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od thelr ran thoroughly. . Three "more cars have been added one hy Vancouver, another for Win. | BIDGE and a third for London, fol ge Typical of the cases aubmftted 'to ts Tn erence squad is that of the mn of Orillia, at the head of a in Ontario. A com- . plaint was recently sent in to the Toronto radio inspector that terrific radio interference was making radio reception almost - impossible. radio interference car was quickly prepared and Inspector 8. J. Ellis with his assistant left for Orillia, [about 80 miles north of Toronto. 'On coming within view of the town, Mr. Ellis was greatly impressed with the vast number of trees in and about the community, In fact he fervently 'believes that there fsn't another town with such a distinguished entry. The trees proved to be'more than that. Usually, inspection for thi: {gost of it ; where | gpofl ot for hin. 11s car is used. loop and phones are carried by the hunt- er, the receiver being slung over the shoulder by means of a strap and the loop carried in the hand. Then as a noise Is heard on the phones fit is tuned in and hunted till it is loudest. This vicinity is tien thoroughly searched and the source of trouble quickly found in this manner. # Wires Touched Trees. ; Following this system, Mr, Ellis be- gan hunting for inductive interfer- ence on reaching Orillia. He did not hare to go far. Coming under some |= The celyers i s suf. | ficiently sensitive to record a noise on a distributing sys-| {8 In fact it was |" away. recently to locate faults on power lines situated in one case 15 away and An the other Tour tant, notal Hes in the fact that they may used while the automobile is tra- re at a moderate rate of speed. The interference "from the ignition system 'of the car produces usually a sound in the receiver which is char-{ acteristicly difterent from that pro- duced by the power line, so that this | tybe of Interference if not too great is not objectionsble. In addition a portable supe dynme receiver is carried and w etero- d in special tests where the two receivers are required. A portable three-tube regenerative receiver, complete with batteries and especially designed to be carried by one man, is also part of the equipment of thet ¢ar, The last named set 1s used with a loop or vari ous types of exploring cofls for spe: cial investigations in power houses and places inaccessible to a car. The tubes used in all these sets are the tiny "peanut" tubes manufactured only in Canada. They stand but two inches high and notwithstanding that feature in these re-| are most excellent tubes. That this service is provided in the ; Dominion may seem strange but the listéner in Canada is due some help in his reception of radlocast music, when interference would otherwise Eh Anclent enmity and mutual suspicion will be buried when Amanullah Gs an, Amir of Afghanistan, will be the guest of King Géorge for three days uring early December, Afghanistan 1s now a triendly buffer-state between the 2 latin empire and Soviet Russia, Sen Raider | . Turns Pacifist Skipper of "Seeadler" is States to Lecture on Peace { Count Felix Von Luckner, better known as the "Sea Devil," who. be- came a modern buccaneer as a Lieu- tenant Commander fin the German Navy during the war and with his disguised windjammer ravaged allied shipping, has turned peace crhsader. He has come fo the United States to lecture, particularly at schools and 11 until D ber. Peace Is his. theme, though he rams it home with burly gestures and exclamations delivered with all the force of his | huge physique. in tion from b An every owner of a radio recetyer, or charge being $1. With ese dollars amounting. to over $125, 000 during the fiscal year from April 1, 1925, to March 31, 1926, the radlo interference : cars with their trained staffs of two radio electricians are paid, and a ber of other of improving radio reception for the lis- teners are made possible, The work of the interference sec: tion is considered to have amply jus- tified both its establishment and its continuance on. a more extensive scale in the future. -- _ Christian Sctence Mor Monitor. Painleve Forhids Serious Aocilont at French. Military © 'School = Ends Picturesque Tradition Salnt-Cyr.