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Zurich Herald, 1925-04-16, Page 7If ..hoH Ai.itcmobile RATTLE IN GAR OFTIaN The number of locks which are to be :found on the modern automobile seems to be increasing as the years go by, :and the total value of carsand acces- aeries stolen runs up into even larger figures, There are locks on the steer. ' ng wheel, the moto-meter, the trans- mission, the doors (of closed cars), the trunks carried on the, rear and the spare tire. While these might be considered as locking devices, they are not exactly what the automotive engineer means when he uses this term. He means the various devices which keep the different parts of the ear in place and working effectively so that important bolts will not be loosened by vibration. It- is the ideal of every manufactur- er to have every nut set up. snugly and properly locked in place. It should be the ideal of every driver of a car to .see to it that they stay in• this desir- able condition. No ;motorist cares to ,liave his car so conspicuously noisy from numerous 'rattles that everybody can recognize when he is driving by the sundry sounds his machine makes. CHECK UP.FOR •DEVICES, There is just one possible advantage -that attaches itself to the clattering, namely, that no thief would ever con- sider stealing it. The noise of such a tar would readily be recognized by the local police. However, the thief "vi- bration" niay steal many of the parts. The new .owner of a car after driving it for a few days should go over it carefully himself to check up on the locking devices or take it to a service station for this purpose. When a person buys a new automo- bile he ought not to take too much for; granted as to the snugness of nuts and he ought not to condemn the maker of the car too severely if he finds a few of them becoming loose after a few hundred miles' run. This is apt to happen in the best cars. It should be said that the, manufacturers have gone to great lengths to equip cars with such locking devices for parts as will insure the greatest possible safety to automobile owners. Many parts of a car are made fast through the use of bolts with the threads on thein and nuts that turn on the threads and make the parts tight. In the past, more than at pres- ent, it was the practice to have the bolts long enough so that two nuts could be put on. One was jammed against another in order to lock then in such a way that it would be impos sib je, for them to conte off. Then, to make doitbiy sure the nuts would not fall off, a hole was drilled into the bolt and a split steelpin called a cotter was inserted. Thus even though the nuts became loosened the cotter pin MEANS TROUBLE NEAR, would prevent them 'from falling off the bolt. On some cars, instead of using two nuts, a single nut with patches in the head of it, called a castellated nut, Was employed,. When this nut was in place a' hole was drilled through the bolt and the eater pin was inserted in a pair of notches in the nut, so that it could not back off and become loos- ened. However, lock washers are now used more often in place of leek nuts. Tho lock washer is made of hardened steel with two comparatively sharp project - tions causing by the splitting on the washer. When the nut is turned down on such a washer the sharp.edges dig 1 into the nut and the part which is being held into place. As a result, the nut is prevented from working loose. These washers . are sometimes called I split washers. In other places the head l of the bolt is drilled and a wire is passed through it and made fast in •such a way that the bolt cannot turn. It is of extremeimportance that the wheels of a . car be securely locked on. Nobody' wants a wheel to leave his machine when touring along a country road. Each front' wheel is usually. secured, by two nuts. One acts as a lock nut and a cotter pin is added to prevent the wheel from coming loose in case the nuts should loosen up by any chance. REAR WHEEL FASTENINGS. The rear wheels, which are fastened rigidly to the axle shaft in all types except the full floating,. sometimes em- ploy a special lock washer and a single nut. This lock, washer :s constructed so that when iis placed over the end of the shaft it cannot turn on the shaft. It has ears which may be bent snugly against the flat surface of the nut to prevent turning on the shaft. If the rear axle is the full floating type, the wheels are held on by two nuts, the' conditions being the same as the front wheels. In the engine the wrist pin, which. travels up and down the cylinder at the rate of about two thousand times a minute,'is likely to work loose. If this happens it may come in contact with the cylinder'wall. Since the wrist pin is made: of hard steel end the cyl- inder wall is composed of soft cast iron, the cylinder may be scored. As a result grooves may be cut in it so that there is no possibility of keeping -good compression in theecylinder. Locking devices,. like most other .parts of an automobile, while reliable in the main, are not infallible and •should be given the once over•once.in a while to , insure the .best motoring results. Freaks of the Famous: Eccentricities, of famous