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Zurich Herald, 1932-01-21, Page 67TH,1HE-L r t..i.e„ »r0N 1SCOUTr tic: ..,,„. - f lie kei ea). 'St, John of Jerusalem Order to Lady Bessboraugh` Loudon -The London Gazette'' re eentl3r announced the appointment' of the Countess of Bessgorough to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem as a' Dame of Grace, The Order of St, John of Jerusalem is conferred for services in the Lone Scouts will be glad to hear that don't like leaky ceilings in their homes cause et humanity throughout„ the a new book has been published by the any more than you do, I British Empire and it is open to both Dominion Headquarters of the Boy. Second, the floor et the house men and women. l Scouts Association with the title of should have some small holes bored in I There are five classes of the or - "Proficiency Badge Reference Book-" it to drain the nest in case rain should der; Bailiffs and Dames Grand It is a handy little volume of 40 be driven in at the entrance. I Cross, Knights and Dames of J n:lice pages, bound in a stout green cover, ' Third, in order to give sufficient and of Grace, Commanders of both and contains the picture and require- depth to the nest and to prevent the sexes, serving brothers and sisters, i ments of each badge. The book is little birds, after they are hatched, The aims and objects of the order made to carry in your pocket, so that from falling out, the hole should be,inolude the maintenance of the St.' 'well above the floor ot the box. John Ophthalmic Hospital at Jeru- it may be studied during your leisure moments. The price is 10c, and copies may be obtained from Lone Scout Headquar- ters. Bird Houses Last week we suggested that the Lonies of this Province should get busy during the winter months and make homes for their feathered friends, and we are therefore publish- ing the following very useful hints on this subject, which have been written by Mr. F. C. Irwin, M.A., the Assistant Provincial Commissioner for Ontario. "Building houses for the birds is great sport, according to two Sas- katchewan boys who built six nesting boxes recently. They found that their camping site was strangely de- serted by the birds which formerly made the days merry with their song berries the birds will come often and and chatter so they decided that some- thing had to bo done to attract them back. They found their inspiration on. page 269 of the Boy Scout "Handbook for Canada." Perhaps you too would find inspiration there if you looked it up and would set to work to build homes for our feathered friends during these long winter months. In building bird houses, however, the following general principles should be kept in mind if the houses are to meet Fourth, some kind of perch or ver- Salem, and the St. John Ambulance andah should be provided at the door) Association and Brigade In Great as au alighting place for the birds Britain and overseas, and the Lon - when flying to the nest. I don Light and Electrical Clinic 'for Fifth, the house must be placed so . the poor. that the cats cannot reach it and also l _______n--- far enough away from houses so that Fl • Fur Trader the birds will not be afraid to use it { ym g for nesting purposes. Covers 2,000 Miles. Feeding the Birds Prince Albert, Sask.—That the In addition to bird houses food tables aeroplane has definitely taken an and drinking dishes can be provided, important place in the fur trade of but like the houses they should be out Northern Canada was shown when of reach of cats and in places where"Del". Simons veteran fur -trader, the birds will not be afraid to go. If took off in a plane with William the drinking dishes are kept full of Broatch at the controls on a 2,000-1 water and the food tables are well sup- mile flight, in the course of which' plied with wheat, screenings, bread •he collected furs at various parts of crumbs, suet, cracked cora and an - the Northland and transported them casional feed of fresh cherries or rasp -to' Winnipeg. Lae de, Brochet and other points in the fur country were touched at in the trip which formerly required ; thirty-six days by antiquated methods of transportation. This year, Simons i colleoted his furs, circled around 1331 Churchill, took the cargo to Winni- peg, peg, and arrived back home with his family in. time for the New Year's' dinner. r under circumstances which will give you splendid opportunities to better your acquaintance with them. A Scout is a friend to animals. Why not be one by starting to be a friend to birds? Look up the requirements of the "Bird Warden's Badge." Then start in at once to qualify for it. You will find it to be a very interesting hobby. For information about the Lone Scouts and particulars of how to join the needs of the tenants for whom them, mite to the Lone Scout Depart - they are being constructed. ment, The Boy Scouts Association, 330 First, the house must have a roof Bay Street, Toronto 2. Full particulars which will shed rain because birds will be gladly sent to you.