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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-04-14, Page 7■* > J < ft > < Of Interest to Motorists ' vacation. MOTORING AIDS IN PRESERVA- taring is moro enjoyable and the ben- 1 TION OF HEALTH. The automobile has introduced, a factor into modern life which can ifave unique benefits from the stand­ point of health. In all probability the increased expectancy of life of the Canadian people, according to the life insurance statistics, can be traced in part to the beneficial effects of automobiling. It is well known that the motor car is an increasingly tre- __ _______ _ ___ _ mendpus factor in the thorough en- many respects at its best during the loyment and the helpful benefits, to faii; when tho leaves of the trees have be derived from a summer vacation, become a riot of marvelous colors and It has not only made possible for v^he clearness of the air makes pos- 8 thousands of people who otherwise 8fljle wonderful views of the country- Would not receive such benefits a side. healthful tour into the open country j where an ideal vacation can be en- h joyed, but it has inaugurated into our Canadian life a type of outing which, from the standpoint of pure recrea­ tion in i.'-.L / , ’ iittle to be desired. There is one, point whwich seems not to have received as much general re­ cognition as it should have. Having enjoyed the thrills of the vacation, whether by motoi* or by combination of motor and other mediums, -and having come back filled with unusual energy for the work of another year, ................... there is--always the tendency to try to year fh6r6 are many .opportunities ride through the cold weather peason skating, Coasting, skiing and on the strength accumulated while on otker winter sports, all of which are ' vacation. Physicians recognize that beneflciai jn maintaining good health, it is thoroughly unscientific and ,a pm-gm; will definitely plan to c physically fit through a year-round program of outdoor exer­ cise, ho will find that the automobile is an important consideration in car­ rying out these activities. If they are carried on through the fall and winter, the habit is likely to be formed, and when the spring comes with, its wonderful flowers and new foliage, it will be natural to be out enjoying these exhibitions of nature. When summer comes around again, it will find those who have followed these practices with bodies not de- 1 pleted, as is frequently the case, but strong and healthy and in shape toj ,get even greater profit than usual out way ^ere of keeping rich fakers of another summer’s vacation. This, ca'shing in on public sympathy, is the time of year when the habit' Beggars recently became so numer- should be formed and when motorists °u.s streets of Prague that some- ' should begin to schedule health-main-! thing had to be done about it. So the . 1 city has issued metal discs' which are sold to citizens' at a small cost and re­ quests almsgivers to drop these in the I cups of “unfortunates,” instead of! money. • These dises, when presented at es­ tablished stations, give the genuine clown-and-outer just the kind and the amount of help that he needs. They are good for food. and. for a bed to Bleep in and clothes, but no beggar can live in luxury and build, up bank accounts with them, no matter how many he may get from charitably in­ clined citizens. This system seem® to have sorted the triclcster® from the. really needy. Out of an issue of more than half a million of .these discs only a small pro­ portion of them has been presented at the welfare stations. And several of the beggars wlro did attempt to ex­ change the pseudo coins for assist­ ance were found to be professionals, much less in need than many of the people who gave them to them. The beggar i® becoming something of a problem in many cities and persons who dislike to pass an asker of alms who may really be in.need are con­ fused’ by the many newspaper accounts of supposed cripples and blind men who have been arrested and found to be far more prosperous than their ap­ pearance would indicate. .Professional beggars resort to all sort® of tricks'. They twist their hands efits to be derived are more easily acquired. Sleeping in the open at this time of year is a tremendously invigorat­ ing experience which is not likely to be interfered with by mosquitoes and various other bugs which often pre­ vail in the summer. As far as defi­ nite things to do are concerned there are still many possibilities; fishing, hunting and other sports, i The beauty of the landscape is in WINTEH SPORTS BENEFICIAL. Such delightful pastimes as the automobile affords during these aut- ’’ umn days cannot help but maintain ideal cncumstances, leaves mmer W(iekg> What is true of the fall season will also apply to a con­ siderable extent to the winter. With