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The Brussels Post, 1924-1-23, Page 6ENGINE IS PRIM Men closely connected With the Mara Ufa -attire and distribution of motor extra may have noticed a peculiar' rend during the last year Or se. This as been.a change in the buying pule -1 lie's attitude toward automobiles in general. People who use motor cars neem to have come by the idea that their choice of cars should almost always begin and end with things like the body style, upholstery and the various. item wbieh they feel contribute to Comfort and convenience.. They have seemed to forget the ono big factor which has to do with their' comfort and convenience is the chas- sis; and that if the chassis is right they are sure to get the greatest use- fulness from their cars at the lowest cost. In all justice it should be said that the motor car buyers are not wholly to blame for this attitude, Many may stave taken it consciously; it doubtless e come upon others unconsciously. The progress and development of the automobile may said to be reapon- aible. Cans NOW DEPENDABLE, In the earlier days of the motorcar it was in a more or less experimental /stage. Men bought no car until con- vinced, by their own investigation or otherwise, that it was about the most dependable to be had withintheir means. But that period of uncertainty, if Volt please, was of short duration. Fundamental principles were found, and .they are fundamental to -day, Each manufacturer, perforce, settled these matters according to his own habits. But all of them strove, and FACTOR IN CA.R., most of them succeeded, in producing designs and carswhioh were reliable andgave good service. Although motor cars to -day are .gen- erally dependable, economical in Yarl- ing degree, and so on, the fact re- mains . that the automobile is essen- tially a piece of machinery. Mere than that, it is a piece of machinery wbieh, by and large, is expected to stand More ill use and receive less expert care than any other expensively built machinery in the world. CHASSIS 15 FCTINPATION. Just as the chassis, the machinery, is the moundation of the motor car, so it is the foundation of the owner's satisfaction, his comfort and his con - Ivenienee. A11 three of them rest fin- ally upon the service he gets from the machinery. Should they fail in a large way, or in a succession of an- noying small ways, the owner gets no satisfaction, comfort or convenience, It is true, of course, that the motor car has been perfected to a remark- able degree—if the word perfected can be used to describe something that probably can never be made fully 100 per cent. perfect. But that does not, of itself, presuppose that all buying caution should be cast bodily to the winds. Different manufacturers have different ways of doing the same thing. In buying a motor car it is still a good thing to study what is hidden away under the, shiny hood and the floor boards. It is still a good thing to take into account the manufactur- er's reputation. It is still a good thing to make some study of the ear's history and of the opinion of its owners. ave VALUE OF OUR S CENIC RESOURCES Netlonal Parks Continue to Prove Powerful Magnets for Tourist Travel—Direct and Indirect Benefits. During the pant season It was again proved that national parks provide powerful magnets for tourist travel tram 'other countries. It is becoming tnoreasingly clear that while the prim- ary purpose of national parks is not commercial they are proving each year more and more profitable investments, The national parks were set aside to preserve some of our most beautiful and outstanding scenic regions and to provide recreational areas for the peo- ple. Yet because the desire to travel and to see the wonders of other parts of the globe is an almost universal One, the world is making a path to 'their gates and incidentally bringing many direct and indirect benefits. Dur- ing the past sec,>on practically every one of the parka showed an increase in travel. Jasper park, which was able for the first time to offer suitable ac- commodation, had at .times more visit- ors than it could comfortably .accom- .modate and a large addition to its bungalow hotel will be made for next year. Reports of its beautiful scenery were the cense of bringing many hun- dreds of people to Canada from the Vatted States. In spite of a wet sea- son and other drawbacks over 3,000 cars entered Banff and Kootenay parks from the United States. None of these visitors spent less, than five days in Canada, many of them spent considerably more and a large num- ber declared their intention of return. Ing next year for a long holiday among the mountains. The growth In travel, however, is not confined to the national parks, A similar increase in visitors was re- ported from many parts of the Do- minion, particularly from these pro- vinces wbieh have undertaken special publicity and good roads campaigns. According to reports recently publish- ed in the daily press the annual tourist revenue of British Columbia has now reached the astonishing total of $36,- 000,000, or a sum equal to the total annual mineral