HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-6-19, Page 2y Rev, M. V Kelly, C,S.B.
Continued treat last week)
VIII. tag' a .time they begin to thiulc so toe,
A Slily Theory. so repeatedly do they hear it referred'
Aa su:ggew ed before; aereral city. to, Tiffs the idea; Obtains currency.
residents baye been busy for some It began with the few days experience
time o. ffering; explanations of the of a casual spectator; who bad soler
alarming Britt cityward. According to lived a eotttttry life, nos "knew ai;r
them, the principal cause apparent is thing ief its meaning. Idle to remted
the lack ,of. ;amusements is the country him of the milk-naid's song or the
dietricts: plow -boy's tuneful hilarity! Such
When required to substantiate their things', multi not take Place. How is
theory, the -only; evidence adducible is l be to understand that a threshing or
that they themselves found the time
rather dull on some-occa..iouospend-
ing
f penl.
ing a few days in a oeuntry place.
-'.they overwork the easily discernible
feet; that they have eln:ays found a
break from their wonted routine
wearisome, These .some people start
out to visit all the Europeatx capitals,
making arrangements to climb the
Alps, do the Rhine, eto,, etc. Usually
they have returned before half the
time has: expired, weary, disgusted with
the, wbole performance,; home -sick be-
yond endurance•,. They were out of
their eleuient, as they had been on
their rural trip.
It is true, many a country resident
Ands himself in the city, with the long -
looked -for week's enioyn'•ent ahead of
bine and soon after, yielding to a dis-
appointing sense of uneongeniality,.of
lcueliess, giatily Demme home.
His experience, however, gets no
11ubl#city. But the city resident, who
fails to recognize that the unsatisfac-
toxiaess of his week -end tura/ward
was due much more to himself, " and
his habits of a lifetime, than to scenes_'
and persome visite}, writes' u letter to
the daily papers, anxious to give the
world the benefit of his all-important
discovery that people are leaving the
land because of the lack of amuse-
ments and
muse-ments-and pastimes there. Perhaps he
goes so far as to suggest that the Gov- have left the country for this part cu- ,tded taltzres•
c recall Is It passible that many of those
eminent erect a moving -picture
lar re sasn. Try to _eca__ even one.
c who urge the; advantage of education
theatre at every crossroads, or, like An Unproved Theory.
iE dail iiot F y in season and out of season—that:
of a prtr-n ent y
raising is acconxpauied with eontleu-
ous merriment, that an auction sale
could affordaa much interest as a
Lewn.party on the grounds of some up-
town resident, that it is in ?human na-
ture to find `as Hauch distraction on
market day as in chasing a caddy on
the golf "inks, or that winter evening
gatherings around a kitchen fire could
have been pinch more spirited and
cheery than progressive pedros LTI,
gaudily -lighted drawing-rocius.
I blink you willagree with Me that
country young people look after this
side of things fairly well, that few of
them are disposed to stifle their plea-
sure -seeking instincts,
lea-sure•seeking'instincts, that whether in
hauls of work ex recreation, occasions
for merriment are not So badly want-
ing. On the whole, perhaps, you are
justlightly of the opinion that at the
present time the country has now to
suffer from the opportunities of amuse -
meet -making more than from want of
them.
h
x •
1, for one; should be very ntueh sur-
prised to hear that any .serious -mind t.
p , fe • 'ears cannot help r
looking around t y a
-young person in'your inidst wo-uidGardener $ S4r��
ed- _ obs'ervina that in spite of all that has
contestiplate a move to the city - mere -
AND TI=
ORS"` ISYET T9 COME
ly for thesake amusement. been said in its favor, the great zna "W ind, come run to help nae.
� bke of greater
ority of those who are called educated
If there are end), the country has,:lit n "�ronder-
yonrmany years among them.n'`tie to loser by their departure. in do not revs to be anything -wonder -
year
}-thin g
haw far after all. Perhaps; some of them
'3'e your way are de-
_ , who have crossed .y
many of your personal acquaintances
tae 'C4uwi
I suspect that all ion. hear on the army of teachers, editors, and platform
ran„ ago, insinuate that if' it were not
. i "importance of securing a good educe,- `speakers—really do not know very He sways- the branches to and fro,
for Ile hopeless stupidity a£ the farm _
r idifficulty tion sometimes leaves the impression much more about it than you do'your-In green shade waiting..
in poriaanon, tba �rsole
Flash your Whigs, I see you clearly.",
T waited till he -stretched them wide
Down sailing through the sparkling
tide;
Now he helps His floating here.
