Zurich Herald, 1925-06-25, Page 2Automobi.ie'
ATI) TO SAFETY IN FOUR WHEEL BRAKES.
Abtzzit a "year and _ a half ago the ed, To bring this car to 'a" standstill
autcimotive world waa quite excited it is necessary to absorb that ener'gY•
about the metier of brakes and much The way to do this is to airs it into
talk was being devoted to the four- heat at the brakes With two brakes
wheel brake 'innovation, it was sup- the car has a certain atea of surface
Posed to represent a big advance in through which heat is absorbed by at-
the amount of control a driver might mosphere, rt has been shown that, by.
have over his car. It was calculated using four brakes the area of radia-
that thin new: feature would tend to tion is doubled, with the consequence
that the brakes do not heat up and
burn the lining. This also` allows the
driver to increase his Speed. Yethe
is not like;y to burn out his brakes
and he has a greater ,engin of brak-
ing safety,
lessen accidents and prevent injuries.
(In the light of the tested experieeee
of the motoring multiudes who have
used these four-wheel brakes during
the last season, can they be consider -
e4• in .general as a standard and gen-
erally accepted feature of the better
grade of ears? °". The cause of skidding is the .tend-
Probably the chief question has been ency for a car in motion to keep on
es to whether brakes could be operat- moving in the same direction and.
ed on' the front wheels without seri- at the same speed. To stop' a car one
mealy interfering with freedom in must depend upon the traction of the.
steering. To assure ,safety in steer- tires with the road surface: As. soon
dng, the front wheels are inclined in- as the braking force is greater than
ward and under -graduated, and the the traction the tire elides; over the
steering knuckle pins are set at such ground, causing a skid. One of the
an angle that they point directly at things that:, controls the amount: oi:. pia}r!e Trees.
the spot where the tires touch the traction le the weight of the car. The masts made cit. the Ioreet Nursery hat Your Eyes Tell. Natural Resources Bulletin.
round. This eliminates the tendency heavier the weight holding the ;car Stations of the .Forestry Branch of the ' *W'e are told that the oyes of the :hi- ---
to change the direction of the wheel toTheNatural Resources Intelligence
---a ' tendencythat� the ground ,thy .great-er will be "the Department of the Interior, show that tolteatual Man are gray, and it is a i�act . .. R0 uxce. Intel zgena
would otherwise_tractive force. With two brakes .on, hardy conifers such as spruce, lodge- Ottawa of the Rept. of the Inferior at
exist if one brake should hold more the rear wheels only one-half of :the ole pine, jack pine and.Seotch Ina are .that mast men of genius have gray Ottawa says:—
than another. Equalizing ;.bars or weight of the. c x is utilized,'as the p lp eyes. Brown eyes are sa.fd to expreee A very .careful analysis of . the.
g b, fi, a particularly suited for prairie planting y
cables similar to those used when only other half -'of the car bears on the and thrive under adverse conditions. temperament rather -than intellect:'"" world's "silver production shows that
two brakes were employed and an front wheels: •: Therefore it has be- These trees,. are .now bell widelAlthough
equalizer between t front and rear �"� •. g Y � ' brawn eyes flash with an,
coxae reeognieed' that -brakes on four planted throughout the Prairie Pro er, light with 'o • . n h
g g up 73. and
parts of brakes are designed to equal- wheels double the tractive effort em- vinces. I swiftly with • jealousy,- blue and gray
ire the braking power, o ed in braking and halve the lia- :
ApPLii7ATzoN OR BIe. ItEY g —`"�- eyes can express greater sadness.
s, bilityof skiddin The Coast Was Clear,
€'� -- Green and black eyes are supposed
It is recognized that in turning' cote Various tests have also shown that. Little Janet, home' from: school un- be the most wicked.' Beck `Shay 'a
usually early, ran the -doorbell, but Y p
Hers= the outside front wheel revolves contrary to the general opinion a . g en eyes played animportantpart in
faster than the inside oner°Therefore, year ago, brakes on the front as well nvne answered. She rang a second her various conquests
if the brakes are applied equally the as rear wheel's assist a car in turning and a third time but still in vain. Then The "vamp" in mod
a brilliant idea struck her. mP ern fiction usual -
outside wheel naturally would trans- a corner. The tendency fora car in •~ 2q , possesses flashing eyes of either
snit More of the braking power than motion is to travel in a straight line. She flattened her nose against the .