—"LONE E." Ontario Marsh Lands Reclaimed 7,500 Acres Converted into Workable Soil For Market Gardening Toronto.—A wilderness of marsh may be turned into a veritable gar- den as a result of a project for re- clamation on land recently complet- ed in Ontario. Converting 7,500 acres of marshy ground into work- able orkable soil, the scheme already gives promise of yielding bountiful har- vests. The reclaimed area, situated in the townships of Gwillinbury and and King about 30 miles north of Toronto, is known as the Holland marsh. It drains into the south end of Lake Simcoe. A river valley for a distance of five miles and varying do width from two to three miles, "Buy British" Plan Gains The strongest propaganda effort ever devoted to a peacetime project is apparent in the "Buy British" campaign now sweeping England and A Happy Boy! Junior Ryan all dressed up as an Aztec Indian as he led the band in the Philadelphia Mum- mers' New Year's parade. Continents Float On Molten Rock, Scientist Latest Note Greenland Moving Westward Six Feet a Year, According To Conclusions of Austrian . Geologist Who Perished in .Arctic --Canadian Savants Checking His Claims Ottawa.—Stored away in vaults in at yancouver and Ottawa. Longi. Dominion observatories at Victoria tudal measurements were extended and Ottawa are scientific records that around the world with the aid o1 may prove or disprove some day the beam wireless. The positions of truth of the theory that North America North America, Greenland and other and the other continents are not fixed continents were plotted as minutely or stationary. Dr, Alfred Wegener, as possible. The observations will the Austrian geologist who lost his be repeated in 1933 and again in life in Arctic exploration, laid down 1936, and any variation in the plot - the theory that continents float on a Ings will be noted, By this method sea of molten rock like rafts on a it is hoped to establish the awn, quiet ocean. Canadian scientists hope acy of Dr. Wegener's hypothesis. to supply the facts and figures that The first evidence to substantiate will determine its accuracy. the drifting theory was established Canada is vitally interested in set- in 1907 by J. B. Koch, German ex thing the Wegener theory becauseplover. In 1823-84 years earlier—Sir Greenland is supposed to be the I Edward Sabine, British scientist, "speed king" among the continents, Imade longitudinal observations in crawling westward at a rate esti-I Greenland, but when Koch took mated as high as six miles a year 'similar readiings at the same spot the Meteorological conditions, especially figures did not correspond. The only along the Labrador coast, the Mari- I explanation was that Greenland had time Provinces and the New England , drifted several miles toward North states, would be affected by any • America in the intervening years. • appreciable narrow or lengthen- ; • The basis of the Wegener theory ing of the distance between the two is that all continents formed a solid land masses. mass at one time. They drifted Delicate scientific observations apart many millions of years ago, were made some years ago at the each adopting a nomadic life of its Dominion Government observatories own. Nevada Experiencing — - Low Temperature Weather Canadian Wheat for Britain Reno.