HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1924-2-28, Page 6THE CUT PRICE FIEND.
picked up a lot of good bargains,
to -day,
At prices unheard of before;
A corking fine wrench anda vise for
the bench,
And a pan to keep oil off the floor.
A sponge and a chamois that's softer
than silk,
And a hose, quite the best ever
known;
Just the things, I would say, that I'd
nee every day
If I had a garage of my own,
I got a reduction on . packing for
pumps,
And then they were having a sale
Of bumpers that soften the hardest
of bumps,
All guaranteed never to fail.
1 selected a tire for use for a spare
That hadn't been run very far;
And for one forty-five got a book—
"How
oob
"How to Drive";
brow all that I need is a car,
—H. S. Osborne.
the. continual annoyance of frequent
tie-ups and repairs.
Many a perfectly good car from
the mechanical standpoint grows
shabby in outward appearance when
the finish becomes streaked or mar-
red, or top becomes faded and the
upholstery worn. Repair • work of
this kind takes time, and refinish Jobe,
need a period of hardening. The best
plan is to have such work done in
winter, when there is little dust flying.
There are various type's of refinish,.
jobs. It is safe to say that a cheap.
job seldom gives satisfaction. A man
'who is equipped to do the work, and
who will guarantee results, is the
most economical man in the end. Get
' him to estimate on the work which
ought to be done, and what he will
charge for doing it thoroughly, for
doing a ,fairly good job, or doing it
so that it will just get by,
Oftentimes refinishing the wheels, `
touching up a few scratches on the
body, and refinishing the fenders will
work wonders. It is not expensive to
have the top dyed •or redressed, and
to permit windows to remain out is
shiftless in the extreme.
New rugs for the carfloor or well -
made slip covers will all help to put,
your last year's "flivveni' into satis-.
factory condition for another .season.'
Usually the most satisfactory ways
is to have an expert do the necessary(
work, whatever it. may be, but if it
is possible to warm the garage a good!
I deal may be done by a handy man on
the stormy days when other work does
not press. One man used an ordi-
nary, rather small -sized, double-
boarded barn for a garage. He watch-
ed his opportunity and bought a fairly
good second-hand furnace, and set it
up with little trouble. In this he has
a giant stove that will heatethe place
up quickly -said-with little fuel. Here
he worked on his car, truck, and trac-
tor, and soon saved much more than
the price of the furnace he bought.
1A couple of heating pipes were ex-
tended to the floor above, and here he
did Iots of repair and repaint jobs on
other farm machinery, getting all of
it in shape for the coming spring.
1 Winter repairs on the car should be
carefully planned, It is poor policy,1
for example, to paint and then over-!
haul the engine or adjust some me-
chanical part, for the finish is sure
to became marred.
NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE
REPAIRS ON YOUR CAR.
Many thrifty car owners plan to
have their motor -driven vehicles over-
hauled during the winter, when there
is the least temptation to drive, and
when the car can be spared best. One
of the advantages of this is that gar-
age mechanics are not likely to be
hurried, and so better attention can be
secured at this time.
When an engine has done good
service it is good economy to have it
gone over thoroughly, every worn part
?placed, loose parts tightened up, and
entire construction put in "apple
1 " order at least onee a year. To
. an engine as long as it will go
mistake The valves should be
g and, loose connecting rods tight-
s.:; i up, wheels properly aligned;
$ . r:ng gear tightened, and worn
things or broken ball bearings re-
p' -,ad."
The mast satisfactory way to use a•
cae is to have the mechanical part
AS correctly adjusted as a fine watch.
To give it timely attention is really
a saving of unnecessary repair ex-
pense,
xDense, and prevents over -rapid de-
terioration. It is decidedly better to
have an engine taken down and put
in first-class condition than to run the
risk •of accident or to be subjected to
Linking the East to the West. studying Political Science and to a
At the semi-monthly meeting on young woman from Saskatchewan
who is studying History.
