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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-03-03, Page 7Of nterest to otori t CAREFUL CHECK IS ALL- WINTER NEED OF AUTO. A problem of the .human being is to adjust himself to his environment. Duringthe winter months those who own automobiles have a few extra de- tails included in the ,adjustment prob- lem. To- get the best, results out of metering daring the frigid term there are a few items to consider. Having adapted the car to the changed condi- time, it performs with ,an efficiency approximating that of warm climates. The fact that motoring is increasing- ly becoming an all -year-round .affair is fair proof. It often happens that the motorist will neglect the details of an adjust- ment to cooler weather; and along in November find himself in some, sort of trouble. Then he braces up and doesn't get negligent again until along in March. Or it sometimes, 'happens that he is very careful in the early fall and gets less cautious in the later days of winter. Some may think that spring is so near that precaution can lessen. Whatever may be the reason, it is found that many operators of cars benefit by a second check up on cold weather adjustment. There are a few matters that oan well be attended to now. A piece of equipment that adds im- measurably to the safety of winter, driving is the windshield cleaner. Dim- 1 ming of the motorist's vision through snow, sleet or rain on the windshield is dangerous both to driver and pedes- trian. An automatic cleaning device, requiring no .attention -from the delver, is preferable. PERFECT BRAKES NEEDED. Perfectly functioning braces are a requisite to safe driving in any season of the year, but this is especially true during the winter months when the brakes are necessarily subjected to un- usual demands. The wise driver will test them every day when taking the oar from the garage and will make any needed adjustments before the car is used. Safe driving 'hen the weather brings snow or ice demands properly fitting chains on both rear wheels. In this connection it should be noted that one chain is worse than none at all. The time of greatest danger from skidding is just after the first pre- cipitation, before the grease which. is usually present on roade has been washed away. Tires which have been Were treadiees increase the possibility of skidding, as this is practically cer- tain to occur with worn tires if the braises 'are suddenly applied. Extra precaution as to the condition of ,headlights, taillights, steering gear, tires and horn during the winter sea - don is desirable in the interests of safety: The best plan is to have the car thoroughly overhauled at a reli- able service station before the onset of inclement weather. When thie is not done March is a good, time for checking up on these details. In most oases the motorist will be amply re- paid for the outlay thus- incurred. WATCH DISTANCE CLOSELY. When icy pavements•invite skidding, especially when a quick stop is made, it is imperative to watch one's dis- tance closely. Where city traffic is oomparatively light and a speed of eighteen to twenty miles an hour is the rule, it is a safe idea to allow fifty feet between vehicles. Under congest- ed conditions, of course, this is• not possible. The motorist should keep in mind the feet that unfavorable wee-- thkr conditions inorease tremendously the importance of traffic signals, and should ,act accordingly. Following car rails is especially foolhardy in wet weather, es the -brakes frequently fail to function when. a sudden stop is necessary. Furthermore, skidding is very likely to accompany the forcing of the car out of the wet tracks. The best course to follow if caught in this predicament is to bring the ear to a gradual stop by shutting off the power and apply- ing the brakes slowly. Allgasoline engines give off carbon monoxide gas. This compound is fatal -hen present In the proportion of 15 parts to 10,000 parts of air. To start a motor in a closed garage is thus in- viting nviting death. This danger must be kept constantly in mind during the cold season when garages are trade as airtight as possible. In connection with the use of closed cars this factor must •also be considered, as a defective exhaust may permit the escape of this gas in sufficient quantities to en- danger the lives of the occupants. BRITISH PRESTIGE London Spe•etator: It is perhaps not waste .of time to inform those foreign- ers who have had no• means of keep- ing in touch with British thought that the •csld British Imperialism which was synoileano s• with taking for the salsa of taking and painting the map Ted is as dead as the dodo. The tendency nowadays is rather to repudiate all re- sponsibility which is exp•ensive or 'troublesome. . • . Shanghai is a great and rich ,city which was built on an .empty marsh by British money and enterprise. It is an elementary duty to protect the British and other: for- eign residents in that crowded and highly civilized place. If Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, or some other Labor lead- er, were Prime Minister, he would not take the risk of having it said, if there were a massaore in Shanghai, that he had not taken every precaution to avert the disaster. An Aviator Took Her Up. "She was ,always a high flyer. Whom did she get to marry her?" "Oh, an aviator took her up." Another Sort of Case. "I am not expecting any package," saki the lady of the house. "This, is the number," persisted the driver, looking at his book again. "Name's Higgins, ain't