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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-11-13, Page 2omobi FREQUENT STEERING GEAR 1N-sncrioN, 'lug o-.: z,lle steering appartitus--this is tent thet the, frent whee:s tee in that freqin liey reported as the cause of fnech. Of coarse, this doc..5 not apply serious automobile accidents. On Re- to the rear 'wheels, which in practical- ' tount of this PituatioA manufeeterers ly ell eases, are directly parallel. I have coneent'etted the best enginct,rin In addition. to this foregether aad I skill available le an efert to perfect a unclergialfr, the ste.eritne knuckle pins I reliable steering gear. They have done Are given a slight rake so as to pro - their work, so well that some owners duce a Qast.,or effect to the front take it for granted no responsibility is wheels, This relee eciasists in Placing left to therm They forget that the the steering knuckle pins so !hat they most perfect mechanism mu,st have will bo further towaicl the rear at the good care if one is to expect it to top than they are at the bottom. The furiction eirectively day after day, reselt of this engineering projectI In order to make steering easy and when steering is that the centre of to give the necessary strength coupled turning of the, steering knuckle is a with the required flexibility the front little ahead of tb.e point of contact 'wheels of an automobile are given where the tirs touches the road. This certain peculiarities. At the lower end is done so that the drag incident to of the shaft on which the hand -steer- pushing the wheel along the road is in wheel is located there is a gear. back of the centre of turning. The re - This is -very often of the worm type,' suit is that the wheels will always although other types are sometimes point direetly forward unless inter - employed. This gearing makes it pos- fered with, sible to swing the front wheels with The principle of this action is the very little effort on the part of the same as that which can be observed in driver. At the same time it makes it a castor on a be& It is also the same riecessary for great pressure to be principle whereby one is able to ride a exerted on the front wheels to move bicycle without placing the hauds on the seering or hand wheel. I the handle bars. Consequently if the , Such an arrangement gives the bars between the two wheels should driver easy control of the direction in becorne disconnected, straight ahead which he desires his car to move. The. steering and even, slight turns can be same principle is demonstrated when made through one wheel attached to -a man with a crowbar raises an ob-e the steering gear. The other front ject eneny times his own weight for a wheel simply trails along. short distance. i STEERING MECHANISM BORED. There is an arm from this., steering, .. , , Another peculiarity in the steering gear which connects through a drag mechaniam is worthy of consideration. link to a steering knuckle upon which ri • • " ei:ere in' the proper ftinotions eighths 'OiZ an ineh, It is very iinnor' Ihe tae -bar, evluch connects the two one of the front wheels is mounted. front wheels is attached at either end Princess Mary of England le shown With her youngest child, Gerald David, and her elder son,. George Hubert. The two are beautiful children and are said to be the pride of their grandfather, King George. - The other front wheel is made to move to the aimes that form part of the for nay business capacity and I knew In unison with the first through means steering knuckle. These arms, in- that I would soon spend this money of a tie rod conneeted to its steeling stead of being parallel and thus mak- experimenting if I got it all at aim°, knuckle. These knuckle 'joints are ing the tie -rod the same length as the so I fixed it that I could not. I saved necessarily points of weakness as distance between tbe steering inencine seventeen years of worry by this compared with a solid axle. There- pins, are set at an angle, which makes stroke." fore it is necessary to provide some• the tie rods shorter than this distance. Edison spent air his money on ex. - means of giving strength, I The result is that valien the _car is perimenting and part of it gave the msransurroN OF WEIGHT. I turned, saY, to the right, the right e . Pmenogiaph to the world. It is a well known fact that if the hand whee is swung . front wheels were placed in a perfect, left hand wheel. Each wheel, there- ly perpendicular position considerable fore, follows closely into proper arc. leverage would be exterted on the The reverse is true when turning to more the Contrary to COMMOn belief, the Phonograph au not owe its inception to Edison'a picking his finger with a Pint connected to a telephone dia- phragm, but was the product of pure steering knuckle pins. This would not the ieft. only make for weak construction, but Many motorists do not realize their reasonmge, the deduction being made would also cause a great resistance to tremendously important obligation ta from his experimenting with an auto - the turning movement that is incident keep the steering apparatus well lubri- mate telegraph which embossed dots to the steering. To overcome these cated and have it regularly Inspected and dashes on a strip 01 naner..