The Brussels Post, 1958-07-23, Page 7RED WARNING
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BLINKER
LIGHTS
"WALKIE TALKIE"
POWER STEERING
REAR-VIEW MIRROR
FENDERS
SMALL SEAT
AND SAFETY BELT
FOR CHILD
FIRE -EXTINGUISHER
MOUNTING
STEPS
BUMPERS
BACKS. ON
SEATS
ENGINEERED FOR SAFETY-Farm people lose more time from injuries than any other working
group. In'Ohio, accidental deaths on the farm rank third, led only by the construction and
mining industries. Because accidents involving tractors stand high on the list, 1,800 women
of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation conducted a survey asking farmers' suggestions for
additional safety features on these machines. Some 15,000 farmers wer interviewed in 53 Ohio
counties. Drawing above incorporates a few of their suggestions in a model safety-first tractor.
Other ideas include an "upset warning" device, tow cables, springs and a-lower top speed.
In 1945, however, the bowler
won, a tremendous victory when
it was officially chosen as the
most fitting. ,headgear,for officers
of the crack British regiments
when in civilian dress.
Incidentally, the bowler has •
sways made the French laugh:
They call it 'the "Wien," while
the,Spaniards refer to it as "hon-
go," whichmeans fungus!
How Corny
-Folks Can Get!
An uncompromising drive by
Senator Paul H. Douglas (D)
of Illinois to make the corn tas-
sel :the • national flower of the
United States.reached the Senate
dining room July 2.
Senator Douglas promoted a
correefilled menu there, and also
provided his colleagnes with
corn tassel boutonniers as part
of his appeal for their support.
He even invited Senator Ever-
ett M. Dirksen (R) of Illinois,
who has called the, corn-tassel'
Fro a Silly idea, to join him
as a cosponsor of his bill.
%Senator Dotiglas and Repre-,
sentative 'Walter H. Judd (R)
Of MinneSeta introducetL their
corn-tassel measures last year.
Despite expressions of support
' from the ,Illinois and Minnesota
Legislatures, the bills ,have not
taken root in • Congress, which
, has - never authorized any na-
tional, flower.
The Senate dining-room menu
MISS 4-H-Judi Russell, 18, of
Madera, Calif., was chosen
"Miss Young America 4-H" at
;the, national 4-H 'conference. •
meludes corn chowder, chicken.
With corn fritters, corned beet
hash, corn sticks, corn breed! Indian pudding (made from
Corn), and fresh compote with
popcorn on the side.
In addition, the menu will
have one corn derivative; pork
chops,
Following lunch, some of the
corn-filled senators will attend
a reception honoring,the..synilool
of the corn-tassel:Olde* Miss
Margo cairns, the ''Corn Tasse
Lady" from Minneapolis.
Senator Douglas prepared the
Senate July 1 for the onslaught
of corn by contending that the
corn tassel-not the rose as Pee-
posed by some members of Con-
gress - is America's distinctive
flower.
"The rose is not really an
American flower," said Senator
Douglas, whose. Capitol Hill of-
fice door is decorated with the
picture of a core tassel, "It is
the national flower of Eng-
land . „
"I believe in cooperating with
Great Britain, but I do not be-
lieve we should slavishly adopt
its symbols and emblems as our
own."
In contrast, he said, corn was
here before Columbus.
Odd Jobs!
Latest job for students in
some South African cities is
wife-sitting. Businessmen on
trips out of town hire reliable,
highly intelligent students for $5
an evening to protect their wives
and keep them, company, it is
reported from Johannesburg.
Girl students in the U.S.A. are
earning holiday money by act-
ing as chop-watchers. The chop-
watcher is employed in restaur-
ants and grill-rooms to assist
chefs as they cook chops by see-
ing that the outside is just the
right shade of brown.
Another odd job is that of the
ham-smeller. He (or she) must
have a keen sense of smell, and
is employed in bacon factories
to detect traces of rancidness on
any of the hams. The sum to be
earned is not to be sniffer atl
It's a well-paid job.
Talking of queer jobs, ever
heard of candy eating as a pro-
fession? Peter Laurey, who has a
sweet tooth, eats about half a
ton of candy a year as taster for
a big manufacturer in the United
States. He gives the O.K. to all
candy produced •in the 'factory.
Hunting squeaks for a living
sounds odd. One man who does
this works for a firm which spe-
cializes in finding and elimina-
ting noises in •motor cars. Some
owners are prepared to pay
highly for this service, he. says.
A Glasgow woman invented a
new way of earning a living-
exercising over-fat do's to make
them lose weight.
INGENUITY
Little Mary had been sent. to
make her first pot of tea.. Time
passed and mother began to
wonder what had happened to
her. Eventually she returned.