the introduction of our splendid high­ ways, which are kept open for traffic in spite of snowfalls and wind, it is now possible for-motorists’to get into the country even in the middle of tho l winter. »i During the coldest season of the hopeless to expect that the healthful energy acquired during a few weeks Of untiring vacation will be sufficient to carry one through the following "months. It is found in many case® . that the summer tan wears off and Jwith it goes the surplus of energy acquired. AUTOMOBILE AS HEALTH AID. At this point the automobile stands ready to render a worthwhile service. It is available for helping tho individ­ ual to perpetuate this vacation vigor. This is especially true when one stops to realizo that the autumn is an ideal | time for using tlie car to get out into the country for week-end trips. The atmosphere has a unique, stimulating &nd bracing effect and is not too cool for ono thoroughly to enjoy country) life.' The highways are not nearly so;ol^w.«. —-------..—........................ crowded with cars as they are in tho taining week-end trips into the coun- hot weather days; consequently mo- try. University Extension Lectures. For many years, certainly since 1894, Extension Lectures have been available for organizations anywhere In the Province of Ontario who wish to secure a lecture or a series of lec­ tures from members of the University staff. The arrangement has been that the organization pays the lecturer’s travelling and entertainment expenses <md a nominal fee of ?5. However, ft has been felt for some time that Bitch an arrangement is not equitable. {Since the University of Toronto is the Provincial University of Ontario, this lecture service should be avail­ able on the same terms to people any­ where in the province and Chapleau or Pembroke or Fort William should not be asked to pay more than To­ ronto or Hamilton or Oshawa or Belleville. In brief, so far as tho _ {Services of the Provincial University are concerned, people Should not have to be handicapped by geography. On the recommendation of the Committee on University Extension, the Board of Governors at tho meet­ big on March' 10th changed the ar­ rangement that has been outlined above and fixed a flat rate of $10 per lecture for any locality in the pro­ vince, those who ask for the lecture tx> be expected to tako care of thej lecturer’s entertainment expenses in addition to the fee, while the Univer­ sity will undertake to meet the travel-' ftng expenses. Under this new and greatly im-| 0ASKErtWLL Shooting- > NOT DONE INBASKET 15 THIS MANNER-. NO SIR.. Delegates to Poultry Congress. An idea of the cosmopolitan4 char­ acter of the official delegations to the World's Poultry Congress may be had from the fact that leading -au­ thorities will be in Ottawa from July 27th to August 4th from Belgium, France, Brazil, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Finland, Germany, ' Great Britain, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Spain,. The Netherlands, United States, Soviet Republic, Union of ■ South Africa, India, Ecuador, Nor- j them Ireland, Barbadoes, Colombia, o___u .... I Bermuda, Australia, Newfoundland, wed arx’angement, the Director of?the Philippines, Dutch ]£ast Africa, ' " ” ' ’ Peru, Persia, Argentine, Japan, Ven- j ezula and Canada. To avert the Babel of tongues ' which would necessarily result were University Extension will be expected to exercise discretion as to the num­ ber of lectures to be given in any centre. For Instance, it would scarce- - ly be justiciable to arrange for twenty the language of each delegate accept- lectures during a session in someplace °d as an official language.of the'pro- Cwo or three hundred miles from the ceedings, the Congress will be bilin-. , University if the attendance at the] gual. French and English will be the •lecture were not such as to indicate ’ that the servico is appreciated and pliat there is a reasonable amount of Enthusiasm for them. For tho past two or three years nearly these hundred lectures have ^een delivered annually outside of the ' University under the auspices of the Sept, of University Extension. The , new arrangement, which is to go into wffect on July 1st, will make lectures 1 littlo more expensive for places near I she University but much less expen­sive for places far away. ! only two official languages. I A Wise Remark. The best coin for tho exchange of Service is ta>t a poun.l note or a golden ijtoVerelgn, but tlie c°hiago of dig- rSlty, respect, fellowship, and com- panionshlp.