~--Paul Painleve, Minister ' of War, will not tolerate hazing even | "in the mild form in Which it is prac. ticed at French military. schools, | serious accident to a pupil at Saint Cyr, which is France's ¢ Reval Mil 3 * College, has brought do The Town Clerk of West Ham, {| England, has announced a bylaw | passed by the West Ham Couneil and directed against raucous loud- speakers placed along the streets. ~The bylaw reads: "No person shall In any street or or place which adjoins any street public place and to which the public are admitteq, terial thunder and ended ftholiin I picturvaque tradition. been the custom. as long as. to advocate of international accord might have seemed unexplainable -but for his unusual career. On the face of it, his war record appears almost bloodthirsty, With a small crew and a mere threemasted windjammer, the Seeadler, in a day of fast, power- driven ocean greyhounds, he sailed through the British ships blockading Germany, undergoing careful inspec tion, and roved the sea at will, cap- turing ship after ship of the allied merchant marine and sending 68,000 tons of it to the bottom. He traveled m--p-- His Early Adventures. The man who conceived and car cied out this bold marauding had been prepared by his earlier experience. As a youngster of 13, he relates, he was backward in-school and had run off to sea. . School had been to him little better than a prison, because he was not interested in his studies, and much preferred to read the tales of America's Wild West; particularly the exploits of Buffalo Bill. Getting a start even as cabin boy was not easy. Thé laws prohibited a ship's captain from signing on a youngster without proof of his par- ents' permission. Assuming the name "Phylax Luedecke," he finally per- sunded the master of a Russian sail- ing craft to take him on as cabin boy --belng warned in advance that there would be no pay, and that, as the ra- tions were supplied for only the re- gular crew of twenty-four, he would have to eat the scraps loft by the sailors. He agreed to those condl- tions and sailed with the Russian to Australia. In Australia he went to work in the kitehen of a hotel. His immediate ambition, he says, was to get to America, since it was the land of self 'made men. Also he wanted to see his hero, Buffalo Bill; After wander- ing through Australia, from place to place, he arrived mt Brisbane, where the master of the Golden Shore, an American four-master, signed him on 64,000 miles, though ships of the al- for a trip to San Francisco. lied navies were searching for him everywhere, and he sank 58,000 tons of precious saltpetre the Allies. want- ed for ammunition, Never Killed a Man, Yet this strange buccaneer makes the proud boast that he never killed a man. . He took every member of every crew he captured, he says, and held all captives as guests aboard his ship. As many as five crews were on board at one time. "The Steeadler, in fact," said Count von Luckner, telling his story, "was not armed. She was a bluff. She had -wicked- looking holes under her rails, thr her jes with deadly broadside. The only cannon she had aboard 'was an antique muz- zle-loader made in 1817, which was | made to look extra dangerous by be- "wold run up close to the dheme Bridges: ol ; ge ing covered with a painted barrel. We attacked only merchant ships. We safled under a Norweglan flag, and, posing as a lumber ship, we ¥, bearing signals telling the other aptaly that we had a message to deMver. When our quarry came to a stop, the Seedd- ler would draw up alongside and launch a small boatt. "The small boat five men in have only That was a long step toward Buf- falo Bill's home, in Denver, From San Francisco he walked and begged rides in engine cabs, determined to reach Denver. When on arrival there he found, to his great chagrin, that his idol was with a circus touring his own Germany, he wandered on to New York to do the next best thing ---become a self-made man. To fulfill that ambition, he decided to become a Lieutenant in the Ger- many navy, and arrive at the goal through his own efforts. In 1900, he says, he went back to Germany and enlisted as a sailor, resuming his own name, At length, in 1905, he re- ceive his 1 to a Lieut ancy. Not until then did he return to his home; he walked into his old home in full uniform. Count Luckner entered the World '| War full of enthusiasm, intent on. do- ing his duty; but the many contacts ho had with men of other countries lon his voyages, he says, made him averse to killing 'them, "I used to think how each side was praying to God 1 for help in fighting the others," he said, "and how it was al- ways the same God they were praying _ | swinging e, | Lead," was adju, tied "Wings of among 4,000 uscripts submitted | by 3,000 contestants from every State in the Union, from Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy and even Monaco. . i : Nathalia, now in her second year at the Brooklyn Heights Seminary, had no thought of winning a prize when