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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1924-01-31, Page 64i Ynneirsbedat W;,ent-eerria, Onstaxic► Every Thursdae Morninrg A. G. SMtik1, Publisher Isubscriptioa rates;. --- Ono year. 12.00; six months, 41.00 la advalcce: dllverttsing rates on application. Advertisements without specific dt- i"eetions will be inserted until forbad and charged accordingly, sChanges for contract advertise - menta .be in the office by noon, ?.on - BUSINESS CARDS. WeilLdAgt.Ual Mutual Fire insurance Co. Established 1840 bead Office, Guelph Risks 'taken on all classes of insur- ance at reasonable rates. ABNER COSENS. Agent. Wingbam DUDLEY HOLMES BARF:ISTER, ,SOLICITOR, ETC. Victory and Other Bonds BouUht and Sold. Cfftce—Mayor Block Wingham R. AN : Tjj� E BARRISTER' AND SOLICITOR Money to Loan at Lowest 'Rates. WINGHAM A. . . IL ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental .:. • Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto` Faculty of Dentistry OFFICE OVER H, E. ISARD'S STORE R. hit.N1.61,1 B.Sc., M.D.,_C.M• Special attention paid to diseases of Women and Children, having taken at stgradnate work in.' Surgery, Bao- ierioiogy and Scientific Medicine. <. mice In the Kerr .Residence, between' the Queen's Hotel at:d the Baptist Church. ani business given careful attention. r'horle 64. P.O. Box 113 Lr. Rob -L C. itethriorid M.R.C.S. (Eng). LR,C.P. (Lond). PHYSICIAN AND SURGEO1tt (Dr. Chisholm's old stand) DR. IL L. STEWART C Graduate et university of Tercet°, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate o".. the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office Entrance: OFFICE IN CHISHOLM BLOCK JOSEPHINE STREET PHONE 20 Dr. Margaret C. Calder r General Practitioner Graduate. Universityof:Toront a Faculty of Medicine. Office—Josephine St., two doors south CI Brunswick. Hotel. Telephones -Office 281, Residence 151 Osteo $1 lactic Physician. DR. F. A. PARKER rTCTGt1P351-IIR All Diseases. Treated. Office adjoining residence next Anglican Church on Centre Street. Open every day except • Monday and Wednesday -afternoons. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272 DRUGLESS PHYSICIANS Dr. a A FsaX CHIROPRACTOR Office Hours: 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p.m, Wednesday Afternoons by Appoint- cent only. Telepne 191. DR. MANES D. iaJi. CHIROPRACTOR Qualified t;Z Graduate adnate Adjustments given for diseases of al' kinds, specialize' In dealing witb children. Lady atthndaizt. Night calls responded to. Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont: (hi house of the late Jas Walker). Phone 150. All Serene. TheFlorida.beach and bite sea look- ed ihsiting to the tourist from the North, ' but before venturing out to .'swim he thought to malco sure. "You're certain there are no alligat- ors here?" he inquired of the guide. "lsossuh," replied that .functionary, s. grinning broadly. "Ain' no 'gators hyah," Reassured, the tourist started bet: Aa the, water lapped about his chest he 'called back: "What makes you so Sure there a;-en't any alligators?" "Dey's got too much sense," bellow- ed the guide. "De sharks done skeered dens: alt away." An insttranco comtaatty has rediieed: its bit -glary rates on retiidenceie where there is a watch dog.' The company finds that a clog Is the most trust- worthy butglar alarm, . Perhaps the 'man who wertt into the Stere to buy t` burglar ahuni;"that ''moth! alarm the l urgtar" vigy And i► 'hint here, esalfZiasesiaz sassesb TI14 WfNG1L M A41V• NCIi1 TEST OF TIRE PROVES VALVE OF GOOD 'CAEIl. An autompbile tire is not unlike an by a gradual lessening of speed ' and individual's health. The person who thus avoid this 'difficulty entirely. observes the laws of health is apt to With the employment of 'four-wheel keep well. Yet one can never tell brakes the slowing -up process and, in- when a little germ will make a hurry cidentally, the wear on tires is distri call to the doctor a necessity or when luted to all four wheels 'instead of an overstrain on the human body will only two. If the wheels are out of their proper alignment there is likely also to be useless wear on the tires. A. tire is made primarilyto wear on. its tread. The skies are, not made to stand as much wear as the tread. Con- setruently driving in deep ruts in the co''.'antry is bad on tires and soon wears away the thin rubber on the sides of the tire. An automobile should ,•not ` be over- loaded, as the excess weight is apt to put to -o much of a`strain on the