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MODERN "CAVEMEN" HOLLOW A MOUNTAIN
N the heart of what the difficulty of its extrae-
a process WOS
three years ago was a tion. barren. mountainous, and uninhabited wilderness,
In 1886 Canadian
enterprise and discovered capital are creating a vast seven tons Industry, which, when it rials and conds into operation this equivalent to summer, will be one of the conl wonders of the world.
which requires of raw mate- electric energy 16 tons of for the produc- tion of one ton of ulu- minium.
It Is an outstanding.
Bauxite, as the parent- example of the axiom that
ore is called, is found only peace has its victories 49
in warm climates. The well as war. In complexity
power required of supply so planning. in abundant
for the extraction of Hs concentration of manpower and material, the under- taking
which upon
the Aluminium Company of
metal-content entails the
the
10 shipment of smelting
where plants
available at
Canada is engaged 400 electricity is
miles to the north of Van- resembles nothing cotiver
low cost
To meet this require-
By G. WARD PRICE
In August the Duke of Edinburgh will visit Canada to see some of the Dominion's latest industrial ventures. One of the most spectacular of these is the 'Alcan Project' described here
Į
But the provides of
by
They earned their living trapping And Aghing. Now many of their young men form part of the mixture of nationalities und racea ployed by the Aluminium Com-
powe is not the only problem of the production of aluminium. further requirements are spae for large smelting-plant and living accommodation for thou- ranch of employers and these pany.
for them.
Though Kemanu
can furnish electri- Kitimat alty, the nanow let-mile gorge about at the head of which it stands Was clearly unsuitable us an Industrial centre.
who enter
Bold Plan
overcome
this difficulty Taner bold plan was de-
but enough space has been penned-up water is restricted to hollowed out of the
a ten-mile tunnel, mount- tain to accommodate five
This will carry the flow more units, making a total "perstocks" or
In pipes, if, Hummeter, strelching down of capacity 1.120,000 h.p. Later on,
the valley at an angle of 48der as the work- They will food the turbines in demand for aluminium in- stalled at Kemung, which stands creases the power-capacity at the head of this installation can be channel, navigable by coastal
vessels.
NO much મ a mujor mill ment. Alean will carry ala- raised to 2,200,000 h.p.
tary operation.
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Demonstration
mina, which is an extruct
ane of This power-plant is from bauxite produced at
the largest ever to be erected Mandeville, Jamaica, to underground. It would be in- great
of power vulnerable to any kind of bomb. which thut
is even without the protection of company creating in British Colum- utar
source
north.
Acreens that shelter It uny attack from tho
Water Power
of u
deep-water
vised.
was the transporla- tion of the power generated at Kimand to the more speelous
port of Kitimat, 50 miles away
over the mountains.
ut
of For this purpose a series overhead towers" has been sol
To drive in
a heavy lorry up crossing the peaks between
Кетапр and Kilimat along the lofty len-mile tunnel height of 5,000. Would the that has been drilled and blast-
metal pylons supporting the rd out of the solid mountain at two-inch cable withstand the
is an wrather of A day
a sub-Arelle win- 1er?
the rate of 300l. eeria experience.
The galleries with which the Rock of Gibraltar was honey combed during the Jast war pra vide a similar underground tour, but on a much smaller scale.
The climax of wonkier reached on entering the huge shumber hollowed out at 2210 foot of the penstocks, where THE source of its energy is a the power-generators are being Connertzi chula of moun- tet up. A cathedral could be
A built inside it with space this a ext of
300ft-high spare It is 700ft. m. with dam has been created in such po-sibility of expansion
way that the
outlet of Thu
1,100ft. Its height is 136ft.
THE "Alcan Project," as it bia. There, 500 yards deep against
is called in Canada, is into the solid rock, vivid demonstration. of generating plant which may the capacity of modern en- one day be developed into gineering when directed to the largest in the world, peaceful achievement,
is being installed in the biggest envern ever made Less than 70 years
ago by man. aluminium, though the most abundant metal in In the first phase of tažn-lakes, 140 miles long. the work's surface, was as its development three units costly as gold owing to will produce 150,000 h.p..
THE
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ARE WE ASKING TOO MUCH
"S
OF THE MONARCHY?
BY AN AUTHORITY ON CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS
London. thusiaɛm and devotion to the to be. But such sensible "dignifled capacity" and In its
O you are having Crown, are bringing in the whole Instructions are only
conception another Coronation Monarchy today.
of the British within the confines of
home. this year?" the exlitor of a famous New York newspaper said
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to
of
of
Are
they in danger
the smothering
meaning monarchy with a personal adula tion raised to such pitch that I cannot be sustained indefinite-
For a moment 1
was ly? puzzled, then I understood his meaning.
Are they in danger of placing a quite unbearable strain on the person and family of the
He had BOLN the workinen Monarch? putting up the decorations in the Mall. He had seen scores of people assembling for an all night as a ricans
Are they using the Monarchy vigil. He had heard the B.B. C. realities of the present back into to escape from thờ report the
Queen's progress dreams of the past? round the British Common- wealth ten times a day. He had feasted photographs
on dicted on despatches.
Are they, in fact, leaning on and the monarchy too much?
Frankly, he was astonished. In America he had known nothing like it,
possible "business capacity."
a royal
Elsewhere the royal children would need massive police pro- section wherever they went.
