The Exeter Times, 1923-7-12, Page 6AUTOIS TS URGED TO BE
Hardly a, day goes by that the news
papers do not report one or more, se 1
ous motor accidents, Thotlsazids'0
people aro killed annually. Other then
saads ,are injured.. Ia many cases th
victims of these disasters are absolute
ly innocent of any misdemeanor, The
started out in the best of physical con
dition. Suddenly, through no fault o
their own, they loured themselve
maimed.
It i$ a good thing to know what t
do in case of a motor accident. On
doesnot expect to die any sooner be
cause of the fact that he has life i
surance protection. On the contrary
he is apt to live longer, Nor does a
automobilist expect to be run into an
sooner because of the fact` he know
what to do iri case of accident. Ravin
a knowledge of how to act in case o
a wreck may mean the saving of live
in a, time of emergency. There are sev
era]. good books on ""First Aid to th
Injured," which should be read an
understood by every owner of a car
in case of accident, first aid shoul
be administered to all who need it
Every driver should have some knowl
edge of first aid methods and carry a
a part of his car's equipment a sural
case. of first aid materiaLs. Thos
who seem to be injured mos
should, of course, receive first con
sideration. If there are serious in
juries, an ambulance should be called
or another car secured to hurry the
injured one to the nearest hospital or
physician's office.
FIRST RULES FOR HELP.
-; If any bones are broken, relieve a
once the tension that may be caused
by clothing. Get the patient' to lie
down and remain as quiet as possible.
Sec that some' one watches such a per-
son closely.
Should there be any bad' cuts indi-
cating.
ndi-
catin that arteries have been severed
and that life blood is rapidly flowing
away, it is important to tie something
around the arm or body, which will
stop the flow at least to some extent.
.A handkerchief may answer the pur-
pose. It should be tied between the
wound and the heart.
While touring recently I came
across a wrecked machine. In the car
was the injured driver in a dazed con-
dition. He had an ugly cut in the
head. By the use of a first aid outfit
and first aid principles he was made
more comfortable before being taken
to the hospital It is quite possible that
happening to have a first aid equip-
ment in the car saved this man's life.
If possible call for a policeman
when there is an accident. Undertake
to get the names and addresses of all
the people who actually saw what hap-
pened. This may be difficult, as many
object to going on'the witness stand
to testify regarding an accident.
Make a sketch of the exact position
of the cars, with measurements from
the cars to the curb or edge of the
road, and show the directions in ,which
the cars were moving. If a camera
can be secured take pictures of the
wreckage from different points of
view, They will be good evidence. If"
the, wheels of a car were locked by
the brakes there will probably be a
mark on the road or pavement. Indi-
cate this on the sketch.
CLEAR ROAD FOR TRAFFIC.
Clear the road so that traffic, if it
is restricted z ced or blocked, can be resum-
ed. If a garage is accessible' a wreck-
ing car may have to be secured to
restore the traffic.
Avoid letting rnembers of the crowd
that may have colleoted change the
position of anything until all neces-
sary data are obtained. Be sure to in-
clude in the memoranda taken the
names and numbers of all cars in-
volved, together with the license num-
bers and the names' and addresses of
oryners, drivers and all occupants, and
any others injured.
If a car that has become involved in
an accident is covered by insurance
get in touch at once with the insur-
ance agent who has authority to settle,
a claim. The data that have been col-
lected will be of value in helping him
to make an adjustment. Collision in-
surance has perhaps encouraged some{
drivers to take chances which would
not have been taken if they thought
the damage cost had to. come oat of
their own pocketbooks.
A case recently came to my aiiten
tion where a man was doing foolish
PREPARED FOR ACCIDENTS.
Stunts with his ear on a wet street.
et ilei drgve his car: down this street at
f a high rate' oi+ Speer anci''then attempt-
e-1 ed to skid it arontld the corner, Sever-
al tizzies he accomplished the trick to
-1 his complete satisfaction, Becoming
y conceited about his expertness in
- handling a car, he offered to bet he
f' could do a double turn on that sante
8' Street. He not orals* succeeded in doing
two turns, but five, and landed in a
o i ravine after a fall of twenty feet,
el 'hen in his assurance that the acci-
dent would cost him nothing, because
n- of his damage insurance, he demand-
ed that "the insurance company buy
n him a new car. It did not do so,
y 'There is no insurance written to cover
s loss from such foolhardiness.
g I If it is necessary to tow in an in-
f jured car, keep the car to be towed as
s i nearly as possible in line with the
towing car. The two cars should not
e be tied too close to each other, about
d ten feat being a good distance apart.
