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MOTOR CAR THAT THE COLOUR OF THE SUN.
CHANGES ITS
OWN GEARS.
THE BIG SECRET OF THE
MOTOR SHOW.:
REMARKABLE THEORY,
WITCHCRAFT IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
THEORY OF SECRET CHURCH OF WIZARDS.
PROTEST BY 900 CLERGY
THREAT TO BOYCOTT CHURCH CONGRESS.
Modernisin in the Church of Eng- land has become a subject of acute controversy on the
Most of us would say that it is yellowish. Years ago, physicists announced "that it is really blue,
At the Jubilee Congress of the and would look so to us if we could | Folk-Lore Society, held At the view it from beyond our atmor- Society of Antiquaries. Burlington Church Congress, which opene at phere. The air absorbs an excess House, London, Dr. Ernest Jones Cheltenham this month, and a boy-
eve of the
"Psychocott of the congress was threatened.
the statement
One of the big attractions of the Motor Show at Olympia is a motor of the blue rays, and so wipes out
gave 111 address on the colour to earth-dwellers. But car that changes its own gears.
After, five years of secret experi- now we learn that the sun is really Analysis and Folk-lore." mental work a-British firm has rean, and this conclusion is based Three Cigarettes And One Match,
He referred to not on atmospheric absorption but evolved a method of automatic gear on the qualities of the human eyede by their last president, Mr. For more than 30 years The arguments are set forth by Weight, in his valedictory change.
Charles Nordmann, in an article address in regard to the War the test brains of the motor en-on." The True Colour of the Sun," superstition that to use a match to gingering world have been engaged contributed to Le Matin (Paris) light three cigarettes portented the
Writes Mr. Nordmann;
death of the third- smoker." "Dr. on the problem.
Sunlight is prodigal of illusions. Jones said he believed that folk For example, the moon which we
lorists could not fail to be remind see by winlight appeats blue to used at once of the great part played
The self-changing gear exhibited at Olympia is by no means freakish. It has been adopted by a British firm of standing. Messrs. Arm- strong Siddeley Motors. Ltd. of Coventry, after a successful test covering 60,000 miles.
gear box
Rostand says:
Viscount Halifax, the president of the English Church Union, and more than 900 clergy, have sent a protest to the Bishop of Gloucester against the views of the Rev. Dr. Major. head of Ripon Hall, Oxford, and editor of the Modern Churchman, who is included in the list of speakers at the congress. They declare that they find them- solves forced to discourage our people from attending the congress and unable to lend to it any sup port." Dr. Major is announced to speak at the congress on "The An- glican Interpretation of the Chris- tian Faith'
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The moonlight shimmers on the in superstition by the idea of death flowing a third act or process slopes of the blue roofs. Painters, a third stroke of apoplexy and have used up tons of altramarine so on. Psycho-analysis would go blue to paint moonlight effects.still farther and would be able to Eurther, it will be available to On the contrary, they have recourse correlate the form of this belief
The protesting clergy declare:: the motoring public, though at to chrone, yellow and ochre to re with certain definite unconscious
The issue is simple; the ques irst, owing to the fact that the present landscapes flooded with ideas concerning the number three.
not yet in fall preduesunshine. Well, they are wrong and it would, in practice, be able tion is one of Belief or Unbelief: tion, on two models only-the 30 When we analyze these lights with to show that just these unconscious and, although it is easy to pre h.p. and 20-hp. It is the first oc- the spectroscope, we find that that
ideas had been operative in the case judice the subject by applying such ension on which an automatic gear of the sun is proportionately bluer of any particular person who was question-begging terms as portents' change has been adopted by a lead and less yellow than that of the seriously influenced by the cigar to the miracles of the New Testa
16 non-miraculous Chris- ing British motor-car manufactur moon.
ette zuperstition. In doing so it ment ing firm, and it may be regarded
would establish a continuity betianity is not Christianity at all, as a motoring development of first
tween the old and the new products and the writings of Dr. Major pre- ate importance.
and would thus justify the in-seat nothing short of a point-blank clusion of both in the same region contradiction of Christianity it. Boks...... $1,325 buy, 1,835 el. of scientific study,
Boon To Woman. On the mechanical side, gear: changing has always been the most diffeult part of driving a motor var. To the beginner it is often a nightmare. Even the experienced driver cannot guarantee to make a perfect change in all cireuter stances. Women drivers, growing daily in numbers, frankly confess that they simply hate quick-chang
ing..
them.
1:
What, then, is the real colour of sunlight and daylight? The Dutch ophthalmologist, Tscherning, has been making some curious and sug. gestive investigations on the sub- est. It is now recognized that our colour sensations come from three kinds of elements in the retina, sen- sitive respectively to red green, and violet.
On the other hand, it has been remarked that the sensitiveness of the retinal elements is greater as the light received by them is
feebler.
