Zurich Herald, 1923-04-19, Page 3Good Building Prospects for 1923 .-,A11I% THE WORST IS YET TO COME
Everything points to, the year 1923 gineeringg ,construction: , ...
The sumo'
total was divided over: the Dominion
as follows,; Maritime Provinces•, $11,
of coriterzzplated projects announced 154,000; Quebec, $1.03,29X,800 Ontario,,
Pro -
at "even this early stage is a tenishing y$166,6e8,000;u$,'and the V leaden Pro-
� v noes, $50,770,000, The Leading city ,.
and quite beyond the' ordinary level of in construction accomplished in 1922
Canadian building, This follows upon was Toronto, which alone accounted
d g,
a year which saw a most pronounced for a tenth' of the Dominion aggregate.
'revival of building in the Dominion Montreal, which in the previous year
and marked 1922 as an outstanding was on a practical parity with the
year in this regard,.. The impressive Queen City, fell behind in 1922, through
Total of oonstrucbion in Canada last maintaining the seemed place: ' Follorw.
year has been exceeded only three ing in order were Vancouver, Winne
times in Canadian history.
peg, Ottawa, Hamilton, Quebec, Wind-
Tlro value of, construction contracts sor,, :L.on4Pon, Edmonton, Calgary,See-
awarded in Canada in 1922 was $331,-1ka,toen, Halifax and Victoria.
643,800 compared with $240,133,300 fn It'`i s doubtful if any phase of Cana
1921, an increase far the twelve dean industry in 1922 can record so
months, of 29.5 per cent, Tbe extent gratifying an achievement as building,
to which buildingconstruction hat re- and .one 1ras to go back to the pros-
, zii. Canada since the terminationparouspre-wear years, 1911-1913, to find
of the war is to be seen from a cam- a parallel. During the year labor, ea/pi-
pet-leen of ;the figures of immediately tal and markets were all factors , in
previous years, Total value of con- contributing to healthy and sustained
:struction in Canada in 1918 was $99, 'activity, and the promise of an even
842,100. In 1919 it amounted to only Larger expansion to follow in 1923 is
$19,028,300 and in 1920 to $255,605,500. trustworthy. The month of December
The amount of work undertaken last gave birth to $52,472,400 worth of
year shows an increase of more than fresh projects•, the largest monthly ag-
sixteen per cent, over that done in the gregate since April, 1913: This is snif-
fiest year following the war. Relent indication of what 1923 will ac -
Of the total value of 1922 construe- .,00mplish, and using building construc-
tion, $104,201,5.00 was accounted for in: tion as the Palely accurate -barometer
residential.. erections, $81,385,700 in it generally proves to _be, there is an
busdnese establ1shnents•, $25,755,800 in augury fornCanadian industrial de-
industrial work, and $120,500.,800 in en- velopment in general.
dieing en exceptioaal•gns+,Rar heading
cone.truction _in Canada. The number
Scientist Finds the Origin
of Coal.
Prof. Barton Scammell, President of
the Radium Institute at Dover, asserts'
that he has disoovered.. the origin of
coal. He has been engaged in re-
search work with lava from ` Mount
Vesuviuswhich is being used as fer-
tilizer, and says this led to the dis-
covery that the layere of "bind"—the
Mysterious sub'stfince`found on the top
and bottom of, all coal seams—are
identical in analysis with lava.
The., bind contains lime, iron, mag-
nesium, potash and other elements, re-
, <mired
e-wguired by plant lite, and, when made
radioactive with solutions of radio
phosphate of potash, it absorbs nitro-
gen from tee air and forms a perfect
fertilizer.
The origin of coal is thus explained
by Prof. Scammell. It is. a cellulose of
trees and vegetable matter, 'carbonized
by hot lava, thus forming coal, and
sunk into the depths of the earth by
disturbances of the earth's crust et a
remote period •
He claims that •conversion of the
bind, now a waste product, iiito feie.
tlizer, will enrich the •mining and ag-
ricultural industries.
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taill`1lS •
High Speed.
