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Flesherton Advance, 6 Feb 1929, p. 7

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Seagrave Aims To Attain 240 Miles an Hour close to the Rround. These uualitleir make for high speed and Htabllltjr. Air tunnel tests have demonstrated that the Oolden Arrow meeta practi- cally Us greatest speed posslbUltles, while the safety mai-glu against pos- I Hible instability Is said to be even Will Race sreater t***" ^1^*' o' Major Seagrave's huge mystery S, with which he drove at a rate of 20;!.70,.iHiles an liour in March, 1927. Ill low gear Major Segrave's highest speed will be eighty one miles an hour. In scond lti« milos and in high 2-16 nilleR. The new car is especially designed British Driver Will Compete to meet the problems of aero dynamica â- yj^'i^^ Previous Victor ' *'bich face drlvern who have p â-  .uded I Into the: new plans of extreme speed. Majjor H. 0. D. Segrave, of London, They find strange equations Introduced will atten:pt to drive hl.s new super- Into the guidanco and reactions of an "Golden Arrow Over the Ormond-Daytona Beach Course March 1-15 Tests Show Giant Power speed raclac; car. the Golden Arrow, at extreme high veloelty cifr. 240 miles an hour on Ormoud-Daytona The Golden Arrow cannot combjft all of these aero-dynamlc problems, Beacfi; Fia., .-ioraetimos between March ^^^ much still remains to be learned by 'l and March 15. He will leave London experience, with hLs car and a party of friends | The engine of the Golden Arrow January ;10. i weighs almost a thousand pounds. This 1.1 at a rate of tour miles in one The steel frame is enormously strong, minute, or one mile In fifteen seconds. The car will be gilded, hence its name, or 356 foet per second, a velocity! The springs are very stilT so Uiat which wu.s undreameil of four years they will not give should the car leap ago. It was not thought then that on strilcing some slight irregularity in tires could he made to stand the heat the aanil. Because it Is expected to and friction or that <-ars generally eo at a rate af 355 feet a second, could h<» built to stand up under the Major Seagrave has an aiming device mechanical strain. h" "^eep the car on a straight course. But after deducting the possible loss i There i.s a stream-lined projection at in ground ipeed through slippage, fric- ' tlie front of the car, joined by a black tion and win<l resistance, which, in the ^^i"!'' along the top of the hood to the case of the Golden Arrow, has' bwu ''^ar bight., which is. immediately in ascertained by careful wind tunnel f'0"t "f Major Seagrave. This sliould tests, th^ car is believed capable of ^^ ^ tremendous help in keeping the making a nuuximum ground spe»d of car on a ti'ue course between the ocean L'Ifi m;!i>.^ an lioiu". ' o° '^^ ""^ hand and the sand dunes on the other. New Marks Are Expected _ ., j . ^,.. ^, I Car Aimed at Objective Sinct? each additional mile in speed .. , , . ., , , , , , .- , 11.. , , ' Nerve impuiHes in the human hody whew hieh velocities are reached â-  ^ , , \ . , , , , , ' . •!.,,, , travel almost too slowlv for modern means Increased peril to the driver,',, , , ,,. j , ,; , ,• high velocity drivers. By the time a '^^Sik!« why. we m.»*- ask, does Major Segvave plan tD attempt ^nch a great increasu over the p'.K>eut world's record of 207.5.'> mile.A an hour? Tht? au.?wer is that many would not be .=urpri.?ed to see the pre.sent record topped by a wide margin not only on the !ilK>wiuir of the last few speed con- test.-i, bu , man'd eyes told him he was on the ' wrong course he might be seventy-five , feet out of line. It would be too late! ' Hence tlie luodeiii driver looks a (piar- ter of a mile ahead, at which distance, despite his speed, he can clearly see I the way he is going. Some drivers , . , ,, . have even proposed to lock their steer- also because of the grea . , ,,„j ^j^j , g .^., ,^„ inirroremcnt m high velocity cars and I j„ ^,.^, ^^,^ ^.^,, J ^„„^ ^^.^,„,, J^^ ^ a better understanding of the prob- .„^ possesses great advantages lem- eM.oumered, particularly tho.se : „,,, ^^^^ ,„^,^^„ ^^^^ ^^ ^ ^^.^^^ of wind r...!stance. vacums. upward : ^^^ ^.^^ -^ ^.j^,^^,. ^ .^,,^, ^^..