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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-3-3, Page 2„. Beat Indicator Important, I cause of :tiro threads wearing execs. One coin morning I was walking I lively is' the nun-alignnt;ent of the briskly along a eauntl'y road when a wheels. The *heels should be in per - friend happened along in his aetomo- feet alignment, otherwise the wear is bile and invited me to ride...I aecept-, very rapid, enthe fabric foxto g the ve his invitationand seated myself! •body of the tire will he too thin and comfortably beside hint.. Soon we Abe.', puncture will result. If nen-align- gen to ascend a long, hard grade. Wei spent is suspected, it is well to have had climbed about halfway up oral' the wheels examined . And the defect were apparently going nicely in see.� remedied. and gear, when suddenly there was: Motor trucks and good roads in - a spurt of steam from the radiators crease land values. The farther away My friend looked surprised, stopped!from town on improved roads that the cat, and thee laughed as he pre.! real estate lies, the greater the per - pared to get out,ceutage of increase in value with the "The joke's on nie,” he exclaimed,' advent of good roads and transporta. "i remember now that 1 put the raiee tion. Within file miles of an eastern iator curtain down to keep the engine! city where recent improvements in warm while 1 was in the store, and; highways wer made, the appreciation then forgot to raise it again when T' in value within five years was only started,' I thought the engine was not' 08.1. Ten miles nut the percentage •pulling so well as usual, lint T thought of increase was 96.7 and twenty-five it was due to the cold. Instead it was' miles away the ratio of Increase was too mph heat, 1 should have teeet>l MA'. ...-anak• the garageman's advice. then I'd have! Vulcanize small 'eats and gashes as ,-,.,....:—•--••— know-n311°31what ailed my engine before 311°31 as possible. This is an econom s it boiled. He said a radiator temper.' pMalta Tides Wort. p :cal ractice for tires that are rather• � ature indicator mite just as importantinew, but is not always so for older, The plan of the transport ministry in winter as in eammer. and I guess] "nee, unless the tread is renewed and, for a Power station that will make use he is right. Any way, gm going to well done. Old rubber so often pulls of the force of the tides and eclipse have one.' (( away from vulcanized places, leaving! anything in existenice has been an _ 1 the fault as bad as before—with' nounced in England. It is proposed by Avoid This Tire grinder. 'money thrown away besides. Good! the governmental experts to construct "Plink! I ,,l`•::1., lean}.'.' hear those 1eleanizing befure the tire ages is aid a dam across the Severn nest the ways to be recommended and helps point where the railway tunnel now little ; uindrap beg:rrnn, to make', to bring in the miles. The older tires connects Tenths with the south of Bag - old man Wet 1Weather rirging gun! titan have cuts, gashes and blowouts1 nailer nd. e tunneel aanrfour and roadwa)half in them can be made to run for miles long. bells on coo of his periodical r>unds'' 1 planned would be about three miles of tire grind;rg, i ami miles by using blowout boot; and; Stratigr oto gent he ie, heeau,e is; =arches; or reline the easing with lin t• he and would. provide for a station ing from another east-aff tire. i with au estimated capacity of 600,000 you don't take the tante to poo and; To elevate grease cup: It is a good horeepower. loaf on your skid chdins heei proceeds; The idea of utilizing the force of Yo follow along and do business with! thing soinet}mes to have agrease-cup you. anyway. Figuring out the dol- elevated more than the maker of the tides is not a new one, but is not easily k g 1 car intended. This can be done by applied. One of the difficulties in lar:', he rinds Prem baro tires in thecar i short gas-pipeof the length such undertakings is the fact that the r. us ng a CCU a e of tear avoid% • x hinter- vals; to t oout t regular tide, are in o a g desired, with threads like those on the strength of a adding machine, for I that a plant operated directly by the force of •tidal waters would have periods when it woukl"be at a stand- still. The practicability of utilizing the high tide periods to store energy has been investigated and cost of storage plants and their maintenance has been consideed too great to make the undertaking attractive. The British engineers propose to solve that by