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The- Automobile
GIVIlici. A. "LIFT" OFTEN LEADS TO neer BY AUTOIST.
' With a tremendous effort being nuisance that has esculents In it o
• enede to cut down the number of tied- both physical and moral dangers. SO
dents 'Mitch can be Feld up against popular has this catching a ride busi-
the automobile there is one growing :less become in the coUntre, hoWeverS
practice which ought' to be considered that the motorist travelling along any
Carefully. This is the :natter of allow- highway is constantly annoyed anmQyed by
irig folks, usually children, to ride people who stand by the road or in
aeywhere but on the seats 'inside the it seeltieg a ride that will help them
Car ,Which are provided for the ex- en toward their destination.
Press purpose of occupying whe. Not a few of them hove become so
'riding. bold that they stand in the middle of
This habit takes on all forms of the road exposing themselves to all
indulgence. There aro those lads who kinds of danger of being run into as
climb on the spare tire or other parts they practically demand ii. lift. If a
of the rear of the car. There are motorist passes them by they do not
those who hang on the end while hesitate to curse him with choice bits
roller-akating. Others do this sort of of profanity. Many a -driver, being
thing while riding on bicycles. Still 'kind-hearted by nature, finds it diffie
others climb on the running board and cult not • to give these lifts.
thus place their lives in jeopardy. And DANGEROUS PaAcTifie
not all of these reckless individuars
are thoughtless boys. Some are girls While most of these selfsappointed
and many are grown-up lads travelers are young men out for iuno-
th m on the con-
. The food cache on 311e -e Island, nine degrees south of th•e-North
who
Pole, established during the northern trip of the Canaditua government -vessel
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th 4.n�
J0/6"Iie well By'th16 be so t t thi 1 1 1
ati Oleg:lett-ear° nileedele With other tle,failore of the will led to. other and
' • PeePle.Bot 4,1yill4pOwer, is eeercieed ,etlier failures, unt14 .•14 the ,coullie of
Alefl,c• , • ."".. linte lb willhad heeornb eo •wealt-thet - •
•, TO esk enebody. to bele Yell to. lie WAS not able to resist tbe tempts.- "
stsengthen your will le foOlish end use- tion to'ferramit, the great crime,
less , It is entirely a enteate aar Wilbp(wer forn61.bY an eeeurnus
grarlie who is engaged oe this difilcUlt latien et vietoriee' in, little thins, At •
and. lite-loeg eboadd neer snceltethe tithe they MAY Seenl trifling, hitt it
' about it Ito anyone.. Olin friend' 'end yietery' in thessCtrillos. that enables
anquaintances will Son- find 'out that. us ,te Meet the great'eao.m.ent When it
we are exercising will-powee. eboWS comes, ,. For ale -the loWle ae Well as
itself, anYeterionsiyelike good thoughts. the mighty, must ,et sortie slate or ana
Some may be arinoyet.', sena may .other, be called upon to face their
pcoff; but they will not be able ta with great, eminent whenethe will has toth`
hole their respect,. . - rest destine,
'What is 'will-powera .sim1Dly1 ,What is the advantage -of strength-
' making. the inclinations ,blay second .ening the will by thissoonitanS and
• •,,'"Ilddle to the will; it..is,.When \vie/iota difficult -watchfulness? ..A.Pa.rt from the
. has decreed a eertain -4burse, forcing ' inward joy that comes trom these
mirsolves to Wiese that ,nourse, silent victories; the strengthening of
me take a slinple cs.se. Suppose the gets one on:in the world and_
I decide overnight that 1 will get up ,opens the way to happiness.- Foe tap -
on, the following morning at a- eertain piness never eoines by searching for
miriade, When the -elock strikes:. And it: it is a by-product as it were; it
supPose, when tile clock!strikette-I;lia conies sideways from doing something
o ought to know better: , • , > s
It should go without saying that all trary Ire net as innocent.as they look.
such persons. should not be encouraged i Women drivers of , .carsperhaps being
in this sort of thing.. In fact, they more tender-hearted than men, are
ehould be very definitely discouraged probably most apt 'to take these.para-
and forbidden to ride thus. What sitic, wanderers aboard.. But both men
may happen gto those on the outside 3'1'4 women drivers svill usually be
is bad enough, but the responsibility using good discretion if they. resist
of the -owner of the car is considerable the temptation. Here is one time it is
if he allows boys to climb on his ma- wise to pass by on the other side. .
chine and then they ere hurt. No doubt the small boy is the most
persistent solicitor of free auto •rides.
