Zurich Herald, 1932-02-18, Page 6LON I.StOUT
Much interest has been evidenced in , have a number of interesting souvenirs
the new Boy Scout Catalogue of OM-
cial Uniforms and Equipment which
itas just been issued and a copy of
which has been mailed to every Lone
Scout in this province. It is certainly
an attractive publication, and features
a large variety of articles of interest
to Scouts of all ages'.
A notable feature is the remarkable
reduction in the prices of uniforms and
we also notice that there are quite a
number of new books and other items
listed.
Lone Scouts will not and any men-
tion of the special Lone Scout Mauve
Neckerchief in the catalogue as this
color has been reserved for the exclu-
sive use of Lonies in Canada. Wheu
ordering uniform, however, Lone
Scouts should be careful to specify
that they require the "Special Mauve
Lone Scout Neckerchief'."
Sir Ernest Shackleton's Scout
The scientific staff of the Antarctic
research ship Discoverer IL,, now in
the far South Seas, includes J. W. S.
Marr of Aberdeen, a Scout selected to
accompany Sir Ernest Shackleton on
his last expedition to the South Pole
in tb.e Quest. Scout Marr also accom-
panied the Algarson expedition to the
Antarctic, and has since qualified for
several university scientific degrees.
He has made good.
'Many Lone Scouts will envy the op-
portunities which have come to Scout
Marr, and we would remind them that
it was only because he worked hard
to qualify himself as a good All-round
Scout that he was selected in the first
place.
A Cenotaph Flag For New Zealand
A white ensign from the Cenotaph
in Whitehall, London, was presented
to the Scouts of New Zealand by Lord
Baden-Powell, and placed for keeping
in Christ Church Cathedral, Auckland.
A similar flag, presented to Canadian
Scouts at the last world Scout Jam-
boree, occupies an honoured place at
Dominion Scout Headquarters,Ottawa, tamed of how to become a Lone Scout.
Dominion Headquarters at Ottawa —"Lone E"
from Overseas, including a beautiful
Totem Pole, which Lord Baden Powell
presented to the Canadian Contingent
which attended the Jamberee in. Eng-
land in 1929. This totem pole was ou
exhibit at the Scout Booth at the Cana-
dian National Exhibition last summer.
Next World Gathering of Boyhood
The dates for the next world.gather-
ing of Boy Scouts have been an-
nounced as August 1 to 13, of next
year. The jamboree will be held in
Hungary, It is expected that Canada
will be represented by a contingent.
Hobbies
Duriug the winter months it is often
hard for a Lone Scout to find much 'to
do to amuse himself, during spare
time, especially if he is not a member
of a Lone Patrol.
Patrols can organize Winter Hikes,
Ski-ing Parties, Snow Fights and Skat-
ing Sports and have a lot of fun, but it
isn't so interesting to 'do these things
all alone.
We suggest therefore, that all the
Lollies, whether members of Patrols
or not, should have a hobby. You will
find that almost every successful man
has a hobby of some sort or another,
with which to relax his mina, during
his spare moments.
In the winter mouths it is nice to
have an indoor occupation, such as
Fretwork, Wood Carving, Collecting
Stamps es Autographs, etc., making
rugs or bead work, straw plaiting,
etc., some of which hobbies can be
made into very profitable occupations.
A suggestion has been already made
to you that you enter the Fisher Body
Craftsmen's Guild coach building com-
petition,
"Lone E" also has a number of
autographs of famous people, and: for-
eign stamps which we would be glad
to send to any Lone Scouts who apply
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econd Time
Germany's bobsledders had their second serious accident on the
Olympic slide when the fou3'-man team crashed through a :dangerous
zig-zag curve. Captain Gran (at wheel) suffered fractures of shoul-
der, hip and skull and Albert Brehme (standing) injured spine and
skull.
