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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-4-2, Page 6Aptgitpobi CAR IS PATIENT DRUDGE! UNDER ILL-TREATMENT. Pe liaps the most astonishing* feet fila • whole automotive industry is. the t ennendaus amount of abuse, an automobile will take from its owner and yet continue 'to give hien service. The Modern motor ear i•s a glutton for punishment, it stands for an endless amount of maltreatment be- fore it balks and refuses to go..„, Think Of the folks who leave their ears parked in the streets all day or at the : suburban railroat't station. where the rain, snow, fog, dampness, wind, dust, sunshine and thoughtless boys con play about it. Think of the test ,this sort of treatment is for the finis° finishthat comes with a neve .car. Think of the deterioration to tires, Perhaps there may be mud and water in the morning, sleet and snow in the afternoon and by night freezing, so that the tires are almost frozen fast. Think of the effect of such dampness on the delicate engine parts and other metal features. A motorist may run his ear in all sorts of weather, which, of course, is What a ear is for. No one could ob- jest to an owner using his machine ons a rainy. day. But when he finishes Ms journey and gets back into his; garage again quite often he is not g likely to do anything about the mud and,water that cover the car except to leave it standing and dripping and dirty. , NAMING OFTEN 1..r.AVEs MARK. S. Perhaps an a Saturday afternoon, after the mud has been caking on for a. few days, the owner willget a 3 4 t streak of ambition and decide to wash I his automobile. The chance are, how -1 ever, that he will go this job in such 1 a fashion as to leave a lillion little diamond -pointed knife scratches on: the body, such as come from washing: it with an ordinary rag and a pail of water, instead of using a lazy stream of clean, clear water and the gentle i application of a good sponge. Some even use soap and water, which is al- I most criminal treatment of highly polished surfaces. Then there am the slam -banging of i doors, the rough treatment of the hoods when lifting them up and put- ting thein down, all e whichtends to increase the, cracking_ and peeling of paint, 13aggage,ia frequently carried on the side, rear or front of a car with no effort to protect the•fine finish from being scratched. Or the owner may have a habit of kieking his feet . against' the pert next to the running board as he gets in or out. This rteat- meat has been so general that the manufacturer has found it necessary Ito develop some finish that will stand mare abuse than paint and varnish. The owner's attitude toward the various mechanical parts that are not in plain sight also is apt to be One of neglect. He forges to keep well iii- bricated the numerous points that re- quire oil and are fully described in the manufacturer's inetructien book, He often fails to keep ,sufficient water in the radiator. About the only thing he thinlcs a car actually needs is gasoline. The brakes may need adjusting, but he puts off this job, which would take only a few minutes if he were to ad- just them. Without this adjustment the driver may put himself and all his passengers in serious danger of accident. The battery. needs water, but he fails to attend to the fatter, with; the possibility of. having to buy a . new one as a result. FOLLY RESULTS IN TROUBLE. In starting the car he pulls out the choke and then forgets to return it to a leaner mixture and carbon fouls his machine. Then he: wonders why lit does not run easier. Probably he places the blame .em the manufacturer. He tinkers with the carburetor and other finely adjusted instruments and then wonders why the car does not give better service. These are only a few ways in which a motorist easily can fall into habits of abuse to his car. Of course, not all owners as as neglectful as others, but there is always the temptation and tendency to put off doing those little but important acts that go with first class care of a car. That automobiles stand as much neglect as many of then are called upon to stand is a tri- bute to the skill of the manufacturers in producing a machine that is almost fool proof. AN EMACIPA T OR OF THOUGHT A. Little Lesson in Living. ti Almost one is impelled to believe there must be a grain of truth in the fancy of the ancient sages that cer- tain times and seasons are more pro- pitious to the birth of great men than others; that when planets congregate in certain ` signs then headers of the i raceare begotten. -But