Thursday, February 14th, the Board
of Governors of the University of To -
'onto heard with a great deal of
gratification that the seven Fellow-
ships for graduate students have been
renewed for another year. For some
Tears the. Canadian Pacific Railway
Co. has provided' three of these Fel-
lowships and one Fellowship has been
provided by the Imperial 011 Co., one
by Sir Edmund Osier, one by Sir Ed-
ward Kemp, and one by Colonel R. W.
Leonard. These Fellowships are of
the annual value of $500 each and are
intended for men and women who
have graduated from some Canadian
University outside of Ontario and
who wish to take post -graduate work
at the University of Toronto. The
intention of these Fellowships is to
strengthen Canadian national ties by
linking the East to the West and, in
the opinion of the authorities of the
provincial university of Ontario, this
purpose is being well served.. The
students who have benefited by these
Fellowships during the years that
they have been given have been stu-
dents of excellent calibre. The Fel-
lowships have been awarded this year
to five young women and two young
hien, of whom four have come from
British Columbia, one from Saskat-
chewan, one from Manitoba, and one
from Nova Scotia. The subjects in
which these students are taking post-
graduate work are English, History,
Political Science, Romance Languages,
Educational Theory and Biochemistry.
The donors of the graduate Fellow-
ships have the satisfaction of know-
ing that they are doing work of na-
tional importance and that they are
also assisting the School of Graduate
Studies of the University of Toronto
to develop the excellent service that
it is rendering to the Dominion. The
two Alexander MacKenzie Fellow-
ships have this year been awarded to
a young man from Manitoba who is
Have Such Good Roads.
let Motorist—"My, what good time
these airplanes are able to make!"
2nd Ditto (sighing) — "Yes, they
have suck good roads."
Windshield Resistance.
Have you ever thought, while -driv-
ing down the road in a windstorm,
what pressure would be necessary to
•shatter the windshield? You could
park some cars in the middle of a
Kansas cyclone and the windshield
would resist the force . of a tornado
with a velocity In excess of 193 miles,
an hour, until recently the world's
speed. record for airplanes
—AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME
The Will to Live.
All round about us are tired and
discouraged souls confronted by prob-
lems which nothing that is read in
a, book or heard from a pulpit seems
to reach and to dispel. Doctors, law
yers, ministers, writers do the best
they can to imagine the plight of the
lonely -and diatnr.ight and to adminis-
ter the prescription. Frequently there
is success, and the condition of those
who come in quest of comfort is alle-
viated, if not healed. .The chief joy
of a man in a calling that brings him
into contact with, human woe and need
—such a calling as that of medicine
or the ministry—is to know the good
he has done, which is the , reward
superior to any payment that can be
made in money,
Besides such professional aid as
may be received from those whoare
consulted in doctor's office or minis-
ter's study—or even between the pages
of a noble book—there is the incalcul-
able help to be found in the tender
sympathies of friendship. A man may
be rich in friends and little else; and
he is never poor while he can ga to a
few and divulge the contents of his
mind with no fear of misinterpreta-
tion. .
Yet with all the assistance to live
that may comefrom the science of
professional men or the affectionate
concern of those who personally care
for us and want to further our de-
signs, there must be—in the last
analysis :the strength of will on a
man's own part to live his life, to face
his duty and his destiny, to make the
best of things with a high courage
that never recognizes defeat and never
will haul down the flag in surrender.
We think we suffer alone because
we know so little of the lives of all
the rest. Nature has no pets. Fate
plays no favorites. It only seems so
because of our ignorance. The cross
that we have we are aware of; but
we cannot feel the weight that millions
of others are bearing.
Look about you, and the brave, the
tranquil, the. cheerful whom you see
are likely to be the very ones who
have come out of great tribulation or
at- this very moment are passing
through the valley of the shadow.
The solace and the strength they be -
Swallowed the Object
It was the "Object" drawing lesson,
where the boys were supposed to
bring slime article --a hammer; . a top,
a box, or what not :with them to
schoolr to serve as model.
One boy presented himself at the
master's desk with the tearful an-
nouncement, "Please sir, I've swallow-
ed niy object
"Swallowed it!" cried the master.' in
alarm. "Whatever was it?"
