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The Brussels Post, 1925-6-17, Page 2,M. 1 " e Automobile CABD AT DVSs( WILL C 1,IT TOLI, OR ACCIDENTS. It is said that "repletion of street the driver and his car out of gammas- tratflc» was one at the duties indue- trlously performed by Memel/ Auree' sus Antonions, Emperor and Commies Riefler of Public Safety of the Roman, hide saves only a moment or two a impire, A.D. 101. Iver since those; the ultimate destination. The gain is ancient days traffic has been getting not worth the price when there is dun„ heavier and heavier until now it; ger of accident. Would seem that the point of traffic The best drivers are eapecialey care - saturation has about been reached."'Iful at dusk. There is then neither But there is a big difference in res' enough daylight nor sufficient artiii- epect to volume of fatalities, that oc-Ictal light to make objects distinguish - our in these days as contrasted with; able at ordinary distance, Slow up Roman T';mpire times. Then a couple] for all turns in the roads Blind .cor- of chariots might collide with little' nets are dangerous. When it is im- possibility of any ane getting. serious -1 partible to see what is coming from 1y hurt, Now, however, the man in around the cornei•be prepared to stop, an automobile Is operating a heavy Soued horn a short distance before and powerful: vehicle which can read -I reaching the intersection, .' ily become a medium of considerable; Hee chains whenever there is dant- mortality. i ger of skidding, Install chains on About fifty deaths per day or 18,000, both rear wheels or none at all. One per annum, with 100,000'. accidents chain is sometimesworse than nano. that deal out no death, only injuries, I Drive slowly at bridges. A had rut is the record: of auto fatalities insior a stone in the road may throw a • Ametdca. The question that must be' driver's car tagainst n ain t the structure aswered is "How ate these automo-; attempting to pees another ve- tive disasters be reduced to a mini- hicle going in the same direction start Mum?" The answer is not so difficult turning out to the left at least as ie the task of getting fonts to roc -i seventy-five feet to the rear, If you ognize the answer and act accord -1 get too close your view of the road ingly' , ahead is obstructed and you may turn' The answer to 'a l•srge extent is, directly in front of acether car com- "careful driving." People who oper-i ing toward you. When you have pass ate automobiles must exercise morel ed a car do not But back into the road care If such accidents are reduced,. nor slow down too some But there is another answer.and that BE CAREFUL WHEY BACKING. is, "careful walking," .A 11 the•respon-1 Always be careful when backing. sibility for auto accidents cannot bet Sound your horn, signal other cars laid up against the drivers. Some ped -,and look back to see where you axe estrians are far more reckless than, going. Mirrors are valuable at all the most reckless drivers, They courtltimes. Bumpers also have a safety death by the way in whish they violate feature not to be overlooked. Clean traffic rules. ( wind -shields give the driver a clear ONE OF CHIEF EVILS. i view ahead. Every car should have One of the chief evils which affect a wind -shield wiper which will pre - the auto accident situation is drunken-; vent snow or rain trent obstructing ness. Other causes included reckless' the driver's view. driving, speeding, under age, violation' When driving, do not attempt to of highway law, causing accidents,' carry on a conversation with others in couldn't read signs and wrong plates. the car. Small children should prefer - If a motorist really desires to avoidably sit in the rear of the ear and cer- accdents let him consider the follow-'tainly they should never he held in or ing points,: In the first place when go- between the arms of the driver. Safe ing driving he should be sure his ma-' driving demands the