The Brussels Post, 1948-6-16, Page 6That "Used" Car -
eller Check Jit
With constant warning, telling
about people who have been tricked
by shyster dealers and unethical
firms, it would seem that the aver-
age person would be extremely care-
ful before snaking such an expendi-
ture as is involved in haying a
second hand automobile. Yet year-
ly th-re are still hundred., who tind
themselves victimized,
Clear Title Important
Tice roost important thing to con.
alder in buying a used car is the
reputation of the dealer from whom
you purchase it, because "the used
car you buy is not likely to he any
better than the dealer who sells it."
It must he borne in mind, of course,
that there are a considerable num-
ber of well-known and reputable
used -car dealers in most vicinities
with whom the public may deal
with every confidence.
After you have definitely estab-
lished the integrity of your dealer,
it is easertial to establish whether
air not the seller can give you e
clear title to the car you wish to
purchase. If the title is not in order,
you may lose not only your car, but
your own down payment as well
Check Engine
There are a number of mechanical
items to be checked before coming
to a final decision, Of course, you
must remember that a used car is
exactly that , .. used. It is not
new merchandise, and you cannot
expect a used car, no matter how
good, to be in new -car condition.
However, these are some things
you should check on, even in a
used car. Doubtless the most im-
portant thing is the engine. A good
engine runs smoothly and quietly.
It does not rattle. Some engines
naturally run more quietly than
others, but too much noise invari-
ably indicates worn moving parts.
When the engine is running idly at
a moderate speed, care should be
taken to make sure that there is no
"knock". This very often means that
there are loose connecting -rod bear-
ings, and sometimes one loose bear-
ing means that others are loose,
and bearings that are loose enough
to knock can mean that the engine
Is in bad shape. When looking at
and listening to the engine, check
the gaskets and the water pump for
Ieaks, and find out if the engine
overheats after running for 20 or
30 minutes.
Brakes, Tires, Batteries
Next most important item is
the brakes. Your life may depend
upon them. You should find out
the kind of brakes hi the car, and
the condition of the brake linings.
Brakes should begin to take hold
when the brake pedal has been de-
pressed about a quarter of the way
to the floor.
Check the tires carefully. Inspect
the stet -ring gear to find out if
it is loose, if the car "shimmies"
when it is going at low speed, and
at high speed.
Finally, the ' are the batteries,
the upholstery, correct focus of
headlights, the muffler, and check-
ing for body s ,utak=,
Check Contract
Always remember, tete fact that
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yob i3're of{eyed a u=ed car at a
particularly low price does not
mean that you are getting a bar-
gain. le reputable dealer gives
his guarantee. and he cannot afford
to do that unless he knows the
car is right
Watch also for the total amount
you have to pay. including finance
charges, charges for insurance, etc.,
on the fare of the contract you
sign, Be sure you understand the
contract before you sign, and ob-
tain a ropy for your protection as
well as 'for your information,
'Uraninite Find in Haliburton—Northern Haliburton County is experiencing a rush of pros-
pectors since the proving of a commercial ore body of uraninite at Wilberforce, on the prop-
erty of Fission Mines. This property may be producing uranium by the end of the year.
Radium Lake (above) is on the Fission Mine s property. Gravel and silt on the lake bottom
have been found to be radio -active, The ore is flurospar and uranium, the lighter ore with
purplish tinge indicating the presence of fluori te, from which flurospar is obtained.
Secret
Of the Locket
By
EDWARD LEE
Silas Henbury, wedged into a
chair tilted against the counter, was
slipping into his regular after-dinner
snooze when the door opened. The
customer was an elderly woman,
Silas rose and the chair creaked
its relief. He clumped behind the
counter and said: "Good evening,
ma'am. Something I can do for
you?"
"Why -why, yes, I suppose so. At
least, I hope so." .
"Anything within reason. That's
why I'm called 'Uncle Silas.' My
customers are just like relatives to
me."
"That makes it easier. I never
rA woman wouldn't stay married
forty years unless she loved her
husband a great deal," Silas said.
had to pawn anything before.
But,..'
Her voice trailed into silence.