Georges Barbot, winner of the glid •.
ing competition at Biskra, -made four
flights recently at Toulouse in a glider
fitted with a seven -horsepower auxili-
ary motor:
According to Rene Quinton, Presi-
dent of the National Aeronautical
League, who has received a personal
account of the feat, Barbot attained a
- speed of 90 kilometres per thour, which
makes his performance- unique. Ac-
cording to a noted French aeronautical ; t
authority, Barbot's glider has a sen-'
sationalip flying range of 2,500 metres,
and could travel 1,000 kilometres on
20 litres of gas.
"We are moving by great strides to -
Ward eoonomfca14 flying," Quinton de-
clared. "Air navigation, which is• most
costly at present, is a xtering a new
era, toward which -we have been striv-
ing. It is going to become what the
flight of -the bird now is—tilt mode of
locomotion Ieast costly in effort."
Barliot's accomplishment frees glid-
ing from the handicap of hillside take-
offs, which has restricted experiments
to a few localities. '
Humility.
The bird that soars- on highest wing,
Builds on the ground her Lowly nest;
'And she that doth most sweetly sing
Sings in the shade,where all things
rest; •
in lark and nightingale we see
What honor !hath humility,
When Mary chose the better part,
She meekly sat at Jesus' feet;
And Lydia's gently opened _heart
Was made for God's awn temple
meet;
Fairest and best adored is she
Whose clothing is ehnrmility, .
The saint that wears. heaven's 'bright
oar crown
In deepest adoration bends;
The weight of glory bows' him down
Then most, when most his soul as-
cends•;
Nearest the throne itself must be -
The footstool, of hurillty.
:James a antgomery.
' Her Father's Ha
nds.
Two Men met on the sidewalk. One
was wanking •;slowly and thoughtfully,
homeward. The other, who was, on leis
way down. own,' pushed a baby carria
in' which wase'en iritant girl. Th
spoke pleasantly in gasseing, and ea
said a word, or two about the baby(
As they parted' the one who walked
alone carried a picture in, his mind
that stared with hint all the evening,
and a lesson that remained to the end
of his days. The baby as sale lay in
her carriage was Booking up, not into
her father's face, for that was too far
away ' and slue wasp not old enough to
focus her eyes to sea well, but at her
ather'is• brands, en the handle of the
carriage, She was watching them in-
ently and seemed greatly interested
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What the Old Squaw' Knew.
A bear is afraid in the dark! The
old squaw knew it and acted accord-
ingly She wanted bear for supper, accord -
With ter brine on aur .carless lips,
and she got it How she succeeded. From her grasp we have laughed us
Mr, Arthur Homing tells in the World's flies
Work. His. story is notable among When she raged for her tithe of
sieve;
Winds of Home.
We Lave gone down to the sea
those that tell of the clever ways in
which• man has outwitted bruin,
The Indian woman and her eight-
year-old daughter, he writes, • were
gathering moss on the shore of Great
Slave Lake, when the mother, observ-
ing a clump of ,gnarled spruces not far
off, sent the little girl, there to see
whethier she could find _berries. The'
eblbd, found instead a round hole that
led into a cavern beneath the roots of
the trees, which stood upon a little
knoll. She called tri her mother to
come and see it.
On kneeling and. peering within the
mother discovered a bear. Turnieg
swiftly round, sihre sat down in such a
way that heir` lady oompletely blocked
the :hole and, shut out all light, 'Then
slue sent her child ion the run, for camp
to fetch her father with his', gun.
To anyone not versed in woodcraft
go the squaw would. seem to be :extraor-
ey dinarny" brave; but bravery :.did` not
ch
Grazing Leases.