The rope should be attached to the
d front of the frame or the spring of
,1 the towed ;car and to the back' of the
frame of the towing car. If one' end
s of the rope is tied to the left side' of
1 one car, tie' the other end to the same
et side of the other ear. See that the
t gears are not meshed and that the
_ brakes on the rear' car are released.
_1 The man in the towed car will need
R to exercise caution, especially in
rounding corners, passing cars and go-
ing down grades. Definite signals
should be arranged between the driv-
ers of the towed and towing cars.
If the differential gears are locked
t and the rear wheels will not allow for
towing, this may' be remedied by tak
, ing off the rear wheels and removing
t the keys `which hold the wheels to the
iaxle shafts. If one wheel is broken
secure a small pole and make a sled
I runner to take the load off that side
of the car.
, Common sense warns one to be pre-
'` pared for accident, even though not
expecting it. Driving with all pos-
1 sible care goes a long way toward
avoiding such trouble.—H. C. B.
! The Vacuum Bottle_
Everyone who uses a vacuum bottle
will be interested to know that the in-
ventor of it, Sir James Dewar, one of
the most eminent British men of
science, died an one of the last days
•af March- Sir James was one of the
men' who reduced to liquid and then to
solid form such so-called permanent
•gases as hydrogen, nitrogen and oxy-
gen. The vacuum bottle might be
called an accidental invention, for the
idea originated from his contrivance
for transporting without loss tram
place to place the liquefied gases pro -
du
ced in his
1s laboratory. He.put the
liquid in the inner compartment of a
double receptacle, the space- between
the two parts of which was a vacuum, i
through which heat cannot pass. The
bottle is merely the result of that prin-
ciple- put to practical use.
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Suspicious Promptness. --
"Jim. and I got home in fifteen min-
utes • last night."
"Gracious, what were you two fight-
ing about, cry dear?"
Worth Thinking About.
A. little gild from a crowded tene-
ment house was delrigeetedly telling a
friend intheCollege Settlement about
her new teacher.
"She's just a perfect Iady," said the
child, - "she's all of that!"
"Huth How do you know shes a
perfect •Lady?" questioned her friend.
"You've known her only two days."
"It's easy enough telllo'," was the
indignant answer, "I knew she's a
perfect lady because she makes me
feel polite all the time."
OUT OF THE SHADOW
—From the Cleveland Plaindealer.
Move Up and Go On.
Most biographies are less than :in-
spiring, because they are too com-
placent a record of success. The writ-
er, for himself or for his hero does
not care to record what went amiss.
He does not like the picture of a man
in perplexity, knowing not whither
he shall turn, calling in vain (as it
might seem) on his God, his friends
and the resources in himself,
In the standard pattern of the Con-
ventional life -story a man goes from
strength to strength. He seems a.
darling of the gods, a minion of for-
tune. The world passes him a silver
salver and invites him to pick and
choose. All goes as irin motion pic
tures. Fortune favors the brave; the
"breaks of the luck" are all his.
But in life it is not so. The strug-
gler alone knows how long is the bat -
tie; ` haw often the bitterness of de-
spair is his portion. "He who never
ate his bread in tears," says Goethe,
"knows ye not, ye heavenly powers!'
But in the hard, fierce effort is the
making of a man, as Lessing knew
when he said that between the strug-
gle and the "crown 'he•would choose the
struggle,
"Forth beast, forth, out of thy
stall!", wrote rugged old Chaucer.
"Look up, thank God for all. Hold tlio
high way and let thy spirit lead thee,
and the truth shall deliver thee; have
no fear!" -
There is always'inspiration in, the
talk of abig man who after many
trials has succeeded`. Every great en-
gineer has known the heart break of
a collapse of some careful plan he
worked out. He did his own part
,well; some detail, necessarily left to
a subordinate,, went awry. The weak
man gives up and goes under. The
strong man moves up and goes on. De-
feat is always an elective in this our
world. "The fault, dear Brutus, lies
not in our stars but in ourselves." It
is so easy to charge to circumstances
that for which we . ourselves are ac-
countable.
