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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1925-06-11, Page 7The Automobil BALLOON TIRES PROVE COMFORT IN HARD TESTS, ¶'hat balloon tires have come to stay ADVAN* WAGES ARE SEEN, as representing advance in comforts There also is the advantage of such for motorists is generally conceded.i a car being Jess liable to skid on a Iioy,ever, there are some new tender's, slippery highway than with the cord cies pertaining to the use of balloon! tires, and there is much less danger tire•a which obtain as a rota of ex-' of the balloon tires picking up nails perienee in their use during the last' and getting punctures when they are few months. Consideration of these ' rnoro highly inflated than in the for- tendencies should enable the auto-' mer low -inflation method • Of course, mobilist using balloon tires to prolong' the greatest benefit which comes. from the life of this importtr,nt factor in,� the increased inflation is found in the motoring, and iv securemore general fact that tires which have been in - satisfaction from the standpoint of Elated will last much longer, and riding comfort, I therefore the tire expense to the mo- While the natural tendency has been, torist is considerably reduced. for owners to do nothing but sit back; It is now considered that about and enjoy the velvet-like; shockless thirty pounds is the best pressure to ease that came -with balloon tis, I use in tires on an automobile weigh- other owners have been making a I ing around 3,000 pounds. Cars which study of how to get the best possible are heavier .will need some extra air results frorn using them, and Manu -';in the tires to secure the same gen- facturing concerns have had their ex-; eral effect in riding. A. full balloon perts at wTork figuring out the best. tire carrying a load of about 1,000 methods that would give the greatest' pounds is considered over -inflated at satisfaction, to automobile owners. PROPER INFLATION POUND. anything over thirty pounds. And for a 6.20 tire, one of the manufactur- ers recommends twenty-four pounds Visitors to Montreal find the famous old church of Bonsecours one of the One of the most important things as the minimum inflation for such a interesting landmarks. Tho church is dedicated to all seafarers. which has been disc vcred is that at car around 1,00.0 pounds. first there is a tendency to under- Another important consideration° is inflate balloon tires. It was found that inasmuch as the manufacturers that with a very low air pressure the have carefully tested the tires they amount of shock was greatly reduced. i make from the standpoint of giving The fact, that under such • circum -l the greatest service possible, the own stances the balloon tires were still er should carefully follow manufac- able to give satisfaction from the turers' recommendations as to pres- standpeint of continued service indi-I sure. He should be careful above all cates the strength which manufactur_ things not to overinflate, and it is et- ers put into these first designs of i most as important to be sure that the larger tires. After some investiga-I tires are not under -inflated. This tion, however, it has been demonstrat-1 means that the motorist should take ed that under -inflation does not give; the trouble to test the air in his tires the best results in the long run and frequently to see that they are kept that in using the balloon tires the car' at about the proper pressure. should not sag when driving along! Car manufacturers have been im- the highway. In fact, there is a de- proving the designs of steering gears, finite tendency nowadays to put more' springs and other units which are air in these tires, so that the shoe' affected by low pressure tires, so that stands up in much the same way as al there is now a perfect adjustment be - cord. tire. I tween these factors and the new type Of course, even under these circum- of tires. This adjustment, however, stances, there is a largo: contact with l needs the proper pressure in *the tires the road when using balloon tires. • in order to be completely satisfactory This is due to the larger dimensions and it is found that even one or two of the new .tire. But the results are pounds one way or the other makes more satisfactory. It is now the usual. considerable difference in the sats fac thing for motorists to carry frorr five tifir derived from balloon tires. to fifteen pounds more air pressure in i Ordinarily a tire should not lose their