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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-3-27, Page 6BOW-LEGGED WHEELS. One of the very surest way to scrub out your automobile tires in record time is topermit your wheels to get out of alignment. There are a number of conditions which will tend to throw a wheel out of line; and the great trouble is that the driver sits where he cannot sea his Wheels when the ear is in motion and so may not realize just what the trouble is 'until much damage has been done. If a motor -driven vehicle is run up ; against a curb 'so that the immovable stone, construction is con- siderable, somthing has to give, and that something is naturally the part which holds: the wheel in place. Care- less -driving over rough roads deeply, indented with ruts is also liable to throw a sudden strain on to some rod or bearing that will wrench a wheel outo f line. A driver should "realize this and be particular to drive care- fully, not permitting one wheel to drop into a rut suddenly, but, if pos- sible, to steer the vehicle so that all four wheels will have a fairly smooth or level surface to pass over, or one or two wheels will take the change of surface , necessary very gradually. Sometimes a slight accident, or a sudden strain caused by the force of a heavy blow or impact, or the careless rounding of curves, or descending steep, rough hills at a high speed will bend an axle; knuckle or steering rod. When demountable rims are used precaution must be taken to see that the rims are put on perfectly straight, for if they are carelessly placed the tire must take unnecessary diagonal' grind and wear. INCREASING LIFE OF SPRINGS. If you would increase the life of the springs en your car, take them apart at least one a year and place graphite between the,teaves. This will keep them flexible and will afford the car the protection fol' which the springs were designed. instead of: them getting' rusty and stiffening very perceptibly: ELIMiTNATION OF VIBRATION LENGTHENS: LIFE OF CAR, The number' of forms of vibration on a motor car are legion. Some of them' can, be eliminated; others can only be lessened; most of them are unpleasant and some are destructive. If vibration could be eliminated en- tirely, the car's life would be Consider- ably , -lengthened. To ,dream of such a thing, however; would be like chasing rainbows; interesting perhaps, but with no chance of success. The object, then, of both the designer and the user is to geep unnecessary' vibrations on the blacklist. KEEP BATTERY UPRIGHT. Always keep the battery in a ver- tical position in taking it out or re- placing it in the sax, Sediment may be in the bottom of the jars, and tip- ping them may, cause it to get between the plates and short-circuit them. TIRE SPREADERS OF WOOD. Tire spreaders can be made of vari- ous sizes to meet the demands of the tire repair shop. For this purpose wood will serve best, maple being pre- ferred. These should be about ten inches long, three inches wide and one inch thick. The step-down for various tire sizes man be made to any length thatbe found may o un d convenient Airplanes Should be Equipped. With Radio Sets. The arrny aerial world tour will be attempted without the use of radio ex- cept on the last leg, across the Atlan- tic from Hull, England, due to the, con- servation of weight, the chief of the army air service has announced. Radio experts and some filers be- lieve that this is an urr,fortun+ate de- cision, since through the use of ` radio in connection with aviation greater as- surance of successful flights and the safety of pilots has resulted generally. But the projectors, of the flight do not consider radio essential. Weather conditions, corder --s -and emergency calls can be received im- mediately by pilots- on radio equipped craft, and they inturn can send mes skages as to progress, position and changes in routers, as well as requests for assistance, position reports and 'de- sired information. Clap plane, it is now planned, will be equipped with a'transmitter and a re- ceiver set at Hull, England, but what would happen if that plane should crash is not announced. The radio telegraph transmitting set is a 200 watt . nonsynehronous- notary spark with a plane to ground range of atb•out a hundred miles. The antenna will be 8. single weigh -bed trailing wire, and. the whole set will weigh approximate- ly 1'00 pounds. Six hundred metres vvil1 -be the wave used. A superheteroyne receiving sect will also be carried in the communication plane, but no radio-eompnss. Tho transmitting set Is tamable of being $ransf+erred to -another plane if neces- eary, Spares and some ' replacement opparatus will be