opment of the “electric eye,”
phone, “Go,” “Stop” and “Back
tha car as directed.
the demonstration took place, were
By calling into the
which in turn operated
favorably Impressed.
EUROPE IS AFTER
SPEEDWAYHONORS
Manufacturers and Drivers
Making Extensive Plans
for 1931 Race.
decided to
of ti world
1 3
Lilt
Europe has definitely
wrest
from the hands of American speed car
if not this year,
speedway honors
Juilders and drivers—
ertainly in 10931
This is the
“Pop” Myers, general man:
Indianapolis Motor speedway, who has
just returned from a lengthy jaunt
over the Old world gathering foreign
entries for the International 500-mile
race, which will be held
May 30.
of T. E
ger of the
observation
here on
Plan for 1931
“In France, in England, in Germany
and in Italy,” says Myers, “manufac-
turers and drivers are their
olans for competition in the Indian-
apolis classic. This year we are cer
tain of the finest representation Eu-
rope can muster, 3ut already, while
they are planning for the 1330 race,
they are making more elaborate and
extensive preparations for the 193]
race.
“Europe took the measure of Ameri
can speeds from 1913, when Jules
Goux headed a foreign contingent
that kept control of American speed.
ways, until 1919, when the late Howdy
Wilcox started a series of Yankee
victories that kept foreign competition
in the background.
“But just as England spent years
and many thousands of dollars pre-
paring for the successful shattering
y¢ the 156.04 miles an hour straight.
away record of Tommy Milton, made
in 1919, so is all Europe working to
break the speed rule of America in
the 500-mile race at Indianapolis,
which is rightfully looked upon as the
outstanding speed test for cars and
drivers in the entire world.
“Whereas the foreign competition In
May will be confined largely to indi
vidual entries, with possibly two teams
of factory cars, it Is definitely admit.
ted that England, France, Germany
and Italy will have one or more teams
of national cars in the 1031 contest.
Race.
casting
Importance of Preparation,
“Conscious of the Importance of
preparation for the gruelling test of
man and metal in a 500-mile race run-
ning at Indianapolis, the speed car
builders are content this year to per
mit individuals to carry on the task of
representation. But the following year
Juropean factories will sponsor the
cars which will carry their national
colors in the big International race.”
The survey recently made by Myers
in his European trip Indicates that
there will be more foreign cars in the
coming 0H00-mile race than any year
since 1916. He anticipates that If
1031 at least half of the cars starting
the race will be of foreign make.
Operating Costs Lower
on Average Automobile
The cost of operating an average
automobile has declined 3'4 cents a
mile, or 357 per cent, since 1924,
Greater fuel and lubrication economy,
as well as longer life of present cars
and improved highways, account for
the reduced cost. The items involved
in the cost are gasoline, oil, tires and
tubes, maintenance, depreciation, li
conse, garage, insurance and interest.
F. A. Bower, an automotive engineer,
eredits three engineering contributions
oil filters, alr cleaners and crank-
ventilation—with reducing cost
of operation more than a cent a mile,
These devices have decreased the ne
cogsity for bearing adjustments and
have reduced wear on rings and pis
tons and materially lessened oil con-
sumption,
case
May Be More Cars Than
Roads Can Accommodate
The American automobile Industry Is
making 80 many automobiles every day
that if placed end to end the average
day's production would stretch for 45
miles. The same people who used to
worry about the automobile saturati
point have figured out that this 4%
miles a day Is much faster than roads
are being built, and they foresee the
day when there will be more cars than
roads. Statisticians, however, ecalen-
late that it will be something over two
million years before this occurs,
PP PPIIIPPIPIPIIIPIPOIODD
THE MOTOR QUIZ
How Many Can You
Answer?
Q. How
served by
how many
by
schools
in 1928,
were
were
and
covered
many
busses
miles
SPPOPe
these husses?
Ans. 15,920,
busses throughout
traveled 40.808,
Q. How many
carried by buss
States?
-
School
the
motor
country
Pew
2
passengers are
es in the United
a
Ans, S000.000 a day, or 3.06%),
O00) (XX) fl the
population of the United States.
Q. How much
yi for
year-—24 times
PH PPHOSOPP
do passengers
pay bus
tion?
