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Port Perry Star, 29 Dec 1932, p. 6

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ice of the Press 0 CANADA, Ideal of Home Restored. 'Notwithstanding the depression, 'with much consequent distress, the Court of General Sessions in at least two counties of this province had noth- Ing of a criminal character before it. Huron County was saved the expenses of a jury when a clean criminal sheet was presented to Judge Costello. There were no jury civil cases and only eight non-jury. In Victoria and Haliburton there was no work either criminal or civil for the court. Judge Ponton complimented both the citi zens, who constitute a law-abiding community, and also the members of the legal profession for curbing liti- gation and settling disputes by the give and take method.--Toronto Mail and' Empire, World On Parade. Bank of England janitor changing a ticket on bank's gold stores , paying England's war debt. ....... France refus- ing to change tickets on gold reserves of the Bank of France. ...... Premier Bennett dining with Rudyard Kipling, describing him as "Poet Laureate of Empire." ....... Belgium and France for- ming new Governments, ........ The Po- lish Minister to Washington explaining why Poland can't pay. ........ Amy John- son failing to make a record on a South Africa to London flight. .... Mussolini threatening Jugoslavia. ........ Bir George Perley offering New Sout! Wales Canadian buffalo. ........ England announcing that her birth rate has de- clined. ...... A New York geophysicist discovering a new method to detect minerals. .... ...Canadian wheat exports touching a new high. ..... Manufact- urers "announcing an increase in the price of shoes. ...... Three new mines in Ontario producing gold. ...... Bur- eau of Statistics announcing we have 74 radio sets per 1,000 people. All this in a day.--Ottawa Journal. Naturalization Record. The substantial number of persons applying at county centres for Cana- dian naturalization is such as to at- tract general notice, but probably few citizens realize the increase which has actually taken place in the past few years. In the fiscal year ending last March, 32,517 aliens obtained naturali- zation in Canada. This total is a 50 per cent. increase over that for the preceding year, which was only 21,392, In 1929-30 it was about the same at 21,221 and in the preceding year was only 13,090. In all the years mention- ed, a great majority obtained naturali- gation through the county courts; in fact, the number dealt with under other sections of the Act has been de- creasing from year to year, and in 1931-32 was only 933.--Woodstock Sen- tinel-Review. On the Gold Standard. The farmer with a ten-acre woodlot and a couple of husky boys has a gold mine these days.--Exeter Times-Advo- cate. Family Settlement. So far, very few families have been taken from relief lines in the city an] placed on farms where they have an opportunity to become self-support- ing. It is necessary to go to Manitoba to get a better view of what can be done. Alberta will do well if its au- thorities expand the back to the land scheme here also, as a part of the 1933 relief program.' Every family firmly on its own and permanently oft relief is a real advance toward the final elimination of unemployment.-- Edmonton Journal. A Difficult Question. A property owner in this city has been compelled to ask municipal relief because he can find no work and cafi- not pay his taxes and mortgage inter- est. He has five houses, including his own, but his tenants are in the same plight as himself. Rather than evict them and install new tenants who would pay him, he has asked for tem- porary help from the city. Will those who object to granting it tell the city @what they would do in such a case?-- London Advertiser, Transportation by Areoplane. The manner in which are machines are commencing to invade not only passenger travel, but also mail service was recently made manifest in the Old Land. From Croydon aviation field giant liner left en route for India Canada, The Empire and The World at Large" sible and sufficiently varied, books to help them to increase their knowledge and to while away their leisure hours?| | It is an important problem and will have to be settled before we can reach an end of our present difficulties--La Presse, Montreal. THE EMPIRE. Australian Loan The most hopeful prediction did not contemplate that the New South Wales £12,360,000 conversion loan would be underwritten at less than 4 per cent. But in happy fact, Mr, Bruce has succeeded in getting the loan underwritten at 3% per cent, with an issue price of £97 10s, which works out at 4% per cent. Even the wisest of the wiseacres will have to admit that so striking a practical ex- pression of confidence in Australia, in that sensitive centre wr se nerves ra- diate from Threadneedle street, is worth more to us than even the saving in interest of £1,137,500 during the five years' currency of the converted loan.