constructing, in the hills back of the Severn, an artificial salt water lake which will be the source of FLAT TIRES, I rode with Johnson In the rein, In his new 60-Itor3e•power -wain. The rale was pouting down, gadzoolrsl The road was crossed by iunrlfng brooks. lint we were snug and dry 1nslde, and carried smiles three cubits wide, Asad then, kerplunk a tire went flat; and Johnson merely sighed thereat. .And then he lett Iris coee, sent, and aloedted around an squirting feet, "You stay," ha solo}, "just where you are; ell do the Tussles with the car." And out there fit the tempest wild he tolled around, and still he smiled. He seemed to think lies labors fun, and whistled "John rale,_ Get Tem Gun," And when he'd changed the tubber tire, he climbed Is. from the tutu and nitre, and grasped the costly • steering wheel, as,cheerful as a;loeoed eel. "Ods Ash," I said, "a saint you are; Were I compelled to leave my car and tinker round It fu the wet, my language would be blue,' you bete And Johnsou heaved a sigh at me, "I've lived for many years," said he; "and I leave,knowe my ups and.downa, and wilted'neath mistor•tuue'e frowns. I've found whin thlitge were going wrong. it braces nue to shed a song; in times of sorrow and despair it doesn't help me out to swear." he iieenta to have a regular lunch of; grease -cup. Screw the grease -cup meet niers who sere: willing t•> take! into one end of the pipe, to which a a el rnr c- with his gr.indiirg at every coupling has been added, and the oppartu.3ty. Nothing delights him! other end of the pipe into the place wore than to see real wheels spin-': where the cup originally was. The niug around at .a dizzy rate in their', arivantage is that you can seize the effortsefforte to get a tire hold on the clip- cup better when turning down; this is per. ,tav,ng that his heipers have pre- particularly true of -such usually parer', for his benefit. , crowded locations as the water pump Don't lit the meek! ti• , hi ?Jos Lill ,.haft and similar places where there yon into a earns .s alone. Get oar a.,4 , no moving part to strike the pipes Taut ,•r oe:.r 1•r, eitt.'rs at the very 4111 break them oil', fir t. '•1:.i,;i,•• even theege hr' IUSy attempt to et:o,• er you enough to 0%! ,'=ner,snior +*1 Iii 1n•nfi so, h;,.;n etc y rufns, to take tl., eliaru of ;i', r ', ,.i! the craFty fel- , ire :er,'- eetea •ls any f..h. �•:>,-- ,m hid', he t':r. „ ir your i'.. C'etticnled Farm Labor Yellows in Wake of Car. lee eitieeLimner or n, -day ta, . s(>er' his c , t , ,wr. if -:le so. des•rc th., t tar 3+. 11::01,e worth; wlr:ic •r tlir.e t .', rare, :cher ie a comm a•ty , or it.,,.,t ,ntporlar' e. The, farm wire i•0 lenge:. lives an ,.,gated. lfe, She :, eiee to ire, 1, town, t"° go t,, the cuntr,Ut,t; cenrre gather-: ing:, 1, m t ee roti, her neighbors. i clegeh '-r • ie et}utuiated, ae it t9 Erne i t' t tar : can donate funds for, ane tenti.ti eh inch, where in the past. -i:re rtee,SF�/ecledefOYli distance ,t,ade c+'n raiizatiot 101005 1 Will Explore the Arctic si%"ie The borrowing power of the, Sir Ernest Shack.eton, Antarctic ex- farn; is increased through the rise his! plorer, now in Canada, who states that ',farm values due to the greater acres -i he lntends to explore the Arcthe sibilit r eel n.,rketing power made regions. Firs plans are not yet nom- ;possiblr iitruu0h the use of the motor, plete. vehicle 1 - Tr Trey, the auto is ic good friend and busii•ese t , r of farmers who; Finger Prints. tent iced rise i ,rely. i The French have hit upon a new ..- ! idea for the making of Anger prints. Hetpfal Hints. i Instead of rubbing the Anger -ends with When: to. anti,is alappeil nn down ink and making impresstons upon grade, most driver; engage the ears paper. the X-ray is urea. g i The finger is first dusted with a flue and clutch and aiiow the motor to be powder of bismuth, and then an ]Gray cranked by the wettie of the ear.;picture is taken of it. The picture This will do ; o harts at all if the, shows not oaty the ridged convulu- rdutci, awl Rear; are handled care.; tions of the skin texture but, also the fully. It is usually bert to put the termiala bones of the digit, car h, "high" to do this, as it throws These bones are raw exactly alike less strain on the gearing. i in auy two human beings, and thus We buy the best casing we ran get,' identification is rendered much easier. and a new heavy tube to put into; every cash;g we install, For this we' fret the price spent in the new tube int Remember Leis: A tree will make a added wear on your easings, as