When Thoreau'saicl that a man sits
as many risks as he runs, he was wise
to the danger of an inertia that simp-
ly lets adversities fall like hailstones
on a roof and makes no effort to rise
and shake them off. It is forever the
easiest thing to tell ourselves, like a
KEEP SMILING
Keep •sin+Jl+in+g,,:'tis better than looking so sore; the pestilent
freeter is always a bone. He wearies +bene neighbors with cavil and
kick; they pause in ,their labors to hand him • a brick. Keep
smiling, for knuckling won't help you along„ and pessimist talking
will get 'you in wrong. Enraging the voters' by that line of talk,
tihey'11 slow down their' motors to eland you a rock. Keep smil-
ing, it's wiser than looking as blue as Bidhalrn the kaiser whose "•
graft is ala through. A bushel of curses won't help you 00111e
bade, if ills or reverses+ Soon up In your track,' The brave fron+t-
edd. hikers up ltfe'n etony steep wi11• class you with pilfers, With
rabbets arvd sheep. Kemp emilling, insisting that things are all
right, and wetting and, wisting that joy 1st in sight. Thule you
w111 be wielding an influence fine; it's better themeyielding to
sorrow and brine. The people, •atdnz,iring your sun.-sdziny: cumves,,
will say, "Hes inspiring -,a mown Ih+e •ddee!ryes!" ; But no'4one Is
praising tlse gloomy -eyed gent wlvo alwiayis is -phvrasing ssiome
dreary lament.
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1S THP\T SO
DiD SHE. TAKE.
A PAY OFF1
fe Water ffor Campers
Now that summer 1$ here one's
thoughts naturally turn , towards' oat -
Ingo, camping and` automobile trips,
Careful preparationis iiOii,ally ramie he
advance for those excursions 11t:Girder
to have them as pleasant aud- coni1tort•-
Gild° as possible. The right sort of
clothing, cooking utensils and., good
things to •eat are pllovided, but very, of -
ton no thought is given to' the Weie/e°
supply to be used for deinking and
cooking, yet auoboci '- oan get on for a
day without water to drink. It is gon-
ei'ally,felt that water can be secured
almost anywhere. That may be true
as to quantity but selfe,water le not al-
ways to be found' when one wants • it
iczos C,
Inoreasing Likelihood of Pollution.
' vitle the •ever dnoreasing number of
campers, fishermen and hunters, there
1,s :a corresponding greater chance for
the pollution of streams, For this, rea-
son surface. waters . (waters :from
streams and ponds) eon not be con-
sidered safe, as they are always sub-
ject to more or less contamiva1ion.
Even springs may be polluted by care-
less and thoughtless campers. For
this 'reasonit is safer to carry a. sup-
ply of water from home if one Is to be
away only for a day, This,,-horyever,
cannot be .done if.the 'camping trig Is
to be of Mauch longer duration. • 'For
the longer trips we should look care
fully into the sources and sanitary 'sure
roundings of the water supply we are
to use for drinking. One'shonid not
take it from any well he may happen
to find, nor should -he, dip it from a
brook or stream under the impression
that clear sparkling water is certainly
safe, foir with water as with persons,
tools are often deceptive. Water may
look and taste .good and yet be badly
polluted -with the germs of typhoid.
One well last year caused over GO
cases of typhoid, some of them being
in widely different localities. The
water tasted good, but a big rain wash-
ed' pollution from some shacks into it.
Automobilists and others drank it and
many developed typhoid,
E3ol! When Doubtful,
So try to get water from springs
quite• distant from :swellings and
camps, especially from lumber and
construction camps. 'When in the
least doubt about the safety of your
water supply, b'Qil enough for the day.
over your camp fire, Boil it five min-
utes, placethe pale containing it, which.
should be covered, in 0 stream (:o coal,
`then carry this supply with you and
up9 na other.
` Keep Water Supply Clean.