she started her poem on Lindbergh's filght last: May on the day that he landed In Paris, and {t was not until her composition was well along to- ward completion, she sald, that she learned of the competition. Says Flier Saw a Vision, On the night that Lindbergh was flying through he darkness some- where east of NeNwfoundland, as the girl lay awake thinking of the flier and his audacity, she called ont to her mother: "He saw a vision. challenge from the Mrs. Crane did not know what the child was talking about, and Nathalia, a bit surprised, told her. The next morning she told her parents that she thought she would write a poem about the fifght, and set about developing an outline. On June 12 Mr. Kennerly announced the competition and Mr. Farrar suggested to Nathalia that she enter it. "The Wings of Lead" was then nearing completion, and Na- thalia, who had been busy on her sec- ond novel, set to work and finished it. She explained what she pfosant by "Wings of Lead." "Why, 'wings of lead' sgulty the impossible," she said, "You see, Lindbergh just ¢amo in unknown and gafd hé would do it, and every one said 'ridiculous, impossible.' Then he did it; he did the impossible." Poem In Kipling's Styles Nathalia's poem fs in the Kipling manner, a narrative of the flight, a picture first of the gods looking down on a dull' world and deciding to stimu- late 'it to extraordinary achievement. To their challenge Lindbergh made answer: his accepted a And then one night there landed on a Mineola swale A plane that looked like pewter, with a carrier of mall like tea-box Its wings were tinged of shadow- skins, each truss gray, Its eabin but an aleove slung beneath a metal ray. The Spirit of St Loufs was inscribed upon the lee; It came from out a province that had never seen the sea. The pilot entered for the course, the quarter quadrant glide-- To fly the full Atlantic and the tag ends of the tide. ., He listed in as "Lindbergh" just one * pace behind the ranks; He had a moon-stained paddle and some star gas in his tanks, A chemist from Olympus with a ladle nicked the rays; He said the ore was purer than it was in Caesar's days. Invisible, he passed the word, the barograph was sealed-- A plane with leaden wings went down the Mineola fleld. It rose and fell and rose again and then attained to breath-- The raiment of the bubble when the bubble goes to death. And somewhere near to noontime as the fishers turned to scan, d 'the best from | The Prince of Wales, 'high stow] ard of the royal Borough of Wing-|| sor, accepted the Mayor's invit tion to the dinner, which was h Policy Defined oh) W. Steed "We Shall Not Enter Into Competition With You," Editor Tells America New York --The growing need for international friendship and under- standing and the declaration that Great Britain would not tolerate a policy of naval rivalry with the United Statés, was stressed by H, (Wickham Steed, publisher of the Re- view of Reviews of London and form- erly editor of The Times of London, at a dinner given in his honor in New York. A tenet of International friendship which, comparable to the Monroe Doctrine, would establish the United States as determined to be a 'peace loving" nation, was urged upon this country by Mr. Steed. He declared that the collapse of the Geneva arms limitation conference in no way re- flected the real British attitude to- ward America. The British Cabinet failed to con- sider the broader questions involved in the Geneva conference, Mr. Steed sald. He placed the blame for the failure ~ at the door fo the British Ministry, which permitted its delib- erations to be conducted by an ad- miralty rather than a diplomatic group.. i Promotion of World Peace. "The possibility of armed conflict with the United States lies entirely outside of the outlook of the British people on the naval question," Mr. Steed said.. "As far as we are concerned the seas are free for you to put on them, if you 'wish, the biggest navy the world has ever seen. The only ques- tion for us is that of determining the minimum requirements of the safety of our trade routes--which we never expect you to threaten--and how far that minimum can still further be re- duced by a sound and constructive policy of world peace. "You may take it that, however you solve your own naval question, what- ever the number and tonnage of the cruisers and eventually of the battle- ships you may decide to build, how- ever large the sums which you may appropriate of the purpose, we shall not enter into competition with you." His Majesty's Plum Pudding Ingredients Come From The Empire. Combined Sym- bolizes Colonies and Do- minions