Zurich Herald, 1925-04-02, Page 7T11:Autc..:niK..biIQi •
CAR IS PATIENT DRUDGE UNDER ILL-TREATMENT.
c•'erhaps the meet astonishing fact- ting them down, all of which tends to
in the wholeautomotive industry" is increase the cracking and peeling of
the temendous amount of abuse an paint,.. Baggage is frequently carried
automobile will take from its owner" on the side, rear or front of a car with
and yet continue to give hilar service, no effort to protect the finefinish from.
The modem motor car is a gl atton being scratched. Or tho owner may
for pnishment. It stands for an have a habit of kicking his feet
endless amount ,of maltreatment be- against the cart next to the running•
fore it balks and refusesto go, board as lie gets in or out. This rteat
Think ofthe follcs'.who )cave their ment has been .$o general that the
ears parked in the streets all day dr' manufacturer has found it necessary
„at the suburban railroad station,
where the rain, snow, fog, danipliess,
wind,
dust sunshine and thoughtless
to develop some finish that will stand
more abuse than paint and varnish.
The owner's attitude toward the
`boys con play about it. Think of the various mechanical parts that are not
test this wort of treatment is for the; in plain 'sight also is apt to be one of
fine finish that comes with a new car. i neglect. Ho forgets to keep well lu-
Think of the deterioration to tires.) br cs ted the numerous points that re-
-Perhaps there may be mud and water quire oil and are fully described indhe
-in the morning, sleet and snow in the , menufa to.•'s instruction book. He
afternoon and by night freezing, so, often fails to keep sufficient water in
that the tires are almost frozen fast. i the radiator, Aboat the only thing he
Think of the erect of such dampness I thinks a car actually needs is gasoline.
-en the delicate. engine parts and other The -brakes may need adjusting, but
rmetal features. the puts Off this job, which would take
!onlya few minutes if he were to ad -
A motorist may run his car in all -I just them. Without this adjustment
• worts of weather, which,' of course, is' the driver may put himself and all
what a car is for. No one could ob- his passengers in serious danger of
,ject to an owner using his machine on i accident. The battery needs water,
a rainy day. But when he finishes new one asa result, but he fails to attend to the fatter,
his with the possibility of having_ to buy.
garage ,again quite often ho is notjourney and gets back into his' -
likely to do anything about the inud 1 a
and water that cover the car except to I FOLLY RESULTS IN TROUBLE.
leave it standing and dripping and l In starting the car he pails out the
•:dirty- ( choke and then forgets to return it
WASAI;?ici OFTEN LEAVES MARK.to lean
err leaer mixture and carbon fouls
his machine. Then he wonders -why
.. .Perhaps on a Saturday afternoon, tit do -es not run ,easier. Probably he
after the mud has been caking on for ;places the blame on the manufacturer.
a few days, the owner will get a i He tinkers with the -carburetor and
streak of'tunbition and decide to wash other finely adjusted instruments and
his automobile. The chance are, how's! then wonders why the car does not
ever, that he will go at this job in such! give better,service. '
a fashion as :to leave a )inion little' These are only a few ways in which
. diamond -pointed knife scratches on i a -motorist easily can fall into habits
the body, such as come from washing j of abuse to his car. Of course, not all
it with an ordinary rag and a pail of I owners as as neglectful as others, but
water, instead of using a lazy stream i there is always the temptation and
of- dean, clear water and the gentle i tendency to put off doing those little
application of a good sponge. Some , but important acts that go with first
even use soap and water, which is al -I class care of a car: That automobiles
most criminal treatment of highly (( stand as much neglect as many of
polished surfaces. 1 them are called upon to stand is a tri -
Then there are the slam -banging of, bute to the skill of the manufacturers
doors, the rough treatment of the in producing a machine that is almost
hooda when lifting them up and put- fool proof.
111.1.011.
AN EMACIPATOR OF
THOUGHT
"A Little Lesson in: Living.
see -
Almost one is :inpoiled to believe;
there: must be n;.grain 02 truth in the,
fancy of tlio ancientsages that cer-
tain times and seasons are more pro-
pitious to the birth of great„men than
others; that when planets congregate
in certain signs then leaders of the
race are begotten.
But a •strange coincidence, not so
often noted, is that on the very day
of the very year which saw the birth
of the Lincoln child in a log cabin in
:Larue County, Ky., another infant, des-
tined to be a great emancipator of
human thought, was uttering its first
cry in its mother's arms in the town
of -Shrewsbury, England.
On February 12, 1809 -Lincoln's.