tires. Auto trucks are built to carry heavy loads and usually have special tires to meet their special needs. Many of them are solid rubber. ALWAYS CARRY A SPARE. cause a serious break -down. Of course,, in time the human machine wears out and ;e replaced by a newer one, But the working man is apt to live longer than the idler. Ordinarily the motorist who takes sensible precautions in operating his car has little or no tire trouble. This is due to. no little extent to the ex- treme xtreme care: which is exercised by tire manufacturers, in producing these es- sential factors in motoring. They have gone the limit in applying the best skill obtainable In order that su- perior tires might be manufactured. Ai'l of which contributes toward mak- ing car ownership a genuine pleasure. Yet -one can never tell when a little cut or bruise or minute piece of glass or some other insignificant substance will develop into serious tire trouble. Frequent inspection and thoughtful attention are required to effectively check such possibilities. And, of course, in time the best tire will wear out and :have to be discarded. But a tire that is on the road usually lasts repair kit is also a .necessity, so that longer than the one standing still in tires and 't bes can be readily re ai - a garage. - PROPER INFLATION NEEDED. As a primary consideration tires should be properly inflated. Most tire troubles, outside of those due to na- tural depreciation, are caused by in- sufficient inflation or overinflation. A recent development is the so-call- ed "balloon" tire, which probably gets ing that it is made, of proper ma- its name from its large diameter. The terials and-inanufactured in a .careful walls of this tire are made rather thin manner depends on manyconditions. and are therefore morepliable. The p -Some of .these areunder:. the direct large diameter, for instance, seven control of, the o driver. Some are un - inches, provides a greater area of tire avoidable. Probably thousands of in contact with the ground. Cense- miles can be added to the use of al- quently a lower air pressure in the most any good tire by giving careful tire needs to be maintained to support attention to the factors that enter into the weight of the car and an increas- tire depreciation and ruin. ed comfort in'riding results. a Use a tire as long as it gives good Applying the brakes suddenlycans service. When it is evidently worn es the wheels to skid and tends to out, be thankful for all the miles it wear the tread of a tire .rapidly. A has taken your car, throw, it away and good driver always can come to a stop get a new one. Carry one or two spare tires on a car. Racks are usually provided on the rear. It is a':good idea to keep these protected from deterioration by covering and from theft by a good padlock and chain. Some drivers find it desirable to paint the extra tires that are carried. Carry one or two spare inner tubes in a bag. A good ed while on -tour. Remove grease, oil and acid from tires by using a cloth dampened in gasoline. Prevent damage from rust by the use of rim paint. Mud boils should always be cleaned out and re- paired as soon as they develop. The number of miles of service an owner should get out of a tire, assum- Don't y Trees By Ruth Harrison Buddy coming out of school, his skates hanging over his shoulder, his hockey stick in his hand, pounded at the lumps of snow along the path as if they wet.) to blame for something. The professor, watching him from across the road, smiled to himself and wrapped his scarf tighter about his neck, for the wind was sharp, though the icicles were glistening and drip- ping in the sun. "No fun to -day," said Buddy. "Might as well go home and chop wood. May- be it'll freeze tight by Saturday." "Yes," said the professor, "and if the work is done the whole day will be ynnr_a: _..T'll ms11r._e1rn sz with :coli ee fav as the south pasture. Big Ben got out last • night." "All right, said Buddy, still gloomy and striking at a large clump of teas- es standing stiff and tall. They broke with a snap. "Those break easily enough," said the professor, "but try that next. clump.". Buddy did, but they were tough and did not break. Some of the stalks bent over, but most of them just ..rattled their great prickly heads and dropped some seeds. "What makes them so tough," asked Buddy. "It's all the same kind of weed." "Yea, but look at them." "These are brown and fresher," said Buddy. "Those others s ar e dirtier and gray. Look as though they ware old- er." "They are," eel(' Lite professor. "The brown ones are last summer'splants and the gray ones grew the summer before." "I-Iuh," said Buddy. "Stand there dry and dead: for two whole winters?" "Yes, seems :to take that long for the stems dr to ,. dry out and become brit- tle, and all that time they are shaken by the wind, and every shake means more seeds dropped. Those big prick- ly heads with their curving prongs rm, ;r, {r. adas :..,doZ», " 'ar1e t ✓ - •:. �+N 'E off i ,Os4� dnpesL ess Bcur .