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- How Britain Can Recover Atlantic Steamship Speed Blue Ribbon CAUSE OF LOSS OF THE PREMIER POSITION Increasing Power Without Increasing the Weight Driven Will Increase Speed France Builds Wonderful New Cruiser (By ( Sir John Biles) Now that the fastest ship on the At- lantic ia not British, It may be of in- terest to reflect on what is the cause of the loss of the premier posltiou in shipbuilding by the British Mercantile Marine. In 1906 the Lusltania and the Maure- tania were undoubtedly the fastest At- lantic liners afloat, having a speed of 26 knots, and no attempt was made to surpass them in speed until the Ger- man ships Europa and Bremen were laid down in 1926. The Vaterland (now the Leviathan) aud the Impr-rator (now the Bereu- garia) were built by the Germans. These were followed by the Bismarck (now the Majestic) and some other slower vessels. The Aquitania, of the Cunard Line, and the three other named vessels had speeds of about 24 knots. The most striking point about the German ships was that they had boilers in which the fire ts outside the tubes containing the water, called water-tube boilers, while the British ships adhered to the cylindrical boilers in which tha fire is inside the tubes, usually called Scottish boilers. The Lusitania and the Mauretanla were smaller ships than tbu Aqui- tania, Imperator, Vaterland, and the Bismarck, and it would therefore ap- pear that to obtain the greatest speed It is not necessary to adopt water-tube boilers, at any rate the adoption of water-tube boilers was not associated with the greatest speed. It is, however, the horsepower per ton of weight driven that determines the speed, supposing that the ship de- sign is In all cases equally good. In the case of the Mauretania this is about 2 h.p. per ton of weight driven, while in the other four ships it Is about 1 to 1.2. Anything that can be done to In- crease the power without increasing the weight driven will Increase the speed. To Increase the power without Increasing the weight of machinery aud fuel will increase the speed. The type of boiler which for a ton of weight gives to the steam tho great- est amount of energy per ton of fuel used is the boiler from which the greatest speed of a ship may be ex- pected. The wa'er-tube boiler has two ad- vantages over tlie Scottish boiler: First, It can burn more oil fuel per square foot of heating surface; Second, It can deliver the steam at a lusher pressure and greater effici- ency. In a Scottish boiler each 35 square feet of heating surface involves a ton of boiler weight, while in a water-tube boiler at least one-half more surface can be got per ton of weight. Hence | for every ton of weight we can get 50 per cent, more steam from a water- tube boiler than from a Scottish at the same pressure, and we can get 20 per cent, more oil burnt. Also, we can get a higher pressure and Increased I efficiency. Applying this to the weight of the Mauretania's boilers, which are ne&r- ly one half of her total machinery weight, we can get an increase of power of well over 20 per cent., and an increase of speed of well on to 2 knot?, nearly sufficient, if not quite, to equal the Bremen's speed. Thus we see that the effect of boil- er design is sufficient to deserve the most serious consideration if we are to get back the Blue Ribbon of the At- lantic. The whole of the weight saved in boilers cannot be used for increasing j power unless we can get across the Atlantic for the same weight of fuel. The Bremen, which la the cause of all this talk, carries about the same weight of fuel as the Mauretanla, while her machinery weighs 20 per cent, less than the Mauretania's. Dr. Bauer, the designer of her machinery, announces that he is prepared to pro- duce a 4-day ship whose machinery will be 10 per cent, lighter than the Mauretania's. It looks as It unless .something on tha same Unas Is under- taken by us we shall be out of the j running. Some responsible officials are re- j luctant to adopt water-tube boilers, 1 which will give the highest speed. ! though they have been at the root of ' the success of the German steamers. i Tho use of water-tube boilers in At- , | lantic liners has been forced on ship- ! ! owners in this country by the acquisl- j | tlon of the German-built ships after , ! the war, and though the result has | been most successful they shrink from . repeating the practice. The Navy has ; adopted watertube boilers exclusively ; ! for the last 20 years, and yet those re- j I sponsible for these fast Atlantic liners ; hesitate to take the step. The alternative to the water-tube 1 boilers for the highest speed Is the ' adoption of a large number of Diesel ; ! engines accumulating and transform- i Ing their power by means of dynamos | and motors. This Is far more experi- ] mental than a water-tube boiler pro- ject. These highly developed types of ma-. c-hinery involve the use of highly de-' I veloped brains for controlling them, ' and the present state of the organiza- tion of shipowniug companies may not seem to encourage this kind of inno- vation. Ready for Anything Kaye Don Prepared British Racing Motorist