It has been decided to grant grazing
leases of vacant Dominion lands unfit 0
for agricultural purposes he the Pro- w]
vinces cf Manitoba, Saskatchewan and ab
Alberta•and which are encumbered by 10
seed grain and. relief indebtedness, on s
the condition that the lease will con- n
tain a clause to the effect that it may I
be cancelled on one year's notice. The 1
applicant, However, is giver the option th
of paying the indebtedness and obtain- to
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n their movements. And as she
watched sae lay in quiet peace. Those
were the hands that protected her,
that lifted - •and carried her, that
brought her what she longed for;
those were the bands that expressed
tender, loving care,
"She looks up at`her father's. hands,
thought the mean, "and is at peace
though she sees nothing else. Why
I wonder, do I not do that 7 I am s
troubled many times because I camiot
see God more plainly. • I look, but ani
unable to look into his. fade. The eyes
of my faith are too weak. Could not
I, then, like. that little one, learn con-
tentment in watching the Heavenly
Father's l ?
,
enter into the act. The woman knew
bears; that is. all, She knew that. so
long as all light was blocked from, the
hole the creature would lie still.
When the father arrived he shot the
bear—and a big fellow he was!
"Every little helps" is a proverb,
and not an excuse for meanness.
Unmoved at .the feet of death
We have fought her seething foam;
But now we choke with the quick -
drawn breath,
We are rounding in towards homer
There's a light of gold in the southern
sky,
And the luring spice winds croon,
From lands in a zone of sun that lie
In a golden afternoon;
But afar and away where the gray
clouds frown
There's harbor for sails that roam;
And' sweeter than song the gulls
• scream down
The brine -burned winds of home,
-Edit; Parte Dickens..
Eggs and Wayfight,
Bird which habitually lay their eggs
in t11-�dark produce eggs that show an
-Mee ce of • pigment whil thos -that
e pig e e
lay their eggs in exposed places usual-
ly produce • eggs whish harmonize in
some measure with their surroundings,
U.S. Eats to Sugar Record.
With a per capita consumption of
102 pounds' the American people made
a world record as sugar eaters last
year.
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%p and Paper Progress in Newfoundland
According to tae terms .of an age
znent nta'ted to have beau reached
tween the Government of Newtown
land, the. Trades' Fapalitiee Board
the l3ritisiz Coveenment and influent
Britisile business interests, Newfou
land is to have a large pulp and. pap
plant which in proportions and eapac
ty wild rival that erected some yea
ago by the Harmsworth interests. A
cording .to advices froze England whi lr
have been substantiated by the Angl
Newfoundland Development Co., Ltd
of Grand Falls', the British Gover
offered to guarantee .bon.
to the extent of $10,000.,000 upon th
proviso that the Government of New
PPoundiand „guarantees a like mon
but what conditions are attached
e
the guarantees have, nut bean mad
public.
The schieme talked" of provides fo
the establishment of a paper mill o
400 tons daily capacity with surplu
for the aluminum industry, T
projected work, which will give em
ployment to a large number of men
consists in ralsinig the waters of Gran
Lake about 30 feat, and as the lak
hes a surface of 56 miles by 3 th
s�horage by darn thus developed will bh
considerable, From Grand Lake t
water will be carried fora distance.
73' milee .through a canal .to Dee
Lake with a head of 175 feet. From
the preposed mill site at the head o
Deer Lake, the manufactured pape
will presumably be shaped at Humber
mouth, Bay of Islands, -via a railroad
haul of 28 miles. On the other hand
the mill may be erected at Humber
mouth on tide water and the power
transmitted from Deer Lake to that
paint. The Reid Newfoundland Com
party arePsaid to be putting their tim-
ber limits into the scheme.
Newfoundland has large areas of
black spruce and other timber emin-
ee entity. suitable for manufacture of pull'
be' ! and paper,' amid these area are provw
d-; ing very attractive to- l0uropean de -
of ' velopens�, The pioneer of the industry'
Tal • .n the island was Lord l�Tortholiffe's
nti- company, the Anglo -Newfoundland De-
er vedopmeat Company,, whose plant was
i- established at Grand Falls. In 1909.
rs The cost of the installation of this
0- plant wase about $6,000.000; it has 'a
c permanent plant staff averaging 600 men
o- and a winter logging staff of 1,500
men; about 120,000 cords of pulpwood
rn- are cut eaoh winter. The Grand Falls
de mills leave, slam 1909, provided the
e paper for all the Nort'h'cliffe publica-
- tions in England.