Silas knew that when she continued,
throughout her story would run the
sante theme as countless others to
which he had listened during his
40 years in the pawnbroker business.
IIe nodded his head encouragingly.
"This gold locket," she said, un-
folding her hands to reveal the
trinket, "was presented to me by
my husband when we were married.
No matter how often we moved
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trying to better our circumstances,
they never improved. After his
death last year things became
worse. I sold most of my valu-
ables. But this .. I just couldn't.
I only want a loan on this locket,
for some day I shall redeem it,
"But to every pawn shop I've
gone, they refuse to lend me any
money. They say it is not valuable
enough to be held as security.
"We'll soon see," said Silas. He
' lightly scratched the surface of the
locket with a penknife, Into that
shallow furrow he let fall a few
drops of acid, then shook his head
as a greenish tinge appeared, say-
ing: I'm sorry, but this locket's
only value is as a keepsake. It's
tin."
The woman looked bewildered.
"1 ... I can't understand it. There
must be some mistake. Look here,"
she directed, unfastening the trinket.
It's two heart -shaped halves swung
open and she pointed to metal that
encircled two miniature portraits.
"See how bright and solid that is?"
"That photograph favors you,
ma'am, even though it was taken
when you were younger,"
"Forty years younger, to be exact,
when I was married. The opposite
one is of my husband. It favors
him too,"
"I'm sure it does. Looks like he
was a fine ratan."
"He was. Folks said he was un-
reliable and irresponsible. I sup-
pose Henry was, in a way, But they
were his only faults."
"Pardon my asking, but, you
loved hint a great deal?"
"Yes, and, I still do," she answer-
ed. Then, regarding him with a
quizzical look, said: "Why did you
ask?"
rrWe1l, I just kind of thought a
woman w•otldn't stay married forty
years unless she loved her hus-
band a great deal."
"You make the feel noble," she
replied. "Now concerning this
locket"
Her words recalled Silas to the
business at hand. He said: "I was
mistaken. The inside was what con-
vinced roe,"
Silas gave her the money site re-
quested and closed the deal. Her
fervent thanks made him glad that
he had gone through with the de-
ception.
For, he had recognized Agnes
Trumbull's picture. That was how
she had looked when she had re-
jected ltitn to marry his cousin,
Henry, whose photograph appeared
in the locket's other half,
Silas had known Henry was un-
reliable and irresponsible but be did
not criticize him to her. Leaving
home, he had never written or re-
turned. Thus, Silas had lost all
trace of Henry and Agnes until to-
night when he had recognized her
picture in the locket,
Silas knew Agnes still loved
Henry and would be hurt to learn
the truth. And, Silas still loved her
so much that he had created a cer-
tain way to insure her remaining
ignorant of Henry's deception. '['hat
was, to advance so large an amount
on the locket that she would never
be able to redeem it,
No Rush
For half a century, William Shep•
herd, as sexton, has helped marry
people of the parish of Emilie, is
England.
Back in 1913, the Church Council
gave hint another yard to tend, and
began considering a pay boost for
Recently, 3.5 years later, he got
the raise. It was eight shillings
(about $1.60) a week -- doubling
his pay.
"['hese things take a bit of think-
ing out," said Mr. Sheplierd. "They
mustn't be rushed."
Argentine Keen
Competitor In
Cattle Market
Those who have been arguing
that Canada is chasing a will o' the
wisp in trying to hold any part of
the British market for surplus Can-
adian beef will find their argument
strengthened in a Buenos Aires dis-
patch stating that a new high for
Argentine cattle was established the
other day. The price was 58.6 centa-
vos as against an average of 38 cen-
tavos in 1045-46. Which according
to the Lethbridge Herald, means
that the Argentinians are now get-
ting 0.3 cents live weight per pound
for their beef cattle as against a
former price of four cents.
Alberta cattle producers, who
are telling us that they cannot feed
coarse grains at present prices to
15 -cent beef and make ends meet,
will wonder how Argentina ranch -
res can sell for 0.3 cents a pound.
Argentina is a South American
country of just over 13,000 000
people, mostly of Spanish descent.