"Why were you so long, dear?"
asked', her anxious mother.
"'I couldn't find the tea strain-
er," answered Mary.
"Well, then, how did you
strain it so. well?"
"I used the fly swatter," came
the reply.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
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LESSON
By Rev, B. itarciay Warren
B.D.
Justice. BeginS at Home
Ephesians 5;21-31; 6;1.4;
1 Timothy
Memory Selection; Look not
every man on his own things,
but every man also on the things
of others. Philippians 2;4.
If the teaching of today's Les-
son were practised by all, what
a dicerent world this, would bet
There would be no broken homes.
The union of a man, and his wife
In the one-flesh 'relation would
persist. No third party could in-
tervene to disturb that sacred
relation.
Homes would be havens of
happiness. The wife would not
try to dominate but would be
subject to her husband as God
first told Eve. The husband would
love his wife as he loves him-
self. So sacred and pure is that
love that Paul compared it to
the love of Christ for the Church
which was His Bride. "Husbands,
love your wives, even as Christ
also loved the church and ga
himself for it." The husband
would give "honour unto the
wife, as unto the weaker vessel,
and as being heirs together of
the grace of life," 1 Peter 3:7.
In such a home there would be
no problem children. Of course,
there would be children with
problems. The children would
be taught to obey their parents
and in doing so would learn to
honour them. Fathers would re-
member not to provoke' their
children to wrath: but to bring
them up in the nurture and ad-
monition of the Lord. He would
not teach one standard of con-
duct to the children and prac-
tise a different one himself. He
wouldn't send his children to
Sunday School and Church; he
would take them.
The father would provide for
his family. To fail to do this is
to deny the faith, He might not
be able to supply the latest mo-
dels of' all the latest gadgets but.
anyway, these are not essential
to the happiness of a home. The
mother would be the _keeper at
home. Titus 2;5. The care. and
culture of his children would be
vastly more important to her
then making money to keep right
ii15, with the latest fashions.
"Are there any homes like- the
one we have pictured? Yes, there
are some but not enough to safe-
guard the welfare of the rising
generation. It takei much• of
God's grace , and all the • good
sense we can muster to build a
happy home where justice pre-
vails.
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OPEN CHAMP-Smiling Tommy
Bolt holds the U.S. Open trophy
he won by virtue of shooting
283 for the four -rounds of the
golf tourney.
TIIE-FA314. FRONT
John'
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Early Automobile
'Trails •Recalled
The public can take to the
road this sulnmer chrome-,
.and steel engineered marvel
'containing power brakes, air
conditioning, power steering,
fog lights, a radio, and plastic
seat, covers. It may not be paid
for, but it's beautiful, It is
:known in our culture as the
automobile.
The gleaming car will glide
along six-lane superhighways
built by electronic instruments
that figure beam stresses and
control the mixing of concrete,
When the motorist gets stuck in
a weekend traffic jam, helicop-
ters may hover over the metro-
politan trouble spots to get him
out as quickly as possible.
Good cars. Good roads. Good
gasoline, We take them all for
granted today. Driving an auto
:is one of the commonplace ac-
tivities this summertime of 1958,
But turn back the calendar
just 50 years. A cross-country
drive then was a real adventure,
Some people became world-fa-
mous simply because they drove
an auto far enough.
The trails blazed by those
gasoline buggy pioneers placed
-the internal combustion engine
smack in the middle of the Ame-
rican dream.
Take that Thomas. Flyer, for
example. It won the New York-
to-Paris race sponsored in 1908
by three newspapers. A Gotham
newspaper reporter was one of
Its passengers. The idea of this
adventure through the tinder-
dry, western deserts and the
swirling snows of Siberia was so
preposterous that most Ameri-
can auto makers refused to en-
ter it.
But the Thomas, with its four
cylinders and 60 horsepower,
made it panting into Paris as
the winner on July 31. It had
left Times Square on Feb. 12
throbbing to the send-off shouts
of 50,00 persons. En route, •stal-
lions had pulled the car through
mul, and a ship had carried it
across the Pacific, depositing it
it in Japan to brave the wild
mountain ranges. Sputtering
through Russia, it showed many
a staring native his first motor-
car.
But 1908, after• all, was a year
.of great deeds. ;,A ,:British drill-
ing party struck• soil in Persia
just as funds were running out;
this was the first "black gold"
-to' flow' from 'the,' Middle East,
now the world's richest oil re-
gion. A pitcher• fox' the' Chicago
White Sox, hurling under the
imposing name of4Big Ed Walsh,
won 40 game's, in the 1908 sea-
son. Andethat autumn, out +in
Dearborn, Mich.,. Henry Ford
began to, turn: out the Model T,
the can, that.. promised to make
every man a traveler, if not a '
'king.