—John- faults the front wheels are given what to see that the pins are kept tight and R. Hesvttt, in Gene-ral Electric Review. is termed undergsther, that is, the that the wheels do not get too much distan.ce' between them at the point out of alignment. A pin might drop snapshots of sounds. . . A new invention of Professar Four - than at their tops. =when running at high speed. A friend t 1 nier d'ailhe has made it possible to This method of constructing a car recently took his car to a service sta- causes the weight of the vehicle to tion to be looked over, supposing it Photograph sounds. Professor d'Alhe lis the inventor of the apparatus by bear directly Or a line with the ter- was all right, but wanting to be sure.. . • ' which a blind man can read a book, not nor,•the printed letters reflecting light on seen that this undergather would re-' another five Telles w:ithout a break-{bysounds by electricity, so that the per- Kish is a. goat treasure in the shape Among . the • reaent „discoveriee at leverage is exerted. a can readilar be ratus would have hardly held to a selenium cell, Which produCes son really reads by soun.d. of the oldest known pert. Professor ' excessive ' r on the tires if down, one that might quite Rossi y The new instrument is called a tono- I.,augdon, director of the Weld-Brun- s.cope. It consists .of a trumpet of dell and Field Mueeum Archeological which the end. is horizontal; over the ExPedition, who was delighted at find - end is stretched a sheet of thin rub- ing this bone stylus for avriting cunei- ber, on which. is a drop -of mercury. form, says that many echolars had The light from an electric lamp is vainly tried to reconstruct the instru- reflected from the mercury on to a merit' plicity. It is a bone, six inches long, where they touch the ground is less' out when going down a steep hill, or ing knuckle , pins. Consequently, no He found out that his s eer ng pp SUPPLYING TABLE DevelopMent of Natural Resources Closely Associate4 With Provision of the FooA 5tiPP1Y. Three meets per day for the 9,775,-, averaged five hualtels per acre, . or a. .853 people in Canada in 1021 Would. total of 104,507,500 bushels ---the dif- mean 26;$27,559 queens, clailye or 9,600,- (ermine being. snore tnan en,ough to pro - 458,035 yearly.' vide all Of Canadare requirements for What a quantity of. foodstufts is re- flour makipg, (Mired to supply these meals, end what While Canadians 'are net great Asir a variety muet be provided. quantities are required to maiutain Where it all comes -from, and- the our tables. Salmon, lobsters, herring, Interests represented in its collection cod, halibut and many other varieties and distribution, would make a most are available; and of recent years a interesting story, says the Natural Re- number of epecies heretofore not re- sources Ietelligence Service of the garded.as edible are being made use Department of the Interior. The ob- of. Jeet of this article, however, is to di- Table and dairy salt produced in rect attention to the effect or the de- Canada ' in 1923 amounied to 41,274 velopment ot our natural reeorces tons connnon salt to 35,758 tous. on the provision of our food supply— Minerals also miter into the provision the means whereby it eeachee our of our meals in the form of table cut - tablas, and what natural resources en- ter into its preparation.. Canacle's chief food supply, of course, comes froin the farm, consequently it Is upon the development of Canada's greatest natu.ral resonece--the that our people depend for sustenance. 'Agriculture supplies 'us with not only our bread axial butter, lint our meat end vegetables., our .dairy and poultry supplies aual our fruits, Of the total wheat crop of 399,786,- 000 Intshels 11,1 1923, 170,104,000 bushels was c.onsumed in Canada. How much of this was converted hito flour is not Homes. When I was young and walleen. the way Of moor and mead and stone, I never had a little haute That I tould call my awm.... I used to dream of gables then, And floors in place of sod,. Long twilights when our camp fire' made A smoke trail up to God. 