it?" "Y,es:• "No. 74?" "That's our number." "Then it's for you." "I think not. It must be a case of mistaken identity," ' "No, ;mun. It's a case of ginger - beer.". • Now She Knows. A yoting ofileer was showing his eld- erly aunt round the camp, when sud- denly a bugle blared out. "N''Vliat's' that for?" she ;asked, ale prehonsively. "Olt, that's tattoo," said her nephew, r aesuringly. "Oh, is It really?" she saki. "How Interesting! I've often seen it on soldiers' erns, but I didn't know they had a special time for doing It." Why are the bettone on a man's coat always on the right and those on i woman's always on the left? Or hadn't you .noted that they ere? Town v. Countryside. By C. W. Peterson. _, The evidence of the apparent attrac- tions of urban as compared with rural fife lies in the final result of the oen- tu:ry long race the world over between. town and countryside as rival claim- ants for popularity. Decade after de- cade' the city has won out. We all know the reason. But perhaps this movement is essential to national pre- servation. The infusion of the vigor- ous •blood of God's open ,country ar- rests human decay in the 'crowded oentres of population. The cities ob-• tain from the farms not only their food and the raw materials for half of their industries,, but the human ma- terial itself, and were this movement from country to city to •cease, in four generations the cities would perish. More than two thirds of the inhabit- ants of our cities, were horn on the farm, or are the children of farm -born folk; The remaining one-third almost invariably traoes to the farm in two more generations. They have learned in older civilizations, that the land is the "healing and the saving" of the nation. . That, as a matter sof present commercial self-interest, and for the protection of generatione to come, or- ganized society can well afford to make great sacrifices to Poster and en- courage its agriculture,. We, in Can- ada, have as• yet almost everything to learn on that subject. The late Luther Burbank, compar- ing our dens•e1y populated cities with the badly tended garden, says that the crowding of our ,cities is like the crowding of a neglected garden, and there is where sapindling, weak, atten- uated growths occur, and where the average of strength, bodily and men- tal, is lowered by the struggle and the pressing in of a multitude of weeds. The growth of cities is unhealthful, for a nation, but there now seems to be a tendency to spread out into subarbs and outlying districts that niay solve a problem that has caused disaster in pant history. Our task is to go into that neglected garden, and by pruning, weeding, opening up breathing spaces such as parks and playgrounds, and giving the human plants such ,environmental'advantages as education •and training, enable them to meet the competition of the crowd. an drench a fuller stature, mentally and physically. Happily our country' populationstands in no need of the -cane wllloh, is essential to the wellbe- ing of the more tender urban plants. The country has its, compensations. Cauada'g policy should 'ventre amend the building up of her enormous, urt- develop,al rural area. This •course would enstu•e a sound fornication for national greatness. Where Charity Begins. "We are going to sweea the Caum- tr'y," deolared the active club wainan. on her return from ail enthusiastic political meeting. "But, dear," etail her husband, "wouldn't it be Wisher to begin stt hoinael" ADA1 SON'S ADVENTURES -- y 09 Jacobson. '!A4gM OROW 4 WILL ALLOW Me zelrrRo:uce COUNT 1.6 BUM! The English Cottage. 0 sweet small 'house in the valley woodland planted, Native as acorn cupped, thatched gray as mouse, Snowdrop and robin haunted— There is none like you, little English house! Old as the oak you are, in oak dark timbered, Old and how friendly with years your firelit beams. 0 well, 0 well remembered Homestead of sailors' and of exiles' dreams! To you in the spring bright swallows first come flying, Rosy and azure -winged thro' the April rain, With low oroo•ning and crying, Under your silvered brows to nest again. In your honey'd garden of :lune, what bat -winged fancies Flit in the twilight dim where frag- ranee dwells With dark red peonies, pansies, And nodding phiox and Canterbury bells. Let leaves in the high wind whirl by your doom and •dormer, Red apple dropped long since, and fall- en the flowers; Still irised doves low murmur And jasmine stars your walls in dark- est hours. .. O sweet Small house! I would find you yet, enchanted, Far in the wooded hills of England's heart, 'Twixt road and river planted, And budded strong by one who loved his art. --Hamish Maclaren. Upbuiiding begins with "U". Democracy. The word democracy has been a rallying cry throughout the ages from the day of Per- icles to that of the Chartists, a cry with a great tradition that one would not treat lightly. Where the borders of freedom have been most enlarged, the cry for freedom and justice has been most insistent. But even with the establishment of political , democracy, freedom and justice have often seemed far off in the modern preval- ence of squalor and luxury, great inequalities of wealth and opportunity. — London Quarterly Review. Drunk With Success. "I'm-hiel•-drunk with sucoess." "You're just drunk" "Not so. I had great sucoess-hic! in getting something to get drunk on." "The day may cone when we shall be gable neither to walk nor write," said Dean Inge, in a recent lecture. "We shall use the motor -car for the first and the typewriter for the