--Melbourne Australian, Small Profits and Quick Returns. The Egyptian State Railways Ad- ministration has at last reaped the re- ward of enterprise. It has made dras- tic reductions in fares and freightage along various routes, and the resulting revenue has produced startling figures. In lowering the freightage between Suez and Cairo from 140 piastres to 75 piastres per ton, a forty-day period of receipts jumped from £ E 265 to £ E. 2,819.--Cairo Sphinx. Tommy's New Kit. The new equipment is lighter and better arranged than the old, so that a soldier in full marching order may feel less like a human furniture van. But his looks! Gone is "spit and polish," gone sartorial harmony and the appeal to the young female heart. The comments of the editor of the Tailor and Cutter, which we have seen, are coustic. Those of the adjutants and sergeant-majors of the old school, which we have heard, are unprintable, --New Statesman and Nation (Lon- don). British Films in Trinidad Now that British film makers seem to have abandoned that insular outlook which made their pictures too foreign for the tastes of other countries, there is every chance, provided other fac- tors of box office success remain pre- sent, of their capturing a great and constantly expanding market in the Caribbean, just as they have expanded it in other parts of the Empire. Next year they are promised a quota to aid them in this Colony. Perhaps a quota is not necessary. At least, it can be looked upon rather as a reward for their efforts, than as a protection for their films. --Trinidad Guardian, AMERICAN. Gandhi's Contribution, It was- Gandhi, however, with his ascetic posturing, his quaint dishabille and his goat, that led the world to a better understanding of the Indian pro- blem. That was what he said he wish- ed to do; but the understanding is lit- tle to his liking. The world now under- stands that British rule in India is more nearly right, just and tolerant, than had been supposed before Gan- dhi staged his show-off. --Seattle Times. ----r i Australian Meat Industry Has Improved, Say Leader Melbourne, Australia. -- Leaders of the meat industry in Australia said last week their firms were busier than at any time in the past 14 years and attributed increased activity to operation of the Australian-United Kingdom trade pact, signed last sum- mer at the Ottawa Economic Confer- ence. : They said improvement of prices in their British market was worth £900,000 annually to them and that increase in home prices was worth an additional £6,775,000, The capital value of all Australian cattle and sheep, they estimated, was £30,000000 greater now than before the trade agreement was signed. To Make Own Shoes Winnipeg --Finding , that cattle hides could not even be given away, a Ukrainian settlement in Alberta plans to establish a tannery and a shoe factory in the near future, G. W. Bikevich told an audience here in the course of his report on a tour of the prairie provinces, speaking on emigration. The process of manufac- turing shoes from raw hides is one with which Ukrainians are thoroughly familiar in their homeland. ------ rar 170,810 Mile Record Port Hope--Commenting on a ree ent despatch that a mail driver had| N: C. Kelkar of Poona, India, ar- rives at Buckingham palace, Lon- don, as the king receives the In- dian round table conference de- legates. tet mia: Accurate Prediction 3 Of Weather Conditions? Toronto.--Possibility that within the near future the weatherman in Canada may be able to forecast rain at four p.m. tomorrow insteed of pos- sible showers during the latter part of the day was brought to the atten- tion of the Royal Astronomical So- ciety of Canada here last week. The speaker, Andrew Thomson of the Meteorological Service of Canada reported on "polar front" theory of the Norwegian physicist, Bjérkness. According to Mr. Thomson; investi- gations in Europe of this "polar front" system are proving stccessful. "It may soon be possible to predict the hours at which the weather will change," he said. mai a--r Tobacco Surplus Reduced Toronto.