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Zurich Herald, 1931-08-20, Page 6)NFYSCQUT A number of Lone Scouts were the guests at Camp this sunnier of other Regular 'Proops, and we understand that some wonderful experiences were enjoyed by these lucky Locales, Need- less to say the Lone Scout Depart- ment is profoundly grateful to those troops who took, or offered to take, Monies to Damp with thein. Unfor- tunately the demand was greater than the supply, and many troops who of- fered hospitality were disappointed, but we are grateful just the same. And talking of camp, there are a number of Lone Scouts who find it ab- solutely impossible to get away from their work in the summer time to at- tend a camp, and it has been suggest- ed that some sort of a "Get-to-gether" be arranged for these older fellows later in the fall or even during the win- ter months. 'The possibility of among- ing this has now been greatly facili- tatedby the fact that a suitable loca- tion has been found for such a "Get- to-gether" if sufficient Lorries are in- terested. At Ebor Park, near Brantford, Ont., where the Ontario Giiwell Training Course is held annually, suitable buildiugse have been erected especial- ly designed for functions of this 'sort, and they have been placed at the dis- posal of the Lone Scout Department for a winter camp, and we should be very cosy and comfortable there. What do you think of the idea, Lonies? Would you care to hang up your stockings in the Kikidowigomig or the Caravanserai this Christmas? Write to "Lone E" and let him have your opinion. Lone Scout Question Box Don't forget the Lone Scout Ques- tion Box, which is operated in con- nection with this paper. If you have any querries concerning Scouting sub- jects write to "Lone E," c/o. The Boy Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2. Your questions will be an- swered in these columns. • Canadian National Exhibition This year will be Boy Scout Year! On Saturday, September 12th, there will be a big parade of some 2000 Tor- onto Scouts who will march, in. the afternoon, to the Exhibition grounds, where a Scouting Display will be given at the Grand Stand. Don't miss it, Louies. You will see Bridge Building, Sea Scouting, Tent Pitching, Signalling, Firemanship, etc., and lots of fun as well. Just imagine 2000 Scouts taking part in a gigantic show! For those of you who wish to visit the Exhibition and require accommoda- tion, the Toronto Association has arranged to have a camp at the Exhibition Grounds for the whole period of the Ex., to accommodate you. There will be no charge, and you will just have to find your own food, and bring your own Blankets, Ground Sheet and eating utensils. The Camp will be located just inside the Exhibition Grounds, near the Duf- ferin Street Entrance. This year it is particularly required that Scouts attending the Exhibition shall be properly dressed in Full Scout Uniform, including Shorts. To obtain free admission to the grounds, each Scout must also show his Registration. Card. So hurry up and pass that Ten- derfoot Test. There will be a special Scout Dis- play in the Ontario Government Build- ing, which will include Lone Scouting, and members of the Lone Scout De- partment will be on duty there to wel- come all Lonies who visit the Ex. So don't forget to pay us a visit. This Week's Summer Activity Proficiency Badge How many of you keep bees? Here are the requirements of The Beekeep- er's Badge: Have a knowledge, gained in prac- tice, of 'swarming, hiving, hives and general apiculture, including a know- ledge of the use of artificial combs, etc. Are You a Scout? If not, why not? If you aro between 12 and 18 years of age, and are unable to join a regularly organized Troop of Boy Scouts, write to "The Lone Scout Department, Boy Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2, Ont." They will be pleased to tell you how you ban become a Lone Scout.—Lone E. London Women Favor New Style Chapeau The Second Enipir_l style in hats reign supreme. The' verdict is the result of an analysis following the introduction of the new tricorns, bowlers and pill -box styles of headgear. By actual count over half the wo- men at Lord's attending the Eton and. Harrow cricket matches wore them. During one day nine articles and two editorials about the hats appeared in the seven morning newspapers of Lon- don and three articles and one editor- ial in the three afternoon newspapers of the same day. Since their introduction, 75 per .cent. of the hat advertisements have featured these new models. Men dis- cuss them and women buy them. Walk along Bond Street and eight out of ten women have them. Anywhere in London one may ,ee a tall woman.with a long skinny neck balancing a small straw pill -box ab- surdly on her head, or a short, fat woman, with a neck like a heavyweigh" wrestler wearing a Robin. Hoed felt trimmed with flowing plumes that would make a turkey cock or a pea- cock jealous. A Typewriter for" a Penny A penny -in -the -slot typewriter has now been installed in. Berlin's large department stores. Every hour of the day crowds of business men line up in the queue waiting their turn on the automatic