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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1924-5-1, Page 7Bates and your more :eliing Vieth. In and :goody -s-t-ee R25 match - Itis Tarn. uite an atitude. be less oodness, ling a re pay cans. obtain ans to ONTO Trel ¢Pr WHY. BATTERIES. SULPHATE, .l The negative plates of a storage battery contain spongy lead and the positive plates lead oxide. When cur- rent is taken from the charged bat-. tery the acid in the solution combines wit e material of the plates,chang- intto lead sulphate. Normally thi i s finely divided or powderlike ,state and when current is forced into the battery this sulphate is changed back again into lead oxide and spongy lead. Thus both positive and negative plates are restored to their original condition. *From this it will be seen that all d plate batteries sulphatenormally, but there is a kind of sulphate that works harm and this is the crystalline form into which the powderlike sul- phate reverts, and once formed it is very difficult for the charging mfr. - rent to convert it into the original ma- terial of the plates. However, this, crystal sulphate only forms when a battery is allowed to remain continu- ally in an almost run-down or nearly discharged state. • This is the, one big reason why a battery should never be stored unless fully charged and then recharged about once a month, because even un- used it loses approximately one per cent, of its charge every day, Also why a battery should be tested occa- •ially with a hydrometer to make it ie•holding a normal or almost rnial charge. Thus can the pernicious crystalline form of slphating be avoided, the bat- tery kept at its highest efficiency and its useful life extended. OUR SIDESWIPED CAR. After a big touring car sideswiped the family car the latter was towed Home and into the shed. Removal of Yfl the engine was necessary but nothing on the place would serve as a hoist. ,However, there was a section of one- inch rope in the barn and this, thrown over an overhead beain and tied about the engine, didiithe trick. After loosening the engine, the rope, was made as tight as possible. While ono man kept the engine from turn- ing, another inserted a 2x4 and com- menced twisting the roped just like we tighten brace wires at the corner fence post. As the rope was twisted its length gradually shortened, raising the engine clear of the frame. The car was backed out of the way, temporary supports placed underneath and the engine lowered, When the re- pairs had been completed the process was reversed and the engine again placed in the car. H. R. D. AVOIDIl?G BATTERY INJURY. If the battery and electric system on a car are to function efficiently it is essential that the battery ` terminal connections always be tight. How- ever, a tight terminal frequently be- comes so tight as to be difficult of re- moval when this is necessary, and a careless workman by strong-arm methods can easily inflict much dam- age. The usual injury is a loosening of the post in the sealing compound around it, thereby allowing leakage and loss of the acid solution. Some- times the injury extends deeper and the post is torn loose from the battery - plate assembly, necessitating an ex- pensive repair. For this reason, in detaching terminals from the post great care should be observed in order that little or no strain may be placed on the post. Special tools can be had for removing the different types of terminals, and where one sticks it usually pays to procure and use one. Artificial Moonlight Planned fio Remove Lon on Shadows - scheme looking toward the flood - f the whole inner area of London 'vii, artificial moonlight after night- arlwill be brought before the Insti- tute of Public Light Engineers, which leas just been organized here. The plan ea' or flood lighting of the city from e4owerful constellations of elec- tric lights, which would surmount steel towers 500 feet high, distributed over a wide area. Supporters of the scheme say the present method of lighting great cities by thousands of small electric lamps involves 'an enormous waste of light, Captain Ttoalti Amusdsen, noted Arctic explorer, is shown viewing the plan in which he will attempt to make a flight over the north polar. regions. 5,400 Little Quakes in Japan Since Disaster Since the time of the great Japan- ese earthquake of September 1, 1923, Japan has had 5,400 lesser quakes, ac- cording to Dr. Nakamura, Japan's foremost seismological expert, says a Tokio despatch. These include minor disturbances registered on siesmo- graphs and not felt by humans. In September, the month of the dis- aster, there were 3,350 shocks, 2,000 of which were plainly felt; in October 1,069, of which 69 were felt; in No- vember 249, of which 59 were distinc- tive; in December 234, of which 85 were felt, January showed an increase over the last month of the previous year, 364 shocks having been registered during that -month, of which 70 could be felt by the residents in the parts of Japan in which the tremors occur- red, Again, February decreased, with only 128 shocks, 26 being distinct. March has had 59 shocks, all plainly felt. What is Resignation? Teacher—"What is resignation?" Smart Boy -"Resignation is when due to the rayshitting the sides of you want something you can't have, and then pretend you never wanted houses and shops before their full it." power is exhausted. --ss---- Adoption ss-_.