people pro- vide a strange and surprising study, for many celebrities of the past have been obsessed with remarkable no tione, and have engaged in freak hob- bies and queer pastimes. It is recorded of Daniel Webster that he•.had a peculiar fancy for painting the faces of his cattle, end he •changed his color scheme frequently, One day the neighbors would see Webster's cows grazing in the park with their faces painted blue, and the following week the animals would appear with red -painted faces. Webster, it is said, delighted to nark the look of surprise with which his friends regarded the result of .his strange hobby. The ruling passion of Peter the Great was to ride about in a wheelbar- row, and many of his State visits to cities and towns over which he ruled .,;were made in this fashion, the mon- erch being wheeled along in his home- ly •couveyance pushed by a perspiring manservant. One of the favorite entertainments of William the Conqueror was wat9h- dng a dog fight. His subjects, knowing this, used to send his dogs, and the king would select from these the big- •gest and fiercest types Then he set then to fight in pairs, and would sit all day watching the combats. Of a very • different nature was George Washington, for, though he loved. fox-hunting, his main idea of the chase was always to try to capture alive a young fox cub, which he would takehone with him. Then, patiently • and with much perseverance, he would teach his captive tricks, whichthe cub later performed for the amusement of 'Washington's friends. He --"My iirs't wife inateeed me for z1Y.'moxrey," Slie----"How'd shemake out?" An EpItapfi. " Xe didn't have time to stop et the oros.sing; he has plenty of leisure • how." A Poem You Ought to Know. In March. Wordsworth has made the English bakes famous all overthe world, and visitors. from many lands visit Dove Cottage on the shores of Grasmere, and Rydal Mount, his later and larger house on Rydal Water. " The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green fields sleep in the sun. The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one Like an army defeated The snow bath retreated, And now doth fare i11 On the top of the bare hill; • The ploughboy is whooping—anon— anon; There's• joy in the mountains, There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone. City Under Sahara Sands. A Swiss traveller recently paid a visit to • the underground Town of Gharian (or A,s,sabat), eonstrwcted un- der the sands of the Sahara Desert, in Tripoli, not far from the Mediterran- ean coast. It has a Mohammedan population of 30,000. On the surface the only building visible is a small Italian military out- post, and the town,built several cen- turies ago, lies several hundred yards below, A winding narrow path leads down to the principal square, which is surrounded by houses resembling cata- combs cut into sandstone and clay. There aro flats several stories high, in which goats, chickens, etc., share the rooms with their owners. The subterranean city has two great advantages—a cool 'temperature all the year round and freedom from sand-. storinss, Its gf'eat drawback is a lack of light. Long before the •sun sets it is dark there, and primitive oil ,lamps are lighted, The greatest sufferers are tho harem women, who inus.t be in their rooms at sunset, and are not permitted to have lamps. Excellent water is obtained from wells, and ventilation, it is stated is goed. If a candle is too large for the candle -stick, the end should be held in hot water until it is soft. It can then be pressed into shape to fit the hole, and there will be no waste of wax, as in the ,case of shaving slices off the end. CROSS -WOR PUZZLE TK INTERNATIONAL SYND CATE. SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES s • Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. b tiese will give yeti 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'nunibered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or -both, HO•RiZONTAL- 1—Familiar fruit 6—Hostler 11—To ring musically 12—To thwart 14—Sufflx to form plural 18 -Part of a priest's dress 17—A law school degre:o (abbr.) 18—Joint account (abbr.) , 19—A serpent • 21 -Grand Lodge (abbr.-pl.) - 22—Man's name 23—An obstruction 24- -Entice 25—Forward 26—Forming an Image of 29—GIrl's name 31—Man's name (familiar) 33—Suffix meaning "of the nature of" 89 --Secretary (abbr.) 41—Tell, relate 44—To win • 46—M istakes 48—Numbers (abbr.) • 49—Insane 50—Th go wrong 1 51—In no manner 62 --Latin -word meaning "in e same place" (abbr.) 53—Small compact mass of s ft matter 54—Torn piece of cloth 56—A .college. degree .