sec- ond." Homesick Tree. A tree gets homesick when you move it. That is a fact, and I oan prove it. I watched one all last year, and know The struggle which it made to grow, I saw its last expiring breath; That maple grieved Itself to death. The nursery man had guaranteed it. I have the contract. You may read it. A tree Is easy to transplant Unless you've chosen one you can't. And this one which he brought to me Was such a sentimental tree. Despite] the tender •care I gave it I knew that I should never save it. I fancied I could hear it sigh, Heedless of summer sun and sky, And I have waked, 'tis truth I write, To hear it sobbing through the night. And then at last that tree departed, Withered and gaunt and broken- hearted, rokenhearted, But were I snatched from all I've known, • Loved and learned to call my own To live my life elsewhere so I Should languish, wither, •sicken, die. lDdgar A. Guest. Three British Envoys Meet in Washington. With the arrival of Vincent Massey, the new Canadian Minister to the United States, three permanent en- voys of the British Commonwealth met in Washington for the first time in history. Sir Esme Howard, the British Am- bassador, and Prof. Timothy Sniddy, Miuister of the Irish Free State, greeted Mr. Massey at the station up- on his arrival from Ottawa. Staffs of both. the British Embassy and the Free State Legation comprised the welcom- ing delegation. fel Mon •�rsti�tF+isWO, NIAGARA'S 1 I li Gi1 OP PIIAOE An ox.ellent vies .of the mighty uric"leo of steel that is being flung acro ,s the Niagara from Ontario , New York state, to commemorate a 'century of -peace and good will between the two couut:ries. tO • Lenin's Inane. .,, ickharn Steed in the Lon-' ' don ` view of Reviews main purpose of Soviet policy is to destroy the chief "strong" hold of capitalism" which they, believe to be situated in Great Britain. This purpose ex- plains, in part, their intrigues in China. The other part of the.. explanation may well lie in, their desire to organize "the. East" against "the West" so as to bring on the universal re- volution of which Lenin dreamed. , We, as a peo- ple, cannot afford to ignore what is being done to hurt us, and the type of civilization for which we stand. Tempering Justice With Mercy. The distinguished British judge, Sir. Henry Hawkins, later Lard Brampton, was noted rather for severity than gentleness. But on one occasion, and that a difficult one, he managed very neatly to •secure mercy for a prisoner, whom it seemed/ impossible to rescue from punishment. The man, already suffering imprison- ment for some earlier offence, had tamed a mouse which visited his cell, and made a pet of it. A brutal warder, entering while be wae playing with his little, friend, deliberately stepped up- on the little creature and killed it.' Frantic with grief and at the cruel out- rage, the prisoner caught up his din- ner knife, and dashed at the warden,' who only just escaped, the knife stab- bing the door as it closed behind him: Sir Henry Hawkins, as judge, want- ed to get the unhappy man off: but the attempt at murder was obvious, and the law equally clear. Nevertheless, be was not nonplused. In his charge to the jury he said: • "If a man tries to kill another in a way which is absuixl, it becomes a fool- ish rather than a criminal act. If, for example, a man in London discharged a pistol to hurt a man in Edinburgh, we could only laugh' at such an of- fence. So also when a pian stabs an iron -plated door while another man is at the other side of it, we cannot take it seriously." The jury were only too glad to fol- low such a lead, and promptly brought in a verdict of "Not guilty." Doubt- less the judge's legal— or illegal quib. ble—was bad law; but it made possible a mercy more just than a sentence more legally correct would have been. The Bee's Dance. A hive bee, finding flowers with abundant nectar, takes a full load and fines straight home. Very shortly there are more bees on. the flowers. How do they know the nectar is there and how do they find it? Professor J. Arthur Thomson, in the "Scottish Journal of Agriculture," quotes experiments by Professor Karl von Frisch to explain this problem. It has bee nfound that when a bee which has sucked to the full returns to the hive it starts a "round dance" on the comb. This excites the work ere close by and they hurry out to find the nectar themselves. But before they leave the hive they nose at the discoverer, and thus obtain a clue by scent of the kind of flower to Seek. They go off alone, the discoverer re. raining in the hive. If the flowers with the nectar have no scent the lis• cover can give no clue. The Professor's answer to this is the astonishing one that a hive 'bee, excited by a discovery of nectar, at once sprays the blossoms with a char- acteristic scent formed in a glandular pocket uear the hind' end of her body. This scent serves as a tell-tale clue to the searching bees. It has been found that when a bee patch of flowers begets to be .exhaust- ed the visits of new bees decline. Soon they stop. This is regulated by the fact that when a bee returns with lit- tle nectar she does not dance, and so no more seekers go forth. Out to Stay. \Vita's Friend—"Flas your wife taken eery recipes out of that cook book I gave her?" Nubby (rather shortly)• --"Yee, mut I'm going to see they Stay ent as long, as see Cooks for me!" • One Way. Teacher ---"How would yon practice economy, Johnny?" Johnny ---"Well, for instance, by not. Batt- letting our mothers wash •our hands, and neeles we could save soap."