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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1925-12-03, Page 2The AutoiUObilC 'WRY BATTERIES FREEZE. With the arpival of real cold wea- ther it is doubly important that the,; storage battery on a car be kept as nearly fully charged as possible, apse it 'may freeze. This means that its hydrometer reading should be kept as - close to the ;1280 mark as is practical. 'However, after a battery has been in use six months or a year this may be impossible, because part of the electrolyte or liquid contents may have been spilled and replaced with water, or some of the active material leas dropped off the plates and lien in the jar as sediment where it holds a part of the acid so it cannot be re- turned to the electrolyte when the battery is recharged. Consequently, if a battery has been charged well it gases freely for two or three hours and the electrolyte re- fuses to come up to .1280, it is weld to add sufficient acid so that as the battery is used its specific gravity will not drop low enough to allow it to freeze. This oan be done by removing some of theelectrolyte and adding suffi- cient sulphuric aeid to bring it up to the required strength, or by mixing the acid with diet ed water, a mix- ture reading about .1400, and using this instead of distilled water when the electrolyte becomes low. In mix- ing, always add or pour slowly the acid into the water --never the water l Pi► fra a4 P �. into the acid or an explosion is likely to result. CINDER AND CEillMENT FLOORS. For any cellar and garage 1 have laid a good dry boor which ought to serve equally wwe)i for a henhouse or other farm burefini9. Excavate ten to twelve inches ha - low the top of the finished floor, level of and tamp. If the house sets so that the ground slopes away from it, slope the excava- tion to a low point and from this lay. a drain a short distance from the house, terminating in a pit felled with broken stone. Fut a, strainer over the pipe and a few broken stones on the, inlet end. Fill in six to eight inches with engine finders and tamp. For the top four inches mix six parts of engine cinders and one part of Dement, ,add water and turn again until the mares is thoroughly wet but not sloppy. Then spread over the cinders and tamp. A good way is to place screeds and level with a straight edge, draw- ing the straight edge over the screeds. This east be tamped until solid .but not so hard as to eause the concrete to disintegrate. I Finish, the top with one part ce- memt end two parts clean, sharp sand, working the mixture under the trowel until the top surface is smooth and the moisture has been brought to the ; surface. --R. C. W, How Long is a Day? If you met a man, and he casually remarked that he ate 815 meals yes.- terday., you would either be amazed at his appetite or take him for a harden- ed romancist. But the man may be from Spitsbergen, where they bare a day three and a half months in length. gold " An,d on the whole it would be wise if one should undertake to do oertain work to receive so much a day in pay ,went, to understand just where the work is to be done, or one might have to labor eighteen and a half 3).ours• at Stockholm, if it happened to be the longest day of the year, or all the time from May 21st to July 22nd if in some rite of Norway. In Petrograd the longest day isettne- teen hours and the shortest five hours. In Finland there is a twenty-two hour Verse. day. In Lond.on and at Bremen the "He's a Freewrier of free longest day is sixteen and a half � hours; at Hamburg and Dantzig Leven sal?"„ he' ur teen hos, and at Washington about poem yet." fifteen boars, Too Much Econony. Tam -"You got engaged last weak, old chap, didn't you?" Fred -"Yes, but that's all oflnow." 'w "hy-iueompatibiliiy of temper?" "Not at all, rather the reverse. She suggested my practicing economy, and I started by gutting her an. imitation never been verse, you paid for a Mf'4f OF CANADA ii nrs!ooRAPHIC OtvisiONS Scat', orNln.f KPART1MfEWS ,aF itirERIofi veItoiii Nan.C105.5tekWyerMNrrtnr Iw `p LEe6ND Maritime (Appalachian),._., ".._., Sx Lernr•enceon (Viarfrence Lowland erfactam Plans, Canadian Shield (Laurentian plateau) interior sins (Great orvvesternf'►ails} Pacific coast ranM icn(cordilleountain-systemj._. Arcti cArchipelago and nudso)rsay Lowland..__.. Ar Es Studying -Canada Ge graphically. Unfortunately, to most readers the term "geography" has • but an acade- mie meaning. As a matter of cold reality, however, our national geogra- phy is the largest single teeter affect- ing Canadian development. It is about as little academic as' a mortgage. It is a bigger and more important busi- nese fact than ,the public debt. It is a permanent, fundamental factor touching our national development at every turn. To study send make known the physical property which the Cana- dian people own and have to develop is the general object of the Natural Re- sources Intelligence Service of the De- partment'of the Interior, Great credit is due the Geological Survey Branch of the Department of Mines For the work it has pursued in studying the physical geography of the Dominion. The accompanying map is a product of that work. It shows Canada in the light of its basic physical divisions ---the only light in which one can intelligently study our economic geography or make any sound appraisal of the physioal value and commercial possibilities of our national property. The geography of Canada is the bed- rock factor which fixes the value of CROSS WORD PUZZLE Every number in the form represents the beginning of a word, reading either horizontally, or vertically. If there is a black square to the left of the number, the word is horizontal; if above it, the word is vertical. The same number may of course begin both a horizontal and a vertical. The definitions for the correct words to fill the form are found below, with numbers corres- ponding to those on the form. Run through the definitions till you find one that you recognize, and put it in its proper place on the form, one letter for each white square. This will furnish several cross -clues to the words linking with it at right angles. Continue in this manner till the form is campletely filled. If you have solved the puzzle correctly it should read both horizontally and vertically with words corresponding to the definitions, Horizontal. Vertical, - 1. To cultivate, as land 1. A fixture for drawing a liquid from 5. A pet name for "Margaret" a etrn.tainer.. 