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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE. ONT.. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928. 3 Big Program of Air Activity Marks the Coming Season Preparations for long distance nights across oceans aud for the purpose of establishing new records are going forward to-day in all parts of the world. The following Is a list of some of the outstanding among these projects: First--Cesare Sabelli,' New York to Rome. "Base, Roosevelt Field, L.I. Personnel, Sabelli, Roger Q. Williams, chief pilot; Peter Bou-nelli, navigator. Plane, Bellanoa sequip'lane Rome, powered with Pratt & Whitney Wasp. Second--Thea Rasche, New York to Berlin. Base, Curtiss Field, L.I. Personnel, Fraulein Rasdhe, chief pilot; Ulrlch Koerhemann, navigator. Plane, Bellanca monoplane, powered with Wright Whirlwind. Third--Mexico goodwill flight, Mexico City to Washington, nonstop. Base Mexico City. Personnel, Major Emilo Carranza. Plane Ryan Mexico-Excelsior. Power unit, Wright Whirlwind. Four--Mears's Round the World Race--Base, Curtiss Field. Personnel, John H. Mears, passenger; C. B. D. Collyer, pilot. Plane, Fair-child folding wing cabin monoplane. Five--French official navy fligfot, Paris to New York. Base, Bordeaux. Personnel, Lieutenant E. Paris and two others. Plane, C. A. N. S. Navy seaplane, powered with two Isotta Fraschini motors. Sir--Byrd South Pole flight. Temporary base, Ford airport, Detroit. Flight personnel, Commander Richard E. Bryd, Bert Balchen and Chief Petty Officer Harold I. June, U.S.N. Plane, Ford tri-motored, Wright engines. Seven--Japanese official Pacific flight, Japan to San Rrancisco. Base, Tokio. Personnel, four. Plane.a special twin-motored land plane. Eigtt--United States Marine non-stop flight, Washington to Nicaragua. Base, Boiling Field. Pilot, Major Charles A. Lutz, U.S.M., winner of the Curtiss marine trophy race, 1928. Plane, tri-motored Fokker. Nine--Courtney, England, to United States flight. Temporary base, Pisa, Italy. Pilot. Captain Frank T. Courtney. Plane, Dornier-Whale flying boat. Tan--Official navy San Francisco to Honolulu. Base, Philadelphia aircraft station. Personnel, unannounced. Plane, PN-12, which re-cenOy broke four world ir records, powered with Wrikht Cyclones. Eleven--Polish trans-Atlantic, Paris to New York. Temporary base. Le Bourget. Plane, White Eagle, special twin-motored landplane. Twelve--Roma to Buenos Ayres flight. Base. Rome. Personnel, Captain Arturo Ferrarin. Plane, special .monoplane powered with two tm >ugiu. A Lengthy Flight For a Fair Aviator FIRST WOMAN TO FLY FROM CAPE TO LONDON Lady Heath arrived at Croydon after completion of her 10,000-mile flight wl ' a large and highly enthusiastic crowd of welcomers. New O.A.C. Head Native of Ontario Gradute of 1902--Classmate of Dr. W. S. Black, Ex-President of Manitoba Agricultural College Chosen F-'INE RECORD While all old O.A.C. students will be sorry to know that the kindly smile of Dr. Renoylds (who remains as principal-emeritus) will no longer welcome them to their Alma Mater, they cannot but congratulate the Hon. John S. Martin, Minister of Agriculture, on his selection of Dr. George I. Christie as successor to Dr. Reynolds. The years 1902, 3 and 4 graduated some outstanding men from the O.A.C. \ appointment as president of the On Dr W S Black (classmate of the. tano Agricultural College, Guelph, new ' president), was president of j succeed ™-Manitoba Agricultural College, and is now Director of Colonization for the Canadian National Railways. Dr. Melville Gumming president of Truro, outside interests has been his connection with the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago. He has been connected with it for some time and has served as a director for the past three years. He has been superintendent of the International Grain and Hay Show, a branch of this exposition. Each year, one or more of those who have been prominently identified with the Chicago Exposition are asked to have their portraits painted to hang in the Saddle and Sirloin Club, which has been the centre of live stock men during the fair for a great many years. This year the two men selected for this honor were Mr. W. M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture in the Washington, and Dr. Christie. Last year, in company with a director of one of the leading agricultural colleges, he was asked to visit Europe and make a special study of the subject. The investigate pied about three months and was very complete and useful. Thus Dr. Christie brings to Ontario the latest and best information available on this important subject. Dr. Christie has been the author of several publications. Dr. Christie married Miss Ethel M. Carpenter, of Des Moines, Iowa, in 1906. They have one daughter. He is Presbyterian in religion, and belongs to several fraternal organizations, including the following: Rhi Eigma Xi, Lafayette Rotary Club, honorary member, Lafa; ette Klwanls Club, Indiana Academy of Science, American Acadamey of I Political and Social Science, Mason | Town