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Bees— Study Books -_________ ic per day ciction. etc. -=- = 2e per day TUNE IN... LABOR NEWS HIGHLIGHTS this FRIDAY at 5:45 P.M. over CKMO Sponsored by the People’s Advocate nm cooperation with Dr. BR. Liewellyn Douglas Dr. MID-WEEK BROADCAST EVERY TUESDAY AT 5:45 P.M. Douglas Physical Culture Parley Scheduled Physical Education Association, branch. word that a new arrangement now permits Jimmie MRailton’s inter- Center basketball Jeague to operate in the Templeton Junior High School gymnasium on Monday nights and Harry Atkinson’s “Pro- Rec” boxsoccer series to continue in the Normal School Gymnasium on Wednesday nights. With added interest shown in women’s grass hockey this winter, the Centers have entered two cap- able teams in the City League, called the “Pro-Recs” and the “Re- ecreationals,” respectively. WY ea-— ther permitting, free practices are conducted at Eatsilano’s Con- naught Park every Wednesday af- ternoon under the supervision of instructress Catherine Horn, VYan- For the first time since its inception in 1933, the Canadian with headquarters in Montreal, will hold its annual National Convention in Vancouver this summer, according to Ian Hisenhardt, president of the BC Better known locally as the organizer and director of the province’s Physical Recreation Centres, of which there are over fifty in Greater Vancouver alone, Mr. Eisenhardt also sends couver “Rep” captain. Novices are invited. For those who like hiking and skiing, the ‘Pro-Recs” have formed a Mountaineering Club which now numbers over sixty members and holds Worth Shore outings every weekend under the leadership of club president Ray Baldwin. On the more cultural side, the centers are cooperating with the self-help groups in offering free dramatic training in the following areas: Mt. Pleasant, South Main, Kitsilano, West End, Hastings Hast and Grandview. Additional infor- mation about these “theatre class- es” may be obtained from Mrs. El- frida Webb at Bay. 2436¥Y. Future of Speed sk (| (Se ON, Eng.—F#iystoen has speed, on land once more. the record stands at 357.5 mph. in the next ten years? In the 19th century many moving object. An airplane makes a noise, partly due to the exhaust and the propeller, partly due to its motion through the air. This sound tra- vels at 750 miles per hour in each direction. So if a plane could move at 750 miles per hour it would just keep up with its own sound. But a sound is a disturbance of the air. So the plane would find itself in the center of a violent and irregu- lar hurricane and would_~_ be imnocked out of its course or per- haps torn to pieces. We know that this is true from practise as well as theory. The bullets fired at the battles of Waterloo and Peterloo left the oid muzzle guns at about 500 miles per hour; those from modern rifles start at 2000 miles per hour or over. But at speeds near that of sound, shooting is very erratic indeed. And near the speed of sound the resistance of the air increases very preatly. So =f doubt if planes will fly at 750 miles per hour or over for a good many years to come. When they do so they will have to fly at a very great height, where the air is thin And just because of the thinness of the air, propellers will be useless, and designers will have to employ the same means of pro- duction as a rocket, or perhaps some entirely new method. Se HIS whole question is an ex ample of a principle which holds in politics and economics as well as in physics, the principle called by HWegel and Marx the transformation of quantity into quality. As the speed increases the sound ORANGE HALL BOXING and WRESTLING EXHIBITIONS VANCOUVER SPORTS CLUB 10 CENTS ADMISSION DINE at the... Baltimore 4 Carrali at Hastings Sey. 31 S. Dabovich, Prop. By PROFESSOR J. B. S. HALDANE, FRS. We present a contribution from the pen of the famous British scientist and writer, and a man equally famous for his work on behalf of Republican Spain and all things progressive. * * beaten the world’s record for Only ten years ago the land record stood at the very modest figure of 171 mph. At present Is it going to be doubled again people believed in continuous progress. They thought that social conditions would go on im- proving steadily, just as they were then improving in England. And the physicists of that day never considered the possibility that there could be any upper or lower limit to the speed of a becomes first a trivial effect, then a slight hindrance, and finally a danger. There is a critical stage, but when this is past, things often become easier again. We can all think of the examples of this prin- ciple in the field of politics. ight travels about a million times quicker than sound. The fastest moving large things that we know are some very distant Sroups of stars which seem to be moving away from us at about one— tenth the -speed of the laboratory we can easily make electrons or electrically-charged atoms move at speeds very close to that of light if we apply a very strong electric field. There are strong theoretical rea- sons which make it unlikely that any objects should travel as fast as light, but they do not amount to an absolute certainty. It is, however, quite sure that for practi- cal purposes light gives us a speed limit which we are not likely to ex— ceed for a long time Human physiology sets no speed limit, but if you are going fast turning in dangerous, becouse it drains the blood into the parts of the body on the outside of the turn, and may cause fainting In particular, if a pilot turns a rap- idly moving iarplane upwards, his blood is forced down and he may faint. inte his legs Ate there any lower limits to speed? At first sight the an- Swer is “no” because we are all familiar with things at rest relative to the earth