It is a great livestock producer and
has some 33,000,000 cattle and 99,-
000,000 sheep as against our 8,000,-
000 cattle and barely 3,000,000
sheep.
Being in the northern part of the
South Temperate zone, it has no
Winter feeding problem so far as
livestock are concerned, producing
them very cheaply on native grass
of the range )antis, called the Pam-
pas, on alfalfa, and on rye and oats
cereal pasture grown for winter pas-
ture and used in much the sante way
as we use our cover crop while the
native grasslands are resting.
Canada's only outlet for our sur-
plus of good beef animals is the
United States. Uncle Sant has of-
fered us a quota of 400,000 head a
year at a duty of 1,4 cents a pound
liveweight. We had better forget
dreams of the British market for
beef and get clown to a realistic
consideration of the only worth-
while market which is available to
its.
Some Notes From The Farm Front
Of Special Interest To Rural Readers
By John Russell
11 you want 11101'e eggs 011 less
feed -- and live:tele, hens too
Ltep your layers confined in sum-
mer as well as in winter. At bast,
that's what ,an expert at a State
.lgriruhnrul College says,
rremelts recently carried out
show cd that ern fined flocks laid 13
eggs more per bird. ate a potted less
feed per dozen eggs, returned 18
per cent inset refit and had 13
1•er cent le•s mortality, than flocks
that were turned out during the
sunuuer. The fresh air and 500-
•hi!,t th, birds pet when outside are
ori en,"pL to. off -et the diseases
they ;ick ti,
:R C M
here's a tip for orchardists who
grow peaches or pears, how the
same stunt would ork with apple
or otl r fruit trees we cannot say,
Most orchardists try to keep their
trees as low as possible, consistent
with good yields, its order to make
spraying and nicking easier, Ilut a
dean out on the west,coast has gone
even further. His trees have practic-
ally no trunks at all.
Whin he plants a pear or peach
tree he Buts it off, beading it back
so that the three to five leaders
weed are about eighteen inches from
the ground. Then, when the trees
mature, they are :never so high that
he can't pick the fruit with eight -
foot ladders. •
TRIM' about yields? Well, he has
ten year old peach trees bearing
18 tents to the acre,
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There's no easier way of starting
an argument almost anywhere than
to mention Government price con-
trols—and farmers have more reason
to take t deep interest in such things
than most folks, So I thought that
you might find worth -while reading
in the following quotation front an
article by Henry Ilnzlitt appearing
in News \\'eek Magazine. However,
before you start, I night warn you
that both te magazine and the
writer are dead set against every
s t of Government control or inter-
ference with "free enterprise",
The Argentine Government sells
wheat for export at $5.01 or more
per bushel in United States dollars
— ler. Ilazlitt says. It pays the
Argentine fanner the equivalent of
$1,59 to $1,83 a bushel and pockets
the uifference.
The Canadian farmer is allowed
only 51.35 a bushel plus a "partici-
pation certificate" worth about 20
cents, The United States farmer
is a free market price of about
52.80 a bushel. (Prices cited are
those prevailing when the article
was written.)
What has been the consequence
of these policies? — the writer goes
on to ask. In spite of the desperate
world shortage of wheat, the 1947
acreage of wheat in Argentina was
22 per cent below the 1935.1039 level,
In Canada the 1947 acreage of wheat
Skin Eruptions
neer is n rlr:nl, stainless, eem•irnt log
nnli5epUr nil that brings soee,ir relief from
rho Itching nue discomfort.
Not only dors this healing nntlsentie oil
promote rapid and healthy henlh,g In anen
sures and n•onuds but bails nod shuttle
ulcers ore also relieved.
In skin affections the itching of liezema
Is uulekl• stopped. crimples—skin eruptions
dry an nod Sade off In a very few dant,
Tho same is true of Barber's ftoh, Solt
Rheum, itching 'foes and Feet and other
ndlmmmntory okra disorders.
Yea can obtain Muonu's Emerald 011 in
the original bottle rat any modern drag
Marc. $,,l150001'mt or 1(011.5 bort,.
For Quality—Mildness—Value.
°�M{lilU.UlllJlf)1)T
was down 7 per cent below prewar.
