Engine’s value as retarder
Correctly, the brakes should be used to bring the car to a stand, to keep it so, to negotiate steep declivities and in emergencies. For the rest, the better the driver, the more he will contrive to make the progress of his car fluent, and the more effectively he will use his engine as a brake. There are many motorists who never arrive at the stage of realising that an ordinary car has really three braking systems, the most important being the one they rarely use, namely the engine. A great number think that when an emergency arises, the proper thing to do is to put the foot down on both pedals, thereby applying one system of brakes and disconnecting the engine: whereas the clutch ought never to be withdrawn until the car is practically brought to a stand. — by ‘Accelerator’
Palestine conflict transient?
It is nearly six years since the Earl of Balfour addressed to Lord Rothschild a letter embodying on behalf of the British Government the famous declaration of approval of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. Mr Lloyd George writes: "Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-semitic feeling . . . The latest exhibition of this agitation is against settling the poor Jews in the land of their fathers who made Palestine famous. A land which once flowed with milk and honey is now largely a stony, unsightly desert. If Palestine is to be restored it must be by settling the Jews on its soil. The Jews alone can redeem it from the wilderness. The Arabs have neither the means, the energy, nor the ambition to discharge their duty."
In short, Mr Lloyd George expresses his disgust with everybody who does not agree that the settlement of the Jews in Palestine is the right thing for that country and for the Jews themselves.
Critics of the Zionist policy in the House of Commons sum up the position by declaring that the creation of a national home for the Jews has satisfied nobody while entailing an enormous expense on the British taxpayer. Upon the word, however, given by Great Britain before the nations of the world, she cannot go back because of adverse criticism or impediments which, it is to be hoped, will prove of a transient character. — editorial
Rain stays mainly on the plain
There is still a great deal of water on the Taieri Plain from Otokia southwards. The process of natural drainage is always slow on the plain, and the lengthy spell of sunless weather has not facilitated evaporation.
In fact, the frequent falls of rain have more than balanced the quantity that has escaped in this way. The depth of the water varies from 18 to 40 inches. — ODT, 16.7.1923
Compiled by Peter Dowden
