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Strange Ruins on Labrador Coast Monissey Ejcpedition Examine Relics that May Mark Norse Visit! Nearly 500 Years Before Columbus Th* Putnftm expedition Into our American residence was In Wlneland. north country Is creating some later- ' It seems llloKlcal that these oarly •St In the Bt«teB. George Palmer Put- 1 mariners should have halted on these nam la keeping the American Press I hard shores long enough to require supplied with many columns ot in- stoue houses, or to have completed terostlns details ot his discoveries I and occupied a community of them, as and experiences. Recently Ae dealt i indicated by tlie relics.. But again with the old ruins on Sculpln Island one may rejoin that perhaps Winter as follows: {overtook them, compelling them to Newfoundland was the "Markland" ] tamp where they were. Only then, of the Danish sagi-.s, and Nova Scotia perhaps, they would have gone Just a was possibly "KJaUrness." On the j bit further, to the mainland, where a other hand, "Wtneland the Good" may { few hours" sail would have brought have been Nova Scotia, perhap.< roach- i them to timber and abundant water exploit In flnding Wlneland In the year 1000. From his home in Green- land he sailed for Norway, and was driven south to the Hebrides. After a romance there he proceeded to the Court of King Olaf Tryggvason, was converted to Christianity and rever- ently assumed the mission of carry- ing bis new-found religion back to Greenland. On the return voyage he encountered continental America. tng far to the south and v/ett. Pos- sibly the students of these problems never will be entirely agreed. But tor the main premise there Is agree- ment and sound ovlduucc. Lo!f Eric- son and Thorflnn Karlsefui came to America fom Greenland 492 yoars be- fore Columbus. Up hero midway along Jho coast of Labrador and not far from the settle- ment of Naln, are ancient ruins, pos- sibly of Kori;o origin. Kor years they have ,i)een known and periodically in- vestigated. Soon. It Is uiuItTstood, they are to be the subject of thorough- going study and archaeloslcal re- search, which v.-fll may Bcttle their exact etatU3 and possibly 1111 an allur- ing gap In early American history. In our own brief vi.sit v/e could ob- Al lof this, of course, is purely con- jectural. TShere are authorities like BabcocU who take a pessimistic view as to the likelihood of flnding any authentic Norse relics. They oven doubt the ex- istence of any. "It seems," says Babcock, "that so far as investigation has gono there is not a single known record or relic of Wineland, Markland, Helluland or any Norse or Icelandic voyage of discov- ery extant at Uils time, which may be relied on with any confidence." And on the other side of the picture there are those who place consider- able reliance upon tho "relics" and the evidence on record, and wlio pur- sue further possibilities, such as the ruins on the Labrador coast, with An Indian Rock Carving Found What Is said to be the largest petro- glyph, or Indian rock carving, In Can- ada has just been reported to the archaeological ofllce of the National Museum at Ottawa. This petroglyph Is said to be over 60 feet long and to be carved on a vertical face of reddish rock rising from Fraser Hlver Valley. The place is only about twelve miles from Yale, B.C., on tho railway line, and as It Is t'ie most available petro- glyph to two transcontinental rail- ways, an effort will be made to have it set aside as a national monument. Previously to this discovery the larg- est known petroglyph in Canada wa3 on the west side of Ji seventy-foot can- yon near Bella Coorn, about one mile south ot Mackenzie Highway. talu at best only a cursory glimpse of I hopeful enthusiasm. Hut It would be the country. We found the ruin;; on a I presumptuous for one who Is not a smaller Isle to the oast of Sculpiii 1j- land, pcceBslble from It nt low water. Sculpln Island lies some twonty miles from Naln, say two-thirds up the coast Qf Lubrador. Tho ruins themselves are on a small rocky peninsula a few hundred yards long with an average width of 150 feet. The group contains eleven ma- -^r structures about lifty feet from tho water. Close at hand is an excel- lent protected landing place for small craft, with some indication of an arti- ficial breakwater. Substantial Ruins. Tho maximum height of the walls Is about three feet and the dimensions of a typical iar^e house are approxi- mately twelve by eighteen feet. Most of tUom are oblong in shape. The main walls nppirently averaged about eighteen inches In thicknesH and were constructed of flat natural stones. In at least one building a dearly defined doorway remains, with a rectangular paseagc beyond it. Several of these outside entrance approaches were evi- dent. Except for their rectangular shap'! they closely resemble tho cold- protcctlng entrance tunnoLi of many modt'rn KRklmo igloos encountered In Greenland and d.