This being so, it is clear that if The new method relieves the
we observe a very brilliant object He driver of this responsibility.
containing different proportions of selects the gears. The car changes the red, green, and violet rays, it will always appear to us very near There is no gear lever. The early white, because if the red rays, positions are clearly marked on a
for example, are much less intense quadrant on the steering-wheel as
than the violet, the sensitiveness of in the case at present on most cars
the retinal elements for red will be with the ignition retard and ad-
come automatically greater than vance. The lettering in Reverse, Neutral, Low, Medium, Normal, that of the elements sensitive to
violet.
Fast.
When
There is a pedal in the place of the normal clutch pedal. you wish to start, you place a pointer on the quadrant opposite Low, which corresponds to the or dinary motor-car's bottom gear. You then depress the pedal, and car starts off smoothly and without fuss.
the
For
Analogy With Individual.
self."
The protest was prepared after a meeting in London in May.
"Intolerable " Views.
The views of the English Church Union were expressed by the serre- tary, the Rev Arnold Pinchard, who said:
In the psychoanalysis of indivi duals they had in a number of cases been able to demonstrate that idens closely parallel to totemistic beliefs had been cherished during infancy, partly consciously, partly uncon sciously, and, what was even more. We recognise that there is scope interesting, that survivals of this and place for the modernist peint of view in the Church of England. primitive period had been left in later life in the form of particular but we also feel that there are neurotic symptoms such as animal limits to what can be allowed as
phobias. In other words they tolerable in that direction. Lad before them in the individual the whole evolution of beliefs and customs or rituals based on them, which was parallel to what in the field of folk-lore had run a course of centuries or, perhaps, thousands
of years.
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China Provident very curious experiments.
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which had often been observed at next gear in advance.
dis the moment. when the sun
the horizon, may appears below arise from the fact that, suddenly plunged into relative obscurity, the
car. Depress the pedal again, and the automatic gear change comes tor Fast speed, which correspond to into operation. So for Normal and the top gear of the ordinary car.
Let us suppose that you are in lop gear-Fast on the quadrant and are approaching a bill. It is obrious that you will require a
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If The same applies in traffic. you are in Fast gear it is obvious that the next change will be down So you put your pointer opposite Normal, and when a check occurs you press the pedal and at once a change into the lower gear is effect- ed.
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Mechanical Finger. The automatic change mechanism consists of a mechanical finger. When you move the pointer on the quadrant opposite the gear into which you desire to change you move the mechanical finger into a position to effect the change. When you press the pedal the mechanical finger does its work.
"
CA you
suffering after eating.
the lever opposite Low, stepped on the pédal, and the car glided off as though it were on level ground. I also abused the invention to teet its fool-proof nature. An expert who tried the new de vice said:"I carried out a test From Fast gear-normal top
The Witches' Sabbath. of a car equipped with the self-gear-I pushed the lever to Low- changing gear in Warwickshire. normal bottom-and then trod on
Professor Y. M. Goblet (Paris) It was quite a new motoring senen- the pedal. At the time the car was tion.
travelling at 40 m.p.h. The change submitted a paper written by Mr. books of black magic, and who, be- At first I was baffled a bit by was effected, though naturally with F. Saintyves on "The Witches' cause of that, were refused absolu- its simplicity. After 23 years.or a certain amount of demur from Sabbath and the Wizards' Oint-tion by priesta.
ment. In this be traced back to The author of the paper further so with the old method I found the gear-box. raysel groping for a gear lever "As many as 15 gear changes the pagan age the belief in witches' stated that he had come to the con- that did not exist and trying to were inade in 10 seconds. The fact meetings under the Devil's chair-clusion that during the Middle manipulate in the old way a clutch that no time is lost in changing manship, and its bequeathal to Ages there was a kind of magic re pedal that required no manipula-speed means greatly increased a Christianity. In the Middle Ages, ligion and a secret church of A comparative test it was stated, the Inquisition used wizards. For instance, there was 15 Changes In 10 Seconds. with two cars with engines of equal to make inquiries about the nightly the chief witches' Sabbath, which "But once the idea was grasped power, of the same weight, and fidings of witches and was also in took place at the same time as the that nothing-was-required of the driven by the same driver up to the habit of accusing the witches great Christian festivals, especial- In dealing with ly at Christmas and on June 24th, driver except to put a pointer op speed of 40 m.p.h, from a standing of Devil-worship.
the wizards' ointment the author St. John's Day. On those festivals posite the lettering and step on start gave the following results. a pedal I found the whole thing "The car with the self-changing described the way in which it was overybody went to church, so that Labsurdly simple.
gear gained eleven eeconds, or brought to the Western countries it was easy for the wizards to as- semble at some remote place with- the car with theby Egyptian "priests. per cent., of
Professor Goblet paused in his out awakening suspicion. ordinary gear. In 5 seconds from a standing start the car with the reading to say that in France to Addresses by Dr. Roheim (Berlin) self-changing gear gained 450 feet, day there were peasants who had and Dr. A. H. Krappe were also
(Continued at foot of next column.) 'read. or 60 per cent."
tion.
"The test included a standing start on a one-in-six gradient, one of the best methods of trying the strength of any gear-box. I placed (Continued on next Column),
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