"Please, sir," with a gulp, "a ban-
ana."
stow are theirs to. give because what-
ever
hatever life brought they faced in an un-
conquerable spirit. They made up
their minds to meet life "adequate,
erect, with will to choose or to reject."
Out of their very failures are built
the foundations of the ultimate victory
which depends not on a blind hazard
of fortune but on a man's •indomitable
ee-
will.
In An Old Street.
The twilight gathers here like brood-
ing thought,
Haunting each shadowed dooryard
and its door,
With gone, forgotten beauty that was
wrought,
Of hands and hearts that come this
way no more.
The World of the Blind and Canada's Effort
Before the outbreak of the Great
War, work on behalf of the, adult
'blind of Canada was •non-existent in,
the national aspect of the case. A few
scattered organizations were located,
in certain centres, but the scope of
their activities and appeal was purely
local. The result was that general
lack 'of knowledge . regarding people
without sight • prevailed among the
great body of sighted citizenry.
The war came and changed ;all this.,
Our blinded men soon began to come
hone to us. The admiration of heroic
service to the country and sympathy
for the loss of the greatest physical.
blessing known to man aroused an'
interest in their welfare which with
their assistance, was extended to bene- •
fit civilian blind as well. It was at
this stage that the Canadian National
Institute for the Blind was organized
and chartered March 31, 1918. Read-
ers should therefore note that the In-
stitute was formed through the efforts
of blinded soldiers, blind civilians, pa-
triotic and unselfish women and inter-
ested business men: Its, objects were
to furnish in every way possible the
health, happiness,education and even -
oink independence of the adult blind
of Canada, and to prevent needless
blindness. To this end it has estab-.
lished factories of various kinds em-
ploying blind men and women; has
trained and employed home teachers
who travel about the country visiting
people in their own.homes and •giving
useful instruction in many lines; has
taken over the Canadian National Lib -
rary for the Blind and made It its
library and ' publishing department.;,
has organized 'a wonderfully efficient
salesroom' department to furnish at
cost supplies required by blind work-
ers in their homes, and to buy back
large quantities of finished and sale-
able articles. The Institute has estabe
lished a department to co-operate with
sighted . bodies in the campaign to
conserve vision and prevent th
crease of blindness. It has taken
far the most extensive and most re
liable census of the blind ever taken
lir the Dominion. It has given timely
and needed relief to many individuals
and families whom without this assis-
tance might have become public
charges and have Iost that priceless
quality of good citizenship—self-,,
respect. The Institute has done many
great and noble things, but perhaps.
the achievement which will speak to
the public and general understanding
with the loudest and clearest voice is
that which tells of the increa'se,.in five
years, of the tctal value of work pro-
duced by the Canadian blind from
$40,')00 to $400,000 a year,
Is it not a good thing, is it not a
sane thing to be a sharer in such a
work, both as a buyer, of goods made
by hands unguided by eyes, and as a
giver to the funds of the Institute
for the field is yet new and the outgo
is much greater than the income.
Donations of time, effort and funds
are promptly acknowledged by the
Canadian National Instituto for the
Blind, Pearson Hall, Toronto, Ont. F/
who came to demonstrate the old
adage, "Seeing is believing," were
similarly democratic, but a very grati-
fying aspect of the men's exhibit was
that so many laboring men attended,
while all the big men's clubs, such as.
Rotary, Kiwanis, Y.M.C.A., Big Bro-
thers, Lions and Knights of Columbus
turned in with corps of assistants to
Crowds Attend Health
Exhibit.
That both men and women are eager
for health instruction has been proven
by a unique free health exhibition
which has been running in Toronto for
the 'past month. It has been attended
by over 15,000 people,
Prepared by the Social Hygiene
Council with • the co-operation of the
Federal, Provincial and City Depart-
ments of Health, the exhibit was..
'thrown open first for women, 5,000 of
whom attended in the first fortnight.
Then it was opened for men, who have
been crowding its daily sessions at
the rate. of 5,000 a week.