t, Considetable development followed
to in the wake of the entry of the North -
e
c1ifie company any into.the. Newfoundland,
pulp field, A Norwegian company come
✓ plated a plant for the manufacture 0f
1 . sulphi'te pulp at a, cost of $2,500,000.
us Another company with 820 square
Th
miles of timber limits, is operating
- , milts at Bishop Fails, The output of
, • the plant at Grand Falls' is 200 tons of
d pulp per day, .:whilst, according to
e plans, that of the new company on the
e Humber River will be about half as
e much again, The annual value of pulp
e and paper experts frons Newfopndland
of exceeds $5,000,000,
✓ Under Newfoundland law the export
of unmanufactured pulpwood is pro-
f hibited, •and 'from tilzis basis, the thriv-
✓ ing pulp and paper industry of the is-
- land has been built up. In the last
decade there has been a gratifying de-
velopment in the industry, which will
- be oaneiderably enhanced by the new
establishment, but there is, neverthe-
less,room for muohgreater exploitation
- and 'the introduction of many more
such plants, the es'tablishmen't of
Which( is encouraged and assisted in
every, possible way by the island gov-
ernment
An Ancient Sacred Song.
No choir singer nor any lover of
church music tires of the "Te Daum
Laudamus" music. In answer ,to, an in-
quiry about this music, the Musical
Courier says: "The Te Deum Laud
amus dates from A.D. 600, and Nicolas,
Bishop of Remisinia, in Dacia, is. said
to ee responsible for it. It is said that
the greatest of the settings. for it have
been composed in England The earli-
est one was written by Purcell for St.
Cecilia's Day, 1694. His church music
shows the original. melodist.' In 1847
there was a revised publication of this
Te Deum, which appeared as• an Ode
for. St, Cecilia's Day.
"Dr. Blow was. another Englishman.
Who wrote church music, and he also
composed an Ode for St. Cecilia's• Day;
he was organist in Westminster Ale
bey, wrote a Te Deum for the same in-
strument.' The first sacred music- that
Handel composed to English words
was the Utrecht Te Deum, the Mss•, of
which is dated January 14, 1712. There
have been a multiplicity of Te Deums
written."
If you wish to accomplish great
things, busy yourself with what the.
mediocre refer to as "mere details."
Achievements That Helped Man
To Live.
BY RANSOME SUTTON
Reviewing the works of the world
is quite apparent that mankind has no
_ progressed uniformly; that many co
°
Tessa' mistakes have been made, an
that the progress of the races may b
likened to the progress of an indivfd
may who goes forward two steps
themtakes one step back. Nations, as
I well ie . individuals, have embarked on
I disastrous enterprises which sapped
s their resources -and left them, like Ger-
many to -clay, exposed to their enemies.
The energies of whole peoples leave
frequently been misdirected. What
good, for example, has mankind de-
, rived from the Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World, upon which so much
labor was expended? Until Egypt be
gear building the Pyramids the Egyp-
tans were making rapid strides to-
ward civilization. If tiheir toil had
gone into dams and irrigation systems
their 'descendants would not now b
dependent on other peopies, It is
plain, therefore, that the work of the
Pharaohs was misdirected.
Value of Human Achievements,
Histoa'y teaches one lesson very
plainly—human achievements, wheth-
er in the form of constitutions, or
it tools, rather than their use, that dis-
t tinguishes man. Language cannot :be
1- regarded as the test, for many kinds
d of animals rave ways and means of
e communicating with one another. R.
- L. Garner; who spent 120 days in a
and •Cage in an African jungle, claims to
have learned chimpanzee. He also
Cale -red to be able to exchange pr^imi-
tive ideas with monkeys, in the zoo.
Are not the clucks of a hen real words
to her chicks.? If language were the
test teeny kinds of mammals would be
men; And if the use of tools were tine
test trained epes which use saws'and
hammers^ would be men. No kind of
Creature but.roan, however, exercises
invention, and because of hie inven-
tion man has civilized himself.
