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The Exeter Times, 1923-7-19, Page 3YOT'lll, SIl1NY NEW' GAR "IS YOUR; MASTER, BUT YOtJB GOOD OLD SLAVE, Servant or master a car iliust `be. The "owner" is first the proudser- vant later'the comfortable master. ,n There is a certain •o' in each relation. J Y ,But the vast .bulk of asatisfaction fr taun the possession of a motor is found in the latter state. For ears really were meant to be,used for the convenience of mankind; 'they were not 'invented Primarily and essentially for mankind to wait on and dry -nurse, , I have lived through both • those phases of t` n vel ph motor asso�ta to ' even as you and the other : fellow. I have slaved and•and foot, piece of ,h aot for a :Mechanism that I sort of worshipped ,1 rvith''e es and heart as'idolatrous as �i )hose of anyot•• ellied Afrite before _p b a jade deity, Later 'on that same turnout—or what was left of its orig anal,- pristine magnificence -has wait ed on me, wheal. and engine, meekly, faithfully, dependably, and has proved itself the good old family .friend. When first the new car arrives and is delivered intoyour bands, it shines like • the morning •sunon a' clear day.' Those makers certainly do know how to get a glitter on that finish that is' mighty- alluring. The gloss is notice.; able, yet elegant; the metal work"cor- uscates like a sparkling streantlet; the varnish on the wheols••throws oft the rays of sunlight as though they were superfluous and intrusive; the whole outfit.` is speckless and immaculate.' You look at the equipage and choke. with ernotion. You call the fa/Mid out. They must be' impressed, as you are impressed, `with one tact: That that is the way a car ought to look,] not only at first, but afterward.' What's the heed for a car's looking i any other way any time? You'say: "There, now, is the way we are go- ing to keep that car. Look at the time and pains and ekpense and labor that have been expended on this piece of work, and for what? , In most, cases, to have it soon looking hke a friend- less piece of junk. Is this car to look that way?Are we goingto `make the mistakes so many people make—have the thing soon dinged and dull and banged and dented and scratched and dusty and scarred? Are we?" With one voice8 oar" :half -tearful - with -pride family answers yon: "No, sireel We are going to keep her looking "just ' as she is I" And the whole bunch of you believe it. ; You do so for avehile. Rather than go out in the rain with it, you would stay . at home:.. from a show *you had tickets to. You would wait ;an hour at an intersection to avoid the faintest possibility of the shadiest chance of a slight collision; you rtib'it.with•faint- ly oiled chamois • before you, driveit forth in the morning; you go over its bright work with exactly the proper sort of metal polish; you avoid laying your bare hand on its hood. You make Eddie stay in a dark closet for twe hours because he dropped a crumb on • the upholstery when he was eating a cookie; and Evangeline is paddled ferociously and with common';consent when she footup her puts against the back of one of the seats. That car has to be, 'ke t immaculate 'at any Y cost, You :are happy as you can be in its possession, yet your sleep is disturbed . by agonizini, • visions of somebody spilling something on the hood or some garage man; tracking oil and grease'in'on the floor ru , g But a change comes. c es. rhe'strain is keep P ton -great reat g 1 0 up. One at a time things happen., Youget caught in a 1p g rain' storm: and can't help it. You simpl%' have to splash through ap ud-. dle,, which retaliates by shooting your car with drops of soiled water. A chap at a gasoline station drops some oil . on the fender when putting in a quart. A drayman gets too close in the congested traffic and rubs against the body near the rear. The lustre grows less arid less the dust stays on tle loner each 1 time :,tli chamois. ' . g , e z noir is lost, the metal polish --where did dh put that stuff the iast•time:.fused ";it? � —is not to -be • found; ever since that bottle of milk was the upset p on'rear- compartment , carpet, it doesn't• . seem p to matter much i ch what ciao; gets on it;, that suitcase of Aunt Nellie's put a permanent kibosh on theback of the front seat so far as its old-tiz e gleam n g earn is concerned, and—you Y begin to enjoy the car. It isour servant now. Y It goes. where you want itto, when you wont it to, regardless of weather; it hauls any. sort of load needed to be hauled;. its furbishment is secondary to the family's happiness and convenience, and everybody loves the old boat. She is a member of the family -not uppity or snippy or dressed up in the height of fashion and worrying you by telling you "Look: where you're going! Don't get me .all. smeared!" Instead she says: "Let's go !" ,with all the rakish abandon of` a two-year- old; and the whole tribe looks upon her as 'a rollick- ing playmate and good fellow' not as a touchy something to be handled gin- gerly and fearsomely. The friends we revere and have to be mighty careful lste we offend them may be" and rethain 'valued friends. Butt he old .standbys are the ones we don't hestitate to run in on when they are in their working clothes, and can :talk to as we feel like without a feel- ing that we are in danger of hurting thein.- ' Familiarity is"traditionally supposed to breed contempt; but it doesn't unless there ,is something in- trinsically'contemptible there to assist in the breeding. No one creature ever bred anything 1 Yes, every car passes through the painfully new stage where we work for it and belong to it and are its proudly unpaid serfs; and then it pro- gresses on to themore soul -comforting stage where it belongs to us and is our willing side -partner` and ally, Great is the car in both stages! Insurance Laughs: The ways in, which application forms for insunanoe are fl:led tip are often mlorre amusing than: enlightening. Here are some exaampl•ets Mother died in infancy. nether went to betel feeling well;, and the next morning woke up dead. Grandfather. diced : suddenly at the age of 103. ' Up to tbee time he bade Bpt. He Only Stared. fail• to reach a ripe old age. Mess Shane Only that's pour applicant did mot knioitr anything about maternal 'posterity, except that vele me, Is it, Mr. Sapp?" they died at ari acivanced•age. Reggie—"Yes; I see it all with mer Applicant diad not know' oauso of r-aw—slxind's 'eye." mother's death, but ,stated that she Miss Shwrne-"0111, that accounts for fully rrecovered, from her last illness. oar weakling to gift into a blilind Pa0Y, � s Ap�jJiicanrt had;never been fatally I'm. sane. sack. Father died suddenly; nothing seri- 0116. Grandfather died from' gunshot wound, cauisled by an arrow shot by an inlddaun.; Moiiher's last illness was caused from chronic rheumatism but she was curled .b effine;death. tl� A Perfect.Right. Therlady would leetlisit on 'entering the -Church at ' a . fashiiomab'le wedding. "Priem] of the bride or the bride linkroom?" asked the ; „,:i.., ands is a with the time when it �' s 'ueagut. • "Nei th� h . she sA. id withh pride. "Tinas done td show that no knife was concealed, • the organ blower's young lady." In • Pop's Fault. "Pop, I gat, in trouble at sokool to r1ai and it's al'1yenu' faelt." I I-Iow's ;that, my Sion?" mall; yon'rem+een,beir when :I asked yiout haw much s mdlildoai dollars was?" eYesi, I i'eoaembert" "Well, teacher asked Me to-iay and Sbeilfiatva dot' isn't tho'•rigiht answer." ; iwhen shaking g if the lovo og WEARINESS Pin to tired of the voter "who cones to my. door and brags of his know that liis 'wa on no ember for these iuouna, or nuara. I �' triumph could oo1d wii r it's noth3n!g,bo brag "on, it's faeltioned of tin.. It's ureacing and missing and groaning inpain, its eylladers„plies- ing--a seedy old lavn, And y:et like fountafn he gurgles his yarn of climbing a mlown.taim and jtmpng atarn of whizzi ng i!Ru b: gravel and swimming through n ud --1is triumphs s of travel would curdle your blood. In vain my endeavor