--Hon. T. L. Kennedy, Min- ister of Agriculture for Ontario, re- turning from an all-day motor tour of the tobacco-growing districts of the province, reports that the alarming crop-surplus situation of a few weeks ago is now largely dissipated. No more than 1,000,000 pounds of unsold tobacco now remains in the farmers' hands, he said. A surplus estimated at 5,000,000 ibs, created a serious situation a month ago. In co-operation with the grow- ers, the Government took steps to av- oid flooding the market and causing a drastic decline in prices. ee tie Regent of Manchukuo Has Eight Expert Cooks Peiping, China.--Henry Pu-Yi, Re- gent of the State of Manchukuo, and once the "Boy Emperor" of China, is to have the best Chinese cookery in his extensive mansion at Changchun. It was disclosed when eight cooks and a number of assistants left for the new capital, All of the cooks were in the em- ploy of the former Chinese imperial household. em een. Princess' Playhouse Fitted With Appliances London.--Princess Elizabeth's play- house, which the people of Wales gave to her, has been fitted with water and electricity. It is on the grounds of the Royal Lodge at Windsor Great Park, the new ountry home of the Duke and Duchess of York, her par- ents. | value collections must be : and must contain each of a series. | Stamps, in fact, are a source con-{ They point out that to be of any siderable revenue for Governments since there are millions of collectors. | Some of the commemorative issues are on sale only for a day and stamp collectors pay an annual tribute of about £1,000000 to the various Goy- ernments in Europe alone. Next year, for example, the Russian Government will publish nine commemorative is- sues. The stamps will be issued to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the creation of the Red Army, the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, the murder of the 26 Communists at Baku, the murder of Uritsky, the foun. dation of the Order of the Red Ban- ner, and so on. This sort of thing costs collectors money. Italy, too, has been guilty of keep- ing the stamp printing presses running and has followed the series of 20 stamps to commemorate the tenth an- niversary of the march on Rome, Another attractive issue is a series issued in Latvia illustrating the con- quest of the air from mythology to the present day flying liners. The United States, with the Wash- ington bi-centennial serfes and the Olympic Games Stamps, has also tak- en toll of the collectors' pockets. Gt. Britain, however, has issued no new stamps since 1929, ------ ees Italians To Follow Northern Route in Spring Berlin.--General Italo Balbo, Italian Minister of Aviation, disclosed in a recent interview that the mass flight of twenty Italian planes to Chicago next spring will follow the northern air route taken by Captain Wolfgang von Gronau, German round-the-world flyer. Captain von Gronau, who had a long conference with General Balbo, a visi- tor here, made stops in Iceland, Green- land, Labrador, and at the cities of Montreal, Ottawa, Detroit and Chicago when he began his world flight 'which ended last month, The newspaper "Zwoelfuhr Blatt", said General Balbo, who led an Italian air squadron across the South Atlantic two years ago, would "start" the 20 planes off from Italy and that General Aldo Pellegrini would be in command. The Chicago flight was expected to take two months, with eleven stops en route, -------- Rail Line Shows Profit After Employees Buy It Sydney, N.S.--The value of €0-0p- eration was emphasized when Cape Breton Tramways, Ltd., announced a 10 per cent. salary increase effective immediately. Owned by its employees, the system is one of the few tram lines on the continent showing a profit. But it was not always outstanding. For years it kept up with the best--or worst -- of them in the money-losing business. It was just about a year ago that the employees, facing unemployment when the Cape Breton Electric Com- pany went into liquidation, pooled their savings and bought the rolling stock and operating rights of the com- pany. There were thirty-three in the group. sen A tent. Indians Study Modern Farming M'Curtain, Okla.