typewriter. It's all very simple. At- tached to the machine is a small meter with a slot which takes the coins. You drop in the equivalent of a penny and start to type. Youcalculate your letter as you go along, for every tap is registered on the little dial of the meter. A thous- and taps—not words—is the limit, and at the thousandth tap the machine locks, refusing to do another word un- til yon insert an. additional coin. A clever invention! But how long Forc I L,c ,arra roves Successful Skillful flying on the part of Lawrence Talbot, had stalled, saved the lives of four passengers at From 500 feet up Talbot made a forced landing. finally rested in a railway right-of-way, after the motor Inglewood, Calif. The aeroplane Africa's First Ocean` Outfitting For To Ocean Railway. School I Dream of Cecil Rhodes,' Ern -1 Winter had come! Work in the fur- pire Builder Now Realized ; t The first train to cross Africa irons ocean to ocean left Lobito, on she west coast, early in July, and ran to Beira,' on the east coast, .a distance of 2,949 miles. It was the first time in the. history of railway development in Africa that a through train was run from ocean to ocean. This train, it is noted, traversed in turn Portu- guese, Belgian, British, and again Portuguese territory. But the whole enterprise is predom- inantly British, claims the London Times, and will always be associated with the names of two men, Cecil. Rhodes and Sir Robert Williams. A expedition—our first visit to town. correspondent of this newspaper ad- Our only carriage was still the him - vises us further: row had ended. The plow was brought in, cleaned and greased to prevent its rusting, and while the horses munched tlieir hay in well-earned holiday, father and. I helped farmer Button husk the lest of his corn. • One night as we were all seated around the kerosene lamp my father said: "Well, Belle, I suppose we'll have to take these young ones down to town and fit 'em out for school." These words, so calmly uttered, filled Our minds with visions of new boots, and, though we went obediently to bed, we hardly slept, so excited were we, and at breakfast next morning not one etas could think of food. All our desires converged upon the wondrous "It was by the decision of CeiYil Rhodes that Beira became the port for Rhodesia; it was Williams who, having convinces himself of the min- eral wealth of Katanga, determined that it should have a direct outlet to the sea by the shortest route—namely, to the west coast through Angola..., "That project has now been rel 1- ized; moreover, since its inception till?. lige ''of perhaps twelve hundred in - highly mineralized belt of country hats habitants, but to ine as we drove down been found to extend south from Kit- its Main Street, it was almost as im- tanga into Northern Rhodesia, and the pressive as: LaCrosse had been. Lobito Say route will thus serve the " L+at',h of us 'soon carried a candy very rich mines now being developed marble iii; his or her cheek (as a chip - in British territory." munit` carries anut), and Frank and I Editorially The Times calls our at- stood like eh rd'y hntching,potts whilst tention to the fact that a remarkable the . storekeeper witll'heavy hands change has collie over this land in a sseewed cotton-plusk cep y. , upon our single generation, and it goes an: ; heads—but the meriteexcitingmonient, "As diamonds drew the railway tine crowuiizg joys of the day, came with from the Cape to Kimberley;' inn' as gold drew the railway on to the Ranthe buying of our new boots. If only (father 'had not insisted on our taking so copper has drawn the railway to those' which were a size too large for the heart of South Central Africa. us!'"Katanga, but yesterday a thousand They sere real boots. No one but miles from anywhere, almost unknown a congressman wore "gaiters" in those to the white man, is now the most :days. War fashions still dominated highly developed province of theaBet- the shoersheps, and high-topped cav- ber wagon, but it had now two spring seats, -one for father, mother and Jes- sie, and one for Harriet, Frank and myself. No one else had anything bet- ter, hence we had no .sense of being pgorly outfitted. We drove away across the frosty prairie toward Osage e --moderately comfortable and per: fectly happy; - Osage was only a little town, a vil- I Man Slowly Dominating , Cola Wastes in. Nott gian Conga airy boots were all but 'universal. They "It has a conside~able white poput;i- m were tion; its mines have already exported kept iu boxes uncles the counter copper to the value of X260,000,000; or ranged in rows on a shelf, and were and in Elisabethville it has an at - The all weights and degrees of fineness. tractive capital which at the moment The Dues I -selected had red tops with is indulging in its first •International a' golden ;noon in the u but my brother's taste ran to bluee t tops dec- Exhrbitien, orated with a golden flag. Ohl that "It was Livingstone who first kepi deliciously oily new smell! My heart glowed every time I looked at mine. I was especially, pleased because they did not have copper toes. Copper toes be- longed' to little boys. A youth who lead plowed