The Exhibit consists of wax models,
posters, lantern slides, literature and
moving pictures accompanied by ad-
dresses explanatory of their nature or.
of present social conditions which are
in need of remedy through an exten-
sion of -knowledge. The exhibition
was opened by Mayor Hiltz, who with
Dr. J. W. S. McCullough of the Pro-
vincial Dept. of Health and Dr. C. J.
0. Hastings, Medical Health Officer
of Toronto, laid emphasis on the es-
sentially national aspects of the whole
social hygiene movement and paid tri-
bute to Dr. Gordon Bates its founder
in Canada. Dr. Hastings referred to
the lamentable and costly penalties of
an ill-conceived, ill-advised nock mod-
esty, which in the past had borne such
bitter fruit, and advised knowledge
as the great preventive of social dis-
eases.
Other speakers at the Exhibit in -1
eluded foremost hygienists, medical
nien and women, social workers,
clergymen, magistrates, educational-
ists, and physical directors, all of
whom delivered `notable addresses on
a wide range of subjects, but each
bearing directly on what makes for
or against community health and so-
cial hygiene.
Those who attended the Exhibit
were drawn from all classes. During
the fortnight's showing for women,
rich Iadies in their furs rubbed elbows
with rather poorly clad factory oper-
atives, and the average home -making
mother of a family was as conspicu-
ous
onspicuous as the many professional or busi-
ness women to be seen in every audi-
ence, At the showing for men those
Here an intenser• quiet stills the air
With old remembering of what is not
Of silver slippers gone from every
Stair,
And silver laughter long and long
forgot.
Deeper and deeper where this dusk is
drifted,
Gathers a sense of waiting through
the night,
About old doors whose latch is never
lifted,
And dusty windows vacant of 'a
light
Deeper and deeper, till the grey turns
blee,
And one by ,one the patient stars
peer through.
--David Morton.
A Prayer.
It IS my joy in life to find
At every turning of the road,.
The strong arm of a comrade kind
To help me onward with my load.
And since I have no gold to give,
And love alone must make amends
My only prayer is while I live—
God. make me worthy of my friends!
—Frank Dempster Sherman.
Costly Advice.
Young Man ---"I should like to ask
your advice, sir, as to whether you
think your daughter would make me
a suitable wife?"
Lawyer (ironically)—"No, I don't
think she would! $10, for my advice,
please."
This. huge 2 -ton aerial bomb, said to be the largest in the world, has
ernment. When. dropped from a plane it can make a hole 150 feet wide.
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HUSBAND of t-tER5 -P?d' DOEBO'
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Dr. Gordon Bates
General Secretary of the Canadian
Social Hygiene Council, a nation-wide
organization interested in forwarding
the cause of public health. Dr. Bates
ewes the founder of the Social Hygiene
movement in Canada, and has been
one of the; prime factors in the pre-
paration of the unique Health Exhibitees
which has been running a month in '
Toronto and attracting large aud•;
iences.
act as guides far the various departa
ments, and two doctors were in charge;
for each day.
Over 100,000 pieces of instructive
literature were given away or soil_ •
during the month, and lectures were
listened to with the closest attention,
while the remarkable films shown
every evening attracted packed aud'Av
antes.
Though the Exhibit was free, ni.eni
and women grateful for the informa
tion gained, donated. enough to pay,
all expenses, and it was, shown clearly
that a Social Hygiene demonstration
of this character would be useful as a:
permanent agency in all large centres
of population.
The Exhibit will be shown in other
parts of Ontario after it closes in To -
route. Six towns have already al)*
plied for it,
"The true end of education is to u,urryi
fold and ddrect -aright our whole nal
ture. Its circa is to call forth poweri
of •every kind—power of thought, ,zffec.
tion, will and outwardaction; power,
to observe, to reason, to judge, to cam'
trive; power to adopt good ends firm,
ly, andto pursue thein eficieetly;
power to govern ourselves and to in
just been completed by the U.S. ,gov Suenne others.; power to gain and- to
spread Happiness.." -W, E. Chauvin,.
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