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The mental ennui-h and by the delay and silence cancer-in: the St. Raphael with the intrepid 03-year-old Prince-e lowenntein than"! and her two pilots brings up the qneetion do these stunts pay? Our own Canadian phnee no doubt will soon take oil " ter their delay with more anxiety and nothing but some cheap publicity coined. " is interesting to review the public opinion expressed in veri- ous quarters on this timely topic. Our Own View. it in nlwaya easy to net venture- eome people to take a chance on their lite to gain money or notoriety. The ordinary attempted autumn is always attends-ll with incarceration. Go why rhuuhl Pot. Canada immediately pass it"znlzzfion making it compulsory to tpp'.y Cor pi%srshut to “take oft" on f' \r:.1ri-,Hlnn' air titzht, and where rub i',! in: or notnrirty is the only thme, C, M ViliiH-t] prohibit the flight? 1hr \.'iI:ili’t 5.1m" and Dimmer is it wbmhit- udjuxut in a untimu's welfare. 80er 3. 198. any!" to death Com-ado: MID. And with» at his mm at m w bun-tom- tng the Ill-Warn M hm. lav and!” bore him. the form! (Hung: and him. Us In. boon 'on exhibi- un' on: line. the hour he Indod at In -t. I]. II oattttied to n mt. In. country-0| won't xiv. it to him. “Who-‘00 -mtttah embed on “at ie to ttttish his original assignment ot seventy-six emu. " must keep on Mstorming two month. more. lenmimo cities not included in tho original itinerary are bringing every beginnblo pressure to bent to induce bin to include them. Norfolk In among thin number. In there no mercy left for this boy who captured tho nation's hurt. but who seems to have Bddiod its louse ot proportion? Lindbergh ie tired. The young inc. in developing doattt linee of fatigue. "in ehouldere are beginning to a." n etuemeterStht neg. no dolly re- ception. my him- Tile duly " " the minimum 1-22:! an: "ailing ttne-att " the: ed tn Impendtn'; tinged hm” was silent on these gm. The talk was all the money Trriaar.--the wonvtho thrill ot It .11. "Now there are plant: pint oat that the bolt ”an mlstake ‘that the and the glory dagrlod ma "stunts into a at: regard minty, that th' places "airs amalgam-(l for land not for "rosP-otirts't racl were hastily and Imperr led. that may Were, hr 1 not snubjwted to tull-h Ihort. that the most on In entorvmoa was Ol hanged in the spirit I and .p' whim-ted to fulrload tests; ln the”. that the moat exacting of tty- Inx enterprises was orqarirod and 51mm"! in the spirit ot the (-nunty m.- lmllyhoo and In the presence of a mammal truncate resembling. In Its naive hunger tor thrills and In no alumna] ludmerenco to consequences, the crowds that Humble to witness the performnco ot pmhoulle uro- but» who climb the perpendicular villa at all buildings.“ e cruel. Iueonute demand that he en- hrge " barmstormintt tour to include - city of 50.000 or more In the tlpitod States. He has been burn- uonnln; under the Guggenheim Poun- deuon tor more then 3 month. It be "diiviat a," we eee In tho one of Ltatdbortth? We no I complete and mzing indttNrencq to his safety Ind Do Stunts-For Distance or to Reconqucr Oceans Already Crossed Really Pay? White hindsight thus warn: us with Its tepid wisdom. and thc country's conscience tts be." our the lives needlessly lost in the Pacitie. The Vlr shaun-pus" so” on to remark: Advertisers Get the Glory. But Aviators Pay the Price 'l‘l J Impendln': tragedy. but - , was mom on these an: ot dan. The talk was all of the "Cer-- money prtw,x:--tb' glory to be -the thrill of it ali. km there are plenty ot voices to t out that the Dole mo vu- I t mistake abut the prize money the glory daz‘lod many of the con- .ntu in'." a di. regard for their own h crarabt" Iy Imp: Inimum tit line- m making tt compulsory to r permission to “like oi" on 'ewmc air night. and when m: or notoriety In the only he gained prohibit the tittthtt Hun-(sumo and pioneer In I adjunz-t to a nation's welfare. 1 tttcsc. characteristic! Into may. will he proBtahte h-n r-zu-rLLH: rum! IIVaJ tor id Cost of Crazy Flying ht 'e.r.', tht covntry arrives " ”but”. Them in no a tsr rarlrruttt-temtt. ' a was raised whtte 1'11"). For days the on- ' fucking to the Oak. 