-iewhero. la addltlDii there wore Eome round houses, while Bdjacent were remains ot characteris- tic Kskimo dwelling and tunt rings, where later resldejtts evidently had camp'3d. P. lletlisch, tho Moravian mission- ary at Na)n, told us that tho Eskimo *-alns signinea "tho -â- ' ocpple." Ap- â- Miiiij' student of the prpblem to enter into the discussion. All that can bo said is that the details have been sifted and battled over for some decades. The Norsemen's Landing. By and large, it may be well, to give tho "ruins" the benefit of a historic doubt. If not themselves of Norse origin, there Is small doubt that Norsemen made their first landfalls hereabout. And what an extraordin- ary story lies In those voyages â€" a story that may never be adequately recorded. It begins In Ireland, for Iceland was originally largely peopled by the Irish. And In Iceland, before the year 1000, Eric Ilaudl, or Eric the Red, appears to have led a strenuous life. Not him- selt a trouble maker, he seems fre- quently to have been in trouble. As a result of his difllculties lie was for a time practically an outlaw. Later, helped by friends, he fitted out a ship and disappeared to the westward. Three years later he returned. Ho had found Greenland. A considerable fleet of adventurous pioneers followed him back to the new country about tho year 985, eleven vessels being lost in storms on the way. And after that (ireoniand wob Norse for BOO years. An epic of colonization began only to end In tragedy, for tho colony was mysteriously wiped out. From, say, 1450 to 1721, when Hans Kgerde re- discovered and revived it for tho Danes, Greenland was a lo.st and de- solated land. Then camo I,elf. Tradition aets his Girls' Choice is Love or Learning London â€" Love or learning seems to I be the choice confronting the modern girl. Statistics covering seven years show that only five per cent, of the girls passing through Oxford Univer- sity have obtained husbands â€" though they do not show how many wanted them. Women educators say that men feel abashed in tho presence of the female Intellectual giants turned out by Brit- ish colleges, and are picking the girls whose thoughts run to the Intricacies ot the latest dance. .> PRINTING DEVICES OUTRIVAL WORK OF SKILLFUL FINGERS Mechanical Task of Feeding Sheets of Pap^r to The Press Has Been Perfected Gentleman of the World â€" "A sales- man has a sweetheart in every town I â€" a sailor a girl in every port â€" " I Collegian â€" "But only a college man I has a co-ed on every' davenport!" -0 Though both training and circum- stances make it practically impossible for members of tho royal family to earn thelj living, It will bo different, presuii"^''^ with their children. â€" I^' " 'he ex-Kaiser. Senator Raul Oandurand | Canada's representative to the League ' of Nations. | â-  ^ -j Books of Witchery For Your Child I Every child loves to hear stories of j magic and whitchery. Here is a list i ' ot the best books of this type, com- 1 piled by the book editor of "Child i Life," The Children's Own Magazine: | I Black Cats and the Tinker's Wife, by ; Margaret Baker; Boy who Knew What the Birds Said, by Padralc Colum; Donegal Wonder Book, by Seaumas MacManus; Down-A-Down-Derry, by Walter de la Mare; Ellin Pedlar and Tales Told by Pixy Pool, by Helen Douglas Adam; Moonshine and Clover, by Laurence Housman; Mystery Tales for Boys and Girls, by Elva S. Smith; North Cornwall Fairies and Legends, b Enys Tregarthen; Shen of the Sea by Arthur B. Chairman; Tale ot the Good Cat Juple, by Neely McCoy. Conference of Irish Leaders is Plaained Cork, Irish Free State. â€" President Cosgrave. whose government came out victorious by a small margin In the recent general elections, and I Eamon de Valera, Republican leader, ( who heads the Opposition, have been i invited to attend a conference here to j consider tho economic positioa of the