London South Collegiate Institute - Oracle Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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44 over 18,000 feet in the same ship. Captain Dean flew the British Con- sols, the first Canadian-owned auto- giro, across Canada and back with the Trans-Canada Air Pageant. A short while ago Captain Dean looped this ship. This was the first time an auto- giro had been stunted However, its acrobatic possibilities remain to be discovered. In the future we may expect to see the autogiro in a great many sizes, having a great variety of performances. In America, a five-place cabin ship has already been designed. We shall see the autogiro developed on four lines. First there will be extensive produc- tion of small ships for sport and general utility. Then will come cabin ships for aerial taxi work, and its obvious safety for night and blind flying will lead to its adoption on night mail and express lines. Finally when the autogiro has proven its safety, we shall see multi-motored models adopted for passenger transportation. However, time alone will show to what extent this, the greatest rival of the aeroplane, will be used as an accepted mode of trans- portation by the people of the world who desire safe speed. -GORDON MCLEOD, IV B. THE SCHNEIDER CUP RACE The Schneider Cup Race has a very interesting history. The trophy was first offered by the late Jacques Schnei- der in 1913 and it was to be the per- manent property of the country which won it three times in five consecutive U rl- -4 -A l i -a L it Qff -Q LZF: . . .ff -l f' ivglvai years. This contest was limited to seaplanes alone. The first race was won in 1913 by the French iiyer Pre- vost at a speed of 145.7 miles per hour. The foremost countries which have been L. S. C. I. ORACLE competing in these races up to the present time have been Italy, United States, France and England. The lat- ter now becomes the possessor of the Schneider Cup, having won it in 1927, 1929 and 1931. ' In 1927 it was won by the British Supermarine S-5 at a speed of 281.5 miles per hour. Two years later the Supermarine S-6 carried off the hon- ours for the mother country at 357.7 miles an hour. Piloting his Super- marine S-6B seaplane over a triangular course at 375 miles per hour, he made the trophy the permanent possession of Britain by Flight Lieutenant J. H. Boothman of the British Royal Air Force. On September 29, Flight-Lieutenant G. H. Stainforth, also of the British Air Force, established a new record of 388 miles an hour. The next day he set a new average speed of 408 miles per hour and also a new world's high speed record of 415 miles per hour. It is noteworthy that he made these records in weather that was considered barely safe for flying, let alone for racing at such a high speed. It is difficult to realize just how fast 400 miles an hour really is. For instance, given a quarter mile start over a bullet fired from a .45 pistol, the supermarine plane would finish first in a mile race even if the bullet main- tained its initial velocity. How fast can man really travel? Present day designers estimate that a speed of 500 miles an hour is quite possible. In eighteen years the speed of aeroplanes has jumped from 45 to 415 miles an hour. It is with keen interest that we await the developments of the next ten years. -KEITH COATES. It was necessary for taxation pur- poses to decide which side of the Can- adian and United States border, a farm, which an old lady had purchased, actually lay. Surveyors finally decided that the farm was just on the American side of the border. . The old lady smiled with relief. I'm so glad to know that, she said. I've heard that winters in Canada are very severe.

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L. S. C. I. ORACLE 45 1' -- , P 92533 Q 1 - -' ' 'fm f 'C - TT ff? , - s - 1 'fs -: .1 , A i , . g -' n- - I 'i .ffl in 'Sh : ' Wi. 'IW' T-' TC Y iv' S .- I 1 - 'Z 1... NN ,l...f f READING, THE DETECTIVE'S ART ' By JACK HOLMES, Arts '32, vvesrem U. HERE are few of us who can 7' 1-r :QS feel the flood of exhilaration W that Keats asserts he felt 1 73' when he first looked into 5 Chapman's Homer. All that about a newplanet and a peak in Darien leaves one rather cold when it refers to Chapman's laborious fourteeners-we might feel much more elation on first looking into Kelly's Virgil. How, we ask, might any man find the vision of new worlds in the colossal task of reading such an epic? But it is just a matter of taste. John Keats could not read the language of Homer, and was rejoiced to discover this 'Open Sesame' to the glory that was Greece. To him there was pure enjoyment to be found in reading of the travels of Odysseus and the siege of Troy, when he found Chap- man, he felt very much as we do when that favoured novel returns at last to the Library shelf. And if Edgar Wallace wrote in Greek, most of us would be more than happy to read him in translation, even if those dark deeds were likewise obscured by an occasional Elizabethan archaism. Literature is really one vast mystery story and the reading of it the endless following of a clue. There is the thrill of suspense, the joy and gratifi- cation of discovery, and an inexhaust- ible store of material. If you are fortunate enough to become a real literary detective, you may sit down in a library 'for years of researchg then after painstaking labour you run across Shelley's long-lost letters to Harriet, or the name of the man who really killed Marlowe, or find out why Shakes- peare went to London. lf you are privileged to do something like that- as the great Canadian scholar, Dr. Hotson, has recently done-then you must feel that the work of Scotland Yard is but trifling. VVhat interest can there be in finding out who killed John Doe in 1931, if you are able to discover who murdered Christopher Marlowe in 1593? But that is a field of literary de- tective work which, unfortunately, is closed to most of us. It does not mean, however, that we cannot make exciting discoveries for ourselves. If we are not to know how Shelley died, we are allowed to roam the pages of his verse to find, buried in an obscure stanza, some lines which captivate our fancy. The critics and the teachers may tell you that Shelley's finest poem is 'Adonais', but if you hunt, you may run across these lines: The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar, From the sphere of our sorrow. Perhaps those lines seem to you tender or magnificentg perhaps you are not at all impressed. If you are told to read 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' and find it dull, do not condemn' Browning utterly, but try 'My Last Duchess' or 'Fra Lippo Lippi'. And if you find either of those poems dull, it is because you have read them only once, five times is an absolute minimum