A YOUR ROOFING TROUBLES : t us supply you with Shingles or Roof- Ing that has a reputation for quality. "Quality" remains long after "price" is forgotten, ALLAN LUMBERCO. Vv ictoria Street. "Phone 1042. FOUNDED 1883 Four June Investments We Recommend To Yield | CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY 5% Collateral Trust Gold}Bonds . 515% ) MONTREAL TRAMWAYS & POWER CO. Collateral Trust Gold Bonds March, 1929 6.12% 3 TORONTO CARPET MFG. CO. First M Bonds . March, 1908 6.20% ] HOWARD SMITH PAPER MILLS 7% First Refunding Mortgage Bonds 0 Due January, 1941 1.20% I am interested in the following Bonds: i0 20] 30d 40 Name. BABII... cio ssivcmmrrrirssrreseaiise sommes i 'HANSON BROS. Investment Securities 160 St. James Street MONTREAL 63 Sparks Street OTTAWA Bem arenltoons & Woodwork HOME PAINTING MADE EASY SOLD BY Simmons Bros., Kingston Dip 's the greatest ttle thing that was made for a Ford -- REM. INGTON AURILIARY, 4 'reserve gasoline {bring you Jose on any hill. Look it next time, FOR SALE av ee or A or Dealer or write to Beaver Auto Necessities, Limited, 35 St. Lawrence Bivd., Montreal. I "MAKE YOUR EASY Have the Hotpoint Electric Goods in your home. We have everything you may need to bring comfort -- Irons, Toasters, Heaters, ete, Halliday Electric Co. PHONE 04. CORNER KING AND PRINCESS sts, Your Garag It fouse Hw U SEE THIS DEVICE ON OUR COUNTER 2 | Cut Softwood Slabs cvevee...$3.50 per load 'Cut Hardwood Slabs .......$4.00 per load Split Pea Coal vesaeenn.... $10.00 per ton 'While it lasts. Just the fuel for this time of the year, SONARDS COAL C0. Phone 155 NP -- There is ony ane religion, though '® are a hundred versions of it. are no tricks iff plain sim- Lal to rule, riches will hear reason. - - hatte Neither great poverty nor great Let them obey who know not how this nature, at certain Correcting Front Wheel Misalignment AFTER A CAR HAS BUCKED SNOW DRIFTS for months, had its tront wheels run into buried curb-stones a few times and has fre- quently been driven in deep, icy ruts, with its front wheels cut around to the limit; before it can be extricated, it is quite likely that an in- spection of its steering gear will reveal that the front wheels are no longer in correcl alignment. Alignment should be checked up and adjusted, if incorrect, before the strenuous driving season opens, or the front tire-treads will rapidly be worn off and steering will be hard. To check the alignment, set the front wheels until they both point as nearly straight ahead as they can be made to do. Cut a board to a length slightly less than the clear space between the two wheels on the floor and nail to each end of it an upright stick about 18 inches high. Fit a wire spike in a horizontal hole, in line with the board, near the top of each upright. Place this measuring device between the two tires in front and slip the spikes in their holes until their points just touch the inside front edges of both tires. Then move this gage to the corresponding position back of the axle. If the ends of the spikes fail to touch the rear inside edges of the tires by about 5-16 inch the alignment is correct, but if otherwise, the tie- rod which connects the front wheels should be lengthened or short- ened until the alwve described adjustment is attained. One end of AY the tie-rod can be screwed on or off the rod to accomplish this, after it has been detached from the knuckle-arni. MISSING CAUSES KNOCKING | Answer: Some improvement | might be made by substituting for the original carburetor one of the latest ones, which embodies an ac- celerating device. This consists of 'some means for supplying addi- | tional | fuel to the mixture when 8 the throttle is being opened, but elt Pind | does not enrich the mixture con- 8S ) : © | | stantly and thus obviatés excessive \> EF iti | fuel consumption, If your car could FT LLY {be geared down somewhat. by In- Jf [Tr| {stalling a smaller drive pinion and {a larger ring-gear, its rate of ac- J. B. S, writes: The engine of a|celeration would be increased, but car that I am overhauling has sev-|at some sacrifice of maximum eral knocks in it. It sounds as if |speed. If lighter pistons could be some parts were striking together |Installed in your engine you might and there is a noise which seems | be able to use the lower final drive to be at the front end. I cannet get | ratio, without cutting down the top all cylinders to fire at the same speed of the car. It will not pay time, unless I race the engine very | you to go to much expense in try- fast. What causes the knocking? ing to achieve the result you desire. Answer: We do not know, but|but it might be worth while to there is no use investigating these change the carburetor. knocks until you get the engine to| ap g fire regularly on all cylinders. Very WEIGHT AND STABILITY few engines wlll run without knock- | ing If any of the cylinders miss fire, for the reason that the missed ex- plosions cause speed fluctuations which develop any lost motion among the parts and, in so doing. knocking results. Worn timing- gears are almost sure to be noisy, unless the engine runs steadily. -It Is not unlikely that when you get this engine to fire evenly, these knocks will disappear and the first thing you should do is to stop the missing and then take up the knocks, If they still persist. . There must be something wrong with this engine's ignition, carburation or compression to cause it to run so irregularly. M. A. 8. writes: 1 have always driven heavy cars such as the and the , but realize ---- that they are expensive to operate IMPROVING ACCELERATION |as compared with smaller and lighter ones. I want a car that is cheap to run, but it has always seemed to me that a big, heavy car must be less likely to overturn than one of these light ones and I don't belleve I should feel so safe riding in one of them. Is there a sound basis for this feeling. Answer: The weight of a car has no bearing upon its liability to overturn. It is the height of its center of gravity above the road which determines this and the "lower hung" a car is the safer it is against overturning. The fact that all cars are of the same width of track makes the