'Che, ruling out ot some Carly unprepared. the cf outer (mules. the cf but: to make a suf- ,p.:1'Tro :lmwlnx to pass new. and get on the all " than “no: point- n".' tragedy. but new t on these an: ot dan. was all of the "Cer-- fmx:--tb, glory to be upa AVIATION ASININITY tnie air nee In ot present intor. follows: and victorious. " in the pneum- ' the mo Head ttt exactinl cap a truism lug. thtr (ectly re the Inns " " HIS.) Vir, case In It. lb 1 Dt nearly a " days “tor! tli Derby V th od 1110' and " the country heaped It: wrath on the Government tor risking a great ship end a great ttyer in n barnstormintt expedition! Should Lindbergh (21'th in his boyish anxiety not to disap- point some provincial committee in high hats, how the country's wrath would nznin be heaped on those who encouraged this ilne young aviator to risk his bones to provide seventy-six cities with agrroat holiday,' Hind. sight. but no foresight and no mercy!" _ “Adventure has run too far ahead of science." says Walter J. Kendrick. a Canadian airplane designer. just back from a study of aviation in Eur. ope. "The simple tact is that airplane design has not yet reached a point where gasoline will sustain a piano on a flight of 2,000 or 3,000 miles with any degree of safety.” Carl Wnltiey. Vice-President ot the Nationel Aero- nautical Association, in a telegram to the Department of Commerce, ex. presses the opinion that racing across oceans for prize money at the present stage of aeronautical development can only jeomrdlze further progreM- that real pt'NTrLe'3.'5 in long-distaste tty- lng (-12.1 be promoted without cuarting tragnJy over oceans. . 'Such an orgy of reckless tgtutriflco must never be permitted again in this country," declares the Philadelphia Inquirer: ”transatlantic flights should be restricted to planes which are spe- cially equipped tor landing on the sea surface." “Where failure is almost certain and where nothing is gained for civilization," the Mobile Register thinks, “contests of this sort are a mockery.” After recounting the et. forts made, by the newly formed divi- sion of Aeronautics in the Department or Commerce to obtain safer condi- tions tor the Hole contestants before they started. the Philadelphia Public Lodge-r concludes: "Tin-n- was no legal war by which this moo could he stopped; no official power by which the tiight could be prohibited. Authority stood helpless on the Oakland ttying-field and watch- ed the (loomed planes fly into the face of disaster, The Department of Com. nit-roe can suggest. urge. plead, and propose. but it can not enforce solely upon the recklessly brave. l "it will be a bad thing to force re gulation upon the courageous. It buoy he that had there been regula- "ion Lindbergh would never have I'aere to glory. Some ot the more iuplendid chapters of aviation might "it will he a bad thing to force to mulntlon upon the courageous. It mar he that had there been regula- tion Lindbergh would never have flown to glory. Some ot the more splendid (lumen of aviation might never have been written had Authori, ty stood by when they were begun. “Nevertheless, ton lives can in n single effort In a tremendous price to pay for a flight that could add little or nothing to the adv-nee ot flying. Thin can not so on. The ilyers must be protected from their own adven- lurnua and dtuuter-1ovitttt solves. it regulation is the only IIIIVIOI', then m gunmen must come." Extreme measures. oven in tho w” of control, are opposed by I few, in- ciuding Aunt“: Secretary ot Com- merce William P. Mnchckon, Jr., the Government', supervisor ot civil aviation. In tut interview with Thos. L. Stokes, of the United Press, Mr. MarCracken said: "The Hawaiian flight is not nearly so bad as the fatal accidents caused by inexperienced aviators flying in this country without licenses. This latter must he stopped. Personally. t think the race element is somewhat of a drawback when a certain time is set, and several planes gather for a matcst on a dint-tilt ttight. The heat way is to have some private individ- ual hack pioneering nights. so that every precaution may be taken. And plenty of time should be allowed. “One automatically begins to ex- ‘claim that there ought to be a law, until one stop: with the reflection that it would be a poorer world it I man were not allowed to heard " lite and every one were made a cow- ard by legisletive enactment. The motto “Better be safe than sorry.’ though e wand workedey rule, is not a noble principle tor tsxtraordirtary oe- custom. Apxtoug public: pray tor the ‘reecue ot the“ " etore only becapge they took the nah of. not be!" ree- jcued. If they he not been permitted to teke the risk, it would have matter- ed to few whether they lived or died. mo ie not cynicism. Were the emo- tion and the run of edventure to he elimineted. men end women would "preach the etetue of eutexnetone. The techie-e we! ot an below with ht - qua." ' "It probably is safer to have the Army and Navy do our air pioneering. on tho other hand. under private lup- orviaion commercial aviators can give a good account of themselves, as Lindbergh and Chamberlin did. Even in Army and Navy pioneering, though, there is loss ot life despite everything that con be done. and the fact mun be recognized. "t deeply regret the loa- ot life In the Dole night. I would not stop mum that are reasonable and pne- ticable, but I would see that they at. carefully regulated." There is a certain foolishness in the excited outcry of the moment against stunt tirhsq. the New York Herald Tribune contends, just us than; was a certain foolishness in the men who wanted to hop ott tor Hawaii without enough gsaolino or oven intelligent prBparatiou. We read further: Plan's ivory-tinted tower continues! to slant steadily away trom the centre I of its axis. If a plumb line were drop. i ped from its uppermost gallery to the i greensward 179 feet below it would,' hit the earth some fourteen ice’t from the side of the white marble wall The l annual increase in the angle of the: slanting wall is almost infinitessinv", al; still it has been enough to cause] considerable worry to admirers of the famed leaning tower, of which Dick-. ens wrote that it "certainly inclines! as much as the most sanguine tourist.t could desire." I The Italian Government's spacial vommlssiou has recently reported I'LL. assuringly on the condition ot the1 towor'a foundations and the danger or, collapse. Word has been sent forth; by experts that the tower, with Isis rows of vncirteling arches and its CX-i quinite (-arvngs. will, if no untowardl accident occurs, continue to delight its admirers for many a generation. During the last two decades. it is an- nounced, the beltry, that sits like a crown above the six stories of its height, has inclined somewhnt more than a half inch. Thus. almost imper- ceptibly. grows the slant that mar some day cause the tower to (all a vie. tim of those laws of gravitation which Galileo tried to demonstrate to skeptl-l cal listeners from its highest gallery‘ in 1590. I Pisa' tr Tower But Growing Slant Causes' Anxiety in Italy's Gov.. I ernment Circles I Engineers ara doubtful as to the host method of strengthening the foundations, which recently have been disclosed to be only about one-third the depth originally credited to them, and caution is advised. One of the greatest menaws to tho substructure is tho spongy soil in which it rests. Once in 1839, an effort was made to drain the moisture through the med. AN OLD GAR AND A YOUNG CRUSADER Above is shown Gwendolyn Darling, aged 2, daughter ot Gordon Darling, North Bay, one of the northern host to invade Toronto by motor. Her father is holding her. Below is shown the "Bouth Porcupine Wildest," ancient but not yet decrepit iiivver which carried three members of the northern crusade from South Porcupine to Toronto. F CC?, I l [iii). tkfie"" 'FI"" if.' Ti) “r o :-i;li22ti?,j" ""s 'Cui, ' tfdlSi?(tcj, bAl8lt5':'e') ite-era-fs-es,:.,-:-.:'.),.'..., Still Safe "ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES"-) O. Jacobson The "cttmpanfle pendente" was for many years one ot the mysteries of tho world. Was it ariginnlly intended that it should incline as it in gracious grcetin‘g to the Popes and Emperors, poets and warriors who came to honor the city on the banks of the Arno? Or was it accident that caused it to settle and to lean like a read blown by a gentle breeze? Looking at it, one has the feeling that it must slow, ly sway back into place. One. tradition has it that the archi. tevt intended the. tower as a subtle warning to the republic of her wan- ing power. in dusty French parch- ments is to be found a more amusing torsion: The designer, this writer intimates. was a hunohhack and want. ed to immortalise his own misshapen form in the marble contours of the tower. Even the great Vasari could not keep out of the