carried across+ the Atlantic. Broad Hint. For hours they had been together on her front porch. The moon cast its tendner gleam, down on the young and handsome couple who start Strangely far apart. He sighed. She sighed. II finally: .sa "I wish. I'ha•d money, dear," he said, m8'd travel." ' Impulsively, she slipped her hand ba- h* then, rising swiftly, she sped the house. Aghast, he, looked, at .his hand- Ln s? :: ,pains .lay a niekel. - You cannot pull hard with a broken In a bedroom built of glass at Guy's !hospital, London, patients have been kept hermetically sealed up for "five days, in an atmosphere containing double the usual quantity of oxygen. Dr. Harold Wilmer London specialist, who has discovered a means of diagnosing certain types of disease through X-ray examinations of ' the head. His method is an examina tion of the sthenoidal cells: The Old .Men, of the. Poorhouse. The old men of the poorhouse sit alone Among the gravestones in the au- tumn sun, One peels a little maple ;;stick, and one With a• -clay pipe leans forward from his stone To point out where the first wild geese have gone Over the meadow, past the golden 'wood, • , One lies against a broken slab to brood On grassy qutletudes—perhaps his own. Now over the stubble fields the dinner gong Sounds through the sunshinea were the late been pass. The old men leave their stones and trudge along The enatty road. But frent his plot of grass , • Still the,old ane groodtng does not arise, • And still the gray gees! cu'y along the skied. Mav1e Clare Barnett. Enjoyment stops where indolence bees. , Invocation.. Rarely, rarely comest thou, Spirit of delight! Wherefore hast' thou left mei now Many a day and night? Many a weary night and day:. 'Tis since thou art fled away. How shall ever one like me Win thee back again? With the joyous and the free Thou wilt sc.eft at pain. Spirit false! thou hast forgot All but those who need: thee not. I love snow and ail the forme Of the radiant frost; I love waves, and winds, and storms:, Everything ahnost ' Which is. Nature's; and. may be Untainted by men',s misery. I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise and good; Betwean thee and rale What difference? but thou dost p sees The things I seek, not lora, them less. I love .Love. -though he has wings, Andlike light can flee, But above all other things+, Spirit, I love thee— ?Thou are love and life! 0 come! IYiake once more my heart thy home! —Percy Bysshe S'heSey. How Not to Exit. Table manners in the seventeenth century must have stood in needof considerablesimprovernent, if we may. take seriouslythe advice that'Hannah Wooley gave to youngladies in 1675. It must be admitted that Miss Wooley "wielded a trenchant pen." "Gentlewomen discover not b ' any ravenous gesture your angry appetite, nor fix youreyes too greedily on the meat before ' You, as if you would de - your more that way than your throat would swallow. In carving avoid clap- sfingers n ers ' ng yourg in your mouth and licking then nfte,r you have burnt them. Clove your dips when you eat and do not smack like a pig.. Fill not your mouth so full that your cheeks shall swell like a pair of Scotch bag- pipes. It ds very uncomely to drink so large a draught that youtr breath is al- niost gone and you are forced to blow strongly to recover yourself." Biggest Concrete Bridge. What will be the biggest concrete bridge in the world is about to be con structed' by France,- to connect Brest with Plougaetel. It will be 800 meters long (six miles), consisting of arched spans of 180 meters each. Seven - eighths of its length •w.ill cover that much of the estuary of the River Elorn. This will be the second concrete bridge since the war, the other being that at St. Pierre du Vauvray, which was opened to traffic last year by President Millerand. A brave, man, were he seven times a king, is but a brave man's peer. If I were asked to name the three things which were retarding civiliza- tion most, I 'should say -ignorance, self-indulgence and selflshness.- .O. S. Marden. IX Get Your l(£ et12,Qo. Prio)ze $58,555 2nd Prize 1 1 4 88 (£3,000) 3rd Prize $4'555 ( 1,000) and 2000 other cash prizes from prize" fund af $138,888 (30,0O0); donated by Bove!!,. Limited. Veterans' Ickel FOR THE Assocattions`B�'ai•'II Poster Per Corn tition which classes 31st. MARCH1924 and while helping the Veterans you may Com;lretit (address, Send your donation with coupon properly filled out to any one of the followings Veterans' Association of Great, Britain; 2725 Park Ave.,°Montreal. Great War Veterans' Association Citizen Building, Ottawa. 