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The Brussels Post, 1948-11-17, Page 7What to Do When Motor Cars Crash It happens too fast to remember! Suddenly there's the confusion of screerhhlg brakes, the crumpling of 115111, the shuddering halt of both cars and clouds of t•isine dost. 11111 this time you're at the wheel r,f one of those vehicles. What rho you do? lm this case, luckily. mn 111e's hart, hut, either testy, you climb out resolving to be cool headed and business -like. The other driver, who was in the wrong you think, gives signs of getting loud and tough. Your calm assurance, as you haul out your pencil and paper, cools hint off, however. You suggest ex- changing information, You ask the other math name, ad- dress, license numbr. You note down who owns the car, if not he. You ask whether he has automobile insurance, You talk enough, but not too much. You obtain the names and addresses of witnesses, Mabee Sketch of Sceene After carefully listing all this in- formation, you make a quick but ac- curate sketch of the crash scene. It will show the position of the cars, their approximate distance from the ditch and from the centre of the road. For accuracy, you step off distances. You then draw in the skid marks. If you have a camera with you, you take snapshots of the smash-up from all sides, If a patrol- man had been present, he would have followed much the same line of investigation that you have used. Finally put down the date, the time of the day of the accident, and the approximate speed of the cars at the time of the crash. Then you re- port to your insurance agent or lawyer and to the police, Signed Release Legal ° But what if the other driver, ad- mitting his liability and lack of in- surance, wants to settle on the spot? It can be done. You name your price, then give him a signed receipt acknowledging the settlement and relieving him of any further liabil- ity. It need not be a technical document. Simply state that you have received in full settlement for damages done to yourself, your car, or both in an accident on Highway 10 on September 1, 19.1--, $25 from Joe Doe, 10 Tenth Street, Cityville. Sign it and date it. Your insurance agent or lawyer will use a more formal type of release. Either will be held valid in court. In Case of Injuries I£ there are injuries, the first. thing to do is to administer first aid to the obvious injuries, such as sev- ered arteries and severe cuts. Send for a doctor as soon as possible. Keep the injured quiet and make hint as comfortable as you can. Don't let him move unless his in- juries are very slight, And, of course, don't forget to get his name and address. Finally jot down the nature of the injuries as nearly as you can tell. Before you are done with the cast you will- want to obtain signed releases from the injured, but insurance men advise you to take the case to your agent. He asks that you get as many facts as possible, but that you stake no commitments. You, the car owner, pay for pro- tection. Let the company give that protection. Of course, the motorist who carries no insurance must rely on his own methods of settlement or retain the services of a lawyer, Behavior Points Let us sum up the more important points of our after -wreck behavior: First, observe all there is to be observed. Here is where the ex- change of information and sketching the scene enter in. Second, listen to what is being said by everyone. 13 a very co-op*r- ative with all concerned, '.third clon't volunteer any um- nccessary information. There is no advantage in just talking. Fourth, get the names and ad- dresses of all witnesses, If time permits, get their statements while the events are still fresh in mind. Fifth, don't rum away, and don't hide facts by being too secretive. Such actions are very damaging. Just For Fun That Was a Long Day Jake is the caretaker of a small industrial plant which is closed down 'occasionally when business gets slack. During these periods the caretaker stakes minor re- pairs around the place and is paid at intervals when he turns in a time sheet. Jake's employer never has questioned these sheets — that was until last week, when he saw that for one single clay the care- taker had narked clown the as- tonishing total of 2$ hours, "See here,'Jeke," ire challeng- ed, "this can't he right ---25 hours in one day!" The caretaker examined the sheet and their replied, "Olt, yes it is, \ir, 11rotvn, I remember tiow---on that day I worked dur- ing my lunch hoar'," OLD TIME PHOTOS SUGGEST THAT WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS IS A GOOD 5 -CENT NICKEL Coffee and cake for a nickel. Two nickels bought you four eggs, bread, coffee and soup. Five cents was once the price One nickel and you could see of a shave; a haircult was 10 the movies in this nickelodeon. cents. E -'5 "�,,,- �%'===amu, /iU�/iil�✓ Gwen-doLi.n.e P. C la,rke It was Sunday afternoon; Part- ner and I were both reading. Pre- sently we heard a car outside and in a matter of seconds someone was honking a !torn like