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The Brussels Post, 1920-10-28, Page 2INFORhqmos Walt Mason iii 1� Y Driving Up Grade. How about climbing hills? Ie .it easy to take the stiff grades on high, or do you find it necessary to shift gears when you come to the hills? Lan you get up a hill without stalling the engine, and do you ever have to ask friend wife and your guests to walk a little while because the hill is pretty steep? Unless your engine is tprety badly disabled this ought not to be neeessary; but unless you are 1 different from most novice drivers you i have had this experience—and a humiliating one it is. There are, of course, engine condi- tions which make it difficult or im- possible, but these are due to neglect or poor adjustments which diminish the power. If the car is kept in con- dition no hill should be a bugaboo. Yet it is a common sight in the oity and country, both, to see cars stalled and the owner and guests hoofing it, or pushing the car, The driver who has learned to man- ipulate the gear lever on the level may approah a hill on high with the ac- celerator opened enough and the spark advanced to speed up the car when it begins to slow down, Before it gets too slow to shift the gear the second speed should be taken, and this ought to take any ear up an ordinary hill; but occaeicnally, on a very steep, grade, first speed may be necessary for a short stretch. At the foot of the hill open the! throttle wide. If the engine knocks or labors, retard the spark until it stops. This gives greater power and momen- tum and on the short hill will carry the car over. As soon as the engine. begins to lose speed release the clutch,! take your foot off the accelerator and, shift to a lower speed gear without' applying the brake. Let the clutch in! quickly, at the sane time opening the accelerator wide. You will be able to advance the spark after this without causing a knee};. Do not change to; first gear unless the engine shows aigns of stalling, and remember that! the gear shift on a hill must be made' as quickly as possible and the clutch, let in immediately, before there is al loss of momentum, which usually means stalling the engine. If whileyou are tothis learningciotfus the engine stalls, put the emergency brake on and the gear lever in neu- tral; Hien put a b4ock bark of the gear wheels before you crank the engine. When you are ready to release the clutch, shift the lever to first speed, accelerate, release emergency brake and let in the clutch, all in the same moment. The block back of the wheels will keep the car from backing down. Sometimes it may help to ap- ply the foot brake and release the emergency brake, and then when you engage the clutch release the foot brake, very slowly feeding gas to the engine with the hand throttle lever, But do not try any of this until you know how to shift gears easily on the level, Shift Before You Descend. There is a trick also in shifting gears in descending hills. The first thing to remember is that with the ignition shut off the engine itself will act as a brake and the running brake can be made to supplement this with- out releasing the clutch. It is not wise to go down the steep grade in high speed gear. Second speed gives the engine greater braking power and on a very steep hill first speed is ad- visable, The ,idea is to shift the gear at the top of the hill rather than after you find you are up against it. The trick, you see, in shifting on descend- ing hills is to shift before you des- cend. Whether your car is able to take hills on high or not, my advice would be, except on a very slight grade, don't do it. The hill speedster is a menace to a timid driver, or in fact to any other driver. High speed on a hill costs frightfully in gasoline con- sumption, and it does all sorts of things to the engine, which must be considered in these days of h. c. of 1. After all, motoring pleasure does not consist in simply getting there and piling up mileage. You may save a few seconds taking a hill on high, but like the Chinese diplomat, who when told he could save two minutes by transferring from a subway local to an express train asked, "And what are you going to do with the two min- utes " You would better cousider whether it's worth while. The speed habit is hard to overcome. Grieq all eS , ries his cross and endures his sorrow with courage, and even with good Strong mets rise above the slings and arrows of censure, from those whose ignorance has made then] fear- less to rush in and say their say. some of the censers, no dcubt, think it their duty to be frank. end think that they have pert: msec a seevice when they have tinted against same wurthy work becauee they dislike a partieula: feature of it. They think they deserve to he admires for their courage and their candor in speaking out when others held their peace. The men and women carrying the burden, enduring the heat of the day, performing the tasks that others drop because there' is no glory, must be content to let the event justify them if there is to be a justification. They trust, as in Kipling's "If," bear to hear the truth they've spoken "twist- ed sty knaves to make a trap for fools." They read that whole fine proem for their comfort. Their mo- tives are .misinterpreted. They are the prey of the whole tribe of back- biters zid