they] million matches; one match may de - do not so quickly run half inflaters ori stroy a million trees, drop down on us with blowout and A paper tells of a foreigner who ppunej,ures, as an old patched tube lel learned to speak English from seed a new casing. catalogues. It is always a good plan 1VIlealignment wears tires: One • to begin with therootsof a language. INUIT PRINCES .ARE BULWARKS OF THE BRUTISH TIM ONE While grave tnisgivinga are wide- anry way to coiittel their actions. atope Spread in India and in Great Britain as to the wisdone of endowing the nae tive population et Icing George's great Oriental empire with parliamentary in i > o lig t1 ei 3 ail rat ata >, which t to are n n9 t 1 Y sense fitted, no such apprehensions are entertained with regard to the new council of ruling princes of India, which was opened with considerable state by the Duke of Connaught, in behalf of lining George, at Delhi re- cently. Relatively few realize that over one- third of India and more than one. fifth of the population, which exceeds 200,000,000 natives of widely varying race and creed, are not under British Government administration, t,ut are ruled by their own independent sov cveigns, who have power of life and death within their own borders, and who are vassal only in this settee to the British crown: that they cannot wage war, contract alliances or carry on relations with foreign govern- ments save through the suzerain pow supply ter the proposed power planta er,. namely, Great Britain. The turbines placed in the spillway ot These vassal rulers are perhaps the the darn will be used at high tide to principal bulwarks of the British drive centrifugal pumps of great ca- crown in India. They showed them- pacity. Those will pump the water Co solves splendidly loyal to .their suzer- the artificial lake and thus maintain a ' tiro in the great war. Nearly ale o 1 constant supply for the power plant. them aro men of ability, who have That arrangement would not be Yeas. l enjoyed the benefit of English mentore ible except under conditions similar to those existing in the Severn. The estimates of the ministry indi- cate that the cast of produeleg`500; 000 horsepower would be approximate - 1,y a half penny a day per horsepower unit. It is estimated that the plant will save more than 3,000,000 tons of coal now used each year ie the indus- tries in the area tobe served by the new plant- Those familiar with what hydro -electric power from Niagara Falls has done tor Ontario and New York wiil'have some idea of the eTg- nitcance of thee reposed Severn plant, which will be 50 per cent. greater than the Niagara protect. Power for All Wheels, Power is applied equally to all four wheels of a Californian inventor's motor tractor, which can. be turned aroutod almost in its length by cutting power from one side. Circumstances have rarely favored great men, Predicting E arthganakes In the morning of December 15 last a great earthquake shock was record- ed by the seismograph at the George- town university in Washington, It was one of the most violent ever noted by the instrument, and the indications were that it had occurred under the sea somewhere in the neighborhood of the Azores. In the afternoon of the same day there was an earthquake in Pekin, which did a great deal of damage to property, though no lives were lost. Two days later there was a tremen- dous earthqualte on the west coast of oath Amerlca, near the southern end of the continent, agitating a wide ex- tent xtent of territory and killing 110 per- sons. AL almost the same hour the Al- banian village of Tepeliai was destroy- ed by an earthquake, with a loss of twenty-two lives, Expert seismologists think it at least possible that the submarine shock near the Azores had a direct correction with the Pekin quake; also, that the disturbance in .Albania may have had a relation to the tremble in South America. The ball on which we dwell is sub- ieet to constant strains. It is pulled by the sun an dalso by the moon. It revolves on its own axis, and the axis wabbles. One might reasonably ex- pect Its crust to altar in placesfront Urns to time, the rocks seeking read- justment. In fact, the rocks, where - ever they are examined, show numer- ous signs of such readjustments (evi- denced by disarranged strata) which have occurred at various times in the past. There comes a big rock -slip of this sort, an dial the earth trembles. This Was what happened a few yeata ago in San Francisco, when 'a block that was probably thousands of feet thick shifted along a