—In contrast to the mild tem- Sir Thomas Cuninghame in the Na- peratures of the East, the entire State tional Review (London); Since we are of Nevada has experienced some of the largest absorbers of imported the coldest weather in years lately. wheat, it should be one of the first Reno has had temperatures just above tasks of our new Government to carry the zero mark for the last few weeks. through with Canada some plan of while other cities have reported record mutual exchange concerning the ex - breaking cold. In one night the Hier- change of manufactured goods for cury plunged from zero to 18 degrees i wheat, preferably .on a quota basis. below, then to 23 degrees below the There not seem to be any valid r does the example of Czechoslo- her dominions, Roger Bracken, ex- following day at Elko. port manager for the Millers Falls of Ely has experienced temperatures I vakra should not be followed here, i.e., Company and former president of 8 to 10 degrees below zero, while by prohibiting the import of other the Export Managers' Club of New York, Inc., said here. Mr. Bracken Carson City, the state capital, saw I wbeats until the home production and the thermometer register 10 degrees the Canadian import have been absorb - has been absent on a business trip ,below zero recently for the first time' ed. The sooner some sort of plan of through England and the Continent in five years. I this kind is inaugurated the greater during the last six months. •------- will its effect be upon the foreign "The ,combination of depreciated White -Meat Chicks Raised policy of Russia: _� exchange, high tariffs and intense ByNon-Scratching Rule Propaganda against foreign goods 20,000 -Year-old Relic makes tiie English market a major , Tonawanda, N,Y.—Something new problem for American exporters," he in chicken -raising is to be found on Found in Gravel Pit said. "In some lines of merchan- the farm of W. M. Woodward, who Minneapolis, Minn.—A gravel pit in dise, such as electrical tools and I raises broilers almost free from dark southern Minnesota has given up a equipment, tariffs and exchange dif- meat. A long shed houses between bleached skull of a giant musk ox, ferences, combine to put a 100 per 3,000 and 4,000 chickens of varying , which lends support to the theory that cent premium on Amercan products. ages. The pens • are built one •on the arctic tundra once lay over this re - When this handicap is coupled with top of another to the roof. Each pen 1 gion. the growing prejudice against for- has a false floor of ohicken wire two I Mr. W. E. Neuman of Preston, Minn., eign products the difficulty of re- inches above the actual floor. The discovered the skull, almost complete, ' ohicken's feet never touch ground ,in an outwash of an ancient glacier. until it is at least three months old. He believed it to be a queer rock for - The building is heated by stoves. 1 motion and forwarded it to the uni- Because the chickens cannot versity, where it was identified. The scratch and buttermilk constitutes 1 skull was estimated to be 20,000 years 20 per cent of their feed, there is' old, - The Sovereign Poet He sits above the clang and dust of Time, With the world's secret trembling on his lip. He asks not converse nor compan- ionship In the cold starlight where thou caust not climb. •comprises the drained land. taming a foothold in what was once Commenced in. 1915 by the munici- a major market for our goods can pality of Gwillimbury West on peti- be imagined." tion. of land owners in the district, ,—_— the project was only completed in 1930. Some 200 acres has already Unseasonable Thaw Puts been developed, however. The land has been devoted to market garden- ing. W. H. Day, former professor at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, who owns 37 acres, reports ,he secured a yield of approximately $700 an acre in the first year of oul- itivation. Lettuce and celery proved especially profitable. Part of the de - The undelivered tidings Suffer him not to rest. He sees afar the throng, And binds the scattered a song.... William Watson, in Poems." veloped area is being worked by a ber, melted rapidly, making the going group of Dutch farmers and real- slushy for pedestrians, who found dents of the nearby village of Brad furs and other heavy clothing uncom- fortable. , Drainage methods employed stamp( When the picturesque Tzvostchik, or the scheme 'as unique in Ontario. oA I droshky cabbie, brings out his sled canal, varying in width from 40 to I hitched to a horse, and puts away his 70 feet, was dredged out around the I wheeled conveyance, it is always a edge of the valley, the excavated 1111 signthat the longRussian winter has earth forming a dyke to prevent the area i come to stay and this is the first time water from seeping into the in several years he has been fooled. enclosed by the canal. The river I and smaller streams flowing into the ----- —.e. ---.