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The Exeter Times, 1924-1-31, Page 6TEST OF ; TIREPROVES An automobile tire is not unlike an. lntiividual'shealth, The person who observes the laws of health is apt to keep'; well, Yet one can never tell when a little germ will make a hurry call to the doctor a necessity or wlte.l an overstrain on the human body will cause a screens break -down. Of course, in time the human'neaehiae wears out and is replaced, by a newer one. But 'the working man is apt to live longer than the idler, r , VALUE OF GOOD CARE. by a gradual lessening of speed and thus avoid this difficulty entirely. With the employment of four-wheel brakes the slowing -up process and, in- cidentally, the wear on .tires is ,distri" buted to all four wheels instead of only two. If the wheels are out of their proper alignment there is likely also to be useless wear on the tires. A tire is made primarily to wear on its tread. ' The sides are not made to stand as much wear as the tread. Con- seouently driving in deep ruts in the ". c%,antxy is bad on tires and soon wears. away the thin rubber on the sides of f tri£t ire, An automobile should not be over- loaded, as the excess weight is apt to put too much of a strain on the tires. Auto trucks are built to carry heavy loads and usually have special tires meet their`' special needs. Many to ce sp 3 of them are solid rubber. ALWAYS CARRY : A SPARE, Carryspare or: two ' tires on a car. Racks are usually provided on the rear. " It is a good idea to keep these protected from deterioration by covez•i and � from theft agood ngt i Tt by padlock and chain. Some drivers find• it desirable to ,paint the extra tires that are carried.,' Carry one or two spare inner tribes in, a bag. A good repair kit is also a necessity, so that tires and tubes can be readily repair- ed while on tour,. '. Remove grease, oil and: acid from tires by using a cloth dampened in gasoline. Prevent damage from rust by the use of rim paint. Mud boils should always be cleaned out and re- paired as soon as they develop, The number of miles of service` an owner should get out of a tire, assum- ing that it is made of proper ma- terials and manufactured in a careful manner, depends on many conditions. Some of these are under the direct control of the driver. Some are un- avoidable. Probably thousands of miles can be added to the use of al- most 'any 'good tire by giving careful attention tathe factorsthat enter into tire depreciation and ruin. Use a tire as long as it gives good service. When it is evidently worn .out, be thankful for all the miles it has taken your car, throw it away and get a new one. Ordinarilythe motorist who takes sensibleprecautions iti p t t dons i iz i operating .his ear has little or no tire trouble, This Idue s to no little extent to the ex: treme care which is exercised by tire manufacturers in producing these es- sential factors in motoring, They have gone the limit in applying the best skill obtainable in order that su- perior tires might be manufactured.. All of which contributes toward mak- ing ear ownership a genuine pleasure. Yet one canevr tell e el 1 when a little cut or bruise or minute piece of glass or some other insignificant substance will develop into serious Mire trouble. Frequent inspection and thoughtful attention are required. to effectively check such possibilities.; And, ;' of course, in time the best tire will wear out and have to be discarded. But a tire that is on the road usually lasts longer than the one standing still in a garage. PROPER INELATIoN NEEDED. As a primary consideration tires should be properly: inflated. Most tire troubles, outside of those due to na- tural depreciation, are caused by in- sufficient ii;flation or overinflation: A recent develop/tent isthe saeall- e'd "balloon" tire, which probably gets i's name from its large diameter. The ills of this tire are made rather thin 1 are therefore more pliable. The large diameter,for instance, , seven: -;erhes, provides a greater area of tire in contact with the ground. Gonse- _ ,,ently a lower air pressure in. the :re needs to be maintained to support the weight of the car and an increas- ed comfort in riding results. Applying the brakes suddenly cams - the wheels to _skid and tends to Rvear the tread of a tire rapidly. A good driver always can, come to a stop r• By Ruth Budd coming out of ehoeL .Y a S _ 8.