Women's Ability to .Meet
Change Called "Amazing"
New York. — Women are Meeting
every economic ahcljustment demanded
of them with a gallantry and under-
standing as amazing as it is admirable,
Miss Anne Morgan, president of the
American Woman's Assaciatiou, said
in a radio talk over Station. WJZ of.'the
for same, to the Lone Scout Depart- National Broadcasting Company
ment, The Boy Scouts Association, 330 "While they are waiting for the iiew
Bay Street, Toronto 2, from which ad- opportunities which must come," said,
dress, also, full particulars may he ob- Miss Morgan, "they must adapt them-
seves to the needs of the moment. So
we have an actress and a home econo-
Colonization in Quebec
Le Progres du Saguenay, -Chicoutimi
(Ind.): The first phase of the coloniza-
tion movement is ended; the embry-
onic stage has given place to the stage
of adolescence and full development.
We do not think that we are straying
far from the truth when we say that
'.next autumn half of our colonists will
.be able to live comfortably on the re-
' venue of their owu lands. Some of
then. are going to sow 25 40, and 50
bushels of grain; others as much as 75
or S0. Add to this the precious pro-
duce of the garden, the farm -yard, the
spinning wheel and the loom, and you
I will have to admit that these people,
suddenly becoming little kings in their
own domains, would regard it as an in-
sult to accept any of our unemploy-
ment relief money- Are they not bet-
ter= off than the majority of our farm-
ers and practically all of our industrial
workers? Gan one deny that the
scheme has been a great success and
has proved a very practical way of
solving, among other problems, the
terrible gnnstien of unemployment?
African Farmer Trains
Baboons As Farm Hands
Capt Town.—Rivaling the wildest
jungle "yarns" in strangeness comes
the thoroughly authentic news, as told
in the Christian Science Monitor, of
three baboons captured by a farmer
in the Brits district and Put to work
weeding his land.
Baboons abound fu hundreds in the
mou*twin fastnesses along the Maga-
Iiesberg range, and farmers are some-
times obliged to set traps to rid them-
selves of the prowlers. Mr. Jan Engle-
brecht; of Bokfontein, caught three of
the wild creatures at various seasons.
The first of these he called Japie.
By the exercise of the greatest care
and kindness, ;Tapia was soon taught
to lead the oxen on the land, -and later
even was to be seen at the head of his
team walking down the village street.
Some time after, Mr. Englebrecht
caught two young baboons and these,
by the time they reached the age of 12
months, were proficient weeders of
his farm land.
Mr. Englebrecht asserts positively
that Hennie and Kaffer, as he has
named the two baboons, are each of
them equal to three natives for weed-
ing.
It is a comparatively easy matter to
instill knowledge into their small
heads, he affirms, provided.gentleness
and patience are employed. In teach-
ing them to weed, they were taken to
the fields and a particular weed was
pulled up and showed to them. They
would sit with solemn faces watching
the actions of their teachers.
Then the weed would be taken into
their two small hands. It was first
carefully examined, then smelled, and
immediately the willing weeders set to
work to clear the land of that particu-
lar plant.
Their speed and thoroughness are
said to be marvelous. If perchance they
were set to 'work to uproot a particu
larly stubborn patch of grass they
would pitch in. with a will and refuse
to stop until the last vestige of a root
was removed.
Mr. Englebrecht's lonely farm is of-
ten visited by nature scientists, and
other inquiring folk auxiou.s to see and
speak for themselves to this strange
phenomenon.
The Use of Words
The proper force of words lies not
in the words themselves, but in their
application. A word may be a fine -
Sounding word, of an unusual length,.
and very imposing form its learning ,
and novelty; and yet in the connec-
tion in which it is introduced may
be quite pointless and "irrelevant.
It is not pomp or pretension, but the
adaptation of the expression to the
Idea that clinches a writer's mean-
ing; •--as it is not the size or glossi-
ness of the materials, but their be-
iag. fitted each, to its place, that
gives strength to the arch; or as the
pegs and nails are as necessary to
the support of the btiilding as the
larger timbers, and m011
to than tlie.
mere showy, unsubstantial erna-
uteutS.--:Gram "On :Ganiii,lar Style.,"
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Memories of Canada
From a New Year card sent to
former pupils in the Dominion by
Miss Mary Tweedie, Headmistress of
Edinburgh Ladles' College, one of
the twelve British Headmistresses
who toured Canada last summer.We've wandered—here in Europe,
In Norway and in France
In Germany, and Italy
The lands of old romance;
But we never met the vigor
Nor the eager spirit found
That wrapped up round so gaily
On the fair Canadian ground;
The snow Peaked hills and prairies,
The mighty waters' roar
The land of orchard blossom,
And far Vancouver's shore,.