a strange coincidence. not so often noted, is that on the very day of the very year which saw the birth of the Lincoln child in a log cabin in Larue County, Iffy., another infant, des- tined to be a great emancipator of human thought, was uttering its first cry in its mother's arms in the town of Shrewsbury, England. On February 12, 1809 -Lincoln's Natal day -Charles Darwin was born. Thus the two greatest men of the Nineteenth century -men who in their i respective spheres have never since been mataned-began life together in time, though far apart in space and station. Lincoln struggled against the handi- cap of poverty in order to get an edu- cation and fit himself for his great ser- vice to humanity. Darwin struggled against the handicap of privilege that he might free himself to follow the gleam of truth, While others tell again the inspiring story of Lincoln, . let us on this page devote a few words to the ,story of Darwin. His father 'was a physician and the son of a physician; his mother the daughter of the famous Josiah Wedgwood, artist in pottery, a woman of culture. Charles was sent to the famous school of Dr. .Samuel Johnson at. Shrewsbury, where he was the despair of his teachers. Diligently they sought to thrive into his head the narrowly academic cur- riculum of the day -Latin and Greek and classic literature. The Living World. Rebelliously Charles turned from dead languages to the living world. He fleck the classroom for the field at every opportunity. He was a poor student when it came to conjugating irregular verbs, 'but he knew more about the ways of insects and toads and snakes than any one of his classi- cal masters. Education is a strange thing. It must come from within. All the pre- ceptors and instructors in the world -cannot impart it if the inner urge be. lacking; but, granted. that urge, neith- er poverty nor privilege can prevent it. Class standing was no index to what was going on in Darwin's mind. At Cambridge he made the ocquaintance of men of science. One was the geo- logist Adam Sedgwick, who took a great interest in him and carried him on a rock -hunting expedition in North Wales. Another was Henslow, who urged him to apply for the position of naturalist on the Beagle, a ship start- ing on a tour of scientific survey. Out of that journe' came his first i great books, and the training in close observation and reflection which later bore such marvelious fruit. He was twenty-two when he sailed, twenty- seven when he returned. In July of the following year, 1837, he began his first note book on the "'transmuta- tion of species." There followed twenty-two years of untiring study, observation, notemak- ing and hard, hard thinking. Then, in 1859, .burst upon theworld his re- I volutionary work on the "Origin of Species." _ More than a decade Iater came "The Descent of Man." These two books formed new channels for, human thought and the currents which pour- ed through theme fructified the whole realm of human understanding. Science, philosophy and religiof n have ell deepened, broadened' and de- veloped new vigor ander the impulses of Darwin's researches and theoriz- ings. Not all that he discovered and I advanced was new; not all has sur-, CROSS The INTERNATIONAL spirmArr.--- SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which. you, feel reasonably sure, These will give you a clue to other words crossing theca, and they In turn to still others. A letter belongs in, eachwhite space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both. HORIZONTAL 1 --Flying mammal 4 --Impassive 9-A vehicle' 12 -Work animals 14 --An Ideal spot 15---M Islay 16 -•To indicate 17 -Part of a volcano 18-A girdle i1 -Garden vegetable 23 -Pronoun 24 -For two, performers 26 -Appearance 27 -Point of compass (abbr.): 28 -To steal ,. 29=Endeavor 31 --Collection. of notable sayings - 83 ---Single 34. -To perch 35 -The sewn edge 37 -To perform. 39 -Brawl 40 -To peruse 41 -Toward the top 42 -Malicious look 44 -To be alive with 47 -Food for livestock. 