- o� is shoulder,, his `:ai at haclteY stick' in, urs•, h u, ounded the lupip anew s of ales the path as. g cif they were to blame for something, Tne' professor, watching : him from across the -road, smiled to himself and wrapped, his . scarf tighter about his meek, for the wind was sharp, though. the ',icicles, were 'glistening and drip- ping in- the sun. "No,fun to -day," said Buddy. "Might as, well go home and chop wood. May- ' - Y be it'il freeze tight by Saturday." "Yes," said the professor, "and if the work is done the whole day will be yours. I'll walk along with you as far as the south pasture. Big Ben got out last, night." "All right," said Buddy, still' gloomy and striking at a large clump of teas- es standing' stiff and tall. They broke with a snap. "Those; break easily enough," said the professor, "but try that next clump.".. Buddy did, but they were tough and did not break. Some of the stalks bunt over, but most of them just rattled their great prickle heads and: dropped some seeds. "What makes them so tough," asked Buddy. "It's all the same kind of weed." "Yes, but look at them." "These are brown and fresher," maid Buddy, "Those others are dirtier and gray. Look as though they were 'oid- £r:' "The ""The are," said the professor. brown ones are last:summer's plants and the gray ones .grew the summer ' before." "latah" a s ld Buddy., Stan'd them dry and dead. :'for two whole winters?" "Yes,. seems to takethat:long for the stems to dry out and become brit- tle, and all that time they are shaken by the wind, and every, shake means more seeds dropped. Those`, big p.rlck- ly,heade with their etirving prongs Harrison help_, .ata` .w ,. weeds a lot to keep -�-tu ' s standing there for two winters." "Theycan't help t h e weed to stand "I didn't ay stand up. 'I saidkeep them there." "But I don't see that at all," said Buddy. "Well," laughed theyprofessor, "how do you suppose a cowor a horse would feel with a mouthful of teasel heads?". "Huh, they wouldn't touch 'em." "Of course, and if those heads were soft like clover heads they would be gobbled up in notime; but because they happen to have spines they are III'' left alone. That means more and, more teasels. . . Curious," mused the professor as they :went on down the road "Curious the different ways we all go about this businespp of liv- ing.. "Ah," he breathed, reaching' out and touching a great tree growing by the road. "Here is something straight and tall." His look was proud, almost as though he had helped to grow it. "Isn't that strong though, Buddy? Easy to tell where men got their first ideas of pillars, eh? Name it for me, Bud. Tell me from the bark." "It isn't white oak," said Buddy, "be- cause that has : gray bark and small scales and this is black and tough. Must be black or red oak." "Black it is," said the professor. "I'll show you how to be sure." " He cut out a little piece of bark on the point of his knife. The outer bark was black, the inner bark was a bright richY ellow "Uh-huh," said Buddy, understand- ing,: "But what makes all these trees stand up? Why don't they fall over?" "Now you have done it, said the professor, "That's a puzzler. We don't' know all about it but we have found out some things,. There are sev- eral reasons for it. You know there are forces of one kind and another ,round and about us. By forces I n'rean • f ITALIAN 1, Su T.I 11 iE GYP 0 eerlev ,.t ct o13im8+ kr 4 f V'1Ot� �3 ,I '� IVasraP4'�utZ ' Tu7RorlCf r"1 ll lr� �° , °�5hu•ox a ,RobU:i _ arggtar „r .C.ASPLI.Ar • r ; a. P4 �lbrods� oltOchdr k.Yea3ca; 0,2 distme Ve LAND AND ,SEA CABLE FROM ENGLAND TO INDIA - Cables are not always 'laidJuicier'wat£r as -1 demonstrated_ by the unique cable which runs from Zan - ) ,eliester, England, un der the channelto fiance, averland through iianoe Germany, Poland,' Russia and Persia - to to the port of Karachi, on the Indian Ocean. It is one of the longest cablesoverland in the world; and has ust j been ,put once more, into use, after the damages it sustofined during thehostilitiesin Europe. such things as heat, cold, wind, light and moisture, We have not much con- trol over these, If the sun is too bright for comfort we have no way of putting the sarin out or turning it off!, but we move into the shade or go into the house or.pull our hat down over our eyes. If it is too cold we put on more clothes. If it is too hot: we take some off and open doors and windows and in every way try to make our- selves comfortable. We find: that ac- tions something like these take place in the plant. It acts toward these forces in certain ways and strikes a balance between them all so that life may eontinue as successfully as pos- sible at any one time. "There is one great force we all re- act to, and that is gravity. It is the force that keeps us standing on our feet. When the seed of any plant be- gins to grow the root grows down and the stem up. The root reacts to gravity in a downward direction and the stem up. Just why, we don't know. We see that it so, far when we turn a small plant upside clown the stem will curve around and .;grow up and the root turn and grow down. Such a force does help to keep a plant erect, because after it has been beat- en down by the wind and rain, slowly the growing tip of: the stem turns and grows upward, gradually bringing the whole stem up after it. `"Light helps too. Di 1 you ever look t mother's plants yourgeranium in the window? Are the leaves and flowers turned in toward the room or d� ymi se nothing much but steins?" "That's' it," eaid'Buddy. "All the. ;w leaves and Hower s' ale .