discussion. contri- buting his opinion that the Campan- ile had begun to sink after the t1tth story was reached. and that from then on the architects had gone ahead con- scious of the defect. John Evelyn's writings otter the evidence that a keen observer was not unimpressed by the phenomenon. "it stands alone,” he writes, "strangely remarkable tor this. that the beholder would expect it to fall, being built exceedingly de- cliningly by rare address of the archi- tect; that, and how it is supported 'trom falling, I think, would puzzle 8 igood geomotrician." Studies made during the last cen- tury have pretty well established that the builders were only too well aware ot tho nature of the soil and the ten dency of their handiwork after the first story had been completed, and that they felt, each in succession, they could successfully complete the work. He Why It takes no long tor new: to come out ot the hurt of China tre- cently two months elapsed between the time the leimomph moor-601 an earthquake “somewhere in Central Asla," and the time the world got the story of its havoc in Western China). bacc-mes clear upon examination ct China's railroad map. This vast coun- try, one-third greater in arcs. than the United States, with mom than twice the inhabitants of the two Americas combined, has less railway mileage than Kansas. Tho United States hes one mile of railway for every twelve muzzle miles of territory and for every 460 of its population; China. has one mile for every 551’) square miles of territory and for every 56,000 of its population. Scarcciy more than one in tire Chinese has even seen a railroad and hardly more than one in titty has even riddvn on a train. The Province of Sxechusn twice the size ot the State of Illinois and containing " many peo- ple as the United Suites out of the Mississippi River. has no railway ct all, not Mongolia. Thibet and the prov- inces ct Kansu, Shansi, Kweiehow and Kwangsi. The total equipment ot all Chinese railroads amounts to less than halt that ot one of the major lines Just why, it may he asked. did such careful craftsmen as the Pisang con- tlnue with their task? It must be re- membered that no Italian town of the early Renaissance was complete with- out its commune. Giotto's inspira- tion towered over Florence; above Venice rose the delicate tinger that beckoned hotmrttotttitttt sailors, Could proud Pisa. fail to erect her standard with the rest? it was only logical that the commune should take its piece Alongside the cathedral. in this country, and their equipment ls generally so deteriorated as not to compare with Ameriea's. The marble cylinder was built to be one of a group of tour buildings held try connoisseurs to be among tho architectural treasures of the world. Before the flrst spade dug into the earth to prepare way for the tower's corner stone, the Duomo was nearly finiahod. the domed Baptistry, remi- niscent ot Moslem temples. was under construction, and soon the Campo Santo, filled with hallowed ground ‘hrought from Jerusalem, Joined the glorious company. in marbles and mosaics the artists ot Pisa sang the glory of their city, whose galleys Word of Great Earthquake in Western China Traveled Via Ancient Channels tw "ArtR5 ARCHIVES TORONTO i.." 21‘5“? '-cTWT. CC" f. 's: 'suTiat.9tf"t" An Archluctural Treasure. k of Chinese Railroads Ic/ir/ic":::";-.,:, Holds Up News for Months 1 China's nilwly histcry proper is ‘barely a quarter of a. century old. dat- ting from the opening in 1908 or the Russia-built Chinese Eastern Railway, iiiiis', Manchurian link ot the Train- isiberlan Railway, and the extension of 3 the Imperial Railway in Next! (China to connect with it at Mukden. It would now be possible to travel from Paris to Hongkong by rail but for the tact that the siretch between Chuehow and Shiuchow has never been completed, size in the world. the rumor-way do. sired tor the rsilway was almost one continuous cemetery. with grsves scab tered nromisruously over the cult!