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rd 'Only One Of "Em--Idith Mae [TEST YOUR I. Q. . . Automobile Quizz There are few more popular topics: of - conversation than the automobile. Yet it is surprising how a. few. simple-appearing questions will. stump the majority of. even those who profess to "know _alt about cars'! .So herewith we: publish a litjle quiz which recently tobi in the G.M.. Digest, Under each question; you will find a choice of three dif, ferent answers--only one of which, of course, is the correct one. Why not: try it out on yourself; and on your friends. After you've finished all 14 questions, check up on the answers printed upside-down, underneath. : 1. Q. When was the first self- Fropsiling, steam-driven vehicle uilt? A. 130 B.C,; 1780, 1801. 2. Q. One of these is not the name of a former make of motor car: A.. Abbot, Polton, Moon, Kelly, Rabbit, 3. Q. What car pioneered four- wheel brakes in North Americ in 1924? _ A. Chevrolet, Buick, LaSalle. 4. Q. (a) Canada was first crossed by an all-Canadian motor route in: A. 1911, 1926, 1946. : Q. (b) The car making this his. toric pioneer trans-Cauuda trip was: A. Marmon, Chevrolet, Cadillac, Stanley Steamer. 5. Q. When was the first internal sombustion engine constructed? A. 1680, 1841, 1878, 6. Q. In British cars, the battery fe called: A. Voltage-box, energizer, Accumulator, 7." Q. Tire changing was simp- Hfied in 1907 by the introduction of: A. Hydraulic jacks, portable tire pumps, demountable rims. 4 8. Q. What fuel was used in the firgt experimental: internal combus- tion engine? A. Aléohol, gunpowder, crude oil. 9. Q. The first amphibious (land- d-sea) self-propelling vehicle was wilt in: A, 1805, 1891, 1938; 10. Q. A new electrical device tntroduced on 1909: models: wast ~ A... Self-starter, headlights, defroster. 11. Q. List these three makes of iotor cars in the order of thelr st appearance: ' A. Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, 12. Q. What safety device first appeared on 1926 cars: A. Safety glass,. steel tops, hydraulic brakes. 13. Q. (a) North America's first 16-cylinder engine was introduced A. 1022, 1928, 1930. Q. (b) It was a: : A. Stutz, Cadillac, Dusenberg 14. Q. Which of these inventions appeared in Canada "on Canadian- built cars before they were pro- duced in the United States? A. Windshields, tops, side curtains. * £ * Answers to Automobile Quiz way) Jo TIV 'PT OB[[IPED (9) 'ct 'og61 (B) 'El 'sse[D Ajojeg gl {39010 D. 'ORIIPED 'ofiqowt -8p[O 'IT 'siydypeay OAH 'OT £6081 "6 '1opmodunp "g {sux opqe =junowd( '4 'I0jeMWNIY '9 £0891 rg {310380 (9) 'b f9¥61 (8) ¥ fspomg "g fuoyod '2 °0'd OE 'I Friend (to newly-wed): But why" did you pick a gal so chubby? Newly-wed: Well, I figured it's easier to live with 200. pounds of curves than 100 pounds of nerves! Zilli, 19, is just one of, 35,000 * contestants in the annual "Miss Stardust" contest. But if then all look like Edith, the big fie} for the world's largest, beauty contest won't be narrowed' wi, hr By er] os SIT Ee § Heros RS Se Rare Documents In the famous Cathedral of St. Paul's, London, visitors will find a documents which has just been added to the library. These docu- ments belong to the Tudor age--to the beginnihgs of the Reformation under Henry VIII and its estab- Mshment by his daughter, Elizabeth, Dr. Norman: Sykes, an expert in ecolesiastical history, has said that the documents show how seriously the, age took religion. "Here we may read the _very words and grounds of their objec- tion. to various rules and.orders of the church; and if some of the mat- ters which aroused in them such warmth--such as the lawfulness of the ministers wearing surplices at church, of the giving and receiving of a ring in marriage, and of kneel- ing to take the Holy Communion-- seemed to us of trifling, if any, im- portance, we may remember that only 20 years ago our modern House of Commons was roused to great excitement by debates on a proposed further revision of the Prayer Book which centred on points not very different. "In the days of Elizabeth, how- "ever, the dangers of foreign inva- sion from abroad and of civil strife at home seemed too great to permit of differences in religion being tol- erated, and so to the authority of the Church was added