line of 185 miles, 11 shifted nowhere more than twenty feet, but that was enough to throw down the city at the Golden Gate. When this happened a Japanese ex- port predicted that there would be al- most immediately a great earthquake in South America, and his prophecy was promptly fulfilled. Sart Francisco is situated upon a "fault line"; i.e., a line at weakness in the earth's crust, where slips of the ship, -1n the forst of picked officials, distinguished for their tact, their in- tegrity and their judgment, who have sought to influence them in the best possible fashion without appearing in r: reaerating, as they do, some eighty mil- lion of natives subject to their seep- tee, titeeo native rulers oto rightly re- garded as the most valuable expos ants of what is best int Indian thought and interest, It was Lord Hardingo, now British ambassador in France, who, while viceroy, conceived the ridesof forming them into a sort of college, or coun- cil, to meet periodically in consulta- tion with the governor-general for the time being to discuss the polieies of the Indian entpitre as a whole and also to give hint the benefit of their ex - patience in dealing with the d(fftcalt problems bound to confront hintfroni time to time in those portions of India under his direct administration and rule, Heretofore these vassal rulers have bad no voice in the destinies of, India outside their own particular do- minions, yet none has n greater stake in the welfare of the empire as a whole, The number of these vassal rulers who are entitled to definite sovereign rights is, according to the Official India List, placed at 112; and at the Court of St. James these 112 so-called ruling princes, with the predicate of "Highness," take precedence over all cabinet ministers, including the pre- mier himself, and oyer all dukes and peers of minor rank. They come next, indeed, YF European royalty, and are pity distinguishes between compassion only preceded by the foreign ambas_ and condescension; it is able to im-. sadors, who are regarded as the per- agine another's plight, and to take an - Banal representatives of the rulers of other's }niece, and to feel as another their respective countries, feels in a given set of circumstances; and from that feeling springs the deed that brings relief. That kind of pity is now reaching' -Much is said and written about the out to take in the earth, and it is advantages of the small university, bringing nations together against the about students being "lost i:t the force of politics or the schemes of mass" in a large university, But to militarists to divide them, It defies this, as to all questions, there are the fallacious programs of those who two sides. A little consideration makes under the guise of "communism" are clear to the thoughtful eitizen that, proposing' that n'few shall keep and even in a large university, classes many shall go without. That hollow deception stands exposers. It is all one world. Hurt it in any place and in every part there is.a sen- sitive reaction. More and more for all the setbacks and all the disheartening sequoiae of the worst of ware, men are seeking out the goad in other sten, All One World. Setnotimes to the pessimist the World seems naught but evil; he pose - ea in ,t'oview, like Solomen, ail govern - Monts and governors, all men and tneaaures, and in the whole disordered panorama he finds nothing to approve. He asks you the question, "glow is it all coming out?" But it le a rhetor- ical geestion, asked after the mind of the speaker' has reached it own glaoney answer. and ,if you do not coincide In the Meek view of things, your res- ponse is rejected, with pity for your blindness to the signs of the times, your ignorance of the trend of events, Each man in his plaee has his part to perform, and the man who sits in an observatory merely complaining because the earth is no run to his lik, Ing is perrorming loss than a man's part. Let him get out and show "them', how "they" ought to do the things he has prescribed for then, to do, Let hint, instoacl of bemoaning a decade ence, exert en influence, I'f he would impress his lesson, let him teach it in the most effectual way—by the cogent force of personal example. We are prone to sit its judgment on foreign peoples and to give Pharisee thanks that our ways are not as their ways. We pity them for their infer- iority, though the pity may not, take, the form of helping them up ',to a status an a level with our own. Pity, that springs to no action of allevia- tion, is the cheapest of