- nted flehu. To remove any of new graves required extensive negatin- ticus with the descendants of tho de- ceased, slnca only they (:0qu perform the necessary rites; and it their con- sent could not be obtained. the line had in be built In and out among tho tombs. In some places gaps were lett in the embankment until the graves could be transferred to other places. brought home a wealth of materials from the most remote shores ot the Mediterranean. Like the Acropolis. Plan's holy place has been permitted to remain isolated. The city has not encroached upon its precincts: its gray houses keep a re- spectlul distance. so that as one ap- proaches the buildings the noises of the city are left behind and there is felt the peace at the piazza broken only by occasional strains ot music accompanied try the bony perfume of income us some worshipor metres " way in or out ot the cathedral. With the exception of Its 7.700 rniIrtrl ot railway. a country more than 4,000,- 000 square miles in area depends for transporation and communication mainly on methods that have bet-n in use for thousands of years. Water-l ways are the principal highways, and boats are supplemented by the back! of coolien. camels and donkeys. muie- drawn carts and wheelbarrow; I Nearly two centuries elapsed before the helfry ot the Campanile was tttml. ly set in place. A series of architects undertook the Job; much in turn lost his confidence and abandoned the un- dertaking to another. Bonanno was the. tlrtst-it was he who laid the toun. dations and carried the tower up forty! feet in 1174. Noticing then, it is novu believed. that the earth was sinking‘ and his marble arches with it. he gave up. in 1234 Benenato added the fourth story, but, like his predecessor, turned his attention thereafter to 'other and easier tieldtt. The Pisans, Mill believing that the impossible [could be achieved, railed an outsider. William ot Innsbruck, who boldly went ahead with the fifth and sixth stories. But the tower was doomed to wait another century before Tom. maso Pisano. realizing that the foun- dations were incapable ot carrying a greater height and weight, saw noth- ing to do but to top it " with a beli ,tower. The only direct railway route be- tween North China and the east Yon:- tse Valley is the 'rientgitt-Pukoqr line. following the general route of the Im.' portal Canal. Built by Germans and British, it In said to be the best con- structed railroad in the country, luv- lng cost an average of 865,000 a mile. On the German portion are found the most pretentious railway stations in China. This route from North Chino is continued; by the Shanghai-Nin- king Railway to the sea. built under a British loan. The Chinese them- selves have extended this line south- ward along the coast through Hang- chow to Ningpo. The Chinese also built the Peking- Suiyuan Railway, piercing the Great Wall and reaching westward to the Mongolian frontier. It wt: financed by Chinese capital, constructed by Chinese engineers and has always been under strictly Chinesa manage- ment. Careful observetion indieetee that far from being unconscious ot the problem that faced them, the bulld. ers. eech in turn, endeavored to pro. serve the horizontal line by gradually increezinx the height ot tho archel on the lower or south side ot the lower. Accurate measurements were not made until CCresy and Taylor. early in the last century, surveyed the ttdltice which had been so long one of the world's greatest architec- tural puules. But it wee not until the Frenchman de Fleury save it his " toution that there we; discloeed e marked bend toward the perpendicu- lar in every story ehove the Brst, the increeee being graduated with the height, until the tttth etery in ruched. There the galleries ere new: centi- meter! higher on the overhanging side. During the two centuries of waiting and blunt”); is estimated that the settling snagged to some sovont centimeterr w 195 it had Micki t meter 'llirshl. l was not un i% dawn t the twentieth century that the dd we: probably ”canto- ly soive4, n 1910 William A. Good. (in!) - which it, the an! wu alumni, “In; to but.” you Feat an». to make an exhu- tlgt 2pm; n of the tuning tower ' t! hotly: llmmun’~ Ho Baid t'" n u. op do! “tho builder. knew Builders Aware of Slant. 1 Then the man in the overalls re. mun thour,htftsur--"tt't' no use to me .