HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-3-20, Page 6AUTO -LOCKING DEVICE S NEED SPECIAL CARE,
A. do readilyrecognizes ' d d
� , � Nas the sound a washer the sharp edges, dig into rho
of hie raster .i voice. And the people nut and the, part which is being held
of the neighborhood he which Ilive into
easily place. Thus the nut is. prevented.
y recognize the soiled of John from 'workingloose, These washersSxith's car by its various and sundry aro sometimes calledsplit washers.
rattles. For John Smith is one of In other places the head of the�oI is
those motorists who never has thee to r' b t
drilled and a wire is passed through
tighter` up a. loose bolt. it and made fast in sucha way that
s,
The manufacturers of carshave the bolt cannot turn. The wheels of
done their best to turn out machines h'.
a ear must indeedbe securely lacked.
with all bolts tightened up and the on. Each front wheel usually is se-
vibration due to the rotationof parts eured by two nuts, one acting
aeduced co a rnieimtou lock nu . a s a
to and a cotter pica. is added to
The only .edvartage that attaches prevent .the wheel from
coming loose
itself to John Smith's car is the fact in case the nut should by any chance
that no thief would ever consider steal- loosen up.
ing it. The clatter of such a car would ' NEW Lome WAsIfFle.
readily be recognized and would be a The rear wheels, which. are fasten-
ing
dead giveaway. The new owner of ;a . ed rigidly g y to the axle. shaft
,..•,�in all
ear, however is wise if after driving types except the full fl
it for a f P f eating, some-
few days he either goes over tines employ to
_,, p. y a special lock. washer
i t carefully to che' k upon the leaking
and a single nut: : This lock washer
devices or takes it' to a service station is so constructed thatw
when. it is
for th is purpose. L laced over the end
of the shaft it
Lome NUTS OF TH I
>a Prix", cannot turn on the shaft. It has ears
Numeiaus parts of a car are made on it which may be bent snugly
fast through the use of bolts with against
the flat face of the nut to pre -
threads on there and nut•e ip
is that'tori, ventit from turning on the shaft
an the threads and make the '
pants In the full floating type of rear
tight. In the past more than atr
p eeaxle the wheels areheld on by two
ant it was the practice to have the nuts, the conditions being the sane
bolts long enough so that two nuts as the front wheels.
eocld be put' on. One wa jammed jamm..d Seueral specially designed locicin
against another in order to lock them devices are y
used for wrist pins, Very
in such a way that it would be
im- often there are_hoies provided in the
possible for thein to come off. Then wristin into which
are
to make doubly sure theP set screws nuts would.placed. These set screws are drilled
not fall off a hole was drilled into the so that apiece of vi
insert -
bolt and a split steeli P wire may be
pin, called a ed to lock thein into place.
'`cotter," would be inserted. Thus even On the brake linkage there is very
though theIt
g nuts became loosened the often a straight pin with'ahead on it
cotter pin would preventthem from which is used instead of a bolt. The
getting off the bolt. 1 pin is drilled near the end so
In other instances instead of usinwhen it is inserted that
two nuts a singth'notcle nut with "'hes in be put into it to prevent
e cotter pin may
-event it from back -
the head of it, called a "constellated" I ing out.
nut, was employed. When this nut was
. However, all these lockingde-
in place a hole was drilled through
vices which are vieing with one an -
the bolt and the cotter pin was in other to hold their own in spite of the
serted in a pair of notches in the nut, vibration,' the owner shouldP h -
so that it could periodic -
so
not back off and be- ally look over his car and see that all
come loosened. the nuts and bolts are tight.
In place of lock nuts, lock washers It should be the owner's= ambition
are now used more often. . The lock to have everything abouthis
y � machine
washer is made of hardened steel with running smoothly: and so
projections that doiselessly
two comparatively ;sharp P J the whole neighborhood will not
caused by the splitting on the washer. recognize his car the moment it
When the nut is turned down on such his garage.
leaves
Tools of God.
The child; the seed, the, grain of corn
The acorn 'en the hill,
Each for some separate egad is: barn
In s,eas.on, fit and still,
Each must in strength. arise to work
the Almighty will,
So fror; i t5t:: ,nth the children flee
gus,tere'ly led' so on,
Coes forth; and' One, by land: •
Nor aught of all men's sons i
escapes,
• • from that command.