^^ j^^ thrusts. whe.l suction, and other un- : ,^„g projecting tail, has an over-all IVY Seven-year-olU ivy of Addelstone was .selected protege under the adoption sclierne of llie I'rinccss l)y Queen Mary as her Jlary Village Homes. Good Advice Ford Showa How to Prevent Waste in Trade and Finance New York, - RefortnatKin of the "money «y.-<tpm" of the UnU«<i .States takwB an important place nnv>nK tho new book entitle<l "My Pliilowiphy in topics discussed by Henry P'ord in a Industry," published by ^Coward- McC'ann. Mr. Ford prii|>ounds a hypothetical question in finance and then proceeds to answer it. He .â- shows how a $rM)0,- 000,000 public impro'ven-.cnt bond Issue is financed by the (lovcrnment, the security for which ''In nothing niori; or less than tho onerjo* of wealth In Its must productive formj i.e., natural resources." "Suppose we borrow S.IO, 000,000 and pay 120 per cent. Inturost. w« literaHy bave to pay .S(lf;,000,000 for tho u.«<» of $30,000,000," he sayd. "That ia, wo pay $.00,000,000 for the public improvement and .S;)!!, 000,000 for the loan. Xnd it was the Rovern- ment'.s money to begin with. It seems Rhodesia Reports Good Strike of Tin Near Salisbury Joint Operations Developing Tanganyika, Dutch and Belgian Companies FORE1GN~NOTES Ivondon.â€" Cables from Khodesia re- l-Kirt a promising tin 5trike near .Salis- bury, and aaother is about to be ex- plored at Shainva. Meanwhile, the joint operations of the Tani^anyika Company and the ijutch und lielgian companies in duvolopln« the tin fiolds of Utranda and that part of the Bel- gian Congo adjacpnt Is now actively starting. It is on the Congo side that ! the richest section of the field seems I to lie. I It is under.>!t<>od h«>re that the nego- I tiations for nctjulrlng the necessary I steamers for tho passenger, fruit and I cargo scrvieo between Jamaica ami London (to be put in operation by ike a very childish and unbusinesslike! ^'^^T"*'^"* Banana Producers' .\s methixl. â- â- Suppo.v, for oxaniplc," ho saya, "we decide to rijievi» unoinploymont by carrying on some neccsRary im- provment and to do this the Gov- ern me iit need.s $."50,000,000. That's 1,500,00<» $::0 bills or ;t,0OO,0()a $10 bill.s. Tho (ioveniment can issue these agaiiust the value <if the thing in pros- pect ami with them'pay every exx>en8e sociation) are now completed, and that these will start early in the New Year. The Governor of Uganda has ju.st announced that large areas of that central .\frican colony are now being actively prospected for oil, and there was every liope of these elforts bning rewarded. Th« Anglo-Persian Oil Company hnx the sole right to pros- connected with the work, then put thejP^^"^ .*"!* develop oil products here, plan in operaUan and out of its earn-'^'" '* .'^'"»f e.xporUwl In ncrensing ings r-tiiv the entire $30,000,000 1"°"V'"' u* ?'"^'"'''®'!' "'^'^ '"PP"" '" worUi ..f currency which has been ' '^".''"J' '" ^ ''"'"'''''P**'- <'"ntra«tin» issued. Economists no longer que.s-' 'r'"" /'"*,**'" exports he mentioned tion that method of doin^ things. ln-^^''f' '" l"'-^" ^''« ""^P*"-' ^'"' l»«'0O« deed, it lr)olu as if iinancia! enginter ing will come round to something very like it. We shall see great im- provement when we apply engineering methods to finance." "The more alert financial men of this country are thinking of these matters on broader lines than ever be bales, valucMl at £4,fi8G,0OO. In 11)27, 131,000 bales were exported, and in 1928 up to the end of July. 127,000 bales had been exported. For the whole year the total cotton exports should be 130, 000 bales, vaiued at £2,430,000. The British Government has just ] authorized the extension to British Cabinet Crisis In Albania Laid To Budget Issue certaiuties of aerodynamics which of-i j.^^,,; ^.^^ twwuy.rix feel The" whe"el j ':^.^^::^Zr::ij^:V[::::j^r-j-T^^ .^^ ^° indicate <-nange in I irana s Kelat- rtical estimates. Oi<i»oseil tn the tJolden Arrow in its attempt t'^ take the speed crown back, (o Great Britain will he J. M. White's' the distance between the wheels is ' five feet. The minimum clearance is seven inches. As already mentioned, the engine is of the .same type as that in the provision a.s to reverse gearing would - case to give au even thrust. The !!