—J. Ramsay MacDonald. To the Right. , ‘Say, waiter, I’ll have lamb the * » piner—“I .. ( with potatoes, and have iMtaPa- loan." way, sir?"I Wait^V*““’ ‘Which Homemade Flower Support. Nothing is less decorative than a bouquet in which all tho flowers are wedged tightly together or stand in a stiff, angular fashioik The flower supports sold in the stores and intended to sit in bowls, often hold the flowers too rigidly. A contrivance that works better and is homemade, is a round piece cut from wide-meshed wire. That used around chicken yards is good for the pur­ pose. With pliers cut tho piece out a little larger than the bowl in which it is to bo used. Then bend down tho cut edges until tho flat surface, of the netting comes as near tho bottom or top of the bowl ak you wish, this de­ pending on tho height of tho bowl and tho kind of flowers used. With this wire support the flowers can bo arranged to make a loose and very graceful bouquet, It costs almost exactly a halfpenny apiece to print Bank of England holes, NEW HOLDER OF WORLD’S RACING CAR RECORD Major H. O. D. Seagrave, designer and driver of the great 1,000 horse­ power racing car, which he brought from Britain to try out on the beach at Daytona Beach. Recently his\official time was ,203.84 miles an hour. The previous record was 173.83 miles an hour, held by Capt. Malcolm Campbell, also a Britisher. This picture was taken a few days ago when Major Sea­ grave on a trial trip made 166 miles an hour at Daytona Beach. Foiling Rich Beggars. The city street beggar who was ar­ rested the other day and was found to have a luxurious apartment and an enviable bank account, could not get away with his deception of a kind- hearted • public in Prague, capital of Czecho-Slovakia. They have devised I NEWSPRINT FROM WHEAT STRAW MAY COMPETE WITH SPRUCE PRODUCT What material may be expected to supplement wood in the event of world consumption, of newsprint taining anything resembling the capita use of this commodity^ in United States, asks the Natural sources Intelligence Service, be exparto grass which has been used developed Italian industry, extensively in the past and is stlijl 'The problem of production costs being used? Will it be bamboo, which has also been successfully solved, and has been used to some extent? Or the cost of production pf newsprint will it be straw? If the latter, then I paper containing approximately 80 Canada with its vast cereal-growing i>er cent, straw is claimed to be about areas possesses great and permanent 22 per cent, less than ordinary news­ potential supplies. Straw material is looked upon as having great possibil­ ities and recently a company was formed at Edmonton for tho purpose Of manufacturing paper from this commodity. If this mill succeeds it would justify a considerable and pos­ sibly a remarkable industrial develop­ ment in the Canadian wheat fields. Recent developments along similar lines in Italy may be of interest to Canadian agriculturists and capital­ ists. The problems of producing a straw which will fulfill all the techni­ cal requirements of a satisfactory newsprint paper has been the subject of intense research on the part of Italian industrial chemists for a num­ ber of years. The problem is now thought successfully solved and straw pulp is being produced on an induct- trial scale in the plants of the Societa Elettrochimico Pomilio in Naples and in those of the Societa Italian®, di Elettrochimico at Bussi. The latter mill which has a daily the at- per the Re- WjU it productive capacity of 20 tans, is now •turning out approximately 10 tans of fetraw pulp a day for .the paper in­ dustry. The Itamilio process has the further advantage of utilizing the! • IF’ I fr*r»r «f FRAGRANCES It Is quite remarkable what the sense of exnell can do for us. A touQh. of lavender will eend us to old chests K b7»“S in tte jSrtion “TTwhiff it’SZ ^mysterious, perfumed East?' A I subtle odor can throw open gates of beauty in a score of thoughts that crowd the memory. Follow me up the graveled path to the spacious piazza of a Colonial dwelling; beyond the screen door and i into quiet cool rooms where the curved, carved mahogany gleams in the beauty 1 of flowing lines, and old silver shines {with entrancing radiance. A bead- covered stone jug containing iced I water stands upon a tray on the side* 1 board. And a spray of blossoms shod® a beauty al‘l around. Upon the table ‘“VV,I .precisely at Its centre, a smalt howl ot ent to ink than the newsprint in gen-A. in" LJ eral use m the United States and Canada. The paper is also slightly less opaque, and the printed sheet does not appear to have the clearness characteristic of American news­ papers. Meanwhile Canada maintains her position of the world leading country in the exports of both wood pulp and ♦wheat and her pulpwood and cereal­ growing resources are so outstanding as to justify the opinion that she will remain the predominant factor in, newsprint supplies no matter whether ] the final honors go either to spruce! or to wheat straw print paper, whose current price is about $75 a short ton. Experiments have found paper with an 80 per cent, straw