So from the sally each obeys
y
The unseen Almighty nod;
So,till the ending all their ways
Blind,-fo'lded loth have trod.;
Nor knew their task at a19, but ware
the tools of Gad •
—R. L. -S.
What Pat Proposed.
The courting dayshad passed plea-
s,anity. In due course Pat proposed.
"Bridget, •m;e darlint, will yez marry
"Sure, Pat," replied the girl, "and
who else did ye think I would marry?"
Pat kissed her rapturously.
"There's oantly one point, Pat, dear,"
she ,said, "I can never agree to say the
word 'obey' in the m,ariiiage care-
many."
"Oh, don't worry about , that trifle
me darlint," replied, Pat. "Say any-
thing you like. It won'± make a bit of
difference at all, if you onfly do what
you're told,"
Losses to which we are accustomed
affect us less.
Life would be too smooth if it had
no rubs in it.
The Prince of Waresmakes his first appearance since he was thrown
from his mount, on the occasion of a benefit 'football game between Oxford
University and the Tottenham Hotspurs
THE SOCIAL PRO : ► M
i F THE MENTALLY
HANDICAPPED
By D. J. Ci., Shearer.
The late Dr. C. K. Clarke was a
pioneer and a prophet in the field of
Mental Hygiene and therefore in the
field of 'Social Service.
Note .these pithy and striking
statements of his:—
Fiftyper cent. of all crime, sixty-
six per cent. of all prostitution, forty
per cent. of all venereal disease is
due to the non -care
of mental defec-
tives"
"Thehole future,
w of our nation
depends upon the careful selection
of immigrants we admit into .the
country."
"Child immigration needs mere
careful supervision than any other,
as it e frequently includes physical
and mental weaklings."
"The 20% of school children who
are above the average have been
neglected, while the -20% below the
line have not received intelligent
treatment."
The Mental Hygiene Movement
now led by the Canadian National
Committee and backed by the Social
Service Council, owes much to the
late Dr. Clarke. He wasone of the
first advocates of occupational ther-
apy in mental hospitals. He estab-
lished one of the first training schools
for mental hospital nurses.
Although Dr. C. X. Clarke was an
authority of continental reputation
on the subject of mental diseases, he
was also an educational reformer, a
naturalist, and: an authority on .birds.
Sir Robert Falconer summed up Dr.
Clarke's outstanding merits, when
at his funeral he said: "Dr. Clarke
was one of the best men' ,I ever
knew." Possibly his death may dis-
turb the lethargy regarding the im-
perative need for the segregation of
many and the specialized training
and care of those others who are
mentally weak and who have a bent
for crime, vice, prostitution, social
disease, illegitimacy, and who for
•;this reason ought not to have their
liberty.
Prevention is vastly better than
cure. The committing of the horrible
brutal murders and other unmention-
able crimes of violence that frequent-
ly cause the whole nation to shudder,
ought, by social forethought and the
necessary legislative or government
action, to be prevented. They can be
prevented,' It is socially foolish in
extreme degree and socially wicked
in equal degree not to prevent them.
Governments and tax -paying citizens
think they cannot afford to provide
special classes in schools and indus-
trial farm training -schools for this
purpose. The truth is they cannot
afford not to do so. Thesethings cost
much less than hospitals to cure
venereal disease, highly - expensive
criminal trials, prisons, penitentiar-
ies, executions, made, unavoidable by
letting these unfortunates run at
large making their terrible havoc.
Moreover, they themselves are never
happy or contented except in the
protected atmosphere of restricted,
y
Obedient Boy!
Little Tommy Truffle had made a
discovery, and, being of a very gener-
ous disposition,was eager to share it
with, others.
"I is—" he began.
Teacher swooped clown at once, that
superior smile, so irritating to the sen-
sitive mind of youth, upon her lips.
"I ain, not `I is,' " she corrected.
Tommy looked a little pained; al-
most, :perhaps, a little doubtful. But
he was an obedient little boy.
"I am the ninth letter of the alpha-
bet," he announced.
Near acquaintance doth diminish
reverent fear.
French farmers whose families have
cultivated .the'same soil for over three
hundred years- are to receive a new
decoration, the Croix de. Chevalier.
Over seven hundred and fifty have
qualified, the record tenure being
since A.D. 772, over eleven centuries.
Window Songs.
When over the'' hills of Carmol the
dawn lake a Peppy peers
The sun strides in at nay windows
with a cry that bids me roust--
Pha sun that shatters the darkness'as
though with a thousand spears;
„The Lord 'oyes not the laggard," it.
says, "In His golden house!"