"Why are you doing all this?" my American friend asked.
I had to tell him that in my
view some people seem to resent the decline in Britain's material wealth and possessions,
Fairy Story
the
Here we are only concerned with the first. And this is what George V wrote:--
Fox
10
Flying over this pass recently I saw the pylons rising from deep snowdrifts. The crews who supervise the power-line still have to dig down through the snow to reach the entrance Lo their huts. Yet even the most exposed of the 307 stand- ards that carry the cable have withstood a winter in which the temperature has sunk as low as 50 degrees below zero (Fahr.).
eni-
numbers at present 2,700 inhabitants, the great majority of them men, of whom some have brought thele families. The township of 300 Inhabitants three years ago เง expected ultimately to reach the figure of 50,000,
Kemana, on the other hand, though it is the heart and
of the dynamo
project, will rapidly as soon
as the power-station begins to function. Its maximum toth of Inhabitants has been
decline in population
4,000, but by next autumn only
300 persons,
lacluding women and children, will remain,
Alcun has used the most up- lo-date mechanical devices. Cranes lifting 228 tons cach have been brought by barge up the narrow fjord at the head of which Kemano slands, They then have been transported along roads of which 300 miles in all have been con- structed and have finally been erected in the long tunnels driven into the rock.
Air Survey
the precipitous slopes out-
aide, overhead cables carry loads of 20 tons up and down For
In taming this wilderness the the face of the mountain.
Auccess has the initial survey of the area secret of Alcan's been the ullisation of modern helicopters were employed and scientific methods. It is esti- are still thero for ather
mated that some $275,000,000- purposes.
which is about £100,000,000—— will have been spoat on this For special jobs, such as work single branch of Alcan's activ- on Sunday or overtime, and for atles before the new smelter at certain hazardous and technical Kitimat turns out its Arst ingot operations, men draw us
much of aluminium.
pay as eight dollars an hour-- which is close to £3. Some employees have brought their wives and families with them.
"We are taking nothing out of British Columbia, except water-power which would run to waste,"
Mixed Races
TS aim this year is to achieve
tons, which will ultimately be
said one of the leading Alcan raised to 500,000 tons,
officials. "On the contrary wo are creating here the expansion Until February 1991 the en- of a great and growing industry tire population of Kitimat con- which will be a valuable addi- sisted of 800 Indians living in tien to
of a village "(a) The Crown makes Gov- ernment intelligible to the mnzses,
"(b) It makes Government interesting to the masses,
"(c) It also strengthens Gov- ernment with the religious tradition connected with the Crown.
"(d) The social value of the Crown
of
"If high social rank was to be scrambled for in the House Commons, the number of social adventurers thero would bo Incalculably
And they try to compensate for that by dwelling on great achievements of the past. Consider the position of the Through Elizabeth II they hark royal children.
back to Elizabeth I, back to a Britain victorious on countless battlefields, supreme on the seas Crown. and overwhelmingly authorita- tive in the coundis of the world.
2
Hardly Good
The American President is a politician. And while his in- Buguration and offcial journeys
Prince Charles and Princess about the country are the occa- Anne cannot go for a walk with-
There is also a possibility that sion for much Jubilation, he can- out a crowd assembling. If they not command the same allegiance with their uncle and aunt each the Royal Family a fairy story. play on the rocks and paddle some people may make out of as the Crown in this country.
tiny movement may be photo to redeem whatever may be But Britain has a Queen, A graphed and scrutinised by unsatisfactory in their Own triumphantly successful Queen, millions.
lives. Buck from a splendid, inspiring and superbly managed tour,
To Take Stock
It is hardly a good way to There can be no harm in that bring up children. A nurgery if it is not taken too far. The with spotlights always trained harm comes If daydreams blunt
and indefinitely more eager.
"(e) The moral value of the
"Great for good or evil.
more numerous
*(1) The existence of the Crown serves to dispute change and therefore to deprive it al the evil consequence of revolu
an...."
Not A Drug
The Crown should not be expected to do more.
on It is not what most parent our determination to improve It should not be given a would went for their son and cur lot, daughter.
burden of adulation that no human being can carry in-
By her grace and dignity, by her beauty and youth, the Queen Prince Charles will and it that a burden is being placed on rain. And it should not be But the real danger may be definitoly without feeling the Invested what might have been dimeult to appreciate that one the monarchy which it cannot allowed to become the focal a somewhat solemn and dreary day he will be a democratic
point of what sometimes, socma procession of official visits with monarch if he is to grow up in be expected to meet. the magle of glamour, excitement va hothouse of
to verge on hysteria, the result unrestrained. When George V was a young of which could so easily be an and brilliance.
man he recorded, in brief notes, unhealthy reaction damaging to But that the Queen is That was why so many ob- the functions and duties of the real functions of the home again, and resting at last servers were glad to hear of live British Monarch, as laid down Monarchy in our national life. Wyndham Street, Hong Kong & Salisbury Road, Kowloosi witely come to take stock of the royal yacht were encouraged to book on the English Consulu Crown are dynamic forces in her children, the Ume has way in which the crew of us in Walter Bagehot's famous Patriotism and loyalty to the
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He deals with the value Brisch life. They should never
the very extreme of" their en- "Charles" and "Anna"; it was of the Crown" both in
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