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THE REVIVAL OF JET.
HOW SORROW HAS BROUGHT PROSPERITY
TO WHITBY.
CIVIL AIRSHIPS.
A BRIGHT FUTURE PREDICTED.
A meeting of those interested in commercial aircraft was held
Mr. Sydney Walton, writes to at Australia House yesterday. to
the Daily News 2---
I chanced upon the following advertisement during a short sojourn in Whitby:-
discuss with representatives of the Air Ministry the disposal of Government airships, which has already been announced.
Major-General Seely. Under Secretary for Air, who presided, "Wanted. two or more apsaid that when the political prentices to the jet trade good situation had cleared. say in a Admiralty wages and prospects: eight monht's time. hours a day."
would be able to give a definite
the
I piqued my interest, and 1 reply as to the number of airships begay to make local inquiries and aerodromes it would require about "jet-working." Whitby, in case of emergency. the quaint little harbour beneath The Air Ministry the hill, is haunted by the spirits Admiralty
and the
would then offer
of the past, by the songful ghost: existing machines and those in of Caedmon and the devour soul Various stages of construction to of St. Hilda: and the fashioning those who would undertake the of jet tells, too, of ancient times formation of a commercial air and coils. The ancients called scheme. The assistance would jet gargates and black amber, and include the use of wireless stat- they used to say-that-if mixed joas. In the case of any sound with the marrow of a stag scheme, airships would be sold at
strange notion-it bealed, a ser
pent's bite.
would also have the advantage of a very cheap rate. Business people sheds and trained personnel.
"Yes," said ny informant,
The future of such a scheme, proud of local lore John Carli said General Seely, was boundless. was in trade here as jet-worker and he was sure that if they went in 1598; büt it is only about 'a' into it in a business-like manner, hundred years ago since the they would retain the supremacy demand for jet ornaments for in the air which they had gained personal wear became intense.
during the war. It would be wise "Gruie, at first, were the tools. for the Government to allow firms but skill and pride of craft soon to build any class of airship which provided beauty in workmanship. might be deemed useful for com-
I wish. by the way, we hat more mercial service, because any ship
of that sense of joy in fine crafts would be more useful to the manship to-day. Just as the old Government in hostile circumst builders of this abbey of ours on fances than no ship at all. the hill strove to make it a joy REASON FOR URGENCY. for ever. So the 'jet-workers' It was urgent, on political wrought in miniature the best grounds, that the scheme should they knew.
he launched as soon as possible.
"Queen Victoria introduced into the Court the wearing of jet, and as by magic she brought prosperity to Whitby. The great war, with all its shadows and sor- rows, has found in jet a seemly emblem of grief, and we are get ting orders from every part of the world. What, after all, can be more gracefully symbolic than a crnanient, fashioned here in this old towa, the cradle of. English history in more than one sense!
Sir Trevor Dawson (Vickers and Co.) pronounced his blessing on the scheme in view of the promise of Government support, and suggested the formation of a committee of the best financial representatives, who would be likely to take an interest in the concern, to discuss details.
Sir Lionel Fletcher, Mr. Holt Thomas, Mr. Short (of the Bedford Aviation Co.), Sir Glynn West (Armstrong and Whitworth, and others expressed approval of the
of
officials of the Air Ministry to
"I delight to be a townsman scheme, and it was decided to and craftsman of Whitby, and to form the committee suggested to have part in sending exquisite meet General Seely, General ornaments of jet the world over Sykee (Controller-General binding many climes together, as Civil Aviation), General Mait. it were, by a rosary of burnished land, of R34 fame, and other black.
"We need to-day as many discuss details. skilled men as we can get for the General Seely said be had had work. Wages are high, and there the assurance of Lord Inverforth is about the task something of, that red tape would not be allowed poetry and creativeness. It's to hamper the negotiations in right down good trade. I can tell connection with the scheme. The Fou. Some of us are suggesting matter, he said, was too import- to the town technical instruction unt to brook delay. He was quite Committea that classes ought to sure they would make the airship be formed so that our youth may service of great good to the State," inherit the love of the art of jet and they would have every possi making
ble chance to take the lead in the Strange, thought I, how present matter of airships for the good of Empire and mankind Borrow revives an ancient craft their
generally. And.custom.
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MEASURING THE TEMPERATURE OF LEAVES.
Miss Edith B. Shrefe has devis- ed very sensitive electrical ap-. paratus for measuring the surface temperature of leaves and has been making measurements in the desert and mountains near Tucson, Ariz., and the Santa Lucia Mountains in California, She reports that the most out- standing result of these measure- ments is the rapidity with which the surface temperature of a leaf growing in the open may fluctuate. Changes of from one, to three degrees C. are observed within from 20 to 60 seconds. If a moderately strong wind is blow-j ing the change may amount to five degrees in 30 seconds. Changes in atmospheric condi- tions are without doubt the cause of these fluctuations.
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