While the glebe-girdling auto
'turned wilderneas trails into
-headlines, .a balf-century ago,
there was a lot of steam, too, in
the coast - to - coast adventure
in America. In 1908 a lumber
merchant from Johnstown, Pa.,
Jacob M. Murdock, did what no
man had' done before for his
family; he drove them across
-the* country by motorcar.
This trip is described in a re-
cent issue of the American Pet-
roleum Institute's "Quarterly,"
which sets this stage for the 'five
pioneering Murdocks and their
-mechanic:
."Automobilea then were so
-few that newspapers published
the names of purchasers. Most
makes' were , troubleiame and all
tires were frail. Gasoline was
sold by hardware stores,'
The elder Murdock assembled'
1,200 pounds of equipMent for
-the 3,700-mile trip, including a
winch for extricating the car
from holes, 400 feet of rope, ,a
tank of compressed. air for in
Elating the tire; a carbine, and
two long hickory poles,
The auto was a spoke-wheeled,
high-fendered Packard. It ehug,
gest through the trip, Pasadena
to Central park, in n slays
without running at all on the
seven Sundays.
spinning across the desert,
the Murdocks stopped to ask
directions when the iroad odisap-
'peered 'from' Beneath - their
wheels. The instructions, pre-.
served as a bit of Americana,
prove that road advice from a
local citizen was ambiguous
from the start,
"You will come to Coyote
Lake, a dry lake, which you
must cross," the residents de-
clared, "On the other side you
will run into deep drift sand,
Most cars go that far and turn
back, I f you keep going ahead,
you may get through." (The
Murdocks got through the sand,
but only after wrapping the
rear wheels with heavy rope.)
This family trip proved a
boon to touring and "Motor"
magazine soon was offering a
silver medal struck by Tiffany
to every amateur motorist who
crossed the continent, the API
notes, writes Vartanig G. Vartan
in he Christian Science Monitor.
By this time a new phenome-
non appeared on the road. The
lady motorist. Later, the self-
starter would increase women
drivers by the millions.
The API rundown on coast-to-
coast trips offers this dazzling
bit of history on the woman be-
hind the wheel:
"Women soon became drivers
as well as passengers on trans-
continental tours. Alice H. Ram-
sey, wife of John R. Ramsey of
Hackensack, N.J., was the first.
Accompanied by three other
Hackensack matrons, she drove
a 30-horsepower Maxwell from
New York to San Fransisco in
35 days in the summer of 1909.
She was then president of the
Women's Motoring Club of New
York.
"As a motion-picture publi-
city stunt, Anita King, 'the
Paramount Girl,' drove alone in
doing the same distance in 49
days in a Kisselkar in 1915, and
made appearances in 102 thea-
ters en -.route." (The next year
a law .office, stenographer from
Sacramento, whizzing along in
an 8-cylinder roadster, did the
distance in 11 days.)
The fenders' and the tool box
and the gas lamps are gone new
from the pioneering •auto uf 50
years ago. „, But some things
never change. When the Ford
people wanted to dramatize a
secret,,' pee- saleroom • model of
'their'1958 marvel, they hit upon
, this idea: "Let's drive it around
the?, world!"
So., Ford took to the global
roads, under wraps. The cars
kicked up the high dust of Af-
ghanistan, ,glided along the steep
hills of yugoslavia and passed
'the camels in Pakistan: Socony-
Mohil Oil Company sent along
a man with the motoring' cara-
van and Ford packed cameras
into a station wagon to adver-
tise later to potential car own-
ers just how a 1958 model could
perform, even on foreign soil.
MERRY MENAGERIE
"Yes, ,I did take a short cut
through the orchard-how did
you guess?"
Mechanized fanning a devel-
opment of the present century,
has revolutionized Canadian
agriculture. Tractors and mount-
ed implements have ended the
drudgery *of farm work; trucks
have expanded farm markets;
and • automobiles . have . ended
rural isolation. In all of these de-
velopments the tire has played
a prominent role-a role wh1ch
began thousands of years ago
and is today,continuing in indus-
trial research laboratories.
• I •
Mechanized farming may well
be a development of the present
century, but its first crude be-
ginnings can be traced back be-
yond recorded history.
It began when man first dis-
covered that circular wooden
discs placed under a heavy- bur-
den would permit it to be rolled
rather than carried. From this
humble beginning-the birth of
the wheel-has grown our great
transportation• industry• with the
multitude of trucks, automobiles
and tractors so essential to mo-
dern farming. • • •
The evolution of. wheeled are-
hides was a slOw process, with
each age bringing new require-
ments. Circular wooden discs
were adequate for early. Egyp-
tian chariot's, Grecian :agricul-,
tural carts and Roman baggage
wagons, but - wooden carriage
wheels with iron tires were
needed by the time of the post-
chaise, the landeau and ' the
brougham. They were needed,
too, to roll the 'ungainly Cones-
toga wagons across the North
American prairies and: to move '
lumbering stage-coaches- along,
early Canadian roads.