7 • Army and Navy Veterans in Canada; 121 Bishop Street, Montreal. _ Imperial Veterans In Canada, ,700 Main Street,' Winnipeg. Tuberculous Veterans, Association, Room 47, Citizen Building, Ottawa. ' CLOSES MARCH 31st, 1924 2-324 ors arrangements of the'Posters'mut reach London, England given on'ticket-folder, postage 4c) on or' before 30th pril, 1924 I enclose: a donation of $ •...: `........ ............ • .: • Please send me`...... ; ...Ticket -Folders for Bovril Poster 'Com , petition. One Ticket -Folder *i11 be Bent for every $1.20 given.' Name in full .................:, ,..:..... ..... ....... (Mr., Mrs. or Miss) • Address - • Make Cheques and Money Orders to veterans' Association, Bovril Poster Competition. w•�.::. tP ... 3`fd.•� f..�t.r.F';as.VlaeGl�:xtli Do Continents and Seas .. Float on the Earth's Surface There was not long, ago n violent• storm along the coast df France, "so violent that it shook the -seismographs' of the observatory at the Parc,„,Saint- Maur,''.near” Parisi . The movement of ,the earth was not nearly so great as at the tine= of the Japanese earth-` quakes, bur still, considering the dis- tance of the eafrom the French capi- tal, the recoiaded shift was enough to bring into much prominence the theory of \Vegener,• the geologist, that thetre; ditionally believed immobility of con- tinents is fallacious, and that in reality Instead of being firmly fixed, the Americas, Asia and Europe float aim= lessly about like masses of seaweed in the Sargasso, on a stratum of fluid matter: Writing under the heading, "A New Contribution to the History of the - Earth," Charles Nordmann says in "Le' "Here is something to shake our ideas concerning this planet of ours, where the Mediocrehuman melodrama is staged And which we call 'dry land,' and, even more erroneously, 'terra firma." With the classic theories of the learned men this upheaval of the continental mass would be incompre- hensible, but we have Wegener's bodyd. hypothesis, which not only explains the fact, but elucidates a drowd ef'• enigmas; not as with Trissotin, who; so far, has only floundered with sol- emnity without results "Wegener's idea simpler than isgen- erally believed is `aa H-rollows:; The continents are not imiisobile; they are floating on a sortrof layer; denser than the 'earth's crust, and which consti- tutes at the same time their support and the bottom of the sea, and might; be likened to those light pebbles which 1, roadmakers throw on the heavier as - HELP My neighbor, Smilax, was -in trouble, he had two broken limba; and to flim went old Mrs. Bubble, with tracts and helpful hymns.And to his home went many neighbors, a good, kind- hearted' crew, to hope he'd soon resume his labors, and be as good as new." The village optimist proceeded to his dire couch of paJnb and turned some 'sunshine loose and pleaded that he Would smile again. The' brethren 'of his lodge were present•at. eyery crucial hour, to make the e sickroom sweet and pleasant as any maiden's bower.• And I alone refrained from calling upon that tortured guy, though sympathetic tears were falling, at times, from either eye. And people,said, "Your heart is hardened, you visit not the sick; believe usy you will not be pardoned for such an evil trick. You hear your neighhoe Smilax yelling until his larynx cracks, rnd.yet you visit not his, dwelling to ask him how he. stacks. You carry him no pies of cuetard, no bowls of wholesome'" soup, you., pack no sandwiches, with mustard, to Smilax in his coop." But when the invalid was better, and feel- ing per and smart, he said to me, "Oh, donnerwetter, I thank you from my heart! When sickness laid its shadow o'er me, and made me wilt and drooip, you, you alone refused to bore me with sermons and with soup!" phalt, '`which is still .in•an :unsolidifled state. "Wegener' by' his surprising hypothe- sis, maintains that formerly, that Is to say, some myriads of centuries ago, all the continents were.united in' one single block, and if one could put'to- gether the various sea coasts of:. the Atlantic, one would' find that they fit- ted neatly into one another, and, the evidence ofdhe undergroundround disloca- tion would also tally. In a like man- ner the continents of Australia and the Antarctic' would be found. t6fit 1n to the now empty notch of the Mediter- ranean.'S ea. . This •: extraordinary and suggestive hypothesis explains very well the anal- ogies which exist between the fossil- ized fauna . and flora of continents which to -day are widely apart—for ex- ample, Africa' and South America. "NumerouJ observations, notably that of : the force of gravity and the average density of the 'earth at differ- ent parts of the globe, tend to conflrni this theory. Therefore we are led to believe to -day that, instead ofthe con- tinents being securely anchored in a fixed position, the emerging layer of earth is really floating on another and denser viscous layer, and which serves as a support for the continents. "So•the countries, now inhabited by men of different race, color and cus- toms, are but the dislocated portions of an immense puzzle.