gossip -mongers. But they have no time to waste in venting, their grievances, They have no time to parade their injured in- nocence or to air their integrity. They are too busy to apologize and explain.i The -work must be done; they must do what the anvid chorus of carping critics leaves unperformed. if a roan once embarks in the bust- ness of retailing hard -lurk stories be is always certain of a st.ockdn-trade, but he finds a glutted market. He had , letter remain on the job, doing sonne- te!ng that cram;?, eemethlug that the teeth wants done. There is no pest, in fact, like the man with a grievance; the man who has a "chronic complaint," We all Love troubles of cur own, end the fact that we have them enables us to sym- puthize. Otte who has "been there" understands another soul's perplexity! or misery. But we do not show our runtpassion and our understanding inerely by adding burdens to should. ere already laden, The man who car- cheer, is the useful servant of his kind, Those who snake a fuss about mere trifles often go for support and comfort to those who with shining faces are enduring trials of magni- tude, refusing to be crushed, refusing to proclaim a sorrow. The Match as a Deadly Toy. The use of matches as a plaything Is a very dlangai'oue habit. In the Province of Ontario, during the year 1010 one fire in every eight originated through children playing with matches; and they thus wantonly de- stroyed more than $361,000 worth of valuable property, besides sacriticing several innocent lives. Even in the hands of careless men and women many fires are caused by thoughtless- ly throwing a match in a waste paper basket, or pile of rubbish, before it is quenched. A good plan is to break the stick in two and then you will be sure that there is no lire in it. Seventy-two enormous grain eleva- tors are to be built in British South Africa. After Being Told Once. If there is anything a business man admires it is the employee who does not ask over and over again how to do things. The listless employee, who never pays attention to what is said to him, who 1s always forgetting his instructions, makes a very bad impression ea his employer. He shows that his mind is not alert; that he Is either indif- forat,t or has a poor memory. I know a business man who says he always keeps his eye on the employee who needs instructing but once, because it is a sign of a quick, active, alert mind, an accurate perception, and these are valuable business qualities. \(Q4.3 1cNpW 104 1 %{INA MOST oP "rlAe. PEOPLE LIVE. QN `CHE 4../Kr Ct, THE SPEEiD FIENDS In vain i stand protesting to speed fiends as they pass; they seem to think I'm jesting, and give their boats mere gas, The coroner is busy, he's checking up the dead, run down by truck or lizzio or auto painted red. The coroner is weary, 11e toile by day and night; his task Is sad and dreary, and there's no end in sight. The village cops are chasing tate fiends o'er hill and elale, and after bitter racing they put a few in jail. And then they're fined so lightly they think it all a joke, and leave the courtroom brightly, and stake their autos smoke. Through high- ways residential, through traffic's busy marts, with ardor pesti- lential they run their deadly carts. They wing the•fleeing baker, they maim the frightened clerk, and now the undertaker gets in his grewsome work. The doctors' nerves are busted, so many victims yelp, the coroner's disgusted, and wildly calls for help. And still the crazy motors go rushing through the town, and slay the adult voters, and mow the children down. And when I atand protesting the speed fiends scorn my thyme, and jaunttly go questtug for some one they can climb, THE RUN BACK ,.-"5 Ever since I learned the game of football, away back in my school clays, I have loved it. T am getting to be a middle-aged man now, but, though my business does not allow me many chances to indulge in the pleasure, I can never resist the temptation to see a game whenever the opportunity of- fers. Sometimes I have even gone a good deal out of my way to make the opportunity. That explains why "I might have been seen" one afternoon some years ago eligibly situated upon a lofty stand, enjoying the lively spectacle afforded by the annual game between the Mon- mouth TIigh School and Brinkerhoff Academy teams. I had never heard of either institution until that day; but business had called me to Monmouth; there was the game waiting to be play- ed, and I felt I just couldn't miss it. Of course I was strictly impartial when the play began, but it had not progressed very far before I took a hearty dislike to the captain orf the Academy team—Buck Rogers, he was called. He was a big, hulking fellow —big enough and strong enough to be dangerous on a college team; and, as if that didn't give him sufficient ad- vantage, he didn't play fairly. His place was at tackle, and from my seat I naught him in inuumerallle offeusez--ori-lido play, holding the nlau opposite him, foul tackling, and the like. Once or twice he lest his temper completely, and I saw him strike one of the smaller high-school boys who had made some play that prevented the Academy from gaining ground. It was a pity, for anyone could sec that he knew the game and could play it well; but he sadly lacked manliness and sportsmanship. The officials were incompetent, for