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• TIRE PROGRESS D.URING 1924.
Advances in automobile tire con- which permits of much greatersflexi-
tructien tend to make motoring less bility, In the older tYpe a tires the
tiresome. Probably one of the most manufactairees stressed the point that
important achievements in automobile if the tires were not sufficiently in -
design in the last year has been made fleted the side walls would break
in the realrn of shoeing the automo-
bile's feet.
For a number of years people have
had to be content with riding upon
tires that, in order to insure reason -
down, and this would naturally occur
When the tire was composed of a
heavy stiff fabric. For example, ifj
you take a piece of heavy stiff card- I
board and bend it sharply back and I
able length of life, needed to be m.. forth it will very quickly crack, while
Hated to a very high pressure. It was a Piece of comparatively thin paper
a case of either inflating to a point would stand any amount a such
where the tire did not perform the handling without breaking. By using
the thin side. wall in the balloon tire
desirable function of absorbing shock
ir order to get reasonable wear
the tire may be used with a very low
or of
procuring increased comfort by what pressure, which permits of great
the manufacturers considered under-
flexibility of action without harming
inflating the tire. This later method the tire.
resulted in rapid destruction of the A tire that has sufficient flexibility
tires. Been under conditions of high to keep it in good contact with the
ground rather than bumping over ob-
structions greatly lessons the liability
to skid.
inflation manufacturers, a few years
ago, guaranteed their tires for 3,500
miles of service. With the tires of
to -day it is not unusual to secure 20,-
000 miles of service from a set of
tires.
The balloon tire, which is the latest
development in this field, adds con-
siderably to the comfort of riding.
This tire may be operated under very
low pressure; first, because it has a
very large area of contact with the
road. For example, if a tire has
800 pounds of car to support and the
tire has fifteen square inches of con-
tact with the road, each square inch
would need to support 800 divided by
fifteen, or fifty-three and a half
pounds. If the tire is made larger
so that say thirty square inches of
contact is made with the road, each
square inch would have to support
only half as many pounds or twenty-
six and two-thirds. This makes it
possible to reduce the air pressure
in the tire one-half.
QUESTION OF FLEXIBILITY.
In the second place the side walls
of the tire are made in a manner
ALL TASTES ARE SUITED.
While the balloon tire represents
the extreme in the matter of low in-
flation and provides the greatest pos-
sible comfort in motoring a mean be-
tween this and the old type is found
in the larger sized regular cord tire
that gives greater contact with the
road than the previous sizes and thus
may be operated at a considerably
lower pressure, but not as low as the
full balloon type. This tire is being
used a great deal in extensive tour-
ing.
Of course when it comes to the con-
sideration of the many cars used for
business purposes it is found that
many of these are equipped with the
oversized cords instead of the largest
balloon designs. For all kinds of mo-
tor vehicles the manufacturers are
constantly studying to improve the
quality of tires. Their success in re-
cent years has been notable and repre-
sents a decided contribution toward
increased riding comfort which owners
of cars enjoy.
KING GEORGE BEARS
HEAVY BURDEN
NEWS OF ILL HEALTH
STARTLES COUNTRY.
Dependence of National Ad-
ministration on Hereditary
Chief Executive Stiddenly
Felt by Public.
With King George's departure
froni the realm on a Mediter-
ranean yachting cruise, which it is
hoped restore his health after a
severe attack of bronchitis, the Brit-
ish people have realized, almost for
the first tinie, how dependent the,
whole administration of the country
is on Britain's hereditary chief exe-
cutive.
Normally the British people are in-
clined to take their monarchy more or
less for granted, as they do, most other
permanent factors of their lives. It
is only whe-n that factor is put
out of gear that the full extent of the
load resting on the shoulders of the
King is appreciated, and crowds
waited all day long outside Bucking-
ham Palace for news of his progress
toward recovery.
This was illustrative of the nation's
concern over his temporary break-
down under the heavy burdens of
state. The bulletin, signed by three
royal doctors, whichefirst disclosed the
gravity of King George's illness was
coincident with the recommendation
that he spend his convalescent period
on his yacht Victoria and Albert as
soon as he is able to travel. This
brought his subjects sharp against
the discovery that probably the hard-
est worked man in his country scarce-
ly ever takes a vacation.
MENACE SEEN IN CLIMATE.