(abbr ) 57—Satiates 58—A prrescrlbed place 60 -Seraglio 61—Royal VERTICAL 2—A society for the relief of sick) and wounded (abbr.) 3--InterJectlon 4—Wanderer or wayfarer 5 -Symbol • 6--•A measure of capacity 7—Decisions, as of a Judge 8 -Aged 9—Meaning "all correct" (abbr.) 10—Allow as a .deduction 13—Forgive 15 -The sun 18—A container 20—Province of Canada (abbr.) 23—Poet 27 --indefinite article 28—Preposttlon 30—A nobleman (abbr.) 32—Part of verb "to be" 33—Covertly sarcastic 34—Blows 35—To make alive 36—Physlclan's title (abbr.) 37—A South Atlantic State (abbr.) i 38—A raised level space 39—Presently 40 --Pertaining to a rib 42—A wreath for the head (rare) 43—Great fright 45—To move with: a Jerky motion 47—To take away from wrongfully 53—Conflict 55—To silence 57—A continent (abbr.) 69—Southern State (abbr.) Don't Do It. The way some people neglect WIPP' health is suniuned, up by John Kende rick in the following verses: You linow t• he model of your car, You know just what it's powers are. You treat it with a deal of Gare Nor tax it more than it will bear, But as for self—that's different Your mechanism may be bent, Your cahburetor gone to grass, Your engine justa rusty mase. Your w•heele may wobble and your eogs • Be handed over to the clogs. And you skip and skid and slide Without a thought of things inside. What fools, indeed; we mortals be To lavish care upon a oar With n'e'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery! England's Short Parliaments. The shortest Parliament In •English history was summoned on September. 30; 1399, for the purpose of deposing Richard II., and was ,dissolved the same day after fulfilling this task. The Parliament which Charles I. summoned in 1625 failed to please that exacting monarch and wast dismissed, after five months, whilst the Bare - bones Parliament, namocl after one of its members, lasted a similar period. The Parliament of 1701 lasted a month longer, U.S. Leads in 'Insurance: The United States carries more life insurance thea all the rest of the world combined. h' `Solution of last week's puzzle. DB a El CI ® ©©v©®�ao©o® 138113-1211128MOM ©O[] 131130 ;;©0©'0000 0©M LICJ©©rtSIC•EDD ®0®v®', o©oao©©o© ® 00x a aw ®Ds '-Q©00 _ = u 0©© ®ov0M ,P0 =d©©M© OMU o O EC o0 000x;© 0D0© 0©© ac 4 t CUZICIBMIUMMUMWAI M Merely a Test. Patrick McCorthy was being shaved by a very careless barber. He took the numerous gashes in stoical silenoe, but when the shave was over he gravely walked over to the barbers water bot- tle, ;took a ihputhful, and with tightly coiniiressed lips proceeded to shake his head train side to side. "What's the matter?" demanded the barber. "You ain't got •a toothache, have'you?" "Toothache, the devil!" said Pat. "No! .I was only trying to see if me face would hold water without leakin'•" Warning. Prison Chaplain (to, prisoner about to be..discharged)—"Now, my roan, try to remember What I said in niy ser- mon last .Sunday, and make up your mint;"never to return to this place." Prisoner (deeply moved)--"Guv'noa•, no man who ever 'carol. you -preach would want to come back 'ere again. wO 'plDaANS. THEIR •c Tired and ,cold and hungry, 1Vir, Vin cent and his, companion„ who 'were canoeing in the Great Slave Lake di,s ts'ict, were glad to see an Indian wig war; it promised rest and food. When their canoe slid up the bank several children, nearly naked, fled and hid 1n the woods. gr. Vincent went towards the wigwam, and a tall, surly looking Indian rose from a fallen: tree and slouched toward him, Mr; Vincent pointed to his -mouth and asked for food, hut the Indianan shook his• teach The visitor then held out his hande, and said he should like to warm them at a fire, but the Indian again shook his head. Mr. Vincent, looked round for the children who ran from hire; he saw a tousled head here and there' •and inquiring, ` frightened eyes and sunken cheeks. Then he he - eyes and sunken cheeks; • Then he re- ' A little further down the river on the opposite bank he cause upon an- other wigwam. The barking • dogs brought out a big Indian and four com- fortably dressed boys. The, IndiaIndiangreeted the stranger hartily and in- vited him into his hone, "Plenty fish, said the Indian, wav- ing awing aside the money that the visitor offered him. "Him cheap." Mr. Vincent spoke of the Indian on the opposite bank. 1• 'II1u my brother, Black Beaver!'" ,said the Indian. "I, ,Toe Beaver, Black, '' he no like the missionaries," • "How often de you see missionaries up here?" asked Mr. Vincent, "One, two, sometimes three times a year, but not for long,' aaitl,Joe, "They come long way and stay so little, but we learn all we can while they are here. Joe smiled on his wife and boys, and their dark eyes glistened: He invited his guests to stay over- night, but they said they had to hurry on. "Bear him boys sing," said Joe proudly. Mr. Vincent looked into the fat and smiling faces of the boys; then lie thought of Black Beaver's children, and he wondered. Joe's boys sang a Christian hymn for •him, and he praised them and gave each one a'coin, When Mr, Vincent returned to his home he did what he had never done before; he gave his pastor a generous subscription for the missionary fund. "What does this new interest in mis- sions mean?" asked the delighted min- ister. "It means," replied Mr. Vincent, "that I have looked into •the faces of the children of a Christian Indian." The River's Vindication. It's' true I've gone on the war path, I've smitten your cities and homes, I've cracked the walls of your stately halls, I've threatened your spires and domes. I've spoiled your gardens and orchards, I've carried your bridges away, The loss is told in millions of gold; The indemnity you must pay. But had I not cause for anger? Was it not time to