production of that pro- vince. The revenue of Ontario from this source has not been computed, but it must reach a large sum, while in Quebec, due largely to improved high- ways, travel last year, according to the Minister of Roads, was worth $20,000,- 000, and included 125,000 cars. In spite of a cool season there was also a large travel to the Maritime Provinces, New Brunswick reporting a total of about $4,000,000, or nearly three times that of two years ago. It must be re- membered, too, that the revenue from 1 tourists Is widely distributed among /all classes of people and helps to build up the prosperity of both town and country. Figures carefully work- ' ed out by publicity experts indicate that out of every dollar spent by tho tourist apptoximately one-third goes H.M.S. CANADA 'ilia gallant British warship which boars the name of the greatest Bri- tish Dominion within the Empire, "The Canada." which tonic part In a re- cent review. for food and utlimately tends its way in o the pockets of the people In the rural districts. This peaceful penetration of Canada by people from the south of the line for holiday purposes is also beneficial in other ways, because it is building up goodwill and a better understanding. Travel in a country dispels many er- roneous impressions and reveals un- suspected national possibilities. It is undoubtedly true that Canada beyond her own borders is still often regarded as a trackless forest, roamed over by bears, moose and Indians, where the inhabitants live under Arctic condi- tions the greater part of the year. A summer holiday In Canada ie there- fore educational in the best sense and serves often as a preliminary to in- vestment or permanent settlement. The best example of how immigration follows tourist travel is perhaps found in southern California. Twenty years ago southern California had a small Population and a very limited pros- perity. To -day, simply as a result of capitalizing her scenery and climate and developing her roads and attrac- tions, she has built up a large per- manent population and a tourist travel worth, it is said, $300,000,000 a year. In proportion to her population Can- ada possesses a greater area set aside for national parks than any other coun- try, and she can look forward to an increasing appreciation of their at- tractions. She possesses( too, many1 other potentialities which as yet havo scarcely been realized. In her sum-, suer and in her winter climate, her vir- gin forests, her big game and fishing, her picturesque Indian and French' Canadian traditions, her beautiful cities and rural districts, and her great St. Thomas' Hospital, London, con- tains thirty miles of pipes carrying hot water for heating, etc., into every ward. hinterland of wilderness, she possess- es a wealth of natural attractions cap- able of practically unlimited develop. anent. IP ortunately, the law of reaction, the boomerang principle, does not hold ;alone with evil acts. The good deeds 1 are just as sure to come hack, and they bring with them all the blessed grad intentions with which they were thrown out. The amount of pressure applied by a pianist to the keys in one minute is often anything up to a ton and a half. In that same minute the eye has to read about 1,500 signs and the fingers make about 2,000 movements. fi Girls, what are you planning to do with lite? --develop it, make the most of the talents God has given you, and accomplish something for the world, or sit calmly' down and wait for the im- possible to happen, or dream idly of what you would like to be if your sur- roundings were only different? s Men who work in high temperatures .often lose considerable weight from unusual respiration and perspiration. They also lose much salt. In England a series of experiments on workers in. hot mines seems to show that a small quantity of salt taken daily relieves the men of much of'their exhaustion. A drink based on a solution of about one-third of an ounce of salt to a gal- lon of water was most effective in warding off fatigue. A QUESTION OF AGE "A man's no older than he teals," I say, some forty times a day; but my old rusty springs and wheels show many signs of giving way, When I was younger 1 could tall and not be lamed in back or knee; as springy as a rubber ball, no accident could mar my glee. But now if I fall down the stairs I'm sure to dis- locate my back, and it I stumble over chairs, a lot of ribs begin to crack. I sometimes slide on orange peels, and bust ray dome, but still I cry, "A man's no older than he feels, which is a sort of truthful lie. I'd have you think 2'm feeling young, and right side up, and good as new, and so, you see, I'm giving tongue to that whioh is not strictly true. And yet it's true enough, I guess, that I'm no older than I feel, and if my feelings I confess, the tale would make your senses reel. A h, well, oda bones and bully thee, the fact's. too sad for tongueor pen, but rusty graybeards hate to see themselves outclassed by younger men. They hate to tbink that they are done, mere idle dotards on the stage, they'd keep their places in the sun, and so repudiate their