Even if he is only going a quarter of
uHITCIVNG" cONDMINED.
Not only should this outside riding a mile to sahool, he often arefea-s. to
be discouraged with unmistaken firm- stand in the road awaiting for a ride
flees but also the practice of a motor- rather than walk theeshort distance.
ist taking a stranger in his car for a aleishould be advised against this press'
lift should be frowned upon. This tice by his parents, who are supposed
pastime is called hitching or catching to love him. Such advice from par-
a ride. This business has reached. the ents, if et could become general, would
proportions 'of a fad in some parts of. mean* a considerable reduction of auto:
the country—one of the less. desirable //labile disasters. There is no doubt
anediums of transportation taken, up about it, and the motorist should dis-
lee some too lazy to walk short courage such a habit, if net for his
tenses, by others who are mere:y look- • own convenience, for the sake of the
ing for.adventure.• lad's welfare.
Every motorist will understand Then when one considers the dans
what is meant by hitching, for it is be- gers of this catching' of rides when
coming a menace both to motorists and young women and girls take up this
those who hail eademobiles for free sort of thing, it is not difficult to
rides. It ought to be coneid•ered as a point out disastrous possihilities.
When I was a little lad
With folly on my lips,
Fain was for jrntrneying
All the, seas in stilps,
But now across the southern swell,
Every dawn- 1 hear
The little streams of Duna
Running clear, .
When I was a young roan,
• Before my beard was gray,
. -to ships and satormen
'245,16° my heal•raWazT
But I'm weary of the sea -wind.
I'm weary of the foam,
And the little stars of Duna
Call me home,
—Marjorie L. 0, Plekthall.
neefin leen, Postponed,
This conversation printed as a joke
is platesible enough ft be accepted as
genuine:
"Johnny, did you enjoy the boolt I
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Arctic. It may prove a boon t)Polar expelitione.
f th t utes and, else as well. as we can,
may not seem a very grave fault, But
Just Was'cing '
„ "-ineine never get me to waste.
houes sitting on a ions witb. any man!"
Irene -eel supp•ose it ts.jast waisting -
i time."
sent you?" inquired hie aunt: • 1 ee Race tothe Pole.
"1 haven't looked at it yet," replied
the boe. ,
"Why? Don't you like it?"
• • "1 don't know,. Me said I'd have to
wash my hands, when I read it."
Apple Year for Nova Sootia.
The forecast of Nova Scotia,'s apple
crop for 192,5 indicates that prospects
never looked any brighter than at pre-
sent for a successeal crop this year.
The crop should, reach, it not exceed,
previous records,
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Answer to last week's pusiee
-Early Glass,
in early times beach sane was melt-
, ed to make glass.
The North Pole is to be the faahiofl.
able' resort this summer. Six'
soon aa Lite ice:Melts, Some are go- 37—To pull
Mg in aeroplanes. Others p_efer gg—A, fish
airship. British, American, _Norwegian
and ,,Freneh- explorers wil be engaged
lit a race.
It' seems a pity that some interne-
tionse authority could not regularize
the sport' by adopting a system crf
handicapping, 'worked out so that all.
Ithe explorers would reach the Pole on,
the sante day, Eeeb expedition means
to Plant a flag at the Pole.
11 the worst comes to the worst a
- fresh expedition can gb out .tiext .year
and survey the ground, desiding-by ob-
servatiose which flag was nearest to
!the Pole.
