ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND fees! | Ee

Interest

of the Astronomer Royal, Dr.
x Jones, on the subject:

planet certainly made ql
oach to the earth, but
spealk of a close approach 1
g in terms of astronomical |

rare of any celestial body to!
within a few million miles of |
rth and this small planet |
at a distance of some four |
thousand miles, which is!
the closest approach of any
elestial body. This oc¢cur-
given rise, perhaps not sur-
to some conjecture as to}
ght have happened if it had
ly collided with the earth,

ly 30 years ago a much-smal-
ly—a large meteor—struck the}
h in’a remote part of Siberia.
witnesses of the fall told of
ppearance of a mighty flame,
brighter than the sun, giving
heat, and of a violent ex-
followed by a tremendous
made, like an artillery barrage,
| lasted for several minutes.
eteor fell in a thickly affor-|
egion and the trees around, |
listance of about 20 miles, were
down by the blast of wind
ie meteor fell; they were
d of their bark, and most of
anches had been scorched by
blast.
so that when seen from the
was a strange fan-like ap-
More than one thousand
were killed.

me thousands of years ago a

| “whites”
eens as the Orientals do to us.

They had all fallen),

A pproach To Earth .
Small Planet Brings

ing Comment

Theory Is Reasonable

|That Individual White People
Look Alike To Orientals
There is a theory and it sounds
reasonable enough, that individual
lock as much alike to the

All

It may be a little hard on our racial

ego to admit that we can—under
these conditions—be reduced to the
mass distinction. of so many billiard
balls, but as we generally believe
that Chinamen and Japs have re-
markably standardized features and
expression, We can’t blame them if
they turn around and do the same
thing. However, it is not a case for
war,

What interests us more is the busi-
ness of the international facial
“type”. Now, there is not—and it
may be because we have gone little
further in the struggle for independ-
ence than the Statute of Westmin-
ster—a Canadian “type’; not so far
as we know. There is a French type,
an Italian type, a Russian prince
type (and he is usually no such
thing), and even an English type.
There is, we venture to say—with

; an eye to the three thousand miles

of unfortified frontier
type.

The fact that you often see an
Englishman who looks more like a
Frenchman than a Parisian does; or

-an American

@ Russian who looks like a Dane, has
nothing to do with the argument.
You have to go outside to find out
how you look to the foreigner, and to
see “ourselves as others see us.”

To the German and the French-

| larger meteor, or possibly a
struck the earth. The scar
ill be seen in Arizona as ay
4 up-shaped hole with a raised!
tak one mile in diameter and
This meteor is esti-|
d ‘to. hhaye weighed about one
When. it fell it -bored}
ay through the hard sandstone
, generating terrific heat and a
‘quantity of steam, which shot)
again with explosive violence. |
does not record what the
ects of the explosion were, but by!
parison with the Siberian meteor
‘believe that serious destruc-!
must have been caused at dis-
of one or two hundred miles.
planet that~ recently passed)
the earth was probably no more}
n a mile in diameter and may be
ated to weigh something like
‘thousand million tons. This ex-
that of the Arizona meteor by
bout as many times as that exceed-
ed the Siberian meteor.
Pe 80! ‘by a comparison of the results
‘these impacts we can get a rough
idea of what would have happened
if this planet were to collide with
“the earth, It would probably form a
hole. in the earth’s surface,
haps 50 miles across and a mile
4 resembling-the larger mountain
‘craters on the moon. Destruction
vithin this area would be complete,
d all visible landmarks would dis-

ae explosive blast of gcorching
r, like that from an intensely hot}
, would carry destruction far
wide, and effects would probably
felt the whole world over. If it
ell in the middle of one of the
oceans, gigantic waves would carry
d ction far and wide. The es-
pe that the earth had on this occa-
sion may be compared with that of a
six-inch target which a marksman
misses by 25 fect. A pretty bad
show, we should say!

And the-chances that the earth)
will actually be hit by such a planet
are so extremely small that we may
d gard them and consider conjec-
es of what might happen if there
Were a collision as merely idle,

eculation.—B.B.C. Listener.
=

Chinese Problems

n Bartlett, well-known

itish recognition of Manchoukuo,”

lew published by the
Ss Chronicle.
China ¢ cannot rapidly be mobilized,

ang Said, dealing with
lems,

A Giant Furnace
ous countries like Germany,

that can register 4,800 de-

postal savings accounts.

though perhaps not uninteresting

General Chiang Kai-Shek told Ver-
British
alist, he “could not conceive of

that such recognition would be
een destroying Sino-British
lendship,” according to a special in-
London
A country as large

internal

Japan should take note of
t that Haryard University has

f heat. That's the nearest to!

aa
» in the sun you can reach in
d world, says the Toronto

3,000,000 people in Japan

man the Englishman is still John
Bull, a full-faced, ruddy squire stand-
ing his ground. To others he is a
| monocled fellow who rarely takes
off evening clothes.
| American the average Frenchman is
a small, fussy, excitable man, and
‘the German a ‘thick-necked giant
with a sort of jig-saw puzzle of scars
The Russian,
needs a black

| on his cropped skull.
| since the revolution,
| beard to be -human.