fury. That, in it- self, annoyed us. Partner made no attempt to go out. "If anyone wants us he can come to the house," he said. The horn went on honking! Then I began to wonder — "Maybe someone is hurt—perhaps one of us should go out." So I opened the front door and called "hullo." Im- mediately a man got out of the car— or rather panel truck, for that is what it was. He was smartly dress- ed, in fact a little on the flashy side, but made no attempt to come to the house. Instead, all he did was call a outsell?" —, "Have you got any eggs to "No," I answered shortly, "none at all," "Any ducks—or geese, maybe?" "No," I repeated, "nothing at all. We don't do business on Sundays," "Olt oh, 1 see," responded our caller. And with that he climb- ed into his truck again and drove down the lane at a pretty fast clip and was gone before 1 could call Partner to the door. * * * This little episode may have been on the level; maybe the man really was looking for eggs. On the other hand if, after honking his horn loud and long, no one appeared, he might have assumed there was no one at home. In which case he could have done a little exploring—which might not • have been too profitable for us. After all the idea is -not too far-fetched. So often farts people are away between chores on Sun- days and no one going by would be suspicious if they did see .a small truck in the driveway or anyone • walking around farm pretuises iu broad daylight. Anyway that's that — and it could be that there is a moral for drivers in my little story, if nothing else. That is — "To honk your horn is not only bad manners, it can also arouse suspicion," * * * And now, just in case you would like to know the final outcome of last week's cat -story 1 had better tell you that (dark, the one kitten that remained alive last week, has survived. And I really think he must have established something of a record as he went for six days and bights without eating or drink- ing. The only nourishment he got was what I gave hint by means of a medicine dropper — and that was very little,; 1 also gave hint a one - drop dose several times daily of a well-known stock medicine which most farmers keep on hand ail the timd' Unfortunately while I was doctoring Mark his mother died, Since Whisky had been given "a shot" and had Bever been sick at all, it was quite a shock when she moped around for just a few hours and thea quietly passed away. So now we are reduced to one cat and one kitten. * * * Taking it all round we had quite a time with our livestock last week, There was the night we moved one pen of pullets to their winter quar- tet's, Moving the ones from the pen was easy but there were others roost- ing in the trees that we just could- n't got at all, so next tnorniltg there were still thirty-two pullets running around, That night 1 undertook to see that the remaining pullets did not go to roost in the, Nees, Be- lieve ate, 1 gave myself a jobb 1t developed into a sort ofetrdttrance test, The chickens were determined to get into the trees; I was equally determined that they wouldn't So I ran from tree to tree and the chic- kens flew up or flew down, accord- ing to where they were when I tried shooing them into the pen. We kept it up for over an hour—and there are still six at large. These birds are hybrids—a cross between Rocks and Leghorns and the scar- iest things you ever knew. Now they are its their winter quarters we always knock on the door before entering the pen. Walk in with- out warning and they fly all over the pen. So it pays to be polite! * * * Another day we sent some cattle to market. When Nortna was being loaded B'ob preceded her into the truck with a long lead rope. I hap- pened to look out of the pantry window just in time to see Nornta make a bolt for the barnyard with Bob running, with more speed than dignity, out of the truck, but still hanging on to that rope. Poor Nor- ma—her bid for freedom didn't do any good.; After all, what could one cow do against three men? At any carnival or amusement park, one nickel was all it cost you to go on most of the rides. The Bookshelf . , . The Varsity Story By Morley Callaghan A Canadian novel of a different and very welcome sort is Morley Callaghan's new tale with its back- ground of the University of Toronto. Not in any sense either a guide -book or a historical study, this is a sensi- tive and penetrating story of men and women who lives are bound up, in ate way or another, with that seat of learning which for so many years has exercised such a strong and still -growing effect on the lift of our nation. The most striking of Mr. Callag- han's many well -drawn characters is. Arthur Tyndall, the young New Zealander who is Warden of Hart House. His alien background tends to make hint a careful and critical, although always friendly observer; and through his gift for friendship and enquiring mind he is able to understand not only the Students and staff members but also the essential spirit of the university better, perhaps, than anyone wholly Canadian could