--Choctaw Indians in this vicinity have banded together to learn the white man's modern meth- ods of farming, Thirty-eight Choctaw men and women are members of the first adult Indian farm club organized among the Five Civilized Tribes. F. B. Durant was elected president. The club's work 'ds supervised by W. C. Smith of the Indian Bureau's farm ex- tension division, and his assistants. a Kingsford Smith Answers All Q than 1,900 h epower, Te Tore of the horsepower of the main engines. These seasickness-preventing stabi- lizers are lke ordinary tops ir prin- ciple, except that they are mounted in bearings, which are fastened to the ship's frame. As long as it spins fast gnough any top stands upright. Try to push it over and it wabbles as it slowly recovers itself. That is, its ver- tical axis describes a wide circle which grows smaller and smaller until the top stands upright again. The wabble is called the top's precession. The Top Principle Applies. The top stands up because, like roscope on a vehicle with only two wheels arranged in tandem. is spinning. Push the vehicle over and the spinning wheel will bring it back to an upright position. starts to roll, the plane of rotation of the gyroscopes is disturbed. Their vertical axes tip forward, or precess. The effect is to counteract the increase in buoyancy on the side of the ap- proaching wave. It is just as if a weight were shifted from one side of the ship to the other--just enough weight to offset the roll. However, in this case one nicely adjusted force is opposed to another force, to feel the wave and start to tilt. to feel the wove and start to tilt. Moreover, when it has started to tilt its inertia may keep it moving, This is one reason why efforts to use the gyroscope in Germany before the War were not a complete success. The late Elmer Sperry hit on the ingenious idea of using a small control gyroscope to tell the by gyro what to do and when. In other words, the control gy: roscope, being small, responds to the beginnings of a roll almost instantly. Through an automatically started elec- tric precession motor the response is communicated to the big gyroscope. Hence the big gyro begins to process sooner than it would if it had first to overcome its own sluggishness, The reason why three gyroscopes with three smaller controls can steady the mighty Conte di Savoia is to be found in the very nature of wave action. One wave does not make a ship roll. It takes a Succession of waves to do so. Hence, if the first sign of a roll can be checked there is no cumulative effect to overcome. In- stead of rocking from side to side the huge ship rises and falls slowly while the waves pass under her, to equip the Conte di Savoia with By: roscopes. 'Some forty vessels, most of them yachts owned by men who would never go to sea if the price of ocean uxury were: illness produced by rol- di Savoia is merely the first passenger liner to be provided with stabilizers of the gyroscopic type. Breathing Electrified Air. Some air seems to be of more bene- fit than other air, not because it is loactive water, it has properties pecul- iar to itself. In an address which he delivered before the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, Dr. Lewis R. Koller attributed these to ionization. In other words, air is electrified, Some of its atoms have an electron Temov- ed. The loose electrons dash about seeking ruined atoms which they can repair, and the ruined atoms become tremendously excited until they have made good their loss, Radium, X- rays, the cosmic rays, ultraviolet light from the sun, lightning--these are but i uestions every rapidly rotating body, it resists any force that tends to disturb its plane of rotation. Mount a top or gy- The ve-| tions of fons. Striking results are said hicle will stand up so long as the top As soon as the Conte di Savoia It was no revolutionary proceedi.g|of one of its hazards. ling, have gyro-stabilizers, The Conte free from smoke but because, like rad- | °d» remaining entirely unscathed and lon to be indoors to prevent this ionization gests that the air-conditioners may have to electrify the artificial atmos- phere that they create in order to re- when we take a deep breath in the open. Certainly it is not enough to supply a room with air that is merely washed and that is merely of the pro- per temperature and humidity. The air must have 'life. And it is ioniza- tion that imparts life, air-conditioner by Professor Dessauer of Frankfort, who has been treating the sick with high and low concentra- to have been obtained in cases of neu- ralgia, high blood pressure, bronchitis, neuritis and gout. Some apparatus like Dressauer's will probably be adopted by engineers to ionize the treated air of dwellings and auditoriums. What with ultraviolet lamps to tan us indoors, and fons to electrify the air and make it fit to breathe, indoor life becomes more complex than ever. od Creaseless Cravats. From Manchester, England, comes the néws that rayon is to be treated with synthetic resin and thus render ed creaseless. The resin is synthesized from carbolic acid (phenol) and for malhehyde. We are familiar with it in the form of pipestems, table tops, handles for knives and the like. Four- teen years of laboratory research are said to lie behind creaseless rayon. From the accounts that have reach- ed this country the resin permeates the fiber through and through. The mere coating of the fabric, in accord- ance with waterproofing principles, will not do. How is the effect obtain- ed to be explained? Not by a stiffen- ing of the fiber. Apparently the resin enters minute pores and imparts a cer- tain resiliency, so that when bent or crushed the fiber springs back to its original shape. Natural fibers can also be treated with synthetic resin to in- crease their resistance to wrinking and crushing --Waldemar Kaempffert in The N.Y. Times. Increased Air Safety Seen In New Fire Preventive Berlin.