You can, of course, go through
| these countries and never see any of
these types. You won't see John
Bull, nor the French dynamo, nor the
| Prussian monster, It is a prime les-
| gon in propaganda.

Having felt the influence of car-
| toonists and people in picturing oth-
\ ers, we can only figure how we might
{be painted for the benefit of those
who might like to regard us as
scoundrels. Then they might develop
a first-class Canadian type; one that
we would prefer not to see.—Hamil-
ton Spectator,

| Thatcher Wheat

May Be Recognized As Equal To
Marquis, And Acceptable
For High Grade

EB. B. Ramsay, chief commissioner
of the board of grain commissioners,
announced that Thatcher wheat, rust-
resistant. variety likely to occupy the
largest share of the 1938 acreage in
| Manitoba and portions of Saskatche-
leant may be recognized as “equal
to Marquis’ and acceptable for the
grade of No. 1 Manitoba northern.

Mr, Ramsay referred to the experi-
mental shipment of Thatcher and
Coronation wheats to the United
Kingdom and added:

“Information received would indi-
eate Thatcher ‘Wheat as No. 1 Mani-
toba northern has been confirmed.
In other words, Thatcher wheat will
be recognized as being ‘equal to Mar-
quis’ in milling quality.”

Thatcher was produced from a
cross made at the University of Min-
nesota in 1921, the parents being a
Marquis- Tumillo hybrid and a Mar-
quis-Kanred hybrid.

Learned Something
Jones (dismally): “Yes, I had a
balance in the bank not long ago, but
since I have been engaged it has all
one.
| Friend: “Expensive game, eh?
Never mind, love makes the world go
round, you know?”
Jones: “Perhaps,
thought it would go
enough to make me lose my balance.”
SE

but I

Author (in letter):
| quick worker.

nothing of it.”
‘| Editor (replying):

thought just the same.”

grounds!”
“What are they?”
“Twins.”

the fire gets burned.

To*the North|

never|
round fast!

“I am a very!
I got through the en-|
closed article in an hour and Gaensy

your article in half the time, and

— se
“J want a rise in my Salary on two

cards dating back to 1840.

THE KING AND QUEEN AT THE B.LF.

Their Majesties the King and Queen during their tour of the British In-
dustries Fair at Olympia became intensely interested in a display of playing

Talking Newspaper

New Sound Device That Vocalizes
The News Of The Day
A new method for producing a

talking-newspaper was reported in
“Editor and Publisher,” journalistic
trade magazine. The device, by
which a sound-track can be produced

man voice reproduced from the track
by means of an inexpensive machine
in the home, was invented by, W. G.
H. Finch of New York.

The invention not only promises
to be useful for children too young
| to read, and for illiterates and blind
persons, but also holds the seed of a
revolutionary change

and Publisher.”

buy for $1,000 or $1,500 a master
recording machine which would pro-}
duce the visible sound track. This
track is simply a miniature of the
picture produced in an oscillograph

ated by sound impulses. From the
visible sound track, a plate would be
made to be inserted into the regular
newspaper makeup.

The sound would be reproduced by
means of a reproducer which, Mr.
Finch said, could be manufactured
for as low as 25 cents apiece, pro-
viding volume production was great
enough. The producer, measuring
about mune inches long and five inches
square, “includes seanning equi t
madé up of a light source ‘to be
focused upon the printed sound track
and a photo-electric cell sensitive to
the varying light intensities refract-
ed from a record, or newspaper. A
preamplifier is associated with the
photo-electrie cell to amplify the
electrical signals generated by the
cell. The output of the preamplifier
is amplified further by connecting
the reproducer with any radio loud-
speaker, through a patented device.

A white man—a sea captain of
Nome, Alaska—crossed Bering Strait
on the ice by dog sled, showing that
America’s early natives could have

historic times, even without boats.

on ordinary newsprint and the hu-|

in the news-)|
paper industry, according to “Editor

Mr. Finch said a newspaper could}

by talking into it, in other words, |
the wave line made by a pen actu-|

come from Siberia that way in pre-)

Rett OF The me

Fate Of Rehooier 4 Marie Celeste’s

Crew Unsolved After 66 Years

The overworked imaginations of
mystery authors, motion picture story
writers and producers of weird radio
dramas have fallen far short of the
elements of one of the secrets of the
sea.