height of the + 8. E, writes: I am driving a 1914 car, which is still very satisfactory, except that it will not pick up speed as quickly as modern cars do. Is there anything I can | center of welighf the only factor to do to it that will improve it in this| be considered ia determining respect? stability. ol When The Battery Runs Hot Protracted Overheating Curtails Its Useful Life IT SEEMS STRANGE that, after worrying during the cold weather for fear that one's Storage battery may be under-charged and liable to freeze, one Ras to worry about the very opposite condition in hot weather--its being damaged by overheating, due to overcharging and other causes. However, this is the case. Perhaps, in order to counteract the heavy demands for lighting and starting, during the winter, you had the charging rate of your generator increased, pos- sibly to an ampereage above that recommended for your battery. If it may be injured during the coming warm season, with its low lighting demand and easy starting conditions, unless you have the charging rate reduced to a normal or even subnormal ampereage You will soon be taking long, day-time trips, on hot days, with the battery being continuously charged, when it not only does not need it but may be excessively heated thereby for long periods. In cold weather, for a short time, a battery will withstand an over-high charging rate, without overheating, but on a 90 in the shade day, with hot afr rushing back upon it from the engine and the generator busy all the time, a less than normal charging rate or a temporary absence of all charging current is desirable, it overheating is to be avoided. If kept heated for long 120 degrees while the separators themselves may rapidly deteriorate in {Asulating value. On Hiviy hot runs, if the battery is found decidedly warm when touched, it may be well to burn all lights continuously in order to reduce the current It is receiving and to have the generator charging rate reduced by a considerable amount, as sdon As convenient. Another expedient ir temporarily to stop the generator from furnishing current, by ground- ing its terminal, removing its fleld-fuse or taking out its brushes. Some generators are thermostatically regulated to give a reduced charging current when they and their batteries become hot. If you er a bat Jour atiery seems overheated, take the car to the on and let them take i To Sieten ang ox. thew ts temperature and make such WHAT CAUSES THIS RUMBLING? Ie ? a E. J. S asks: How can lost 2 \ mation In the steering wheel of my car be eliminated? : Get someone to turn the steering whee! back and forth, while you watch. If it can be turned considerably, without caus. ing the pitman arm (the swinging arm pivoted In the housing) to- move, 0 motion in your worm &nd worm- gear steering device, which can be removed by taking up the end play of the worn and the Chaat BE nut at the top of the housing the countersunk nut at the side of the houst whe jjshitened, will accomp! this. If the pitman arm nioves without moving the front wheels, there is looseness be. tween the king-pins and thelr bushings; at the ends of the tie-rod or at the ends of the -link, Lost motion the last mentioned Dait eka Bs oved by Maju. men new pins and bush will be to overcome loose. 2 Any | ness in loose sheet metal part of a car may . ramble, when it is set into vibra- tion. If you ean ascertain what part of the You do not deseribe. this o not d ise knock or we should think it pote from some mechanical defect in the engine. Until you can give us furthest detalls the pmo we. can o 0 make a o more or less at random. Cons, Questions of general interest Mr. CloughJdn'this column, space desired. enclose self-addressed, domped x REMOVING STEERING WHEEL PLAY - P. K. asks: What do you think is the cause of the rumbling noise, which my car makes when 1 speed 1 5 especially: when going down Answer: It Is difficult to answer you Intelligently, because by a "rumbling noise" you may mean something very different from what We mean by the same term. Incor. rectly meshed drive-gears some- times rumble at high speeds and make a different sound in coasting from that which they make under engine power. A bent or loose fan- blade or the fan striking something may make a rumbling noise at high speed and a muffler, which has be- come loose, may emit a sound of THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG 'e other parts mentioned. AE I INIT Supreme quality and jell. ell ex Pele 10 for 15¢ 25 + 36¢ Manufactured by Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada Limited rr a. at a sea tat sain, © (Let This Car Sell Itself O to any man who has bought a Gray-Dott since the new management took control of the company and ask him whether you should buy a Gray-Dort. We're satisfied to have you make your decision on what he tells you. ~ Because we know he'll tell you that he never believed a car at the Gray-Dort price could perform so well. That he never heard of a car so free from grouble. That not once has his Gray-Dort failed him. The reason is easy to see here at the factory in Chatham. The instruc- tions to the engineering department, the purchasing department, the factory management have been unmistakable--"If there is any way in which the Gray-Dort can be bettered--go ahead and do it." Those better- ments are orent in the performance of the car. That's why the Gray- Dort is 'selling itself everywhere in Canada. At the Gray-Dort showroom they'll be glad to show you the car--and glad to give you the names of Gray-Dort Owners, s0 you can prove for yourself that Gray-Dort today gives the greatest value in the automo bile industry. GRAY-DORT MOTORS LIMITED Balloon Tires Optional at Slight Extra Cost = «~ CHATHAM, ONT. READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS The Maker Stands Behind His Trademark YEP, THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL THE HORSE LAUGH : Maybe someone told a "racy" story. Or it may be the hourse that threw the prince, tell- ing the fellows about it. Anyway, just look at this picture for a few seconds and, if you can keep from smiling you have better contro! of your face muscles than most folks,