The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-04
CANADA ID HEAD BRITISH EMPIRE Climatic Conditions Put Life
 Into Britisher AUTO OWNERS STRIKE Protest Against High Price of Gaso- line-Unveil Memorial to Sir
 Alexander Dickson and Son.
 Protect Sea Weed
AUTO OWNERS STRIKE

London, July S.-That the increased efficiency, due to climatic conditions, of the transplanted Britisher will soon make Canada the center point of the British empire is the statement with which Professor Willis Moore, chief of the United States weather bereau, has startled Londoners.
 Professor Moore declares 1t can be scientifically demonstrated that the cli- mate of the North American continent is producing a race which in mental and physical energy promises to be distinctly more efficient than any past nation Of the Northern Aryan race. He bases his theory on the fact that the northwest winds of the American continent. blowing with great velocity from an exereme altitude of vast electrcal potentality. release more ozone in the proper sate for human breathing than in any other place in the world The continental climate of Amer ica differs from the marine climates of Europe in the fact that most of the winds originate over land areas and that they carry oxygen which is readily transmitted Into ozone by electricity, whereas the marine winds of the British isles and the European continent are lacking in the means for releasing this virile element. Consequently the American weather ex- pert maintains that the American can no more control that nervous energy which is the marvel of Europe than he can stop his own breathing.
 According to Professor Moore, race eff ficiency depends upon the following me neurological formula: The higher the wind velocity the greater the downward compo- nent of motion whereby six molecules of oxygen of two atoms each are changed into three molecules of ozone of three atoms each, in which form they enter the human lungs and drive the physical and mental engines at the maximum rate. This is what the northwest winds are doing for most of the United States and Canada, which need fear no competitor from the rest of the world as long as the winds continue to blow.
 Professor Moore also accounts for the successful assimilation by America of so many foreigners by this theory, and on it's account he predicts that the Amer ican type will become more and more pronounced in the future.
 Great Britian is threatened with a strike of motor car owners, who are in open
  the price of gasoline. The first big rise was made during the transport strikes of last year, which held up the usual supply of gasoline, but with the resumption of normal conditions there was no corre- spending reduction of price. This caused mutterings among the motorists, but no action was taken until the present dock strike when the price scared to such height that the retail cost is almost 1p1lbla 1Uhat if
 The first definite action to give voice to the complaint of the motorists was meeting of the Royal Automobile club, at which the head of one of the leading motor spirit companies had an uncom- fortable hour in trying to explain the req sons for the rise. The club members did not hesitate to declare that they were not satisfied with the explanation. and they have entered upon a definite cam paign to force the oil interests to lower the price of gasoline.
 Two reasons are given by oil men for the increase: The first, the rules of the Port of London authority which pro hibit the storage of large quantities of the spirit in London thereby increas- ing the cost of handling 1t, and, sec ondly, that the steadily increasing de- mand for refined motor spirit has left a large quantity of heavier oils on hand, which is a dead loss to the oil companies unless market can be found for it.
 A memorial to the combined services of 110 years in the Royal artillery of Major General Sir Alexander Dickson, who commanded the British artillery in the war of 1872, and his son, General Sir Collingwood Dickson, who also saw much active service, has been unveiled at Wool wich by Iord Roberts. The original mon ument to the father was unveiled in 1S45 and it has been moved to the spot where the combined memorial has been erected. During the peninsuar war he held su- preme command of the artillery, although only 32 years of age and ranking as captain. In 1874 he served In America and returned to fight under Wellington at Waterloo and Quatre Bras.
 There may be a close season for the seaweed which is used as a trimming for women's hats. The Kent and Essex Sea Fisheries committee has been appealed to by deputation from the Thames estuary to protect an industry which supplies em- ployment during the idle winter months to many farm workers. During the past 25 years the inhabitants have established a profitable industry collecting the beauti- full moss or seaweed, known as white weed and which is used u hat decoration by the Paris miliners But in the last two years Essex fishermen have attached barb wire to their travis for the purpose of collecting the white weed which they have dragged away by the roots and in an immature condition. Not only was the market ruined by the fishermen who sold the weed to German traders at a low figure, but the plants were destroyed. Now the laborers are asking that a close season be declared so that the plants may have chance to regain their growth.