toboo t' never he kicks. uphis fuss. I strive my own bus, for honu�. and fa every minute toedge in re word, but when I begin it is thunders are heard. His; voice isayaliig, it stabs like alenge, and when + i'. �e. 2 �, car ;i: :',a dandyand fain he is bawling I Iba,ven t o ohana It Ys g I'd r;eleite anyan.0 handy its victories great. larynx is Sag, ging, my voice is too low; when people an'e bragging 1 haven't, a• stow, So come dippy creatures to boast of their cars, and blow in my f eature the funres of cigars. They know I can't bellow _.., s .piaci roar like dam thtfeilow who lists to thebr tale. � gale, ale, s o. I Discoverer of insulin A unique tribute is being paid to Dr. F. ,G. Banting, the -youthfiul discoverer of the insulin cure for diabetes. He has been invited to open the Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto, . and has accepted, though match against his will, for be is very reticent about pub- lic arprearances. In his honor it le to he Intea'national :and. Science year, and- the foremost scientists • In the Dominion well be invited to meet him on opening day.. He is at present in Great Britain. HOW to Run. 'Popa un properly operly segiidmes regular. training,' but some: hints may be use- ful. ' Nievler lean forward. Yogi will never see a crack sprinter in any other posture exce pit- an erect Q tone. , 'Al'I distances up to a mile s+hould be ran upon 'the tees. For longer dis- fauces, one should run on the ball of the foot. Be yew !careful not to over -stride. n.. A, yitlutaLg over seven feet -four inches is , l tela 1•aniw a stride, de, alud will. speedily - tire the ipeeclilyftire'the runner, • Care must s!t be taken - n act to run hea,vily, for you will brnse the feet and jar the whole , body. Nothing causes fatigue more rapidly than this jarring. Do not kick up heels behind you, for thus means wasted •energy, and do not spread your feet wtdely ,,apart, The. best runners put :tThe:ia• feet out in a perfectly,sttaiglit line. The mars from the shoulder ;should sewing in unison with the legs, the night arm. moving with the left leg, and vice :verea. Worider, of Nature That Sailors Dread. No :oneho has - � wse an aniceberg can ;ever forget the beauty of the eight --a g 3 glistening mountain of the sea. with breakers roaming into its caves and streams;of water pouring from its pin nacles lin the w'aranter' air. But• this s'igdst is more appreciated g by the passengers, than by the crew of a pesisiiing ship. Iiueleily modern inven- tions have made ioebetigs munch liess. daagorous+ than formerly, but woe to the 'ship that through some mishap comes into colllseon with one! Cbinas!ieler •this; neni,anlsabla. fact alone. A berg is sometimes, so delicately bal- anced that the touch of a man'a+ hand would upset it. This delicate poise is caused; by the; constant rays of the sun on the exposed portion (only one- eighth ,of the whole), and by the cor- rosive action of the salt water on dile submerged portion.. Thuseet has often happened that Newfoundland fishermen, while en- gaged in; cutting fragments. from bergs to paclt round their ' fisihi, .have been killed by thle,hue-ktimmock g upon` which they were standing rolling right over. Widen a shipcoeves C zit s lata coll3saon with an. iceberg she can be destroyed in two ways. Thousands of tons of lee can fail down on. her Eleni the ex- posed, portion, xposed,,pontdoan, or her keen can be :shat- tered by the action of the :submerged pant. Sonletineess it happens that at a veslssl he sicooiped riglet out o1 the water by the sudden heaving 'of this submerged pas't, An almost incredible case was reported a= few _v!ears ago oaf the Por- tia, which., when sailing for Newfound- land, struck a berg, with the result that she' was 'lifted , high and dry twelve feet above the surface of the sea! Th: ere are, - eo� 1 , is 1? e stall liming who calif recallti `1 e gtuesot.ta story reported reg oi'te in 1841 of an especially large iceberg seen off the coast of St. John's Isllarnd Newfoundland. In the centre