My windows leek to the east; theyy
look to the south and the sea;
My wiudoWs look to the west where
the, sun toward China goes•;
And the sweep of the scene I view for-
ever entrances me;
It has taken hold -of my heart with a
ciutoh that a, lover knows,
II,
Beyond where Peseadero'senray
Is iridescent all the day,
The sea Beneath my dreaming eye
Is level lapis lazuli. y
Some spacious morning I arty sure
That I shall yield nue to its lure,
My friendly windows'leave e behlnd,
Lift sail before a favoring wind.
And blithesomelydventurin
'a ggo
To sack the beckoning Hoang -Ho,
III.
Myonder
w' windows yield to. hie
Ships that voyage up and down the
' sea,
And pines at poise eternally.
These pines, in their druidic
dress,
Have it perpetual stateliness;
Their beauty holds. me in duress. -
Against rich sunsets overland
With hues of every rainbow shade
They are like etchings done in jade.
IV,
The butterflies wing by in the azure
• and amber weather;
They weave through airy loops, •,as,
light as a Wind -tossed. feather;
Forth frons any windows I fare, and
are away together.
Nimble the measures we thread out Of
and in and over
The braided cypress boughs—dart and
dip and hover.
Oh, it is good sometimes, to be
,� just a
buoyan•
t rover,
And then—and then=and then -from
the `vagrant ranging and roam-
ing fi
Above the kelp -strewn sands where t
the beryl waves are combing,a
Back from the wild free flight how s
happy to be' homing! t
0
fHE BLIND H OME WORKER
Blind.
A prisoner held within dark walls?
A dungeon where 'no shadow; finis
To mark the change 'twixt day and
night
Crippled with chains of blinded sight,
o live I on.
Full ;busy do my fingers fly,
Their touch can give what eyes deny,
But my starved Soul, with hunger cries
To feast itself, where glowing hes
God's wondrous world.
The joy of old -remembered things.
Sings yet on memory's muted strings,
To -day, my longing Heart does cry
To see, once more, the sunlight lie
On grassy banks.
—Mary E. Hayhurst.
Who and what are these blind hone,
workers, who for so long lacked op-
portunity for expression to their pent-
up energy and now are numbered
among the busiest and happiest of this,
broad Canada of ours? For answer,
they come from every walk in life and
we find them everywhere. Here we
have a bread winner living in the
crowded and busiest section of some
of our great cities; the next resides in
a comfortable little cottage on a quiet
suburban street; the next in a pros-
perous 'farnung' district; another on a
lonely farm in a north country, pion-
eer settlement, and 'still another ' in
his isolated prairie -^home. Sonne 'are
men still in their youth, others ` in
middle -:age, while still others have
passed that point where strenuous ex-
ertion:is still possible. Many of these
have led busy and active lives, toiling
hard and providing living for their
families until sight was lost. Others.
worked in offices or industry. Some
were found who are mothers and still
carry on in large mart, their house-
hold duties, while finding time to busy
themselves on products,' the returns
from which may add to the family in-
come. To use a simile coined by the
late Sir Arthur Pearson, it is a case
of "new lamps for old." From the
former stateof partial or complete,
idleness and indifference cit hopeless
dejection, they have been brought to a
realization of the opportunities that
laybefore them and in most cases
have been encouraged to grasp these
firmly with both hands. As in the
past when Alladin trudged the streets
of Bagdad 'cryeng, "new lamps . for.
oId," we now see the, vision of blind
people: rejuvenated. Their lamp is now
lled with the oil of contentment while
he wick of endeavor is kept trimmed
nd burning brightly. May we who
hare in the privilege of assisting in!,
his work ever kep before the mind's
ye .the glowing torch of hope and be m
trong and tireless in our efforts to 1
enew and light more and still more:
f the lamps which were• so long •
neglected.
Let us picture for a moment the
active, young farmer wlio In the rime
P
of life has suddenly lost that oft nag
lected and thoughtlessly '.-
though
g es51y possessed,
hough priceless possession, siht.
g
After his physician and later the spe-
cialist have reluctantly given up all_
hope of recovery and the family coun-
sles have eventually led to no definite f
decision for the hopeless future, a ,e
neighbor a ears
g PP and volunteers
V.
I love my windows: when the dark
Shadows the whole earth like a
boon;
They show me on the sky's wide arc
"Belted Orlon and the moon.