and Gown Club, West Lafayette Country Club. British Authors Attack Predatory "Publishers" London--A black list of alleged disreputable publishers who, it is stated, obtain money from unwary authors without ever selling their books has been drawn up by the British Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers for the guidance of its members. Such publishers usually obtain their business through advertisements asking for manuscripts and promising to place them. An author who sends his first book will receive an immediate reply telling hhn that he has written "Barking Sands" Has a New Fame Pacific Air Pilots Add a Touch of Romance to the Hawaiian Strand That Makes Strange Noises Barking Sands, in the Island oi Kauai, Hawaii, was prominently mentioned in the cables last week when Captain Charles F. Kingsford-Smith and his three companions took off there In the monoplane Southern Cross for the second leg of their trans-Paciflo tight. Barking Sands is another of the little known names which overseas flights In recent years have raked from the depths of the world atlases. Interest in the progress of the Southern Cross airmen was accordingly marked by some general curiosity as to what the name of their immediate springboard to the Fijis actually The Island of Kauai itself as a whole was a little more familiar. Its name was recalled perhaps as that of the most northerly of the Sandwich Islands, and as Captain Cook's first landing-place on Hawaiian soil. But Barking Sands? Was it a geological phenomenon, or some new oddity in geographical nomenclature? Did the sands there really "bark"? Or was the name taken from some other place--as, for example, some town named Barking in England? Kauai's Noisy Strand Barking Sands, as a fact, is named geological a work that there will be no difficulty in selling. % The letter will go.on to say that the cost of publishing Is so great that the publisher must ask the author to contribute toward* it on a co-operative basis and to share in the profit- slope of sand is notably on the first edition. jwind-started sand-slldes now "rustle," A few copies of the book are print->ow "rumble." Two handfuls of its ed after the author has contributed sand clapped together might sound $500 or $1,000, but there is rarely any to imaginative minds like the barking profit, and the author never gets his of a dog, says an island naturalist, money back. j This remote freak of physical na------*- jture in mid-Pacific is held by scien- A good book is the best of friends, tists to be one of the famous examples the same to-day and forever.--Martin of the hundred or more so-called F. Tupper. "singing sands" found here and there The Place Where Motor Speeding is Legal After many years of splendid work in the States, Iowa College conferred ™"";,s ."'"r;; / upon him in 1925 the honorary degree «»., Agricultural ColJ««. «d p™" '0 ■ Doctor of Science. While, there-mter John Bracken of Manitoba all PnBaea* urrnM tho college life. George Christie was one of the outstanding men of his class, and Ontario may well be proud of securing his services. Dr. Chri3tle ,who is a native Ontario, and was a student at the O.A.C, obtained his B.S.A. degree from Toronto University. He went to Iowa State College In 1903 for post-gradi from th7s notabi; period of fore he has been engaged ■ line for many years, he has kept In touch with his native province and is well known here. He has been much in demand as a speaker, combining unusual powers of though! with vigor and general expression. After completing his academic training, he continued for a couple of years on the staff of Iowa State College, an assistant in agronomy. From there he entered the service of Purdue Uni- Immigration Permits Saskatoon Star (Lib.): Accepting this statement, what is the reason for permits at all? Why issue such documents? Members of Parliament deny that permits have been a source of profit to them. On the contrary, they have been harmed by insinuations that the permit system is abused. They should therefore be very ready to see "letters to facilitate entry" become a thing ot the past. Poet: "I cannot understand why you refused my poems. I put my whole heart into them." Editor: "It would have been better if you had not had to pay excess postage on rhei DARING RACERS TEARING AROUND THE SPEEDWAY iand people witnessed the 500-mile a>?tomobile race when Meyer, the novice driver from Loa ictor, with Lou Moore of Hollywood second. Heidelberg Students turns., ho we1 Heidelberg--Any young man seen walking the streets of Heidelberg with a gash on his head or face must do some tail explaining. The- police have orders to take him to police headquarters, where he must narrate the genesis of his "accident." Republican Germany is determined to put an end to student dueling, once the favorite sport of aristacratic student fraternities. Century-old-cus duelling A fresh gash in the face or on t head is presumptive evidence that duel has been fought. 