and 20 per cent, wood content suitable for printing purposes. Samples of the editions er- ceived show the paper to be of good quality and excellent color, but some-1 What harder in finish and less absorb-1 Do You Say What You Mean? ■Some of our catch phrases are con­ cerned with our unreliable speech. "Actions speak louder than word®’’; “Empty vessels make most noise1” “Speech is silver, silence L® golden” “A istil'l' tongue makes a wise head” "Be swift to 'hear, slow to sp&ak”; “Think twice before you speak once," and so on. . Most of us speak fan too much; be­ cause speech is so easy we often say the* tangible sVmpath^^that^ie^Imbli?we don-’t mean and without gives them in pennies, nickels and {knowing we have said them. Memory dimes. But how is a person to know idoe9 llot travel as ^^kly *s speech whether lie’s swelling the bank bal- tllW5 we fc'ngGt 5v(h5ht we haTO said- out of shape so as to appear the vic­ tims of paralysis or accident and often carry crutches that they lay by when their day’s “work" Is over. The exposure of these fraud® un­ doubtedly'works a hardship on many worthy men and women who deserve : an*ce of a faker or bringing much-need­ ed relief to an honest beggar? It may be that .cities will adopt the system that lias worked out so well in I pansies.. The day i& warm, the room ,rla cool and colorful, It invite® by | familiar pungent smells of dinner, and. I the hour is drawing near, Ah, the ■pansies! what divine -floveliness lurks in their orange-velvet faces! The cottage to a thatchedi one. A fine specimen Of the thatchor’s crafts­ manship. Built of goldi&n sandstone (and crowned) with llchen-lad&n straw, ! beyond1 which a red brick chimney ’ lifts itself; the quaint old! cottage | stands in a garden older than itself, 1 wtiere riot flowers, fruits, vegetables (in seeming confusion, yet really in ‘ synthetic profusion. Ask the old man at the garden gate how long it took to make a garden like that, and he will reply in term® of centuries! “We ’ don’t hurry in this place," he says. An ; eighth of a mile away tower tenebrous ' elm® with a symmetry that makes tho , heart leap. Across one’® line of vision 1 stretches a fence of dog roses-. What j a wonderful waving mass of heart’® delight is that perfumed beauty! And I the smell of sweet briar! All this, and: ! the quiet of the hamlet, tho peace of ' God! Alluring Smells. Here is a tiled roof, a detached villa. To reach it one ba® passed dew- drenched shrubbery. Behind the house ' you can sec the stocks- and mignonette • and) sweet peas, whose smell has al- i lured you from the road. The sun 13 climbing tho heavens at ten in the morning. Beyond the closely trimmed and carefully kept hawthorn hedge 1 which is the garden’s limit, farm ; bands are turning new-mown hay and. ; shaking it out for the sun to get at, IA line of poplars stands sentinel over the villa inclosure. The dialect of a famous cricket county is. an almost distinctly different language to unfa­ miliar ears. A motorcar purrs a pre­ liminary in the driveway. A door . opens and. out runs a troop of children, agog with glee. They wave hand® and It was with the development of edu­ cation that our word® became less trustworthy. Men began to talk faster ■ and ®ay more, and thus they were un- I Their promises and profession came 't to be involved and others found' them­ selves incapable of believing. Then it was that we hadi to write our pro­ mises and' sign our name®. Around the centre dome of tho Royal Exchange, Manchester, to In­ scribed: "A good name is to be chosen rather than great riche®.’’ No member would dare to break his word there. It would mean instant expulsion. Yet how glibly we all tailk! And how we talk about things of which we are but partially informed! Our trou­ ble is that we think we know, whilst all the time we are painfully ignorant. If we knew more we should say les®. Certain rule® should iguide our speech. ’ For instance, it ■should be our practice to asik before we say anything; “Is it true? I® it necessary?" Through tho words of others we have been ennobled and inspired', but: such words are the product of care. It ■ __ ____ __ ____________ is .slipshod, vulgar speech which des- |many a heartache to speak the truth. Men will come, to understand us and to know we can be rolled upon'. the Czecho-Slovaikian capital, and that .able ke&p 'pacQ with wh,at tbey Qaid' the giving of tokens, good only for the 'rTO^'* necessaries of life, will discourage the 1 imposter® who wax fat and wealthy in • playing on our heart and our purse­ strings. • Royal Exhibits at World’s Poultry Congress Details of the British Government’s exhibit at the World’s Poultry Con­ gress, to be held at Ottawa July 27th to August 4th next, have been re­ ceived by the Congress Committee. Heading the list of exhibitors from Great Britain is His Majesty