�-ttened toward the window for the people outside to look at." "Yes, smiled the professor, "but that light is necessary for the life of the plant. If you put the curtain dawn -sa that only a streak of light comes through; the growing tip of the stem will bend over and grow down toward.. the light, bringing the leaves to the light, which they need to makefood d for the plant. At this time the react- tion to light is stronger 'than that to gravity. Now roots grow away from light ° but they grow toward water. If the only moisture in the soil that the -roots -could get was above 'them, the roots would turn and grow up to the water even if the water was in the light. Plants always seem to react to all these forces in a way which is most helpful fpr keeping alive at any particular time. "So you ,see, Buddy, gravity helps the tree to stand up, light helps the tree to stand up, and the roots spread- ing out in all, directions help to hold the tree up. They support the tree. pretty much as those props do that are nailed to the base of the flagpole. in the school yard. Then, too, as the stem grows it forms more and more wood. This gives the trunk and branches stiffness and helps to keep the tree standing sometimes for years after it is dead. "Wood, Buddy. There is a great word. You have heard of the Stony Age and the Iron Age, and some 'peo- pre call this the Age of Electricity, but I tell you, Buddy, this is the Age of Wood, and our wood is rapidly pass- ,ing away." "Wood i" ,exclaimed Buddy, coming out of a dream. "That's it, wood! And I've got a lot to chop. "Well, good -by, Buddy," smiled the professor, turning into the pasture. "Yes, chop it," he mused.. "Pretty soon there won't be much to chop. We should have 'done" something.' about it long ago. Most too late now." A Community investment. The state is doing more for the hum- ble individual, than ever before, and should do more ,still. His legitimate aspirations to live decently and to rise above his handicaps : should be met and satisfied. It is a community in- vestment which pays dividends in good citizenship.: POOR ADVERTISING - There's not,much use in advertising unless you advertise the truth; a string of falsehoods most surprising may draw the voters toyour booth; and you may sell them shoddy clothing as woolen goods of regal grade; but they will view your joint with loathing,' when once the garments shrink and fade. And vainly; will you plan and 'labor to'bring the• push back to your door:. and every gent will tell his neighbor how he was harpooned in your store. And wives will tell atuiltin arties how sick their husbands rl g p ate the Green Front store. And school -boys, Jinms and Charles ate. the Green Front store. And school -boys, Jams and Charles and Clarence, will say, while passing by'your mart; "Theseflifn- flam merchants stung' our parents and sold them clothes that apart."Much wiser.are those merchant princes who know fol! P that lies come'r home' to roost, • whose well pleased' customer evinces a glad desire their store to boost. Your ads may have the verbal splendors of Old Bill Shakespeare at his best, but if You sell me punk suspenders, insisting that they'll stand the test, and I discover, when I wear 'em, they won't support my trouserloons—I may have coins, but you won't shard 'em; you'll never handle my doubloons. "Why won't you marry me, Ellen?" "I wouldn't marry- anyone.—Why, 1. even threw down a bootlegger 'last evening." The ..Superman. 1� Private Banks had been the most bashful and retiring little man in the army. When women visited the camp he had always fled for shelter 'and stayed out of sight • until after they had , gone.` So it came as a surprise when. one of his former companions ran across him in .civilian garb aiid accom- panledby'a large, robust girl, whom he introduced as -Mrs. Banks. When be was' able to get Banks aside he asked him how -he had' met his wife: \ "Well;" replied "thelittlo man meek- ly, "it was this way; I never• did ex- actly r-actiy meet her. She just kind of over- took me." Cleaning Jerusalem. Plenty f Plenty o runing water has in the past year done away with one of the former hardships; of life in Jerusalem. Water has been brought to the city from the ancient Solomon's Pools; every house now has a supply; the streets are flushed •clean, and most of the vile smells have ceased. Many of the American Jews who are trying td' establish a home in Palestine live at Eel -Aviv, a new city by the sea, form- erly a suburb of Jaffa. How Unkind. liubhy (unsteadily)—"Hang y) g it ani Just got full of cobwebs in that old ceIlar!" Wifie-"Is.' that all?" Four new islands were born" In 1923. Two appeared off the coast of Cochin, China, ,one off the Japanese coast, and the fourth, 1,000 feet long and 80 