. Northern Telephone Company Limited _ It has often been said that Marcon} was not the trus inventor of wireicss telegraphyâ€"that ho merely exploited the previous inventions of more akls scientists than himself. Stamp tors will recall that in 1925 Russia isâ€" sued a@a stamp portraying Professor A. 8. Popoff with the inscrip..sn "Inâ€" yentor. of, Radio.". Yizars before Marâ€" coni‘s invention ‘the great slectrical wizard, Thomas Edison, had taken out patents for wireless communication, and its possibilities had also been preâ€" dicted by the Jugoslavianâ€"American scientists, Nikola Tesla, whose portrait appeared two years ago on a Jugoâ€" When this resourceful man died at Rome on July 20 â€"last summer, so far had radio outgrown the original conâ€" ception of its inventeor that few newsâ€" papers gave more than a brief obituâ€" ary notice to thr passing of Gugalicimo Marconi. It remains for Italy, his native land, to pay a fitting tribut»s to Marcont by issuinz a spacial series oi three eccmmemorative stamps bearing his portrait. ‘The values are 20¢~ reod. 80c purple, and 1.25L blue. DUSTPROOF VANS. Phone Call Us For Your Next 510 Moving Job UNITED MOVERS Local and Long Distance PACKING â€" CRATING SHIPPING STORAGE Regular Runs to Southern Ontario C TCWm OW _ o W W M S o e O n iC C CV Te O e OM Today, when we agtept the wonders of radio as a commonplace, it is diffiâ€" cult to tullze that this marvelous inâ€" vention ‘is less than 50 years old. Yet it was in 1896, only 42 years ago, that pale young Italian in Bologna, Italy, announced to an incredulodus world that he had succeeded in telegraphin: without the use of wirgs! CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS from North Bay Tickets on Sale by all Agents of CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS SUDBURY, NORTH BAY, TEMISKAMING, PEMBROKE, ETC.. ALSO TEMISKAMING and NORTHERN ONTARIO RLY. andâ€" NIPISSING CENTRAL RAILWAY T 285D Enquire for poster and full information from Agents of T. N. 0. Rly. or THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20â€"To C.N.R. Stations in Maritime Provinces, Province of Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21stâ€"TO PEMBROKE JCT. OTTAWA, MONTREAL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21â€"To QUEBEC CITY, STE. ANNE DE BBAUPRE ROUND TRIP BARGAIN FARES Timmins, Schumacher and South Porcupine sections of the new directory will go to press in the near future. Please arrange for any additions or changes at once. NEW TELEPHONE Marconi experimented with Herta‘s3 primitive transmitter and found that its range could be vastly if one terminal of the spark gap was â€"connected with the ground and the other to a high vertical wire. For reâ€" ceiving the signals, he improved on Hertz‘s simple metal ring by using a device known as a ‘coherer." The coâ€" herer consisted of a small tube about two inches long that contained two silver plugs separated by a narrow slit filled with fine nickel dust. Upon reâ€" ceiving the Hertzian waves from the transmitter, the nickel dust "coneretg," thus closing an electric circuit powered: by a local battery. This operated d small tapper which, striking the tube, "deâ€"cohered" the nickel dust and so rendered it once more sensitive to the wireless waves,. By breaking up the waves into dots and dashes at the sending apparaius, Marconi found that it was actually possible to "talk" for first scientist to realize the existenec of the electroâ€"magntic, or "Hertzian‘ waves that make radio commiunication possible. He had noticed in his labâ€" oratory that when a spark leaped the gap between two small mtal balls connected to an induction coil, a sir lar spark could be cbserved in umui) metal ring on the other side of the room. Since there were no wires or cther contact between the small ring and the spark gap, it was obvious that the electrical current had actually travelled through the intervening space. Withows knowing it, Hertz had been on the threshold of discoveting radio! first came to him in 1894 while readâ€" ing the work of the German physicist, Heinrich Hertzg. Hertz had been th: Guglielmo Marconi was born at Bolâ€" cgna, Italy on April 25, 1874, son of an Italian father and an Irish motheyr. He was deeply interested in electricity from boyhood and the idea of wireless â€" The answer is that Marcont was the first to combine th> crude apparstus of his today into a wholly original deâ€" vice that gave really practical results. It is true that other scientists before him had made ingenious designs un paper and had even succeeded in hearâ€" ing wireless signals for short distances in their laboratori¢s, but none of them had made wireless work effectively for more than a few dozen yards at the most.. Marconi alosne had the genius, perseverance, and the financial barktâ€" ing to make this visionary dream a reality. The young lad who thus met tragic d:sath appeared unfortiunate in regard to accidents and injuries. Last winter he was badly gashed across the thigh by a nail as he was climbing a