the force of the state to compel conformity. Some of the Puritans, as the object- ors were called, suffered loss of of-. fice, imprisonment, and even death for their principles. "A glimpse of the nature of the foreign danger is given in a series of documents relating to the sol- diers, to be provided and maintained by bishops and clergy during the perils. of the Spanish Armada and the rebellions in Ireland." New and Useful Too Sealing Strip Sealing strip of plastic seals and covers cracks at junctions of wall and bathtub, wash bowl and stall showers and prevents steam of the water from entering and causing damage to 'walls and woodwork, according to maker, The strip is white, will not craze or crack and is unaffected by water, cites maker; will not harden and is resistant to normal alkali solutions, acids and alcohols; not affected by common household cleaning solutions, soaps and deterents. Said to adhere readily tile, lino-wall or any other types of surface materials uesd in bathrooms. May be painted it desired. 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Device uses activated car- - bon as filter to remove gases and | od Fant geltigeratoe air and iis tr in design and operation to "ment in general use in aie eondi- | ¢ food quality by keeping air, sweet. and 'clean {and preventing flavor) | EL SHORT STORY By Richard Hill Wilkinson At first, Mr. Otis Gill had seemed to take a liking to young Arthur Forbes. But he changed his opinion when the champion began to buck the choppy seas of the open Atlantic, She was not a large liner, and the waves were running high. Arthur Forbes turned away suddenly and, clutching the deck rail for support, shaped 'an unsteady _ course for the companionway. Mr. Gill burst into guffaws of laughter. "Seasick!" he said, addressing a young couple near by and nodding toward the companionway. "Should have stayed home and tended to his knitting." The young couple smiled politely, but with a lack of enthusiasm. Neither of them felt equal to the task of getting up and following on young Arthur Forbes' heels. Mr. Gill was sober now; his face pale, his eyes glassy. The dining: salon was located be- neath the forward deck; Mr, Gill's table was at the extreme end, near that section where the vessel's bow began to narrow. He had hardly seated himself when he saw that young Arthur Forbes was placed two tables away and slightly be- 'hind. There was a plate of food on the table before the youth, but it was untouched. Like one in a trance Mr. Forbes was sitting with eyes widened greatly. beyond their nor- mal size, checks as pale as death, Aftep.a time, Mr. Gill saw that the youth at the other table was staring toward a port-héle, and his grin broadened, The port-hole was located far forward, and with: each dip of the vessel, one could see the entire sloap of a wave, from trough to crest. Then for a space there would be nothing but open sky. It provided a sensation similar to rlds ing on a roller coaster. t. Gill knew. that as long as young Forbes continued to stare * through the port-hole, his seaslck- ness would steadily grow worse. And he chuckled at the thought, After 4 while, Mr: Gill 'found it! 'was easier to tarse straight ahead than to sit half-turned, fn his' chaie in order to watch young Forbes, who, after all, wasn't the most pleasing. sight. in: the.world, And In- staring straight ahead, Mt. Gill found that he was looking directly through the porthole at the swish- ing seal, ¢ watched idly for a few mo- ments and then looked away, con- : WATER RUINS CROP Too Much--An alfalfa cutter stands isolated by water in a field ~ flooded by a cloudburst, deluging it with over six inches of rain, Kansas ing are complaining of too much rainy weather, The wheat crop has suffered over-moisture and the potato crop is imperilled. EITHER WAY Too Little--Here's what the eastern drought means to the corn crop. Farmer William Hookstra, compares two stalks, the one on the left from a field under irrigation, the other stunted stalk from.a field that depends on rain. Atlantic coast farmers face multi-million-dollar, losses through the prolonged drought. - feeling so utterly at the mercy of - from: his scious of a feeling in his stomach not wholly normal, The sensation passed and he looked again