And when on. slumber I embark
Lulled by the sea surf's drowsy
Drifting across myy tune,
dreams I mark
Belted Orion and the moon.
Clinton Scollard:
•
Why Daddy, Washed.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones had been invited
out to tea.
"Come `along, dearier; said Mrs.
Jones to her three-year-old son, "and
have your'face washed."
"Don't want to be washed," came
the reply:
"But,"' said mother, "you don't want
to be dirty, do you? 1 -want my little
boy to have a nice' clean face for the
ladies to kiss."
Upon this persuasion he gave way
and was washed.
A Pew minutes later lie stood watch
ing his father washing.
"Daddy!" he cried, "I know why
you're washing!"
That's What They Al! Say.
"I can't' keep visitors from Doming
up, sand the office boy dejectedly to
the presid.unt. "When I say you're
out they simply say they- inus�t see
you."
Well," said the president, "just tell
then, that's `-what they all slay."
That afternoon there called at'the
office a young •lady. The boy assured
her it was insp,ossible to see the piiesil
dent
"But I'm. leis, with," said the lady.
"Oh, that's what they all say," said
the •boy.
When --�`
good will is taken' away the
name of friendship is gone.
If you wish'to subject all things to
yourself subject ,ourself to s
y zeason.
They take the sunshine from the
world who take friendship from life.
fprmation of the country -wide activi-
ties of . the anadian National Usti -
tate 'C
for the; Blind, and the remarkable
exhibit and demonstration of bream;
making, basket making etc. which he
saw last Autumn at the.Caziadian Na-,
tional Exhibition in Toronto. Present-
ly a letter: is received by the Institu
the case. A t.^ainecl ee re-
sentative calls at his home -P
within a `<
few days;and takes stock of the ci
cuznstances in which this'man
placed. Shortly;' afters the Hozno
Teacher appears and; ' with cheery
words of encouragement convinces
hint that others who' are,laboring'
under an equal handicap have accom-
plished worth while things and that
his future may be full of effort and
success. She tells him of others who
in like circusnsta>;ces have continued
to direct the operations on their
,farms, to
do the `1'
milking, g, feeding and
general chores, such as cuttingwood,
watering steels, etc.; how theyhelp
with the harvest, the drawingin of
hay and grain, gardening,
S? , sand later
threshing operations; how ; in short,
there"are hundreds of. opportunities
Natural Resources";
' Bulletin; `
The Natural Resources I,itel
ligence Service of the Depart-
ment`
of the" Interior at Ottawa
says:
Ontario gives serious thou
to her coal; supply from ''t1
uta standpoint of its need as fa
for heating purposes. liar eo
supply must all be brought intg
i'- the province.
is Not so inNova Scotia. There
130,000 men find employment in.
and about the coal 'mines of
which 10,000 work underground
and many of them under the sea.
This number, would make a con-
'siderable city of itself: in fact,
the mines themselves are. not
unlike the layout+of our cities.
They are laid out to a plan, with.,
streets and lanes with railway
tracks, with horses and mules
for transportation purposes.
Thomas J. Brown, Dep. Min
ister of Mines of Nova Scotia,
in a recent address, said: "We
hear now and then of great feats
of 'railway construction on the,
surface in God's oivn daylight,
but their performance all ; slnk
into significance when we con-
sider
the work of the citizens'
the great blacic cities of Nova
Scotia. Tunnelling underground
in the darkness and surrounded
by all the danger and drawback
which accompany, coal mining,
they are excavating one mile' of
_tunnel out of the solid coal every
day, transporting it for miles
underground, and constructing a
railway track in every -foot of it
at the same time."
It is thus that Canada's na-
tural resources are being de-
veloped, and •a supply of coal
produced for Canadian industry.
to keep full° time busy at worth whit
work on his own•farm. But wh
about the spare time, when all••chore
fore the day are done, or on storm
days when work other than chores Dies i
impossible. • "Why then,' we :hav
books that you can. learn to read an
the range of literature is indeed lar
g
and varied, also you: can be. taught t
make' baskets which you may sell` t
your neighbors or shito the. Institut
P
Salesroom in return' for cash." An
what is the result? Soon we'see ou
rejuvenated man •.whistling ' as• h
works at his chores and.: looking for
ward to the ,hour 'or hours that h
may spend in making'saleable pro -
duets. We see.him sitting down in
the evening and 'writing a letter to
the manager of the Salesroom in whiel
he orders reed and other basketry ria
tc�rials, Just as yon would sit down
en l order articles `from Eaton's o.