full and undi chine is in first-class condition. That, vided attention of the driver. Be su,e will insure better control in an emerg- to signal when driving toward or away ency. Then he can well afford to drive from the curb. The trt;ffic officer hat - at a moderate rate of speed. A mo-' a difficult job at the hest, and drivers meet or two saved by reckless speed.' should make every effort to assist ing is not efficiency, for speeding may him, He is responsible for all accidents result in a smash that will put both' which happen at his station: Bion for several days perhaps for rev-, oral months. Hurrying to get ahead of a train, a street car or another ve- CROSS-WOR] PUZZLE 9, 15 zi LILI Sit 50 62 HCR ZONTAL 1 -Early form of an insect 6—A kind of "I ly 9—Girl's name 10—Lacking moisture. 11—Note of the dove 12—Ever (poet.) 13-Ruselan national drink 16—Changes in position 16 -An acclamation of praise to God 21 -Sad or evil destiny 24—interjection 25—To have existence 26—A tribe 28=dn the year of our Lord (abbr.) 30—Prefix meaning "with" - 81—The bird of peace 33 -Bereft, without friends 84—Gained 31—Generation 37—Suffix expressing quality oa state 39—An Inland body of water 42—TrInt, orderly , 43—Conception, mental Image 44 --Girl's name 48—Personal pronoun 47—Latin for "for the sake of ex. ample" (abbr.r 48—Solitary 61—A noted' living French philosopher 54—To move smoothly and easily 56—Unmounted, as a gem E8—Personal pronoun 59—Male child 60—Bey's name 61—To go "wrong tyt eL—Anounaa 63-:ro make fast, as a rope Do Not Trick the Flowers. I in picking them and throwing them - ©sac INTEason:Ram. 5VNPIcM . VERTICAL 1—Lead•colored ' 2—Unnecessary activity 33--WIrelese 4 -Hebrew ornament (Gen. IV 19) 6—Stupor 0—A horizontal surface 7—Famous Southern. general In Clvll War 8—Malicious burning of property 14—Fourth musical' note 17—interjection 18-Interjection—"3iandas you are/" 19—Province,of Canada (abbr.) 20—Point of compass (abbr.) 22 Possessive. pronoun 23—The Virgin Mary 26—Te convert from fluid to solid 27—An Insect 29—Recelver of a gift 30=A small rall•bIrd 32—A church festival 33—Symbols of Easter 36—Dofinite article 38—Identical 40—A musical 2ircctlon meaning ''slowly" (ebbs.) 41-A inetlel 44—Lacking In weight' 45—Racket, row 40—One of various European thrushes 60--A small hallway 61—Girl's name (familiar) 52—Proceed 63—Without fooling, as if dead 68 -To give a deceitful Impression 07—Historical period The Physical Basle. 1)i'. Eliot, .oM f liervard, segs at 110 has spent w11tt1e time 'during' Me Mile decades in WI:siting about isle state of mind ar betty, and he advises Yelleg plow not to indulge 1(1 the Ingrowing and 'deletorlous. habit of introspectlon, It Is 8011011 and wpri'autable couutiol, What we µ1l need to eeallze ie tout a good many 1114101' Alla (ratter worries eternise thomsolvee ince a .ground misfit 1)y the morning sun when wo Put and keep the bodily lnacittae le ex - Gloves Through 'the Ages. Gloves have p euriolts"anecdotage of their own, espeoiellY. in regard to their U8 .Od symbols. Per/sops the fact that glovers were Pu inteorteet Item in the growth et 10xuj'Y.durrne the age 01 0h1181)1 hoe something to t o with their proteiaence Overall other ertlelee 01 wear In ragardnnb • to ayollc tree, Gloves adorned hili 1141(105 Mid sap- phires, and perfumed gloves from Spain, were part of 111.0 outflte of the wealthy people at en' early period In collent repair. r our, history; ,and stories of the Canvey M rte of the disease of ilio spud epos of poloon through rashly erns which produces morbid' and laehry nleetee glfts of Cita sort brought lvltlt ntos0 mgrtals is the direct outcome 0f them the. JlleOmelto'd phrase of "poison- ed gloVes' • 1! Naturally the poets tools an-eeriy °P- IMA-unityef",tUhkiug a prettier tare of this article 01 apparel; and "O, that I were a glove Mien 11101 laud., that 1 might touch that Memel" was -only oar Of 11113A7 ceneeite-of a situilar kind. From •this