•W'hen You x , fi ldI
a sally safe spring,.
talcs •goodcare to keep it clean, not
',only en your own account, but for the
sake of ofthers who use it. Instead of
dipping a bucket or other vessel, into
the baste` of theesprizdg, collect the
water at tete outflow oven if a pipe or
trough has to be'canstructed, Waste.
water should not be thrown into the
spring or dumped on the' ground near-
by and all other wastes should` bo
buried at a depth of about 12 'ruches.
below the surface of the ground and
at a place lower than the level of the
spring.. For' this purpose a shallow
trench should bedug at a safe distance
from the camp and: the water supply,
and as soon as the wastes are deposit-
ed In the: trench they should• be cover-
ed with soil to a depth! of SIX or eight
inches, This is a safe and sanitary
way to dispos•e of wastes, and it pro
tects both -the camp and the water sup-
Ply • •
Never drink water fi'onz a well with-
out first malting sure that it Is so lo-
cated and constructed as not to b6 sub-
ject to pollution. See that the well does
not receive the drainage froze privies,
barnyards, cesspools or pigpens and
neighboring brooks, and before using
water from the well, make sure that. 11
has a watertight cover which is in
place; that it is well provided with a
suitable pump and that the casing of
the pump is watertight. Water should
never be drawn from • an open well in
the old-fashioned bucket, If there is
any question as to the purity' of the
water we• say again boil it for five
minutes and allow it to cool before
drinking it Although, boiled water
may not be as pleasant to the taste as
water that has not been boiled, it is.
much safer. The insipid taste of boil-
ed water is duetothe oxygen in the
water having been driven off by boil-
ing. By stirring the water vigorously
air is re -introduced and the original
taste restored
Motorists Will Help to Pre-
serve the Countryside.
The Motorists' League for Country
side Preservation is the name of a new
automobile organization which has
been formed for the unique purpose of
trying to maintain . t11escenic beauty
of the land in its orlginal state.
The programme of the league is las
follows; Care in making and extin-
guishing camp
xtinguishing,canzp fires; elimination of
useless destruction of tree and shrub-
- bery and the cleaning up of all sorts
I /1. of refuse, papers; and litter` after an
open-air meal has been >enjoyed or
night camp made.
Members of the new organization
have been asked to take this pledge:
Ha mess 'T will make every effort to leave the
pp roadside in such condition that the
"If you would marry me it would
make me quite. happy: pleasure to be derived frons it by.
"My dear Bob. Happiness is gained others • is not lessened through any
in the pursuit of something, not in - Careless act of mine."
catching it. Particular stress is laid by the- of-
"That's not so! You've never fivers of the league ou the important
chased the last car on a rainy night." necessity of constant precautions
•against the spread of fire ha forest re-
gi•ons, All motor tourists, of whom
them
are literally millions on this con-
tinent, are urged to refrain from leav-
Notwithstanding .all the achieve- ing camp fires burning because of the
meets' in practical science there are possibility of the spreading of the
some indispensable materials, the mak flames with an ultimate lceof a whole
ing of which is still nature's secret; forest to the nation,
and for which no entirely successful One of those who have consented to
substitute has been found, Among be a charter Member of the new league
is President Harding of the United
States. Others have lined up with the
organization because they realize that
Substitute for Cork
these substances is cork. It is. possible,
however, that nature herself, in this
case, offers us a substitute in the wood
of a tree growing on the east coast of a desolate,' hreswept district has no
Lake Tchad, in Africa, which is of appeal for the touring public,'let alone
'even less specific gravity than cork, the effect it has on trade and industry,
The British General Post Office re-
quires 40,000 new telegraph poles
every year. These originally all come
from Norway, but now they are ob-
tained from various countries. The
arms, or crosspieces, come from Aus-
tralia.
poor guide on the Matterhorn, "I can-
not!" But the advice of a football
coach was better: "If you think you
can, you can!" He who hesitates is
not always lost; he may be sensibly
thinking out the way he means to take.
But he who spends much time in intro-
spection that paralyzes action and
breeds a panic fear 'needs to rouse
himself to a determined course and a "So he did. , Brown's working now
bold deed if he would save his soul. to pay for the advice,
re'
Suspension of Regular Work
"Thought the doctor advised Brown
to take a rest?"
OH YES' SHE. roam 'TM;
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DAY OFF ----AN' A C0UP1-G-
YEARS OFF HER AGE.
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A `Plain Tzilk.
Wl>,o,t Is your niche to the
mind of the mai who met you
just now?
He labelled you; dice careful-
ly filed you away,
Are you on hie list as one to z•e-
spect, or as, orae: to be ignored`l
Does 11e think you the sort that's
sure to win, or thethekind that's
quickly floored? •
The things you said -were
they those that stick, or the kind
that fade and die?
That story you told—did you
tell it your "best`? If not,'why?
Did you thenk while you talked?
Or but glibly recite what you
had beardbeardor read?
Had yo1:t "made it your own—
that saying of yours ---or quoted
what others said?