age, I feel my sluggish blood congeal, and still I cry, .in accents bald, "Men are no older than they feel, and I'm a sorrel three-year-old." IN RABB1'rBoko OH . $H8.'5 A NEW Ne1414BOR 0' MINE SI4 5 MOtWS.NINsI FOR A H05BAND 1 A Destroyer of Cherished illusions The naw- enlarged edition of '"Pope• appears that owl do not avoid,' AAP lar Fellaolos Explained and Corrected," light, that cat% dextraY le no better at night by A. S. le. Ackerman, le a er than other aniltiala, that tortoises: of cherished Iltusioas. Far exampie, placed in gardens in tee fond ballot Nara did not addle white Routs was that they will eat up slues end other burning, for the reason that he was In garden pelta do pouting of the kind, hie villa at Antlunt, slay miles away, but feat themselves on the good gar - at the time. Moreover, the violin only den stet[. Ostriches do not bury their dates from the middle of the sixteenth century. Diogenes did not live In a tub. The Curfew Bell was not insti- tuted by William the Conqueror or, he glumly enforced an existing regulation. King John did not sign the Magna Charta, "tits seal was probably put on In the Chancery," It le even doubtful whether King John could write. The first English Prince of Wales was not born in Carnarvon Castle, for the simple reason that "the castle was barely commenced by Edward I., and not finished until thirty-three years atter the babyhood of his fourth son," Blonde', the minstrel, did not discover the place of •confinement in Austria of Richard I., though the story of his singing outside the castle to let his i 1 b royal master know of his proximity le charming. Cabot Discovered North America, Sir Walter Raleigh did not introduce either tobacco or the potato into Eng saying seaweed,' land. Tobacco was introduced by S1r Cancer is not hereditary brimstone John the potatos or Sir Francis Drake, and treaole is not good for children in and firs reached this coup- j the spring or at any time, and the good try as a result of one of Drake's ex- old linseed poultice beloved of our pedltions to the New World. Ohrteto-; grandmothers is no good so far as the pher Columbus did not discover Amari-grandmothers is concerned (a sponge would ca, at least not North America, which do as well), the only virtue in It being was discovered by John Cabot, aVane- the hotwater with which it is mixed. beads'' in the sand when pursued. A black root to a dog's mouth dons not denote purity of breed, and a beaver does not uae his broad, Rattail as a trowel; Moles are not blind, although their sight Is not brilliant, and man - keys rarely, if ever, have fleas. I No Growing Pains. Turning to ourselves, there is no such things as growing paths, and that "what are called growing pains In children are rheumatism," which it is unwise and even dangerous to neglect, Ozone, which we are led to believe to so healthful and invigorating, breathed in even' minute quantities "acts as an irritant to the air passages and is highly injurious." The existence of ozone n the air has a ways sen doubtful, and "recent research shows that it is never present below altitudes of 8,000 feet. The smell attributed to It at the seaside really artsea from de. flan, In 1497. In 1492 Columbus sightMild Winter - ed San Salvador, and "on August let; A, mild winter. is healthier than a 1498, he beheld for the first .time the 'cold one, and therefore a green winter not appear to hav-e ltIeded. mainland of South America; but does doer; not necesaarily fill the church- 'lard, It is a popular belief that it Is Healthiest Watt did not invent the steam -en- bad to bathe in cold water when you gine, but only improved it. The steam -1 are hot, but this it would appear is engine was invented by Edward Som- not so. "On the contrary, it is better erset, a Marquess and Earl of Wor- to bathe in cold water when the body nester, in 1655. Marconi . did not in- Is warm provided no time is lost in vent the wireless telegraph, but de- getting into the water." veloped and applied it. It was the' Rooms warmed by gasstoves are mathematical work of Clerk Maxwell not unhealthy, neither do they dry the and the scientific experiments of Hertz atmosphere unduly, but care should be whioh produced wireless telegraphy. taken that the stove Is not too power- ful for the size of the room. NaMountResouxcee. L3uf. etu The Natural Resources Intel- ligence Service of the Depart, of the Interior at Ottawa says; Not all the natural resources of Ontario aro of a utilitarian nature. Some of them havo their value in aaenie effect; theee, converted into monetary value, represent a large amount,. duethey toinflutheencetourist traffic which , Ono of the chief of'. these is the Horseshoe Fa118 at Niagara, Many thousands of visitors are attracted to Niagara annually, and, while a flret thought only recognizes that a vast amount of water is passing over the crest, a more mature consideration impresser one with the fact that this tremendous Volume of water, has been thus descending for ages. The effect' has been to wear away the crest, giving it the form of a horseshoe, from which it takes its name. From actual