seventy acres of land could not reasonably be expected to _dress like a child. . . . How smooth and delightfully stiff they felt on my feet. Theca came our new books, a McGuf- fey reader, a Mitchell geography, a stay's arithmetic and a slate. The economic proposition in itself. books s had a delightful new smell also, "The Cape -to -Cairo line was meant and there was singular charm in the as a backbone from which ribs would later. ` surface of the unmarked extend on either side, ,slates. I was. eager to carve my name "Two years before his death, in the frame. At last with our tree- "Two wrote: `The junctions to the sutes under the seat (so near that we east and west coasts, which. will occur could feel them), and with our slates in the future, will be outlets for the and books in our laps we jolted Home, dreaming of school and'snow. To traffic obtained along' the ^rouse of the ,� • ,� as itpasses through the centre' wade in the drifts with our fine high - line g topped boots was now our . desire.- of Africa.' t Hamelin Garland, in "An Autobiog- "That was written in 1900, the yeat sappy of America," Edited by Mark open the road to the north, and it will the machine. hold. out against the was the reading of entries in Living- thousands of different hands that ham- stone's journal that guided Williams, mer its fragile keys daily?—London as he has himself said, to his discov- ery of the immense mineral wealth along the Congo -Zambezi divide. "Williams was an early associate of Cecil Rhodes, and an ardent "believer in the Cape -to -Cairo railway scheme, "But neither he nor Rhodes was foolish enough to suppose that a rail - "Answers." Professor Piccard Describes Beauties of the Stratosphere Brussels.—Professor Auguste Pic - card, in very simple words, recently described what it was like to float in the stratosphere. He recommended' the airmen present to follow in his steps but not to use balloons, but air- planes with triple motors, which are being built for the purpose of explor- ingthe stratosphere. "Kipfer and I did not even know we had started," said Picard. "Sealed up in our cabin, with a slice of at- mosphere, we were wondering what had happened outside when Kipfer, looking through the glass window at the bottom o the cabin, said, `There's a chimney down there,' and we knew we were off. We were very eomfort- able, seated among our instruments, and before we knew it we had shot fp into the stratosphere' In order to prevent loss ofair when diseharging ballast a tube was fitted to the cabin. It had a tap at either end. The ballast was dropped into the tube, the upper tap turned off, the lower tap opened and the ballast re- leased. This insured very little loss of air. When their instruments showed that they were in the stratosphere, they took their observaions and their photographs. Then they began to think about descending. It was only when they discovered an accident to the valve, of which they had been in happy ignorance, that they realized they must float in the stratosphere, helpless, until the balloon greduai'v deflated though the escape of gas. They immediately rationed their water and oxygen supplies, observing that the extra heat of the suns rays at that altitude was causing the gas to expand and Making' the balloon more •b°:oyant instead of less to. Their airtight cabin was unbearably hot, the top too hot for the touch. Drops of water, from the condensation proeess, they carefully licked from the walls of the cabin, to save their re- maining supply. Little by little their store of oxygen was running out. Looking from the horizontal window they could gauge the rate of the drift of their apparatus by noting the posi- tion of objects on the earth below. Presently they came into the region of high mountains, with peal- stand way from the Cape to Cairo was an 's in which Williams go his firs mineral ing above the clouds. This was ar Van Doren. concession in Kaanga, To -day two scene of indescribable splendor, T ey ol! great `junction' lines are complete and began to regret less the series of as Rhodes foresaw, they are taking to accidents that had led to their mishap. the markets of the world `the traffic Little by little, as the heat of the B.C.mid- day sun decreased, they came nearer earth, but were still in the strato- sphere. The scene was flooded with sunlight and moonlight simultaneous- ly, the peaks of mountains, covered with eternal snow, catching and re- flecting the light, although the earth be,,,,low was in inky blackness. They for- got the difficulty of breathing rationed oxygen, their thirst and their danger, in admiration of the sight, seen for i the first time with human eyes. Presently they saw that they had reached an altitude where they might safely open the window. They took long, deep breaths of ail', Those breaths and the ice cream made later by rubbing orange peel on the glacier ice, were the most wonderful treats they had ever tasted. "1 can't describe the splendors 01 the mountains, seen from the strato- sphere," said Piccal:d. "1 can only. say, go for yourselves and see." Airplanes to explore the strato- sphere were ready at Zurich, he Maidi they only lacked pilots