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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1920-9-16, Page 2Little Thieves That Steal Our Car Money. The little thieves referred it are not small boys or other two legged siredatoey animals, but little elves known as "Don't Have Time," "Sloppy Habit," "I Should Worry," etc. There are others, but these are the chief ones. The petty losses amount to a great deal in the course of a season, and I are well worth preventing. One of the thieves which steals gas and power is the leaky intake manifold. This may Ste at the carburetor, where it will affect all cylinders, or at the cylinder block, where it affects one or more, cylinders. A. loose gasket will suck up air on the intake stroke of the engine,' thus destroying the mixture which the carburetor has made, and one or more'of the cylinders will not fire properly.! And if enough air is admitted in this way it may cause backfiring, which' would be naturally blamed on a lean mixture and cause an adjustment of the carburetor to supply more gas, which, being unnecessary, is an diem of waste, If the engine has been running pro • - • perly and begins to baekfire, and you are getting gas into the carburetor. !Sr. -re- -do not eommenee to adjust the ear- buretor. Look for a leak somewhere. Tighten up on the gaskets and see if that does not remedy the treuhle. Do, not adjust the carburetor while there, is a possibility of anything else being, wrong. It may be necessary to put in new ,gaskets, for if these are use' too long, or dented, or get out of shape, they are almost euro to leak a little. One of the other thieves is the' leaky gas pipe, either where the pipe is connected on the tank or where it is connected to the carburetor or vacuum tank, at the strainer, or pas -I sibly where the pipe has been bent. and has cracked. A slow leak, a drop at a time, may seam lake a mighty small loss, but when it is kept up twenty-four hours a day it amounts to much in the course of a month. Be sides the leak may be endangering the car by making a high fire risk. Gas pipe lines should he inspected cc- casionally. Usually they will need taking off once in a while to blow out the sediment which gathers in spite of every precaution. Another leak which is expensive is of lubricating oil. I suppose nearly every one has seen puddles of oil on a pavement after a car has moved away, or noticed a drip from a passing nuto. Oil is h'gh priced, and no one can afford to waste it. There is a noticeable absence of duet on streets where many automobiles travel, clue to the roadway being well oiled by these drippings. The oil naturally e.mes either from the crank case, the transmission gear case or the differ- ential ease. They are not intended to leak. It may be because the drain cock is not properly closed or the gasket may not be bolted down tight, or there may be a crack which gives a slow drip. What- ever It is, it should be remedied, There may he other causes of leakage in the oil system, but whatever it mag be this little thief should be arrested, There is another leak of a different nature whichsomet;mes comes at the valves. Bits of carbon sometimes lodge on the valve or valve seat, and quickly are hammered down into a little lump, which prevents the valve from seating properly, and therefore t leaks. Some eugines require valvegrinding only at long intervals and others seem to need it often, The ex- haust valves should be examined regu-; larly and ground in whenever neces-' sary. Intake valves require much less attention, but should be examined sev- eral times a year. Another valve leak is about the sterns. They should fit snugly in the guide, But with many motors there is a tendency for the valve guides to wear. This may sometimes he de- tected by a hissing sound when the engine is turned over by hand or when tym es y Walt MaSon�� a5 � OIIL I know a (107011 1110t1 who've won snug fortunes by the ronta of oil, and their financial cares are done, they do not have to spin or toil. They ride mimed in limousines!, in all the pomp :sten could desire, and care no hoot hew many beans it takes to buy a rubber tire, And when I see them in their pride. may own sad outlook makes ane blue;. I have a ycarulug pain inside—I'll go and buy some oil stock, too. Then I remember countless gents who tackled ail and trapezi they'd win, and now they haven't forty cents to buy a stein of prohlb gin. I son then, sleeping in the park, on benches comfortless and bare, and when they wake. some leaves and bark will be their breakfast bill of fare. Where one oil magnate lives In state, and has nine banks on which to draw, a thcusand losers rail at fate and say there ought to be e law. And $o I buy no oil well stock, nor Meed prospectuses sublime; along my humble way I walk, and save a quarter at a time, relining slowly, Where this occurs it is necessary to ream nut the valve guide, put in a bushing and possibly MAIL lunnclted with ease. Passengers tally: 3, new valves which lit properly. OVERSEAS5Y3 IL siring 10 erose quiultlg and who LII'e Of course, the leaky valve stein would I willing to pay extra