it was a short etc* to ties granting os'a lady's •gloie to her Cave- lier as a Symbol of his oltemplonshrp, and the prize or the Queen of 13eanty's glees le tournaments: Tae symbolism, of the glove was easily rectifiable„piysloal eonditions. The outlook 0n life le tingued by: Lig way we feel. , Our neayes-react to is `Proper or 111np1oltet• regenee of sleep and food. A man who gets-in'a',tan' train and flings his job, along with a taunt, Jn tbe fade of Ids employer may bo the victim of maladjustuteute in his Mune life which are not Publicly adver- tised. The woman who is dreaded amongiter neighbors as having the tongue of a fiend Is like a puppet pull- ed by jangling and intertwisted wires, moving her to gestures and postures used again between men • at variance. that are really not essential in her'na' A oamnto i way of provoking aft enemy ture. She does not rola her being; I to- a deed was eto Ricci a glove across She is the unhappy creature of a pensee the Mee. A glove, too, was sometimes cal condition, and *ben that is correct - esteem eas if by a miracle the trouble dis- appears. A man travelling amid high snow nt mountains was moved by theirajesty and beauty to. a sense of their eternal peace and illimitable strength and felt rebuked by a settee of hit own little- ness in the worshipful preaenco of na- per's "As If :the world .and they were ture. But when he came to snowdlelde hand and glove.” .Again, we ]Lave the and glaciers the wind blow down lits phrases about 'kigglove dilrlonihny" tent,'snow six days on end whirled and and "kid -glove tnethede," whish may a mark of fealty between friends. Tanen' there was the custom of flinging down a glove to be ealten up in defiance, of which the last relic in this country was the challenge of tate king's Cham- pion to all and sundry at a coronation' Another form of `symbolism ' bus. peeled into our '.p"roverbs with Cow, whooped about hits, the poetry' faded out of the landscape, When Shackle - ton's men rowed 800 miles in an open boat across weld Antarctic waters to Elephant tsland they lost the beauty of The sea; it became hideous, So 0m• owe condition 'changes the --text in. our reading of the 'world. Whether It is a' vale of tears or a. hill oteunrise depends on our will to be- lieve, OAT spirit to fool; and the first thing to do is to put under the life of the soul a corporeal.substance-that Is an effective agent. And even a hall. body eau be made a reniarkably good servant by compliance with the rules of tate greatest 04 games: the thrilling adventure of living a day at a time, though our eyes may contemplate eter- aitK r-, A Smile. A single thought of kindliness, And ono small word of cheer, Co more to help a mltin Monaway withered, but in seeing tem How to KeepAn Umbrella. I that, although of fair quality, had no Titan preaching for a year. Mr. Goodell was reputed to be the growing !n their natural surroundings. ! handle. largest landowner in the country, and an, 1tnPntIso want tthem to enjoy thinkofThe late chief justice of British C "That's mine," said the judge and, A single act of friendliness, It seemed selfish in ltlm to ant signslumhla Slr Sistine••Bnitlfa Be^ire Go., • on his fences that read: "Do not pick other children who will come after comhitte'1 with mere notable gisiitlas his pocket and ece;ring It on the alp• Do more to help a ]Dane dog on. the flowers." Surely he ought not to .them.'" uurumtmut shrewdness and humor in `Pte, added:.. "Now' you know how 1' Than most advice will do: ► begrudge a few flowers to the boys and ! the 1nna;l affair', of life. At a time heel) my umbrella." I But just one, word of sympathy, girls who loved to wander over his 'Freckle Facts. , when many complaints were heard of e i Wtth just one sunny smile, . • grassy fields and through his flower.: The presence of coloring matter un the theft of umbrellas from public' Houses for Our Souls, , besprinkled woods. Io fact. he seldom, der the skin is