and passengers. Rich Placer Find Reported , eporte in Antarctic Still Has Unexplored Areas, But Its Secrets Are From Air When the Graf Zeppelin recently Josef Land that Nansen wintered, made her trip to the North it was after his !miraculous trip across the, with the intention of surveying more ice from the Frani: accurately than lhalbeen possible Novaya Zembla, further south, is not from ships caught in the ice the un- so difficult to reach, although Barents, known area east of Franz Josef Land, who first wintered there, escaped with writes Russell Owen in The N.Y. great difficulty and died on the jour - Times. For although the probability ney home. It is inhabited by hunters, of there being large unknown. land nearly 200 people living there. Spits - masses in the unexplored region north bergen, of` course, supports the largest of Siberia and Canada is minimized population of the northern islands, by those who have studied the problem its coal mines being profitable, and of drift, there is always the possibility at one time during the height of .'.rc- that new islands may be discovered on tic whaling it had a large settlement the continental shelf. Several sinal! far north of its present northernmost islands were found on the Graf's village. flight, and Northern Land was found to be, as suspected, much larger than its hitherto known boundaries. Despite the many expeditions to the Arctic, the proportion of undiscovered area is still so large that even near the known islands explorers frequent- ly find land which has escaped the eyes of other men. It is ofen difficult to distinguish ice -covered land in the polar regions, and no explorer can regulate the drift of his ship. Only in the air is freedom of movement pos- sible, and even'there vision is hindered by fog. So some land will always escape notice until a lucky man finds it by accident. NORTHERMOST LANDS The lands which approach most closely to the North Pole, which ex- tend x tend furthest into the Arctic Sea, are off the Siberian, Russian and Norwe- gian coasts, Greenland and Canada. Greenland is the only large land mass extending far north, but nearly on a line with the top of it are some of the Canadian islands and, to the east, Spitsbergen, now known as Svalbaci, Franz Josef Land and Northern Land. Between Northern Land and Wrangel Island,. although the continental shelf extends far toward the eightieth par- allel, there is no similar large island or group of islands, except the New Siberian Islands, which are much fur- ther south than the others. This brings the greatest unknown areas on either side of a line from Alaska to the Pole, a line followed a few years journey to the Pole' cut through an - ago by the dirigible Norge. The east - other part of the unknown region. ern'' half of this area was bisected by However, the hope of some large is - Wilkins in his flight from Alaska to. lands persisted until the Norge flew Spitsbergen. On neither of these from the Pole to Alaska and no laid. flights was there any sign of new land was seen. Then Wilkins made his' and it seems' doubtful that there areflight far north from Alaska and on. But perhaps the most interesting of the northern islands are the New Si- berian group. When they were first reached some of them were found to be literally built on the bones of mam- moths and other large prehistoric ani- mals. This was in 1773, and the ivory industry has been carried on there ever since. Some fossilized trees bear- ing leaves and fruit have been found also, giving evidence of a much diff- erent climate at one time; studied in connection with some significant dis- coveries in the Antarctic they have made scientific men wonder if there had not been in past ages a shift in the Poles. Scattered along the edge of the con- tinental shelf between the New Si- berian Islands and Wrangel Island are a number of small islands of no particular importance. There are undoubtedly ohers there also which have not been found, for the shelf is wide at this point and large parts of it have never been reached. All of these islands have their in- terest, but the possibility of a large land in or near the centre of the Arc- tic Sea has held more importance for the explorer. There was ,a time when it was thought that Greenland con- tinued across as a continent to Si- beria or Alaska. Some , peculiarities of drift led to that theory. But when De Long drifted on his fatal expedi- tion across the area where the sup- posed continent was imagined to lie this idea was abandoned. Peary's even small islands in this inaccessible portion of the Arctic Sea. So it can - be seen that the route taken by Dr. 