9 not to be eradicat- throughout the world. Science has not agreed upon the cause of this strange vocallty. But the acoustic property these sounding hills and beaches possess when disturbed by the wind has Thestudents Deen pronounced a certain, it mysteri- ».o developed a wonderful techni-,0U8' lact-que of alibis, however, and many aj The "barking" sands of Kauai ap time the duelist gets away with the Pear to be largely confined to one "proof" that he fell into a glass door Particular sand dune. This mound, or was accidentally struck by falling about 100 feet high, forms one end glass. Nevertheless, the vigilance of °f a mile-long range of dunes that the police has done much to reduce parallel the south c dueling to a minimum. , versity, in 1905, and has continued , and thereafter engaged in wide range of activities across the ln"VariourCaVaciWs"wito>that tasUtii" border, but is well known in agncul-■ tfon unti, the present time During tural circles on this side of the line, the war_ however, he was loaned to and has a very high reputation in his the Federal Government and served chosen calling. It will be several^ assistant -M the Secretary of Agri-weeks before he will be able to take ' culture for a couple of yearSi during i duties at Guelph, but' nich he rendered excellent service. i is i be installed well before the opening of the fall ter; nolds, it is understood, 5 principal-e He also served on the U.S. War Labor "Dr. Christie," said Hon. Mr. Mar- the appointment, I ered , • Pl'of- Rey' j Policies Board, and on the National ill be retain- committee for the Employmenl Soldiers and Sailors after the wi "is regarded as c associate in agricultural liant graduates of the Ontario Agri-|later being appointed superintendent cultural College. He has made I outstanding contribution agriculture, and it to have him back ince at this time. There is n important position in agriculture in Canada than the presidency of the O.A.C. Dr. Christie brings to it a wide experience, a fine Intellect and attractive personality. I bespeak for him the cordial co-operation and support of all interested in agricultural development of this province." Career of Progress The career of the principal-designate has been one of continuous pro-gresSj, He was born in 1881, on a farm near Winchester, Dundas County, in Eastern Ontario, the son of David and Mary Ann (H»wes) Christie. After education in the local schools he attended the O.A.C, obtaining his degree of B.S.A. from the University of Toronto in 1902. He went across to Iowa State College for post-graduate work and received th< B.S.A. from that iustitutii of agricultural extension, ind rican|1920 combining with this the gratifying oi director of the experiment station, prov- go tnat botn experimental and extension activities were under his administration. His services, moreover, have been in demand in general state activities. He has served as director of the Summer school for teachers, as superintendent of the Indiana Agricultural Exhibit at the Panama Exposition, as chairman of the Indiana Centennial celebration and as state food director of Indiana. He is also a member and secretary of the Indiana deep waterways commission. Many Public Services While Dr. Christie has thus had a varied line of activities in the state, he has been prominent in other circles. He is vice-president of the Association of Land Grant Colleges, a member of the Committee on Economics of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and chairman of the Midwest Agricultural esiee of,Economics Research Council, ia 1903. j one of the most important of his ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES--By O. Jacobsson. end of the island. It is back 100 yards from the sea and is steadily being built inward by the wind. A Variety of Sounds The top and landward side of this windblown dune alone seems to possess sonority. The wind sweeps the sand in widening wavelets down the slope, and the musical reverberation varies with the heat, dryness and friction from a sound like rustling silk to a deep-toned peal. One traveler wrote that a horse ridden down the slope makes a noise akin to "subterranean thunder." Another has said that, stamped upon, "the sand cries out in different cadences." "A deep bass tremolo' was the way it inv pressed a third witness. The sound off by these sand rushes is heard clearly for some distanc*, alt agree. The natives say the sound is made by the spirits of the dead, who "grumble at being disturbed." The late Professor H. Carrlngton Bolton reported to the American Association for the Adavenacement of Science In 1889 that a bagful of the Kauai sand he brought to his laboratory in this country preserved its strange properties for months, finally ■ losing them after frequent manipula- Ecuador's Traffic Police Claim World's Courtesy Title Quito, Ecuador. -- Quito's traffic policemen probably hold the record for politeness. When north and south bound traffic is> stopped to allow east and west bound traffic to proceed at street intersections the traffic officers on duty motion to the north and south bound pedestrians to keep on the sidewalks and say, "With your permission, ladies and gentlemen."