Simpson's. He posts hie letter. Within
the week the nail' `carrier leaves a
parcel in his nail box containing his
supplies and he sets to work during
every "spare hour at his couimai �.
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Soon a number of baskets have been
completed and forwarded. Can you;
imagine more complete ocnupation and
unadulterated contentment? Natural-
ly, he will have periods when, remem-
bering the sunlight on the gass and
golden grain' or flowers, vague regrets
and yearnings stir his soul, but these
are soon dispersed by those other en-
grossing thoughts of family, friends
and prospects. , Possibly his thoughts
fight be best expressed in the fol
owing lines:
The sun stil. shines, though its light
g
is denied me.
What care I?
So long as God's 'purpose on earth is
fulfilled;
Si long as He gives ane the e strength
to rebuild;
And courage to fight until this life be
stilled
I ani content to strive..
The Canadian National Institute
or the Blind has for..its watchword,'
ervice," and its motto is, "Help
in- Them to Help Themselves
A combination knife and fork, made,n
lvitic th.e 0.rlc at the extreme end
of •
the tool and a:razor-edge knife on the 'curved side, has heeu designed for
the use of veterans of the war who lost an arm
Nov../ D0 you DO MRS. DUVfl3uNtw( t
AND DEAR LITTLE. TORA g
IN RABBITBOR0
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tS SHE , PAR,S°N. PoP-YE?
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Down Hill.
What is the first cause of that sub-
sidence, in physical force and in men-
tal acumen; :which makes some people
old before their time?
Others are hale and hearty far be-
yond the Scriptural allotment of life's
term. They carry on with unimpaired
vitality. They seem as young in spirit •
as those who stand in the first sunrays
of life's morning. They welcome new, .
ideas, sympathize with youthful as-
piration. Years do not ' mean that '
their minds dry up, their s pieitual
arteriesu`
harden or'their` enthusiasms
ossify into rigid forms *_fiat never
change and never yield.
Whether lif, after. the first-"ei-a of
youth, goes down hill or continues to
ascend to a far -seen culmination de-
pends chiefly on the disposition to
continue climbing. Some love the
risks and the rewards of mountain-
eering;
n
eering; others, for ;all their lives,
abide contentedly on low levels and
abhor the heights.,,
The most pathetic sight in the
world is the man who acquiesces and
relapses because it is trouble to
change. He craves to be let alone. 1Ie
does not want to be fussed with. Af-
fectionate, constructive criticism he
calls "nagging" --an easy word to be-'
stow on any deliberate, thoughtful
effort to improve him.
In the complacent retrospect cf the
past he is satisfied with what he did
and .was; as determining the sortof
human being he is to -day. Now he t`
wants most of all to be comfortable
in mind. and body. If hes in busi-
ness, it is easier for him to criticize
his, superior officers than it .isto pro-
duce and originate and thereby make
himself, more valuable.
Before all things; he wishes toevade,
responsibility. het others have the
praise, if they will also shoulder the
blame. Ile means to be safe and
shielded. Not for him are the hard
knocks of personal contact, with vig-
orous contestants, in the, open.
" So the'easy-going,' apathetic one, in
whose sluggish blood there is no stir
of great awakenings, lets himself go
on from day to day in the fixed round •
he .knows. Ile never asks himself
wleat he is doing with his life. He re-
sists any reforming hand, as an un-
warrantable interference with his per-
sonal liberty, to do as he chooses, to
look as he pleases, to go and come
willfully; and this he calls "to live
and to let live.."
He who does not care is he who
goes clown hill. He needs the incen-
tive gf a strong desire to please some
one other than himself.
Unless this
spur shall rouse him from his lassi-
tude, he will merely be one more am-
ong "the forgotten millions." Ile will
have spent his years'' on earth and
counted for nothing " in a toiling,
heavy-laden,generetion that needs the
whole value of every Tian and all that
be can do.
There's a Rc c on,
"So you're smelting the cigars your
'Wife, gave You for Chr st._iai0".
"ph, yes, Indeed. She's iin,proved
wonderfully in judgieg tobacco of
late,"
Language is but a poor. bur' -eye)
lantern- wherewith to show off the, cas4
eathedra1 of the world, ataveinson,
iii=�1S��•rt� ��,�°' 1 Vit,