tires than was the case twelve more than four pounds of air pressure months ago. in a month, provided the valves are Ikept tight and the caps are given a As a matter of fact, in many cases tighttwist. In some instances, under the air pressure has been doubled. these conditions, the pressure will re - Where a year ago some automobile main practically constant for several owners were carrying only fifteen weeks. The owner of the car usually pounds in their tires, they are now can ascertain in a short time how carrying thirty pounds, and several rapidly deflation takes place and can manufacturers are recommending adjust his scheduler of renewing air terenty-five pounds for the` rear tires pressure in his tires accordingly. and thirty pounds for the, front ones. It is estimated that balloon tires While this does - not give quite the have greatly reduced the number of feather -bed effect of the low inflation, punctures, io that It is not uncommon : ,.'t does give a riding comfort which is• now for a driver to go 5,000 miles very satisfactory and much inad- without having any tire trouble.: These vance of the cord 'tires. ' This makes tires •are not so soft as to drag up for better mileage andenables the foreign matter nor so hard as to force driver to get more power ' from the nails andother sharp articles into the engine. tread. The First "Black Maria." Now that London's last real "Black Maria"—the horse-drawn 'prison van— has been relegated to the scrap -heap, it is interesting to trace the manner by which it came by its name. The common theory is thatIt was named after a muscular negress of Boston named Maria Lee, and there seems to. be no other candidate. It was said that "Black Maria" was so powerful it was always necessary to obtain a conveyance in which to take her to prison, The first prison vans were, therefore, named after her. The name,."Black Maria," is: one of the few respectable 'terms in the language which the Oxford Dictionary omits to recognize. Will the phrase disappear now that the "Black Maria" l becomes .a motor instead of a horse vehicle? Quite possibly, it may„ though the slang dictionary is a very conservative institution, Artificial Silk Popular. Leek, England, the first silk centre to take up 'seriously the production of artificial silk garments, has been so successful in the change that its per -1 oentage . of ' unemployment is the low- est of any district of the silk industry. There is nothing new in trial mar- riages. According to some people, every marriage isa trial. Listening to Music. Listening to music with intelligence demands from the listener more than is demanded from the votary of the other arts. The lover of painting or of sculpture may stand before the pic- ture or the statue for as long as he likes. The lover of literature has available to him the books of his authors. Those arts, not only provide for their lovers permanent records of their beauties, but some of these en- able those who study them, to bring into play the healthful activity of com- parison. Thus,the person looking at a picture or a piece of sculpture in- stinctively measures what they repre- sent with the reality In .so far as he has seen it. Muslc, on the other hand, has no such aids to its effect upon its hearers. Being merely sound, ; and sound that is as fleeting as' it ie intang- ible, its effect must chiefly be instan- taneous effect. For that reason, lis- tening to it, if it is to be intelligent listening, must be fare more concen- trated than intelligent Looking at a picture or intelligent reading of a book need be. Which Way Are You Living? There is a tremendous nr ndous difference be- tween living Life indifferently, without purpose' or plan, and living it triumph- antly with a definite goal In view.— ' 2.3,m. CROSS -WORD PUZZLE 2 10 15 9 16 18 7.4 z5 32, 30 31 36 39 47 48 51 55 52 55 5't 59 61 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 horizontally or vertically or both' �. HORIZONTAL 1—A vegetable 6 -Of moi•e recant -date " " 10-1n the" year of our Lord (abbr.), 11 --To :analyze according to gram. i mar , 14—Division of the army (abbr.) 15—Railway (abbr.) 17=To strike out 18 -Note of the scale 19—One who loves extremely 20—Perches 21—Footless animals 24—To take firm hold 28—Highest card 29—Variety of pork 32—Exclamation 33—City in N. E. Massachusetts 16=Prefix, Toward; to 37—Everlasting 38—Black and red bird of U. S. (i,l.) 39—Abbr. for name of •a Western State 40—Covered with dots 42—Bono (Latin) 43—A dunce '45—Used