Will Drive Mammoth "Silver Bullet" Sunbeam Weighing Seven Tons With Engines Developing 2,000 Horse Power at Daytona Beach New York. Another carefree, smil- ing Briton is In the United States to challenge death and man-made speeds on the steel hard sands of Daytona I Beach. This time it is Kare Don, crack Bri- tish race driver, who will follow in the wheel ruts made by his famous British ' predessor. Major Sir H. Segrave, last March, on the Florida sands that have cos ttwo speed kings their lives. Se- grave drove his roaring Golden Arrow Sunbeam at the amazing speed of 231.33 miles an hour to set the record. Don, a good-natured veteran of I MOST MODERN TRAINING SHIP IN WORLD'S NAVIES We see here the new French cruiser, Jeanne D'Arc, taking the slips at &er recent launching at St. Xazalre. France. It will be used as school t T train- ing of naval officers. Light Has Weight Einstein Claims Prof. A. H. S. Gillson, of McGill, Discusses Strange Conclusions Einstein's experiments lead to some extraordinary conclusions, one of which is that the universe is a larse box. Calculations based upon the rela- tivity theory show that the sun came Into being at a definite time and that the world took shape three thousand million years ago. Other conclusions from Einstein's great experiments Indicated that the geometry taught Iu schools is quite in- accurate and that it may sometime be replaced by a geometry of curved space. Measurable Weight That llsht has weight which is mea- surable was also shown, the speaker said. It has been estimated that 160 tons of light fall upon the earth daily. At the rate which light is sold by a local jjowor company, the value of the light energy falling upon the earth ia at the rate of $420.000.000 per pound, the lecturer said. Calculations based upon Einstein's findings show that time aud space are not fixed as iu ordinary thought. These depend upon velocity. A train moving will be found to have a shorter length than one at rest. Also a clock indicates lesser time as its velocity is increased. It it were possible to throw a clock to give it a velocity equal to that of light, ISii.OOO miles per second, then time would cease to be recorded. Perpetual Youth Perpetual youth would In tho same way bo attained it man could reach a velocity equal to that of light. How- ever, the lecturer added, the man would not be visible to his friends as his mass would become Infiinltesimal. Calculations from one of Einstein's equations demonstrates that there Is enough energy in au ounce of cheese lift a weight rf 30,000,000 tons to the top of Eiffel tower while a pound of chees could provide enough energy to raise 2.000.000 dreadnoughts to a height of 2,000 miles. Tho sun, U u estimated, Is losing through dissipation of energy, 360,000 million tons of Its weight per day. The mass of i ho sun boiui; known, It is es- timated that enough remains so that the sir i still has 15,000,000 million years to go on giving out its energy. The Great Empire Red Cross Conference Many interesting features will char- acterize the forthcoming British Em- pire Red Cross Conference which Is to take place In May in London, Eug- ; land, according to Information now in ' the hands of the Headquarters' offi- cials of the Canadian Red Cross So- ciety in Toronto. The session of this unique gathering will bo held in the historic St. James' j Palace, which Is now so prominently ! before the eyes of the world aa the | meeting place of the Disarmament Conference. On May 20ch its plenary session will : be presided over by the Duke of York, ' while Princess Mary is scheduled to i Inspect the various V.A.D. detach- j meuts. present from many parts of the ' United Kingdom. Invitations to send delegates to this Empire-wide conference of Red Cross workers have been issued by Brlga- ; dier-General H. II. Chanipaln of the British Red Cross Society, who has followed a new precedent by asking attendance of representatives from all overseas parts of the Empire, large or small, and Irrespective of whether they possess organized Red Cross So- cieties or not. The agenda as foreshadowed by the tentative programme will be very broad as it will deal with not only Em- pire aud national activities but with many International aspects of Red Cross work. Some of its proposed features include addresses from pro- minent health or educational authori- ties, demonstrations in London County Council Schools, an elaborate Junior Red Cross Empire Pageant, the possi- bilities of co-operative effort of Junior Red Cross with all other organizations of Juveniles within the Empire, and the widest discussion of tho Interna- tional aud Imperial aspects of the Red Cross. The Canadian Red Cross Society will send at least official delegates to the Empire Conference with several additional representatives who will be named by the Central Council on March 27th. Globe-Trotting Reporter Meets Ghastly Death Body of Dr. Kurt Faber, Mangled By Wolves, Found in North Edmonton, Alta. Dr. Kurt Faber, noted Berlin journalist, who plodded into the North Country five months ago, is dead a victim of the North- land's rigors. A terse telegram from