The tall, upstanding forests
And the tales of men of yore.
Fill our hearts with dreams of
beauty
And our minds with nature's lore;
And the people are our kinsmen,
Showing us a kinsmen's love
Which we render in full measure
To that land where still we'd rove.
Edinburgh. —Mary Tweedie.
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Brazil Hopes to Restore
Democratic Rule in Fall
Rio De Janeiro.—After fourteen
months of .a dictatorial government
under Provisional President Getulia
Vargas, Brazilians are hoping to re-
turn to a constitutional regime be-
fore the end, of 1932.
It appears likely that the new en-
rollment of voters and the ,constitu-
tional convention will have passed in
time for the country to return to a
Democratic government en October
24, 1932, two years to a day from
the overthrow of President 1Vash-
ington Luis Pereira de Souza.
'llhe provisional government is
credited with being both idealistic
and •practical. Many economies in
administration 'have been made. Like
other one -crop countries, Brazil has
suffered greatly through the drop in
the world price of coffee, the greater
part of wh'icat is exported to the
United States. This price drop and
the fall in the value of the milreos,
from nine to sixteen to the dollar,
has •affected adversely the intone
not only of the coffee growers but
also of the federal government.
Fossilized. Apples
Unearthed in Alberta
Olds, Alt. --While fossilized palm
leaves ilgs and fig leaves have been
uncovered in southern Alberta, as
proof that around 70,000,000 years ago
this part of the West was a tropical
land where the dinosaurs roamed, yet
it was not until last month that petri-
fied apples have been unearthed,
This discovery was male by a farm-
er digging a Well in the Olds district,
who unearthed petrified apples on a'
petrified branch of the ancient tree.
The Calgary museum. has been Notified i
of the discovery and the well has been
refilled with earth to await further ex-
cavation work by experts illi this;
glitch of research,
mics expert selling books, an art
director acting as companion, a concert
singer teaching French and Spanish
and translating manuscripts for. a pub-
lishing house. Accountants are seae-�
ing as hostesses in tea rooms.
"Many women who had worked up
from stenographers and secretaries to
all sorts of executive and responsible'
positions are returning for the time
being to the typewriter. One member'
has devoted herself with such energy
to her hobby that she has equipped
Herself in the past year to make it her
primary profession."
Women. are making these adjust-
ments for two reasons, according to
Miss Morgan, first, because they need.
the money, and second, because they
know that they must keep themselves
active and interested, so that when the
opportunity comes to return to work
for which they are fitted, they will go
back with the same alertness, energy
and self-respect which previously
made them capable of carrying respon-
sibility.
• Barber -•-• •'1'nr forty-five years
!! old."
• Customer—"How old were you
Teachers Seek World Amity
Mexico City. --The National League
of Schoolmasters has organized an
affiliated association called Fraterni•
dad Internaciotn l to cultivate closer
relations with the schoolmasters of
other countries, especially Hispanic
nations. One will be to combat teach-
ing of history in such a form as to
cultivate international animosity.
when you began to give me this
hair -cut?"
Goats!
I The goat's not my favorite mammal.
;The Gandhi dotes° on it I know;
It's milk is nutritious
And doubtless delicious;
But I don't like the critter's B. O.
—1r, P. in the Boston Transcript.
Looks a Winner
Mrs. Iva Seeley and her lead dog Gripe, who are pai•tiolpettu ;
in the New England sled dog races at New IInmpslhire. -If she wine,
she not take her degs to Lake Plaeld for the Olympic races,
Late t Notes of Seience
New Supply Sources How Infinitesimal is
Measured
Last week came the news that in
"towsagis" the Russians have dis-
coveted a plant which will yield.a rub-
ber -milk with industrial possibilities,
After years of investigation and
study Edison reached the conclusion
that there are at least 1,500 plants
that can be milked for rubber with
some hope of commercial success.
