown in both Iarge and small designs. Brass articles and faucets will look like new if rubbed with vaseline and polished wita a soft cloth. Vitamin B Found . Short In Fruits and Vegetables Berkeley, Celia.—Changing food 1ir.bits of American famil`cs cause the lack of Vitamin B which stunts chil- dren's growth, believes Dr. Agnes Fay Morgan, of the Univei. sity of Califor- nia. Dr. Morgan passed a year in study of diet of undernauris;:ed chil- dren between the ages of eleven and thirteen years. "This change m food habits," .Dr. Morgan nays, °of the American people has in geneeal been looked on as physiologically not injurious, because the supposed increase in the use of milk, fruits and vegetables was thought to overbalance any nutritive loss involved in the substitution of sugar for cereals, and particularly for wheat products. "But the protein content of the aver- age succulent vegetables and fruits is practically negligible as compared with that of cereals, and our work has shown that vitamin B of wheat pro- ducts cannot be replaced by the minute amount of vitamin B in vegetables and fruits." Mistaken Friends How many good but mistaken friends love to tell us what martyrs they are! They are the cause, not the effect, of martyrdom.. English "Bobbies" at Play Two of the North's Five Poles Still Attract the. Explorer Pole of Cold May Be in Siberia --While Greenland May, Prove to Be -Centre of Winds A Canadian flying expedition ha just succeeded in charting with aerie cameras the North Magnetic Pole area which was discovered by Captai ,Tainan Clark Ross in .1831 and relo cated by Captain Roald Amundsen who made extensive observations fro. 1.903 to 1905, just before finding the Northwest Passage. • There are five poles in the Arcti regions to stimulate the imagination of explorers, One is the North Pole visited by Peary, by Byrd and by the Amundsen - Ellsworth • Nobile expedi tion. Another is the Magnetic Pole The third is the Ice Pole, known as the Pole of Inaccessibility unti Amundsen, Ellsworth and Nobile flew over it M the dirigible Norge in 1926 There are also a Wind Pole and the Pole of Cold. The Wind Pole stay possibly be in Greenland, where British and German expeditions are now conducting meteorological observations. The Pole of Cold is still to be located definitely Some of these poles are shifting in character, though they can -be placed fairly well -.upon maps. Of this type are the North Pole and the Magnetic North Pole. The former, at the tip of the axis on. which our earth rotates, moves about in a circle with .a radius of thirty to forty feet. The Magnetic Pole The Magnetic North Pole, which at- tracts the needle of the compass be- cause it is at the axis of the great elec- tric dynamo constituting the earth, moves over a considerable area, slow- ly but measurably over a period of years. The position generally given is near Lat. 70 degrees N., Long, •97 degrees W., on the Canadian mainland at a place called Boothia Felix or Boothia Peninsula. In Summer this is a green and grassy lowland; in Win- ter it is no longer green but has the appearance of a cold prairie. Many ships have visited the region, some coming to grief on jagged rocks just below the surface of the Gulf of Boothia. The Ice Poles, so named. by Amund- sen because the term "Pole of Inac- cessibility" no longer applied when he crossed it by dirigible, lies between the North Pole and the Alaskan shore, forming a rough triangle with that pole and the Magnetic Pole. It ,is at the centre of the great field of float- ing ice, covering 1,000,000 square miles, on which the North Pole lies. Location of Ice Pole s vices fn the Himalaya Mountain* 1 might be the coldest all -year -rounds , spots, ',alley arefareeromthe warm) n ocean and high above it, though not - so very far from the Equator.. If there , I are such. places anywhere near the five -mile altitude on which the the sun never strikes, they are likely to de,. nand strong consideration as the Pole„ e' of Cold and may have a better claim i than either of the Poles lying at sea , level in the Arctic. Or perhaps the Pole of Cold is in Greenland, which may be every bit as . cold in Winter as Verkhovansk. For the greatest Winter cold is produced. by three conditions working together —distance from the Equator, distance from the ocean, and altitude. The pla- teau of Central Greenland answers all of these conditions, whereas the North Polo and the Ice Pole. meet only the first—distance from the Equator. Per- haps -the German and British meteoro- logists now in Greenland may be able w Because the warmth. of the 'Gulf Stream clears the ocean of ice to with- in. 600 or 700 miles of the North Pole on the Norwegian side, the centre of the ice mass—and hence the location of the Ice Pole, is 400 miles away from the North Pole on the Alaskan side. When Amundsen passed over the Ice Pole he saw nothing below him but solid ice, so thickly packed that, not even a rift of water appeared. No man has ever set foot at the Ice Pole. The hardships of reaching it by dog sledge have been considered too