� �s�ic 0•�es i .:. Hca • igkor7svr 4.c.rfi `A GEILTA OROCC4) ITALIAN f 4 r a • .514 - L S' 1�ra1esesOt � LAND AND SEA CABLE FROM ENGLAND TO INDIA • abl are not demonstrated by' the unique cable which runs from Man - C es always laid.' under water, as is d ,r , q chaster, England, under the channel to France, overland through France, Germany, Poland, Russia and Persia to the port' of Karachi, on the Indian Ocean. It is one of the longest overland -cables in theworld, and has just been put once more into use, after the damages it sustained during the hostilities in Europe. such :things as - heat, cold,wind, light and moisture. We have not much con- trol over these. If the sun i$ too bright for comfort we have no way of putting the sun, out or turning it off, but we move into the shade or go into' the house or pull our hat down over our eyes. If it is too cold we put on more clothes. If it is too hot we take some off and open doors and windows and in every way try to make our- selves comfortable. We;find that ac- tions something like these take place in the plant. It acts toward these forces in certain ways and strikes a balance between them all so that life may •continue as successfully as pos:- sible'at any one time. "There is one great force we all re- act to, and: that is gravity. It is the force that keeps us standing on our feet. When the seed of any plant be- gins' to grow the rootgrows down and the stem up. The 'root i reacts to gravity in ,a downward direction and the stem' up. Just why, we don't know. We see'that it is so, for wben we turn a small plant upside down the, stem will curve around and grow up and the root turn : and ;grow down. Such a force does help to keep a plant erect, because after" it has been beat- en down by the wind and rain, slowly the''growing tip of the stem turns and help quite a lot to keep the weeds standing there for two winters." "They can't help the weed to stand up." "I didn't say .stand, up. I said :keep them', there." "But I "don't see that at all," said Buddy. :Well" laughed. g d the professor, "how do you suppose a cow or a horse would feelwith a mouthful of teasel head's?" "Huh, they wouldn't touch 'em. "Of course and if those nose heads were soft like clover heads they would be gobbled up in no time; but because they happen.to have spines they are left. alone That: inPS.11a rnnra .and more teasels. . . Curious," mused the professor as they went on down the road --"Curious' the different ways we all go about this business of liv- ing. . "Ah," he breathed, reaching out and touching a great tree growing by the road. "Here is something straight and tall." Elis -look was proud, almost as though he had helped to grow it. "Isn't that strong though, Buddy? Easy to tell where men got their first. ideas of pillars. eh? Name it for me„ Bud. Tell me from the bark. "It isn't white oak," said Buddy, "be- cause that has gray bark and small scales and this is black and tough. lVIust be black, or red oak." "Black it is," said the professor. "I'll show you how to be sure." He. cut nut a little piece of bark an the point of his knife. The outer bark was black, the inner bark Was 'a bright e richyellow. , "Uh-huh," said Buddy, understand- ing. "But what makes all these trees stand up? ,Why don't they fall over?" "Now you have done it," said the professor. "That's :a puzzler. We don't know all about it_ but we have found out seine things. There are sev- e,ral reasons for it, You know -there aro forces .of one kind and' another round and about us. By forces I mean grows upward, gradually bringing the whole stein up after it. "Light • helps too. Di.: you.ever look at your mother's .geranium plants in the window?: Are the leaves and flowers turned in toward the room or do you see 'nothing much but stems?" "That's it," said Buddy; "All the leaves and flowers are turned toward the window for the people outside to look at." "Yes," smiled the.: professor,"but that light is necessary for the life of the plant. If youput the curtain down so that only a streak of -light conies. through, the 