the other. To overcome this difficulty When the brakes' are applied to the windowpane and in a' e ea voice that green or black. .Actually, there are no
some -brakes are so designed that t rear wheels onlythere is a tendencymust have reached' the ears, of every *hlpacic eyes; dark brown or dark gray
he for the rear weels to Ione traction neighbor, called out, "It's all right, eyes have the appearance of being
brake on the outside front wheel will zlaek in certain lights. I
not operate if the brakes are applied and'skid because the centre of gravity ;nether; not the izistaliziaeiit pian, �y
When turning the earner, ie heated midway between the. front
To facilitate the oeeration of the and rear axles. By; dividing the !Irak.- �� � ea'.L�i
four-wheel brakes some makers have ing effort between the front and rear ORD PUZZ
lnatalled planetary gearing attached wheels . this tendency is minimized:
to the brake pedal. This is designed eo This condition Is made .still better
that it'will give quick' actionto take when the outside . front brake is re -
tip lost motion in the linkage and in- leased and the inside front brake is
amuse the leverage when the. brake applied strongly, as in the case .of
shoes' contact with the drums, some brakesi-:because the car tends to
There is little doubt that four-wheel turn around its own centre' and in
brakes enable a car to stop more the direction of the corner to bene=
quickly. Tests have proved that a car Boosted. If the outside rear brake
Ding at twenty miles. an hour with could be released this would still fur-
wo brakes could be stopped within they benefit the situation.
thirty feet, and with four brakes As a result of more than a year of
within twelve feet, and that similar genial usage the conclusion is that
results could be secured when greater four-wheel brakes semi to be growing
speeds were used. increasingly popular. The experience
A car running along at a certain of motorists during the Iast: year: has
speed has a certain amount of energy gone a long waytoward demonstrating
stored in it. This car going down a that they represent a _nernianant asset
hill has the amount of energy increas- to motordom.
CAUSE Or HK; PING.
One o1' the mast picturesque and novel photos of 'Wembley is shown above. It was taken when their Majes-
ties attended the Thanksgiving service and shows the clerical precession marching across the arena.
�,�r Saving Sea Birds. '
Jew!Ver- Thanks to the interventionof human
if j beings, the fierce fight between sea
elar' birds and rats.for n zpz einacy on Ailsa
• gei`�` %�i� ;: Craig, the rocky islet at the entrance
,�,«o , ;F1 -r- to the Firth of Clyde has elided in the
a .. rout of" the rodents.
• Ij 7 �%"r For ages Aliso Craig has been one of
i ( ����� �i the two great British -places for tens of
."`ia se. thousands - of sea birds. But about
thirty years ago a few rats, swimming
ashore from a wreck in the vicinity,
established themselves on the •,island
and multiplied at such a rate that they
The Locus in Quo. soon swarmed` over the whole rook.
Native--"L.aat week' the boys hung As the rats prospered the sea birds
our mayor in effigy." disappeared and in 1924 very few could
Tourist. -"Sol Where is Effigy?" be aeon.
Last December the Royal Society for
h
the Protection of Birds :contracted
Notes -About Noses. with a certain firm to exterminate the
.One of the purposes of the nose is rats, and poison. .was used so effective -
to rake the temperature and him.idity ly that it is impossible to estimate the
of inhaled air before it enters the number of rats destroyed. The cost of
lungs. The colder anddrier the air, the campaign was" about 2160, • and
_the greeter the need for this function, Ailsa Craig Is noir restored to its old
so that in a race which has lived long position as a sanctuary for sea bird%
in a cold dry environment the nasal
paseages become long, and the nose Grossing Sea by Train.,
high and narrow. A through service from London to
After migration from one type et en- Paris, without changing cars or alight-
vironment to the other the adjustment' ing from the train will become effec-
ts not immediate, :but takes :many gen- tive shortly, when huge ferryboats car -
emotions, Thus, the high, narrow rying trains are put into commission
noses of the dominant castes in India between Dover and Calais,
indicate that the latter are •coxnpara- -- - r.-- _ __ .
tiively repent immigrants from the Sharp Answers.
north. Many sharpaan
yewer• is iu
ode
Fossil skulls• found in laurope indi- blunt 'language. •
nate very
,narrow y hi gh, na rtrw noses during —
the
the Ice Age, gradually becoming short- Mothe' Use Their Noses-
ee and.. broader as the climate Ina Moths can smell, s'oientists have as
proved. certained.,
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THE INTERNATIONAL SVHDICATS.
SUOdESTIONS 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
VERTICAL
1—Prayers 2—Fish without ventral fine
5—To remove the husk 3—Cen':raf fine
9. Ereathes out ile-A blendte
11—Recline • 8-A drudge
12 --hand measure of 100 square 6 --Pian of courage
Meters 1: --,To utilize
"•13—A bench -` 8---A fruit
16--A salute 10 -Runk
• 18 --An' age 14-prientai
20—Continued in an Inactive stats 16- .Sagacity
22—For shame 17—Pedigree
23 -Reared 18•• --To do wrong
24—To bar 19-1n royal manner
26-•-•A kind of cloth 21—The Scandinavian tAn uapel
27—Discloses $3 ---Surrounded
28 --Wild creature 2$—To fondle
30-,pLoud shouts 26—Cunning
33—To impel 28 ---Constructed
34—A baste industry (abbr.) 29—To grow old
36 --Narrative .31—A boy
37—Suffix sank as "ln" 32-Stiabby
38 --Slumber •• 24—A genus of plants ,
110—Coloring matter 3i1 -Memento
41—Sorrowful -..._ruelness tranaaation
r
oo cl.tl
42—Sheltered n .n "
44—Funeral songs::';)—Ara equal
45 at:ut 41—To fasten with 'thread
Crawl I43—Point of compass ,(abbr:) '
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Ancient Saying --'"Pa, may Y use, the -
car, please?"