Think --what is your niche in
the mind of the lean who met
you jest now, and labelled you; hied carefully ied you away?
Justice for the Poor.
Do the Canadian courts afford suf-
ficient means of defence for those ac-
cused of contravention of the pro-
visions of our Criminal Code? This is
a question that is frequently asked
and it is often answered in the nega-
tive by those who have intimate
knowledge of our ' processes of law.
Marty , of those who are dissatisfied
with the present system suggest that
it might be considerably improved .if
Public Defenders were appointed in
connection with -the courts in our
larger centres of population. The
Public Defender would be an eminent
attorney whose duty it would be to
conduct' the defence for any poor per-
son unable to retain private counsel.
Like the Crown Prosecuting Attorney
he would be paid a salary from public
funds and hie would hold office during
good behaviour.
The arguments in favor of such a
system .are numerous and are voiced
by men of influence and wide ex-
perience in both Canada and the Un-
ited States. For instance, the Hon. T.
L. Woolwine, a California attorney
who holds a position corresponding to
that of a Crown Prosecutor in Can-
ada, says: "The office of Public De-
fender was, created' for the protection.
of those too weak to help themselves.
No man should be convicted of" crime
without having had the opportunity-
of
pportunity
of making a proper legal defence, and
it is to my mind a duty of the state
to provide him with such defence if he
is unable otherwise to 'secure it." This:
attorney, in company with many otherattorneys and judges in those cities of
the United States' where Public De=
fenders have been appointed, holds the
opinion that a permanent salaried of'fie_
tial of this sort can conduct the de-
fence of indigent prisoners better- than
any other -person. In many courts it.
is customary to assign cases to any
lawyer .who happensto be willing to
undertake the defence for the con-
sideration of a fee of about $25 pro-
vided out of public funds. Under this
hitter system, as may be conjectured,
accused persons have not always re-
ceived adequate defence. Too fre-
quently inefficient lawyers who ,could
make no better living have . hung
around court rooms in the hope of
picking up assignments of this sort,
with the' result that :the defence has
over
and over
again
beeninadequate
or perfunctory- The Public Defender,
on the other hand, would be an at-
torney of experience and ability. Not
only would his work be more 'ef efficient,
but it' would cost the public less to
provide his annual: salary than to dole
out fees to special lawyers.
Several cities in the United States
have adopted the Public Defender sys
em as an experiment and later have
onfirmed it as a permanent fe�:tirre
f their court system: Testimony from
11 of these cities' confirms the state -
m
ent of Judge Frank R. Willis, it
as he who said after noting the re-
ults of the system. in his ewr'depert-
menti "I find that instead of the ordi
Lary methods of defendants' attorneys
n trying to secure '3 1 rat'i`o "'^1 i,.,
ny or all kinds of : means,' legitimate
✓ other;vise, the Public Defender has
niforrnly endeavored to 'present the
acts of each case. thoroughly to the
ury, and tried to secure only such
verdict•, as the :facts of the case would
warrant. It has been a great saving
o the county in the matte:r of ex
ensean.d has usually been productive
f a more fair and impartial adminis-
t?'ation of justice than the method
ormerly r.,.
employed of aointin c;• rat_
orneys unfaniiliar with r',rain-ni 'In,v
eelrresent the defend t,•1' tui.Preste,"
When the Canadian publicpublichas had
ppo tunity to cliscli,rs i. e eve?rei11
,casing mass of e emcee r s ie the
i1C�01 anad sat'.i l ., Y results 0.f
he Public Defender r sle n it i:; not
:probable that ,thee all •luxe
leer demons Foe its ol1intion in this,this,auntry as a Method w1si��':1 will ens es
1- e for she root, ---The Social See,
ice' Council of Canada.
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The pike; though greedy and fo^,:.1
of heavy meals, is slo'V nTowing, ria 1
is believed to live longer than idly
other species of fish. A SWiM3 SW—"3mito r
alist has recorded the ] i:•tor3 or gine
that was 267 years old, it ip<,nh its
entile exi8t000e as a prisoner i'1 a,
fish pond,
Ski-ing, tobog'inninp', enoW:shoeinee,
sl:l-jar'ing, ice -boating and skirting fol-
lowed by ft war el plus ge in the lee
fringed open air swimmino tool; melte
Banff 111 Banff National pail:, Alberta,
in the opinion of reaey, the finest,
Wiktor playground en the continent,