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Durham Review (1897), 7 May 1931, p. 7

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They Say as Ds and > 0) Ae Cow Fighting "Queen of Alps" Crowned Annually in Combats Arâ€" ranged by Herdsmen FEach nation has its sport. Spain bas its bullfights; China its cricket duele; Hayti it cockfights. Likewise ow fights are luorltg_nport among the peasants of the Alpine cantons of Switzerland, says "The Pathfindâ€" lust as soon as the snow has meltâ€" +5 on the slopes of the mountains in te spring the herds of cows are reâ€" turned to their pastures, Here and trnere among the mountains are tiny pasture villages. The cottages are vpened when the cowhords arrive with their cows and provide shelter intil fall. _ During the winter the huts are covered with snow. Candidates for the cow figiting championship are selected from the berds just before they are started fo their summer pastures. The exner of a berd usually selects seyvâ€" eval likely cows for this purpose. Sunday is the favorite day for the bouts. _ When the weather is nice hundreds and even thousands of peoâ€" ple from the towns â€"go out to see i0«a Swiss cows cqntend for the proud title, "Queen of the Alps." * is more than just a fight between a few cows, The people make a +=‘1 occasion of it. They brin‘l their lunch with them and gather on the hilltops for a glorious picnic. As the cows battle in the forum the spectators cheer wildly, Of course there is some betting, but generally on a small scale only, The Swiss farmers insist that the «ows are sensitive animals and take considerable pride in winning the: laurels of the day. Like race horses they seem to understand the signiâ€" fcance of the occasion. The cows welected for the contests have large horns and frequently the clash beâ€" tween two good fighters is terrific. As a rule a bout does not last more than fifteen or twenty minutes, . In that time one of the other of the conâ€" testants routs its opponent. There is a real purpose behind this odd #port. _ The Duke otf Wellington is credited with baving saild that the battle of Waterloo was won on the football field at Oxford,.. He spoke fruratively, of course, and meant that the supertor training of the English in sports enabled the British army to defeat the French,. . The Swiss farmers long ago learned that «ertain cows were braver and strongâ€" +~ than others and took pride in proâ€" ‘wctinge the herd from dogs or other Prague Fair Attracts 5 Buyers from 37 Nations A long series of elimination fights » held to determine which cow all be the champion of each canâ€" Progue. â€"â€" Moderate optimism Was ‘he keynote of the spring exposition «* the Prague International Fair which ended recently. â€" Although many deâ€" partments of industry still work at re duced speed, indications are that the turning point has been passed. Slackâ€" ness may still exist for several months but a progressive, If slow, recovery is xenerally expected. Czechoâ€"slovakia uas been less severely hit by the de pression than most industrial nations, the fair usually provides an excelâ€" ent barometer for measuring Czechoâ€" slovakia‘s industrial pulse _ It at sembled 2,987 exhibitors, of whom 130 were foreign. _ Jugoslavia, Austris, Holland, Latvia and France were ofhâ€" wially represented, while England, the United States, Germany and India were represented by private comâ€" panie@.. The number of buyers was 423,000, coming from thirtyâ€"seven countries. Another proof of the imâ€" portance of the fair is being found in the total space occupied, it being given as about 450,000 square feet. Austria, Jugoslavia, Rumania, Gerâ€" many and Poland were the chief buyâ€" ¢re, A man ranged cowslips on a S18AF, and wondered how many he «bould give for a penny. And anotber man, passing, caught the gleam and odour of them, and had £ vision of a blue valley touched with old, and April scattering oc rain:.