"Are you going away?"�,»,
"Yes, to 17urope,"
"By which ship?"
'Airship."
"BUT there is no airship service,"
"There will he by the tune my wife
is ready."
•
Wonder where milies used to pIIt
plunder years ago when these was no
garages? ` --
Timely Rhyme --"Hush, little vacant
;corner, don't you cry; you'll be a fill-
ing station bye and bye."
Heard on a Car.
First Woman --"Did your husband
die a natural death?"
Second Woman "Oh, Yes, ho was
run down by a motor car,''
about one-eighth conies from miners Pedestelane should be thankful that
within the British Empire, Canada's they do not have to dodge bicycles any
silver . mines have been he greatest moxa. .
prod"users within the empire for two •
decades, aceording to Dr. A. W, G. What is funnier than balloon < tires
Wilson, of the Mines Branch of the on Ford wheels? Well, there's the gold
Dept. of Mines, To -day Canada is the monogram on the door of a Ford run -
third largest producer in the world, about. •
being surpassed. by Mexico and the
United States only, who together con- Most fiivvers are filled with nuts,
tribute nearly 65 per cent. of the an-
nual production. Charity eovers a multitude of sins..
Native silver was known to the In- So do closed cars, •
diens about Lake Superior before any
F,,uropeans 'set toot in that locality. Man's inhumanity to man makes
Champlain mentions the occurrence of thousands hesitate at the curb.
galena on the east' shore. of Lake
Temisl.atning, directly opposite and Even it a man does pass you with
but a few miles away from the fa- his auto, he may be behind with 'his
mous Cobalt 'areas of Ontario, but payments.
knowledge of the presence of silver is
not recorded. Silver ores" have since The average chauffeur certainly
been found_in Nova Scotia, New Brun- takes life easily,
wick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Al
berta, British Columbia and Yukon, Let those who never break the speed.
Records of production, which have law cuss M:P.P,'•s for breaking the dry
been kept since 1858, show a total re- law,
eovery of silver to the end of 1928 of
the reeteiery was slightly
fine ounces Last year "Somebody put the hootch
tly over 20,-
000,000 fine ounces. The price of sil- But nobody's ever, '
In my ear," sounds fine,
ver varies daily, the highest yearly Put any in mine,
average on record being $1.28.2 per „-__:
standard ounce 925 fine, and the low- The noise an automobile makes de -
est 47:2 cents: Present prices are pends more upon the drfver than. up -
around 68 cents per' ounce. on the machine itself.
The urines. of Cobalt, South Lorrain
and Qowgandae• all in Northern On- tI is not so much the living wage as
thrice are Canada's principal silver the fiivving wage that men demand
producers, Sin the first discoveries the flays,
in this area, ,about twenty years ago,
production has been (lose to 857 mil= Correct This Sentence. Hon ourrees, while present. production 'My dear sir," said the encs . officer,
is at the rate of nearly nine million "you. disregarded my stop. signal and
ounces per ,year, jammed up traffic frightfully, but fun
Silver production in British Cohan:-
bia and the Yukon is obtained from along now and try to do better.'
lead -zinc ores: In 1901 the maxhnum. It you.drive fast you're a lawbreale
production was' -obtained, 5,151,383 er-; if :.you drive slowly, somebody
ounces, in British- Celumbia. Between whaans you from behind.
1906 and'1915 silver production mark-
edly
..,
declined, but :since 1915 there Avoid Too Much Light.
have been slight advances, until at Too much light can be se bad for
-present the rate of production is the eyes as too little. Artificial light!
about 8,000,000 ounces, per year. A is new supplied so readily and so
number of silver lead prospects were cheaply that it is a temptation to use
located in the Yukon, during the past too much of it—or at least to direct it
few years, and rich ores are being with too great fntensity on what one
mined lir the Mayo distiiet, where the Is reading, Did you ever try to read
present rate of production is about .a book or a newspaper with the bright
one million ounces. sunlight falling directly on the page?,
•
Net a Steady Job, If you have, you will understand how; .
excessive light can strain slid fatigue
the eye. Thegolden mean in'illumina-
tion as i neverything else is• the thing,
to strive for.
Sheehad been maid of all work in
the family for more than twenty years.
Like all faithful retainei;s, she did
what she liked. She even tried to
manage them until, in self defense,
they gave her a month's notice.
"Ah, well, ma'am," she said, "I can't
say as I'ni surprised. Somehow •1 al-
ways telt I shouldn't suit you."
Elephants' Keen SmelP,
'African elephants have been known
to scent men at 1,600 yards.
A Huge Sortof Carp,
A species of Siamese carp reaches a
ie &tho
fav r live feet..
B ids
(consulting cook -book) : "0
my, that cake is burnieg and I can't
take it out for live minutes yet."
Solution of last week's puzzle.
Outside, of That, Jeff's Giri is O.K.
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