The first epoch making achievement
of mankind probably was- the shaping
of a stick into a club, To do that
e would involve invention. Wild apes
are said to us•e sticks and stones but
they: do not shape thein; they use
them_ exactly as picked up iu emergen-
cies.. -
To grab up a stick and use it agaiast
a beast is very different front the act
of preparing the stick before the at-
tack in artier that it may be used ef-
ficiently. To grab up and, ttee a stick
results from an itzipulse; to fashion a
club eitpressee an•idea in wood. I3e-.
ands , Tlrey are the hand
throat protect me, that lift and carry me
ver the hard places, that,,;bring me
rat I meed;• they are the jia.nds• that
•ow the Heavenly- Father's tender,
vdng care. Yee, but those hands
ioinetimes carry me whi"thser I woeld
at go; they sometimes bring me what
do not want. But are they any the
e:ss •the halide, of a loving Father? Do
ey not just as perfectly e�tpress the
ve of tee Path,er's hear
ing a lease without this concellation
clause. ' Formerly applicants were re-
quired to pay the indebtedness before
obtaining leases,
Discretion.
Who seeks,to pluck, an apple hanging
high 111
Keepe both hands free and lets• the
windfalls lie,
Noa-a, R. Cunningham.
.they
ring•eorrow as when they bring plea-.
ure? Sorely, for 'whore .the Lord
la • He chasteneth.' Yes, they are
e hands of love, and I will learn' 'in
•erytbing to give thanks; for- this is
e will of God in Christ Jesus• con-
erning me, I will keep my, eyes on
yFather•e hands and be at peace."
The Walking -Stick Barometer.
A weatherwise old gentleman whom
the London Morning Pot quotes says;
"In my hall stand area cherry -wood
stick and an umbrella, Every more,
ing when leaving home I put my hand
on the cherry ,stick. If it's dry I' take
it with ine. If it's cold and damp I
take the tenbrella." And the test Is
usually dependable.
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Experience,
hey "Ii you've'never' been in novo
before; hew ie it you're so clever at
it?"
Ile----" I spent an afternoon witb. a
widow feet summer at the seasbore,"
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Regulates Power,
Two .Englishmen have invented an
electro -magnetic clutch to ahtomati-
ra11y .regulate the el'eetrfcat output of
a generator or the driving power of a
tno
r=urnecos Alight 250 Years.
After being -alight for nearly 250,
years, the furnaces at a i'artiorzs'gla:sis
works near London have been extin-
giilslied,' as the factory i,s being re -
Vaned.
books, or battleships, or parthrenons,
must be valued ultimately by the char-
acter of the Influence they evas t oar
the minds and habits of mankind,
Hence efforts are misdirected and
all works, however .stupendous, are
wortibless unless; they tend .to inot-ease
hwnan effleiextcy.
The really great aehieveineuts which
revolutionized the oharacter of man-
kind and tnad•e civilization what it is
have not been numerous•; they can all
be counted on our fingers, Nor were
they "b,peotaeular performances; tbrey
attracted little attention at first. But
they changed Man from a savage into
a tul,turee civillau, These achieve-
melrts grew largely otit of the facility
of invention.
What bistillgulshes Mart.
it his. been said that men differs
front other atilt -eels in fact he nsos
tools- Ilaelr of tete tools,, lrowover, ]fes
invention; so it is. the Invention of the
" Cave Country Gossip.
Bliss Painted .Ilatr---" lave Yeti beard
about Sadie Saberto0th's engagement
to young Meltiskins?"
Miss Iiewskins•---"There's nothing in
it, ''Fier mother gave her that bump on
the knob with a bone track r,"
fore clubs were invented our ancestors
were at a great disadvantage against
the claws and tusks of their enemies,
The invention of the •club gave them a
better chance. But did It not,mean
more? Did it not mean that into the
pre -human brain a new faculty, the
faculty of invention, had appeared?
And did not the anthropoid which first
exercised invention then and there
cross the line which separates man
from other manrnnals? Viewed in this
light, the invention of the -club may
be regarded as one of the greatest
achievements et mind; it armed, man
against his eneanien and started him
on tele road toward civilization.