--r have no women toikI. I'd sell it. Perhaps you would like to buy it." The mutant, who ten chemo: to one is not I mm expert. thinks "here'l a chance to pick up e diemond cheap. and the person who lost it will never now I lave It." He Olen tire dol- lers for the ring. A varlotlon ot " old mo In a now (also on additions! ovldonoo support- lng the Into Mr. Bomuln'l contention --"thera'a one born every mtrutta"-- has come to light on the Montreal-Quo- bee nightly. A young mu: dressed ttt the fauna unltorm ot a farm had driven up Ind down tho highway in I an." cheap car. When he approach. a point: where s tourist might non or slacker: speed. the young nun annulus to manoeuvre his car in front ot the tourist stops suddenly, jump: out of Youth Finds . the our and mike- tho lecture at picking up Mtrmsthittg from the road. Then ho hold; n ring with a slimming stone up botore tho tour-Inn who I: humanly curious. “See what I found?” any! the panedo son of the soil. “Than . ttne ring. comment- the tourist. The tourist who sometime. pos- Ieuet a some of humor may admire the ingenuity ot this “we trvhetttre (a elm a livelihood. “Suppose, the ‘farmer' found tti." chnsers tor ten rings daily. he wouit have I. profit ot $80, which is much better money than is raid in the “1-H,- ern harvest fuldts," the tourist mus“. "Well, it it is I dilmond. mister, it'l probably worth “00 or $600. I think you might give me no for it," urges the simple mrmerht boy. "All ruht--hereh' ten." The deal it closed. The lourfst chuckles over the tine stroke ot bus'.. neu which he has done with Bom'" bodr's hired man. The tourist tr. rivel tn Montreal and uh a reliable Jeweller to nine the “stone." "The stone nut! the sold are worth not more than two doHars," the jeweller announces. "How much d'M you pay tor It." “I cannot register any ottir because my own share in the not above criticism." However, a tourist from Phi'urlor phia who relumd to tell his nun" for obvious reasons, hm, reported tr, st'. tivilies of an unlicensed "diamrud" vendor to the Montreal Tourist and Convention Bureau. The Philadelphia mun upon going to a local hotel had related the incident u n toke upon himoeli‘ to n friend trom New York whom he Ind met in the hotel rotunrle,f "The “no thing happened to me yes- _ torch! on the Montreal-Quebec High- war." the New York mu counsel. The authorities cannot do much thou! the mutter. It mun LII:IXH”I mm wnnt to purchase “gems" from total Ill-Inger: on public high-saw there In nothlnz to prevent lbcm c, 0:.1 doing no. Wild Birds Bill Comprehensive Measure to Protect Wild Life Blocked by Opposition Loudon-Tho ta'lure (r the Wild Birds Protection Bill to roach its third reading in the Itcattte of Commons. owing to ditt1eulties which new arias -n in committee. is regarded with In- feigned regret by all lovers of binds. This bill is the outcome of much work by experie. dating an {at back l I "" In 1913 the Home Ottice ep- pointed e Depertmentai Committee to collide: wild bird protection lawn. teke evidence, and eortrolidate 1x531- In; ecu. While remain: the and tom Ind general Mae ot legisiufon which he: been In force since 1880. and in. proved anceesetul in Innintnfn- in; the out“ ot British bird life, it he: ttiNittet “mum. The was M eight not: would to" been replacr.1 " one comprehensive measure; H m- tory protection world here been gr. :n to may birds, bird.etvtehers uni bird. collectors would have been min Atteur dealt with, .und vniuabie ni- idltlou to existing powers cf :33“: ind magi-into would have beau nrda. A. the ultimate retomtttCttdatiinrs ot the committee the bill was originally introduced by Lord Grey cf Puliodun in 1928. when it paased the “bike of Lent bu got no further owing in a uneni election. " was brought in u . Government meuure in 1925 and up“: in 1926 and met with serum approval. though blocked by proxsrt'a ot Puriinmnury work. The cause of it. hill". on the present amnion in tttt tannin“ Opposition ot a group who mum toward tmendmenis up tlralr during the ehtrrrreter ot legisla- tion on “an roiectod may you: no u ttgtthromMe to the protection: ct but I Iluur ot the house (lo complain. In; "ritr--"Dear. dear. I'm med of thou kitchen .quatrtrtes, continuu- Borit--"Weu, Mr. 'ow would you III. to In allot! a mummy “db In“ on. Met" A New Swindle Fails in Britain ', He Know Tourists I Only Supposlng. ----i------- ring, You're lucky,“ kick The Crimina Europe Ver, duh our A View of Who Ha and Cri mq Inc In th u ll It In "B-r."--- ber II In or n " pu Inw- " I the Unit, I civilly-4| l "oh, r)” moo is m. u to NHL Ft critttW. My; rnllu (an! arm the crimm adequate them; the m, will Ind! and and its d: ttgttt tittd ; of cw " u Am Opvluh - mu th w m lied Th rtt "