Neither decrease can be blamed on
the watcher, in both countries the
acreage for the two preceding years
was abat below the prewar irvcl.
In Hie l'uitcrl States, on the
other hand, wheat acreage expanded
as pi: es rose. In 19.17 it was 29
per cent alio e the totwar level.
In britt -- the ssiher shots it tip
— farmers in 'Ids beutisphrre re-
sponded to price inventive.+ or their
ashen rather than to verbal ex-
hortations. The farmer. obliged to
take low wbeat prices rontractrd
their acreage. The farmers permit -
,1 high pri,'e i creased. theirs.
and whether the turner is
right or wrong 1'11111 ' c maintains
that G..vernu1cnt controls spell "(EA.
aster" 1 tint not prcpared to even
gtu'se. Certainly be neglects tr, enn
tion what would happen to al' those
Usti, farmer, wh. have sunt: their
everything into increased wheat
acreage should there be a sti,hlcn
and drastic slump iii prices, At all
event there's fon, for thought, and
material Inc argnnrcnt, in what he
says.
It Paid to Insure
in rl hoses
)tach in Colon);' i.: clays, the •fine
ineurance companies are said to
trace enjoyed a profitable "lie -in"
with some of the early .hire Brigades.
11'heu'n house was reported to be
on fire, and the brigade came dash-
ing to the scene, the brigade leader
would examine the front of the
burning house, and take a glance at
❑earisy properlics. 'Then, an like ae
urn, hr and )tis nteu would just sit
down and orate1 the honse burn to
the •:round.
"[hese doings were caused by a
sy • rein known as "1louse Marks".
etal plates bearing the emblem of
an insurance company were plat '
on the fronts of all houses and
bnillings that were insured. If such
a plalc was on the burning building,
the fire brigade went into action.
And if not ---not,
\'cry often the brigade leader was
)slutself an insurance man and if
the building, w'as not insured by his
own ora friendly companysand if
its burning did not endanger the
pit prrty of any man in the brigade
—the fireman simply w• o u 1 d n'
bother to fight the flames.
'Next to cotton and jute, iron
ranks highest among Tndi:t's Indus-
tries.
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is eta EffiC
W MN
ke
ARMAND SAVWE
OF MACKAYVILLE, QUE.,
risks life to rescue 3 -year-
old from burning home
The fire had started between
the walls of the two-storey house
in Mackayville, a few utiles from
Montreal The flames were al-
ready spreading rapidly by the
time Mrs. Prince had succeeded
in getting four of her children
to safety. Five of the others were
at school — but 3 -year-old Gisele
was trapped upstairs.
DASHES INTO BUILDING
Running into the house the
instant he beard of the child's
plight, Armand Savoie climbed
up the stairs through the heavy,
hot smoke to the bedroom. The
little girl had hidden herself in
terror behind a bureau ... and
Savoie had to crawl underneath
the bed, which was blazing, and
then grab the youngster from
behind the smouldering fur-
niture. The smoke had become
almost impossible to bear . .
and both Savoie and the child
were choking by'the time they
got downstairs and outside. The
boxer quickly applied artificial
respiration ... but, in spite of
his and the hospital's efforts
later, little Gisele died the
next day.
The gallant 18 -year-old boxer,
a member of Griffintown Club,
who has just won the Quebec
Golden Gloves finals in his
weight class, and an Olympic
candidate, deserves great praise
for his heroic and unselfish
action. We are proud to pay
tribute to Armand Savoie of
Mackayville, Que., through the �- -
presentelion at'The Dow Awaa•d ,�,�„t.+..-��
Hearing that 3 -year-old Gisele Prince
was trapped in a second -floor bed-
room, the young boxer dashed into
the burning house and climbed the
stairs through dense, hot smoke,
Armand Savoie, after crawling under
a blazing bed, managed to grasp the
terrified child and carry her, choking
and almost suffocated, outside,
THE L,)W :slkAID is a
citation for outstanding hero•
ism and includes, es a tangible
expressions of af,preciatioe, a
$coo Canada Savings Bond.
Winners are selected by the
Dow Aw rd Co nmiltce, e
group of editors of feariele
Canadian newspapers.
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