feet 'high, in the Bay of Ben- gal. The Light That„Solinet 'lee BY ELIZAI3 `i'1 -I 11taeCAI,=LtINL It is a base of fairly' high myopia with changes in the back of the eye. Will require for some years the eare provided by Sight Saving Class. Im provement .not looked for." Thes words stared up at the reader from one of the school doctor's case histor cards. And down in the second ro vias the eight-year-old.girl who wa myopic and.would not grow better "What are we going to do with her Why, we shop. endsher to the Sigh Saving Class, of course, and if sh can't improve, at least we can preven her case' from growing worse. Ai ordinary:' classroom is no place fo And theaft her."Az d teacher madeas dismiss the subject. ry' Class?' "But what is a Sight Saving C < 5 the visitor persisted. "I never heard of one before!" "Better see for yourself," came the reply. "It's up ` en the next floor Room 10. They'll be ,glad to have you." And so' we went. The teacher, a'c charming slip' of , h g P girl who knew her business thorough- ly, but had not professionalized a; bub; blip spirit out of existence explained g P ey. her work to us. The purpose of the special class ; was to give academie trainingto children of impaired vision P at the minimum' cost of'eye-strain. Y "That is why the colors in the room are and the 'lighting carefully sbft,� g g y planned," she added. "And that is ;why we' use movable desks which may bei set close to any art oaf the black- board board as desired:': Our' desk -tops are adjustable,: too, you;see, so that by regulating'; the. slope we may ease the strain on the pupils' eyes. "You have noticed," she went on; "how tremendously large my letters on' the blackboard' are? And we use large letters an otir buff writing pads, and we use no books unless they have the special. clear -text type. But eve. don't use books very much. You see," she laughed, "I `do a great deal. of talking myself, and often my pupils go for purely oral lessons to the class- rooms where children of their own grades are taking regular work." We stayed for over an hour'to 3 watch the children and: their teacher at work and.at" play together,:` and during the recess which followed. learned still more about the purpose and achievements of the: Sight Saving Class. "Children haying less' than one- tenth vision " we are told,"are 'edu- cated in' ourprovincial schools for the blind. But many children who' have considerably more than •one-tenth vision cannot, on ..account of eye - defect or 'disease, cope ;ee ith the work as set for children of normal vision. Some children also-" cane read `small print, theaand seecarry on 'with regular' class work, but only at, the expense of their.vision, nervous system, and -,general health. Children from these two groups' need special consideration,' and it is their 'difficul- ties which Sight Saving Classes try to meet. The'curriculum is adapted to individual needs. Classes are small both for this reason and because the pupils are of all grades and varying eye conditions. The teacher of . the Sight Saving Class has two responsi- bilities -to care> for the eyes of the pupils and to. train the pupils to take proper care of their own eyes. An eye specialist visits the class every fort- night and advises the teachers' and nurses concerning each case." We learned also that there are only four Sight Saving: Classes. in existence in . Canada to -day, three in Toronto and one in Halifax. The service ren- dered by these classes is so valuable, however, that an extension of their work is' inevitable. Parents of chil- dren whose vision is - impaired will second eagerly the efforts of educa- tionists to add to the number of Sight Saving Classes in our public schools. What one such class has 'accomplish- ed in the short space of 'one year has. been reported in these words by the teacher in charge: "Seven ` pupils have' returned to regular grades' with improved vision; the defects` were only temporary but had severe strain continued during. the :;time these defects were present, they would, in ' all probability, have become permanent. We cannot> hope P. to' see the same results each year, for manyof the cases swill never improve —but we can save what siht- g remains by minimizingstrain': and yet. give such pupils the academic' work which is possible only with special'equip- ment." ui - q P inept.°' Thirty new varieties of birds have been found in the` South Sea Islands. e n 3' w" • s. t e t 0 ) a d' F,ND 50 ''Trig- PA5SZ5 , <htll.DRE.r , AND ONE 5E.A5ON FOLLOW Ar'sloTI-taR -- (- EACH SEASON HAS ITS BEAUTY r;N9; DT 5 USES af5; IT ' ORO DICK DUMBLNNY 2 You ARE.. NOT LI5'T'EN1NC' TO A WORD 1 5PI'(;? NAME Tt1E., FpUF 3 P S0N. 'EFPzR. „ ALY MO STARD VINEGAR !