in billiards '46—Made an error ;49 --Slips sideways 151—Variety of domestic fowl 53—One who paints 155—Abbr. for a thoroughfare .56—A vegetable 159—Civil. Engineer (abbr.) 160—Toward 161—Plural of that 62—Prefix meaning "in" /64—Gyrates 115—To be indignant at VERTICAL 1—A- throng. " 2-3143t"her (abbr.) : 3—Loves extremely 4—Musical entertainment 5 -River in Venezeula 6 -Looks' at maliciously 7—City in State of Washington 8---A large cask (abbr.) 9—Dried fruit 12 -Man's name (familiar) 13-N. Central State of U. S. . (abbr.) 15—Measureof length (abbr.) 18—A thoroughfare (abbr.) 22—A fastener •, 23—Attentive 25—Proportion 26—In front 27—A spring flower 29—Party to a marriage ceremony 30—Tint 31—Stout 34—Short sleep 35—Before 41—Charge made for instruction 43—Bigoted 44 --Physician 47—Ties .again 43 -Abhor 49—Dots 50—More rational 52—Man's name (abbr.) 54—Southern State of U. 5. (abbe.) 57--F;bbr. for a New England StA') 58.-A bone (Latin) 60—Same as al (musical) 63—Poiht of compass (abbr.) Keep Your Piano in Tune. If it is important that the piano MI the horse be- kept in tune—and who will deny that it ,should?—it is a groat I deal more important that the piano in a public or semi-public place be kept in tune. • - Such a piano, upon a.s:ingle hearing, can disgust a whole roomful of people. Not one family and a few neighbors, assn the case of a piano in the home, but many families. . And yet the rnajority of pianos in public places are neglected. Is this not eroeth a thought on soilreone's part? 1 Illiteracy in Canada, Illiteracy in Canada is not confined to its frontiers and newer territories. Defining illiteracy as inability after the, age .of, ten years to read or write in any language, an analysis of the census statistics of 1921 shows that 5,10 per cent, of the population of Canada is illiterate. Of 'the provinces, Ontario has the lowest illiteracy, 2.90 per cent., and New Brunswick • tops the list with 7,61 per cent. illiterate. Manitoba .comes second to New 13runs- wick with an illiteracy of 7.09 per cent. In that province the high per- centage is due in great measure to the large inmrigrant population in which illiteracy is much higher than among Canadian born. Of the foreign' born in. Manitoba 20.72 per cent. are. illiterate, In the three Western Pro-' vinoes there are '69,636 illiterates and of these 81 per cent. are foreign born and 19 per cent. Canadian and Brit ish born—a condition which should make us, as Canadians, think. Com pulsory education, laws are doing much, but in spite of these, many: Canadian born children of foreign!" parentage as well as many children of Canadian illiterate parents are per -I petuating their family names in the ranks of illiteracy. Fbr instance, 39.46 per cent. of foreign born Ukrain- ians in Canada are illiterate and '7.65 of their Canadian born children can neither read nor write! Illiteracy, however, must not be confused with* inability to speak English. This is another problem and a serious one. In Saskatchewan alone over 40,000 citi- zens cannot speak English. A much lower urban than rural il- literacy in Canada, even among for- eign born, demonstrates the excellent work that is being accomplished by night schools. Field Marshal French. Whatever place may be finally assigned -the Earl of Ypres in the his- tory of Britain's part in the World War, no subsequent revelations can rob his name of the lustre that at- tached to his supreme effort on the battlefield from which his title was derived. Lord French was the fore- most factor in the creation of the "First Hundred Thousand," as the nucleus of that greater force whose firm stand on the Continental fore- shore saved the day for the Allies and for embattled civilization. Into the Open With the Boyo, 80me people let themselves grow, old, others grow old gracefully, whip others positively refuse to grew o14,' Many illustrations of the latter' have come to light, in recent letters to the Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Departnent.of the In- terior. A remarkable number of en. quiries are being received from resi- dents .serosa the line for information concerning canoe routes and camping conditions in Canada, particula?ly in those portions where on; teal man would undertake the hardships inci- dent to the trip, A glance at the map of North- western Ontario will indicate the vast network of lakes and rivers, the greater portion of which have never, or at least rarely been traversed by any but the, native Indians. Into thisi area the