at the ort-hole, feeling more comfortable n this position. Instantly the same strange sensation attacked him again, Mr: Gill. was sober now; his face pale; his eyes glassy. Realization of what was happening to him came like a shock. He was seasick! Helplcssly, miserably ill. Never in his life could Mr. Gill remember anything. Miraculously, Mr. Gill reached . the doorway and disappeared up the stairs. Instantly, the dining salon was a bedlam of laughter. Up to- ward the bow, young Arthur Forbes was wiping some white substance cheeks and grinning broadly. Several men eame over and spoke. "I'll change your order, sir. Bring you some hot food." - Mr, Forbes smiled. "Thanks. And say, steward, that was a smart idea of yours--asking me to play the role of the helplessly seasick pas- senger and placing Gill at that table directly opposite the port-hole." The steward nodded, his. eyes atwinkle, "We have a man like Mr, Gill on hoard every voyage, sir. And we have that table placed there for just this type. No one else is asked to sit so far forward." Mr: Forbes chuckled. "Think of everything for 'the comfort of your assengers, eh? Well, if you didn't, 'm afraid this voyage would have proved almost intolerable -- with Gill talking the way he was." City Of The Sands -- Timbuktu In the midst of the desert sands of Africa, more than a thousand miles from 'anywhere In particular but a small world unto {tself, is a place few tourists have seen but all would like to--or think they would. Its remoteness: is proverbial... For have you not heard this man or that say, upon. being queried as to his destination when he gets forth upon. a 'journey, "Oh," maybe to Timbuctoo?" 'In other words, may- be anywhere at all, For that is how we think of the city of the sands, Timbuktu, as it is properly spelled, A thousand miles south 'from the Moroccan border, an equal distance, ftom the Atlantic coast, it has perhaps known less of change from, been less affected by, the, frantic activities of the world In war and peace through the past quarter-century than any eommun- ity of similar size anywhere. It Is still the half-fanciful, Alice-In-Won- derland eity of the sands, On' the Niger, down whish come big, heavy-laden trading canoes from a hundred native villages and towns, Timbuktu is Hkewise such a camel-caravan center as perhaps does not exist today anywhere else in the world. The amount of trad- "Loaded"'--Movie actress Vera . Ralston sports a young fortune in jewels. The ear-rings, neck- lace and bracelets, from a Hollywood antique collection, are valued at $250,000. They are. supposed to have been given to the Empress Josephine Napoleon. alone contains 20 square-cut diamonds ranging in size from two to five carats each. ing is enormous. Salt is the princl- pal commodity and the people of these regions prefer it to the com- mercial varieties imported from Europe. It arrives at Timbuktu by camel-train twice a year, coming from Saharan salt mines 500 miles In the heart of the desert. The im- menge caravans have been known to run as high as 4,000 beasts. Yet Timbuktu is cosmopolitan, no doubt of that, though it is an African cosmopolitanism ratfier than a European, The people of scores of African tribes, most of them speaking different languages, rub elbows with Arab nomads from all over the Sahara in the teeming, sun-drenched streets where few European buildings of any sort have yet made their appearance. Unbelieveable color against blas- ing white light blends in a hundred shades in tribal costume, in garish adornment, in native markets, in the armament of far-come "untam- od" nomads on their camels. These, gspecially the fierce, heavily velled Touaregs whose long swords are de< dorated with hilts in the form of a oross, sullenly resent the presence here, the political control of the "un- believer." How and when they may try to implement that resentment it, out of the current political con- fusion in Africa and adjacent Asia, they think they perceive an oppor- tunity is a question of the immediate tomorrow elothed with some wun- certainty, : JITTER. The necklace Somebody's always taking the joy out of life, Here I was going along, doing my best and stealing agricul. tural information from here and passing it along to you when, all of