Natal day --Charles Darwin was born,
Thus the two greatest then of the
Nineteenth century—men• who in their
respective spheres have never since
been matched -•-began life together in
time, though far apart in space and
station.
Lincoln struggled against the handi-
cap of poverty in order to get an edu-
cation and fit himself for his great ser-
vice to humanity. Darwin struggled
against the handicap of privilege that
he )night free himself to follow the
gleam of truth. While others tell
again the inspiring story of Lincoln,
let ns on this page devote a few words -
to the story of Darwin. His father
was a physician and the son of a
physician ;• his another the daughter of
the ',famous Josiah Wedgwood, artist
in pttery, a woman of culture. Charles
`was sent to the famous ,School of Dr.
Samuel Johnson at Shrewsbtiry, where
he was the despair of his teachers.
Diligently they 'sought to drive into
his heat) the narrowly academic cur-
riculum of the day—Latin and Greek
and classic literature
MUTT AND JEFF
The Living World.
Rebelliously Charles turned from
dead languages to the living world.
He fied the classroom for the field at
every opportunity. He was a poor
student,when it cavae to conjugating
irregular verbs, but he knew more
about the ways- of insects, and toads
and :makes than ally one of his ciassi-
oal diasters, • -
Education is • a strange thing. It
must come” from within: All the pre-
ceptors and instructors in the world
cannot impart it if the inner urge be
lacking; but, granted that urge, neith-
er poverty nor privilege can prevent
it.
Class ,standing was no index to what
Was going on in Darwin's mind. At
Cambridge he made the ocquaintance
of men of science. One was the geo-
logist Adan) Sedgwick, who took a
great interest in him and carried him
on a rock -hunting expedition in North
Wales. ,another was Henslow, who
urged hint to apply for the position of
naturalist on the Beagle, .a ship start-
ing on a tour of scieutific survey.
Out of that journey came his first
great books, and the training In close
observation and reflection which later
bore such marvellous fruit. Ike was
twenty-two molten 110 sailed, tWenty-
seven when he returned. In July of
the following year, 1837, he began his
first note book on the "'transmuta-
tion of species."
- There followed twenty-two years of
untiring study, observation, notemak-
ing and hard, hard thiulcing• Thea,
in 1859, burst upon the. world his re -1
volutionary work on tho "Origin of,
Species."
More than a decade later carte "The i
Descent of Man." These two books
i
formed new channels for human
thought and the currents which pour- I
ed through them fructified the whole
realm of human understanding, i
Science, philosophy and religion
have all deepened, broadened and de-;
veloped new vigor under the inipnlses•
of Darwin's researches and theoriz-.
ings, Not all that he discovered and
•
twill not -bo turned aside by fables and
fictions; fourth, a courage of convic-
tion and adventure, which follotirs
!boldly its path even though it must be
the first to boat it down and make it
passible 'for other feet.
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C CSS- rC Rt- PUZZLE -
vie INTERNATIONAL 8Y1'1OlCATee
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 these.
and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white
space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either
horizontally or vertically or both.
HORIZONTAL
1—Flying mammal
4—Impassive
9—A vehicle
12—Work animals
14—An Idea! spot
15—Mislay
16—To indicate
17—Part of a volcano
18—A girdle
f21 --Garden vegetable
23 --Pronoun
24—For two performers. •..
26—Appearance
27—Point of compass (abbr.)
28—To steal
29—Endeavor
31—Collection of, notable sayings;_
33—Single
34—To perch •
35—The sewn edge
27—To perform
39—Brawl
40—To peruse
41—Toward the top
42—Malicious look
44—To be alive with
47—Food for livestock
60—Birdhouse
63 -Lying down
54—To leave out:
67—A luminary
58—To set ,free
59—Affirmed . a
60—Female sheep
VERT.ICAl._
1—Portend
2—An edged tool
3—Sensitive
6 --Mark aimed at In quoits (pf•i
6—A department 0f the army
(abbr,)
7—French article
8 -Unit of measurement
9—Annoy
10—To employ
11---A slava
13—Contradiction
15—Southern State (abbr,)
19—The beard of grain
20—Perceive
21—Poignant
22—Averted
24—Refusal
25—Stupor
29—Preposition
30—Pronoun
31—In like manner
32—In or nearby
36—Repaired
37 --Owing
38—Unfasten (poet.)
39—Return payment
43—Distant
44—To move faster than a walk
45—Comrade
46—Funeral pile
48—Japanese sash
49—A degree (abbr.)
81—Exists
62 -Uncooked
55 -Mother (abbr.)