Ans.
Q.
mon
arly transporta-
FIPOPIEE
SHE
pp
About
How many
carrier
£300,.000,000,
®
DP
miles of com-
are
doe
bus lines
in operation and how
mileage compare with tha
steam and electrie lines?
Ans, Over 200.000 niles,
There are 250.000 miles of steam
® railroad and 45,000 miles
$ elec
@
&@
tric lines.
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a
Mousetrap Burglar Alarm
Quite Effective on Auto
An ordinary mousetrap can be con-
verted Into an effective auto burglar
alarm. Two wires with spring clips
attached to thelr outer ends are at
tached as indicated. One clip is at-
tached to the live terminal of the
horn and the other to the metal frame
COMIALY POINT
[PROVIDE
30 UVE TIRNGNAL
oF moa
3
CoounotD J
CRCUT OPEN
How Mousetrap Alarm Is Set to Blow
the Horn If Thief Moves the Steer.
ing Wheel,
of the car.
circuit is
When the trap is set the
open. When sprung, the
continuously. The trap can be placed
so that moving either the steering arm
or clutch pedal will spring the trigger.
~Popular Science Monthly.
Spark Plugs Often May
Cause Engine “Bucking”
Missing of the engine and “bgcking”
frequently blamed on the carburetor
are often due to nothing more than
improper adjustment of spark plug or
breaker point gaps or both. Before
making carburetor adjustment in high
compression. engines the car owner
or mechanic should make sure that
the plug gap Is adjusted according
to the car manufacturer's recommen-
dations, and breaker contact points
are filed square and likewise adjusted.
Dirty or worn out plugs also cause
trouble often blamed on the carburetor,
and spark plugs and breaker contact
points should be examined at least
twice a year.
AUTOMOBILE HINTS
Soen we will begin to see advertise.
ments announcing the salg of houses
having all the comforts of an auto
mobile.
- » -
Exhaust valves are liable to cause
trouble in the engine because of ex-
tremely high temperatures to which
they are subjected.
- * »
In order to give the cooling system
proper care, once each week is not
too often to completely drain the ra-
diator and refill with fresh water,
es
ft is just a mental slip that makes
go many drivers think they are help-
ing the engine start when they use
the choke before the starter gets into
operation,
.
f.oose lugs permit the tire to weave
from side to side and thus induce
considerably more tire wear than that
due to the normal turning motion of
the wheel.
- - -
Since the state of Pennsylvania has
declined to pay damages to the owner
of a motor car with which a deer col
lided, there seems to be nothing to do
except start proceedings against the
animal
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ABOUT THE PIGS
“G RUNT, grunt,” sald Porky Pig.
“Now what's the trouble,
squeal, squeal?” said Miss Ham.
“Yes, what's the matter, grunt,
grunt?’ asked Master Pink Pig.
“Do tell us, squeal, squeal,”
Porky Pilg.
“We want to know, grunt, grunt,”
said Brother Bacon,
“We'd like to know very much,
Grandpa Porky,” said little Black
Squealer, squealing as he spoke, or
speaking as he squealed, whichever
you want to eall it
“Pell us, do, grunt, grunt,” said Sir
Percival Pork.
“By all means, grunt, grunt,” sald
Bacon. .
sald
“Let us hear, squeal, squeal,” sald
“Ah, let us hear, grunt, grunt,” sald
First Song.
wh
Pinky Pig's mother, and Mrs. Porky's
mother yr
“Io
mother.
“1 will tell said Porky Pilg.
much pleased that all of the pigs
were paying much attention to
what he was doing.
He looked. he knew, as though he
had some secret. And he knew the
others in the pen wanted to know It
too.
Perhaps, they thought, it might be
food which he knew about and which
they might find, too, if only he gave
them a hint.
jut Porky Pig had other thoughts
He grunted and twisted his tiny
Brother Bacon's
you,”
80
ese - -
tail now and looked sideways out of
his funny eyes.
“] want to sing a song which 1
think would be a comfort to the pigs
when there Is no food around and
when there is still no nice spring mud,
and while times are a bit hard,
“I think If we all learned to sing
it there would be pleasure for all of
us even when the food is not quite 80
plentiful.