For 65 years various theories have
been advanced to solve the mystery

the schooner Marie Celeste, built at
the old shipbuilding yard of Spences
Island, Nova Scotia. The enigma of
1872 remains unfathomed and super-
stitious seamen have built many fan-
tastic theories around the episode.
Captain B. S. Briggs, a Massa-
| chusetts skipper, his wife and daugh-
ter with a crew of ten sailed from
|New York harbor, bound for Genoa
with a cargo of ‘alcohol. The ship
| Was next sighted drifting aimlessly
jnear the Azores. Boarded by the
captain of a British vessel, no ves-
tige of life was found nor any indi-
cation of the fate of those aboard.
No bodies were there, all the _life-
boats were in place and not a sign
of bloodshed or violence existed.
Cargo and seamen’s chests with
clothing and money were intact;
ropes properly coiled and even. food
prepared for the next meal. This in-
dicated that no storm had caused
abandonment and that smooth seas
had prevailed. A bottle of medicine
was found standing on the captain’s
‘ table.
Such is the authenticated, unsolved
jstory, stranger than high-priced
flights of fiction; but as a movie
thriller it would not do—the human
element is missing. — Kitchener
Record.

H King George Holds Levee
The King, bareheaded in the spring
sunshine,

hold his first levee of the season.
Wearing the scarlet uniform of
| colonel- -in-chief of the Brigade of
| Guards, the King received from his
| canopied throne 1000 diplomats,
|army, navy, and Royal Air Force
,_ lotieere, and civilians,

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Could Teach Scientists

Witch
Have Secrets
Cicely Williams,

Dr. one

Gold Coast, once
Grave",
on witeh doctors,
those black mystery men can
give tips to western medicine.

After working among them, see-
ing as much as they would allow of
the strange cures which haye been
handed down for centuries from one
witch doctor to the next, Dr. William
feels there is something in this
“witchcraft”.

“Some of their cures are genuine
and convincing; they undoubtedly
have some effective treatment for
tetanus,” she says.

Western medicine
ment which doctors would care
describe as effective.

Dr. Williams describes the witch
doctors’ methods as “complicated”
but adds that they would “repay in-
vestigation.”

Writing in the Lancet of the na-
tives, she says:

“The African male is much ad-
dicted to the habit of sitting in the

has found that
still

has no treat-
to

Doctors Of Gold Coast Still! increase in production

young pioneer women doctors who, | Territories.
nine years ago, went to work on the) program announced at the beginning
“The White Man’ s| of the year has been virtually com-
and led the attack of science Pleted, and consequent on inereased

Modern Mining Plant Near
Arctic Circle Is Responsible
For Canada’s Radium Supply

Canada’s radium industry reports
| progress in 1937, with an appréciabl2
at the pro-
| perty of Eldorado Gold Mines, Limit-

of the|ed, at Great Bear Lake, Northwest

The all-round expansion

output at the mine the company is
enlarging the capacity of its refinery
at Port Hope, Ontario, Including”
the radium laboratory proper, five
new buildings have been erected, and
the new,facilities at the refinery will
make possible a capacity triple that
of the previous plant, and also.make
provision for new products not yet
included in Eldorado's growing rad-
ium-uranium-silver-lead-copper  pro-
duction list. The uranium products
are widely used in ceramic and other
industries and a record demand js be-
ing experienced for them.
Development work at the mine in-
cluded an 8,000-foot-underground ad-
vance, and construction of several
buildings. The mine has.been elec-
trified by the installation of new
Diesel and: boiler equipment, the oil
for fuel being obtained from the wells
at Norman. Installation of — this,
along with such equipment as a jig,
filter and additional flotation «cells,

shade and playing warri, di F4
his prowess, or manufacturing politi-
cal or litigious stiuations, He is con-
tent to see his women folk heavily
overworked on his farm or to pay
wages to an alien laborer.

~ “A wife is an investment. One
costs about $50. She works for her
husband, cooks his~ food, cultivates
his farm, engages in petty trading,
and when there are children she goes
home to mother, who brings them
up.”

Lawyer May Win Millions

akes Advantage Of Obscure Law

Regarding Unclaimed Money
-A Philadelphia lawyer stands to
win about $4,000,000 if all the un-
claimed money he has reported to the
state finally reaches the Pennsyl-
vania treasury and his claim is ap-
proved by the courts.

A Dauphin County judge issued a
writ of mandamus in favor of At-
torney Michael Edelman under a,law
providing that an informer who re-
ports unclaimed money and prose-
cutes and proves his case is entitled
to one-fourth of the amounts that
revert to the commonwealth,

Edelman filed with the court a
list of corporations which hold
dividends declared but unpaid, ma-
tured interest on debts which had not
been paid because the owners are
unknown, funds owing to unknown
persons; unclaimed stock and cus-
tomers’ deposits which have not been
returned.