«'*"»-, '" '°f'»^-"â„¢i"S trials.,, yii„,,ers uve five and one-eighth-i.ich As_Mr. _«• hit. has only o_ne Bear ratio; I,,,,... and five ami one-half-inch In the Triplex, that i.s, high ge-ar. he ' stroke will not be obliged to install a reverse and, therefore, give much greater power than the Lockhart car than gearing in hi.-, hig car. The Triple.x is a„a probably greater power eauipped with three Liberty airplane Major Seagrave's Mystery S engine-t, one of which is in front of the i , ,, . „ . . , , driver-B .seat, the other two being set ,. '". ''^"'"J S'^''«™^'«; 'â- ^'"'^''^•' Ar- side by .side behind the driver's seat, i "T. ;'*-" "'"^ ,^ '"â- ''' ° T'^' -'•'^^''^'â- â€¢ IJurin.? the last trials the Triplex' ''^â- ""^"'' ,'â- "'"'''*•; '••";""'^'* ^^â- "" " "^'^'^ , ^ ' I turn, an'i ihtihv /Iui-uIi,,<t>,u„io „...,.,i .... mis.sei! fire ou somo of its cylinders: , : when at high speed. Mr. White, there-' "" fore, ii planning to install one new Liberty motor and perhap.s three in ,i ,, . , , the Trip!e:t. '•'^ '"j Alsothe rated horsepower is ii> e.x TCe Triplex, therefore, will presum- hl s exceeding that of the Lock- hart car, but, as u while, on a much larger and heavier scale. tions With Italy Tirana, Albania.â€" Tho latest (^abinet crisis here indicates a change in the lutlniatB relations between the Gov- ernments of King Zngu and the Italian Premier, Renito Mussolini. The Cab- inet resigned on .Ian. 12 because of budget difliculties. The State plainly needed more money. »ut ail members of the Cabinet were not able to agree on methods of securing it. .Much of thi' money used in thf new .Xlhanian kingdom comes from Italy. The .Vl- baulau national banks are in Italian hands. Most .Mbauian concessions go to Italians. Naturally il Is to the interest of Italy to keep .\lbaiiia going, so uu- doubtedly tho Covernnieiu. of Tirana could gel more money from home. But the .\lbanian Government does not want to become too deeply involved. Hey Vrioni. the Foreign Minister, who is replaced by Raoua Bey Pico. Thus it was nt)t the Minister of Pnauce who was eliminated by the crisis over the (lui'stiou (li fuiauces. In other words the linaiKes are clearly tied up with the (luestion of foreign relations. The dismissal of Mr. Vrioni is no ordinary matter, since he has long been one of the strong men in Albania, ^•loser to King Zogu than any other, and his unwavering supporter from the fore, and that is very heartening for,' , . . after all, financial problems will have i '""J'''"** '" •^'""•occo of the tax on va- to be handled bv financial minds. The ='""' '""*' '"*'* "^^""^ ^^^ Vvcnch Gov- rank an<I file of our peuple are able 'â- 'â„¢'"''"*^ "^ Morocco has just imp.>.sed to see how things ought to be, but the"" "^-^ nationals. H. B. M.'s Consular specialists will have to create the "-""" '" ^I'>'''«-'f" has the .=oIe auth Court which the 'ought-to-be', ""*>â-  ^' make British subject.? in Mor- methods by will actually come into practice." War will not W abolished until its r<M>t.s are cut, Mr. Ford holds, and "one of its main roots is a fal.se money system and the high pries thereof." Mr. Ford characterize.s farming as "the first important industry," and first. Vrioni has also been au enthus- ' . ,, ..... iastic admirer of Italy a.id an ardent |*'"r/'"«<^^. "^^' ""â- ^^'"- "^ ^he small upholder of the alliance. 'u ^ i. ^, .. , ; be to pertorm the operations of plow- planting, cultivating and har Italia.i-AlbanlanP'"""'':'" ""'' f'"-^ ''''7"! -f "large cor- I porutions, whose sole business it will Pleasure in Work "1 cant al)ide to see men throw i away their tools i' that way, liie min- i occo obey such "dahirs." The important railway belweern Casablanca, the commercial nietrop- alis of French Morocco, and Marra- '^gikeesh, the great southern capital, at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, has recently been opened by ihe Iwy Sul- tan. In fact, he insisted on riding iti the first train. This length of line is liW miles, but, as the vicinity, of the southern terminus has recently been found to l>e si) lieavily mineral- ized, it will probably become tho first section of an important system i>pen- iiig'. vesting. Mr. Ford sees a gap between the!'">f "P '•'"''^ ''"''^ "'' ^'^*' '-'""ntry. For people and political leaders, and he''"^ monu-Jit, its usefulness lies in ,,,hold.s that iiowheiv is it moi-e risce.n-l''*"^''"- P'"''"^'*" '''"' '''-â- '•'''"'"'"''^"ng ute the clock begins to strike, as It , of Honor t.uirists. Marrakeesh, perhaps, more they took uo pleasure 1' their ^ovkr^^J:!'''].