In the latter part of the 19th
century, when comfort-loving
'travellers demanded smoother
rides :carriage-makers began to
cushion tires with' rubber. Both
solid' rubber and pneumatic tires
were in use before the arrival of
the- eutomobileo
* • *
When early automobiles and
trucks took over the evolution of
the wheel, there was little im-
mediate change, Wooden carriage
wheels, or wire bicycle wheels
were,still, needed to hold the car
body high op the badly rutted
ground. Gradually roads im-
proved .'end smaller, sturdier
wheels becarhe practical, By 1917
steel ,wheels, now standard
equipment, began to replace all
other types,
Tires,. too, tinderWent changes.
Srriooth treads were 'replaced
with angular non-skid treads.
Quality and durability were
greatly improved and safety and
comfort factors stressed. ,Balloon
tirea appeared in 1i122 and large
pnettniatic tires; teinioteed to
ptevide resistance to bruising
and Cutting; 'were gradually de-
sighed for 'trucks.
After initial distruSt;
biles and itticks Were, welcomed
by the . farm pOptilatiOri. The
automobile meant the end Of
rural ' ,isolation 'aid the truck
#reiitlY ejtpaiided, 'farm markets
and rapid transportation of croPS
arid supplies:_ But neither ear
nor truck could be hitched to a
plow id' reduce the drudgery of
work: This require& the
tractor * •*
Early treatera were elttititY
affairs considered suitable Only
for seed-bed preparation Until
1023, When the genaral-pUrpose
trader Was introduced., Mounted
implements, which could be at-
tached to this tractor were in-
vented soon after. Farm mech-
anization now lacked but one
thing-a suitable tire. This was
provided in 1932 with the per-
fection of a low-pressure, pneu-
matic tire which offered farmers
increased economy, traction and
comfort.
• • •
The story of the wheel is, how-
ever,., an unending one, with
present-day evolution continuing
in the research laboratory. There
old products are being improved
and .new man-made materials,
such as neoprene and,nylon,
adapted to tire making. Te con-
tribution of science to a better,
stronger and safer tire is, illus-
trated by , ,the, improvements
which have been: •Made in ,tire
cord fabric.
A tire consists of several lay-
ers 'Of Cord. 'fabric inseparably
bonded together,. Over, them the
tread Is'applied The basic fea-
tures of today's Mire;_ its; strength
and its ability to Withatandleat
generated by, high' speeds, are
largely due to ' the ' kind -and
quality of this; fabric.
Why They, Call It •
A Bowler Hat
For some strange reason Wit-
Han Coke could never keep a
hat on his head while'biinting:
Whatever he did, however he
tied it on,- off it would fly,
causing hilarity among' the. Mint
and chagrin to himself, for Poke
had little or.no' sense of humeur.
Each time It happened the
laughter 'was louder and longer
and his ,sense of shame, grew
stronger.
Finally he ,..,went to see his
hatter in London and explained
the -situation.- His idea, was to
have a hat specially 'Made: for
hint which would =look dignified
as he sat his horae, and ,-Would
stay put while_the, horse ,was
. Moving.
The hatter promiadd to talk
AC a friend of his, ,EVentually
the friend designed a hat with a
curly brim, a fur, felt crown that
was firm ,erithigh to grip_ tle)
forehead, and in due course Mr.
Coke made his- appearance at
the hunt in the new-style hat.
Immediately it became the
rage among the county ,people
who hunted.. Both men and
Women wanted one. SOmeone
ehristened it the hillyeock; but
that .sounded rather Vulgar. so
Coke decided .that credit should
be- given Where it was due ,and,
called it a.- "bowler" after the
deSignee William BoWler.
Its ,populariti increased, 'eape,
clally 'among shipyard *of kere
to 'whom it was known as "the,
rivet stopper" because of its effie
caby iii defleCting rivets dititiqiett
;frOi' above :and -saving'bruises
from. low bulkheads. *
In 1885 it invaded Atherica and
a few short Weeks, had ctush,'
ed all opposition except: frOin
thoae in the legal profeaaion
'Whin for some teiknOten reason,
refused to Wear it.
After it reedited, royal dpore,
Val and was worn by King E d-
ward, it reached it heyday in
the Brat ten years of this den,
became the, tifilfertit Of
the business mart until the 1930'a
When it hegert to retreat in, fa-
your Of the• black horribirrg,
oputerited by WE- then for=
sign ,secretary; Anthony
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