—Adoption of the new scheme, it is. Avoiding Contagion. said, would result in better lighting Brake -beam Bo—"Ever reale dens and make London practically shadow- success stories?" less, as well as cutting the cost of illuminating the city's 2,223 miles of streets, which as at present lighted by the system of individual lamps costs almost £1,000 nightly. Adequate Reason. Mother—"Tell me, Johnny, why are you so fond of grandpa?" Johnny —"I heard him telling you how he whipped papa when he was a naughty bdy." DEFECTIVE EYESIGHT IN RURAL SCHOOLS The Canadian National Institute for the Blind has for some time been Carrying on definite negotiations with various Provincial Government De- partments with a view to drawing at- tention to cases of defective vision among rural school children, as well in the large cities and towns. In Mai larger cities and towns, sight - saving classes can be established with but slight difficulty owing to concen- tration of a large number of children and the comparatively short distance -that must be traversed by pupils who, because of their defective vision, must attend a special class at some central point. For euraI schools, however, the sight saving class will be difficult to n.nge, since owing to the individual cases being scattered• over a fairly lege area, say a county, it would be , nciaessary to arrange for concentra-' tion at, the county town and provide hoarding facilities, etc. The scheme at present under con- sideration, as suggested by the Insti- tute, is simple, and possesses many advantage z; Chief among these are, first, assistance can be rendered to the child in the school it would regularly attend. Second, cost of various ap- pliances would be ,very small, and third, the" whole scheme could be handled• with little delay. In short, the scheme is as follows: That Dept. el ` Health nurses or school nurses e such arsavailable, should test all school children, refer-. those easeh needing treatment or. �ouglas 'es to proper nuthgrities. Next, e , hool'teachers at present employ- ed <ne ium e 1 throught i of dre d the Dept. of Education instructions, assisted by their inspectors and through school conventions and advice from attending nurses, be acquainted with the degree of special attention necessary for the individual case of defective sight in their school room. The actual arrangements to be pro- vided in the school room would be briefly as follows: That a desk should be chosen properly suited in size to the child in question. That this should Ibe placed in the best Iighted 'portion of the room.' That the child should be provided with essential large type text books and be relieved as much as possible from blackboard work. This scheme would accomplish fifty to seventy-five per cent. of the relief that would be secured through a regu- larly established sight -saving class and would possess the above noted ad- vantages of little expense and practi- cally immediate application. There are children in our rural schools who are. at present called dunces. A dull mind, however, is not the trouble in many cases. Defective sight is often responsible. This is a serious matter and requires your co- operation. It inay be true that there is only one case in your school but this can be. no excuse for neglect. One child's sight, no matter where located, is worth saving. We have known many children subject to no more, nor 'no less, neglect, who have lost their sight irreparably. If you know of a case in your own community where a child's cye, are obviously weak or defective, do not lose time, but"write immediate- ly to this office stating particulars. -.-The Canadian' National Institute for the Blind, Pearson Ilail, Toronto.. Ditto Brummel—"Naw•••-dey all ad- wises fellers to work," The words of the pure -are pleasant words. If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery of others would be very harm- less. Much attention is centred at the present time upon the' bituminous sands of Northern Alberta. Dr. G. A. Ings, formerly of Calgary, has tested the process of William Georgeson of Calgary, for the extraction of oil from these sands and it is stated that if further experiments are satisfactory an extensive development of these sands will result. It is also under- stood that Dr. Pritchard and Mr. Wen- dell Jackson, of New York, who have for many years experimented on an- other process for the distillation of these sands expect shortly to be in a position to test out the value of its application. It has been satisfactorily proven, that these sands have definite value for the extraction of oil and by- products and for road building pur- poses. If I Had a Garden. If I had a garden, Apple -trees would blossom there. Lavender would grow there, There would be sweet william, Rank on rank of it. There would be rosemary, A gray -green bank of it. There would be snap -dragon; 0, such a show there! Heads down, busily; yellow bees would go there. If'I had a garden,. Biryany would wander there. There would be wall -flowers Scrambling up the wall; Warm in the sunshine; Golden in the sunshine, Warm, ragged clumps of it Clinging to the wall. And there would be tulips, Straight and tall, Standing up bravely, , Backs to the wall— Red and yellow heads against the old. gray wall. If I had a garden You would come there. 