observation, however, covering a number of years, it is known that the erest is receding at the point of greatest erosion, at the rate of approximately eight feet per year, while on the sides almost no recession is not- ed. This concentration of the water in the centre or toe of the horseshoe is rapidly changing the form of the crest.It has also necessitated the extension of the tunnel under the fall for a distance, of 150 feet, so that visitors may view the enormous volume of water coming over the falls, A suggestion has been made that a submerged diver- sion weir be placed in the river above the falls to again spread the water over the entire crest and thus retain the scenic gran- deur of the Horseshoe Falls, Readiness. ' "The readiness is all," said Hamlet, Gravel vs. Clay Sotl, and the saying has passed into the Moths do not eat clothes. This is heritage of our tongue, from the play It is a fallacy to believe that gravel done by the grubs that develop This that of all writing outside the Bible soil is healthier to live on that a clay the edge the moths have laid. soil, As a matter 04 tact, when gravel The bagpipe did not originate in is moat often quoted has been rendered foul by becomes inffltratIon theScoa nd, but can be traced iu ancient There must bo not alone the readi- with organic matters, it becomes "a Persia and by inference In Egypt, ness to go hence, as in the case of very hotbed of disease." I Chaldaea, and ancient Greece. Alas Hamlet; there must be the watch and Turning to the animal kingdom, it for ourillusl0081 ward of a fully armed preparedness each for all that life may bring to s ach day. hat is it to be ready? Readiness is not an improvisation. It cannot be suddenly donned like a garment or extemporized like a tune. 'It • implies a long, hard course of training. The football field—to choose an autumn- Saturday example—abounds in In- stance$ of players who were primed and picked for the ono particular act of the dropkick or the forward Imes, and who at the psychological instant were put into the game and did the thing they were especially trained to do. They had long practiced alone, with no pennant -waving and no cheers. The critical instant when it struck found them capable of rising to the full height of the occasion. The lawyer may sum up years of legal education and experience in a "yes" or a "no."; Ile did not answer on .the spur of the moment. He res- ponded out of the rich accumulation of his wisdom. The bridge -builder is given the credit for a prompt de- cision; but, like the foundations of his bridge, most of the basis of his judi- ment is deep -hid in previous study, testing and comparison. But a lifetime must not be spent in making ready to live.' We cannot for- ever postpone a word or a deed; it we are possessed' with irresolution, the end of our days will find us still anxIoualy debating what to do and wondering what it is that we have missed. Education should not end while life continues; but there are not a few who forget that the first purpose of education is not to acquire facts but M attain a character and to enable us to acquit ourselves like men in con.a age and in service to the race. Never explain -your friends do not need it and your enemies will not be- lieve you anyway. The best safety appliance on an automobile is a careful man at the wheel. The Dominion forest reserves in Western Canada comprise an area of approximately 27,500,000 acres and consist of tracts of land unsuitable for agriculture, which have been set apart permanently for forest pro- duction. Content to Remain Patients, No Doubt. "What is it you findso strange. about the patients of that doctor who writes' so many liquor prescriptions?" "Why, none of them has ever been known either to die or to get well." Even the educated man sometimes finds out that what he doesn't know is just what he wants; that what he knows he can't use. Puzzled. Bug Postman—"I with these folks would have numbers on their houses. How am I to find A. Worm, Acorn 'Vil- lage!" No one ever saw a sly hero; cour- age has an open face. In England many people have bought submarine chasers and con- verted them into house boats. Strip- ped of their largo, high-speed engines, they make cozy homes. INDIAN LADIES TO BECOME NURSES' The first two Indian girls to leave- that country and train for the nursing profession are now in England, Lady Reading, wife of the Viceroy of India, is keenly interacted in hospital work. Many lift -insurance rompanlaa, ac- cording to the Insurance Journal, no longer consider an aoronlane flight as ' so hazardous as to invalidate a policy. The main reatriction is that the policyholder shall fly only over an ostnhlished route in ct me chine aper. Atari by a regular transportation com- pany. The companies .,rill bar casuist flights with itinerant aviators Presses that. print the Bible work twenty-four hours a day. T,he Amer- ican alible Society receutiy received an order for s million and n half volumes of parts of Ilia Ser1ptute in English acid Spanish, to make a' book of a xtyfour pages. The books aro /or d stribution to the Ylnited States and' *nth America,