fence, six stitches being required to close th»? wound. A year ago he broke his arm in a fall from a bicycle. Three years ago he broke his left leg in a fall dowr stairs, and a year previous to that, when he was about five years old, he was struck by a truck and had his leg broken. ‘Two months ago he had to be cperated on for a mastoid.. Accordingâ€" ly, there was much of serious injury and illness crowded into his brief life, though the lad was normally healthy and bright. Recently the boy had deâ€" veloped considerable talent in music and dancing, appearing on the theatre stage and also being on occasion one of the young radio artists in Sudbury. fttheapulmetorvon%he'boy under the doctors Oorders. Though they worked for over 45 minutes there was no sig of life. The fire chief thought that as he was eating an apple when he wias struck, he might have choked to death. ‘He did not said Dr. Tanguay, "he died a few minutes after he was struck because his heart failed." ' One of the most unusual of acciâ€" ;dents happened last week at the St. Louis Separate School yard, Sudbury, when William Dagenais, nine years ‘old, was struck by a batted softball and died in a few minutes. The little lad had just returned from having his dinner and was watching some other boys playing softball, eating an apple as he watched. The batted softbail struck him in the solar plexus and he collapsed at onc2, being unconsâ€" cious before he could be carried into the school. A doctor and nurse were secured almost immediat2ly and Fire Chief Andrews and some of his staff Sudbury Boy Victim of Strange Accident Last Week years following the war the inventor lost none of his interest in his great creation; he continued to work conâ€" stantly on the problems of short wavs radio transmission until a sudden heart aitack ended his career last summer ati the age of 65. And so now at last Guglielmo Marconi has gone to ciake his place with those other great Itaiian electrical pioneers, Galvani, Volta and Pacinotti, whose portraits also appear on the postage stamps of their grateâ€" ful fatherland. In reccegnition of his great gift to humanity Marconi was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1909 and in the same year was made a member of the Italian Senate. The work of perfecting his invenlion was eagerly taken up by many brilliant scientists â€" their most important improvement being the disâ€" covery that the vacuum tubse is by far the most sensitive diatector of wireles; waves. During the World War Marâ€" coni served in both the Italian ariny and navy, and in 1919 the King oi EItaly appointed him delegate to ths Fsace Conferente at Paris In the offer was not accepted. in 1896 in ort!â€" er to gain firancial backing, the 22â€" yearâ€"old inventor sailed for Englandt. Upon his arrival he suffered a momâ€" entary seback when his strangeâ€"lookâ€" ing instruments wore destroyed by the customs authorities in the belief trat they were some kind of infernal machâ€" ine! New ones were quickly however, and the first tests were so successful that in 1897 the inventor formed the Marconi Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company, Limited, with a capital stock cf £100,000. Some of the mcore conservative newspapers contiruâ€" ed to sneer at "the young Italian and his handâ€"organ," but all doubters had been silenced by Decsember, 1901, when Marconi, straining his cars into a ielsâ€" phone®receiver at St. Johns, Newfoundâ€" land, distinctly heard three tiny elicks from his transmit:ing station in Cornâ€" wall, Enzland. Oshawa Times: The parking problem in most municipalitiés has reached the stage which requires study and more or less diplemacy. One wonders what the problem would be if the ambition of the motor makers wére reachedâ€"=â€"a motor car for every man and woman in the What impressed him most, he stated, on visits to London was that if any Dominion had a mind of its own was Australia. It can have a mind of its own when its course on Empire poilcw is clear, as demonstrated in the recent crisis,. Australia put this country to shame by its prompt and loyal deâ€" cision. And if Britain has defficuliy in helpiti@ to guard the Czech frontiers, o one doubts the word that will come from Canberra. If only as much could be said for the Canadian goverment! Attorneyâ€"General Menzies, of Ausâ€" tralia, made a statement in the Comâ€" monwealth House of Representatives which sums up the real situation: "It would be suicidal for a Dominion to have its own foreign policy regaraless of whether it was the same as the United Kingdom‘s or the other doniâ€" inions. C foreign ‘powers want anything better than to have six Briâ€" tish countries speaking with different voices?" What is the League of Nations but a foreign policy association? â€" Saying this does not condemn its aims. It is strange that Canada is able to back the League openly and without fear in formulating policies but must not back the British Empire. What will it do as a member of the Empire, if anythingy, is a deep and solemn