It is, nevertheless, rather a .,Tules-
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Vernian idea to fly an airship over the
the Pole. even if the scientific results
of such an adventure are less tangible
than plOdding Or sledging over the ice
in the approved manner. lt introduces
gess of mechanical breakdown which
bed.- or an er TA , •
ib • P • • d • et. liltivating
• then get up and -hnrry. That ba itself- id ay c the- ,
CROSS-' W. RD' .PUZZLE„
, , Tut INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES:
Start out -by filling.in the words of which you feel reasonably
sure. These vvill. give you a clue to other words crossing them,
and they in tiirnito still others. A letter belongs in each white -
space, -Words starting at the ntunbered squares and running,either
'horizontally or vertically or both. ' ,
HORIZONTAL • VERTICAL
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1 -,--Compensation - ,-- 1---Achlevgd -
52-indisttner"---, - ' 2"' -To he ready tor
6 --Of the city ' 3—To procure ,
12—To be indebted , ' 4—investigator
13 --Allows ' ' 5—Arrange In folds
it ie. Because every failure of the will
rakes it more 'difficult tasssongner the
next tinie. •
A "co' noitruman e
- ee I ofscience once
gale in my hearing "If 1 say that I -will
• get up one morning et seven, and do
not get up till,lialf-past• seven, that
-2, rilinor negligence :may be .the, °allay
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it my committing g great crime twen- iine and strong, bogie etIonce, and ire
ty years hence." ' • gin with „the little -things. ,
Nre'/V •let Me sound a note of,warning.
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Will-povrer is jiot obstinacee If you
find that, what You thouglit We.** will- ,
pewee is becoming obstinacy, and hurt-
ing those yoe lova, wipe - the slate
clean and begin 'again. • •
Finally; reenenftriethat if you went
to fashion 'your , into ' geanetlaing
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14—Southern State of -U. S. (abbr.) 6—Make known
15—Smart • 7-1-11041+Iest's headdress
17--Approprlate
18—In good time • gearreeloy
.• -9—To shut -out '
21—To bend e, lie -Refusal
10—To apportion
20—To emit fire
24 --Before 16—Body of soldiers
19—Pertaining to b'irds
25—Oolorer""
21 --Atmospheric electricity (pl.)
29—Corner
22--PreposItion
osition 23--Maratider
33—To separate
lions are reported. le be leaving as - 36—To exist
86—Spare
• 313:= -Wicked *retch
a new element of speed ,ane new dans.
add to the perils Of the explorers. t . 1
A Good Reducer, -
Trade'S Just booming." '
" 11, is estimated that a man working •
hard on a summer's day loses 7.7 per
cent. of his body weight in 24 home., '
40 --Preposition
41—To crack and roughen -
42 ---Skillful •
44 ---Prefix. Two
45—Part of a shoe
47—Outbreak
49—Weapon
61—Lair
58—To shut
66—To deck with gems
56—Smoothed
69—Nominal value
60—Property
68—Poem
64—Develops
65 ---Over (poet.)
66—To sprinkle with,ntoistUro
67 --Golf term
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058 --Joyous
?5—Trade
-26--Province of Canada (abbr.)
27,--LinTruftful
29 --African village
30—To postpone
32—A weight
34—PoInt
35—Cover
56—Evil
41—To end
43 --Fixed compensation (pi.)
45—Pronoun
46—to feast.
98---PrepositIon
50 --Ostentation '
51 ---Station
52—Cord-like structure of -body
54—To brush up '
58--Watch-pocket
57 --Conducted
5£1L -Condensed vapor
60—A tree
61—To dip In a liquid
62—To endeavor
Wise,gnougle
Felend---"Why do you ihve such mis.