[!',:,^\'J':,^^^^^^^ resembles the Bagdad of the ' Caliph Hai-oun al Roschiu than any and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much. I hate to see a man's arms i drop down as If he was shot before j the clock's fairly struck, Just as If | he's never a bit o' pride and delight i,, , , „ in '9 work. The very grlndstone'll j ^'^t, ''â- '-'';.. J"?'^"«""''"- go on turning a bit after you loone it."-- (ieorge EHot, In ".\<lnm Hedi-." i , ibie than in the matter of li(|uor. ! "The United States is dry. not legally, but by moral conviction," he! continues. "The .A.merican home is dry, and the .American Nation gets; its tone from the home and not from other city on earth, and is an increas- ing lure for tourists. When tho 8e<-- tion of railway on the northern sys- tem between Fez and Oudja is com- pleted, it will be possible to travel by train from Marrakeesh to Tunis, Success Ideals Why this liiii«tiip. iliuM foiever slgh- iiiR. _i''or the far-off, unaitalned and dim, -While the beautiful, all around rhee lying, A Sport Fast Growing in Popularity cess of the rated power of the Blue I because among the .VIbanlan people ably go Into the race with a hl-^her ',?!?'/''" '''• "^'"''^''^''- -J^veloiMid about Italy Is unpopular. The Albanians re- potenUal speed than ever ' ^ i>00 horsepower. So the power of the sent Italian encroachment. So the I Golden Arrow is presumably greater Government wants and retains as High Powered Rival [than that of any other racing car in i Juuch Independence as possible. Tliere- Majc>r Seagrave's car will have a;"'e extreme velocity cla.ss ex'cept the ' fore, some members hesitated to ac- high engine turnover, attaining about i '''â- ''l''*''^- 1''ia'- enormous power plaut ' cept the conditions Italy laid down i'OC horsepower at 3400 revolutlon.s of °" wheels was enuipi)ed with three regarding forthcoming loiin.s or ad- the eii<;iiie per minute. This is n(5t â-  ^'''"•''â- '•-^' airplane engines, one in front ' nances, and the Government resigned, i as fa^t Be! Jrauk Lockhart's car, wliich "f ^l^*' driver's seat and two, side by i However, in the cabinet appniiitetl ' I'urcha.se not was driven by an adapted Miller en-!**''''^- behind. Each of these engines j three days later every minister re- ; ^â- '"'" "'ou ceasesi glue, which had sixteen cylinders in;'''*'! a rated power of 450 horsepower. 1 caivod his old post Ivu?:. except Kliaii ; cease i.) love.- Kull oi two banks of eight, at fifteen degrees' The Triplex weighs 8.000 pounds.' -n=^-» ==_ oft verticle, set in the same crank \ The Mystery S weighed G.OOO pounds, i case und was able to turn over from The (lolden .\rrow weighs about .5,0001 7,200, uad perhaps up to 7,S00 rovolu-' pounds, but she is very carefully' de-' tioii.s iwr minute, but much faster than' signed and calculatod to keep on the J. M. White's three-engined Triple.x, j ground and she has a tremendous re- whUU won the world's record, with serve "of power in relation to her Kay Keech driving. For the Triplex^ weight. Ma.ior Seagrave is one of the reached Its highest speed at 2,300 re- \ world's most skillful ami experienced vohilioiis iier minute wheu. barring drivers. U is the car that best hangs slippage, It was estimated to have a ' to the ground that stands the best potential speed, though on a prelimin- 1 chance of winiiiijg. The new car has ary trial Keech's tachometer showed been so carefully tested in wind luu» ''«t"' ' -.200 and 2,300 revolutions. ' nels. and has been constructed with ami ht> estimated his speed for i)art of ' such meticulous care, tliat hope Is a mile at abuve 240 miles an hour, high, and not without reason, that the After reaching 2.300 revolutions periffallant British sportsman will h:ing iniiuiif the Triplex would begin to up a new world's record. lose iiower. which shows the advan ' •-• '- - tage of the small cyllndered faster; Reaching Your Goal revolving engine, which contiinies to' Increase in power, to 'wind up" as Mr. Ford pays a striking tribute to machinery, which "is accomplish- ing in the world what hail has failed , ''!