0, how you would love it; You with your fancies, Flowers which had grown there. If you would come there I would pick you pansies; Velvet pansies to hold to your breast. And we would be alone there, Quietly alone there; Alone with the bees and the flowers and the sunshine . . Alone, and at rest. —A. A. Milne. . h To a Little Girl. Artless as an April flower Half hidden in a ferny nook Of bob -e -links and birchen boughs That overhang a dreaming brook, Graceful as a wand -like rose, Fragrant beneath new fallen rain; Fresh with the innocence of morn That gc,es, and does not come again. Tranquil as the long white sleep Of earth beneath the virgin snow, Waiting for love's sweet Spring to stir The depths that only Spring can know. The stars of beauty, little girl, Will light you on your lovely way, But riper glories cannot dim The beauty that is yours to -day, --Rondo Robinson. Oblivious of the Obvious. . Bessie, in town with her mother, caught sight of a bald-headed man. "Oh, mother," she exclaimed, "just see that man! He hasn't a. hair on his head. Isn't it sad?" "Hush!" replied her mother. "He will hear you." "Oh!" said Bessie, in Subdued tones. "Doesn't he know it?", NEW CANADIAN BUILDING IN LONDON, ENGLAND The UnionClub Build ng at the corner of C.crepos Street and. Square, which has been leased for soma hundreds of years by the 1e:leral government, and will become the Dominion's building i:n England. NOW ,DORA•, SHt3T `•ioUR wsie:.S , AN' Go Rlr:iHT • To ' Ei'`i'E LO IN RAB.BITBORO WHY, PORA Put•ii3ONNki f. -.` ARE. `1'00 STILL AWAKE!? DIDN'T 1 TELL VOL) Iii, Zlil �_r` "100REYES `?\*:"A/NTC4E-R 'YES ,MA I DID 5)10T MY ri(ETICI-IT; OPEN LETTERS TO A FARMER 'By Rev. M. V. Kelly, C.S.B. I. I shall not be surprised, my dear farmer friend, to hear tint you are thinking .of moving to tirecity. The fever is in the air. People. from every quarter are infected with it. You are hearing a good deal about it all the time, and you are hearing also that it isa great calamity, No one doubts this. It is altogether too true. The consequences -to the coun- try at large are fax too serious and. too far. -reaching for anyone at this date to estimate. Meanwhile, you have to think about yourself '°and your family, And you fancy you see decided advantages in tie move. lam .see, or expect to see, possibilities for the future of your children, such as you cannot promise them on the farm. It is hard to resist the allurements of such prospects. It is possible your wife and family are carried away by the idea even more than you. At all events, it seems the best thing to do. May I ask if you have fully reflect ed upon what is by far the most im- portant, aspect of the question? Do you thoroughly understand liow your eternal interests and the eternal in- terests of your children may be af- fectea by this move? Will you in this way do more for the salvation of your soul? On this: matter, a learned pastor has written something like the following: "People move from the farm to the .city for one or other of three reasons, and the three are .condemned by the Gospel. They are all enemies of man's salvation. Ask anyone so decided why he is making the change, and he will tell you he can make more money in the city, or there will be 'less work and hardships, er there will be more pleasures and amusements. Now, the Gospel warns us over and aver again against the danger of enjoyment and pleasure; it warns us against the dan- ger of riches, even to the extent of saying, "haw hardly shall they that have riches enter into the Kinydom of Heaven," and it tells us that the only way to Heaven is the way of the Cross and suffering. A lite of work, it as- sures us, is the portion of every man, while it also reminds us that idleness is the mother of vice. If you have been actuated in making your decision by any of these three motives, does it not seem that you are giving your soul's salvation and the salva.tlon of your children's souls second place in your thoughts and plans?" A Mistake Without Remedy. There is another consideration. I would ask you to w,elgh,, well, dear farmer friend, before taking this mo- mentuous step—before leaving the farm for the city. Do you understand that a mistake made in this matter can never bo corrected? Do you realize that in this move yeu'ere deciding the fate, not only of yourself and your children, but of your entire posterity through all future generations? Peo- ple once established in the city do not move back to 'the country. Families brought up in the city cannot exist on a farm. If in a lifetime you have known one man of city' rearing who sought .a -livelihood . in the country, inade good there, settled down satis- fied- with his Iot, he was the very rant est exception. So long as you remain