56 --Pronoun=
vived the critic'sm .a'n: t constructive
thinking of other nui$ds,
Blazed ,a Trail.
But he blazed a trail; he brought an
unexplored world under the feet"' of
many a successor. He made the -teem
"evolution" familiar to us; he made
its significance a key to mysteries pre
viously' baffling. He loosened the
shackles of tradition.
SVltat are ,some of the lessons in live
ing to be derived from Darwin's
story? First, the value of open, see-
ing e'es, which observe and note and
compare; which see the things that
others• overlook; second, the value of
an open, reflective mind, which carries
no prejudices into its world of won-
ders, and meditates upon what it sees
until it has found a clew to what it
means; third, a love of truth which
And underlying these the great fact
which Darwin made clear for us, that
back of all life is an urge which re-
fuses to be denied; an urge which bat-
tles against environment and compels
it to serve its higher ends; an urge
which carries forward all that is worth
while in living experience and employs
it for new achievements; an urge
which lifted the slimy denizen of the
sea bottom and taught it to swim,
which carried the fish ashore and
taught it to creep and leap; which
gave the reptile wings. and developed
from the ganglia of sensory nerves a
advanced was new; not alt has Sur- brain that in time, according to his the betterest!"
theory. became lean, who walks erect
with his eyes upon the stars.
Back of that urge, sans faith, is
God, who, In mall, meets the life which
He set upon its great adventure mil-
lions of years ago, and helps it to find
its full realization in His purpose of
love.. -S. J. Duncan -Clark in "Suc-
cess. ,
Natural Cements,
In Europe natural •cemen.ts are call-
ed Roman cements and they were .first
manufactured by James Parker. Na-
tural cements began. to be manufac-
tured in France about 1825; in the
United States, natural cement rock
Was 'discovered while budding the Erie
canal in New York in 1818.
Her Grievance.
lertie had half a biscuit buttered,
and :a whole one unbuttered, He gave
Grace the whole one and kept the but-
tered. one. A. remark being tirade
about tris• giving away the larger piece,
Gracie said:
'Yes, 'he gave nue the bigest and kept
JEFF'S AS CRAZY AS A FOX ---By Bud Fisher.
The Little Fir•'Tree,
Therearea thPuasiand •ehildren on the
�h�11"l�,
Slender, ,green-l4niJ ed, in e4brength and
bcaaruty growing;••
They totes their heads and talk, as
children with,
When the wind's blowing.
Their fatheesl died beton they came
to birth,
And many a night and day,.
Sleeping and etuleJ and still, the child-
\ ren. lay
Within their lnether, the .brown and
splendid earth.
One 'says: "My father was agallant
tree;
He gave his life for Man
When the Great War began.
For then they slew the fir -trees one
and all,
And the whole ail' wa.s thunderous
with their fall,.
Ana the hillside,.strewn with dead.
Pit -props, they said . ,
"Now when I'm. grown I hope that I
may be
Mighty and brave as he;
I hope that I may' die as my father
died,
Valiant and full of pride,
Offering breath and bougie and body
and limb
To Man, most . . . ."
And, as he spoke, a reran uprooted him
To. make a London -child a Christmas
Tree.
—Jan Struther in Westmlineter
Gazette.
The Watson Chair.
Sir Robert Falconer, President of
the University of Toronto, leaves on
March 26th for. Europe. He has been
invited by the Anglo-American Society
to be the incumbent in 1925 of the Sir
George Watson Chair of American
History, Literature, and Institutions.
The acceptance of this invitation
means that he will deliver a series of
six lectures at university centres in
Great Britain. Sir Robert has chosen
as his subject "The United States as
a Neighbor," and will deliver the
opening lecture at the Mansion House,
London, on May 12th, when the Lord
Mayor' of London will preside.
The Watson Chair was founded and
endowed by Sir George Watson, Bt.,
on the occasion of the return of the
Prince of Wales from his American
tour at the end of 1919. Just before
the war, when plans were under way
for the celebration of cur hundred
years of peace with. America, it was
discovered that no university in Great
Britain had either a chair or a lec
tureship in American history. With
his gift Sir George Watson undertook
to remedy' this' defect.
The Anglo-American Society has
asked Sir Robert" Falconer to show
how. Canada may act, and does - act,
as an interpreter between the peoples
of Britain and the United States, and
to show Britons and Americans that
they have much to learn from each,.
other and that they have many rea-
sons for coming closer together.
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Education Saved Polly.