'growing tip of the stem will bend over and grow down .toward the light,'bringin'g the leaves to the light, which they need to make food, for the plant. At this time the "reac tion, to light is stronger than that to gi•a:yity, Now roots grow away from light but they grow toward water. :If the only moisture in the soil that the roots could get was above them, the roots would turn and grow up to the water even if the water was in' the light. Plants always seen to'react to all these forces in a. way which is most helpful for keeping alive at any particular time. "So you see, Buddy, gravity helps the tree to stand up, light helps the tree to Stand up, and the roots spread- ing out in all directions help, to hold the tree up. They support th'e tree. pretty much as those props • do that are nailed to the base of the flagpole in the school yard. Then, too, as the stem grows it forms more and more wood. This' gives the trunk' and, branches stiffness and helps to keep the tree standing sometimes for years after it is dead. "Wood, Buddy. :There is a great Word. You have heard of the Stone Age and the Iron Age, and some :peo- pie call this the Age:. of Electricity, but I tell -you,.. Buddy, this is the Age of Wood, and our.wood is rapidly pass- ing away." "Wood!" exclaimed' Buddy, coming out of a dream. "That's it, wood! And I've got a lot to chop." "Well, good -by, Buddy," smiled 'the professor, turning into the pasture. "Yes, chop it," he -mused. "Pretty soonthere won't be much to chop. We should have done 'something about! It long ago. Most too late now." A Community Investment. The state is doing more for the hum- ble individual than ever before, and shoulddo more still. His legitimate, aspirations to live decently and to rise. above his ' handicaps should be met and satisfied. It is a community in- vestment which 'pays dividends in good citizenship. PO ?R ADVERTISING There's not much use in advertising unless you advertise the truth; a string of falsehoods most surprising may draw the voters 'to your booth; and you may sell them shoddy clothing as woolen goods of regal grade;. but they will view your joint with loathing, when once the garments shrink and fade. And vainly will you plan and labor to bring the push back to your door; and every gent will tell liis neighbor how he was harpooned in your store. Andwives Will tell: atquilting parties how sick their husbands ate the Green Front store.' And school -boys, Jims and Charles ate the Green Front store. And school -boys,' Jams and Charles and ;Clarence; will say, while passing by your marts "These flim- fi p am merchants stungour arents. and sold thein 'clothes that fell apart." Much wiser are those merchant princes who know that lies come home to roost, whose well pleased customer evinces ag lad desire their store to boost.Your ads may have the verbal splendors of Old Bill Shakespeare at his best, but if: Y1�. ou sell punk suspenders, insisting that they'll stand the me I test,.. and I' discover, when I wear 'em, they won't support nzy trouserlcons=l may have coins, but yotz won't share 'em; you'll never handlemy doubloons. "Why won't you marry me, Ellen?" "I' wouldn't marry anyone. Why, I even threw down' a bootlegger last. evening. The Superman. Private Banks had been the most bashful and retiring little man in the army..' When women visited the, camp he had always fled for shelter and stayed out of sight until after they had gone. So it came as 'a surprise when one of his former companions ran across him'in civilian garb and accom- panied by a large, robust girl, wlioru he introduced as Mrs. Banks. • When he was able to get,: Banks aside he, asked him how he had :met hie wife:" "Well," replied the little man meek- ly, "it was this way: I never did ex- actly x actl •She Y meet her. just kind of over- took me."' Cm-- Cleaning Jerusalem. Plenty of runing water has in. the past year done away withone of the • former hardships of life: in Jerusalem. Water has been brought to the city from the ancient Solomon's Pools; every house "now • has a supply; the streets are flteshed''-clean, and most of the vile smells have ceased. Many of the American Jews who are trying to establish a home in Palestine' live at Eel -Aviv, a new city by :the sea, form- erly a subiirb of. Jaffa. How :Unkind. Hubby (unsteadily) -"Hang it all! Just got full of cobwebs in that old cellar!"" WMe---"Is that all?" '.isl'ands e:e " • " Four new w r lain in 1923. Two appeared off the coast•of Cochin, China, one off the Japanese coast, and the fourth, '1,000 