they saw none of his flagrant breaches of the rules. Perhaps they were afraid of stirring up too much excite- ment by ruling him oft, for the en- thusiasm of the crowd showed that the game was the event of the year to most of the people present, But, in spite of Back Rogers' tactics, his team did not have much advantage over the smaller but plucky high - school boys. Perhaps his brutality impaired the discipline of his own men, for he rated them and pushed them about, when they die,ploaeed him, in a most disagreeable and overbear - Ing manner, The game was hard fought; each team made a touchdown, but the high- school boys failed to kick their goal, and the score stood seven to six against them with only five minutes of the last quarter left. The ball was near the centre of the field, and I be- gan to fear that the bully was to have the satisfaction of winning, afer all. The high-school team had the ball and tried a long, swinging end run, which caste off pretty well. The half back was a fast runner, and, though his interference was broken up, lie had a good start and swung away out across the field, getting clear of every- one but Buck Rogers and the Academy full back, who was far down near his goal. Buck came charging across at the little half back and, having a shorter distance to go --the chord of an arc virtually—beaded him off. I•Ie plunged at the runner and got him, but it was a foul tackle—away down at his ankle. The half back went down hard, right on top of Buck, and the ball bounded out of his arms. The big fellow scrambled to bis feet in a moment, but the other was apparently more shaken up and got up more slowly. No one else was very near bine, and Duck, gazing about him in a bewildered way, saw the ball, picked it up and, tucking it under his arm, started down the field --for his own goal! In falling his head had been hit by the half back's knee, and he had been so dazed as to lose his sense of direction. \Vhat a hubbub of shouting and cheering there was! The Academy supporters howled out their disgust and dismay while tae High-school crowd cheered deliriously at this un- expected turn of fonrtune's wheel, The Academy team was in full cry after their captain, but he could not hear their voices above the babel of noise that came Prom the stands, and he could outrun them all. The full back tried in vain to tackle him as he came dawn the field like a runaway freight train, but Buck beat hien off and kept on. The poor hull back lay down where he was and cried, There was no one left now between Buclr and the goal. Running with his head down, THE SPREE OF HIGH PRICES Doctor: "This prescription is for medicinal use only," —"Times," New York, REGLAR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes tk.-n-m.,( Do Cr-AcftcALW) ALL -THE.TRAVELING IN JUHKs r b MMMarvths of Minute Workmanship Most of ue carry two i'elnarlcable epecimene of minute worknntnshlp. They are both contained in our watch, if that article is of the ordinary pat- tern. One 18 the name of the maker on the dial, This lettering, ,hough only 1.40In, in height, is painted 00 by hand. We are indebted to machinery for tate other mlcroseoplo feature. Look, with a glass, at some of the ecrews, and you may find that the heads of the smallest are' only .3.100111. acrose and that the threads are sunk merely 2.100in. Thls is fine work; but much more so is that in tiny watches which are in- corporated in rings ro ear -rings. Amazing accuracy is attained, too, in the every -day manufacture of com- mon things. 13y a whirring emery wheel parts of a motor -car engine are brought to within 1.3,000in, of stand- ard size, and the slit in a pea is made by two blades adjusted with such nicety that the thinnest possible film of moisture on the lower one would be removed by the other .in passing it. Still more remerkable Is the fine- ness seen in the gauges called for le mass production. This practise in- volves interchangeability of parts, and consequently a rigid adherence to standard is imperative. Ia some works there are great heaps of parts which do not vary from one another more than 1.2,000in.—a result which would be impossible without a series of beautiful gauges. The care exercised in connection with such gauges would amage the un- initiated. Periodically the working gauges are tested by master gauges, some of which are so exquisitely fine that they must be used quickly, lest they be affected by the heat of the hand. These garugos are made of steel winch has been thoroughly "l'lponee" or matured. New steel cannot be useul becuilee it Inuy splinter of its own ac- cord, or, if it Is worked tut to certain dlmensluee, become distorted the very next day. Marveling is tate accuracy of inns - ter gauges ----which only the moat skil- ful craftsmen can snake, Not long agog for instance, some were wanted 111 connection with the mass produc- time of aeroplane engines, and 11 was necessary that they should be to with- in 1.3,000 i11. of standard. They were made, though at groat coat. The men wllo produced them had to be care- fully watched, and sent home Por a rest it they eeemed to be over so lit- tle "off color." No less astounding are the details la some machines. One invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth will detect a length variation of one millionth part of au loch. If you