60 -Birdhouse 63 -Lying. down 54 -To leave out 57-A luminary 63 -To set. free 59 -Affirmed 60 -Female sheep VERTICAL - 1I -Portend - vived the criticism and constructive thinking of other minds. Blazed a Trail. But he blazed a trail; he brought an unexplored world under the feet of many a successor. He made the term "evolution" familiar to us; he made its significance' a key to mysteriespre- viously baffling. He loosened the shackles' of tradition. What are some of the lessons, in liv- ing to be derived from Darwin's story? First, the value of open, see- ing eyes, which observe 'and note and compare; which see the things that others overlook; second, the value of an open, reflective mind, which carries no prejudices into its world of won- ders, and meditates upon what it sees until it has found a elew to what it means; third, a love of truth which will not be turned aside by fables and fictions; fourth, a courage of convic tion and adventure, which follows boldly its, path even though it must be the first to beat it down and make it passible for other feet. And underlying these the great fact which Darwin made clear for us, that back of all life is an urge whiph re- fuses to be denied; an urge which bat- tles against environment and compels it to serve its higher ends; an. urge which carries forward alLthat is worth while in living experience and employs it for new aehievements; an urge which lifted the slimy denizen of the sea bottom and taught' it to swim, which carried the fish ashore and taught it to creep and leap; which gave the reptile wings, and developed from the ganglia of sensory nerves a brain. that in time, according t h` . 2: An edged tool 8 --Sensitive • . 5•• -Mark aimed at: In quoits (p1,1 6-A department of the army • (abbr.) 7 -French article ' 8 --Unit of measurement 9 -Annoy • 10 --To employ' 11=A. slave 13 -Contradiction 15 -Southern State (abbr.) 19 -The beard of grain 20 -Perceive 21 --Poignant • 22 -Averted - 24 -Refusal 25 -Stupor ' 29 -Preposition 30 -Pronoun. - 31 --In like manner 32 -In or nearby 36-Reparred 37 -Owing 38 -Unfasten (poet.) 39-Return„payment 43 -Distant 44 -To move faster than a waik 45 -Comrade 46 --Funeral' pile, • 45 --Japanese sash 49-A degree (abbr.) 51 -Exists 52 -Uncooked 55 --Mother (abbr.) 56 -Pronoun • OA r JN,,(�:'`..J A i R US CIO -z!R A CIQ I T© -• 1 ©•S -T-:,....120 E= i=-'•- A r, %.wo T P.f,FOR,.QT AT 'C R x.'/a D, L.__ U E!: isWI - 0 i a i s- '.p s Ls • R .CQR Av L r:12GON[} QNom`;1La.1 I XL QQ" z'� i, ®p DO T QQ©:-1..- L _.PEON L0 P.aQ KALAS s A mus E R :-;70 li.--. E c • The Little Fr'Tr`eeo' There ;area thouskan d Obildlreu 011 ttRe Icily Sleadehr gneenkiaiz:bed, in 'Strength and, beauty,gr4wing," T1Yt)y •toss::' their' heads and talk, ae. children, i', Ill, When tilo wltd's blowing, Their fat -bees died before they came to ;birth, ,Axial many. a night' and day, Sleeping and curled and eta', the child- ren lay Within their mother, the brown awl spieudid earth, • One says: "My father was a gallant tree; He gave his, life for Man When the Great• War began. For '(Khan they slew the fir -trees one; and alb Aad the whole air w's thunderous with their fall, And' the hillside strewn with deed, Pit -pistil, they said • . . • "Now when Inn grown I hope that I may "be Mighty and birave as he' I hope that I may die' as my father sled, Valiant' and full of pride, Offering lireath and bough and body and- limb: To Man, most willingly . , '" And,, as he spoke, a man uprooted. hint To make a London child a Christmas Tree. -Jan Struther in Westminster Gazette. . The Watson Chair. Sir Robert Falconer, President of the University of Toronto, leaves on March 26th for Europe. He has. been, invited by the Anglo-American, Society to be the incumbent in 1925 of the Sir George Watson Chair of American History, Literature, `and Institutions. The acceptance of this invitation means that he will -deliver a series of: six lectures at university'centres in Great Britain. Sir Robert has chosen as his subject "The United States as a Neighbor," and will deliver the opening lecture at the Mansion House, London;' on May 12th, when the Lord' Mayor' of London will preside. The Watson Chair was founded and endowed by Sir George Watson, Bt.; on the occasion of the return of the Prince of. Wales from his American tour at the end' of 1919. Just before the war, when plans were under way for the celebration of cur hundred years of peace with America, it was discovered that, no university iu Great Britain had either a chair or a' lec- tureship in American History. With his gift Sir George Watson undertook to remedy this defect. The Anglo-American Society has asked Sir Robert ;,.ti alconer to show how• Canada may act, and does 'act, as an interpreter between the peoples of Britain and the United States; and to show Britons and Americans that they have much toelearrn'from`'each other and that they have many rea- sons for coming closer together. .Education Saved Polly. Possession of the • .human speech saved the life of one of my educated' parrots,. This parrot had wandered from the grape arbor to take a dust