not confined to tee l:tares a friend asked hits hot+• he mac-', Make yourselves ,nests of pleasant 1 And things seem worth his while. taking a beautiful silver ltaudie from A 1landsbake, firm and True, 1 5 saw his own flowers, for his business Negro or colored racm hu' a common aged in ke1'p possesinn of ki, u very, thoughts. None of us yet know, for —P. N. Hart Scott: in the city took all his time. Why should be deny them to the children? In the darker races it is. of coulee. ver handle.youth, what fairy palaces we may build Children of Jewish parents are, as To tell the truth, it was Mrs. Goddell much more abundant, probably due to 'fhe judge evaded the question, but' of hcautlful tbpagltt•PrOOf s0;eittst all a rule, well fed, well clothed, and, .age who was responsible for the signs, She Use stimulating action of the tun. The a week ler er they met again in the; adversity. Bright fanetee, satisfied for age, slightly, ahead of Christian had been an eager „student of botany pigment or eolnring matter is found cloak room of a court. The judge call.; menoria.% uoble histories, faithful eap- children of the same social class_ in in her srhool days. She Ioved flowers in the fourth of the five Layers of skin ed his frinn'l'e att'ation to the ntnbrel• inga, treasure -houses of precious and intelligence. passionately and wanted everybody of which the epidermis or outer skin la rack, witch remained half a dozen'. restful thoughts, which caro cannot else to love t.ltenn. 1s romPnsed. umbrellas or all sort, and conditions, disturb, uor pain make gloomy, nor l' As a general rule, arts live from Mrs. Simmons was tail(ng on 511'_, it has long been thought that the Mud asked which of them he consider.; poverty lake away from rte,--it0USea ,eight to ten years, although s amens Ozark'is a eorruptien of the French one afternoon when the eon- words aux arcs, meaning "with bows," ,•, Goodell one of drifted rn wild he browning of the skin is duo rather to el c t leapt nicely to be taken "by i built without bands, for our souls to in captivity have been known to reach the sun's tight than to its heat. - ilo rkO." The friend pelmet"' to stet live in.. --Ruskin. ' tlteeage of fifteen. a terns descriptive of the Indians whoseeee. wee to all. hole:some tlmbreila with a 414014ed sit- • none of us have been taught In early 's be set against that "mailed flat" of which we beard too mull in the first years of this century. Sentence Sermons. Nothing Worth While eWas ever ac- compllkhed by watobing the Meek. --Can'be expected"'of enc who is al- w.ays telling hard luck stories, —ilver resulted from pegging the buck; —Is accomplisbed by the one who will not earn more than he is paid. —Was ever settled by a religioud. controversy. • —Ever needs to be promoted ' be fraudulent advertising. —re ever gained, by selling out a friend. The Folly of Worry. `How serenely Nature rebukes the impatience of the fretful worrier. A man plants corn, wheat, barley, pota- toes—or trees, that take five, seven Years to come to bearing, such as the orange, olive, walnut, date, ele. Let him fret ever to much, worry all he liken, chafe and fret every hour; let him go and dig up his seeds or plants -to urge their upgrowing; let him even swear in bis impatient worry and threaten to smash all his Machinery, discharge his men, and turn his stock loose; Nature goes 00 her way, quiet- 1yc_unmovOd, serenely, unhurried, un- disturbed by the folly of the one crew• titre of earth who Jvo senseless as 10 worry -viz„ man. George Wharton James. Origin of Ozark. Simmons had tete reputation of asking cent years it has been proved that this for what she smiled end. trite to that chert is caused chiefly by the ultra - reputation, she asked birs, Goodell violet rays present in sunlight. dire•tly: "Why does your husband put , up those signs? it Groes no berm to l '— let the obildren pick a few flowers Sentence Sermons. wherethere are =u many." The Punctual elaneeWastes