great, and the Amundsen party re- ported that the condition of the ice was such as to prevent a landing by either dirigible or plane. Yet, cold as this territory must be in the dead of Winter, explorers clo not believe that the temperature there, or at the North Pole itself, ever falls to the level of 68 degrees below zero, once reached a the village of Glad- stone, near Havre, Mont. To find the pole of cold, therefore, scientists must look elsewhere. In fact, they must have to loolc for two or more cold poles instead of one. One pole of cold—that having the lowest IVinter temperature of which there is record, has been fixed tenta- tively on the mainland of Asia, near the Siberian village of Verkhoyansk, some 1,400 miles from the North, Pole. The coldest Winter temperature that cau ever occur there is something be- tween 90 and 95 degrees beyow zero, while the coldest possible at either the North Pole or the ice Pole is believed to be about 30 degrees warmer. High and Low Temperatures But in Sluniner the temperature at Verkhoyansk sometimes -ises to the 90s, once reaching ,911, with plenty of humidity, and various cereals and vegetables can be cultivated in the re- gion, So if the pole of cold is con- sidered as that place having the lowest Summer temperature or the lowest average teinperature, it must be some- where else upon the map. In this connection it is suggested ,that certain northward -facing preci- to learn definitely whether that ice- bound island contains both the Pole of Cold and the somewhat legendary Pole of Winds. The British expedition is engaged in surveying the ice cap of Greenland, with a view to determining whether it.. would be .possible to use the island as a way station for airships used On the proposed route between Britain and Canada, and the German expedition is also acquiring meteorological data re- lative to flying as well as to storm con- ditions in the transatlantic ship lanes.' By Polo of Winds is meant that centre— if there is only one—where the chill winds of the Northern Hemis- phere originate. Scientists refuse to credit the polar regions with as many, icy blasts as the poets suggest. There is in Greenland, however, a peculiar situation which makes it possible for scientists to discuss whether there is a sort of wind pole there. The island is cold, particularly in the interior, and has a hump on its back near the cen- tre. The air undoubtedly becomes very cold and thin, some experts say. It would, therefore, have a tendency to settle clown upon the dome of interior Greenland aucl flow down -hill in every direction, as water does when poured on an inverted bowl. The result might be that there would usually be little wind near the centre of Greenland's., dome and frequent winds blowing from the interior to the coasts. Such winds, of course, would contribute to the interacting system of winds throughout the Northern Hemisphere and hence would be highly .important to meteorology. Electrical Change Felt Instantly Around World Washington.—A recently observed electrical phenomenon that sweeps the entire world at the same instant be- tween 6 and 8 p.m., Washington time, is described to the American Geophysi- cal Union by Dr, 0. H. Gish, of the Carnegie Institution. It is a change connected with the earth's electrical charge. This charge,' says, Dr. Gish, tends to acquire a high value during the hours named. The cause is not definitely known, but is ascribed to some still "elusive, un- known" factor that maintains the earth charge. Existence of this charge is shown by study of atmospheric electricity. The same studies show that the charge fluctuates and have given some indica- tion of the universal time schedule of these changes. Kitty: "Is this really a five -horse• power boat, Tom?" Tom: "Yes." Kitty: "Well, then, I guess it ought to hold two people." Latest News Printed in Paper While It Is Being Delivered London—Sometbieg new to Lon- doners in the way of fast delivery of late news to readers has been accom- plished by the Louden evening news- papei ,The Star, which is regularly operating a ''Stop Press" printing es- tablishment in its largest delivery van. The equipment comprises a -coax- plots composing frame and type cases, and a suction -fed prinnt.itng machine ••, ,:g.y^v?,.•,::,,R.,.,,.< .,� capable of printing anything up to Za5S three. 30•1ine news items at a speed up to 10;000 copies an bout. ., bt �;. h canes, one of fee- News items are received by radio :1 horse show in England. front the offices of The Star and ate set-up and run off in the so-called blank "fudge columu1' as fast as they are received. The printing can. be done as the:van is •rushing deliveries' to the more distant suburbs, but it is; more customary to install the van! outside big horse -race, football, or ether sports meetings, enabling the' spectators as the meeting breaks upi to buy London papers with the •very] last -second news in thein. The van is also equipped With ai special amplifier and two public ad- dress loud -speakers tlroit Which broadcast microphone announcements can be made.