coming season, in increasing numbers, lovers of nature, 'children of the open, trail -breakers, or by what other appropriate designation these delvers into the wilds may be known, will be packing their canoes and out- fits. From the tenor of their letters many of these men must be past mid- dle lifebut the fascination for the wild still holds its power over them. Each recurring season sees their faces turned toward the great unexplored, areas, and they refuse to recognize, that time is passing; while their hair may take on an iron -grey shade, the' heart remains young,—they crave the freedom of the open, and refuse to grow old. One of the letters asking for maps and canoe routes, which the Natural, Resources Intelligence Service is pro-' viding to tourists, is so enthusiastic that reading between the lines one can feel that the writer is just bub- bling over in his eagerness to again ply the paddle or shoulder the pack - sack. He says: "Last summer rny, sixteen -year-old son and I spent a wonderful vacation ire the Hunter's Island country, next summer we want to go either to Nipigon or French' Rivers." The old spirit will not down, and the coming season is to see manyof these erstwhile staid business men and their sons from all over the United. States and Canada answering the call' of the wild into the undeveloped heart of the continent. Natural Resources Bulletin. When French's great service was The Natural Resources Intelligence performed, it was undoubtedly well Service of the Dept. of the Interior. for the further conduct of the British at Ottawa says:— offensive that the supreme command Canada's crops are now in the was intrusted to Haig. But in,a year ground, and the annual question, and a half of intensive warfare he "What will be harvest be?" must re - had justified the faith reposed in him main unanswered for some months. as the brilliant tactician of the South ; The result will now depend upon Na - African war. As Lotd Lieutenant of,ture. Sunshine and moisture have the Ireland until the Home Rule Partitionfinal say as to the outcome, and in Act became effective, he served the; this connection it is well to recognize Imperial cause with courage and firm- I our dependence upon forces entirely ness in a critical juncture. beyond our control. Whatever policies of statecraft or - Canada, fortunately, is blessed with manoeuvres in the field may continue a climate that produces the very best to be controversial issues in the ap- of staple food supplies and that can praisal of his career, he set down to be depended upon. It is well for the his record so much that was for the world that such is the case, otherwise indisputable advantage of the cause many countries would be hard pressed in which his sword was drawn that he for enough to eat. Canadian wheat in is entitled to a place high in the list l its raw state is now going to 26 in - of soldiers who have ably served the' dividual countries while Canadian British commonwealth. wheat flour is being used upon the tables of the people of 62 countries. Obstinate. Canadian oatmeal and rolled oats are Mother—"Now, children, don't quer- going to 20 countries, while meats et all kinds are being provided for a rel. What's the matter?" nian 'Willie—"We're playing airplane, and great Y populations. Canadian farmers have a responsi- Mamie won't jump out the attic win- dow bility which has probably never dew with your umbrella. be- fore been placed upon the shoulders, Punish Owner of the Dog. of any group of men. The United' States has practically ceased as a When a dog barks at night In Japan wheat exporting nation, and the eyes the owner is arrested and sentenced of the world are being directed to to work for a fixed time for the neigh- Canada. We have the land, we have bogs whose slumbers may have been the climate, and we have the men with disturbed. the ability and will to meet the de- mand, and within the next few years this country will occupy a position, never before occupied by any country.: Instead of being, as it now is, "the' granary of the Empire," Canada wilt be the granary of the world. With the advantage of a beneficent nature' and the aggressiveness and energy of Canadian farmers, Canada, as a worlds supplier, will make good. But They're Busy. It is estimated that 87 per cent. of those who t the ,, v themselves pd , eves haven t much else to do. Only the dentist gets paid for look,. ing down in the mouth. Solution of last week's puzzle. 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