a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Post in the North-West Territories tells of his body being found, torn and mang- led by roaming wolves. Last summer tha German scientist- writer had travelled North from Ed- monton. At I'ort Vermilion he plan- ned to circle North and East on a jour- ney of almost 1.000 miles, most of which he planned to traverse on foot. Dr. Faber had been sought by police patrols aud by radio broadcasts for some weeks In an effort to inform him that his mother had died In Berlin. Dr. K. Martin, German Consul at Win- nipeg, had been requested from Ger- many to transmit the information to the globetrotting reporter. From Fort Vermilion, which he had reached by river-boat, to the Upper Hay River Post, Dr. Faber had travel- led by canoe, portaging from the source of one river to the origin of another in his struggle into the North- ern barrens. His death U believed to have occurred as he paddled north along the river toward the Great Slave. The meagre statement from the post of the Mounties may mean that the journalist fell exhausted or that his body was washed ashore after his canoe had been dashed to pieces in a rapids. only "Man U-day can f.y like a bird, but man will never be able to sit comfort- ably on a barbed wire fence." Lord Uewar. There Is not a woman living who Is physically or mentally capable of tell- ing the true story of her life." Peggy Hopkins Joyce. Official History Of War is Urged Canadian Legion of British Legion Sends Request to Ottawa Ottawa Believing that the time has come when an official history of the part played by ni"n of Canada in the Great War hould be written, the Canadian legi< n of the British legion, in its representations of Parliament at the present session, is putting for- ward a strong request that the writ- ing of this history be undertaken at once, and that it shall be a true re- cord of the sacrilice,' the suffering and the achievements of the soldiers, sail- ors and airmen of Canada, with that theme the predominant no: a In any such history. T!:e I.egii n's attitude is based part- ly on the prevalence of war histories which pay very little attention to the part of Canada's men in the Held, aud partly on the thought this his- tory should be written while tile men who could make vital contributions to it. In the way of actual experiences and accurate records, ate still a!iv.>. It is believed. t<. o, that this history should be undertaken by tho Domin- ica Government, and that when It is completed, it should he used as tho official text-book on tho sn-at war in all the public schools and high schools aud collegiate institutes throughout tho D' minion. Great War Days, will try to smash that record in a bigger, and he thinks better Sunbeam. This oue a mam- moth seven-ton creation in silver gray labelled the "Silver Bullet. It is his turn to drive because Segrave, one of his best friends, has definitely turned from automobile record smashing to his first love, the building of a speed boat that will conquer all time stand- ards on the water. Don is a bachelor of 36, tall, well set up, with Sandy hair, a brisk tan mustache, blue eyes and -.. pair of deep dimples at the corners of his moth. He drives purely for the sport of the thing, was the British champion in 1928 and 1929, has never piloted a machine faster than 162 miles an hour, and flew a bomber in France during the war. "If we consider," he said, "what is done in the air, we can realize that a human being should be able to travel faster than 250 miles an hour on land. Within five years, the re- ! cord should be close to 300 miles an I hour. It is all a question of stream | lining," he said. The "Silver Bullet," which has never been driven, but has a theoreti- cal speed of 2SO miles an hour is a great improvement over Segravu's "Golden Arrow" in evading wind re- ] sistance. Don said. The new car is j 30 feet long, weighs seven tons, has two stabilizing nns to keep it on the I ground, and is equipped with silk tires 37 inches in diameter and lightly cov- ered with rubber, the tires are tested j to last four minutes at a speed of 300 1 miles au hour. The "Bullet" is powered by two 12- ' i-ylinder .ni.ition engines iu tandem, i developing 2.000 horsepower, three i times a* much as Segrave's "Golden New Town Safe Perplexing Problem of Water Supply for Port Churchill Now Solved Ottawa. iA solution has just been found for one of the most perplexing engineering problems In the develop- ment of northern Canada, namely, sup- ply of water for the coming port and city of Churchill, terminus of the Hud- son Bay Railway. Ordinary methods of piping water below the frost line fall up there be- cause borings as dejp aa 117 feet hare reached solid rock before coming to the end of the frozen soil. Churchill will be founded on eternal frost or at least frost that has been present since the glacial ages, tens of thous- ands of years ago. Pipes laid through that frozen sub- soil would freeze solid in au hour, ac- cording to D. W. Lachian, engineer of tha department of railways and can- als, who has been coping with sub- arctic conditions at Churchill and Nel- son for seventeen years. Plans are being completed these