- It .is not Paris alone, but all inhabited lands which have the right to the disturbing motto 'Fluctuat nee mergitur." "Until lately' ,'our doctrine. of the firmness and, -stability . 11'the` earth united the land of lost dreams to this one of ours, of sentiment' and human vows. This land of the living and the dead, which we believed to be forever anchored to the bottom -of the sea, is but an inert mass of wreckage, e drift ing about on a • viscous subterranean sea.. "Stilk, who knows,' perhaps some day millions of years hence, these drifting continents may come together in a monstrous union and join what now is separated. "This earth of human sorrows, with its follies and its hopes and despairs, drifts across the ocean far centuries like Arthur Rimbaud's 'Drunken Ship,' but we may say of it, like the poet, that ineffable winds have brushed it• lightly with their wings." - Beauty provoketh thieves than gold. sooner Be great in acts as you have been in thought. He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes. The procrastinating man is ever 'struggling with ruin. G adi National Institute for the Blind The Library and Publishing. De- partment of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind is located ' at 142 College St., Toronto. It -occupies the whole of' a sixteen -room building opposite the Conservatory of Music and is a department of which the -In- stitute is justly proud. When this library was first organ- ized, it owned a total of 81 volumes, but its catalogue now shows works of literature and music aggregating nearly 13,000 numbers. The whole of the lower floor of the building is de- voted to the housing, cataloguing,. mailing, receiving, etc., of that large collection of books comprising titles on almost every subject from the "Ar- abian Nights" to "The Coming of Evolution," and from "Nature Read- ers to "Theses on the Atomic Theory," George Elliot and John Buchan, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens and Conan Doyle, Daniel Defoe and Alex- andre Dumas, Jane Austen and Char- lotte Bronte, W. W. Jacobs and Mark Twain rub shoulders most amicably on the crowded shelves when not out. on visits -to cheer the blind book -lovers in all parts of the Dominion.` Books :for the blind are carried free by our Government, which was the first in the world to grant such a privilege, thus making possible the fullest development of the circulating library system for readers without sight. Books go and come in specially devised canvas wrappers which make it unnecessary for a blind person to call upon sighted members of his fam- ily to assist him in mailing his vol- umes back to the library. During the first year of the library's history, some 700 volumes were loaned; last year 13,075 were sent out. And since ,every book going out means another iS N°aa' 'TNA1' SWAGE14.itNG RABN-r FRbt1 CAb AGE.TOWN, POC Tame lamer ree 'dE.5 , `frE l '5 A . O7RUI.11") E.R' FROM 'r4Ei t A-TELLI,AI)NG CoB SUITS IM RARBITRORO coming in, approximately 26,000 vol- umes were handled. Do you know what a volume for the blind means? The Bible comprises 39 volumes and requires more than six feet of shelf room. And other works are in proportion. Each volume costs the Institute from two to four dollars. Think, then of what a library for the blind represents in cost of books alone! Our Publishing -Department prints works of- various kinds from Ontario Public School texts to stories of the calibre of "Maria Chapdelaine," that beautiful prose idyll ,,of life in the frontier districts of- Northern Quebec. It also issues for ten months each year a monthly magazine known as The Braille Courier. This journal contains news of the Canadian National Insti; tute for the Blind and articles, poems, etc., of a general and interesting char- acter. The Braille Courier is a' hun- dred per cent. Canadian in spirit and source of material,. and is the only magazine for the blind published i the Dominion.. Through the courtesy of Canadian readers many copies are forwarded to blind "people in all parts of the world, so that the name of our Institute Is known wherever Braille is read. If you conte to Toronto do not fail to visit the Library and Pub- lishing Dept. of the Institute at 1'42 College St. /You will be" welcome, and you will be .i interested. 'lot c -AN' ALt4A`d5 TELL IN R"51311- FROM cAt5 BieNG E.T'ow.N:- 00 sae Do. We Know t:; nada Well Enough .