a lot of "I'm glad you asked the question," 1 time waiting on the tardy ones. said Mrs. Goodell, ":lop I have longi _usually has good credit at the thought that the signs were misunder- bank. stones. They were put 80 at my re•; —Finds it easier to be the master of quest, and not that the children 5hol d : hie time, be denied the flowers but rather that; -.,;ever mortgages to -Morrow's see- thes/ might have them. Flowers that r, 55 to to -day's delays. children pick soon wither in their _.Does not confuse busyness with hands and are thrown away. The business. seeds do not mature, and in a little \fekae a better employee than the while the flowers are gone. The large brilliant man. • e•wampy places of my girlhood home Soon learns how to eliminate the are almost gone. The bloodroot, tits non•Ossentials. wood anemore, the yellow violets aid the 1)utchntan's breeches are fast clic-; Wood in a Newspaper. appearing. 1 it takes a binclt of wood two testes "Velem our wild flowers are allowed wide,three inches high and four Inches es to reproduce rhemsalves by seeding long to supply the pulp 1n a twenty - we shall soon have none. Cattle, four-page 1104 v 401'. A corn of wood, horses and sheep are thinning them' it is estimatel, informs 3,600 persons out. The greatest joy in flowers is not of the day's news, yellow lady's'slfppers tbat adernel the Desolation mares this view of King's Bay, on the west corset of Spttzber- i _•f. 63o nliles'Rene the North Pole, where ,Lmtindseu'u two seaplanes will take or is their sens'ationaI Arctic dash. Inhabited the country. TWO -salesmen timet in the outser of- fice of a 'prospective customer. The one coming out said: "No use^to see him -to-day. Ile -is not in a buying mood." The other titre said; "While I am here it is .my duty to see him." He got the order. ' 14418µel• 10 !est weeks l,u see.. 164:1 R ; U MEMO M II U! CI untio -M IEI NEI 1211:1E11010 Om l'a t AHxl:;A 19 • l3t M s`i• UA sG ©® a • D p Y :43(.� ii ©© r s O cMilli QititITP tO y. , © �U R.,; N i:Ci:Tr3®ElGGi© MUTT AND JEFF—By Bud Fisher: { JEFF! wHAr ARE 'toe s' DOING TRI GA5. ill Illi f . ` 7y 7i '61 KICKING* 0004 RUN ALONG, MUTT:, Ii 0.1 You uTTLC- FOOL: WHAT w05 Tri,: iDEA? 5AV041 THC: '\ DVCNCSS 4P FLATB4SH'S DoG �i2pM eel -Tete it!Lee b 11-1.0 dimers t.A, .. 5 AreD Aow L'i'+l tIJ LavC wtM " 4108 Beer Me LUX: t3 tIoPCL@S3: sH5'S o1 reeiAt tdr1TH wt11LE i AIN'T Go -r teniiiLti Tb Otta0s ttotnm j Romance Enters the ,Litde Fellow's Life. ,Dior G1411 Vie 50 CAS'{— 11'. TtIL-Pc NIA..( 9e' I1OYAL 31,009 IN`Mutt VeINSS DID sees eve 'HAu(' ANY OP (04(40 (i,1tceSTores 1leACGIsf ,... 11 HE SOLb MO Sbe- Burn o1L 5Tt1Cic AND A5 FAt1 Al Cults (1MD 1H0N' LOSSTTcHIM: ;ar�nr !li1>7i1�])i�l�(li�il�VlllVlU1<ll�L>>Gl! diesel l'.-epr'Ghr, 4544411. rAY,M10t Natural Resources Bulletin, The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Dept. of the Interior at Ottawa say4; In I.008'there were thirty-two thou- sand melt working in the sawmill and pulp and paper mills in Canada, In this work they earned seventy-two million dollars, Themiles and timber limits, with their equipment repre; rented an investment of nearly six hundred milliop dollars. This might with justiog be termed big business, Canada hue a variety of such large organizations, and they are the back- bone of the manufacturing 1110 of this country. . Thinlu for a moment, however, of what these large industries -mean, Canada's virgin natural` resources are being developed. Her forests., are be., ing utilized iu building up 'Canadian industry and commerce, and this is as it should be, In providing work for these 32,000 menthe foieotswere pro. viding •wages that enabled 'them to purchase the necessaries and'some,of. the luxuries of life. the development of the forests thus made itself felt in providing- work for the factory work- er who produced the foods' which the forest worker required, The latter, also, was a consumer of foodstuffs, .. and the waged earned