of the berg embedded between two: hills ;of ice, were two ships, with nio living be- ing in them and their masts gone, Not Active. Mrs. X—"Is Mrs. die. Muir an active member of your sewing circle?' Mss. Y -"My goodnes sl, no! She never , hips a word to : say—just sits there and sews all the ,;time." 1 'Beds for pin' Camping out in the 'woods.. or a. a laleb for a while during the summer Or Pahl, is alolmething flxla't, ev zrvblody j;ayrs; Of course, veivet you are cainp- fa:ig you want tg be conif'ortab'ie s+o te:at you can fully enjoy Your time in the open, and vitrard;ze jaded energies; con- sequently you must prepare your elf good Medd bee mils! on this depends a� G oa e d P nluch of>pur oanifort: Sleep well, and � r n. Your camping time will will greatly build you up. In your tent you Should have a ser- viceable bead ;and warm be.d!ding. Very 1.luely you (To net care to sleep on the grounl, 1VIa-uYpeople becausE' of In- sects.and ctQ?.r crawling things and also ::because of dampness; in the soil, especially during rainy periods, shave. an aversf'caa for sleeping In bode that are not elevated. Sleeping on d!anrp ground for moie than a night or so .is not healthful. Tine; three -beds, des- cribed 111 this article can easily be made wherever timber grows, and they will keep Y09.1. off the ground. Bed No. 1 rests, on four corner pests, e!aoia one having e ;c each. Tire peach- es hold the poles= runninig, the length of the bed and ,across these poles more fieioible slats':are laid, at short Intervals to hold 'the material that 1st used for inaattres'ses. Wililow Wands are excel- lent for this purpose, The slats stlould he fastened with a"nail at e'aeh end:, er they can he tied, to the�oiles; with rope. p. Nadls, hammer, saw and ax atould: ad- ways; ha iniciu,ded'fn tibia eampiing outfit,. ars they 'mob be found elm:estt iadisp eins'- able.., The earner peste need, not be node than at:teein inches highs.but they should be stet deep enough in tee ground to make theme stand steady. The holes for thio posits can he mode with an iron: bar ca• a sharpened pole. Where :the soil is hard it may be neeese eery tq'put`water into the hole while working the bar up and drown, After the poste are set • pack ground and smiail rockis about them and, theeV 's•`ib iclient firmly, If the slats, are sninotb. and upnirngy tun °;,d b-lanket"fo7,id,e!d ene:q: .s all thait is neeess a.ay for a iuz ttnerrs. M " 'I, e r:CONFEFtENC l hl s'lyveb weal. as No. 3, caul he made TO 13E. H'HEL IN LONDON . SHAPE W large enlough• tp'boldtwo per,lone. No. 2 is made like a crib and is a very 'comfortable, bed for one person. Two'oroesed poles at each. ends lift the bed' off the ground; These cross; poles muse be set,firmly in the g•ound, and: cavo or two nils should berun t!lirougit at 'tithe crossings. Another pole, rest- ing in the crotches; of the end p+iecie;, makes + thetIr;i; es bottom tlz: bed.A s. 1 b e.c,z of wood =lied over t he spP'orting podica at tate head to serve as a brace and•,,,md softer wands ere 1uaLlc�t an lcngth- wiee en both sides to keep the bed clothingin �I .few plane. A. canvas or a old gunny sacks can be, . spread inside the bed and some dry leaves or a quantity of pine needles with thecones removed put in afterward to nixie a mattresn, You will find this bed a h soft aired cozy one. No. 3 :iserha s; the simplest bed to Tp p 1 make. It le something like Noe -i, but is supported by sawed off logs: instead of posits set in the ground. Nail to the log blocks; queite heavy poles - for the sidies and more pliant slats crosswise to ,support the bedding. g. A long can be placed at the head tar a, pillow resit. Thde,betd Is easy to conu!trnet, as it r'e- qui•r!es; no posts to .be get_ in the grounld. The supporting bioicks need not - be very large to: elevate the bed sufficient- ly to beep in away Irom d:a.nipaesai. Gummy enelrs partly filled with leaves or pine needles make a gzo,od& mattress. Willi, beds like these you need, not carry along much expensive bedding on your camping trip, An old canvas, a few gunny. sacks and a couple el quints or blankets are all you require for each bed. Pililows can be made by flUJUng gunny sacks with leaves or pine needless He's Stili Under the Bed Bubb �—"Tiblere's .only nue thing T 3 like around this house!" - Wife g)' " belstidm "Indeed! 