As a London newspaper pointed out
in commenting on the King's trip,
"there comes a time in a inan's life
when England's winter climate ceases
to be a bad joke and becomes a definite
menace to health." Although King
George for several years past has been
subject to winter colds, he has never
followed the example of his grand-
mother and father, Queen Victoria
and King Edward, both of whom regu-
larly visited the south of France or
the German resorts during the winter.
Since his accession to the throne al-
most fifteen years ago King George's
absences from the country have been
few and far between. Early in his
reign he visited India, but since then,
aside from his visits to France during
the war and his state visit to Rome a
couple of years ago, he has never been
abroad. The brief vacations which he
alIOWs himself from the business of
state .have been spent shooting in
Scotland or on short coastwise cruises
in his yacht.
During these trips, of course, he is
able to transact the business of state.
The present generation of English
people, therefore, are only now being
educated in the constitutional lore that
necessarily comes to the front when
the King is scheduled to go traveling.
With the improvement of communica-
tions the formality with which royal
absences used to be invested has
largely disappeared, but at the same
time the King's absence from the
country gives a jolt to the normal ad-
ministration which steps must be
taken to 'meet.
That elusive but important body
known as the Privy Council in partic-
ular comes into the lhnelight on such
occasions. The executive government
of this country, although exercised -in
practice by a committee of ministers
known as the Cabinet, whose existence
is dependent upon the support of a ma-
jority in the House of Commons, is
vested nominally in "the. Xing in
Council."
FUNCTIONS OF PRIVY COUNCIL.
This means the Privy Council, a
body of the most ancient origin, insti-
tuted in Saxon Eines by King Alfred
to discharge the functions of state now
confined to the members of the Cab-
inet. In the Middle Ages the chief
advisers to the King who were per-
manently about him formed the Privy
Council. Now the membership of the
Privy Council -with a total of more
than 500 persons -in most cases is
merely an honorary distinction.
The Council, however, still is tech-
nically the country's executive. All
administrative orders are signed by
"the King in Council." The members
of the Cabinet must be Privy Council-
lors, and a bunch of councillors there -
CROSS -WORD PUZZLE
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The INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably
sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them,
and they- in turn to still • others. A letter belongs in each white
space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either
laerizontally or vertically or both.
HORIZONTAL
1 -Customs
6 --Boss
11 -Part of verb "to be"
12 -Shanty
14 -Mineral earth
15 -Pen
16 -Choicest part
17 -Motor fuel
18 -Before
19 -Urge on
22 -Black sticky fluid
24 -The spikenard
26 -First steamship to cross the
Atlantic (abbr.)
28 -System of worship
29 -Color
30 -Praise highly
31 -Long for
32 -Liquor
34 --Willingly
36 -Also
37 -For
38 -Suffix to form feminine nouns
40 -Boy's nickname
43 -Fertile desert spot
45 -Parcel of ground
47 -Self
48 -Earthen pot
49 -Anger
50 -Mantle worn by Turks
51 -More kind
VERTICAL
1 -Hurry
2 -Skill
3 -Turkish title
4 -Definite article
5 -Only
6 -Measure out
7-L !quer
8 -To dress up
9-Perlod
10 -Place for recreation
13 -Polson
20-Urchln
21 -Wonderful
22 -Spring flower
23 -Change
25 -Owing
26 --Ocean
27-Pcrcehie
28 -Far west State (abbr.)
81 -s -Separated
33 -Looped rope
35 -To cherish
38 -Deserve; merit
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41 -Self
42 -Unit of money (abbr.)
43 -South American plant
44 --Kind of snowshoe
45 -Cover
46 -Raw metal
fore was created when MacDonald's
Labor administration took office. The
reason for that is that the Cabinet
theoretically is a committee within the
Privy Council, upon which the title
"Cabinet" falls when it sits under the
King's presidency.
The King personally is the nucleue
of the whole administration and he
personally summons the Privy' Coun-
cil. When he goes abroad the poiver
of summoning the cone:tell must be
delegated and, under one form or
other, the kingship must be so dele-
gated on this occasion. When King
George went to India a kerma' Coun-
cil of State Was appointed to exercise
certain functions of the crown. Pub-
lic interest over the question. of put-
ting King George's power in cernmise
sion during his convalescence cruise
stresses the closeness with which he
has stuck to the job.