toucbed for an In- stant with your finger -nail a 36in. bar of steel, 111e expansion in it due to the heat would not be too slight to be re- gistered by this piece et mechanism. There are other machines which put the draughtsman out of the running for certain work, How many parallel lines can you draw In an inch? It you are very skillful, you may man- age 150, or perhaps 200. But there Is one machine that will rule 120,000 to the inch, and another is capable of rul- ing fourteen in a space equivalent to the thickness of tissue paper. An error so small as to be nearly inappreciable by the lay mind is fatal to success with these machines. If either was "out" only 1-300.000 in., it would not work satisfactorily. Minute care, however, is not pe- culiar to small work only. For in the making of a 121n, gun a shaving taken off a tube may be merely 1.500in, thick, he neither saw nor heard anything. Sticking To it. At last he plunged between the goal posts and touched the ball down. He had made a safety and the score was eight to seven in favor of Monmouth. Theft he stood up and waved his arms, yelling with the last breed' in his body. The air was crimson with Mon- mouth flags and shivered with the sharp staccato of the high-school yell. Buck saw and hoard at last. He stif- fened up and looped about him, He saw what he bad done and, throwing himself face down on the ground, be- gan tearing up great handfuls of the tin f. It wasn't exactly a victory to 'be proud of; and, though I walked off the field that day well pleased with the re- sult, it was not because I had much sympathy with the jollification of the high-school boys, bat because 1 had- scen a player who was a bully and a coward meet a humiliation equal to his deserts. Timber From Dead Trees Good as That from Live. The prejudice held by certain build- ers against the use of lumber from fire or insect -killed trees has been proved groundless by recent experiments of the TI.S, Forest Products Laboratory, Here it has been found that lumber cut from sound trees is in no way dis- tinguishable from any other, except that it may bo partly seasoned. If the wood has not been injured subse- quently by decay or further insect at- tack, this "dead" lumber is the equal of "live" of the same grade for all structural purposes. Sound waves can be seen by prop- erly illuminating the air with en elec- tric spark. f N. Rough Diamonds Raw diamonds, as produced by nature, have a brilliant glitter, but are of no extraordinary beauty until they have been cut. The art of cutting and pollehing them was not invented until 1,450 A.D. Hence the esteem in which this kind of precious stone was held ba ancient times was based mainly upon its rarity and ex- treme hardness. The word "diamond," or "adamant," in various parts of the Holy Scriptures means simply a very hard stone, and may be supposed to refer to any one of several gem materials. J It is a fine thing to see one who per- severes till be has made a small thing great, brought success out of failure, victory out of defeat. Often if the traveller could have kept on till the next turn of the read he would have beheld the distant gleam of the city he sought, and he would have been en- couraged to go the rest of the way to his refuge and his welcome. But be surrendered to despair too soon. This captain of industry would have turned his losses into profits could he but have held on a little longer—could he only have obtained the capital to "tide him over." This Inventor or this in- vestigator stood at the eery brink of the solution of a problem of the ages; but his time was up, and Death came and found him still reaching out into the iuftnite, and 11e could not bequeath his experience and his learning to au - other. Those whose names are large in his- tory, for the honor that the world ac- corded thein because they were faith- ful in its service, were not to be di- verted from the goal toward which they strove. They made up then' minds and they kept an. They did not, in a moody, fitful restleseness, abandon ono thing and try another; but they were ready to change if they saw they had chosen wrong. 'When they were once assured of being right they continued in a straight line with- out flinching. They would not turn aside for any bribe or influence. Their minds were made up. Their hands were at the plow. They would not leave the furrow till they had plowed it straight through to the end, Men who were in their day regarded as pitiful fools and impossible fanatics turned out often the wisest of all, and when they were in their graves, per- haps, public opinion was sorry it had not seen their merit and bestowed a suitable reward. But mankind is ever ready to ridicule the pioneer and to defy the new idea jus, oecause it is DOW. He who innovates must be I re - pared to fight for his plan. He will al- ways be against those who are entire- ly satisfied with things precisely as they are. He must, when a passion- ate conviction of the right possesses him, be faithful to his trust though he Mends alone. Many Sisters Famous in Films. Many eistere have become famous as 1110ti0n picture aCtres-s s, among. the best known being Dorothy and Lillian Gish, Maty and Lottle Pick- ford, Enid and Marjorie Bennett and Constance, Norma and Natalie Tal- madge. 