from forest de- velopment evelopment reached the farmer who produced the grain and meat supplies that the forest worker required, The farmer is thus interested in forest de- velopment. To. follow this interest in the forest to its logical conclusion we would of necessity have toincludeevery trade, every industry, every husineSs, every profession and the workers therein, because atone is exempt froth a conr.ec- tion, direct or indirect, with Canada's forest: development, - With_a"population .sl closely allied to fcrest interestseit would appear to bethe duty of' every Cahadian.to see thee the forests are protected from de - stn t,ction by fire. Figure of Alfred 'the Great Oldest„Statue 'in London. . For about a hundr0d years 11 Atattie, which_ is 'believed Reba the oldest in London; anti -also the effigy of king Alfred the Great, has stood in the grounds of Trinity Church, Southwark, unrecognized until just recently, Wheel, In 1395, Richard II. ordered the restoration of 'Westminster hall after a are, the welIe,wero heightened, new windows here added, the cele- -heated roof was set up and' the north Perch, withits many niches and sta- tu05,.was built. A century later two taverns bearltrg the remarkable names Heaven and -Hell were erected against the north wail of the porch, The taverna were -• allowed to stand 1.111 a hundred years ago, wben they were pulled down and the statues revealed. The statues, with one exception, were either destroyedor burled. The exception found its way to Southwark, where 1t has reniaio.ii over since, The right hand Is missing. The loft la somewhat mutilated, and is thought to have held aloft et short sword. : Frequently, in passing the grounds, one heats the slum children or Ber' inondsey and : Southwark mutter, "There, did yer see 'is 'and' move?" They also believe it is the "ghost" •of - a bygone Ding. and are afraid to go through the grounds at night, or even Pass along the same side of the road. Thele Is also a very curiou% legend - attached to -the statue, which holds that when the church clock sirtlte's midnight the statue 'Fiera from its 1,e•c11, raises Its arms aloft and walks round the churchyard trope Hume. But, as the ch'cit has never been known to strike at any time, this has not been seen' by the oldest inhabitant of South- wark. No Golden Rule for Excellent Writing. "There _is no golden rule for good writing, just as there is no golden rues for goad living, Writing is un exprOs- adon of the man; one maws meet Is another man's poison, an one m la's excellence another 3 suara. Ansi tate great welter may break all. the rales and yet remain a great writer," says i C. G M. Joad in the A'ew Lrae r: What of tho 0410sic and -beauty 01 words, duel take no account of Wesel' they valuable Lla l ttted that t y re ] I reply but Lhat they ruitst be uflere,l, to comp of themselves. If they refits:, theta` no f :enema of trying 'Will make thein. I Good til'C111180te &Scor•iLte a construe- ; Don; they do not construct a (teems- tion, ante If you aha at Beauty you will !miss her. - ' 'You "cannot take the 'Museum oe beauty by %term, any more than you can.,colnmaud a;plea:etre (4114114 Hap- , len055 le a flower that surprises you, a song which you can hens ns you pass the ltedgo, suddenly," simply, rising iu. the night and dyitlg' down rgain.p 'And so it le with beauty, Beaut7 le not to he captured bS direct asseuit; elle is away round Lite Corder, ready -lo dart opt and enter ourlives when We''' 1zre,kusily engaged gr. -doing g or achiev- ing something else." Deep Roots -Draw Lightning. Trees with roots that reach deep in- to moist sold are. in most danger of being struck by lightn:itg, Loads In Cod Liver CIL Newfoundland, with an aunn1N out- put of 1,000,000 gallons,_18 e% all coun- tries In tltfi Moduotion of cod liver on. `Bost (to departing guest) : "my Wife's mother lieariy'teehed herself to death at your funny storied' I hope you'll come y ten and stay longer;" e