7. Dregs 2. Associated Press' (Mit.) 8. To tear 11. Place where bees are kept 4. A girl's name 18, The East 5. Belonging to me 15. To raiseor move with a lever 6. Te move 16. A l>eaiad of existtemoe 7, A ferocious animal 8. Even (poetic) 17. Credit (abbr.) 9. Haif the width of an eat 19. A pronoun 10. Strips of Ieather used as handles, 21. Sped: 12. An Indian peasant 24. An exclamation of triumph 14. Actual' 48. To bring forth 1$'. An ancient sun god of Egypt 25. 4 tree* worn by passage ,through 20. Freweuee as of necessity a Wilderness'. 21. 'Properly ' �2 To soak up 22. A cry of surprise 28. A tape fanoue for a certain 14. A negative w4zard (7N'airy Btery) 26. A three -toed sloth 0. A. light carriage 'w with one pail of 27. Street (abbr.) wheels 29. A sudden sharp ,hissing or sibilant 31• A preposition sound such as that of a flying 32. ]urea water bullet 88, A lag Woon try or trough for carry. 41, To •increas e sae 84. A writing securing to an inventor 35, Atrove the sole right to use his inventiou 6. nesgetive 86,'rou and tie. perform 7. I ea vaiaa bird rua 44n A. legative ooe ve db. alt o t body sue a Namur Totrrn a an14}atirg or essential part oft Toward 4.$. play 144a blima.n• •o int er qulokly like a. 5 (sdafg) til%0943.it of the ooit>•pMlse A poen* coin Ali enenii a tizzy 4641104 iesrpberric disturbano+ d o at late tro the right ilk oio icG1 ' ..,. bark , 1diot `p A Voile (a4#o1114ca1) Sma 1, ohildr, i, reaeicvoii !oi watt is juice Or fluid Of a Plant or Ca 014'3 the Dominion as a national property- as our !means of national support and growth. And the intelligent develop- ment of the country requires above ever3"thing else a clear, broad grasp of its geography, of its phys&cal na- ture and layout. Canadian development has been and will continue to be greatly advanced by dozens of different forms of eon structive public action. Railway building, immigration, industrial re- search, technical education, the collec- tion of adequate data -these and countless other lines of public activity enter into the work of widening,. strengthening, guiding or illuminating the course of national growth. But underlying all such constructive enter- prise is thr one basic fact that our na- tional ational progree rests finally and always upon the geography of our national property. A thorough knowledge of the geography of the oountry is the corndratone of any true appreciation of Canada's development possibilities and problems, and of any broad-vision- ed road-visioned development policy for the Do- minion as a whole. Yet it is a fact that geography, as it afieets- the business life of the Do- minion, ominion, is about the a Iy feature of Canada which has not been studied in a broad -gauge way. Not one Canadian. out of a hundred has anything more . be tki • .than a hodge-podge idea character and real development value of Canada as a national property. Canadian geography has been studied along narrow, superficial lines. The study has been too much confined to showing -just the artificial or the most obvious natural features of the coun- try -the locations of railways, cities and towns, political boundaries, lakes, rivers, mountains and so on. Thisis, of course, one necessary phase of geo- graphic work, But it does not touch the supremely important work of por- traying the eeo'nomia geography of Canada - the fundamental physical features' which control the productive capacity of the property. The narrow lines which the_srtudy of economic geography has followed in of the true 111 HAVE AN IDEAL: An ideal in life ie & wonderful asset to suocees, .It i&. quite believable that, a man who always .thinks great•" thoughts abouwt'bis life's work JO ai-. most beyond the possibility of failure, The people who never- seem to make „good are thesis who try to get through in a slipshod fashion, Any thing slipshod 191 an impediment and keeps as back: The people who have won through are those who have de- cided en the thing for which they will live and work; and., having deeiddd,., never permit that goal to be far out of sight, A boy determines he will pursue a certain course 1n life, and he begins, say, to study for engineering. He will have to face manly a setback; but if he iswisp he will plod on, determined that, come what may, he will allow nothing to discourage him. He will study everything possible about 'his oho.en profession and go forward with enthusiasm towatdrs the prize he has in view. To such a youth tare 'can be no failure; his will fano the music, come what may. This is so through, out the whole world. The men who oount are those who are -wedded to their ideals and leave nothing undone that will help to gain their end. Have you ever thought what it has cost to produce the world as we see it? What hurtlings and earthquakes and cataetsophes and ahoc'ks have• been experienced in order to make this world so beautiful? And we are given to understand that even in this matter the best is yet to be! The finale of