At my side he rides, above
Wherever on my work I rove,
If at a tree's foot stooping low,
an
-could be salved by proclaiming -every that you and your fafy are to a cer- salt? You think it is nat easy to see
Saturday afternoon a holiday on. whtehfain extent excluded ,from the great how studying Latin, geometry, zoology,
old and young might repair tothe things of life, Any man of ambition metaphysics for years acid years are
s
rgreatest el s a man can have
nearest village to play
lawn -tennis who in fru_ flay would not be more or X11„ very g ear h pa
When I fear the staring sun
By my 'ears I feel him run,
He can make me all the shadow
- _ c • - less affected by all that is said and in life. No doubt, you sometimes ask To hide in while I walk the meadow,
i a* ice<,re�,iu, His and. have a dish ? By cool air quickened,
readersexperience of written , on t�18, Subject, must SUrely the question, "What good are� they?"
many = _suer_ with no ernes t
the counter aecnt such ria em :•
ts and have been cast in # a.n extraordinary Have you remarked that lineally,
e•
mould.But whsle every one around. those who grow so eloquent in Lawn and hill are just the same,
a winesprea nvi - _
coup' raeo le a universal die idea, do you not, sometimes sit down to give a satisfactory answer? !Lever- The hanging wood which is his home
r r =-a character or and wonder if perhaps there nat
con.ent v,it� ,the prc.^i c•
theories without
question, and soon a
iction that you is being carried away with the praise of education never seem able Cool and happy at his name,
tlxere. isd co
the" - lives pee -trails Of course. the another side to the question Like
the s, • everyone is urging you to Rings with bird -songs while we roam,
continue your boys and girls at schwl- . Together werling.
ntar people ;. �' -sten have not been heard all successful farmers, you are Iibel:. Your neighbors are all trying to do it,
/ram at all, but it is possible that af- of .a practical turn of mind. and after and you„therefore, feel there is noth- While I nurse and prune, he sows
i ----- tug for you but to fall in line. Through Deft at the labor that he knows,
this state of mind prevailing, the count The seed -pods with his plumes to
try is being depleted of its population. touch,
Fathers and mothers struggle against _Not foo soft, nor q erbtho
all kinds; art' diffc iI lies at home, wearW'iteli wide wings scattering.
themselves out with over work, while 1
the boy or girl spends years in a high So does the seed iioat down the air,
school or college. That word "educa- While loudly shines the sun's gold
tion,,' is supposed to represent some hair,
And in and out the strands there fly
The floating birds who call and cry,
Their harvest reaping.
—Sacheverell Sitwell.
(3rtiobile
ENGINE GIVES BEST SERVICE IB''UNDEISTQOD.
Most motorists probably know in a driving about town and for short
general way that there. 'lure various runs, Because the wheel base is
types of engines used to create p,ewer, usually short it snakes a Particularly
Just what these different types are is
usually a rather hazy idea. Yet it is
well ' for automobilists to have some
definite information which will lead
to anunderstaroding of this matter.
Engine types divide themselves
along the following lines, arrange -
;hent' and number of •sYlinders, ar-
rangement of valves:': and method of
cooling,
_More than 90 per cent. of the auto-
mobiles manufactured are propelled
by the gasoline engine. There are 'a
few that carry storage batteries and
use electric motors for motive power.
There is a still smaller Buil;ger that
use a steam engine, the steam being
generated in a boiler: which is heated
by burning gasoline or kerosene.
The gasoline engine is made in a
number of forms, ranging from the
engine with four cylinders' in a 'line
to the twelve -cylinder, the V-shape
with six cylinders on each side of:the
V. Between these two extremes there
is the engine with six cylinders in a
line, the eight -cylinder with block of
four placed V-shaped and eight cylin-
ders in a straight line. -
Because of the smoother running
thing so universally good that it would
be a crime w deny it to anyone,
In eonnectien with all this, there is
one thing worthy of remark—triose
enthusiastic advocates of sehooi-going
never prove their ease by quotingre-
sults. They will promise everything
to., the young man a -ho will study.•as-
siduously. They never point out to
you the men whose great success is,
due to the number of languages,
sciences, pbilosophies they spend their
youth upon. Meanwhile, you recall
ease alter ease of boys and girls given
all Bloss so-called advantages in their
youth, who tried to :Hake the best of
them, and to -dee -evince ince no particular
superiority, -while many of them are
hopeless failures.