Possession of the human speech
saved the life of one of my educated
garrote. This parrot had wandered
tram the grape arbor to take a dust'
bath, One of our bens who had quite
a family of small chickens, thinking
that Poly was after her chicks, spread
iter wings and ran for the queer -look -i
ing bird. She was ready to spring up- e
on Polly, when Polly turned facing her
and holding up .one Toot remarked:
"You quit, quit, I tell you." The hen
instantly stopped, then Polly started
to make her getaway, but the hen'
again followed her. Polly quickly
turned, and said: "Now you quit.
Shoo:" This was too mach for Mrs.
Hen, and+ she went back to her chick-
eus.-Leanora E. Tuttle.
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Generally Different.
A village with very few children
piqued the curiosity of Francis Wilson,
the actor, and he said:
"Not many children here."
"No, sir, not many," was the answer.
"How often are children born here?"
asked Wilson,
"Only once," Wass the answer.
Anmeric,t Oldest Continent.
America., although the last to be dis-
covered., is probably, from a geological
standpoint, the oldest of all the con-
tinents. Hence Tennyson in his poem,
"Locicsley Hall," calls it the "new
world which is old."
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Natural Resources Bui1etin.
The Natural Resources intelligence
service of the Department of the In-
terior at Ottawa. says;--•.
Do you know what natural 're-
sources are being developed in your
own district? Do you know what
01 tic:yes .are being ntanufaetared in
your own town or village? '
This thought is suggested by recent
reports of industrial development that
evidence 'a lack of knowledge` of what
is taking place at home. One of thess.
was where a St. John, .New Bruns-
wick, manufacturer, who uses glue in
his plaint, did not know that fish glue
was manufactured in that city. The
product was marketed. from Moiatieal
and the place of manufacture was
unknown.
When the Canadian explorer or sur-
veyor prepares supplies for his trip
into distant parts of the country, one
of the necessities is butter. This is
put up in sealed cans and will keep
fresh for long periods. Butter is put
up in this form in Halifax, and it is
interesting to note that a wholesale
grocer in that city was unaware of
the fact.
A recent development that tends to
overcome this situation. has been the
holding of exhibitions of local manu-
facturers. Many curious situations
have thus come to light. It has been
found that buyers were sending con-
siderable distances for articles manu-
factured in their own towns or vil-
lages, and that use was being remade of
materials of which little was known
by almost the next door neighbor.
Another advantage of these local
exhibitions was that the waste from
one industry could be used for the
raw Material of another. This en-
abled the first to convert his waste
into a source of revenue, while it
provided a cheaper source of supply
for the second.
Getting acquainted with the re-
sources, both natural and cleated, of
one's own home surroundings may be
of value to all residents, and further,
it tends to create a greater interest
and pride in the home town.
Earthquakes Since A,D. 577.
Killed
Constantinople ....... 10,000
Catania 15,000
Syria 20,000
Cilicia 60,000
Naples 40.000
Lisbon 30,000
Napies 70,000
Vesuvius 18.000
Calabria 10.000
Schamaki 80,000
.Sicily .. _.. , 100,000
Yeado 190,000
Algiers 18,000
Pekin 95,000
Linea and Callao 18,000
Cairo 40,000
Kashue (Persia) 40,000
Lisbon .. 50,000
Syria 20,000
Central America 40,000
20.000
Calabria .. ... 10,000
Aleppo
Colombia 14,000
Japan (Hondo) 10,000
Martinique 40,000
Krakatoa 36,000
San Francisco ..... • 452
Messina ... 164,000
Costa Rico 1,500
Thrace—Asia Minor 3,000
Bulgaria 250
Walcon and Hope Is's500
Peru 250
New Hebrides . , 500
Segura, Japan 250
FIondo, Japan 360
Catania 200
•Central Italy 12,000
N. W. Persian , 6,000 to 20,000
Japan ' 103,000
Year
577
1137
1158
1268
1456
1531
1626
1631.
1633
1667
1693
1703
1816
1731
1746
1754
1755
1755
1759
1797
1322
1857
1875
1891
1902
1888
1906
1908
1910
1912
1913
1913
1913
1013
..1914
1914
1914
1914
1923
1923
An Ingeniuos "Alibi."
The people who are most indolent
physically are often quick enough.
mentally. Such was the case with the
British workman of whom the Tatler
tells. Ile was usually late in coming
to work, and one day, the foreman took
him to task.
"It's a funny thing, Jim," he said,
"you allus coming in a quarter of an
hour behind the time and living next
door to the works, while Teddy is illus
on time, and lives three miles away!'
"There's nowt funny about it," re-
torted Jim, "1f he's a bit late in a
morning, he can flurry a bit; lith it
I•m late, I'm here."
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