bath. One of our hens who had quite a family of siiiell chickens, thinking' that Polly was after her chicks, spread -_- her wings and ran for the queer -look: theory, became' man, who walks erect with his eyes upon the stars. Back. of tbat urge. says faith, is , Cod, vsho, in man, meets the life which He set upon its great adventure mil lions of years ago, and helps it to find its full realization in His purpose of love. -S.. 3, Duncan -Clark` in "Suc- cess." ing bird. She.was ready to. spring up=} en Polly, when Po11y turned facing hel' and 'holding up one foot remerleel: `You quit, quit, I; tell you."' The hen instantly stopped, then Polly started. to make her getaway, but the hen;, again fo�liowed her. Polly quickly turned and said: "Now you quit. Shoo!"This was too much for. Mrs. Hen, and she went back to her chick- ens.-Leanara. E Tuttle. • Natural Cements. . In Europe natural cements are call- edRomlan cements and they were first manufactured by .Tames Parker. Na- tural cements: ' began to be manufac- tured in France about 1825; in the United States, natural cement • rock was discovered while building the Erie canal in New York in 1818. Her Grievance. Bertie had half a biscuit buttered, and, a whole one unbuttered. Ile gave Grace the whole one and :kept the but- tered one. A. rer-iark being made about his• giving away' the larger piece,. Gracie said: "Yes, he gave me the bigest ands kept o is the betterest!" Generally Different. A village with very few children piqued .the curiosity of Francis Wilson, the 'actor, and he said:' "Not many children here," "No, sir, not many," was the answer. "How often are children born here?" asked Wilson. "Only once," was the answer. - America Oldest Continent. America, although the last to be die - covered, is probably, from a geological standpoint, the oldest of .all the con- tinents. Hence Tennyson in his poem, "Lockeley Hall," calls it the "new world which is, old.' Natural Resources Bulletin.,:. The Natural T e ources Intelligence. Service ;af the td. partment of. tho in- terior at Ottawa says c- ` Do you know "what natural •re- sources are being developed bt- ; our own district? Do you know what articles ate being-' manufactured in your, own town or village? This thought is suggested by recent reports of industrial 'development that evidence a lack - of knowledge of what is taking place at home. One of these was 'where a :St. John, New Bruns- wick, manufacturer, who uses glue in his plant, did net know that fish glue was `manufactured in that city.. The product was marketed from.Montreal, and the place of manufacture was unknown. When the Canadian•.explorer or sur- veyor prepares supplies for his'trip into distant parts of the:eountry,' ane of the necessities' is butter,'This is put up in sealed cans and will. keep fresh for long periods. Butter is put up in this form in Halifax, and it is interesting to note that a, wholesale grocer in that city was unaware of the fact. A recent development that tends to overcome this situation has been the holding of exhibitions of local manu- facturers. Many curious situations have- thus come to light. It has been found that buyers were sending con- siderable distances for articles manus factured in their own towns or •vil- lages, and that use was •being made of materials of which little was known by almost the next door neighbor. Another advantage'; of these local exhibitions was that the waste from one industry could- be used for the raw material of another. This en- abled the first: to -convert' his waste into a source of revenue, while it provided a cheaper source of supply!. for the second. Getting acquainted with the' re- sources, both natural and created,, of one's own home surroundings may .be of value to all residents, and further, it tends to create a greater interest and pride in the home. town. Earthquakes Since . AJD. 577. Killed Year Constantinople , ..... 10,000 . 577 Catania ............... 15,000 1137 Syria 20,000 115S Cilicia ....... 60,000 1268 Naples 40,000 1456 Lisbon 30,000 '1531 Naples 70,000 1626' Vesuvius 18,000 1631 Calabria ... 10,000 1638 Schamaki 80,000'" 1667 Sicily , 100,000 1693 Yeddo',..,....., 190,000 1703 Algiers . • . 18,000 1816 Pekin ..,, 95,000 1731 Lima and Callao 18,000 - 1746 Cairo 40,000 1754, Kashue (Persia) 40,000 1755 Lisbon 50,000 1755 Syria .. .. 20,000 ; 1759 Central America . ... 40,000 1797. Aleppo 20,000 1822 Calabria 10,000 1857 Colombia 14,000 1875 I Japan (Hondo) 10,000 18911 Martinique .' . , .. 