for this service have the same effect as a lanky intake can he landed far in advance of the manifold, admitting air which evortld TO FIT OCEAN LINERS ve^sel's schedule. thin the mixture, ler spoiling the sue -.How the Pian Would Work Out. tion, so that a proper mixture would WITH AIRCRAFT' For instance, we'll Buy the lIanra net be drawn into the combustions tante sails from Liverpool on August f P N S SPEED UP Wasth g of Cod Ding Sanity Eastern Canada is facing a serious ec)al shortage. Due to labor troubles, 1 the output is below the average, while railway ccnipatles are Iutndltment by shortage of calls, lion, Frank Carvell, , Chairman of the hallway Commission, l which hs now ill control cf the fuel sitiu'.shnt, has stated that we will be I rettunato to get eua1, regardless of price. Every effort must be made to I reduce the eat :;nutption, surd to se-, cure the greatest heat efficiency pea- I sable from the supply available. Much coal Is wasted by the too ear- ly starting of furnaces. The lirst chilly weather- brings the furnace into use. This tall in temperature 1s al - meet invariably followed by a warm period. If, by the use of other heat- ing appliances, such as kerosene or electric heaters, or by burning wood in the furnace, the period for cart. suntption of coal could be shortettesl a conslderable saving or coal could be effected. During 1919, Canada im- ported 4,758,410 tons of anthracite coal in chestnut, stove and egg sizes. Our heating season is approximately seven mouths, a portion of which at • the beginning and end is comparative - A portable runway can be constructed on the upper structure of the vessel from which these planes can be chamber. 1 r . 4, and it takes her ap n•txhnately five Piston rings are responsible for an Would Make Pm00IMe Trans ---s- 1 days to cross the Atlantic ineluain, other leak sometimes. If not pinned'- atlantic Delivery in Thirty- the time required in docking, rte. Ia- in the piston they may work around etalle:l upon her after super -structure Six Hours. is a small platform, built of light lum- ber and in seetior,a so that it can be dismantled if desired mid pivoted upon until all the slots are an line. giving a straight chute for the gas and ruining all hope of compression or suction. These riots are supposed to be stag - With the use of airplanes by the British Navy and the rapid advance cored to prevent this, Now it is also meth in flying from the decks of bat- a centre pin or axle se that it will turn agree Bary re keep the rings free £Tfronttlesitips comes the plan for the use of in nnuthe same maut:er es a turn - to planes on beard all ocean liners. For table and can be swung in either direc- car'oon and gummed oil, otherwise the last three years planes have been tion on the beans. Upon this platform they will stick in the grooves and will in use on board both British and C.S. rests a fast ernlser plane, fully equip - not function. A worn cylinder will war vessels. These peones "hop" peri and with inflatable floats attached produce the same kind of a leak. from the deck and from specially con- just over the wheels. 'The plane's Although caution has been advised strutted runways over the big gun crew has seen that several days' against attempting to adjust the ear- turrets. These runways are about 1000 ' emergency ration. for use in case of buretor until it is found to be abso- feet long and are just wide enough to accident, and water, have been placed lately necessary, the novices should accommodate the plane It requires in the plane, and the mechanic has learn the make-up of his carburetor only fifty feet for one of these planes. everything tuned up for action, The and be able to make an adjustment if to get sufficient headway to c•lar anti plane is secured for sen in much the it is necessary. It may be taken for make a ,successful hop into the air. sante manner as the lifeboats. granted that the adjustment once With the regular transatlantic air Two days out of Liverpool the most made will remain unless somebody's service in the future the use of plane's important mail is placed in the air- ' fingers change it. But ,it is possible on board transatlantic vessels will plane and the pilot takes his scat. The for water or dirt to get in the car- greatly facilitate and speed up the plane has been made ready for flight buretor and interfere with its proper mails and other important natters and all lashings aro released except 1 working. The adjustment should be which now depend upon the speed cf the automatic release which holds the to give as lean a mixture as will fire the vessel in crossing and docking,. An plane until the motor has increased readily without backfire and to have ocean liner equippel with these phaco to full speed. At a signal from the the heat not too high. could cut down the mail time overseas pilot the plane is released and hops Look at the exhaust when the en- by approximately- fortyeight hours, gine is running and see if any black; and this with ease, smoke can be detected. Hold a white! These gigantic vessels helve far bet- cloth behind the exhaust for a moment' ter facilities