• $500 -a -Week Dog. Film
Stars.
Dog days are' prosperous days in
• filmiand, judging by the popularity of
the leading canine screen performers,
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Rin -Tin -Tin, Strongheart, and Peter
LeGreat of whom it can be said that,
unlike other stars, they are neither
jealous of each other nor of the lime-
light.
All three are of the Alsation wolf -
dog breed, and their intelligence is
positively uncanny, as those will agree
who see "The Sileat Aceuser," in
which Peter the Great stars.
Peter is able to reason; there can
be no doubt of it, because he is seen
to put his head knowingly on one side
and study the situation befor, taking
action, especially in a scene in which
he has to convince the heroine, who
has disappeared'under the bedclothes,
that he is not a burglar.
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Charles's parents had moved from
the city to a farm. . Their nearest
neighbor was an old lady who still
used a coffee -mill. Calling on her,
one day, Charles spied the coffee mill.
's"What is that -a little talking ma -
;chine?" he asked:
The story is artificial melodrama,
designed to show off the abilities of
Peter, who is the duixtb witness of a
!murder for which his master is wrong-
ly convictedd and imprisoned. Peter;
getting on the right side of the govern-
or, attends hie master in prison, con-
nives at his escape, , and finally at-
tacks and "denounces" the real mur-
derer, whom they encounter across
the -frontier.
The great difficulty in training
dog for the screen is to teach him to
take an order without turning his
head. One way of doing this is to
place him in a room walled with mir-
rors, ao that he can see his master
from any positiiii. Gradually he
learns to obey a spoken order without
the accompanying signal.
Rin-Tin4lin draws a salary of $500
a week, lives on steak, vegetables,
milk, and eggs, and has a daily bath,
his own motor -car, bank account, and
film contract.'
SUPERSTITIONS ABOIIT INFANTS
When ohildren were born to the
ancient Hebrews, the first duty was
to rub them all over with salt. • It was
a religious duty. Salt was the accept-
ed symbol of life, and is application to
the infant's body had the reputed
• power -of insuring vigorous manhood,
In England during the eighteenth
century a similar idea prevailed with
regard to mud, and few men enjoyed
such notoriety as "Dr," Graham, of
Pall Mall, the famous quack, who
amassed a fortune by expounding its
virtues and the various methods of ex-
tracting them,
It was also commonly believed in
forme), times that if a child on first
leaving its mother's room was not car-
ried upstairs before it was taken down-
stairs, it would never rise in the world.
Wife -re there was no upstairs to the
house the general practice was for the
'person who carried the little new-
comer to step over the threshold of the
room on to a chair, which practice was
supposed to serve the seine purpose.
It was also considered unlucky for
the child if the mother went out of
doors before going to church to have
her baby chriatened. It was mainly
for this reason that children were bap-
tized when they were but a fortnight
or so old. The sooner the "naming"
was over, the sooner the mother was
free to resume her normal life.
To weigh a child was a further
stroke of bad policy, for such a child
was sure to die young or grow up sick-
ly. To rock an empty cradle was to
rock a new baby into it. And to let a
child sleep on one's lap was a certain
way of bringing misfortune on the in-
nocent victim. Hesiod alludes to this
latter superstition in his "Works and
• Dais," so it is a pretty old one. But
fancy the Greeks being bound by such
credulity!
Annt,her old-world beliewas that a
child born with teeth would soon grow
up to be a man of either Herculean
strength or of uncommon mental
ability. It is said that medical history
records only about fifty cases of child-
ren having teeth at birth, but from the
prominence which this superstition en-
joys in folklore we may be • certain
that many cases have eacapedf the
chroniclers' notice.
Louis XIV. was one of the famous
personages who bad this distinction.
He had two teeth when lie was bort.
Bigot, the celebrated philosopher, was
another, as was also Boyd, the poet.
I Richard III. was a fourth.
I Only the other week twin boys were
born at Bordeaux, France, of whom
one had all his teeth, while the other
started tutting when he was but
twelve days -old. From this it may be
presumed that France has little rea-
son to despair of her future genius!
To be born with a caul is preferable
to being born even under the luckiest
star, as readers of Charles Dickens
will not need to be reminded.