â€"By T. W M. Cl‘o'imm Taken from "The White Wallet by Pamela Gray." Is Popular Sport The cow fights were organized to in cows for this purpose. .A deâ€" ited cow is said to feel bumiliatâ€" but the victor is a real queen. e carries her head high and thereâ€" er is always ready to protect her rd on all occasions. She . be mes the mistress of the herd. iis lessens the burdens of the cowâ€" vds, who finds it easy to control e rest of the herd by controlling e leader. ind finally to decide which one became "Queen of the Alps" the season. Only the canton ‘plons are permitted to particiâ€" in the final bouts. e center of this interesting sport ie Canton of Valis, high in the in southern 3witzerland. This m was the original home of s cheese and Its inhabitants deâ€" largely on their dairy industry velihood Our Future Airplane Speeds Will Be Almost Unlimited But Man Must Train His Body and His Senses to Withstand the Strain, Says Noted Army Aviator How Fast and How Far Can Humané Fly By Lieutenant Lester J, Maitland, in The New York Heraldâ€"Tribune, Man will be able to fly great disâ€" tances, at tremendous altitudes and with unheardâ€"of speed, as soon as hs can train his body, his nerves and his eyes to take advantage of the maâ€" chinery engineering genius will put at his disposal, This is my answer to the three quesâ€" tlions of how fast?â€"how high?â€"how soon?â€"that are continually being askâ€" ed by every person remotely interestâ€" ed in aviation. How soon the human maching can be trained along these lines still reâ€" mains to be seen. In the light of the achievements of our presentâ€"day fiyâ€" ers, I would say that the day is not far off. Many records have been broken in recent years. Planes have climbed disâ€" tances into the sky hitherto believed impossible. Over 40,000 feet above the earth, manâ€"made machines piloted by human eagles have soared and come down safely. A plane piloted by Squadron Leader Orlebar of the Royal Air Force has rushed through the air at a speed of more than 350 miles an hour. And the feat of remaining in the air for weeks at a time has passed into the realm of the nsual. And to the public asking just how such records affect commercial aviaâ€" tion, my answer is: The whole future of commercial fiying is bound up in these experiments. The machinery that has so lightened the work of the farmer was achieved through experimentation. The autoâ€" mobiles that now travel at so swift a pace over our roads came from the Rheumatism? When in Toronto a very simple matter. Aspirin will do it every time! It‘s something that you can always take. Genuine Aspirin ta lets are harmless. 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Just so the airplane of the future will emerge from its present adolesâ€" cent stage into a thing of now un:â€" dreamed perfection. Nothing is impossible in connection with . irplanes. Twentyâ€"five years ago the thought of man fAiying in heavierâ€" thanâ€"a‘> craft was regarded as ridicuâ€" loug. And yet, look what man bas acâ€" complished. He has not only learned to keep himâ€" self aloft, but bhas been able to fiy oceans, conquer all sorts of hazards and even carry on successful wartare from the clouds. & What, then, can we not accomplish in the same amount of time in the fuâ€" ture? We can only judge the possibility of future accomplishments in the light of past ones, and, taking the last twentyâ€" five years of progress as a standard, the vista that opens out before stuâ€" dents of aviation is practically unâ€" limited in its seope of possibilities and probabilities, Think of arising at a fairly early hour in New York, having breakfast and, due to the difference in time, arâ€" riving on the West Coast in time to carry on a day‘s work! This is not idle dreaming. It is posâ€" sible. The great strides aviation has made in the last few years bring nearâ€" er and nearer the possibility of man‘s being able to bend time and space to his will. This fast time, according to scienâ€" tists, will be made in the upper reâ€" gions of the air. I The efforts made by fiyers today to reach the ultimate ceiling are far more important than a mere desire to shatâ€" ter a record. It is up there, at a height incompreâ€" hensible to the ordinary person, that air lanes may be found over which the planes of the future will fly at lightâ€" ning speed. It is already known that in these upâ€" per regions there are winds that blow at hundreds of miles an hour. It reâ€" quires no great stretch of the imaginaâ€" tion to realize the desirability of a fast plane‘s taking advantage of a wind blowing 300 miles an hour, We know from Lieutenant Orlebar‘s record that planes can be flown at more than 300 miles an hour. We also know that there are swift trade winds in the upper regions. Knowing these two things, the next step is to comâ€" bine the two and thus increase the speed of our flying. These upper regions lure every Ayer on. They hold mysteries, and at the sa: time they hold the greatest posâ€" Here again the fiyer‘s physical abilâ€" ity is taxed to the utmost. Thin air, lack of oxygen and subzero weather are the great foes of flyers at the maximum "ceiling." sibilities. 