'Ecla-ner'from Franz Jo- sef Land to the east, over a partly explored region, - held the greatest promise.of results. It was also within easy cruising distance for the Graf. Explorers have penetrated this area for hundreds of years, but are always finding something new. It was only in 1913 that Northern Land, which now seems to be larger than Novaya Zernbly, was discovered. Only the eastern cpast line was snapped, and it was believed that a greater terri- tory remained tete found to the north and west than had already been dis- covered before the Zeppelin's cruise. How much was seen of this little known country on the fight has not been definitely reported. CHANGES IN THE MAP Although Franz Josef Land has been known since 1873 and successive expeditions 1'ave outlined most of its islands, it appears that the observers on e th airship have. made a few landing on the ice found an ocean depth of nearly three miles. His next flight from Alaska= to Spitsbergen. eliminated the possibility of land in a section east of the Norse's route. But despite all these journeys, by sea and air, some explorers still cling to . the hope that land may be found out- side the continental shelf in the large expanse which is still unknown. The airplane and airship have done much to reduce the unknown in the Arctic and with their perfection un- doubtedly the blank region now on the map will diminish rapidly. Geo- graphical exploration was a slow pro- cess in the days when men were en- tirely dependent upon ice drift and the strength -of their ships. For al- though the old-time explorers could stay for long periods in the Arctic Sea, after they learned how to pre- vent scurvy, and did detailed scien- tific work which is not possible during the short flights of an airship, there is no doubt that for quick surveys the the latter is incomparably better. Fog y is the greatest obstacle to discovery changes in the map, finding two or from the air, but repeated trips north three new islands and altering the are - bound eventually to uncover all. outlines of others. It was on Franz Arctic secrets. I centre of the open range area as pos- e Wild -Horse Hunt I Bible in an effort to head the prey •4_ �ansae'toward the corrals at the outer mar - la gins, when the animals can usually be roped or run down by relays of fresh Wild horses are being hunted in the r ounts. remote bottoms of Southwestern Arkansas, where 100 square miles of open range country in the meandering valley of the Little Missouri River provide a permanent retreat for an untamed herd. The animals are thought to be the descendants of do- mesticated beasts that were left be- hind by pioneer farmers and timber - men driven out of the area by floods. They have been pursued by occasional parties for a quartet of a century, but are being sought now with increased obtained along the route of the (main ienergy in line with a State-wide cam - Cape -to -Cairo) line.' They are also Victoria. -Discovery of a rich gold paign against carriers and spreaders opening up lands rich in agricultural field at an obscure point tributary to of the deadly fever tick. and mineral possibilities!' - III' "Anything worth catc.i;: .. :. lake?" "Rather. That girl in ,, bathing suit Is worth a niii!ion,'i'ni Ignorance never settles a tit:est:,,.r —Benjamin Disraeli.i, ` ;der of the present hunt is Training Ship Shows Successful Sailings Worcester, S. Af.—The annual re- port of the board of control of the only South African training ship, the General Botha, just issued, shows that during the nine years' work of this ship, nearly 300 cadets have found employment at sea as appren.. tires and otherwise, a Held of occu- pation which. was previously closed ..to South Africa. "We have not had the slightest trouble or complaint Ili regard to any the Finlay River, in the northern part The le< f diem," runs one of the many let- . of British Columbia o was reported to W. A. McDonald, a district agent for the Government Saturday' b;q'" J. B. the United States Bureau of Animal ert received from shipping coin. tines. Plinio, Deputy Minister of Agricul Industries. Aiding him are twenty p ture. range riders of the bureau and a num At a village in the Peace River' ber of sportsmen. Captured wild cbountry last week, Mr. Munro met horses, usually powerful and fleet, can M, C. Brown, veteran prospector, who be trained for saddle use or for farm had just staked claims from which,of claimed imrnedi- work. All those n igi three days,, he took 27 ounces of ately by their captors, are sold by the ioarse gold with the use of a etude bureau to farmers for" a "redemption" Acker made with three poles and a fee of $10 to $25. 'klankct. This gold would be worth Wild -horse hunting is a breath - `hoot 4100, taking sport. Its strategy is based on Brown is now on his way back to the habitual tendency of horses 0 sus ' Claims with several companions evade pursuit by running in circles. ho will also stake claims and spend Dogs are used to spot and trail the winter working with him. j :animals and the pursuers ride horse - Brown declinedto indicate where back, in relays, in art attempt to drive hh d them into rail corrals built before - field y, e la bynd o saying e he Fiala to Finlay hand at creek or trail crossings. The rale down , the Y n frequently requiring sere a long way from 'the river over as many as twelve hard The chases are begun as near the Forks, Ile indicated , that his clanns hunts are log, q y Y hours in the �. difficult to reaeh saddle ',Ind rinci extremely k!l s.ipi ::os mint be bd& packed. "thistle up, Old Man! Remeni- b.:r the world owes.you a living." "t know! but I don't feel liko be- ing Bard on it until after this heat wave."