days for the location of a pipe line to be laid in dry moss, to thickness of at least four feet to protect th water from tha long cold weather and the bitter sea gales. The source of Churchill water will be Grassy Slough, a depression not far from the famous Rosabella Lake, named after the wife of William Beech, who homesteaded there In 1905 Steam shovels will gouge out Grassy Slough to a depth of some twen'v feet. If necessary, Rosabella Lake and a large area to the south can be drained into the reservoir. The land has been taken over by the govern ment to prevent squatter* locating in the water drainage area. A line is being located, with two pumping sta- tions on the escarpment above the present site - ' the town and the docks to bring the water the four or flve miles down to the port. The water pipe itself will be sup- ported on wooden posts driven into the clay and sticking up four feet or more above the ground. Above that in a mound reaching tour feet above the pipe dry moss will bo piled. That will be capped with sheet-ir n and thatched straw to prevent the moss from getting wet. and from turning it into a good-conductor of cold. j Arrow." It has three speeds and uld travel at the rate of 90 miles .1:1 hoi;.- in first, ISO In second, LM't :a ' hi.;!.. Our Tourist Trade According to the estimate of the Provincial Minister of Roads, who 1 ought to know, tourists last year nsht a revenue of somo sixty. two ion dollars to this province, and it is estima'ed that tiiey will bring ' unity-live millions during the pre- It yt/ar. When it is boruo in mind that the Dominion Bureau of Statistics shows a total revenue for tho Ho- minion from the tourist trail! o of over two hundred aud fifty million dollars, Quebec's share is seen to bo a very hi-.xe one. tl is all the tii"ro u.v.'s- I sary that the people of this province should be alive to the necessity ol leriiig the tourist trade in every legiti- mate manner. -Montreal Star. "Tho theatre to-day is not more vul- gar; it's just, more natural." Helen Kane. First Highwayman "Say. is there any danger in this bii.-iiie-s'.'" Second Highwayman "No, not un- less you get shot." "It is only Ignorant people who are ashamed to confess ignorance." Clarence Darrow. "Prisoner, tho you gu:'.:\-." Prisoner jury finds "That's all . . I k:uiw you're too intel.i- to be influenced b> what they She "Now you pride yourself on ( being able to judge a woman's char- j acter by her elolh.es. What would be your verdict on my sister over there?" , He (looking at her sister's scant at- tire) "Insufficient evidence," Thrills of Mountain Motoring Becoming Popular Children's Aid Does Valuable Work Children Placed in Good Homes Are Average Good Youngsters and Turn Out Well Quito an extensive work is carried on in Ontario in the direction of pro- viding orphan or destitute children with good homes in private families, and with a view to giving readers some information regarding this laud- able \vark our representative recently had -i talk with Mr. J. J. Ivuiso, who is in charge of the Children's Aid Branch of Ontario Government Ser- Naturally th<j first question asked was, "Where do tho children coma from?" "Well," was Mi.- r- 'ply. "there are a va;i"'y ,if ways in which children be- i-onii; homeless. Very often the death of a mother throws children on the worl.i u:u'OT"d for, tho father indiffer- ent and neglecting to provide proper homo life for the children. 1-V children are placed in public ions or \\ i-!i privu' tho parents, who then disappear; some parents have no attrition for their children and cannot bo made provide for thorn properly; while in other i-.isos :!l relative* havo fa'.!, n into evil habits and the child for its own protection has to be removed from their control." "Are not such children an und-'si-- able class for adoption?" Mr. Iv'lso was asked. "No .there is a good deal of in cop; ton on this point. IVi'pio frequent- ly imagine that homeless children must necessarily bo plain-looking, bad tyinpor'/d and vi!-minded, but such is not tho case. As a rule they cotnp.no favorably with tho average run of children." "Whore should application be made?" Anyone wishing a child bus only to address a letter to tha Secretary of the Children's Aid Society of their City or County. There are over sixty organizations iu this work, or they can apply direct to my office." The older boys and girls are taken partly for the assistance they can give, but tha ma- jority of peop'le desire to satisfy the craving of lonely hearts for children to lovo and cherish.'" Fairy Tea WHERE SHARP TURNS AND STEEP GRADES PREDOMINATE A fairy who wont visit in.: Arrived at half-past three: Her hostess said: "I am so glad You came in time for tea. For I have some honeyed roseleaves And fresh dew brought by the elves,. So uiaka yourself at home, and then We'll eat them all ourselves." "I do not believe In that word Fate. It Is the refuge of every self-confessed failure." Andrew Soutar. "If atheism wins over a whole popu- On e needs a quick eye and a quicker foot on this mouu-taln highway, the Cavel motor road In bbe Jasper Xa- ] atlolli tne na tion must disappear." tli nal Park, Alberta. Will Durant.