spelled words and ungran
. Better -Grade Mowers jeep Natural,Resourcee
- „ Lawns Velvety ..,:',, ^:.• -7---1-- '. , .•
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„ • , -----es. .., ' . The• Natural Resorees Intelligence
Much of the °success,. in establisting,„,Serace of -the Pept. ofs,-01.e Interior,
a level, velvety stretch of lawn de- at Ottawa „says: ' -, -
penes upon the -mowing. The main Are danateps loyal to their own
,lased is a good lawn mower.- There vegetable aeciefeuit g,reeters? --
A -glance at the reports -of foreign
are scores of lawn niowers on the mar-
ket, bid It 'will be economy in the•long Vegetables and fruits inverted into
run to get a good mower. - The male this country .gives reason for edeimer;
factor telecting a mower is the thought as. to, whether we are glyies
quality of steel. in the blades: Will our own produce -the gasp -port it-tlee
they stand sharPening?- Many of the serves, or .whether we are net. ce;tia
cheap grades of mowers won't. When vating an extravagant taste for out -
the first 'edge Is: worn off they 'never of -season and imported si'vegetates•
perform usi; to the mark again despite
earnest Sharpening. . --•
The result is a ragged -looking 'lain
after the mower goes over lteand the
thicker and more luxuriant the growth
th b A fie t 1 hi h
t e evorse e o .s -c SAS -
end fruits. ' • • ,
For instence,in the month .of Ja.nu-'
ery of this year, We bought 'risen the
United. States 2,66,6,666: pbtinde of
ordinary- potatoes, valued- at '$25,372,
in 'year Wheretherinwere ample stip.;
grade DIONVOT is rather expensive, but pike of Canadian potatoes available,
it is better to club with a neighbor and
get a good mowor than to waste n.oney
on a bargain counter machines that
hold up over summer. Find out
what sort of steel is in the blades and
get the dealer's word for it before tak-
ing itetway trona the store. s
Mowers with good atee[ blades
vshich will tahe sharpening, run twice
as easily as the poorer grades, and
there is great saving in time, labor and
nerves. A cheap mower is poor econ-
A last sprinkling of, nitrate will be beans, peas,: cern- and
tomatoes, -sve
- a help to the grass at this stage,- to , ?pent $601,675 in the twelve months
keep up the spring rush. Sprinkle it outside "of Canada. In fruits, we
fineisparingly, but as even
13' as possible, bop:eusg,hltorit8ivhtthe:41UvepaidnitedStates in the
and be sure that all lumps are broken
twelve months 172,101 barrel e of ap-
$867,826, and
The lawn will need no more nitrate we also aoag.at 1,021,064 pounds of
until the dry weather hits it and It be- dried apples, worth $52,906, or $900,a
gins te turn sere. Then give it light 832 for imported apples, while Can -1
dressings before wetting it down with
oda hods the world's record or qual-
the prinklLr.
ity, and has ample etioplies. Other'
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fruits, whieh we bought in large quan-i
titles were, plums, -$8e5,212; ateewsi
berries, $764,593; pears, $807,959;
peaches, $609t3L8; grapes, $86.0,298.,1
For bananas. we paid $4,194,017, for
oranges ;6,409,805, and for lemonsi
$1,058,569.
This large gwintity of vegetables,
'end fruit was purclaeed by Canadians
in large part whl:e the fruit growers
of Canada were searching for ms.
arket
in which t.psell their products.
Canada le so geogra-phically situat-
ed that she is, for a portion of the
- year, dependent for variety in fresh'
fruits on- more southerly countries,
While in January of 192,4 we bought
but 95,865 pounds, -valued at $2,341.
We bought 42342 worth of cabbage
in January this year, against $1,730
last Jartualy.'In the pgst fiscal year
sve bought seaside of Canada -1,084,866,
bushels of oedintsey potatoes valued'
at $83e,497, and cabbage- valued at- -
$253,379 or mere then a million dol-
lars spent outside of this country for
these two vegetables, svlaile We had, •
plenty of thern at home,
For canned vegetables, such as
1 'Mrs. O'Briert—"Have you any
l costars, Mr. Kelly?"
e --"And phsvat eel:lees-tors,
Mrs. O'Brien?"
In yens front window's?" 1
SborpMercbant—sPeopes think I'm
a -dunce and come In ie. Swindlo me.
"Why, people you'veseprung from,"
"Listen to me, MTS. OTTlell. I Come
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from the stock- • of Dertoglittes that
While speakbig your mind. it )1:a Is an sPrang :"IlebedY—theY BI"Tillg
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The Hammer Campaign. but there appears to be a tendency to
1st Politiatan---"Seen that lie abeet unduly cultivate the taste for import-
s:a the opposition tacked up 'around ed fruit. Undoubtedle a, great, por-
for these products could be spent with
our own vegetable) and fruit growers,
to the benefit- of the original growers,'
And of the country as a whole. 'It •
would be woreh while for dealers to
give 'this matter serious thought and
'try to Intensify the derearisi for Can-
adian, produce
. ese . ,
town(
1st Politician ---"Well, I've nailed iti"
'unatical.
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1-loney Brings in $196,000.
The 1,800 bee-keepess in the Pro -
enlace of Manitoba,-mith 22,113 colonies,
'producee 14012,000 eounds of honey,
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veleed at $195,Ceer in 1944, according
to the ofeelar returns made by the pro -
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ways best to Mine your ' .
MUTT AND JEFF—By Bud Fisher. •
OLD DAT.4 cuPtb's Ger see,
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