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He come down from the gruelling test completely exhausted, and said that at times when the plane was traâ€" velling at this then unprecedented speed he was absolutely lost in a haze, On every turn he said he was stunned almost into unconsciousness, and at one time he was completely "out." Were it not for that fact that he reâ€" covered almost instantly that race would have ended in tragedy. I myself was thoroughly fagged out, and so I could understand his state of complete enervation. After making sharp turns flying at fast speeds I have gone "blind." This condition is caused by the blood being drat . from the brain by the sudden turn in direction,. While uncomfortâ€" able, it is only a temporary condition, for when the ship gets back on an even keel the head clears instantly. TF~ sensation is somewhat like hayâ€" ing a bright sun suddenly dispel a dar:: cloud. is well. When the upper air lanes are fathomed, however, there will be a :ceat change in the status of fying. Earth bound vehicles are restricted in their possibilities for speed, They travel now as fast as they can within the limits of safety, It is not because they are unable to go faster, but beâ€" cause it is not safe to do so. At the present time the strain of fast flying is terrific. It is not only a pysical strain but a nervous strain The ground is covered with living things constantly crossing and recrossâ€" ing each other‘s paths. Too great speed endangers not only the life of the speeder, but the rest of the world as well. No such condition exists In the air. The speed limits of the airplane rest only on the ability of the pilot and the worth of his plane and motor. My opinion is that the pilot is the chief one to be considered in the race for faster air travel. Engineers toâ€"day can transfer from paper to reality faster planes than we are as yet able to fiy. When man is able to train his body to stand the strain, and his senses not to give way under the terrific pressure of tremendous speeds and great heights, be will find waiting for bim, 1 am sure, the plane that will make it possible to eat up distance at a pace beside which the present 850 miles an hour will be but child‘s play. Mt. Robson, the Loftiest Peak of the Canadian Rockies As the airplane industry grows oldâ€" er, we are constantly finding out more and more about fuels. It is amazing, in the light of recent discoveries, how little we really knew at first about this most important part of flying. Our main struggle now is to get an ideal fuelâ€"one that will weigh less and furnish more powerâ€"and to find a means of lubricating the motor efâ€" ficiently under all weather conditions, As for the motors that are being made toâ€"dayâ€"they are marvels of enâ€" gineering construction. They stand up under hours of fiying at terrifc speeds, The motor of the future plane will undoubtedly be better, however, along with the rest of the machine. No matter to what degree of effiâ€" clency the plane itself is developed, unless we find some way of successâ€" fully combating the lack of oxygen and the low temperature of the upper regions Wwe cannot Ay there, The ordinary person cannotâ€"and will notâ€"travel by air unless it is made comfortable for him. It is our business as pilots and explorers of the air to undergo hardships to prove that fast fiying is feasible. But we must offer comfort and safety before the world will fiy with us. ; But no matter whether the comlng\ | plane have a hermetically sealed cabin | or something else, of one thing I am| | sureâ€"all things are possible in the | Every one can use his imagination as to what the air liners of the future will be, what they will look like and whether they can in comfort span the continent in six hours, Science and the capacity of human beings for inâ€" vention will bring these things to us. future of aviation. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO | Wife No 999â€""And do you love me, ‘your majesty?" If I thought that a word of mine, Perhaps unkind and untrue, Would leave its trace on a loved one‘s About the best you can do is to go traight ahead, workin. all the time, minding your own business, drinking plenty of water, fighting for fresh air, dodging motor cars and hoping for the best. face, I‘d never speak itâ€" Would you? 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