do. Morley Callaghan's craftsman- ship is visible on every page, and. "The University Story" is a book that should appeal, not only to the hundreds of thousands of Varsity men and women, but to all who like a well -told tale, The Varsity Story .. By Morley Callaghan . . The Macmillan Co. of Canada , . Price ;2.50. With the Movie and Radio Folks nv Grace Last week, using Fred Allen and The New York Times as my au- thorities, I hinted that the folks receiving phone calls on giveaway programs such as "Stop The Music" know, in advance of the program coming on the air, that they are going to be called. If true, this na- turally means that minions who sit listening and hoping for fortune to bit them smack in the eye might just as well tune' in something else, for all the chance they have. So when I read a letter to The Times from the Producer of that program indignantly denying that anything of that kind ever happens, at first I though it was a ease for my chipping in with a liitmble apo - * logy. "We do not notify listeners in advance on "Stop The Music." They are not forewarned by phone, letter or wire," wrote Mr, Goodson. "People can receive, and do receive, freshly made telephone calls throughout the hour we are broad- casting, and up to the time we be- gin our closing signature," * * * "Our phone numbers are picked at random by means of -a carefully worked out system," the producer goes Olt to say, "When a name is chosen from a certain page of a phone book, We also take pains to select the next nine successive names as well. This is so that if we get a busy signal or "don't answer" in any town we can keep going froth number to number until we com- plete a call," * * * "Just a few minutes prim' to broadcast time we start, trying ,to get a circuit through to the first town scheduled, We hope to com- plete that opening call as soon as possible so that we can begin our gauze with minimum delay," the let - tet' Continues. "Last Sunday we started at about four minutes to eight to telephone Colorado Springs and completed the call onto our stage at four minutes after eight, Prom then on we kept putting in r'reslt calls till our close. These are tine facts. "Stop The Music" is not fixed, rigged or set up in any way, We do everything in our power to ;.lay fair with the public,' * * * 1,Vhlclt would scentsto be definite enough. I3ttt on the sante page, Tile Sharp Tithes quotes from the Fort Wayne Journal -Gazette something regard- ing a Mr. Kenneth Crosbie, who was a big winner on "Stop The Music" the previous evening. The phone had rung and Crosbie answered. "It was about twelve minutes before the 'Stop The Music' program came on," Crosbie said. The New York operator told me that I stood second in line for a chance at the 'Stop The Music' prizes. There wasn't anything to do between the tithe I was called and they played the qualifying tune, so I just sat there and chewed the, fat with that New York phone oper- ator. I guess they wanted to keep the lines open so I had to keep talking." * * * Also cited is the experience of Reginald Turner of Winston-Satent, a winner on April 18th, as reported the following morning in The Jour- nal of that city. "Mr. Turner had been telephoned from New York about 7 p.m.—and hour before the program started. The operator told him she was conducting a radio survey and wanted to know to what program ire was listening, Mr, Tur- ner told her, she seemed satisfied, and asked hint if he was going to be home for the next two hours. Ile assured her ire was, and she thank- ed him. Mrs. Turner put two and two together and came up with the answer, and immediately the entire family, together with many friends, were recruited to guess the mystery song." This week we continue our disco -slum of the possible dangers of commercial insecticides, begun in a previous issue, Another way people may con- , surae these chemicals is by eating them directly in the form of spray residue on fresh or canned foods. There are still only whispers of washing compounds which will re- move them before the crops are marketed or canned, as commercial canners very well know. Practically every packer of canned baby food absolutely refuses to buy any crop which has been treated with long - 1, lasting insecticides or even grown on treated soil. * * * There's still another important route into the human stomach—by way of dairy products or meat. • Though they cannot be dissolved in water, these insecticides dissolve readily in oils and fats. As an animal eats treated feeds the DDT is stored in its fat tissues. In dairy cattle it is given off again its the butter -fat contentofthe milk. A very effective fly -spray has been made from butter churned from such milk. * * This means that anyone eating meat or dairy products from ani- mals fed DIDT-treated feed will also eat DDT. And experiments have proved that DD(r is a poison, not only for insects, but for mam- mals as well. * * * Symptoms of acute DDT poison. oiling in mammals usually begin as tremors of the muscle, of the head and