“I've heard the family singing in the
house. They gather around the plano
and sing and their sounds seem to
make them happy, so why should pot
ours do the same with us?”
Not a plg answered, so Porky con-
tinued :
“To save the rest of you the trou-
ble I have written the song and it Is
called ‘Porky Pig's Pleasure,’ because
I wrote it.
“I think the ladies could take the
Pig soprano and alto parts—Miss Ham
I'm sure would make a good ulto
singer, and the gentlemen pigs could
take bass and barytone and tenor
parts.”
The pigs seemed to think this was
quite exciting
So they all listened to Porky
gang the song first, with al
as he
1 the notes
squealing ones save in the chorus when
they were all grunts.
This was the song:
an
By drearsin
That we're
Then can
11 Wi »
ike this:
Grunt, grunt
Put always on
For food, food,
Is good, &
And then came the second verse:
al, squeal,
a plensure to
at later there
Arge meals |
And
We'll
thinking this
feel happy and gay
As songs went, the pigs decided,
it was not much worse or much bet
ter than others. And they liked squeal
ing the part particularly which had
in it the words “Large Meals for Me.”
Each pig sang that with great gusto,
but they were gind to give up singing
when the farmer brought them their
supper,
That, they all felt, was greater than
any
other pleasure
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SUPERSTITIOUS
* - * -
RINNE N
SHE HAS HEARD THAT
In Japan, if one beckors to a child
with a dipper—beware, most honor.’
able 111 luck will wait on you.
(@& by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
How It Started
By JEAN NEWTON
THE WORD “BEDLAM"”
6“ HE police were called out to
quell the bediam that broke
loose.”
Here is a word whose origin it
would be extremely difficult even to
guess at did not one know at least
something of the circumstances under
which it was introduced into our lan-
guage. ‘
Everybody knows that “bedlam”
means uproar. It is Its secondary
meaning, however, and the one of
which few of us are aware that gives
the real clew to Its story.
For, in addition to meaning a tre
mendous noise, “bedlam” also comes
to us as a modification of the name
of the Hospital of St. Mary of Beth
lehem (Bedlam), in London, an insane
asylum,
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a———
Cat's Long Journey
Mrs, George Birdsey of Elma, Wash,
tramped a distance of 80 miles from
Auburn to Elma after her mistress had
placed her in the care of friends there,
The eat covered the distance in three
days,
CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
RICE AT WEDDINGS
A 8 EVERYBODY knows, a wedding,
in order to be a success, must be
supplemented by the throwing of rice
over the bride and the groom as they
go away; and few are the weddings
at which this ceremony Is omitted. It
is as important as the throwing of the
old shoe. The throwing of rice—or of
some other grain—Is a custom dating
back into the morning of time and is
found in many widely severed parts
of the world. It is thrown to insure
a fruitful marriage for it is the sym-
bol of fertility. In it resides the spirit
of the grain god and, as it showers
over the newly wedded pair, it works
by sympathetic magic.
In China, in India and in the islands
of the Pacific there Is the game throw
ing of rice at a wedding as in New
York. But the throwing of rice at wed-
dings among Europeans and Ameri
cans is a comparatively modern inno
vation, nevertheless, Our ancestors of
the northern races knew not rice; they
used grain for the bridal shower. But
when the use of rice became world:
wide it was substituted for grain, a
shower of rice being much less “messy”
than a shewer of oats or wheat and
its white kernels making a much bet.
ter appearance,
With the Orlentals, of course, it was
always rice that was thrown, for rice
was their principal grain. And rice
or wheat, it is the same thing: the
spirit of the grain god is there, which
insures fertility. Many ancient mar
ringe customs still exist in England
which bring in the grain god at wed
dings in different ways but all have
the same signification as the more
common throwing of rice.
(© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(® by McClure Newspaper Byndicate.)
mss Josssie
The percentage of fatal .ceidents Is
bigher In the United States than in
any other country.
we. SES Eee . ay. Yes vey _
Fannie Brice
BENGE SOREN,
ies,” was born Fannie Borach, and
on the East side of New York city.