Probably ten times that number of
plants contain gums of some sort.
Considering the fact that the whole
world has been combed for trees, vines
and shrubs that will yield rubber in
commercial quantities and of indus-
trial quality, it seems highly improb-
able that towsagis is a species new to
botany.
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Measuring the infinitesimal
Before the annual meeting of the
American Institute of Electrical En-
gineers, C. W. LaPieree described a
new application of the marvelously
sensitice photo -electric cell. He has
made it the principal element in . an
instrument so sensitive that it can
measure a millionth of an inch.
And: yet Mr. La Pierrie s advice is
positively coarse compared with the
ultra -measurer of Professor R. •Whld-
dington, au English scientist. Imagine
a steel rod one-half an inch in diame-
ter and twelve inches long. Imagine
this rod held horizontally,• with one of
its ends in a vise and a fly on the op-
posite end, The weight of the fl ' will
bend the rod and W.hiddington's elec-
tical instrument can meausre the
amount of the bending, provided that
it is as much as one five-huucired mil-
lionth of an inch.
In automobile building it is an or-
dinary performance to caliper the ten
thousandth part of an inch. In a few
machine shops, where scientific instru-
ments are made. Millionths of an inch
are measured. The Bureau of Stand-
ards has a balance so delicate that the
man who weighs with it must stand at
a distance lest the heat of his body
vitiate the readings. The late Profess-
or Rowland's machine for riling hun-
dreds of thousands of lines on a square
inch of surface to make what is called
a diffraction grating is so delicate that
it must be locked up when it starts
working. The bolometer invented by,
Professor Langley to explore the in-
visible
nvisible infra -red portion of the spec-.
trum is able to detect the heat of a
candle a mile away.
Probably the record for minute mea-
surement is held by Professor Arthur
H. Compton. He has determined the
length of waves in X-rays to the five I.
hundredth part of the diameter of a 1
single atom. This means the hundred!
thousandth part of the millionth of an 1
inch. A double X-ray spectrometer is
to measuring instrument he ubes,
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Again the Cosmic Rays
Before an audience, of a hundred
scientists, among whom was Dr, Ein-
stein, Dr. Millikan at Pasaclena an-
nounced his intention of renewing the
cosmic ray studies that he began ten
years ago. Apparently this investiga-
tion is to be conducted independently
of Dr. Compton's, which is to be world- t
wide in its scope.
Millikan, it will be remembered, be- t
lieves that the cosmic rays result from I
the creation of matter in outer space.
a•. -e +-w see -
It nuist have been a draivatic moment
in Pasadena when he turned to Ein-
stein and acicuo*ledged his debt to
!relativity, According to relativity,
mass and energy are different forme of
the ,same thing. Mass can be convert.
ed into energy. That is what happens
'when hydrogen is changed into helium.
The conversion is not quite complete.
A little mass is left over, and all this,
according to the relativity theory,
must be dissipated as energy. In the
cosmic rays Millikan sees the excess
energy.
Probably this question will never be
settled until somebody actually trans-
forms hydrogen into helium and oh
thins cosmic rays es a by-product.
Meanwhile, Millikan proposes to gath-
1er more evidence to support his views.
'In 1922 he sent up sounding balloons
to nearly ten miles at Belly Field,
Texas—ballons laden with sensitive
instruments that noted the little elec-
tric shocks experienced when they
were exposed to cosmic rays Millikan
was able to show that the higher his
, balloons went the stronger were the
rays. Now he wants to go higher than
Piccard climbed. in his record --break-
ing ascent.
' Just as visible light consists of a
gamut running from violet to red, so
there are cosmic rays of different
"colors." Some of these cosmic ray
"colors" cannot penetrate our atmos-
phere. 33y sending up balloons to
heights of fifteen or twenty miles it
.may be possible to discover them.