— Moscow BacWheels almost no muscular develop Britain and the Dominions Windsor Border Cities Star (Ind.) : The great governing genius of Britain has had no finer, no more striking, de- monstration than is to be found in the official attitude in London toward the political development of the Domin- ions. The British Commonwealth of Natiens is held together not by force nor authority, but by ties ot mutual un- derstanding, mutual respect and ad-. miration, mutual interest and, of course, the earlier factors of race and language. Back on S 1 a ,rmoshe meat i almost entirely in his breast immemorable ages with "Collected s white 1 "Mechanical equipment should create, Moscow.—Droshky drivers, who and tender even on the legs and opporttmity for leisure not unemploy- have had their sleighs on the streets joints. ment."—William Green. of Moscow since December 1, had to substitute wheels for runners because of an unseasonable warm spell. With the mercury several degrees above freezing, the snow, which had covered the streets since mid-Novem- marsh were diverted into the canal To prevent Lake Simcoe from back- ing up and flooding the reclaimed area at high water, a dam was built where the canals met a few miles above the lake. To complete drain- age two pumps, each with a capa- city of 20,000 gallons a minute, were installed at the dam, taking care of precipitation in the reclaimed sec- tion. Similar schemes in other parts of the province, according to Prof. Day, who has been interested in the geheine since its inception, have all bees accomplished without building age Is usually handled by pumps, (tions representing listeners. he explained. The marsh is historic ground. The river .Well flows through. it was followed by Indians on their way to the long overland portage from Lake Simcoe to the trading post which is now Toronto two and three cen- turies ago. drainage canals. Incoming Arain- Radio Control in N.Z. Auckland, N.Z.—The new plan for transferring control of the main 'broadcasting services in New Zea- land from private hands to the State took final shape in the past session. The Government'% Broadcasting Bill, as passed, provides that the system shall be managed by a board of three members, assisted by an adviis'orY council of eight members, five from the North and three from the South Island, to be appointed by the Post - maser -General. These eight members will be chosen from nominees of organize. Silent "Talkies" Used to Help Deaf Learn to "Hear" With Eye Silent "talkies" are being made for the deaf and hard of hearing to teach them to "hear" with their eyes, says "Popular Mechanics Maga- zine." Lip motions and other facial Self-denial and self-control are the movements, together with body gee• necessary postulates of all moral ex- tures,are,emphasized in the silent cellence. A span. who will take the "talkes" in order that lily reading 'World easily will never take it grandly. and interpretation of other motions To lie in the lap of luxury May be the may be easier. elft of which a feeble i chic $tate University is egperi- Miss Stephanie iVlellarrue is sliowlr here wearing one of the r .. highest r is ca hi form 'of motion oliaraeter is capable. but a strong mien meeting with t a l ,urilanna handkerchiefs so popular oil's year clown where the It tl: r must have something rlifiieuit to de.�-• l picture with a viaw to aiding deaf trees grove. John Stuart xllalkie I' students in their college coursed. A '32 Beach Note . eneetne A Famous Rendezvous One of Berlin's historic waymarks has become a memory, according to a correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor. Cafe Bauer. the. corner house of Unter den Linden and Friedrichstrasse, was for many years the place of meeting for dis- tinguished Berliners and their friends, and no foreign visitor to the German capital would have omit. ted Cafe Bauer from his program of sight-seeing. It was built some sixty years ago by a Vienna cook, Bauer. He determined to introduce the "Vienna Cafe"—a type then little known.—to Berlin, and he did so with unqualified success. He had the temerity to appeal to a famous painter, Anton von. Werner, to de- corate the walls with his brush and his request was compiled with. All the world flocked to Cafe Bauer to see the beautiful frescoes, to meet friends and enjoy the Vienna confec- tionery. One of the most regular visitors was Adolf von Menzel, popu- tarly known as the Little Excellency; others were Adalbert Matkowsky, the former Kaiser's favorite actor, Paul Lindau, Hermann Sudermann, Ernst von Wildenbruch .and other literary notabilities, as well as many leading diplomatists. Atter its more bril- liant period, Cafe Bauer changed hands during the war, but managed to exist until recently. Anton von Werner's mural paintings have long been transferred. to Hotel Bristol and have been excellently restored. Women of India Calcutta.