'They envy me my mansion now With walls so brave and high; And I' can only envy you, Whose house is all of Sky. The years have taught what anxious youth Wassail unconscious of— That brick and mortar make a house But homes. are built of love. —Helen. Frazee -Bower. The Earliest Pen. sult in both wheels were pointed straight have had serious consequences. ahead, or, in other words, if they were: Then there is extra wear on tires set pa.ralleI. To prevent this excessive: when wheels are not properly set, and wear the wheels are given what is there IS, of course, great possibility of called forego.ther, which means that disaster when any -thing goes wrong to 'they are slightly closer together at the steering parts of an automobile. the front edge than at the rear. While , This is a part of the machine that this difference is only about three-, needs careful and ,frecpient inspection. spoken or sung into the trumpet all --two hundred odd bottles—"P.oise arecl ends. After a little practice at the broken reflections being In'n- lery, culinary utensils, stoves, eto„ whileeto e large extent coal, coal oil, natural and artificial gas, and other mineralipmlucts supply the necessary fuel. , The power used in the manufacture of our flour and motile amounted to 95,315 horsepower . eeters an- other of Canada's important natural reseurcee. .01 this, total power 25,105 horsepower was. developed by hydrau- lic turbines and water-wheele, while, 53,365 housepower was provided by electric motors-, practically all sup- plied with ,current,freni hydroelectric as yet known, hat in 1922 there was power developments. Natural and photographic plate, and any sound -This stylus is a triumph of elm- ' 1chemicals, and labelled them one and makes the mercury vibrate, a pattern with a taiangular cross-section and 81,413,649 bushels milled, from, which artiftcial gas used for n11111112., amount- _ . was produced 17,833,131 barrels of ed to 334,958,000 cubic feet, while 38, - flour. Of this flour- 3,663,078 barrels was consumed in Canada, slightly less than one barrel for each person. ISON SHOWED EARLY GENIUS °Professor •Langdon was able to make cuneiform inscriptions on clay with fair rapidity'. Professor Teangclon considers that the mound 'twenty miles southeast of Nippur may he identified as the site of the City of lsin. Isin was the capi- tal of a alyn,asty which ruled over a on," irre,spective of their contents, to duce& on the plate• prevent others interfering with them. 1 Thase patterns are quite distinctive. His first laboratory was in his moth- The note B fiat gives a different pat- er's cellar, and he had to use all his tern from the note F; in fact, the drop powers of pahuasibn for it to be per- of mercury follows every vibration of CONTINUAT.1.1( EXPERI- mitted to stay there. His secondmusic sun played into the trumpet, . . MENTING AS A CHILD. 1 oratory was the disused. smoker, dis.: . g or o that a series of different patterns. mowing band of photographic used because unventilated, en the s 1 film would record voice ar nausie as a train on which he sold papers. Sold Papers on Trains to Buy 236 tons of lignite as well ae other coal, in addition to large quantities 'of other fuels, including 12,599 cords of Of the 491,239,00-0 bushels of oats wood, were used. grown in 1923, there was consumed The development of Canada's. forest in Canada 467,678,000 bushels, 'rhe resources, second only in importance qua,ntity of oats used for human food to her lands, has a very direct bearing in 1922 was 11,191,617 bushels., which upon the provistian of foo.dstuffe to the was converted into 145,912,814 pounds oountry'a table. Containers are neces- of rolle.d oa,ts or oatmeal, of which eery for distribution, and of the,se 109,220,512 pounds was used in Can- there are made annually appr,oximate- ada, ly 860,000 apple barrels, e82,000 sugar Cornmeal, also, was used to the ex- and flour barrels, 2,800,000 butter and -tent of 51,302,602 pounds., while 2,659,- cheese boxes, 7,400,000 baskets and 910 pounds of rye flour, 5,631,225 crates., 1,200,000 berry boxes and 13, - pounds of buckwheat flour, 4,041,053 000,000 boxes and packing cases, a pounds of barley and 90,433,000 bush- large proportion of the latter being els of potatoes con.teibuted to Canada's used for food supplies. In addition table supPlies. Farm and ranch ani- there are millions of cartons, paper mals provided 1,391,342,492 pounds bags, and other food containers made of meat, together with 230,507,322 of paper and boxboard, the product of pounds of butter, 21,272,216 pounds of raw materials obtained from Canadian cheese, and enarinous. quantities of forests, required in distribution of our milk and cream. food -stuffs. How dependent Canada is upon nia- It can readily be seen that, while to tural conditions., as