While wielding clubs new made man
An Eskimo's Love Mistake.
Between the cake of ice on which a
youthful Eskimo sealer had erecte le
his hut and the larger floe that was,
pre -emptied by the parents• of his
sweetheart the cold had broken a ere -
vases some hundred feet or mare in
depth and twenty in width. Except
for a single jutting fragment just thick
enough to bear- little more than his
own weight, his home was completely
cut off from the world about him. This
practical isolation inspired him.
He began storing up in his bumble
quarters oil, blubber and other dell -
Nieto sufficient for the support of two
persons for at least six months. He
had resolved to steal his pride, and
knew that ,if he gained his floe with
her and broke down this bridge they
were safe from trouble 01, pursuit tar
{
the winter season or until 'warmer
'weatiier silo ed
v the icebergs bgap s to closer
1
contact.
Now the Eskimos sleep on a raised
snewbank on ane side of the' floe, or
ice -house, incased in their sealskin
nightbags, with a huge protecting diced
over the head and face, making them
as comfortable as their nature re-
quires.
The youth waited 'outside the girl's'
home until all within were asleep;
then creeping through the narrow en.
trance he made his way toward the
young woman. He seized the tang hag-
like mass in which ter form was in-
cased, bore it triumphantly across the
narrow bridge to hie stronghold and
before pursuit was possible with his.
ax cut down the ice bridge and was
safe.
Not wanting to hear the objurga-
tions of thiole on the other side of the
abyss ,he knelt down beside her and
dragged back the hood to catch a
glimpse of her face,
He had stolen his intended father-
in-law!
What Every Husband Knows.
Said the First Man—"I'm looking for
a wife who has a good disposition; and
who never loses her temper."
Said the Second Man• --"I want a
wife who knows how to keep house,
and who stays home nights,"
Third Man—"Give me a wife who
can cook,"
Fourth Man—"What I want is a girl
vdlzo has a little money of her own,
who is pretty good-looking, and has
o relatives,"
Fifth Man—"Alt I ask for is a wife
I .can show to anybody, no matter
where I am, and I'm glad."
Thlen all the others gathered around
him and with one acclaim shouted:
"You win!"
discovered that inarticulate sounds n
could be rendered articulate and made
to express• Ideas, This process also
involved invention•,
After inventing the club and lang-
uage, savage genius invented ways and
means, for starting a fire, Without
that achievement mankind would still
be gnawing bones', Cooked food was
good for the body and, rendering fish
for the first time edibia, •enables tribes-
men to widen the boundaries of their
bunting grounds,
An Amazing Invention,
Thencame the bow and arrow,
which, all things moldered,. was a
Standard Floor Mats.
Rooms in Japanese houses always
are huilt to fit a certain number of
floor mats, which are of a standard
size, about three by .six feet,
Conaorves Heat.
Belts made of linked aluminum
ates have been invented' to surround
eking utensils on gas strives to con -
erne the •otherwise wasted heat.
it•
most amazing invention. With it in as
his hands man could stand back and
bring down game s
Until quite modern
times all the wars of the worldwere
won with bows tuna arrows„ Very few
inventions indeedcan be ranked with
the bow and arrow: The spear, which
grew out of the pointed pole, was of
course a great invention, but spear
-
men were always at a disadvantage,
against bowmen, Armed with bows
and arrowe, skit clad savages•, whose
ancestors had invented clubs and
1nnguis.ge and learned the uses of lire,
tamed their way inbc the ,remotest re-
gions of the +earth, regions into 'which
they could never have ventured exoep•t
for .these inventioiits, As a result of
these• inventions on the Minds and
manners of Mankind, .savagery Seinen-
ea into barbarism
Under Control..
Aunt ----"In reference to this yant g
man, don't let your feelings run away
with yott---^•thelia may be heartbreak at
the and;"
Niece---".')on'e fear; the heart -brake,
was applied at 'the beginning, auntie
dear,,"
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