*'>'"" changing, a <iistance <>f l.r„-,0 to do by preaching, pr<ipagnnrin or the written word." Dipping briefiy into foix-igh affairs, Mr. Ford asserts that "both Russia's I miles. and China's problems are fundamen- tally industrial and will l)e solved by the aijplication of . . . right methods Offers up its. low. perpetual hymn?/'*" thinking, practically applied. -<._; . , , friends, with gifts: to KiVe, sui'h will Science ndght i"est up. a bit aiunit the origin of man, and determine what his finish is to be. .">iiiile(l 1)11 liv wm- the saying goes Opposition to Wind Maj'M- Siagrave's new car will pre- sent au opposition to the wind of but Iwelv* .square; feet, eiiual lo a frontal Me.T of three by four feet being shoved through the air at terrific speed. In tact, the theoretical speed of the new car, based on tho engine speed. Is given at 2»ti miles per hour. The en- «hio is a private cylinder Naider. No j Work, hard work, tbroiigh the long, doubt the new car posses.se.s tlie same | hard hours; flne qualities as Captain Malcolm' Oh, Ureanilug and planning for more Favored by Kai Chance? Is that what you think of the nliig man '.' Then stop, my friend, another glance And you'll sense the race he ran. Oil/ men by bim, a.t men liy you. And all of them striving to win the race. But he, among the very few. FoiiiKl ami stuck to liii pace Campbell's Blue Bird, which was fitted *Uh a Naple/ Lion engine, and kept "wlndin? up- and Increasing la speed, »lway», indeed, seeming to have a little extra In reserve. Coupled with this meat reserv* of power, which will provide coutlBued â- cceleiatlon uiitH th» maxiiuuB) is leachod, is tlie design of the GoldoB Anov* to encounter « relatively lifvt â- wiiKl rf>sisiance, and the fact that th^ ble t-nr weighs two and one-half toa^ •nd l» kMM thtn ftnir fc?t high, vittla^ work, too; I'loddiug iiloiiK IhriMijili (ho hardest showers- - Iti such manner forluiiij grew: Therw'a work for all. for you â€" for mo • And the chance to make, wtthlii each Houl, Ourselves, our slave.;, ah then voii'l! sea T!i« r«ai-lili)8 lu your gaal. - By K:«tli3ilii« Havilaud Taylor, SKIJORING IN THE ALPS Skl-jorliig belifud a horso is one of Ihe pniMtlar winter pastlineR of those w'.-o takw n winter bolltlny In i.h» Alpt, and It In a great .mo;' >:â- â- :•:â-  'fiironle in N.miIi Yonfo Slreei I: 's lioi unusual tn •*« skl-l»r« io« hn he- hind motor cAia, Railway Branch Line Programs ! Saskatoon Star-Phoeulx (Llb.i: ! There is every ludlcat;,)n that the j heads of the two companies have not as yet been able to get together on the nuestlon of branch line coustrue- ' tion, hut it may l)e hoped that befom j the Hallway Committee of the Hoii.ie : of Commons, which will have the flnai -^ say. gets down to business, comprom- ' ises will he suggetsed which will sat- isfy not only the railway heads, but, more important still, the people who will be affected by the lines In iiues- tinn. o The Tariff Threat Winnipeg Tribune (Ind. fons.t: t'ongress Is now preparing to Increase tho t'nited States tariff protection with particular relation to agricultural products. .Vctually, though not In form, the purpose Is to shut out more oi' tlic farm products from competition with the products of Ihe .American farmers. AVhatever effect these mea- sures have uijon our export trade will be felt directly by Ihe farmers and Indirectly by every huslness interest In the Pomlnlon. -.- ^ <• Gypsum in Nova Scotia liypsum was rained in .\ova Scoti* a.-i early as 1.S2S. but it Is in recent .veais that the industry has had its most remarkable expan.^ion. The pres- ' lit output of over SOO.OOO tons aij- nually Is more than three time that of all the rest of Canada. -♦ An Economist Tile man who e.\ploies the d< plh: of iiiilural science and revealed truth, loiiiiitng forth that which advances ilie i)rospprity of tiiH species, and milk- ing the worhl the richer that he has liceii born Info If, is Ihe true ecnjio- â- iiNi Stephen Bourn«>, K.S.S. « â-  â€" Self-Government I lif iie< essiiy for external Koveni- nient to man Is in inverse ra'io to the vigor of his HPlf-goverumeui. \Vli«re the last U coini)Iete. the first l.i Isast wanted. Hwiu-e. th» mm-- virtue tli* mor« llh«rty.

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