rebel? Go, ask of the springs that feed me; Their rock ribbed heights can tell. Go to my mountain cradle, Go to my home and see, Look on my ruined forests And note what ye did to me. These were my silven bowers, My beds of bracken and fern. The spots. where I lie and rest me E'er to your valleys I turn. These you have plundered and wasted, You've chopped and burned and scar- . red, Till my home is left of verdure bereft, Bare and lifeless and charred. SO'I have gone on the war path; I've harried your lands with glee. Restore with care my wgodiand.s fair And I'll peacefully flow to the sea. F. W. Nash in Canadian Life and Resources. The Mud and the Sunset. One autumn evening at sunset two men were loiteringon the picturesque old bridge at Battersea, England. One of them was a writer, hard-working but unsuccessful A, The river was at a low stage, at I least three-quarters ebb, and on each t side of it there were patches of shin- ing mud that reflected the glorious P western sky, which turned the ooze in- to a mass of wonderful colors. b Though the writer was hungry, lie forgot hie hunger as he stood there watching. He was pleased to see the : a other man, also watching. Presently the other man edged a lit -1 tle .closer to the writer and remarked, i "Throws up a 'eap of mud, don't she?" It was not the sunset he was seeing, but the mud. The glory that was thrilling semi was lost on the other. 1 The world is there in those two men. They are representative; the whole 1 world might be ranged behind one or i the other—those who see the mud and 1 those who see the glory. In life every- thing depends on the eyes we look 1 with, and it is worth while to sacrifice 1 almost all else if we may only get the right sort of eyes. Modern realism, so- called, is often. the ability to see only mud. It is also a form of`blindness, the inability to see the finer, purer aepects of life. Forestry and Water -Power De- velopments Provide Cheap Newspapers. While many means are used for the dissemination of news, the telephone, telegraph and radio, we cannot over- look the fact that the great distribu- tor of news is the newspaper, says the Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Dept. of the Interior. Beek of the newspaper stands Can- ada's natural resources of forest and water powers. Newsprint is compos- ed wholly of woodpulp, certain other chemicals being used only in the pre-" paration of the pulp. In 'order to make the woodpulp a large amount of power is used. This power must be supplied at very low• cost, for the reason that the product is a very low priced ma- terial, newsprint being sold to -day by the mills at a little over three and one- half cents per pound. It is estimated that a paper mill requires 100 horse- power for every ton of daily capacity —that is, a one -hundred -ton mill re- quires 10,000 horsepower. This power is supplied largely through the devel- opment of some of our magnificent water powers. Not many people realize the speed with which newsprint is made. Ma- chines have been installed within the past few years that will make :a sheet of paper 234 inches wide, and they are running at the rate of 800 feet of. paper per minute. Taking the wood-' pulp in solution on the screen at one end of the machine, it is being wound' oil the roll at the other end in about' one minute. This width of paper is divided into rolls of the length re- quired by the different sizes of news-' papers. When we can put in an enjoyable .lour or more reading our newspaper,' a a cost of two or three cents, let us' not forget that back of the paper, and roviding the raw materials for its manufacture, are the forests and water -powers of Canada. For the enefits that the forests confer upon is let us reciprocate by guarding them gainst fire. Cave drawings, 20,040 years old and depicting womcn dancers, found in a Spanish cave are described as the old- est fashion plates in the world Here are some of the houses erected by the British. Red Cross They contain eVery labor -.saving device known to modern science. Society at NorwYch for disabled soldiers. Hard Cash. First Citiaen--•"Ha3 Zero. made much money in the ice cream business?" The Other One—"He's made a cool million; ' Trials of an Editor. Typographical .errors and mistakes often seem extraordinarily funny to the reading public, but in the office where they occur they seem more like tragedies. In an elaborate report of a Jewish wedding, the "Ohio State Journal" once said that the happy pair were followed closely down the aisle by the officiating rabbit. That teemed very funny to the light -minded, but it did not seem tunny to the editor, especial- ly when the bride's father celled to see him about. it. She Wouldn't Go. A captain and his chief engineer, tired of endless debating an which one of them the Ship could more easily c1is- pense with, dccidr-,l to change places for a day. The chief nec'endeil to the bridge and the skipper dived into the engine -room. After a couple of hours the militate appeared on deck covered With oil and soot, „Chief!" he called, 'you will have to Crime clown here at olive. 1 rant make her go.". "Of course yen can't," said the chief. "Siwe ashore."