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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-06-07, Page 6iv. .144=6N tnr TISK ir,)1$AIN B atish inventions are second s made clear to all con - ring the Great War. The fought the deadlock of trench e..to an end; and the successive by which the submarine—the est menace to (England .since Walsh Armada—was tracked prwry,n and finally hunted off the seas, lire a triumph of British b.ventive "N middle life, when vitality is not as great as it once was, and the blood stream is naturally thinned and de- vitalized, anaemia easily lays hold on the system. At first, just a tired feeling, it quickly restates in bodily weakness that ordinary tonics cannot avail. Dr. Williams' Pink Pilus then becor ne al wonderful aid. They supply the necessary ozyygeut to the blood, increase thus brOod count and renew cv off was seized 'mirth Burnie - 'male," writes Mrs. Charles Lambert of Port Hope, Ont., "and was in a very bad state. As a girl I had taken Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for a nen-lawn condition and de- cided to take '•!. em once more... fain .i e result was marvellous. In a little while I< was fully well again." }Yon cannot begin too early to +. eat anaemia. Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills are sold at your druggist's or by mad, postpaid, 50 cents, from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 1Broccltville, Out. S45 'genius. Now that the, ords have been beaten into plowshares, the same in- genuity is being turned into different channels, The post-war period has been a very difficult one. Old mar- kets for British industry have been, closed by the war, and an impoverish ed world now regards as luxuries what were formerly considered neces- sities. The only remedy for such a state of things is to produce a new class of goods with a powerful ap- peal to the masses, which cannot be produced elsewhere. Germany was the first to realize the supreme necessity of new inven- tions to meet a desperate economic situation, but Britain is now well a- head in the race. A village in the north of France British B'hototone all based upon the same principle, as well as the Ameri- can yitaphone, which is based upon the synchronization of a film and a record. It is only right to say that the first person to record music on a film and to reproduce it by the action of light on selenium, was neither a Briton nor an American, but that gifted German, Ernst Ruhmer, who also gave one of the first demonstrations of television. The award of the television prize is complicated by the fact that the solu- tion of the problem is nut a single operation, but the conquest of a ser- ies of obstacles by as many inventions. There are now no fewer than four approximate solutions of the televis- ion problem before the public, brought out respectively by the Bell Labora- vas much disturbed the other day by . tories (U.S.), Jenkins (ll.b.), Ia luminous cross which at night seeiu- I (England), and Karolus (Germany). rd to stretch across the whole sky. I The first demonstration was given The news would have puzzled ere , l;v Baird, and it is a matter for legi- had l not remembered that a few ' nights • previous I had seen an equal - iv remarkable celestial phenomenon. 1, ' Looking in the direction of Hendon. I1here miles away, the home of the i King's air fighters and night bombers 11 saw the word "daily" painted in light on the night clouds. I have since learnt that this was illy first glimpse of an English in- vention which will convert the heav- ens into a scroll on which to write 'ignals and messages for all to read. We have already seen airmen write on the sky with smoke, but the new {invention will do in a second what takes the skywriter a quarter of an hour to accomplish. And, further- more, it can be wiped out at any in- Istant and leave a clean sky. 1 Of all the manipulations of driving a car, that of gear -changing is the most nerve-racking to the beginner. Countless efforts have been made to produce a car in which this operation would be unnecessary. An English firm, however, has pro- duced what is practically a gearless car by making gear -changing auto- matic, or rather self-acting. All the novice has to do is to point a small indicator arm to the gear required, which then comes into action on press- ing a pedal. Experiments are being trade by more than one leading firm towards •.liminating the necessity of petrol .vith its fumes and other risks. The idea is something like this: A car is provided with an accumulator capable of storing energy sufficient to drive the car, say twenty miles. All main motor roads are provided with under- ground mains from which current can he drawn by induction. While running along these main roads the car would not spend its