for launching aircraft aha see if there is n Mark deposit on', from their decks than the ordinary it, Be sure that black melee means man o' war, and they need not be that you are burning up money, that specially acustructed for this purpose. is, more gas than is needed, but the necessity of adjustment of the car -1 bunter to its most efficient service; may not always be indicated by black smoke. Chase the little thieves away, for; you can insure against these thefts in' no other way than by watchfulness. The underwriter will not give you a policy against them. Superheated Steam. Two decades ago few would have admitted the possibility or permanent- ly and regularly producing steam at temperatures of from 550 degrees to 650 degrees Fahrenheit within the re- stricted area of the ordinary locomo- tive boiler. Now thousands of loco- motives use this superheated steam, and its use is increasing. By heating steam 180 degrees Fah- renheit above the saturation tempera- ture "hot steam" is produced. With this increase of temperature the steam is dried and the volume is increased. But the increase of volume is less im- portant than the suppression of all condensation in the cylinders if the superheat is sufficiently high. Hct steam being a bad conductor it also reduces loss by cooling in the cylin• • dens, It increases the hauling caped. • ty from 25 to 80 per cent., according to type and structure of the engine. • Aeroplanes are to be used for hunt- ing out whales and seals round Ice- land and Greenland; they have already proved useful in 'locating shoals of fish Remaking New Zealand. More rapid changes in animal and vegetable life are taking place in New Zealand than almost anywhere in the world. The native Polynesian race Is disappearing before the European; the native wild animals amount to little in contest with the imported species, many of which now run wild; the streams are full of American and European trout, which attain an enor- mous size, and even the forests are being replaced by the planting of foreign trees as the native ones dis- appear. Eleven million larches, oaks, spruces, Douglas fins and eucalyptus have al- ready been planted and vast numbers of seedlings are coming in alt the time. The reason for replacing the native trees with species from North America, Europe and Australia is that those of New Zealand are too slow of growth, although some of them pro- duce excellent timber. The implanta- tions thrive everywhere. e -- Many old British battleships are be- ing filled with concrete and sunk in English ports to serve us breakwaters. from the runway like a bird, soaring high above the vessel, and setting a course for New York it lands a few hours later. Suppose that while the airplane is getting ready for its flight with the mail lir. Jones of New York city re- s Newly Appointed Commission to Deal With Mothers' Pensions, The Commission, under the chairmanship of Rev, Peter Bryce, Inas now got down to business and is getting everything in shape for the operation of mothers' pensions in October. This photo shows the Commission outside the Commission Headquar- ters, as fellows, from left to right. Mrs. Adam Sbortt of Ottawa, A. J. Reynolds of Hawarden, nava Peter Bryce of Toronto, Major T. J.Murphy of London, and ,tars, W, F. Singer of Toronto. 1y Mild, Dy +'n average lessening of the eonl burning period of 20 days say, five per cent of thls altthraolte would be sated, of 23A;000 tons, with coal AND SUGAR IS ITS KING, Bellini; at an avarnge prion of $15 per ton, ten, title saving would represent ftp' wards of $3,500,000, All of this coal has to he hauled by rail. To tuevo title 218,000 tons requires 4,790 cern of 50 tone each, Economy in furnace operation would else considerably reduce the coal consumption. Much uneon-. sumed carbon Is discarded with the ashes, and much of the heating ef- CNA I WORLD'S FLOOR DO OF 1920 Cuba Produces a $400 Crop for Every Human Being on the Island. With a sugar produotthn nearly - doubled and prices morn than quad - I fictenc ^ of the ectal is also wasted rtaplad Blaen 1912, ono nun vagally son 1 through rarele arc,+s fu firing or iu wily Cuba's the world's El Dorado of defective hietnllalicti, 11920, and why sugar la its king, says a meant writer I The Meuc•,n ilMine of the Federal a The imagination is almost over- bulletin, ulI ti , N ef Alines has omit a powered in attempting to comprehend of coal No. ea "Tile Economic Use the 0551 proporllehe el the sugar in. H coal for Steam milli and House dustry of the Island as it exists this Heating," by ,Jobe Blizzard, ll.;lc., vola•. which gives valuable information re' The ane produced is of such tre• gaming the ccouotnh and efficient n'I'tcl0us volume that a pof sssion o. operation of ::t •iuu boilers nod heating I bull teams, foul' abroa t, reuchhig furnace:. around the earth, would be required i Every care a:hnuld be exorcised in - to inevc it. The crop would suhlieo w • 1limited 2,000 ntilee of rho island's coast line the use of coal. h itis the slap-- build a solid wall around the entire ply av'tllablo, the extravagance of lsotno m:itnts titan others will