- IIaliiax' l Is separated` front. Vancouver by 3,777 miles icy. rail. When thea distanca is comparedwith that of 2 i5 miles from Halifax to Jere :+ some conception of the anile tilde of Canada may ,be -appx;o--` crated, and at the sante time the thinking man will realize the problem which confronts Can ale in keeping her people `,homo- geneous and those of one por- tion considerate of the welfare of those of other portions: Nov`a Scotia has her advantages' and; problems which are local to her- self, er self,:'while British Columbia also must provide for and overcome conditions, of which the eastern province knows nothing. 'i'hese" sea -bordering provinces,' like wise, are, free from some of the problems and ,lack some of- the p. advantages• of the inland pro • vinces. 1.: That the people of Canada may, be kept fully ahforhed on its`eomponent part's, the Natural Resources • Intelligence Branch of the Dept. of the Interior has published a series of pamphlets on the provinces and portions of `provinces and ferritories of Canada. Those at'present avail- able are Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, 'Saskat- chewan, The 'Peace River Dis- trict, and - Central British Col-, amble. Others' are in course of preparation. ` This branch has also published a number of in- teresting maps showing. the na- tural"' resources of q. Canada, Copies of any of these pamph- lets or maps may be had free on request toy the Natural Re- sources Intelligence Service, • a. Dept. of t}•e Interior Ottawa. 1 , t: "He Refused to Quit."., On the campus of one, of the larges universities in the MiddlWest of the United States a monument has been set in honor of -one of the students who died fighting in France. .On it is this simple but appealing,. inscription: "Ile 'played on the. scrub three years; he . refused to quit." ' Day after day the boy—Hanson was his name—w'ent out and played with the "scrubs" to help the "varsity.". Then came the summons to play a sterner game on the fields of France, and she took Ms place. On the battlefield he exhibited, the same fidelity as on - Isa football field: - One day his officer called for volun- teers for a hazardous bit of scouting. Hanson went out with the party but he never returned. And to -day that little inscription on the monument red calls to the hurrying students the story of a man who refused to quit. "He refused to quit!" What finer tribute can be given to any. man? , When. Jesus named for his disciples those -qualities which l e regarded as most essential in a Christian disciple he put at the bead of the list steadi- ness; and he closed his das,cou•rse with thew solemn words that carry the same sense, "No man, having nut his hand to the plough and leaking back, is fit for the kingdom of God:" Restores; Sight Lost in War. There is still hope for the blind, ac, cording to Dr. Bonnefon, whose ex• periments on men blinded in the. was have just been made the subject' of a report to the Academy of Medicine. When lie read a previous, report at the academy Dr. Bronnefon presented his first successful patient, a soldier blinded by shellfire. Following • an operation, this man could see with his right eye. Since then the doctor has operated on another case, a man blind- ed lind ed just as the war ended, who never had seen two of his children, Several months' persisteut treatnieut restored his vision," and in a letter -which Dr. Bonnefon` produces the man tells of his delight at being able to see his children. Dr. Bonnefon offersto perform his operation far anysoldier blinded in the war after a new medical examina- tion/. No doubt the volunteers will " be many. Burial Place rof Richard L's Heart. A controversy has arose over the place where the lion heart of Richard I. lies buried. While the French say it rests beneath : the chancel , of Rouen Cathedral. All }Tallow's Church in Barking, by the Tower el Londoi, in- sists it is interred .. in the original chapel there, and is haunting a banner bearing the words: The old grey church by the Tower hill Claims ilicharcl's' heart and your good- will. Tradition has it that Richard's heart :vent to Rouen, though sixty or seventy y+eafs after his death chronicles aver- red it was, at All Ballots. 'rile con- troversywas revived byy a tvorkman's discovery at All Hallow' of what may prove do be the altar stone of the original chapel. There is at least one point on which all authorities are agreed, that civic progracs in London 'and England began with Richard o1 =r, the Lion's -Heart. Sake, ` the favorite Japanese bever- age, is distilled from rite, and has a pleasantly exhilarating effect. Lager b,oer is also popular in the land of the chrysanthemum with those who can afford it.