4.0,000 1902 Krakatoa 36,000' 13831 San Francisco �.. � 452 1906 Messina • 164,090 1903 Costa Rico 1,500 1910 Thrace -Asia Minor „ 3,00,0 1912 Bulgaria • 250 1913 Walcon and Hope Is's500 1913 Peru •,,,.... .,... . 250 1913 New Hebrides.. , . 500 1913 Segura, Japan 250 •1914 Hondo, Japan 360 - 1914 Catania 200 191'41 Central Italy 12,000 1914 N. W. Persian . 6,000 to 20,000 1923 Japan .. , . , . 103,000 An ingeniuos "Alibi." The people' who are most indolent. physically are often quick enough mentally. Such was the case with the British workman of whom the Tatler tells, . I3e' was usually late in coming to work, and one day the foreman took him to task: "It's a funny thing, Jim, he said, "you alis coming in a quarter of an hour behind the time and living next door to the works, while Teddy`is ailus on time, and lives three miles away!" "There's nowt funny about it," re- torted etorted Jim. ' "If he's a bit lath in a morning, he can Burry a bit; but if I'm late, I'm here." A little nonsense now and then makes fortunea fore the saes writing He Saw Through It. Alam -"1'•d like to buy ip tliamon:l necklace for iuy wife:" • Floorwalker --' "Glas'aware in aisle 13." Speaking o. Dumbbells;: -My girl's SO dumb she thmke a tonsorial 'parlor is a. throat -doctor's office. A sneak is a Woman who Was a cling- ing vine before she married and a suf. fragette afterwards. Few.02 us care how short the skirts are worn outside of our own fainihy.. A wedding was clelayed recently be - 'cause the bridegroom fainted. We un- derstand, "(however, that the poor fel- low wee mercilessly, revived. A Riddle: to Willie. 1 asked my Pa a simple thing: 'MI -ere holes in doughnuts go?" Pa read his paper, then he,scM: "Oh, you're. too young to know. I asked my Pa about the wind: "Why can't you see it blow?" Ma thought a moment, then she said: "Oh, you're too 'young to know." Now, Why on eartii do you suppose Theykwen't and Picked me so? Ido asked. "Where 4s that Jam," I said: "Oh, you're. too to kaow." Nowradays tlher0„.is a toucan's atiail- iary - to jus4.about everytlitug except the tiuckwalker's union and the su- preme eourt. `_4n -invalid was cured instantly when a wind boar dashed into. bis bed- room,' . says newspaper. We've aleio known tame' bores . that any welt`-re- 'specting invalid would recover to ,ea- cape. It is reported that 5,250. people were killed by gas in 1924. The statistics divide the fatalities as follows: 60 inhaled it; 200 lit a match to find where it was leaking; 5.000 'stepped on. it. A benefit for retired Swiss yodelers has been started. The yofelars will get the fund and everyone else the benefit. More than a h:tndred years ego John Adams wrote: "There are no people in the world so niiieli in favor of titles as haze peopie of America.' • John didn't know the half of it. Peaee t'z1L come to the churches when a bl the denoai'iin'atioiis cease re - 1923 gaveling God as a. close corporation. . Sone of the girls with a shingle bob are shingled in the wrong place. A bribe in time eaves an investiga- MUTT AND JEFF b7 E I L C ,8 V NG- R lZR E' t S` L o T'IAh. A Mat IiEf'c.E ANA TFiRT REIKINIIS Me n'M GONNA • Neel, A PAIR -_- - St?GCS Hc -LL© mutt JEFF'S AS CRAZY AS A FOX -By Bud Fisher. 'WANT'S -MG IDEA of '. -fl G CI-1CATeR. S,, GRP. NEED GLASSES ae EXTRA MAGNIFYING ?owcR,,MuTT, AS 1'M GbltUG TO TTI‹.- Covllil 2y; LAST,l un.NC- •r MRbc A Uc-RY PAINFUL BLUN"Dc-CZ AND 1 ".1)0.41/41'1". w ANT *TO (2c -PEAT IT mats 'mAR r_. !c GIS 1 00 ND.. ST A I M• S17 ANG[R €'o AN Aci uAJThe4 E?:; NO, Nor d ( erLY THAI'.' i M t s -t ZP h - A,F, BUAI w -c- nE'Ze FOct, A 13LRC1(t3ctzRV 1 r y zr • • tion. "George spends moat of his ,time at : your house now„ doesn't be?". "Yes, and most of his money on him- self." ' in .Alphabetical Order. The interviewer -"Doer your- uraiue stili lead all the rest?" Abou: Ben Adhem-"Nope, not now any more. Fellow named Aaron got on the list.'' `GoodAdvice. He "I haven't gone round with a single girl this- winter." She ---"Better leave other men's wives alone." E� fen led thq; Weuk. ' Inc) you , elieve in defending, the weak?, • ila.wen't you. Buie an" neein beard mo taking tsps foe near -beer?" Flard Coiled htotbe. "Little sister is crying. Go ' and s-:o.what, she wants.' Bbi--"Amil en ea,r ,�, r�'s t:3 don'tm0t-eobnlee." A,Cake-Eater Now. "So Jim has become a dike -eater, eh? "Yea•-. married the halter's' slaughter last nig{ht." Mare Worms. Mrs, Deckeled'ge -- "My husband spends all Ilia Unman the ldbr<ary. He's ; a real book worm;" Mrs. Stocli;,tron-I:onda --. "And mine, ij)ends hia bine over the steak ticker, 'j reading the tape. Ile'e' rig writable tapeworm.