They wil lthrow light on the origin of
the rays.
As matters stand, Millikan has made
out a case for his theory. It it can be
' substantiated by still stronger evi-
dence, it will be necessary to rewrite
all the books on physics that have
been printed in the last twenty years.
Should it tura out that matter is in the
process of creation as electrons and
protons coalesce in outer space, all our
beautiful theories of the evolution of
the stars and the universe must be
cast aside for totally new ones.
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How Bright is the Sun?
Our notions of the relative bright-
ness of sun, moon and stars are quali-
tative rather than quantitative. We
know that to us the sun is brighter
than any ether celestial body but not
how much brighter. In the new edition
of its Meteorological Tables just is-
sued by the . Smithsonian Institution,
Dr. Herbert H. Kimball of the Weath-
er Bureau gives the information we
want in terms of foot-candies—the
amount of illumination received front
a standard candle a foot away.
It is not very impressive to learnt.
that the noonday sun has au intensity
of 9,600 foot-candles at the surface of
the earth, that the illumination front
the full moon at its zenith is only two -
hundredths of a foot-candle, and that
starlight amounts to only eight hun-
dred thousandths of a foot-candle. We
aro more reconciled to the figures if
we express them in a different way.
The sun seems to shine more brightly
when we say that it gives. 465,000
imes as much light as the full moon
overhead and that it is 120,000,000
Imes brighter than all the stars on a
fine night. — W. K. In "The N.Y.
Times."
Planning Safety Week;
Has Fewer Accidental Deaths
London—Safety Week will be cele-
brated in London this year from
May 2 to 8. The National Safety
Congress will meet here at the sauce
time.
During the first nine months of
1931 there were 435 fewer deaths
in the corresponding period of 1930,
caused by accidents recorded than
the total number reported being
3,631 against 4,069. The reducing
in the number of deaths was 10 per
cent., while the decrease in the I
amount of traffic on the road was
only 314, per cent,
King George to
_George
Dial Phones
London—King George lras followed
the Prince of Wales as a user of the
dial telephone. St; James's Palace,
where the Prince lives, has already
recently been 'changed over and
from now on Buckingham . Palace
will also have dial telephones, Dur-
ing the absence of the Court from
London, postoftice engineers have
been at Bucldnghain Palace effecting
transformation from the old Victoria
'exchange to the new autos at'e.
Whitehall excite lige. -
Canad Northern Papulation
to its more northerly areas of Can-
ada the white population is, as yet,
;emall, but it is ever in.creasng. Re-
cording to the Department at the Inter-
ior in the areas north of the timber
line are several bands of North Anieri'
ran Indiana, while the islands and
northern coast lines are Che home of
the Canadian Eskimo, 'Within the
N'ort'hwest 'territories the latest cen-
sus shows the population to be roughly
1;000 wohites, 4,500 Liulians, and '7,000
1+lslciinos,
Coffee Beans Transformed
Into Coke in Brazil
1 Rio De Janiero: Tho Brazilian. Gov-
ernment, after having dumped several
I million sacks of inferior .grade coffee
roto the Atlantic Ocean, both here and
let Santos now believes it has found a
medium of use for the bean.
Although experiments with coffee
pressed into briquettes and used as
fuel in locomotives of the national
railways were not successful, it has
now been learned that the same bri-
quettes can be made into fairly com-
bustible coke. Tests made so far with
the coke have been entirely satisfac-
tory, although further experiments
will be made before coffee -coke pro-
cluotiru ou a. levee ;•cam; 1s will be tried.
"That picture is one I painted to
keep the wolf from the door."
"Indeed! Then why don't you
Sang it ou the knob where the wolf
r an see it?" •
lussia Leads World ,
In Sheep Production
Soviet Russia leads the countries of
the world in the number of its sheep.
There are about 124,000,0.00 sheep it
'Russ'ia, Australia, with 105,000,000,
ranks second; United States, with 49,
000,000, third, and Argentina, with 40,
000,000, fourth,
man secaom snakes stoney lest V
his father macre it first,