To make one's entrance to the world
while the clock is striltibg, especially,
if it be sounding the midnight hour, is
to be blessed with the gift of second
sight, to have the power of seeing and,
smelling the wind, like the pigs of
Westphalia, and to possess the ability
to discern all manner of evil spirits
in their secret lairs.
With so many gifts and graces de-
pending on the- contingencies of our
advent, the pity surely is that we have
such small choice in the matter.
Here i the latest photograph of
Ruud Ras'mussen, famous Danish ex-
plorer, photographed on his return to
Copenhagen, after his recent Green-
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land trip.
An Old-fashioned Industry.
There is at least one industry which
remains Unaffected by 'scientific pro-
gress. It is carried on in the beech
woods Of Buckinghamshire, England,
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and :still employs for its • work -the
I turning of chair -legs -exactly the -same
type of tools used hundreds of yeara
ago when the industry began. •
I A primitive pole -lathe is used, the
, peculiarity of whichis that it requires
no flywheel or crank to drive it. A
, springy pole, or even a young sapling,
is bent over the head of the worker,
and a cord connects this to the treadle,
On its way from the pole to the
1 treadle the cord is wraped once or
twice round the piece of wood being
turned in the lathe. Thus, when the
treadle is pressed down. the piece of
wood revolves, and the sharp turning
tool held in the hand of the worker
rapidly cuts away the superfluous ma-
terial.
When the treadle is released, the
pole pulls the cord up again, and the
work revolves backwards. The tool
is withdrawn during this period, as it
cuts only while the work is running
in a forward direction.
The lathe-andthe hut which covers
it -is moved to the place where the
most suitable trees are to be found,
and although modern power -lathes
have been tried, their work has not
been satisfactory, and they have been
discarded.
We should be enjoying life, living
with the truly great, the noble poets
and philosophers, and thinkers and
discoverers; with the inspired leaders,
with the gay wits and happy lovers.
. . . Culture is the answer to the man
who would enjoy this life. ---E. Halde-
man Julius.
Natural Resources Bulletin.
The Natural Resources Intelligence
Service of the Dept. of the Interior
at Ottawa nays
Until one sees the actual figures of
production it is hard to credit the
amount of material being taken out of
the forests of Canada. The variety of
product and the quantities are enor-
mous. A statement just issued by,
the Dominion Bureau of Statistics of
the lumber industry in Canada for.
1923 contains some figures that will
be a revelation to many, even of those.
who are more or less familiar with
the development of this great Can-
adian natural resource.
Of lumber alone nearly three and,
three-quarter thousand million board
feet was cut by the sawmills, the
value of which was $108,295,563.
Of shingles and lath there were
872,385,000 pieces cut, 2,718,650,000
shingles and 1,153,735,000 lath.
There were 4,336,932 railway ties
sawn in, the mills.. Thrs does not in-
clude the millions that are chopped
by tie contractors in the woods. 'Box
shooks numbered 3,393,218; pickets,
3,124,900; telegraph and telephone
poles, 138,124,, and slabs and edgings,
339,761 cords.
Spruce 'still holds the lead in quan-
tity cut, although Douglas fir is a
close second, and white pine third.
There are 26 individual species of
wood used for lumber, 18 species used
for lath and -6 for shingles. Spruce
the principal wood used for lath, al-
though such hardwoods as maple,
beech, ash, birch and elm were sawn
for lath.
Cedar almost held a monopoly of the
shingle cut, but spruce, white, pine,
hemlock, balsam, fir and even poplar
were used for small quantities. More
than one-half of the shingles were cut
in British Columbia, although 26,-
802,000 were cut in Ontario,
538,401,000 in Quebec and 239,-
460,000 in New Brunswick. The
Prairie provinces cut but few shingles.
Alberta and .Saskatchewan each pro-
ducing only 330,000, from spruce and
jack pine.„
It would be-diftcult to estimate the
number of trees required to provide
this sawmill output, but even large
as it is, authorities advise that if fire
can be kept out of the forest s natural
increment will replace the commercial
cuttings It seems a small price to
pay for such an important result, yet :-
the toll being taken by forest fires is
equal if not in eicess, of that used
by industry.
Boots are cleaned and polished at
the rate of three a minute by a newly
invented machine. By means of a
running belt they enter a tunnel dirty
to emerge again clean and polished.
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