suffer. las high as an ordinary dwellin; house _--andd thick enoueh for a file of four eeivea a wireless that his presense is months befcre the British establish men to walk abreast on it. needled in New York the next day in regular traneedMut'e servlet+ by the 1 The sugar extracted from this vane order to save several thousand dol- airway.would load a fleet of steamers reaclt- lars, or possibly millions. Mr. Junes While they aro building aircraft to . Mg from Havana 10 Now York, with rushes tip to the captain and procures snake 200 ntlla: an 'tour, the type or • tt ship for every toile of the 1,200 that Passage on the ship's mail plane and scout now in use. makes an average of stretch between the two ports. The 18 b11(10(1 in New York a few hours 125 miles. lf, when the Mauretania is great l (intil of 1 hoops remains, later. Ile has saved motley for hint- twenty -icier hours out of Livetiool, si ter 5,000 years, unrivaled as ti monu- self and floes not mind in the lea°1 the plate goes out with mall and drops it mentcl pile; hut ('nba's sugar output extra •toll he has paid for passage, upon tiro ds:•:lis cif tit( ye:eve net tits 1 this year wr,nld make two pyramids, This plane will prnvo invaluable in mail is placed in the slt+p'„ plats, each uutbosii,g and overtopping. hundreds of instances. Mr. Jolles which leaves the ship ttveutyfcur; Cheops, might have received a meeeaae that ltottre later for New york tate nail ` Tho wealth the oulgoi 1g sugar crap :Wine one in his family \vas very sick time between Liverpool and New Tontbrings in Is not leas remarkable in its and at the point of death, Instead or a would be cut to les; than thirty --ix proportions. Fenr hundred dali%u•a human financial matter, and been rushed to 'tours. out of a single crop for ever; v nu Uvea en the Mand. beL'''-'1150ul the sick bed in the came manner. in tho future mall will travel bo- twoen Now Ycrk and Liverpool in ton 1 t\'hat wonder, thou that Cuba today Safeguard Against Icebergs. hoes; hitt while patiently waiting',, is a land of gala ane gems, rieimer titan We all remember the terrible etas- for this to be developed we can hast• L liidas ever \vasa, cuusersln,r, esteems, aster which overtook the Titanic. ' by contrast, Into a be Bari Rushing headlong for port through a sheet of fog she struck an icehere and went dott•u within a few ,tours. Many lives were lest ane others exposed to the elements. Fog is often of a low seated nature and while very dense in the lower regions may leave the atmosphere perfectly clear a few feet above the level of the sea. In a re- gion where it is expected that ice- bergs may be encountered a scout p' --ane could bo•sent out over the sheet of fog and such disaster avoided., Of course this would not wort; under all conditions, On the other hand, a passenger on the liner while two days out of New York develops a serious case af sick- ness, with which the ship's doctor is unable to cope, The passenger is transferred to the airplane and lauded quickly and without discomfort at a hospital in New York within a few hours, Experiments have proved that the sick can be carried in an airplane with far more comfort than in any other conveyance. The fact that these planes can land upon the water renders it possible to transfer pasengers at sea without the necessity of ships changing their course, and while many miles apart. Neither ship would need to slow down or stop, except when the one picked up the passenger and the other picked up the plane, There is no reason why these planes used on board vessels at sea would not prove a success from a conlma:elal Point of view, ael the coming of the transiantic air lines• would not need altar the usefulness of aircraft on ocean liners, but would increase their en the present mall time, which has not been reduced in some years, by carrying mail and paaatnger places on board our ocean liners. They Pinch Pollen. In those public gardens where there are orchid -houses, a class of thieves who aro most mischievous and also very difficult to catch, are frequently Produces Ten Flarveats, Sugar carne Is grown by tared class- es of planters in Cuba. reshape the major part of the crop is g awn by share farmners, or "('elate,' as they are called, •I'Ite owners of the sugar stills furnish them with a given num- ber of acres cf land to plant mut give them gin agreed share of the wager • huey. i they pro ince. These are the "pollen pinchers," as I How uracil net profit the cued vow - theare termed by the attendants at cr reaps at 1920 pries:+ It hard to es - such places, They lurk about inside I th'oata, but that it is large will appeares- studying yang i -houses, pretending to b . I when the methods of lawn growing air studying intently the various varieties.' stated. 