scanty "iron ration" of power, but would, on the contrary, replenish it. Phis would give the motor car the mo- bility of petrol and the safety, ;nioothness and flexibility of electri- 'al working. But all this is still to come. It was, I believe, an English inven- or, Mr. Grindell Mathews, who first nnceived the idea of printing a pound record on the edge of a film, thus enabling perfect synchronism be - ':ween action and sound. Since then we have Lee de Forest's Phonofilm, the American Movietone, and the d PIER Bmn ilkiTiffactarcase 1M IE "A HOUSEHOLD NAME IN 54 COUNTRIES" ;innate pride that this young Scotsman <hould have made such a bold bid for the prize which the world is anxious and ready to award. It is evident that if it is a matter of getting its share of the ceaseless stream of gifts which science and in- vention shower upon humanity, Great Britain is not content with a hack seat. Her inventive genius will al- ways be to the fore. The new French bareback gowns will add to the modern dress circus.— Brantford Expositor. Living within the income means living without the worry. — Boston Herald. BALFOUR'S PUBLIC CAREER NEARING ITS CLOSE. The Earl of Balfour is about to re- tire from public life. That is the in- ference drawn from the announcement that he will sell his London home. His political career haas been a remark- able one and has carried forward some of the best traditions of British states- man ship. Originally it appeared that he had neither tastenor aptitude for public life, though'by birth he was destined for it. As a student he did not particularly distinguish himself, and was considered a polite scoffer. His illusions departed when he was quite a young man and an inability to take things seriously seemed to im- pose a handicap from which he could never recover. But when at length he Jid begin to take politics seriously his old time friends wondered how they could have been so deceived in his character. Here was "Clara" or -Miss Balfour," as he was contemp- tuously called 'being reviled through- out Ireland as "Bloody Balfour." It was in this position that he first became a national figure, and it seems not unlikely that if his uncle had not happened to be the Marquis of Salis- bury and Prime Minister he would not have had the opportunity. But the uncle knew what stuff was in the younger man and did not hesitate to give him ,after a comparatively short parliamentary career, the most diffi- cult job at his disposal, namely the governing of Ireland, at a time when Ireland was most difficult to govern. Tt was in 1874 that Arthur Balfour entered the British House of Commons for Hertford. F our years later he had the privilege of attending the Ber- lin conference with his uncle and Bea- consfield and saw the inner workings of international politics at first hand. it was from this conference that Bea- consfield brought hack his famous •peace with honor" following the Russo-Turkish war and Salisbury the less -advertised description which Bis- -aarck bestowed upon him—, -"a lath painted to look like iron." The election of 1880 threw Balfour 'stn the opposition, and it seemed re- .narkable that it did not put a period to his own political career, because the year before he had issued his "IDe- 'ence of Philosophic Doubt," which to the average voter must have seemed unorthodox. Fortunately for Balfour the average man did not read his took. Following this dangerous her- 'sy on the part of a public man, he became a member of •a curious little society called "The Souls," which gave the humorists of the period many an opportunity to exercise their sense of the ridiculous. The conviction was Lhoroughly established that Balfour was rather an eccentric person, not much interested in anything, and cer- tainly not interested in the things that absorbed ordinary men. Labouchere had his own opinion of Balfour which contained some of the truth. He de- scribed him as "a compound of the old Maid crossed in love and the fanatic- ism of a familiar of the Inquisition." Still later Balfour became a member of the group composed of Lord Ran- dolph Churchill, Sir Henry D. Wolff and Sir John Gorst, which was called "The Fouth Party of Four." Its busi- ness was to harass both the Liberal government and the old-fashioned Conservatives. Balfour's performance here seemed to prove that he had no ambition to become a Conservative leader. • But in 1885 when the Conservatives were returned Balfour was appointed president of the local government hoard, and the year following was made secretary for Scotland. In neither of these posts did his work at- tract particular attention, and it was not until he became secretary for Ire- land that the real quality of the man was revealed. Here .vas no lath painted to look like iron, hut a steel bar got up in the semblence of a lath. He ruled Ireland with an iron hand. He was a fighter, and while he won his nickname of "Bloody Balfour" as a term of opprobrium, he eventually commanded the respect of his ene- mies. He had become the most im- portant figure in the Conservative ('arty after Lord Salisbury. He be- came Honse leader, a position he held from 1891 to 1902, when the Unionists were restored to power. He wasjhen named prime minister and held this office until 1905. His term would have been longer hut for the fact that the nrotectionist proposals of Joseph Chamberlain split the party and con- demned it to opposition for ten years. The exegeneies of the war brought the. Conservatives their chance again when the Coalition government was formed. By this time Bonar Law and IIIIIIIIIIIMIMNIIIIIIIIf II NIMMIIIIIII!IIiII !111111 Seaf olrth (Estimates gla'•I ly furnished for any Dob, inn any c,. rade of Seaman -Kent Oak, Maple or I:,flrr b, 1 1111illlll Illi 11111111 l amuu Ili 1. it I I II _ III II III II I SII I II II it i,. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIi IIiIIIIIIiIIIIiiN 111111111111111�11811111111111111 WE CAT NAVE CG) 0-0 Over one-half of all Canada's industries depend on wood as a raw material. When the forests are destroyed mills must closedown, railway earnings must suffer, trade must stagnate and prosperity must vanish. Issued by authority of Honourable Charles Stewart, Minister of the Interior. a 0r, L' °ta c HOi i A11L.1: E lit Ela '5 Positive' -Syn h 0 cti ®UDAILLF Hydraulic Shock Absorbers,four to every Ford car, are entirely defensive in their action since they remain inactive and in neutral position on smooth roads. Let a wheel encounter the slightest depression or bump, however, and they respond with the velvet precision of a cat's paw. Houdaille Shock Absorbers were not adapted to the Ford car after it was built, but were part of the specie llcations laid down by the Ford engineers as they planned the car. Therefore, H.oudailles, their power. full operation coordinated, became integral parts of the complete chassis. It is for this reason that they function with such perfect efficiency on the Ford car. Houdailles absorb both the upward and downward thrust of the shock through slowing the spring action by means of a heavy glycerine solution, which is forced through a small valve from one compartment to another. They check the rebound of the car softly, exert no tension on the springs and are always ready to offer resistance to the blow when and as required. In fact, the more severe the shock, the more effectively Houdailies operate. Different from any other sho t absorber, •the Houdaille connecting link betwee the frame and the axle of the c -r is a steel arm, not _1st a fabric strip to wear out and be replaced. Adjus`a'5_et suit differing road conditions and various lo:.f s, n:e Houdaille is more than a shock absorber .d more than a snubber. Inspect the Ford car carefully part by part. ,Then know the thrill of driving it. By its performance you will realize the easy riding comfort of an Houdaille equipped Ford. I± `i Drive it Yourself— there is no etter Test Arrange for your demonstration ride nearest Ford dealer !J m F, SE F RTH, Ford Car Features Choice of colours 65 to 65 mitre an hour 40 -horse poutr engine Fed! ba!'ocn tires F; r?y encicsrc1 sr_ •',ra' ; c!lst cue 4 11ovc!aire 1•••r.'raulic hock aLsc r:,yrs 110 to 30 mi'rs Ter ua.'lon of uas,'ine Shatterproof u'a s windshield Thr;`t proof it1nilion lock FeliaSi'i(y and tow ':P'-,'rP -with the r rr; lit 011 not Arthur Balfour was the Unionist leader, and both of them held office. In 1915, Balfour replaced Winston Churchill as first Lord of the Admir- alty, and from 1917 to 1919 he was secretary of state for foreign affairs. Never i nall his career did he do bet- ter work than in this the last posi- tion but one he was to hold. Ft was Balfour who defined the $ritis t posi- tion as regards allied debts which re- mains a cornerstone of Brtish foreign policy to -day. This mar be stated briefly as announcing that any set- tlemerrt made by British debtors would be satisfactory so long as it would take care of British indebted- ness ness to the United States. Lord Bal- four, who accepted the title in 1922, had much to do with setting up the Jews in a state of their own, and has won world renown as a friend of the Jews. He also helped frame the nese principle of naval equality with the United States. His 81st birthday will occur on July 25, on which day he will be able to look back on 55 years of almost unbroken service to the a tate. ltRa s to ase �pc r�r l pram, for eveN puTp e— Vacs sveFg s dace AIN'T A IS osr Innkrior rS MARBIE-tTE foralr�dwood tfoors for Oiklo/h WOOD -1Q0 slain forfoors andfurnifure G. Do ergliSe B' aJ'1CeAi OR E Coo ....ems . cv a a