Nature's wonderer is not yet. She still holds in her secret sway the won- dere our ohildren will comae to look upon as •oomntonplace. And so is morals. ever believe that the world of men is getting worse. Let others speak of "the good old days". as they may, it e•tiil remains a fact that the best days any of us know aro those that make Yip our lives to -day. Canada lras� succeeded in. giving almost If past days were goad., let us rejoice everyone a fair superficial idea of the with those who lived in them; but we Dominion. Probably nine educated must never believe it is true that. there were better days than our own. Canadians out of ten could sketch a fairly goodrough map showing the Better people than ourselves may have ' lived, but the best, even in this mat- ter, is yet to be. Soave people refer to the newspapers and suggest by the,contents that men regions which not only shape the are no better than before. But re - whole course and character of the Do- member, the papei,s record the =- usual and extraordinary and that, minions economic development but political divisions of the country by provinoes and territories. Few Cana- dians, however, would ever recognize a map showing the great geographic actually create our transportation, tariff and most of our other major political questions. New Dictator of Persia Was Unlettered Priv'ati„ Reza Khan Pahlevi has been called the Mussolini. of Persia, but in ambi- tion he apparently overleaps even the Italiaa dictator for she is said not to be content to remain as prime minis- ter but to cherish hopes. of founding a dynasty of his own to supplant that of the deposed shah., Reza is the ;son of a peasant farmer and it is even now o. debatable 'point as to whether the prime minister's straightforward brutality which is the privilege of the incorrupt egotist,. He •is fighting for a,. entralizec1 Persia because the expansfive power of his ruling ambition demands• the widening of his flatlet ^ action. It is only inci- dental that while he is satisfying his primitively savage hunger for power he aeoomplirshesi the Jollification oil the unruly tribes in a single national entity. Reza Khan has an army such 3.9 Per- sia has not had for a, long time. It •consists• of 40,000 soldiers;. Reza pays then). regularly, feeds and clothes them, thereby assuring for himself ..7 academic achievements extend beyond the ability to write his own name. His career he commenced ars a pri- vate in a Russian Cossack regiment. 'Yet Reza Khan must, have shown ex- oeptional abilities since he rose con tinuaily in the esteem both of his superiors and his comrades. That was the reason Why he eucceoded in keep- ing together a handful of men atter imperial Russia collapsed and 'hes regi- Metit was d.isbandied, Ii't February, 1921, Reva Khan, to- gether with his. sioidiere, overthrew the government, appointing a prime Minister, and selected; ,himself as the ' iintister qt war of Persia. In October,. he'discarded the; civilian cabinet ati , with the aid of a second tout d'e t, assumed the premiership, ;Since that tin* he has been Persia's prime minister. hexa Khan possesses much of that their loyalty and fitness, for military action. ITa,I. personal courage, which is ex- traordinary, han^, helped hint in retain- ing hie hold over the troops, in 1921 the Khoresean tribe rebelled. Reza Khan went into tho enemy's camp, killed their leader and crushed the rebellion. After despatching two other remit - tract chiefs, Reza suppressed: discon- tent among trio Turloonmans by turning loose upon them his replier army, equipped with tanks, flying machines., wireless stations and the other ef- ficiency devices of modern military craft. Our twin brother came to visit us this week. 11e lives clear across the continent. Goodness! how DIA the poor fellow's getting! which is newsy and out of the way.' People are better in living than form- erly, and every discovery and effort to uplift -urea is another ald.•to the one - increasing -purpose that flows through. all things. In the walk of life we 8.re called to do our best towards furthering the cause' of a perfect and wholer.ome world; and the beat way ,to do so Is calnily and patiently to follow the gleam from the ideal that we have set for ourselves or others have set for us, Character Is the factor that eounts most in life. - We are here to laugh and be jolly!' So long as we have the joy of .life in: us, we shall piodeour way and every Not There Yet. step will lead forward. The fluotuat- "There's a man I'd like to see in lig life is dangerous. To be spas. jail!" nuodic is'to degenerate, Discover the "Whj* don't you go see him then?" right road; then keep on keeping on! "He hasn't done anything he could be jailed for yet." e Keep Tab on Fish. Department of Marine and Fisheries has marked. a considerable number of Atlantic ,salmon, by attach- ing silver tags to their dorsal tins!, for the purpose of tracing the movements of these fish. A salmon that was marked and liberated off Burns, point, Port Maitland, Yarmouth county,'Nova Scotia, on June 111 of this year was killed in the Moises river, Quebec, in the early part of July. if this fish took the most direct route it travelled about 800 miles, -but if it followed the larger indentations of the shoreline it travelled over 1,209 miles. . Spiders Lit Up. A judge may be a man of few words Spiders that glow like fire -flies have but he is not always a man of short been discovered in Central Burma. sentences. Answer to last week's puzzle: • a2 2S' • ZS 2$ go' 2 .19 9 71 d7 Ips ri /2", . 13 ►5 } it's a sure sign that winter is touting when you sea Dolby taking the moth balls from tips ear inuffe. Hied flappers are very sensitive lo tlta frost and his is not iinrnune.