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Same day in Canada, where seizure of private property is repugnant to every Methodist fibre of rich and pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, the project of reducing the gold content of the Canadian dollar-without confiscation-became an active issue in the Dominion Press. Usually well posted, Toronto's Globe said that Premier Bennett was expected shortly to ask Parliament to devalue the Canadian dollar...
Commenting on this appointment yesterday, Eaten said, "Canada should closely follow the gold policy of the United States. The dominion is more closely related economically to America than to any other country. In the extent or Washington's returning to the gold standard Ottawa will hasten to follow the American example...
...diameter, $12,000,000 the cost of Mt. Wilson's new mirror, still incomplete after years in construction. Plans for an "electronic" telescope, equal in magnifying power to an instrument equipped with a 2,000-inch mirror, were outlined by Dr. Francois Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory. The projected telescope will be electrical, not optical. Dr. Henroteau and his aides have discovered how to deposit 25,000,000 minuscule silver dots on a square inch of thin mica plate. Starlight falling on the silvered mica will be scanned by photoelectric cells, which will convert the image into...
Milky Way. An estimate 600% higher than any previous census of stars in the Milky Way (the galaxy to which Earth belongs) was given by Drs. J. S. Plaskett and J. A. Pearce of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory at Victoria, B. C. Their total was 170 billion stars. The Milky Way is apparently rotating round a centre once every 220,000,000 years. From this centre they find the solar system 30,000 light years away...
Last week President de Valera was trying to hop out of that big puddle, the British Commonwealth of Nations. Replying to a warning by British Secretary for the Dominions Jim Thomas that the Free State would lose its Dominion privileges if it continued to repudiate its duties. President de Valera wrote Mr. Thomas last week that he planned to lead the Free State rapidly toward complete independence. Mr. Thomas had a handy reply. If the Free State becomes a republic, he declared, the 300,000 Irishmen living in Britain must choose between Irish and British citizenship. If they choose Irish...