emotions. It is a sentimental indulgence that accom- plishes no good when it merely begins and ends with the sentiment. A real Large, vs: Small Universities. cannot be large, forclassrooms usu- ally accommodate sually-accommodate not more than forty students. And a large university is not just one large building—it con- sists of a great number of buildings which are called colleges, or which house different faculties or depart- ments. Really, a large university is signalling to one another, discovering a collection of colleges; that is, it is and proclaiming-lheir need of brother - a group of smaller universities bound hood. The world is sick of turning together in a common interest, a come gardens into fields of battle, killing mon name, anti a .common esprit de instead of cultivating a .field cr a corps. Hence, any advantage which friendship; it is 'tired of suspicion, a small' university possesses is pose jealousy, the song of hate. It wants Distinguished Lady Visits Canada sesscd also by the Iarge university. to all parts much the same things, 1mIiss Caroline F. E, Spurgeon, ',rest.Besides, if university education is a for under the surface Romain nature'is dent of the International. Federation preparation for life in the world strangely similar. "Let us he gentle, of University Wooten, Professor of should not university life approximate became° tee know so little." Let 03 be English Literature In the University ...in its general characteristics to the life kind, because the need of r.ne ie the. of London, Fellow of Icing's College for of the world. The youth who is train -1 need of every one, orad the greatest Women, London University, and Fel- ed in the large university learns to need is for u friend. low ot the Royal Society of Literature, compete with the best, he learns tot '— -'1--- who recently arrived int Canada. know all types of human nature, And Romance of Child Saving. who succeeds like the man or woman In one of his report:, the following who really: studies and knows human! encouone ofing incidentssepor are f ollod by nature_Lthat most fascinating of a11I ltir, J, J, Kelso, who for many yetis When Brides Were Smacked, studies? In the large university the' has been the Government Director et rocky strata are liable to occur. This The antigttity of the custom of student brushes shoulders with the. Work for Neglected and Dependent line is now marked, in California, for ! throwing 'bid shoes at weddings may keenest intellects there are, he learns.,Children. 200 miles by big granite stones, whioh l be teaiized by reference to the Old to take his place among men, lie learns Some years ago, while visiting an Testament, where we find that, when something of the occupations end eines indicate where the break ran that American city, giving n•talk 011 the caused the great quake. These stones the brother of a dead man refused to of others of his kind. Here are pros- great work that ronin' be done in are carefull • watched, an if marry the latter's widow, the 'indi- pective clergymen, alongside of pros- he} in neglected bo •e and girl.), a were to show signsof move d the fact 1 calted her independence by "loosing pective engineers, journalists mingle business man of tedthe ye}t showed by would be taken as a waning of l his shoe." ing with budding doctors and lawyers, his appearance ash city tmer that he trouble to come. This, his with the fact that it teacher's with foresters, dentists, Was deeply interested, At the close Only a short time ago Los Angeles was the custom 01 Ravage nations to chemists, and with. 'Such daily •of the meeting h0 asked for a private had a severe earthquake, it was not carry off brides by violence—a pro contact kills narrow provincialism and .in trvi n and said he was prepared reeding naturally followed by the is, in itself, one of the best phases of at all surprising, inasmuch as that city to give almost any sum, from twenty casting of missiles of various kinds-- a liberal education. To go cut into is located on the same Sault line, to fifty tltousattd dopers, to help the A break In the earth's crust, signal• proves that the connection bewtecn life with general knowledge thus ob- ntovetnent, "for;' he said, "I was just old shoes and marriage dates back a1- tained, tedth the prestige of a degree ',zed ce au earthquakes means a Lead- such a poor boy as you described to- jusiment. One such readjustment is most to the dawn of history. from an immense institution, is to go night. My father was a artmitard, In tact, Urquhart, in his `Pillars of