—The Ail -India Women's Conference on. Educational and Soc- ial Questions opened at Madras on Dec. 28. Mrs. P. K. Ray of Cal- cutta, president of the organization, urged the remodeling of Indian homes in order to "produce a real type of womanhood that will be a , found growing on a tree in California. glory to our country in the future." I However, the tree is a rare specimen It was stated that he provincial legis- and the United States Department of latures opposed the reserving of I Agriculture wares that there is little special seats for women When the chance of the pink lemonade industry legislatures are remodeled. switching to the new lemons for raw material. Pink lemons were first exhibited at Brazil's Area the National Orange. Show this year. Calculated Anew They came from a tree in Burbank, and so far as known the tree is a bud sport (or freak) of the variegated Eureka lemon, which was developed from a limb variation of the Eureka Pink Lemons Now Grown New York.—Pink lemons have been Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.—The total area of Brazil is now calculated at 8.494,299 square kilometers. It is larger than the whole European eon- lemon, discovered in 1911. The vane tinent, excluding a part of Russia, and it is the fifth country in the world as gatedEureka lemon trees are not as far as size is concerned. Brazil is 250,- pr gets ala the smal l own Eureka chlem, 000 square miles larger than . the fly United States, not including Alaska for ornamental purposes. and' other possessions. Animal Facts All spiders are short-siglited. Owls have two pairs • of eyelids. A blackbird bathes at least a dozen tons. To -day the United States has a times a day. fleet of 1,173,000 tone and spends $332, - The goldfish is merely a domesti- 000,000 a year on it, whereas Great cated variety of the Chinese carp. Britain has a fleet of 1,378,000 tons, Geese are used as watchdogs around costing $271,000,000 h year. In other homes in the West Indies. words, the United :States is spending Rhinoceros herds use the same 187 per cent. more yearly on naval paths. If your camp is pitched on one cost, nearly three times as much as she you'll find out, did in 1913, whereas Britain is spend - The male cardinal is the most enc.. Ing but 10 per cent. more. Combining tionate of birds. Only death or cap- army, navy and air defence cost, the 1. tivity can separate it from its mate. United States last year spent $842i A gun fired close to the ear of a 000,000; the British Empire but $560,. sloth will not cause the slightest tre- 000,000. "While'otlier. nations have '.mor in that creature's body.—"Animal felt that they were forced to prepare for war," declared President Coolidge in a Memorial Day address, 'we have always been preparing for peace." ' Defence Costs Ottawa Journal (Cons): In 1913 the United States had a fleet of 963,000 tons, Great Britain a fleet of 2,222,000 Life." Pressing the Point 1 McTavish was very shy. When he .vent to his first dinner party he made :retitle efforts to begin a conversation with the woman at his elbow, but it • Declares Engines Alone Prevent 1,000.Mi. Speed London, --If man will but build ar, wasn't until a full ten minutes had _n ,gine powerful enough there is no• gassed that he managed to utter the • thing to keep him from flying at a opening words "Does your brother speed of 1,000 miles an hour, believes ,ike cheese?" I squadron leader A. H. Orlebar, cap- She turned with a smile and re- tain of the Schneider Clip team, mem- • lied: "1 haven't a brother.' 1 be of which have already flown it Dead silence for another spall, excess of 400 utiles an Neer: Then he said: "If you had a brotherP/l+ lying at hili speeds is a to you think he'd—he'd like cheese?" per- fectly wonderful sensation," he said —'�• "But there is really no big thrill Irak Postpones New Currency There is a much bigger thrill in to, Bagdad.---••Irak has postponed intro- bogganning or .skiing. duction of its new currency, which was "1f somebody will design the en, to have been issued January 1, The gines there is nothing in the hunts Y money will be based on the pound element to. prevent airplanes reaching sterling, but not on gold. a speed of 1,000 miles an hour."