-1 T14INKING OF MIS tINiN :RJ P Natural ,l Resoui ,Bulletin. The' Natural ° Iiesotlrces Int41. ligeiice Service of the liepart-' ment of the Interior at Otta,Fa says: In a general way Ontar ple have very little 'lame ,a -tion of the primary productio. of coal' in Canada. Their initial introduction to the Coal supply is usually in carload lots, aver- aging, for the larger hopper cars 60 tons.. This coal, too, is largely of United States origin. A, ,million tons sounds like a large figure, yet the coal output of Canada for the twelve months ending September last showed an increase of 1,770,488 tons over the average for the three previous years. Canada : had available for use for the :year ending September last 28,845,440 ,4AU tons, of which 12,608,584 tons had been produced from Can- adian mines, giving work to 29,- 203 employees. 9,-203.employees. Nova Scotia was the largest pr'odueer, the o!utput;, 'of- that -province being 5,067,1.34°' tons, Alberta being next, with a ;total of 4,938,553 tons :rP•N,eyq,rl Brunswick "produced 21.6,844 tons, British Columbia 2,171,371. tons and Saskatchewan 238,764 tons.'. Ontario, which is well supplied with both metallic and non -Metallic minerals, is depen- dent `'upon outside sources for u i r and a knowledge coal sppl supplies, .,I of what other provinces have - available is interesting. QIP A -Short Winter: Course for F ers, Three years in succession'' the men and women of. rural Ontario have flocked to the provincial university- the University of Toronto—to attend short cultural' courses organized for them by the Department of Unive..r sity Extension. So enthusiastically were these courses received that the` first Short Winter Course for Farm- ers in February, 1921, was attended by no fewer than 279 people. In the following year there were 225 stu- dents in the course and last year there were 84. This year the course isbeing offer- ed for the fourth time during the two February from F ebruary 4 'to I'ebruary, 16. Its reception eceptioii has, however, been far from gratifying to its organizers, and the Dept. of University Extension is being forced to the conclusion (hat the farmers of >Ontario' either, do not want the course or are not in ;e. posi- tion' to' spend two profitable weeks in Toronto.: Consequently W.,„, J. T1un lop, Director of University Extension is considering t h o eni n of th course to`'cityP P eo le..- In the first threeears nearly 600 y n a y people from the rural -communities of the province availed themselves of this opportunity for broadenifg their minds and enriching their thoughts through a brief introduction into the realms of such cultural ,subjects as history, economics, English literature and psychology. The lack of enthu- siasm this year would seem to indi--. cate that this noble 600 comprises the sum total of the people in rural co munities who are desirous of gets tg an introduction into the higher re!11nis of thought bymeans of a short course. Mr. Dunlop recently expressed con- siderable reluctance to discontinuing. the course in future years because he 'r feels that there pe people in Ontario who would appreciate such an annual event. He added that he was some- what at a loss to explain the fewness of the applications received at his of- fice as a special request had been made that those intending to take the course should make notifications by January 25th, in order to facilitate arrangements. The course recommends itself by its very cheapness. The registration fee is; but $2, tuition is free, board T and lodging may be obtained at from $8 to $10 per week and the only other cost is railway fare. Three lectures are given each morning during the course and the afternoons are :devot- ed to visits to the Royal Ontario.. Mu scum, the Parliament Buildings, the University Buildings, and other points of interest.' No academic qualifica- tions are necessary and there areno examinations to bring back memories, pleasant or otherwise, of school. days. The : subjects which it is proposed shall be dealt with -this year in the Farmers' Course have been especially adapted to meet their. interests.. In addition to the usual lectures in Eng- lish literature, history, and; rural economics,' there; are to be six lectures by a practical farmer on "Agriculture in -the National Life." There will' also be a course' of four lectures in public speaking;- which "should prove attrac- tive to those who wish to enter' local or provincial politics, or oven to pre- side -at local social functions. There will be a continuation .of the lectures given last year in public health, : par- ticularly viewed from tho standpoint of problems of hygiene on the tin i.L f While 11 is realized by charge of the course that it w tad 'be impossible to deal intensively with even one subject in so short" a length of time, it has been found that the students Were able to obtain, in the time provided, a good insight into the subjects offered and that they were enabled to pursue the subject further threuoh their own reading Zt is,point; ecl'out that the course serves, above X11, tela ` a mental stimulus', iw: