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Zurich Herald, 1922-10-12, Page 3,y rt Id Jr s- ae of ir- p9' nd eY,1 or ck, ove eve oto m 1 ?Ifldd the W4rs yet to• c,crne r. Advantages of Motor Touring. It is taken for granted that the person who expects to enjoyan outing via his metal., car with put his machine in good working order before setting out, It is taken for granted that he nviiK put water ' in the radiator, pee" line in the tank and ,oil in the engine, dhi(bvicate thoroughly and take along five fairly good Lira.' The trip begins right from the 'kitchen, Only such baggage need be taken as will be required, and this will ordinarily not be much. And it can be loaded right into the oar, : slaving all the worry of checking, transferring and getting lost When the members of the outing event are 'three to five, as is apt to be. the case when the whole family goes in the ear ante cooked' by the roadside or in sroane oozy grove, In many places there ape public oamping sites' with stone fireplaces already built for the � , convenience ' of aubo•m.abl.n'srts. Or food Gan be procured along the route for picnic lunches, Or desirable 'hotels and restaurants can be found in the villages or Cities ..trlong the Wray, The,mratter ofsleeping is quite as easily handled. There are many con- trivances which can ,be, carried along so that the motorist oan'find comfort- able ropes* - at night. Tents can be erected and patent cot beds unfolded, or some can sleep in the.ear or roll up in blankets and *fie d out how the In- dians used to do it•ylears ago. If more aonveniences are required, it is still possible to find sweet dreams in some hotel, inn or farmhouse. along or the neighbors are invited, the Travelling ley auto is gale el the .expense is apt to bre less per mile per he,althrieet forme M recreation. There is always plenty of good clean air. A motor trip usually takes one out into the country, where the ozone is at its beset. The danger of catching any contagious disease is practically en- tirely eliminated. If a driver knows his business of driving and will use ordinary judg- ment in manipulating his machine, the danger from. accident is no greater than might be encountered on board a chip or train. Certainly they are not as great as travel by airpalanel in sprit of the startling casualties and in spite of the reckless drivers that are !loose on the face of the earth, a careful owner is not at all 'likely to have his outing marred by serious accident: The owner of an automobile usually gets a .certain satisfaction and enjoy- ment out of driving himself the ve- hicle in which he is traveling. He has a sense oif being in control of his destiny which adds to his pleasure, and if the others who are along have confidence in his ability, to the hap- piness of the rest of the oompany. Travel by auto makes for sociabil- ity. In no way :can a group of people beoome better acquainted and get .more pure fun out of life than by be- ing associated together on a vacation via motor. An outing by auto does not neces- sarily mean a touring car or sedan. A common eight along .the country roads on a holiday is 'a huge truck loaded with a whole neighborhood of folks off on a picnic. Aire they ever downhearted? 'So whether it's by truck or limousine, for ail -round' en- joyment no other travel 'viehiale has person. This tends to increase the enjoymenrt in propoation to the size of the family, as the whole family is likely to be included up to the eapaci'ty of the car. For one more adds little, if anything, to the 'expense for gaso- line. and oil: And there is always room for one more in any car! This matter of economy is a tremendous importance and by use of the motor ••Gar makes delightful outings possible 'to many viiho otherwise could not al- -ford to travel on wheels at all. Traveling by automobile makes it possible to get to the desired destina- tion with dispatch and comfort. When the panty is ready the driver steps - :first on the self-starter and then on tihe gas and they are off at as snappy a rate of :speed as the law and good judgment in driving allow. There are no time tables to consult, no connec- tions to miss, just splendid roads to ,cruise along, comfortable seats to sit .on and good clear air to breathe. • The travelers .can stop at any point .of interest along t'h'e route and enjoy ..:it to their complete satisfaction, then start on at aaiy time. If there are side trips off the main line of the -journey, that they . wish to inspect, a turn' of :thee wheels of tihe car sends them off in the desired direction. If there are fishermen in the party, they can stop at this stream and fish for awhile, and, failing to Iure the fish from its waiters, they can gide on to that lake, Where their 'luck may 'be better. If one tires of riding, it is easy to stop the oar so that the oeeupants can: get out for a seventh -inning stretch. The eating problem is simplified wheel traveling by auto. If real good feed:' is desiredit can be taken along been found superior to the automobile. PROBLEM OF GOOD ROADS IN CANADA TREMENDOUS .AREA WITH SCATTERED POPULATION. At . the Present Time 18,000 Miles of Main Roads—High- way From Coast to Coast. The difference between national pro- gress and retrogression may be pithily gummed up in facilities of travel and transportation, and the maintenance of good, roads is a matter which demands the unswerving attention of a modern -nounntry in no natter what direction it Is making a bidfor world prominence. National prosperity lies in a network of comfortable, easily travelled roads, and a country ranks among progres- sive nations according to its conveni- ences• in accessibility and marketing. The construction and maintenance of roads in Canada conatitutes a prob- lem that is particularly 'difficult. Cana- da is a land of tremendous area and `small and scattered population. To adequately link up the settled areas of the country a network of roads is re- quired which would be sufficient to render the same efficient service to a people Many trines as numerous, Up- on, a family of four persons in Canada rests the enormous responsibility of building and maintaining one mile of roadway and upon five average fami- Nes the construction end maintenance of ,a mile of main market highway. Again, the peculiarity of Canadian conditions creates the necessity for the maintenance of so many types of roads to accommodate the varioue methods. of travel, Whilst the older settled eities• and •tawns and the areas about them are most modern in every respect and their lines of coinniunieee tion as elp to date as engineering can effect, there are many areas that have but recently, emerged fro•ni the pion- eering stages, and still other districts n up t serve to joiete provincial centres cial that are only being opened up to col- ;and it is now thh aim of c al various entzation and that must be served by governments to join up the provincial further encourage motor :tourist traf- fic, which is rapidly increasing every year and has become a not insignifi- cant asset in Dominion revenue. Each year the increase in the settlement and cultivation of farm lands makes necessary the penetration of new colonization areas, whieh can only be effected by the construction of roads which will permit new settlers -to get into them with the leant degree of trouble and inconvenience. Canada is rapidly gaining a reputa- tion abroad for good roads, consequent upon a Dominion -wide policy of co-or- dinated effort, due to the foresight of Dominion and provincial governments and their co-operation in construction and maintenance. The Canada High- ways Act of 1919 was a recognition of the important part playedinthe de- velopment of national prosperity by good roads and elicited the co-opera- tion of all sections of the Dominion in maintaining a high standard. The bill made the sum of $20,000,000 avail- able during the following five years, to be divided among the provinces on the basis of population, with the ex- penditure of proportionate amounts by these provinces to a total of $30,000,- 000. 30,000;000. 18,000,44111es of Main Roads. That the provinces are -not limiting their expenditures, to those amounts necessary to obtain the Federal grants is very apparent. In the five-year period after the passing of the Act, It was estimated that Ontario would spend $60,000,000 on its highways, and this sum willundoubtedly be reached. Quebecs highways prior to 1912 had cost $40,000,000 in the work done upon them, and since that time $30,000,000 has been expended. This year the pro- vince will spend $7,500,000' upon pro- vincial • roads, by far the largest amount spent in years, due to thein- clusion in the program of amounts for colonization roads into newly opened areas in Northern Quebec, At the present time there are 18,000 miles of main roads in the various provinces and networks of eommunica tion branching off from tliern to serve the rural areas. ' In addition to the maintenance 'of these, new roads are being constructed each, year. These reeds .of some kind. The Penetration of New Areas, The prime consideration in road - 'building. in Canada is . possibly to en- able the farmer to reach the markets• with his product a,5 conveniently and conomieally 'e•s possible, and this hilts first consideration in the drawing up ref national programs, A second re- quirernent is to maintain good ineens of communication between the larger centres and to adequately serve and systems and provide a main highway across Canada fain coast to coast, an undertaking not difficult of accomp- lishment and the accomplishment of Whish may be soon expected, Excellent motor roads join up all the principal civic centres and the avenues to the international boundary are maintained et a fans .standard. Last year hale a ntilllou .motor tourists vislted Canada fronn the United States albite, staying for various periods �r. 11'44 viri We: fa -e too g ▪ ee r from one day to six menthe, and it is stated that the number of visitors staying one month has doubled within. the past few years. In many cases the upkeep of such highways as To. ronto - Hamilton, Ottawa - Montreal, Montreal-Quebeo is paid for by the tourist traffic upon them, and the com- pletion this year of the roadway of. the Grand Circle Motor Tour, running from California in the south to Alberta in the north, linking ten national parks, and constituting the finest scenic motor tour on the continent, is expected to bring the Dominion an un- precedented volume of motor. traffic. The Result of Good Highways. The importance every section of the Canadian people attach to the posses- sion of good roads' was evidenced at the last good roads convention held. in Victoria, B.C., which drew from At- lantic to Pacific ' cabinet ministers, members of parliament, provincial and civic engineers and prominent busi- ness men from all sections of the Do- minion, as well as attracting' repre- sentatives of many states of the Union for the exchange of views and experi- ences. It marked the haif,way :house in the progress :effected since the pass- ing of the Canada Highways Act and formed a point of retrospect as well as prospect: To date 204 agreements for Federal aid have been authorized for 5,125 miles of provincial road at an es- timated cost of $29,461,515. The to- tal amount of provincial expenditures audited with respect to this work is $15,974,591, and the total amounts of payments made with respect thereto is $5,179,275. The total mileage of com- pleted Federal aid work to the time was 1,400 miles and the mileage under construction 2,397 miles. --s-- Continent Made by Insects. Out in the Indian Ocean lies one of the strangest archipelagoes in the world. More than fourteen thousand islands go to make it up. Moat of them are quite tiny and few rise more than five or six feet above the surface' of the water. These are the Maldive Islands, which few people have ever seen, since the waters around them are ter- ribly dangerous far slapping. Every one of them has been built up, by tiny coral insects. The smallest island contains a coral population many times bigger than the entire human population of the world. The process of island -building is stili going on for every one that is to be seen above the surface there are a dozen others which, though continual- ly growing upwards, have not yet be- come visible. In the course of ce`n turies the sea will deposit saand and mad amongst the thickly -studded coral pillars, and so eventually a new con- tinent will bo born, a continent built up by little .beings • no bigger than #Iles. You Find Your Name Here? Yew people nowadays know the ratter a eurloue history. he word meanings .of their Christian varves, and they are chosen as a rule becaitse they sound nice. - If, for example, we name a boy George, we may heave no intention of making him a farmer; yet farmeris what the name means. Nor would we. care for Priscilla to live as to her name, which means, the little old-fas- hd ned woman or for'Leah o suffer ot u always• from theAweariness' that the old Hebrew word denotes! Our Christian• names come to us -Mainly from the • Hebrew and Greek of the Bible, from Latin, from French, and from the tiorues of the East, as, well as froScandinavian - and Old English: Latin mantes are rather out of fas- hion nowadays, for there are fashions in names just as there are in clothes. Rufus—the ruddy -faced one•—is occa- sionally met with, but Caesar, . the boxes, le rare. We do, however,. find Augustus (the majestic) and Paul (the little fellow) in fairly coinon use. Woman's debt to Rome is a larger one. • She has. borrowed Stella (star), Dulcie (sweet), Vera. (truthful), as well as the naives of months such as April and May, of goddesses like Diana and Juno, and a whole garden, full of Rowers such as Rose, Lily, and many othera, Besides. Farmer George, Greek has given us Philip, the lover of, horses, A'lexander,.the helper of men, Timothy the god-fearing, and Andrew, the man- ly. Feminine appellations from the same source are Margaret, Marguerite, and Marjorie—all three words are really the samemeaning pearl . Dor- othy, the feminine farm of Theodore; Katherine or ICathleen,, the pure; Ag- nes, which has the same meaning; and Irene, signifying peace. Jacynth has Flowers That Tell. the Tixne. There are several varieties of plants which foretell'ahanges .in the weather, while not a few of them enable us to tell thetime of day often with unerr- ing accuracy. When the fiowene of the common chickweed expandfully, no rain need be anticipated for four hours or more. But should its small flowers be half concealed, it is ,advisable to prepare far rain, When the flowers of the Siberian sow -thistle remain open all night, it is a sign that rain will fall the following day. .. If by seven o'clock in the morning the African marigold has not opened its petals, prepare for rain during the day. The scarlet pimpernel and the oonvglvulus always fold their leaves upon the approach of wet weather. The -ewers of the alpine whltlow- grass; '•-the feverfew, and the winter- green have a peculiar habit of hang- ing anging down during the night as if they were asleep.. This act serves to pro tent +t- `crt ertiHzing dust from injury b • ' br rain. t u ..to these - there is • a v i were that close and open ate ce ''hours with remarkable re- gularity. The flowers of the goat's beard open every morning • at dawn and close re- gularly about noon. - In the Malay States there is"' a four o'clock plant which opens its Sowers at four o'clock in the afternoon and closes them exactly twelve hours later. The flower of the common dandelion possesses a peculiar means of shelter- ing itself from the power of the sun. It closes its petals entirely when the heat becomes- .excessive. It has been observed to open in summer at half - past five in the morning, and to col- lect its petals towards the centre at about nine o'clock at night. Why Handkerchiefs Are Square. A handkerchief means literally a kerchief for. the hand, the kerchief it- self being a areal' sort of a shawl. Handkerchiefs originated in Italy, Whence ` they gradually spread over Europe. All shapes and sizes were used, till one day in the last era of the glories of the old .French Court Queen Marie Antoinette remarked how much neater it would be if only square-shaped hand- kerchiefs were made. So, on th'e 2nd of January, 1785, a Royal decree went throughout France that "the length of handkerchiefs shall equal their breadth."' And everybody still obeys that de- cree without knowing it! In London there are thirty places of worship where the services are con- ducted in the Welslh language. denotes a 17recioasi stone of Niue color and in its proper form, leys•sinth, it was used as a man's n.;noe. Most of .the Hebrew ,riser's names have Pleasant meanings, .toh:ri, for instance, stand* for the l•.orde3 grace, whilst David le the beloved. Jacob, however, from which comes our James, ineane• the supplanter, and it is curious that in our history a would-be supplanter should have borne it in the person of the old Pretender Who made a bid for the Throne in 1716. Many of the women's names inti tate that their lot was no easy one in those early days when they were re- garded as vastly inferior to men. Mary or Muriel (they are the same 'naive- signifies bitternese, and Deborah is the bee or the worker. In Anne, Anna, or Hannah, 'however, there is a more cheerful note, for ..all these words mean grace. Adam and Eve ar,2 Baby- lonian, not Hebrew words., They mean simply man and breath, Isabel is a Philistine word and the same as Jeze- bel. Then we come to the real old Eng. lish navies. Henry should never be henpecked, for his name means ruler of the home. But what le he to do if his wife le called Harriet or Henriet- ta, both of which have the same sig- nificance? Leonard must be as strong as a lion; Richard must be strong too, but he must rule as well. Ralph, originally Raduli or Rudolf, is the red wolf. William means' the helmet of resolve. Edward is the noble guardian, Frederick is the peaceful ruler. Ethel should be noble, Freda peace- ful, and Leonora lion-hearted. Hilda is the warior-maiden, and if you add Mat to her name you give her strength, for Matilda, often shortened to Maud, means the maiden strong in battle. The Weaver of Rugs. The Weaver of Rugs has dreamed a dream And brooded the summer through; With tender love he's plotted his .theme And now the dream's come true. He's spread a carpet over