feet long and 30 feet high, in the Bay of Ben- gal. • Thursday, January 31, 1924, I-Jaif Alive. ; It will not do to be afr e'A1 ,of' life and to run away from : it. "Heaven," said an insolent; dreamful soul, "is a valley of ng derision:" He plaintively: *ought a career or a plaee on: earth where he would not be ,; called on to make up his mind about anything and he never quite fond it. Such places seem to the readers of South Sea Island books to exist, but the industrious rank and file cannot knock tothither.Gener- ally from labor go er- n ally we must resolutely grapple with a>task assigned, whether we chose it or not. We are not set in our places on earth merely to have fun, The su- pirenie human felicities come :to us gloriously now and then—the more welcome`; and the more beautiful be- cause of the sober' or even 'sombre cast of the remainder of our days. Those who refrain from taking hold of life, in the .fullness- of:' rich experience make little difference to any one but the census -taker and the undertaker. Yet, on the excuse that .:., theyare seeing life or living life, we find men and women who give free rein to unregulated impulse •and. con- sider that to live ,completely means to liveviciously,' wantonly, selfishly. They are unmoved by the panorama of hu- man need and woe. They lavish money on themselves. They run the gamut, of decadent sensation. - The world would be _far better off if they had never been. They are a heavy -liabil- ity to normal human society, which is legally restrained from ridding the earth of them. But from those of honest purpose, clean mind and firm intent, the; world wants an .earnest, vigorous, whole- time performance. It depends on as- sertive,: -courageous leadership.It never commits,iniportant-business and it never:-intrusts •a. high <command to those who "go through the motions" in a lackadaisical, perfunctory fa- shion, half, awake and hall asleep. It has no use for those who are not wholly alive to all that. this our age requires ° of them. A Samson :- in Petticoats. There have recently come to light some extraordinarlj feats of 'strength by a Hindu . woman, which, should cause men of to -clay to think twice be- fore referring to women as the weaker sex. The woman in question is` Miss 'rasa' ai, born some thirty years ' ago" in a small village in' Rajputana, and liar amazing feats are .described in the Strand Magazine. At the age of seven she was left an orphan and adopted by fakirs (holy men), with whom she remained` for several years, disguised ' as a boy. It ` was by these men that she was initi- ated into the mysteries of breath con- trol•and the power of commanding her physical and mental forces. Suspended between two chairs by her head 'and feet, Miss Tarabai had stone weighi a na 't a 5 ng q z er of a .ton placed on her 'chest, while two men pounded uison it with ash' But this did' not affect her. Miss:Tarabal then lay clown upon the ground, and a ;cart laden with men and boys was drawn across her :chest and arms. She was protected only by, a pad, but she did not flinch. She thinks nothing, of raising from the ground a stone weighing two 'nun- , and forty pounds by means of ropes tied to'her hair. ., ing all 'the energies she possesses to any particular part of her body at will that enables her to lie for several min- utes on the sharp, points of five spears, and to push backwards a laiden cart by pressing with her head° against , tho sharp point of a spear fastened to its shafts. Music in Factories. The question of the effect of music upon the output of workers cattle into one of the discussions of the British Association at Liverpool •recently. A paper, was read giving the results of investigations scientiiicaliy made as to variations in the average daily Out- put of a factory, and in' the course of subsequent remarks; one of the spoak- ers mentioned the widelyheld opinion, that music' is a 'stimtltis to, workers; which has 'pronacnced . effect upon their working capacity. die supported the theory, making the point that if the sound of a trumpet inspires the soldiers going into; battle, there i> .no reason why a worker in a factory e r -m a p>, articular :tas1-' Should not perform ro Letter by."reason :ht the: presence of music. Thirty new varieties of birds have been found in the South Sea Islands. AND 5O THE. Y PiR PASSES, CHII_DR�N , AND ONE. 5J.A5ON,.; FoLLows ANOThE.P.— .M EACH SEA'SoN 1-iAS rr 5 It Au'ry AND ITS USE.51 u RABBI BORO DICK DUMl3t)NNY ! 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