they pertain to the land and sea must credit be given precipitation and temperature, is evi- for the provision of the raw materials' denced in the wheat crops of 1921 and entering into our food supply, each of 1922. The increase in prod,uction in our natural resources enters intimate - the latter year, notwithstanding that ly into its preparation and distribu- there was less acireage sown to wheat, tiote The Busy Ma There Is a difference netween man and a Inielnese man. The be In.eraed in the eame incliYidualaPut there are verY Duey men who get little busluesa done. They run about in circler; they talk with their mouthe; theee 18 a noble nolo) about thepeaud an atinaaphere of teasion atlas, the thermometer rises to fever heat. ia the xneantime, emus Cool and quiet eerean asvey from the violent sound and the vivid sicene may be getting the rsetalow.siy:oile:te,dotnt:. agTtilireo:bileiaPdat:ent1Tyhao: live one le the windownlreeser, the may he a certain decorative usefulness In haaigg Wm. about. But he should n:ot be inietaleen for the driving power 01 'frjhrea-rlibcntsi°inn0aS rn an Puts the vital energy at his comma/an into the day's ivosic, pot into frantic and vain gyra- tions. When a plan to whice much toil and thought was givea expires in hia hands he does not waste time in long and mournful fune.ral never wes muc•it of a hand at applying the balm of a foolish and weakly sen- timental optimism; but he never yet gave into the quavering despair or the faint-hearted wno said "No us" So he gathers what le left and builds thereon, though it be chaff and rubble, till lie can slats a firm and deep foun- dation. The merely busy man has no plan and goes front one sudden flash of im- pulse to the next with. a headlong rush as aimless as the flight of iniects. He despises, the careful, thoughtful meth- odism of the plodder. Tbere is in that slow, cautiou,s. Way, -no brillia.ney, .710 inspiration. On .the other hand, the buiness man possesses himself of the cloth before he cuts,the coat, has the site and the building fund in hand ere he orders the re -enforced con.crete and thinks through to the end of years in- stead of from hour to hour. The busy' man has no time for., anything; the business man gets thing's done because he is precise, punctual, faithful in his appointments as in his plighted word. Natural Resources Bulletin. Canada's winters are one of her ,great natural resources. The winters that prevail over the greater portion of Canada lock up for practically the entire period from harvest to seeding time the fertility present 'in the Soil. The plant food that has been con- verted into available farms during the preceding sunamer and autumn and which is left over after the season's graWth is retained for the next sea- son's crop. The frost holds tight within its grasp untold -values in plant food. In regions where winter' condi- tions are absent this ° toluble plant food is lost by leaching and must be replaced largely by artificial fertilizer. The Canadian winter must therefore be regarded as an agricultural asset of no meant value. Anyone who gives thought' to the effect of the bracing winter atmos- phere upon the health of the people must recognize its value in the rear- ing of a vigorous and active populace. Canadians are proud of their winter sports, skating, hockey, skiing and tobog,taning, which make the blood course rapidly through the veins and being the bloom to the cheeks of th6 great part. of Babylonia after that of 'His Deafness. Ur from' about 2280 B.C. to about 2050 We thus have a new instrument Per B.C. Here one of the 'calamities, es has the study of speech and sound, which. Chemical Apparatus and young life was the up.setting or soma I may pave the way to fresh. k-nowledge ef. and perhaps find many good uses. phosphorus becaus,e of the lurching Books to Aid Studies. ithe train. This accident set the train Modern Way. Although Edison's mother was a on flee and ihe and his. belongings were It wa,E en this aeeasian that hot told the story of Daniel in the lion's' powerful and lastin.g, all the regular tion. teacher and her influenee over him I bundled off the train at.a wayaids sta-' Isabel, aged nine, had 'just been scholastic instruction he enjoyed was received so sound a box on his ears . den. ties at the publie achool at by the conductor that his hearing was I Then mother asked: "And what do ion think Daniel did the very first Port Huron. He never was a mathe- permanently damaged. But Edison matician, but with his original Phil- has always taken this hurt philosophi- thing after be was saved from e e asaphy he reasoned: "I can always eany, lionsV hire,..sorae mathematicians, but they It was while Edison was a news- Without much hesitation, Isabel re - can't hire me." ' i boy that he became interested in Plie(1.