1 Do141C SUPPoBe. '(OU' t43'ao5- Wf1A"C" JuNie t5 ? SU {27E 1 Do! -Mir' Se.CoNIP I\P ' U /0,011:44080-V. UNCLE. Pt"i E.. 8OU(MT The Average Man. The average 111411 le not a bad toles low when you collie to know elm, You have to slake his acquaintance 10 you are not to hold youreolt ]loot from this Minutia interdependent world, Ile conetttutes a majority. It is by lits vote that candidates are sot up and Issues dleternilued and business gov- erned and cliaritles supported and plays patronized. 'There le a great Ileal of money in ploaslug the average marl, Moreover, the level of lice Metes Is rising, though pessimists refuse to see it or to say so. Ifo le capable o1 education and he bus travelled far since his training began. He needn't always be given all that he asks for; sometimes be slakes nits• takes, and sometimes he wants what Isn't good for hint. Sometimes ha loses his bead, and In an incendiary o1 inebriate temper does that which a cooler judgment in a calmer Hour leads him to be sorry for, But on the whole he is strangely reasonable and patient and self-controlled. It Is touching to find how often he Is doing the bust he can, according to the light be has. Ile serves the world far bet- ter than some eccentric and uncon- ventional mortals who sneer at him for following a drill, unemotional rou- tine. Leaders of men have learned to dean with the average man, to talk his lan- guage and to understand his ways. They have taught the rank and file to discover a latent capacity and to re- veal a strength hidden and unsuspect- ed. They have had faith In "the gen- aral good sense and honest intentions of mankind," They have genuinely loved their fellows, and thoir sym- pathy has been real and manifest. Neither In war nor in peace is a vic- tory to be wolf unless the captains put their confidence in a host. When wo display our 'Tears for the future of the world and prophesy the collapse of civilization in black ruin we have lest faith it what "'all of the people all of the tine" can and will do. Thoro Is confusion and there is lawlessness, and we forget that the u-liole world emerged from "chaos and old night," We forget the bloody in, eurreetluti of earlier ages that dis- figured the earth, and .we act, as though upheaval were a new thing and as though reason and Justice would never again be domiciled anoug the children of men. But the people in time, if we trust them, will bring back the reign of law, the beauty of tran- quility, The average man may have Performed diseppointingly for a time, but he will return to his senses and renew his allegiances, and be true to his obligation of Membership in hu- man society. Exorcise and Exercise. The two words "excrete" end "exer- cise" are much alike in sound and spelling, and both point to processes that are useful to us, if we aro to load normal, sane, sunny, useful lives. "Exorcise" is used in the driving out of a devil and some sort of devil requires expulsion from most of us. We are not saints or angels; w•o are not as gods; we are filled with imper- fections. In the garden of character weeds grow up over night, and laces. sant diligence is needed to keep them from choking the flowers of grace and goodness by their noxious abundance evelywltere. The first word passes by an oast transition to the second. What better way is there to exorcise than to ex. orcise? We do not get rid of the bane- ful presence of an evil spirit by sit ling in lugubrious meditation upon our grievous sinfulness, The best way to drive out the works and the ways of darkness is to let in sun and air; and to take our melancholy out of doors for a brisk walk is to wear it down till it is discouraged and falls away from us. The mind needs exercise as well as the body. If. we do not put in play the muscles of legs and alma we grow flabby and lazy, and the thews and sinews are not ready to act at once when we call upon, them, If we do not develop the power of car minds by demanding of them the best ser- vice they can give us, they are not our useful agents when eve face the vex- ing problems that beset a lifetime, Bet one who lives life to the full, not asking odds, not seeking shelter, finds in this vigorous employment of all the being no hardship, but a pleas- ure. ]:Ie is following the positive course Of overcoming evil with goodd. Ho ie leaving no space in his careful htis- bandry of hie chosen field for the enemy to saw tares of misery and mischief. Knowing that nature ab- hors a vacuum, he fills the void with good, The life -time is so crowded with tine things to do that there are no hours remaining for activities of the deleterious kind, In all this vigor, ons existence of deeds that help othere. and count toward the sum total of hu- man happiness, there is no pose, tie martyrdom, n0 odious desire of glory, A life line that of Drentoll, overfiow- leg with generosityand activity, is es far as possible from a life inviting pity. Such a man OM this leas "tie best kind of time"; he finds the world good to loop upon -as well as to life in; lite is joyful because of the Chances 1t gives hint to do good, Pity is wasted o11 those who 11 111 their joy in a ceaseless round of beneficent activity, Monde floor, laid with small pieces of different eolored atones 101 in eegu- lttr patterns, were known to tiro Bgypr kis te ,tions 2000 B,Ci, In Babylon, it((oors of ,this hind dated gotta 1000 13.d, .......