--A chemical first preventive, invented by Dr. Arthur Eichgruen, the inventor of artificial silk and the in- flammation-resisting "cellon," bids fair Judging from the tests, to rid aviation Wood and tex- tiles, even the most delicate, appear to become non-combustible on impre- gation with the new solution. - This acts in such a way that on the ap- proach of the flame it sets free gases which extinguish it. Among the test objects was a mini- ature blimp, one half of which was impregnated. When the fire was star- ted, the unprotected portion blazed away In a thrice, the impregnated halt, shut off by a bulkhead, also impregnat- kept the whole structure afloat. fee oe. New Canadian Record for Weight Lifti Kitchener.--A new foight Lifting lifting record, the lightweight two- hand class and jerk lift, was made by Jack Russell of the London Y.M.C.A. In the recent Ontario weight lifting championships at the Kitchener Y.M. C.A. Russell raised 250 pounds in this Azari Barbeau of Montreal, 'which was 244 pounds. The London boy easily. won the championship in his class with a total of 600 points. Norm Mil- ler of the Toronto Central "Y." was Ten Tons Ontario Onions ns or Montreal.--Ten tons of Ontario on- fons, believed to be the first lot ever shipped from Canada to the French West. Indies, will leave Halifax for on the day before Christmas, Martin- ique is the island on which the Em- and brought up. ------ Bavaria's Debt to U.S. electrification of air. Dr. Koller sug-| produce the exhiliaration that comes; A foundation has been laid for the| lift to surpass the previous mark of b second with 540, and Harry Moule of | °® lo : ¢ Martinique on the freighter Chomody | press Josephine of France was born uit Fetiponnd Sx Months e back in New York, wearing a Paris chapeau. i em) eve-- "Accordion" Street Car . To Be Used in Germany Germany, country of music and pro gressive engineering, has now combin ed the two and built an "accordion" street car... It may not produce any music, but it is so flexible that it can twist and wriggle around corners like a lizard. The interior continues as suming new shapes as the car swings around a curve. At time its rear end may be out of view, because it is still behind the corner. This is made pos- sible by dividing the car into three sections, which are closely eoupled and connected by accordion bellows. The interior creates an impression of one car. The wheels are mechanically steered so that the screeching in the curves is said 'to be avoided. Both ed with seats. Radio fans, moreover, were pleased to learn that this electric car is fitted with a device which will keep it from disturbing the reception of their sets. What Germany Wants (By Winston Churchill.) = Germany has paid since the war an indemnity of over one thousand mil- lion pounds of sterling, but she has borrowed at the same time two thou- sand million sterling with which to 'pay this indemnity and to equi® her factories. Now she has come to Lau- sanne freed virtually from all those reparations. At the same time the timately to be irrecoverable, Now the demand is that Germany should be allowed to rearm. Do not let us delude ourselves. All those bands of splendid Teutonfe yQuth marching to and fro in Germany with the light of desire to suffer for their fatherland in their eyes, they are not looking for status. They are looking for weapons, and when they have the weapons, believe me, they will then ask for the restor- ation of lost territories and lost col 'onies, and when that demand is made it cannot fail to shake, and possibly shake to their foundations, every one of those countries I have mentioned and some countries I have not mea- tioned at all . -- The Voracious Swallow Biologists have examined the stom. achs of dead birds and thus formed ever, for Dr. KE. Jacob, a German, to give us the exact menu, qualitatively and quantitatively, of a particular ird. the driver and conductor are provid-" commercial debts may well prove ul-

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