“Edelman said he and another at-
torney spent four years and a great
deal of money gathering the informa-
tion.

Demand For Canadian Eggs

Experimental Shipments To Britain
Met With Great Success

Canadian exporters have launched
a successful challenge to Denmark s
long-standing domination of the
United Kingdom's egg market.

Experimental shipments of Cana-
dian eggs, sponsored by the Domin-
ion department of agriculttre and
co-operative organizations, have met
with such success that steps have
been taken to establish the scheme
on a permanent basis.

Direct negotiations for a regular
and increased supply have already
been opened between a leading firm
of London importers and Quebec
authorities.

It was originally intended to carry)
on the experimental shipment for a
period of eight weks only, each ship-

eggs.
the Canadian product that the supply}
was quickly exhausted.

no doubt Canadian eggs were fresher
| than from most other countries, were
| better packed and handled,
commanding higher prices.
Gets Plenty of Exercise
Fred Lamb, a watchman for 19
years with Waterous, Limited, is the!
walkingest”’
|He has never had a yacation since

| distance of 15 miles per night about
the plant, according to his computa-|
tion, he has gone 103,740 miles in the;
19 years.

In Vienna girls are undergoing
training for employment as domestic
‘servants in Great Britain.

|

ment consisting of 50 cases of 180) ,;my uniforms, replacing khaki,
The demand was so keen for}

A member of the importing firm}
of John Loudon declared there was)

thus)

| pointed out that sthé. pre-war

man in Brantford, Ont. |
; mated, were

was all ed in December, The
new construction at ‘Eldorado itself
includes two 70,000-gallon tanks for
fuel oil, a chemical DBROEALOLYS a new
assay ‘office, and*a* hew ~two-storey
kitchen and dining hall. For the No.
2 or gulch’ shaft, the ,¢onstruction
work included an electric transmis-
sion line from the’ céntral workings
as well as a road. The two- compart-
ment shaft has been completed to
125 feet, shafthouse erected and. elec-
trically equipped. At Bonanzi, on
Dowdell Point, road construction’ has

| also been completed as well as the

power house, blacksmith shop, head-
frame and other necessary buildings.
The discovery of pitchblende and
silver ores by Gilbert Labine at a
poifit to the northwest of Echo Bay,
Great Bear Lake, Northwest Terri-
tories, in May, 1930, was one of the
most romantic events in the history
of mineral exploration. Considering
the remoteness of the region, about —
40°miles south of the Arctic Circle,
the establshment of a modern mining
plant capable -of handling. 100° tons
of ore a day and permanently em-
ploying more than 100'men, is‘a re-
markable achievement.

Confident Of Success —

Young Singer Fitting Himself For
‘Operatic Career Before Sight Goes

A 22-year-old Philadelphia singer,
reconciled ‘té the fact, that’ he soon
will be blind, has embarked on a d:-
termined race for an operatic career
before his sight is totally gone.

“T can do it! I will’ do it!” vowed
husky, bass-voiced ~ David Hartley.
“All Ive got to do is study “hard
while I can still see’a little.”

Hartley’ is afflicted‘ with choroid
erameia, which already has partly
obscured his vision. Physicians say
there is no known cure.

A former Metropolitan Opera star
heard Hartley sing. He invited the +
six-footer to his studio and vyolun-

teered to teach him—if there, was

time. :
“Within two years,” he told Hart-

ley, “you'll be self-supporting. In

six ‘months, you dlready have done
the work of years. ~

“Tt will be easy,”’ said the young
singer. “German, French and Italian
—I'm learning them all. And piano
and more and more work on yoice
production.”

Prefers Scarlet Tunic

ss

Bright Uniforms Inspiring Opinion
Of Boer War Veteran
The old-style brilliantly - colored

as
_Joseph Jordon, first
(Torontonian) to” * énist with’ the
| Royal Canadjan.' Regiment for ser-
vices in South Africa. Speaking in
Toronto to more than 50 Boer War
veterans, at the 38th anniversary of
the. Battle of Paardeberg, “in South
Africa, Dr: Jordon, president of the
South African Veterans’ Association,
red-
coated warriors had a much neater
| appearance, and were much
pleasant to watch while on pavade.
The present khaki uniforms, he ‘nti-
drab and not much of
an inspiration to the younger gener-
ation. Khaki should be uscd only in
time of war, he added.

advocated by Dr,

more

A manufacturer of toy trains made
more money in '37 than the country’s
biggest locomotive works; while a
ventriloquist's dummy showed 4
larger net than many a lumber yard.

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