We are always advised to be slow.
in risking an uncertainty. When you
continue' your boys andgirls at school
• you expect they shall not settle down
_e ora at Kondeau Park Ontaiia, found it to farm: Before shutting them out_
asurement of this huge sycamore from so desirable a prospect, would it
to be five feet in diameter.
not be well to have some assurance
of their school studies leading themA .
Robinthe Crucifi- into 0. more prosperous career? Sit
` the Choir. I sang co- through -h
lion and enjoyed helping; Beautiful , down some day and draw up a 'fist of
A robin—the English robin, it from
should s 1 sty 13 in triose two your acquaintances who have made
be - different bird frons the as the _irtng nu
said, is a , _ rridtortos. the finer and sweeter notes. this venture and lost,
American robin—has joined the choir ; r above it (To he continued).
„ �y of the rotor could be heard of St. 3phn CI-..ir�h at Glastonbury, i it sound almost liea.vy rF
'• the that he had made
England. 1?eop_e d 1 and .,
g and eammon i5y eentrast. The Little Gat.
A
�e;rainel
There was mire a young man who
of the r_h,l.,^.I/, bet they were n y i -lad Sissy Year. ;- t
one e ening as tht+ children were quarrelled wi it his fiancee and mar-
ried
egeonieh d when Twenty-four thousand
the v entn bars t rie-d: another girl. His Termer lady
vic,iin> bfgan'to Play tt p g directly under the of 62 children's says h.a 1 a sense of
r started love, the t
the Meselab. the littl , bird aid societies throughout -the province
ofImmor and deciding to "get eren"' with
=inn. With Duly a few breaks for last year,ex:reading to the ;0th annual
to t. „ him, sent the bride a`charming hook
ea ear' a,'writer in the Country I lie, r of the superintendent .of ale -
to z .,.t. �a, . report lz to read on the honeymoon. It was
beautifully dug -and i • n • t
' to sir. ,beau 9neglected c itlgie just
h�a
continuedg pendent$ Ste, ensou's Travels With a Donkey.
.a, he' two hours' per- « i t' ns' of eases of
in
the wi.p.e of is5'ued; Inve�tga.io
'Mance-
• - of unmarried, areets num-
.iance. children u p
I - The gest crocodile .in .tile London
vrana rracri;dtion , 5000 was collect-
the �ec-ond 1 � 62 .while 6
That x with his' d , Zoo is' about fourteen,feet in length,
cert "wilicii .re has honoreded for their suppCrt. Adoption :claim
IrrcM'trnte and song,` for recently be ed ='f6 and the induut.rial selgesis 464-. and nearly ninety years old.
built his nest sontc,ivhere in the roof
77C 1 C C�i)C"";6Lrc�a N
CAN ''(OO Ti;`. -t ME
HOW M&, ChE' ARE
"- MAUE.
N
1`tl AWFUL
SORR'?
good car for congestedatraffte.
In regard to the arrangement
the ,velvsee of sin engine, some types
have both valves arranged on one side
of the cylinder, some have ono in the
top of the cylinder and one in the
side; some have both valves in the top
and the exhaust on the' • ether, ' The
,arrangement of the valves hascon-
siderable"fio do with the efficiency of
the engine—that is, the amount of
power extracted from the gasoline
useth
A great deal of the heat generated
by burning the gasoline it necessarily
absorbed through the water jacket
which surrounds the cylinder. . ,The
engines with the valves' in the 'head
have a regular 'shaped combustion.
chamber which reduces the water
jacketed;;surface to a minimum. 'En-
gines with 'valves on the side of the
cylinders have pockets, that'are offset
from the eylinder.proper, which must
be water -jacketed:. Engines 'With
valves in, the head must employ more
mechanism for operatine'the valves
than those with the valves in the
side.-
Th great majority' of the engines
and great flexibility of an engine with use valves of the "poppet" type; that
a large number of cylinders, passen- is, valves that are shaped like mush -
ger cars employ no less than a four -
cylinder engine. Therere,are, however,
a few trucks using a two -cylinder en-
gine of opposed type.
rooms, are pushed open by a cam and
are, returned to their seat by a spri
ibg.