Goodwill London--King George will take Christmas dinner with his whole Em- pire this year. His plum pudding is to be made entirely of ingredients produced in the Empire and is to be of heroic size and flavor. It will contain the following: Five pounds each of Australian currants and raisins, 6 pounds of stoned South African raisins, 134 pounds of minced Canadian apples, b pounds of English bread crumbs, § pounds of New Zealand beef suet, 2 pounds of South African cut candied peel, 2% pounds of English flour, 2% pounds of West Indian sugar, 20 Irish Free State eggs, 2 ounces of ground They saw a pearlgray slide east of Grand Manan, A single-motored miracle, a lead mine - each flank; bol ROH ys) 'and' to try. ize the common humanity of all rte matem hadow swept and awed the ™ hundred: fathom bank. Upon ad billow rocked and cheered a terned spindle buoy, x and - me ie bells were chanting for i the Spirit of St. Louis; fhe Sashosed, deep there flew ig Tn star gas and tn © the flail, Gc the quarter quadrant glide, He flew the dull Atisntle and the tee Ceylon cl , 1% of Zan- zibar ground cloves, 1% ounces of Straits Settlements ground nutmegs, one teaspoon of pudding spice from India, 1 gill of Cyprus brandy, 2 gills of Jamaica rum and 3 quarts of old English beer. : ER CO UL ------ NEW RADIO BEACON The first Canadian radio beacon on the Great . Lakes has been established at the Southeast Shoal, Lake Ontario, dh the" Canadian Gover t its on a wave length of ry meters during thick or foggy weather every 150 seconds groups of 1 dot and 3 dashes for 60 seconds and silent 90 seconds, tin 'A new radio beacon is soon to be | established at La Point Light Sta tl ; solicited 11 the quest of running these beautiful, hats and, in certain respects, these mischievous Northern. Lights to their lair. Mfschievous, yet. The present. of fensive waged by specialists of many lands is not altogether a matter of |-scientific curiosity, for in this age of electrical expansion the Northern Lights represent frequently an inimi- ca] force of greater or less potency-- principally less, of course, though they can, on occasion, play very queer and sometimes rather disconcerting pranks, Only the other day It was reported that the aurora borealis had been caught upsetting telegraph operations--charging the wires with excess electricity and -making it im- possible for a time, over a certain area, to send any messages. According to N. H, Heck, who was an American delegate to the meeting in Prague. "Dr. Carl Staermer, famous scientist of Norway, reported Inter esting experiments in photographing the aurora against stars, Plans were worked out or more effective use of magnetic methods in studying under- ground formations." Sir Frederic Stupart of Canada was elected 2 member for North America to serve om a newly formed interna- tional] committee whose work it will be to conduct special studies of the - aurcra borealis, So the campaign Is well under way and results may re- ward this new effort. It is not thought likely, however, that even with {uternational mass ormation and the ald of all the resources of modern science this ancient wild spirit of the North can be brought to bay without a prolonged struggle. How y About Head Tax? -~ Maine Is Threatened by Bears From Canada, Trapper Says Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. -- Maine is threatened by an invasion of maraud- ers from the Gaspe Peninsula in Que- bee, if the observations of a veteran trapper of this region are correct. Bears which he has examined this Fall he says strongly resemble a variety peculiar to the Gaspe Penin- sula, where he has had many years' experience in trapping. Their heads, he explains, are of a different shape from those of bears commonly found in Maine. He figures that the Gaspe bears are migrating to this State, possibly on account of extensive railroad bullding operations in the district where they have previously thrived. We wonder it Washington will instituté the re- cent quota ruling against these Boys. --(Ed.) ref e. Will Have the Last Word They say it is wool hese or freeze for the women this winter, but bless 'em, we'll bet the girls show thelr in- dependence by refusing both.--Atchis son Globe. Magnanimous Henry Ford hasn't built any cars for quite a spell, Rvidently he is walting for his rivals to catch up far enough to make it a sporting race. eo E One Advantage Presidential candidates in Mexico can't be bothered much by life insur ance solicitors. / Hot Weather Hunch "That fella thinks nothing of Birds with i WG he do?" ell, ever "is it hot enough for you?" rea ms tno Glyn, .auother of "Toros