out equipped par excellence for a sue , at a.ble to give rine to another,,cperhaps Hercules," states: "At a Jewish mar-cessful career. and as a little foiluty, of eleven T was at a.great distance; and, according be riage I was standing beside the bride - Royal conmpelled to work on the streets ns, • the theory now held, it may easily a ahoehlack and ntesscnger, and cn- groom when the bride entered. As ROyal TI'adeSmerl. Possible for aa great rock slipin China she crossed the threshold he stooped Ming AItousu, who Is intoiest}ug dere nil sorts of hardships, but 1 to precipitate a catastrophe on our determined to oveecomc every ob- down, slipped off his shoe, and struck himself In the Promotion of it Spanish , own Pacific coast stene and in time learned the jen•e.ry The east coast of China is on an her with the heel on the nape of the film company, as not by any means the. business, and ate now well establish - neck, I at once saw the luterpreta- first monarch of recent tines to dabble establish - "earthquake belt" width pashas north- ed. T have no children and for many a time of the passagein Scripture res. in businaa Ward across too Aleutian chain and pecting the transfer of the shoe to an. The ex -Kaiser, in addition t0' run- years I have been wondering how I donna the Pacific shore of North and other. The slipper, being taken off ning a' potter}, a brewery, and a litre could best help little fellows who are ilne South America, This belt is a fault indoors. Is at hand to administer cor• of st0awahlps, runs the proprietor of situated ns I aoFts once." tural wealuiess in the crust of the line on a holo scale—a the of strue• rection Hence it is used as a silts of several German tl:e.ttres and Opera On another occasion, at the ccnelu- 1 : the obedient* of the wife and „tete houses, The late King of �'Vurtcm• sloe cf as addressen the uitpurt;iteeof planing poor boys in co, tt:rr supremacy of the husband:' lung awned a group of flourishing isomer rather then in insl}tueions, 'hotels In the Black Farts, train whichhomes how durracter could bort be Way of Maids in China. he used to draw about ?40000 a year, developed by the actual work and. King Peter et envie before the eves tiarriageable girls in China usually ran set-eral sltopv•in "Mtge -ate, inelud• experience of life, a fine -appearing wear their hair in a long plait, in Ing tete most tathionahle liairdresaing and welt-drece d business num arose which to ea 'bright .rIn ootlet establishmentsite capltxl• and said that although he knew he thread, Thee thread ad fndacatos tat hthe was out of order he could not Iteep maiden is on the inokaut ear-n'liarb Women cyclists are unknown in silent, lie as a youngster, had been note Spain. put in an orphan's Horne, but firming tho life monotonous, had run away', and no doubt the good Indies of that institution thought of hint as a re- probate filling a place in some penal institution. Ile had, however, Wan- dered far into the country, end when he Inmate tire) ,(Pat. he Scanted at it 1 'farm house, and aeheti fes eteee:hing to cat. The woman of the liaise net t only gave hint something to cot, but e eta. Ivited hint to stay all night. with the result that lie -remained there for i..; - vents, going' out into the world be - op 1 twcen seventeen and eighteen years of ago to moire We way in life H had sueeeedcd and was litw in geed eircntttstences. "And," he said with deep' earnestness, "tIto 'mentor;, of ` that good ticluan's, kindness' and her, words of counsel will remain with me as lottg as I live, — "dopecberry Pea},". Clooseitierry Fool is another rorrapt- od worn. "Tonle" was the original word, meaning nulled or ln'eetw+it — situs "gooseberry-foule" Is milted or pressed gooseberries. globe. Growth of knowledge in regard to these matters seenue likely to lead eventually to the development of e system of earthquake prediction. Thus, on getting up in the morning, we may learn from the newspaper that a quake in our near neighborhood le to be -es- peeled, aatd may take precautions as cordtngly, • 1 5A1/444 -r-te fUt--,bass C -111t-14 j.itoi'% 1 sAW", Cat' WITH, st> iGl rret• ,5 't- rp_oNT' of DRYEv_'s1RoC Rtj s`rc! AN 4nINhDliega 'rN1NK? spit sA4 A floe conte. P&c*it AN' sNe Plci!eD THE grri'>_Ns UP IN He P.• MOUTH 014e, • AT A -mitt At4' RAN WI `rN .STokt V•11TN "r'He.M REGLAR FELLERS -By Gene %Byrnes -'HERS: NO`ciAtH FOrie-`{ •P,BoUY TWAT'! ot.) -r A MOTHER pR.orec•ruNd ,HER- oVIH! WALL DowrceiA 114INK 'Bost. I-CPSS'C V ptk>.i C) - W4>rt tJIt\ ?lotto •-rN'oM UP 1N 1-40 - M00134 1 "1 11 •