While there, is a tendency toward
standardization in automobile design
The four -cylinder engine is corn- there is still a `variety of -types to
arativel any o wes. hill. P sir It is a good
It will take a car select ood car for needs andtafrom; to suit the ;individual's
over
o ' st
Spanning th~e Golden Gate.
gigantic bridge has been planned
to cross the ;famous 'Golden ' Gate at the
entrance to San Francisco harbor; a
distance of over a mile and a half. In
order that liners anti other vessels
may pass underneath, the centre span
will be 200 ft. above the water, whilst
at either, end will be steel towers ris-
ing to a height of 950 ft.
Over this huge structure will run a
ropble tramway track,.,a wide motor
road, and two pavements for pedes-
trians. At the top • of the great steel
towers it is proposed to build plat-
forms from which visitors will be able
to obtain a 'marvellous view of San
Francisco and the mighty Pacific.
Their Purpose.
"I suppose you are making every.
effort to keep your boys on the farm?”
'inquired the, caller. '
"les, between yon and me, mother
and I'd like to move to.the city," was,
the prompt reply.
Misjudged Him.
"I see your- hired man is, mechani-
cally inclined, :%shut:. Leastwise he
was a-layin'' under "tire' tractor as I
cams along."
Meehnetas lly inclined!" snort -ea Jesah
Ilarrowfoot, "Ile dont .know nothin'
about a tractor except that it makes
shade.
The Rainy Day.
This is a sea -world, dim and green,
Where misty `inland trees are seen.
Hydrangeas'hlooming, rows on rows,
Are, coral archipelagoes.
The tides of mist, all grey and dark,
Sweep back and forth along•the park,
While wind-blown branches full of rain
Break on the cliff -like window pane. -
They are the waves that swish and
swish,
And passing people are the fish,.
They swim the tides from isle to isle,
And wriggle in the queerest style
Back and forth, now there, now here,
And into doors they disappear.
-Dorothy E. Collins.
Think for Think.
"l-Iow canhe think 'that -°,aomah an
ideal wire?"
rthinks pini ,
"Because see
h ail ' lues."
husband."
Rehearsing for the Royal: Naval and Military Tournament: at London,
hese men.are carrying a field gun, across a chasm by means of a trapeze,
A Rain Song.
Through deepest night I hear the rain
Beat out on roof and window -pane
'It;s slumberous silver -toned refrain.
Such dreams it brings; such scent of
rose
And mint in one old garden -close;
Such heeling balsam of repose!
The mockeries and cbefc-ats'of day
No more, no more my soul dismay;
I': know a mightier than they.
Sleep calls me: yet I hear the rain ,
Beat.out on roof and window -pane
Its Slumber -bringing deep refrain.
Elizabeth Roberts ViacDonald.
t l
"but we' can., see the glory of
God in the sunset and heaven in;a
that rice
wild_ fleeter,. then we have t t p
less ;possession that can enrich all
life.
IN. RAB131TBORO
I'NO I CAN'T— BUT.
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WHY 1;vJH V , N , .A.R-rri
l'r `/OrJ 3OT-1 MEAN ?
Preserved by Burning.
-4 (lame-thaowffig device which was
Are We Failing Over Our
Wo aro, livingin h
greatest,a-6
romance tho world has ever see
vonowgirmdplymarrechl qeoef t'odisieeolveevre iatnd n
irne-
vention—whose soldiers were mobil-
ized only last century—WO` witnessed:
with Open-mouthed ar totiishment by
our fathers, and presumably our
mothers thought the forces'of °'Boezle-
bub: let, loose. But we, we have be.
come so accustomed to modern mir-
acles that we welcome a new one with
about the'saiue degree of surprise as
we find one milk bottle on the door-
step in the morning'
Only .occasionally are we awakened.
to ri realization of these miracles,
perhaps: when scientists announce the
results of their work in the language
of the man of the street on some such
occasion as the annual meeting of the'
British Association, or when we read
a sensational and sometimes fallacious
headline in the newspapers, recording
the discovery of a marvellous cure or
invention.
Do, we, for instance, ever realize
that our automobiles, ,aeroplanes, etc.,
are additional appendages; that they
'are the seven leagued boots of *the
fairy tale actually come into real life?
We admit that a crab can discard a
claw when it thinksfit, and grow a
new one, and so on as ofteft. as it„,
cares; we night admit that a sur-
geon's scalpel is in• like manner a •de-
tachable "ap,pe"'ndage, or that the fur-
naceman's poker is an elongated•finger
which he can attach when he wants
getting
stir . up the fire whthout. g � g
burnt. The telephone and wireless
provide us with a better organ - of
hearing;° the telescope and microscope.
with better eyes than nature has given
us. All this machinery is a product
of man's brain, and may be strictly
regarded as ; the product of a volun-
tary evolution. '
But what is going to happen? We
must remember that the size of our
brain 'has remained the satire and” ,it
certainly . is not better developed than
it was before we grew wings and ine--
chanical parts.` It is not„so; much the
size of the brain that matters as it's
power to accommodate itself to the
new body which it has to control.