the hills; Soft is its silken sheen Of red and the color of daffodils, Of rose and orange and green. And a patch of blue reflecting The color of autumn skies; The pattern vague, but beyond com- pare Are these clear, mysterious dyes, Its' knotted warp in the ground below Holds close its shimmering pile, The Weaver of Rugs has dreamed it aa, And this is the :Weaver's. smile. The Weaver of Rugs has dreamed a dream, And brooded the summer through, Over the forest, field and stream, And now His dream's Dome true! World's Largest Ship. The world's largest ship is the White Star line Majestic of 56,000 tons. She carries enough linen to stretch for 162 miles. There are 77,00.0 ser- viettes, 3,000 beds, 2,700 pillows, 13,- 000 3;000 pillow -cases, 11,000 desats, 1,500 bolsters, and thousands of other items. The blankets alone weigh seventeen tons. More than 100,000 pieces of china and glassware are provided, and it is estimated that if the crockery was piled up it would form a column 1,200 feet high. If the washing and drying were done' by band, it would take five months to accomplish the feat. Ten thousand knives and forks and 50,000 pieces of electro -plate form part of the Majestic's equipment. Easy to Answer. Billy was in tears when he came home from school. "Teacher whipped me because I was the only one who could answer a ques- tion she ,asked the class," he sobbed. His mother was indignant. "Why, I'll see her about that! What was the question;"Billy?" His eyes lighted reminiscently, "She wanted to know who put the glue in her ink -bottle!" AN -IMPORTANT PASSENGER WAITING AT THAT ISOLATED STATION. • "//, ry • !a • (if AR RSA INcRe. Me IN iNiFioR ANTPAS$L-`fNG AN tv5\HESy ,, gege oY eke. • le a 4. �p�. /1p,owal •- f. ;�ssnts o el WAITING AT THAT ISOLATED STATION ---Chicago News. Success Nuggets. . Succes is not sold on the install, went plan. You must pay far what part of it you take. It is. the -fear -not, the worry -not, the stew -not, the fret not, that wins out. Don't dally with your purpose. Not many things indifferently, but one thing supremely Is the demand of the hour. God has mixed a feeling of content with everything finished. As a rule, what the heart longs for the head and the hands may obtain. Josh Billings said: "When you strike' ile, quit boring. Some keep on. until it all runs out on the other side." A great many people fail because they're so dead sure they are going toe It would be a shame to disappoint; them. "Life is the, Interval between one breath acid another—he who only half breathes only half -lives, but he who uses Nature's rhythm in breathing has control over every function of his be- ing." Every man is the son of his own works,—Cervantes. One of the first- lessons in life is to learn how to get victory out of defeat, Give a man the alphabet and an iron will, and who shall place bounds to beds achievements It was Phillips Brooks who defined religion as "the life of God•in the souls of men." People who are every now and then "turning a new leaf" go right along mussing, and blotting the new with the same stuff that spoiled the old. A Resignation. The clumsy 'girl, who had been act. ing as waitress for the Jenkins family, had broken dish after dish, and at last the mistress of the house spoke to her decidedly. "If you break any more china or. glass, Mary, I shall be obliged to dia miss you," she said, "far I cannot af- ford to keep you." That very night at dinner there came the sound of a fearful crash from the butler's pantry. There was a moment of deathly stillness, and then Mary appeared, re- moving her apron as she emerged from the closet. "The plates and all le- in binders, mum," she said, calmly, "and I'm off!" Best of References. When the language of business is applied to the practices of politics, as in this case, the effect inay be instruc. Live as well as tartling. Two darkeys cane up to the out skirts if a crowd where a politician was making a canip'aign speech.. Af- ter listening to the speech for about ten minutes, one of them turned to his companion and asked, "Who isdat, man, Sam?" "I don't know what his name is," said Sam,"but he certainly do recom- men' hisself rnos' highly" A Grievance. Torry had been punished. "Mamma," lie sobbed, "did your mamma whip you when you were lit- tie?" "Yes, when I was -naughty." "And did her mamma whip her when she was little?" ' "Yes, Tommy," "And wen she whipped when site was little?" "Yes, Tommy." "Well," asked the 'child, "who Start-.. ed it, anyway?" England'•s eleeset road, which must have been made at llearst 2,000 years irga, . runs ,between W illohissberr' aril gtoterbtl,r . ,;j 1