'And ( what's that?" Hubby—"The yard." Both Wrong. The oldeset inhsb,ittnnt was enter- taining his grandson- with storieis+ 'of, t)he servere winners he had. experienced as a young' man. "I remember OMB very bad winter," said the old man, "when it was se cold that tire ' elver' Mere' was frozen. nearly sold, and the thermometer Stood eat fifteen degrees below Cairo, and "Below what?" asked, the boy, "Below Cairo. That's a very- hot place in .Egypt, and when it freezes 8tlere' it's nighty cold, no they say that the temperature is so many de- grees below Cairo." "Oh, I dedn't know that," said the boy: "I thoulg+ht it was galled Nero, after the mese who fiddled during the Fire of London." Misunderstood. Boy Scout (small but polite) -"May I accompany you across the street, madam?' 010 Lady—"Certainly you may, my lad. How long have you been waiting here for somebody to take you across?„ HALIFAX HARBOR MAY COME INTO ITS OWN British strippers are being urged to transfer from New York and make Halifax theiri port of call on this side... of the Atlantic to avoid difficulties with dfli the United States �'Clowennm�ent over both : prohib.!tton and: immigration regulations. Halifax has the finest harbor en the Atlanticbg g coast, and.�v7i+,n its construction program is complete will have one sa of t1L • E finest torts i11 the world. t•' wo d A transfer • enoP. 1 Atlantic AtI t1 shipping ' i c .i, pax routes • Halifax r•. 1 P g to would mean a tremendous boom to Canada, British postal authorities are being urged in the Parliament to trarsfer the mails to a Halifax route. Th.e`picture'shows the harbor as it will a ck ppm when complete. PoCWh:- Ey\,i; iEl"a TQ.D/,"a' , ] �r`-av- t Natural Resources ,Bulletin The Natural"Resources Intel- ligence Service ': of the Depart- ment of the Interior, Ottawa, says:— It is interesting to note in connection with the development of Canada's natural resources that Canadian tobacco is look- ed upon very favorably by the British importers and Manu— facturers on account of its sap- erior flavor, and in this respect is superior to tobacco' imported from other British colonies, such pas South Africa and Rhodesia, while at the same i compares : favorably t me • it co p with that imported" from : the United States. So great is the demand for Canadian ; tobacco. pounds, grown that over one million. 'pea , grown in Essex county, On earlo, was shipped to Great Bri- tain during 1922 to be used in the manufacture of cigarettes, pipe tobacco and twists. In anticipation of increased re cuirements of this commodit Y in Great Britain it is reported that a British tobacco firm has purchased land at Kingston, Ontario, and proposes to erect a ,modern factory there for the processing and curing of Can- adian leaf tobacco. The Can- adian Tobacco Growers' Co- operative Company has entered into a: contract to supply the new British firm with 2,000,000 pounds of dark leaf tobacco. She—"You di-stinctly said that I could flirt all I wanto:I to if 1'd come to the s oa•e with vo h u, He—"I meant you could flirt with, xne all 'you wanted to." RA��99 pp�e�-rr,, qq++^"�� _ - °'..mn��•.-... �>>�:.,�...�.-.�.>�«.; 1A8?l.� B.ITBORR. P _ r (r N Nliv'!N Y WadE FE-.