j country and the question of concilia- 1 tion and unity. . { The Invitation emanates from J. F. Daly, chairman of the Cork Harbor Board, who at a meeting appealed for unity by the political parties In the I national Interest. Great Ingenuity bai been shown by the printing industry in devls'.ng methods for feeding single sheets of paper Into the presses mechanically. The system of feeding from rolls, such as Is used In the large newspaper presses. Is common knowledge to-day, but In the Job printing Industry even that remarkable invention has been surpassed. Nothing Is left for the human hand ot do heyond putting a stack of paper within reach and keep- ing the parts In working order. The distance the Industry has come can be seen when one recalls how In the fifteenth century the old German printer, Gutenberg, the first man in the Western world to use movable type, had to lay his parchment sheets on the type by hand and press a block on them laboriously to obtain the im- pression. The work of feeding the presses for ordinary Job work, in fact, seemed to have arrived at a high state of perfection a generation ago. Presses In use then opened and closed auto- matically, like the Jaws of a frog, carrying the paper up to the type and then away again, so that the printer could take out the printed sheet with one hand and slide a fresh page in with the other. By means of rubber grippers on the thumbs and fore- lingers, and after a good deal ot prac- ilce, the sheets could be shifted In ond out with something approaching me- chanical regularity. To-day the new devices do that work far more rapidly and with greater accuracy. One automatic feeder, for example, which was shown at the recent exhibition of the graphic arts at the Grand Central Palace, ac- tually lifts single sheets up off a pile and passes â€" «b» cosM almoiK say handsâ€" them Into tb« rollers that guide them down an Incline Into tho revolving press. Complicated devlees do all the work. At the two far ends of the pile away from the rollers are wheel-like arms. These revolve (lowly and aa the i^lo of paper is lifted up, they bite In at the corners and keep a small number of sheets raised slightly in the air. Above these are other wheels that come down on the top of the pile at Intervals and revolve, butting their bumpy surfaces onto the paper to jiggle it and help separate the sheets. Near these Is the first pair of magic 'hands, composed of rubber cups, like the ones on the toy arrows that used to stick on walls. Operated by com- pressed air, they snap down on the pile of paper when their turn comes and la another moment snap back, holdlnif the sheet aloft. Just at tho crucial moment In that process, blasts of compressed air. blown through cracks in the flattened ends of pipes, are shot under the sheet from several angles, setting It to flut- tering freely. Suddenly another pair of rubber-suction hands closes to the rollers, snaps down and seizes the sheet; the other "hands" let go, and while the air keeps tie sheet flutter- ing, the second "hands" carry It for- ward to the rollers and release It. Another automatic feeder uses the older method of taking the sheets off the pile by a series of wheels. The wheels to-day are so finely adjusted along the way down the Incline that If an extra sheet has got started. It is mechanically held back to await Its turn. - â-  illl tl'r'" 'â- 'â-  - - II 1 Airplane Crashes Pilot Elscapes Grampian, Pa. â€" The airplane City of Olympia No. 31, an entry In the air races at Spokane, Washington, crash- ed to earth In the Pennsylvania hills near here. Lieut. Valentine Gep- hart, ot the Marine corp reserve, the pilot, jumped with a parachute when the motor went dead 2,000 feet in the air. He made a good landing anJ was uninjured.. -«>- The Smoke Nuisance Le Devoir (Ind.): Do people take seriously this smoke which pervades the atmosphere, covers everything with dirt and shuts out the sky? Do we stop to think how poisonous it is? i Since its supresslon restores health. ' Thomas Hitchcock is not this an additional reason for The man responsible for the Ignoring it?. Because mygieno as ^^^ Po'o /earn defeating the se43n from the scornful treatment ac- Amerl- BrltUh Army in India team. cc.red those who have the direction of i the Health Services, is ^ust shelved, j A stop In time saves a fine. The New Welland Nears Completion T if li I IS '4 4 I I 1 I < « < I « ^^ € "l<»