where you are, your children can 'at any time be• easily induced to move So the city should any .advantages be offered there. But if, on, the contrary, you take them there now, you practically exclude them for ever from the poasi' bility of enjoying the advantages coun- try 'Ilfe ountry'ilfe can offer. If their chances of salvation be much more Imperilled in. the city limn where they are now, your present move prevents their being res- cued from that peril. You are taking the responsibility of condemning them to spend the remainder of their lives in the city, even though it should be- come evident that their religious spirit and practice are being undermined,` that they are exposed to temptatons of an alarming character, that their morals, their behaviour be fearfully jeopardized. This is the very mildest aspect of your responsibility. That to which you are condemning your children, you are also imposing upon your grandchildren and great grandchildren, who in all probability, will be endowen with much less resisting power than your childen are carrying with them there. It is only a small proportion of parents who are capable of bringing up and controlling a family in a city atmos- phere and amid city conditions. So is it not rather unfair to any father and mother that their parents should have condemned them and their children to so trying an experience? Were you to complete your days on. a farm, you can pass your declining years in the as- surance that the faith and morals of all committed to your charge are ex- posed to the least possible danger. Are you so •certain of your grandchildren and great grandchildren forty or fifty years hence, if, th-rough sour decision to -day, they are condemned to work out their salvation in the city? Your grandfather or great grandfather set- tled on the land probably faced the hardships of the forest --many years ago. Do you ever stop to think what his heroic conduct has meant for you? What might have happened, if, in- stead, he had thought only of himself and exchanged a country home in Eur- ope for en easy existence in Boston or Philadelphia or New Yark? Are you sure the possession of Faith, which, in the mercy of Providence, you and cthenx still enjoy, has not depend- ed an that single event? Do you say it is enough to look after your own Immediate care, that you -cannot be thinking of your children's children? What, if by your decision' now, you ccmr.el your sons and daagh- •ters to live amid conditions which will make the prcper bringing up of their families, next to an impossibility? Are you willing to forget that? Provided you can have what suits you best— success, estsuccess, eaze, pleasure—are you quite indifferent to the fate of your pos- terity? To be continued) PLAN1ING FOR STREET DECORATION It will be impossible to do decora- tive planting along the streets of most of our towns and villages unless shade trees are thinned out. Go where one will, along country roads, or through urban centres, shade trees, principally of maple and elm, but sometimes of other varieties, are found almost or quite touching each other, and com- pietely or nearly shading the ground. Decorative planting with shrubbery or Hewers along the fronts of the homes was not considered when the planting was done. The nurserymen have de- veloped many beautiful sbrubs ready to decorate our streets, which cannot 'be used where they would be decora- tive, until the tree question is dealt with, Recognizing the difficulties that confront horticultural societies who would decorate their street borders. the Ontario- Horticultural Association at their annual meeting this year pass- ed a resolution urging upon the On- tario government to make legislative provision for towns and cities to take control of the street trees. It was brought out at that meeting. that the opinions as to d'stan•_es that street trees should stand, vary from thirty feet to forty-five feet hi the dif- ferent cities that have established Minimum i i n mum Cl atAIICe3. Property owners tY wne � who wish to plant beautiful shrubbery on their front lawns for the improve - ment et their homes and for the bene- fit of the street on which they live, need not wait for the amended street tree Iegislation. In most places at least the trees are regarded as their own property and may be taken out to make it possible far the newly planted shrubbery to flourish and flower in ever increasing volume as the years go by. --Ontario Horticultural Anode - tion. The Joy Endeavor. There is no bourn, no ultimate. The, very farthest star But rims a sea of other stars extend- ing just as far. There's no begining and no encl. As in the ages gone, The greatest joy of joys shall be—the joy of going en. —Sam Walter Foss. Delayed Decision. "Say, looky here!" cried Farmer Furblegate. "!,That ain't the way I told you to do that! aye think l`m a fool, hey?" - "Wc,uldn't like to rad- yet," respond- e:'i the new hired pian. "1 only came— yaw-w-wn!._- yiste'd'y. __eta --- sometimes We make frivolous coin - plaints of our friends to justify our own fickleness. •• BuT•my 'THINKS dJ�gIC'moiEP7' QiNn-0d ' U3'V SHE: SiNe 1 1 1 1 i 3 i 4 1 4 CO -d :i