'To begin with, after the filet Then, when the attendant's ben is ! crop, tho planter does not have to turned, they deftly pinch between the 1 bother t.ith seed time for about ten finger and thumb a small quantity r0e Scars. The soil is so deep and ea fem•- pollen from time biosom of some rare tile that ono planting prolucea ten species, and transfer it to a lightly- harvests. Neither does cultivation stoppered lost -tube, or a small but bother him after the lust eeasnn, fcr wide -mounted bottle carried in the time blades stripped from one crop vest pocicet. I form a mulch that keeps the ere -ens Just a morsel of golden dust! That from competing with the nest one. is all. But from this the orchid- I Think of the profits that tate - Cana - grower who thoroughly understands than farmer would make out of wheat his business—and, needless to say, 1 if ho coned get ten crops from eat most pollen pinchers do understand it ; one sowing and did not hava to plow nine —Is ably (o propagate plants that may I of them at all to keep down the weeds! _Another item in the low cost of pro- ducing sugar is the cheapness of the motive power. The cane is hauled in or carts. The oxen live from six to ten months a year on the blades stripped from the harvested stalks and were perhaps half a dozen newspapers teem.he remainder of the year on S in China. To -day there are more than tent guinea grass. Think bow pros. 200. Lilco newspapers in other parts perons would bo the Canadian Romer of the world, they make a living by t if he could have animal power requir- tlto sale of advertising.fng not a pound of grain to feed it! Nothing can better illustrate the present progressive tendency of China Stage Letter Writing. eventually bring him in hundreds of dollar's. Advertising in China. Less than twenty years ago there value. Especially would this than the growth and development of prove advertising in that country, Even the true in cases of aircraft in distress, )native theatres, some of theta, have where isolated; a fast plane which drop -curtains covered with display ad - could cover great distance in a short vertisentonts. time would prove invaluable. On the etreets of Chinese cities are The use of airplanes on transatlan- tic liners would hasten the making and changing of customs laws cover- ing the use of aircraft. There is no billboarde bearing huge posters, vivid swoop of the pea front left to right with colors and besprinkled with char- nuifllces for that, though the address actors in the native language. Along -,thus' produced must be one tiler no doubt that the air smuggler will be an side of these are Commonly displayed post office clerk in the world could added oval for outer pasters of Occidental style governments "Ono thing that I never could under- stand," said a playgoer, "is the man- ner 09 writing and addressing letters on the stage. The hero's pen fairly flies across the page and when he comes to address the envelope one to cope malty of which advertise Canadian ever decipher. with in the Hoar future, and in the ab. I suppose, of course, the purpose goods, such as stoves, sowing it is eenoe of Government air patrols it of this manner of letter writ,:g r to chines, phonographs .and kitchen cab,• g nets. Prizes for prompt payment ef taxes are offered ley the Japanese Gbvern- will fall to the seaports' flying police to cope with this problem, While steamship companies have not yet taken advantage of this added fes - "REG'LAR k' ELLER S" -13y Gene Byrnes `CHA"Cs A NICE. WAY -Co ASK. FOR - 1 " `(OLY . TNE• Ir•IORST MANNERED Bac( t Kt -low ave the air of action, despatch; to avoid any sense of lagging in the 'movement of the play; but would it not be more rea.lilstic and etrilcing if tura of safety and convenience, it is menta, and range from 50 cents to $25. it were done with a sufficient mea- nie getoniting with watr s backiters aney have d are rues When a man pays promptly he lelit were scsiion and theomake a.t'lclres is cos uld el that t- getting their ships from their re- given a slip of paper entitling 111•m to the l tt read?" en so oc. a number of chances in the municipal doeepetive t this encs. There is little lottery. When his record for a num- 3 doubt that this mouse of sedfut np ber of years justifies the distinction, London o Dickens' Day the mails will be aged in the Future, a porcelain medallion is presented to iS isappea3ri31g. inasmuch as it will not be marry 11X11. — ,�®.- '!' —.---- „ Another wwith a hands London will pose away at the hndd s of the housowreeker when the London Coun- ty Council scheme for improving ter- mondsey is carried out. The district known as "Jacob's Island" is one of the areas in whiclt all the buildings are to be demolished, Hero stands the house that was described by Charles Dickens in "Oliver 'Twist" en the scene of B111 Silkes's death, It is in a court ea11ed Motcaif Court, whiclt was partly swot away when the mill stre f ly pier• t'dusnd0il Jaeob't I.•ala:c� wore covered in.. 'hid island in those days had the Thames on the north side and round the three other sides the milt streams. Ip ti'Ou DONT Le.ARN -Co .S PLE.k2E t,4 J—1 s(pu ASK FOA $OMfnTHING `<ou U(ONT GET' t -r h $oma Quarantine, A doctor was going lois rounds on a ship where he discovered a man in the each bay with scarlet fever, "You keep this! patient away from• the rest Of the crew, I suppose," he remorkedt • "Oh, ye% indeed," the hospital One man repliotl, c'1 don't let flim eoe%'i near the' others except tor chow,"