--- I-le experimented before he could electricity, He had no frictional ma- "Why, . he must have telephoned read, •_and. earned money while he chine, so he used the family cat The home to his wife to tell her he was an worked and educated himself, e chief °Ideate:1n was that the cat, lack- right" When six years old h -e saw a goose ing Edisort's enthusiasm for science, — sitting on her eggs—and .noted the objected to the violent rubbing pro - results, Soon after this observation" cess and could run faster than Edi- son. Edison was missing, and af ter a pro- longed search was found in the barn sitting on a neat of laia own construe - First Triumph. Edison's first triumph as an invent - tion filled :with goose eggs and hens or was his invention of the stock tick- eggsl er, which netted him $40,000, He had Another experiment of his a few anticipated asking front $3,060 to years later, when he was al:heat ten $5,000, but asked General Lefferts to make an offer. When $40,000 was pro- posed Edison,said it "caused ma to be as near fainting as I ever got I was afraid he would hea,r my heart beat," 'Phis money enabled Edison definite- ly to start his spectacular career as an inventor and much of it was spent on his now famous inventions, the autom.atic, duplex and quadruplex years old, surely betrays the inquisi- tiveness of 'the scientific mind.. He induced a lad to swallow large quanta- tieg of Seidlite powder in the firm be- lief that the gas generated would en- able him to fly'. Read Whole Section. He sold papers on trains, not be- oause people were poor, but be- cause it enabled hini. to buy chemical L'e'eer8P"' Tay' Could paid $30,000 for his in - apparatus and materials and to pur- toreet in the quadruplex telegraph, ohose books, magazihes and, newepa- This money was again spent in expere pars to further his studies. Ills melee rie From his wOrk on the tele, ed of reading was as diseinct frorn got b,e esthers as day from night We are th4L18 '113 $140000, for his carbon transmitter , - told that wbee he, aa a boy, gained ac- , cese to a library. be would belfily at- tack a whole section and read beok after hook, irresneetive of subject, In place of the great and neatly equipment that zome men tia:ve beeli plivilegen ese in their training, mil- lion% equipmeet was rm..vlb by himself.' Ile gleaned the town for betties, spent his earnings filling thine With Spent By Dedrees. , To tell this- interesting story in Ecli- son'e own worda, When he was offered, the $100,000 lid said: "All right,. It is yours ,ene condition and that is you do not pay me ail at Ghee, but pay'ate at the rate of $6,000 a year for seven- teen yams (the life of the patent). My ambition was. tour times too melt Man Overboard! Lifebuoye are to be equipped with self-igniting water eights, so that in the case of an accideet at night the victim can see the lifebimy, and swim to it. ea. copper cylinder is inserted in the lifebuoy containing calcitun carbide and calcium phosphide. When the calcium phosphide beccomes wet, a small flame is produced which ignitee the stream of acetylene. The light burns with an intensity of 150 candles for forty-five minutes. 1 Most of 'em Haven't. "These European r119-na.rehs can't dictate to -a soul now." "That'a/nrights-some of rem haven't Pianist I3ecorate4 by Belgian King. During the recent sojourn of Ignace Jan Pa.derewski mn Brus,sele, the plan - 13erlIn Babies. Every new baby born in,Berlin, says a dispatch, is to receive from the muni- cipality a -savings account of three gold marks. The purpOse of the plan is to inorea.se the birth rate of Greater Berlin; which is now below norrnals The savings account will be made out in the name of th,e baby itself and will draw interest. The money may be withdrawn only when the child reach- es the age of fourteen. In other Ger- man cities where the birth rate is be- , low normal similar steps are to be I mYoaut?reyears erl>eolitifind e, their wn while those re osteoftheibeta- tion in curling. Canadians notwith- standing that others may think 'differ- ently, do not hibeileate when winter taken.. And this in 'a country already overcrowded: • Saved Expense. A Scot went to a solicitor, laid a question before him and asked wlieth- Canadian winter sports are a dis- tinct asset and are kovine an attrac- er he would- 'undertake the ease. Item to many tourists, who come to "Certainly," said the latter. "We enjoy with us our winter climate and are -sure to win. jt and statesman "So you really think it's a good was decorated by Al- e bert i Kine of the Belgians, Wth the case?, 'Most decidedly, my dear sir. I am Order of Leopold., caerrying with