secret. In fact, with regard to Empire allegiance, it seems ‘in" much the same position as Italy, Germany and Japan were with relation to th2 League of Nationsâ€"in while it suited them, but ready to step out if it did not. To many people it is a horrible thought that Canada should commit herself to stand with Britain and the other Dominions with a common front without knowing where the commitâ€" ments might lead. Yet some of those loudest in condemnation of such an idea have been most vigorous in calling for a common front at the Leagus of Nations.. It would be proper for Canâ€" ada to endorse sanctions along with Yugoslavia, Russia, Roumania, China, although no one could tell in advance when sanctions fnight be called for and result in war. The sanctions idea has been disposed of, but it illustrates: the ipoint. . A solid front with the League o6f Nations to preserve the integrity of Czechoslovekia would be all right, but not with Britain and France. Imagine the howl of dissent from these quarters If it were suggested ~this : Dominion should join with Britain voluntarily. (From the Globe and Mail) The British government will guaranâ€" te> the territorial independence of the new Czechoslovakia, but the Dominions will not be asked to help. Thus again are emphasized the uncertain links of Empire and the abssnce of a fofeign policy to govern the units. Why Not An Empire Policy. For the Whole Empire? True no one can be compelled to subject himself to a medical examinaâ€" tion, but it is possible that the law zen be amended to cover this defect. It can be determined by blood aleo hol estimations or by similar urine exâ€" aminations whether or not an indiâ€" vidual has an abnormal amount of alâ€" cchol in his: body fluids and tissues; The adverse effect of abnormal aâ€" mcunts of altohol in the body has been remonstrated. It has been shown that the the adverse effect of alcohol inâ€" creases with_greater concentrations of alcohol in the tissues. ~Any individual who is under the influence of: alcohul, however slight it may be, is unfit to drive an alutomobile. The greater deâ€" gree of intoxication the greater the offence. The smell of alcohol on the breath, drowsiness, stupor or coma cannot safely, be atbrtbtfted to alcoholismâ€" for there is always the possibility of . conâ€" cussion or laceration of the brain, fracâ€" ture of the‘skull, and hemorrhage ‘withâ€" in the skull to be considered. A British magistrate asks the quesâ€" tion: "An> physicians beyond all reasâ€" cnable doubt in all cases that the acâ€" cused person is or is not to a sericus extent affected by drink and that tnc real explanation of the symptoms ex« hibited is not to be found in some other condition?" The answer to this pertâ€" inent question is contained in the reâ€" port ofâ€" the Committee on the Driver of the National Safety Council (U.H.;:A.) which for the present has accepted 0.150 per cent. blood alcohol . as the level above which alcaohnolic intoxizaâ€" tion is definite. 5 able of excluding or sxcluding beyond any reasonable doubt the question of alccholic intoxication. It will not be long before such means will be universâ€" ally ‘employed. and otherwits physically disquailified motor car drivers. The drinking driver not apparently intsxicated is a difficult problem. Not always is the competent medical witâ€" ness able to prove from the symptains obdserved to the satisfaction of the court that the individual in question was unfit to drive an automobile. Ther: are fortunately acientific mea:sâ€" ures which afford impartial data capâ€" (From Health League of Canada) The strtet is a battlefi¢ld and thouâ€" sands â€"¢i our cititsnsâ€"@re killed and War Conditions On Highways of Canada Somebody Should Someâ€" where to Get l=’}{ccidem; Peace. by incompetent, intoxici‘ed (Sept. l0th, though sonmie offices, th: {newspmper, the post office, the banks ’IM the schogls were elosed for the All Should Help to . Reduce Fire Losses in Quebec, and coming so close to Thanksgiving Day, the merchan‘s though it made too many holidays lo«> together and so the Thanksgiving Day event was not generally recognized in the Twin Towns. Stores at Noranda and Rouyn Open Thanksgiving and ie schools were closed for ths holiday. All Saints Day, Nov. 1st, is zenerally recogniged as a prblic ho‘iday The stores at Rouyn and Norancai, remained open on Thanksgiving Dat, A S § O C LO N CONFEDERATION LIF and your salary stops, will you have a guaranteed nonâ€" cancellable monthly income from your present life insurance ? ent to provide for your farml;r in the event of yguw:' :ieath T Will you and your wife have a guaranteed monthly income for life when you reach age 60 ? If you become Totally Disabled through accident or sickness WILL THE INCOME from your present life insurance be sufficiâ€" New High Set by Mining Industry We canot afford to go on and ty indifferent to it all. Fire Prevention Week is a particular week set aside to call attention to the menacs of fire. 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