°O. C' \IV(Ni) FQin i-\! DUACs ; r - YCF' 1 CU 3,`.i HE mus -r 13E. -• E,V Ems :.fN• 0 Effort Will be Made to idar- monize Diver e i rAt Interests' of Various �. H s l'as orf lw . r e I` A conference o f i)onnTni>n I'rezniex's' will be held Stare in October, when an elfoe't will be made agree de to itb�' e p rrpoat, a world policy, says a London despatch. des p , In Downing Street, as well as ingoy- eminent o - e�rnment offices in Cangv ada Australia New Zealand, South Africa and Indian experts are plans plans when will >; be .cons'idesred at the meeting, which probably will .last a month. This conference is the first normal one since 1911, as Post'wap problems occupied most of the attention of delle gates at ;the last gathering: Much` will depend upon the course of events this s1.1111mer. 1f real progress 'is made to- ward re-establishment of economic or- der : and .Anglo-French relations, the imp erial Pre in will have a cliff erent program to consider from tbe once which now presents itself. ,An expert with a broad outlook de- s.crihes the problems as follows: First restore.ton of Europe to stable conditions • 'in which world trade will move freely; second, the relation Of the British Enupire with Russia which offers a great market but is now a law unto itself; third, the relation of the "United States to the British Empire and more particularly to the whole of Europe. Dozen Other Questions. There are a doyen other gnestionn, such as Palestine,: Mesopotamia India, Kenya, the League of Nations, Singa- pore, air service --but all are more or less dependent on: the answers to the three problems • mentioned. Not all re- presentatives of :the dominions ropy ho1c1 the; same views en these ques- tions, bat that is an additional reason why the conference should be held this Year. • The English government is primarily interested in the 'course of Europ can events i events, I., some countries forming the British: nth common ea'u ' w are faGus- ;ing attention on other parts of the world. Can the various views tiffs be har- monized? Will Canr.de.. and South Af- rica; agree to co-operate with; Great Britain in the international program, or will they reserve the right •to c g om- pl;ete national and International ttonal suds-' p.eudence?' The answer to these questions 1 q s profoundly important to-;tbs;world as well as to the .En lisp government, g g ¢n nt, At WaaiE 1ngton the conference of Brutish delegates made their g decision as to "indivisible unity." `Wild Y the nations. formin British g the $ Empire h _ , e more closely united at the close: of thecon- ference, or win a step be taken toward dissolution? See Basls of: World Union. As ale British imperialists mperiayists. be- lieve that ooputniee• in the empire wild become more =closely bit, largely be`' cause the League of 1.Nations is le f feetive through the absiomes of the United States, Germany and Russia. This group is working hard, ,and: with some success, to make -the Brtesih:coan- monwealrGba of 'nations the basis `'of a world conru,onwealth. It ,is prepared to invite the •domdnlons to take a larger responsibility in thie;conchict of a foreign pokier, but wh'etlbier that in- vitation will be accepted .is another question. • In Canada there is something of a 1oeling toward the United States. in re- gard to Europe. That is also true of South Africa and New Zealand: Lloyd, George nailed a 'big issue last year when he appeal,ed to the dominions attar a crisis had arisen over Chanak. The replies he reoei'a ed left him far from satisfied; but it was rncogniaed hese, that thre dominiont` :were fully justified ,in their: esitetion. They had not madie' the crisis; they were 'even. poorly Informed as to the facts, and they refused to pledge support blindly. .An effort will bo made in October to prevent e recurrence of a similar situa- tion.. something L11 be dt?pe h gly'e the dominions a practical share in the -- shaping •e- sh1aping 52'ii` to gn policy; Premier I-Iugh,es of Ausl€raiialta:s said the voice of the dominions .amounted to a "mere ambo:' Perhaps the plan of each • do- minion having a Cabinet asster in London wil ba acoeptocl: The very fact that improvement eniien,t lila ;poria, condi- tions since the last .eorrferenee has been extremely disappointing may re- sult in a closer unrtnn of, the inernb-ens of the commonwealth. If We Took `Things Literally ilii -td •-"Hey, 11111, ,got, sane Teceve • that's going to tura yeti ups,!de down!" Bill—"Wait a modizeant fa1J:1 loud ort zny head ---thea tt.'ll-titrkt oss ups?.ct up!" rl� ie ,ilal s