neck, As these get worse con- trol of movement is lost and con- vulsions finally - set in. Then the animal goes into a state of depres- sion, which gradually gets worse and results in breathing failure and death, in from s to 24 hours after the original tremors. Symptoms in ratan may—of may not—follow the sante pattern. * * * We already know how much DIDT—Fed in one dose—it takes to kill a rat. Yet by eating it grad- ually rats have built up three times a fatal dose in their fat tissues. This means that they were carrying, in their bodies, enough poison to cause death, Yet the- did not die because the poison was not in the blood stream, but stored in the fat tis- sues. So far no one knows how notch DDT a human being can eat and remain alive. But—just as in animals—the amount of it a human consumes becomes stored in his fat tissues. * * * And here s where possible future danger -and great danger, costes in, Suppose a man or a tvoman or a child keeps eating sthall amounts of•DIDT continuously and unknow- ingly. It is st •' in the body fat. Then that person becomes i11, and cannot eat normally, The person then begins 11 ing in part on the body fat, With those fat tissues being broken down rapidly, the DDT in them will be released into the blood stream at a much higher rate than is normal. Will the DDT harts that person? Resistance to DD(r varies among individuals. Even the same per- son's resistance is not the same alt the time. Therefore, nobody knows when even a relatively low amount of DDT might prove to be poison which tips the scales be- tween life and death in a person whose resistance was already low- ered by sickness or other cause. * * * The reports front which I have quoted were issued as a warning. They are not enough to cause us to stop using these insecticides, which are so important to our food supply. Already the, have destroy- ed billions upon billions of disease - carrying insects. but it's no secret that much of the spraying, in the past, has been on the basis that if one gallon of spray is good, ten will be ten times better. * * is In future much greater care will have to be taken. The reckless use of DDT—such as the fogging of entire towns—itas brought forth the official warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that such action is "play!.•- with dynamite," New — And All Of Them Useful Tiny Radio. Only about the'si/e of a poste of cigarettes, this radia has antenna aid earphones which plug in at tap and is carried ntu'-b like 1 healing aid. Weight 4'4 ounces, has 3 tubes and operate. on batteries good for 30 hours or so. Two Way Screwdriver. Blade b two working ends and can be puii ed from handle and reversed. One end Will tighten cross -slotted svows, the other the ordinary kind Electric Shoe Shiner. Shoe is placed -even without taking it off foot—in this machine and switch it. turned. Coarse brushes first remote dirt, then another brush is fitted and the shoe is cleaned and polish- ed. Midget Plane. Baby British built plane flies 55 miles to the gallon of fuel, with average speed of 66 miles per hour. Weighs only 430 pounds or less than average motorcycle. Portable Light. Has indicator to show how much charge is in bat- tery. May be recharged by plug- ging into any AC outlet. Drill Plus Saw. Designed to make an electric drill do double duty as a 6 inch rotary saw. Used for cross- cutting, ripping, beveling, or for makng cutouts up to 234 inches deep. Guard can be adjusted to pro- tect fingers at all times. Extra Closet Space. Space saving plastic hanger for women's gar- ments, holds a skirt, a slip, a pair of slacks, two belts and a jacket at one time. Heating Mirror. A new radiant glass heating panel, designed for use in bathrooms and other small rooms, employs a mirror and an electric light. The light works on a separate switch, so that it can be used independently of heating plate. Maker says a person can work in front of mirror and at the same time be warmed by its ra- diant heat. Truck That Dumps From Side. This new dump truck body dis- charges from truck's left side. Maker claims as advantages for side dumping (a) ease of control by operator; (b) clear view of exact position of truck and location of dumping ground. Load is thrown clear of path of truck tires. New Deodorant. Works on princi- ple of surface absorption, and at- tracts the millions of tiny particles which travel on small waves, hold- ing them to eliminate the odor. Differs from ordinary deodorants which either send forth a pleasant to mask an unpleasant odor, or serve to desensitize the olfactory nerve. Nontoxic, noncaustic, non- corrosive and harmless to humans, animals or birds. Helping Red Feather Campaign—This is Marilyn Levis, 18 - year -old collegiate student who was selected as Miss Cheerleader of 1948 from 200 entries in a jalopy parade held to raise enthu- siasts in the Red Feather Campaign, She is perched on the ,m fender of her schools four -wheeled "wreck" LITTLE REGGIE OM YEAR! WEU, KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE BKYIBUQN