But even so we know that the atoms in resisting bodies are moving. it is this irregular motion of atoms which we feel as heat. When anything is cooled, it usually contracts, because this mo- tien is slowed down Now Rutherford found that fast moving particles mostly went through solid bodies, only a few being stopped by the cores of atoms. : So if a body could be cooled down so that all the atomic motion was lost, it would contract so enor- mously that a weight of several tons could be carried in a match- box. This doe snot happen, because each sort of atom has a minimum amount of motion which cannot be taken away from it. About twenty years ago physicists had to admit that matter and motion were in- separable. This is one of the basic principles of the quantum theory, and has forried some physicists so badly that they do not believe that matter or motion have any real ex- istence. Boycott Japanese Goods! way. cs Phone, High. 3657 BOOKS, MAGAZINES AND MUSIC FOR BINDING. OLD BOOKS re-sewn, re-covered with titles and initials stamped in gold. Estimates free. SONGS bound in volumes the = MANUSCRIPT PAPER sold at a bargain. PICTURES enlarged, colored and framed. MUSEUM GF MODERN AND DESCRIPTIVE ART — Sixty fin- est reproductions from the Moscow Museum. Folios of 20 at $1.50 per folic. The Art Book Shop 541 East Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. WARTED! “Stay-open”’ he light. But in | In Vancouver News Of The City In Brief Beckie Buhay, who is touring Canada for the Mac-Pap Emer gency Fund, will address a meetines ef women in’the Belmont Hotel, 1006 Granville street, on Friday, February 17, at 2 pm. An afternoon tea has also been arranged for her at the home of Mrs. EF. McKean, 2961 Cambridge street, on Monday, February 20, at 2 pm. Vancouver Mothers’ Council meets every Tuesday in the O’- Brien hall, 404 Homer street. Next meeting will be held at 2 pm Tues- day, February 14. Winner of a drawing held by Fairview Forum on Thursday, Feb- ruary 2, was J. Hennessy with ticket No. 2: A Valentine dance in aid of the sustaining fund for New Advance, progressive youth magazine, will be held in the Town Hall, Pender near Georgia, on Friday, February iy. Music by Bissonette’s Swine Band, Admission is 25 cents. Silver tea and bazaar will be held in Women’s Building, Thur- low street, on Thursday, February 1idth at 2:30 pm. Proceeds to sus- tain New Advance magazine. A public symposium will be held in First Unitarian Church, 1550 West Tenth avenue, on Sunday, February 19, at 3 pm, under spon- sership of the Vancouver Public Dibrary Adult Education Commit- tee. Garfield King, barrister, will speak from the Socialist point of view, R. T. DuMoulin, barrister, head of the Conservative Action Club, will expound the capitalist democracies’ cure for war, while Rabbi Samuel Cass, of Beth Is- rael Congregation, will advance the League of Wations’ cures and moral awakening. Reve Sh .4Es Pagesmith, of Unitarian Church, will deal with pacifist proposals and psychological factors. Addresses will last for an hour and will be followed by a halt hour question period. E. S. Robin- son, librarian, will be in charge with Miss Ruth MacWilliam, MA, chairman. Continued BOYCOTT chased their supplies from CGana- dian wholesale houses that do not handle goods from aggressor na- tions. Rabbi Cass said he saw no rea- son why self-respecting citizens of a democracy should not refuse the trade of governments whose sole purpose was to crush and enslave not only their own peoples but of all other countries. The committee as now consti- tuted will coordinate the work of a number of organizations whose aim is to alleviate the sufferings of the persecuted in these coun- tries by bringing the economic pressure on the aggressor nations through the boycott and which will act as a deterrent to further fas- eist aggression. Trades Council president E. A. Jamieson, who presided at the well-attended gathering, was elect- ead vice-president of the Boycott Council while P. R. Bengough was elected honorary president. Delegates elected to head com- mittees are: D. W. MacDonald, publicity and literature; Nathan T IWemetz, research and statistics; S. Houston, vigilance, and M. Des- Brisay, speakers and education. An advisory board and women’s com- mittees will be elected later. Delegates to the Trades Council were adyised to organize boycott committees within their own unions to help further the work, and asked to participate in the Couneil’s boycott committee con- ference scheduled for February 28 in Labor Headquarters. Continued MAC-PAPS landed in Halifax last Friday. Despite attempts by CPR of ficials and WDuplessis’ police toe keep them segregated, over 4000 Montreal people roared a wel- come at the Windsor station as the men changed trains. In Toronto an estimated 15,000 packed the giant Union station to greet the men, led by Major E. Cecil-Smith Scenes reminiscent of the return of Canadian Expedition- ary Forces of the Great War were reenacted as friends and support- ers cheered the men and their leader, who spoke from the station platform. Among those taking pert in the welcome were officials of the Toronto Trades and Labor Council. At Winnipeg some 5,000 packed the CPR station where a committee headed by L. St. George Stubbs, MLA, took part.in welcoming ac- tivities for the western contingent. The BC men stopped off at Cal- gary Thursday before proceeding through to the Coast. Welcome the Mac-Paps Home at a Banquet in Their Honor at Ukrainian Labor Temple SO3 East Pender Street Saturday, Feb. 11th at 5:30 p.m. PUBLIC MEETING, EMPRESS THEEATRE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, at 8 P.M. FRIENDS OF THE MACKENZIE-PAPINEAU BATTALION Room 43 — G15 W. Hastings St., Vancouver NO. 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