a sudden came a blast from the mouth of Dr. J. Gordon Taggart, deputy minister of agriculture down at Ottawa. . * * Too many "experts" -- and the word experts was in quotes -- are telling the farmers what to do about soil conservation was the way the dailies started off their story of Dr. Taggart's speech at the annual con- ference of agricultural representa- tives at the O.A.C. in Guelph, * * * If a high-grade production pro- gram is maintained and only the best agricultural technique used by farmers, the worthy doctor asserted, the much, talked-of . conservation plan will take cace of itself. He went on to deplore the theory that a great many of the-ills of mankind and many of the difficulties of the fatmers- ate attributable to farmers' misuse of. the land. * * * "Phe world is full of people who think they know what's wrong with agriculture and how to cuce it," he said. "But they forget that the aver- age farmer himself realizes the need for conservation of his resources." He further urged that emphasis be placed on a positive rather than a negative approach. . * * "The farmers themselves know that they cannot possible live and prosper by destroying thelr own resources," Dr, Taggart insisted. * * * Well, when I think of some of the ruined farms I've seen and heard about that have been slowly brought back to life and full pro- duction, just through taking such so-called "expert" advice, I feel like tell Dr. Taggart to--well--well-- accept my thanks for giving me ma- terial for part of a column, I guess I'd better make It. * * * Another soil specialist has been to put it mildly, open to question. He's Wallace Micheltree, associate extension specialist in solls at the College of Agriculture, "Rutgers University, and lie says that lots of farmers and gardeners are doing more harm than good by cultivat- Ing the soll during dry spells. * N * F's Because of lack of rainfall, soil fs not crusting, explains Mitchel- making certain statements that are, _ teee, and unless some of the more hardy weeds got by the last culti- vation, there's no point ip cultivate ing. On the harmful side, eultivation now turns up moist soil with une necessary loss of moisture. Further- more, it disturbs root systems of plants and kills some of the root hairs that are necessary to pick up the moisture and plant food. + * * A farmer or gardener believes he Is doing good by cultivating be cause he sees moist soil where he works. He thinks he is drawing up the moisture, but actually, the only effect is to expose more soil to the effects of evaporation. * * That's the finish of what I'm going to quote from Mr. Mitchel tree. As I said three or four para= graphs back, what he says is open to question. I wonder If any of my ceadors would like to express opine jons on this or any other agricul tural matter, . * * If so, all you have to do ls ade dress, John Russell, Box 1, 128 Eighteenth. Steeet, New Toronto, Ont. And If you don't want you¢ name used in anything I might pring fn this columa, just tell me so when you write. Ottawa To Get That "New Look" Canada is to have a new nations{ eapital. The name will atlil, be Ottawa, and the location will be the same --but the city will _be given such a new look that [t will not be recognizable by the end of the eentury, The plan, as lald--before Par- flament by a special Natlonal Planning Committee, calls for wide highways to be cut through and around the city. . Railroads, which now run through the heart of the capital, will be moved outside the urban area, Sfums will be demolished, and "great new blocks of flats and gov- ernment buildings erected. Broad parks will be developed throughout -the city and on ite outskirts, Present bridges. across the Ot- tawa and Rideau Rivers will be abolished, and replaced by new thoroughfares. About the only feature that will remain the same {8 Parliament Hill, =. dated Dog Taxes--107 Pounds A Year -- Annual receipts for dog taxes in the City of Toronto back in 1845 were 107 pounds, ac- cording to an old handwritten Canadian account baok In the Queen's University historical collection. contained This year book, __ 5, is part of the R. S. McLaughlin collection recently donated to the Queen's archives department. 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