Here lies the danger! Science has
been responsible for all this new
equipment and new energy of which
we are capable, but science does not
dictate in what direction that energy
is to be expended. The energy is an
equa1_power for; good or for destruc-
tion; for destruction in warfare,. for
the fullness of human life ineace-
peace-
time. Civilization has yet tolearn
that its application to warfare is an
abuse of science, that war has never
done a people any good and never
can. It has been estimated that if we
cut out the waste of energy involved
in the construction ofmeans of de-
stroying ourselves we could Iive as
comfortably as we now do by work -
two hours a day, and using the
rest of the timeto learn how our new
and twonderful body works.
Natural Resources Bulletin...
The Natural Resources Intelligence
Service of the Department -of the In-
terior at Ottawa says: The
The industrial %structure of Canada
rests in uncommon degree` upon the
utilization • of water -power, and the
extension of the water -power industry
has been notable with regard t� Both
the rate of developihent wird the' din;"
versity of the field 'which it serves.
The actual extent of Canada's water-
powers has been by no means fully
ascertained,but they are known to be
abundant . and well distributed
throughout the .Dominion, wliich;evith
their tributaries, form important
zones for settlement .;and industrial
expansion:
Foremost 'amongst the outstanding
power rivers in Canada is the St.
Lawrence, hot only :because of its
designed by Germany and used der` enormous discharge, but also :due to
ing the war is now beifig successfully the almost complete naturalstorage
utilized in New 'Yoik'State as a ineans
of protecting electric light and tele
phone Roles from decaying In the
earth.
The pole before beteg set up, is
treated with the flameethrow'er until a'
charcoal surface is "formed. Creosote,
which hitherto has been used alone, is
of the Great Lakes 'Which feed it. This
great river is capable of furnishing
over 3,500,000, horse -power, of which
less than 1,500,000 Horse p,awer is in
the international reach';`"'and:' would
,,have,: to be apportioned lretweei i Can-
ada and the Uiiited States.
Among the many large rivers flow-
th -n'ra"y lied. This system of treating ing into the St. I,a;vrence from the
0 p Y g
th631 oles, it is stated, lengthens their•! northern Laurentian plateau is the
lives considerably, , Ottawa, for most of its length lying'
--- between Quebec and Ontario. On the
Flowers do not like music, especial-, Ottawa , river development has- bean
ly "jazz. It has been observed re- confined to 'less than 100,000 horse -
l : V a.
ce:itly that, whenpaced with the power in the vicinity of Ottawa city,
blossomsfeeing the music or a band,- leaving still unutiii�ed 21 sites,,pg"rie-
g . , ,-�
carnations, Baster lilies and cyclamen, gating 678,000 horse -power, on abasia
plants will in a few hours turn away,` of ordinaryntinimuin flow, and prole -
so
so 'that the backs., of the blossoms are, ably twice that amount with adcnuaAtc
toward -the band:, etoracre. It is from the headwater
MA SAY:5• To VIR5, POPE,rr1t
OTHER.. 9 —f POOR Mi5.5.
FCR• '(EP\R:S
_ Y
lar
tributaries of :the Ottawa thhi the,
silver mines of Northern Ontario cal aux
their chain. supplies of eleeti,seal and
compressed air eneegy. Many oilier
riv err .from the naith enter the St.
Lale11'nce river and vgulf, and, tvliile
stn, veys have net •been\ tiitiatcd on all,
a number of sites ere kri,owti to otter
large power possibdit. es.
"Tea.ehers skald `Mach tip', and be
arrogant anti aggressive andtsl•e !told
of 'the world, for they are the ,host.
.important people in it," said a noted
Eu iy^lishm to recently. `cA great many
of them seem to be ,u`neware of the
amount°and range of. their functions."
Not a 'ricw thought,. but a Pbod one.
It often happens that the more a
man knows the °mere lkenly aware he
becomes of his linper£ecti0ns ,and the
.more‘ difficult it is fob hint to step '
0,0and lead, as be is' otherwise titled
to`do.'