it prepared to guarantee that you will the rank of Grand Commander. The • conferring of this honor followed soon secure a fa•vorable verdict" Ala wee], I'm much obleeged to ye, after the pianist's recital in that city. " but, I dimia. think Pll go tae law this The decoration is the highest gift Bel- gium can bestow. The king accora- time, for, ye see, the case I've just laid before ye is my oppenent's." ponied the decoration with his photo- graph bearing this inscription; "To Pederewski the ligerator .ef Poland Guiltly Conscience. and the incomparable artist. ' Albert. A man bought six pounds of sugar At the recital, which took plane in and found it adulterated with sand. the Royal Theatre of the Monnaie, The next day he had inserted in the environment to which you are aeons - Mme. Paderewski tomed.. sat in the royal neec decal paper a notice reading thus: on.the King's right and to the left of . eNotioe.—I bought six pound e of And so, if you are prepared to forego,. the Crown Prince. It is said to have been the first time a civilian has been From it I have taken one pound of these trivial acceseerles of Modern sugar from a grocer in this village. lif thus honored. The Queen arose when sand. 11 the grocer will send MO SlX ,whei,all t ciaith1;on threaten ts nf °tro:idcer bnoii.6hOntehneieinepooasl Pacterewski appeared upon the stage, pounds of sugar I will not expose him." thus giving the signal for the audienceund pacages of . Next day five six-pokcharacteristics or our modern world, • , you need net pay very much for yotvr to do likewise. sugar were left' at the man's house, pessage. , During the stay of Paderewski and therabeing just five grocers in the vil- "And it is a shrewd criticism of the take part in our winter activities and to renew the energies depleted throegh residence in countries where ..the re- cuperating winter climste is absent. The Value of Travel. "Travel," says William IVIcIree in the Beekman, replying to a young gentle- man who has six months' leave for happy vagabondage, "is expensive only in so- far as. it renders you im- mune fromn-th,a difficultie.s and pecu- lborilies of foreign. places. It is ex- peneive becaUse it carries you in the les wife in Brussels they lived at the loge, King'spalace and took their meal You do t the better it'will avail you in "en familia" at the royal table ithe future." Too Much cow. A Well-known writer who has a coun- An„Unexpected Contribution. try home, recently married a'rausical pladeclegreat stress upon, manners. Up- The Children's Aid Society in one comedy star who had previously lived oil his return his father mies.tioned of our :i7vestern towns received a cote only in the Itigger cities. They were him as to hie reception. tribution of 'ten dollarsin a C-arlOUS spending their honeymoon at lila coma- " 'Tain't no use te write any more way. A lady living in New Orleaesre- fry place, within motoring distance of letters to him, pe. I -le can't see to ceived a parcel from a friend and the ti -le city. read them. }Te' s blind." . wrapper was a Caned:elm newel -meet. The second day of their stay the "Blind!" Never having been in Cenade the lady author, wanting to give his bride the "Yes, 1 -le asked, me twice where my r smoothed out the paper and "read the 110 0 Children's Aid Society ana lIsnee,rebf money. Without delay she, wrote to the Secretaryenclosing a Po.54.a.1 0.rdor for ten dollars,—,T. 1. ldeiso see More than ility honresi.,eadsr Vier0 taken up through the Corninion Land Office at ,Edmonton during the month of September, by riei,v settlers coming inta Alberta. While some people are saying "It can't be done," they are constantly boo. ing surprised by 430*body doing It. basic value, of nioney, that the cheaper Waste of Time. Bobby area sent by his father on an errand to an elderly relative who best or everything, decided to buy a cow so that they might get their own resit nibik 1 So they jumped in the ear and motored over to a neighboring farm, where tlaore was a coVr fpr sale. The animal was led out by Its owner, Who cparomuedifyropirto,c1Lindieedrctiheea tun: bsytectletllsillilge the hewlywede that thd cow gave ten quarts of Milk a dey. The bride gasped—then tailed ber 'husband to one ,stde and whispered; not dvEir- t•Arthar, ten quarts of Milk ie more Wounded war 'Veterans at Christie Eospital, Toronto, were hat wet, and I had it on my heal all ths eked in the voting when the ,citizene or Ontario Were italted to deehle bethan wo will. use; we don't need such, Weea the retention of the 0,T.A. or government control of lignoie - a big etaW, (let a calf!" lc A lig One. itIlo Firefly—"Great Scottl What cl Or 0 firefly ie that?" various items until elm came tn which told of the good, wcalene