She began her stage work when very
young, later entered vaudeville and
lies.” Her first film was “My Man”
self”
nl J an——
8| PRT
:| For Meditation |
COO000
g By LEONARD A. BARRETT |
OOOO OOON
RAILROAD CROSSINGS
N UNUSUALLY large per cent of
, the
A
year
automobile accidents during
10206 occurred
An ae
at railroad
f thi ort }
ings. ident © np
pened
of this artic
:
% ey vit SN ntinnally
were jost exceptional}
about it was (ha young
people of high school age Returning
from a basketball game in a neighbor.
ing town, the driver no! hearing
of the
proaching
drove ACross
track just
whistle
nation it
covered that
day watchman
relieved early
the evening
that no
watchman was
duty. Had a
watchman
duty
on
perhaps
Children's stomachs sour, and need
an antl-acld. Keep thelr systems
sweet with Phillips Milk of Magnesia!
When tongue or breath tells of acid
condition—correct it with a spoonful
of Phillips, Most men and women have
been comforted by this universal
sweetener—more mothers should in-
voke its ald for thelr children. It is a
this is only
jecture. The
a con
L. A. Barrett
night
Phillips is the genuine, preserip-
ilonal product physicians endorse for
general use; the name is important.
H. Phillips Chemical Co.
and its pre-
decessor Charles H. Phillips since 1870.
[PHILLIPS
Milk
of Magnesia
Two Names for Kings
gator has just learned t
8 of Denmark in the
» 1560 this
the
hristian to
royal family
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Have Kidneys
Examined By |
Your Doctor
i Take Salts to Wash Kidneys i"
Back Pains You or Bladder
Bothers
AR Ohtlainse 5 giving
f Frederick
or was Frederick
Flush your kidneys by drinking a
quart of water each day, also take
galts occasionally, says a noted au-
thority, who tells us that too much
food forms acids which almost
paralyze the kidneys in their efforts
to expel it from the blood. They be-
come sluggish and weaken; then you
may suffer with a dull misery in the
kidney region, sharp pains in the back
sick headache, dizziness, your
approached; or, being an old man as
i
when the weather is bad you have
rheumatic twinges. The urine gets
have incapacitated him for
service, in which case the traveling
public, depending upon his signals,
would have unconsciously assumed a
tremendous risk.
Where the night or even day watch:
man is not on duty, gates are used at
raliroad crossings. Frequently auto-
matically controlled red lights and
bells are also used, but all automatic-
ally controlled devices are by no means
infallible,
In some states the law governing
public busses is that a stop shall be
made at every crossing regardless of
watchmen, gates, bells, etc. The
driver Is compelled to bring his bus
to a dead stop even if no train is in
sight.- Having come to a dead stop,
he makes his own observations,
By reducing the element of risk to
a minimum, the safety of human {ife
can be practically assured. Less speed
at the approach of crossings and a
dead stop before attempting to cross
the tracks means safety first. Who is
to blame? The operator of railroads,
or the traveling public?
(1930 Western Dewspaper Union)
might
GABBY GERTIE
“it exercising doesn't reduce the
waist, try economizing.”
{
often get sore and irritated, obliging
you to seek relief two or three times
during the night.
To help neutralize these Irritating
acids, to help cleanse the kidneys
and flush off the body's urinous waste,
get four ounces of Jad Salts from any
pharmacy bere; take a tablespoonful
in a glass of water before breakfast
for a few days, and your kidneys may
then act fine. This famous salts Is
made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice, combined with lithia, and
has been used for years to help flush
and stimulate sluggish kidneys; also
to neutralize the acids in the system
so they no longer irritate, thus often
relieving bladder weakness,
Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot in-
jure and makes a delightful efferves-
cent lithia-water drink.
Motor Trouble
A woman living on a busy northern
Indiana highway has many calls for
help from passing motorists. Recent-
ily an attractive young woman ap-
peared at the farm home and sald:
“1 am in trouble. See my shiny nose?
I have lost my compact and am due
to meet the boy friend in ten minutes
Could you let me have a little pow-
der, cornstarch or flour?”
COULD HARDLY
DO KER WORK
Strengthened by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
pound
Mission, Tex.~*“I have used a good
deal of your medicine and always find
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and mi