the King, who has signified his intention of exhibiting pigeons, while H.R.H. the Prince of Wales is sending along some chickens from his famous farm in Cornwall. The British exhibit will consist of models of the poultry farms of Lord Dewar and Tom Barron, two of the best known poultry breeders in England. Hon. Miss Florence Am­ herst and St. Dunstan's Hostel for the Blind are also participating. The British representation will include many technical features. Official British delegates to the Congress are Sii* Francis Floud, permanent under­ secretary to the Ministry of Agricul­ ture and Fisheries, and Percy Fran­ cis, Poultry Commissioner to the Min­ istry of Agriculture. I I Ahmet Zogu Bey Head of a feudal family which for cen­ turies has ruled an unconquered fed- oration, of tribes called' the* Mafi. He handkerchiefs and. toys as the vehicle Is 31, and first president of the two- year-old republic of Albania. She proceeds to tell, in detail, how a firiendi of hers suffe-rad: from a similar complaint anti died! an agonizing deaith. This is no plea for tho mealy- mouthed1 or the weak; don’t be afraid of speaking up to commend what you know to be right or condemn forceful- j ly what is wrong. It should be our aim ■ to "Speak true.” It ’will save us from troys the peace of ourselves 'and of others. We should avoid saying 'that which makes it harder for another. One woman asked another, “What Is tact?” She received this answer: "I can say best what It is not. If you had met Peter the Apostle and tallied about a crowing cock, that would, have been untactfuil.” One woman visits another who is- ill. ADAMSON’S ADVENTURES—By O. Jacobsson — In Canada there are about 150 species of plants that reach tree size. | Of these thirty-one are conifers (or [ softwoods). 1 Didn’t Handle Them There. Lady — “Do you handle canaries here?’’ Bird Fancier—-“No, ma'am — it ain’t good for their health. But we have some for sale." Tests made at the Forest Nursery Stations of the Forestry Branch of the Department of the Interior, show ■ that hardy conifers such ns spruce, | lodgepole pine, jack pine, Scotch pine ) and larch are particularly suited for . prairie planting and thrive under j adverse conditions. These trees ore ; now widely planted throughout the • Prairie Provinces. snorts off to “town." Those children are living in anticipation of the car’s return. They know from experience! We turn to leave and are arrested by a trellis of honeysuckle. Those honey­ suckle and the scarlet geraniums in the window, are a never-to-be-forgotten memory. We 'take to the road again to see the dew stili clinging to the bushes of hazel. A while longer and children are running home from school, the old game of “tick" still popular among them. --------0; Wars of the Future. Paris Action Franca ise: The use of bombing planes from January to No­ vember, 1918, gave u® a foretaste of 1 what the real war of the future was going to be like. Moreover, the dis­ tinctions drawn by Paul Boncour and ; his colleagues are beside the point in ' discussing the dr earful situation to which modern nation® are being drawn by the perfection and progress of in- ‘ dustrial machinery. Every new article used by modern man contribute®, In fact, to hi® extermination. There have been terriblo war® in the age3 of feu­ dalism and of commerce. But they f will * bo nothing compared with thb ’ wars of the industrial age, which are only just about to commence^ As for the democratic state, so far from ’ diminishing the chances of war, it stlral them up and multiplies them by the chances of revolutionary war, which has its origin in envy and add® Its scourge of class hatred to the rivalry of nations'. ❖----------- Duty. The duty of man is not a wilder­ ness of turnpike gates, through which fie is to pass by tickets from one ta tho other. It is‘plain and simple, and consists but df two points. His duty to God, which every man must foelj and with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by. If thosA to whom power 13 delegated do well;, • they will be respected; if not, they l will be despised; and with regard tfl !> • those to whom no power is delegated but who assume ft, the rational world can know nothing of them.—Thomah Paine, in “The Rights of Man." 5 80,000 Eg^a a Day. White ants aro the most productive of all insects', having been known ft lay at the rate of 80,000 a day fof a month. Of the total area of Canada.,. 1,- 200,000 square miles (approximatedv 0110-quarter of the whole) is forest land. Less than half of this carries timber merchantable slzo (6 inches in diameter) at the present time, and material (10 inches in dltimetef)* {th® iniddta of thi ooft l { The Early Inch, j In th© itourtoonth century the stand.. . 'ord for tai Indi nmsnrb wns thrtfo only about onoquartor carries saw barleycorn®, round, ami talccn from • I !'