Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1912 — NO CHANCE FOR SPEEDERS [ARTICLE]

NO CHANCE FOR SPEEDERS

An Oregon Bherlff Has Remarkable Buccess With a Wire and StopWatch. With a long piece of eopper wire, batteries, a buzzer and stop-watch, Deputy Sheriff Allen Hart and assistants have become the bugaboo of motorists of Hood county who are prone to speed above the twenty-five miles an hour limit on the county The officer has measured the piece of copper wire used for his operations in detecting the speeders. He stands at one end with his watch and the aid at the other. When a machine passes the aid he presses the buzzer and Hart starts his stop-watch, catching the time as the machine passes his end of the wire. In case the car la going the other way, Hart sets his stop mechanism on his watch to work and Catches the time when the buzzer is sounded from the other end. Thomas Carlyle on Belief. A man lives by believing something. Belief I define to be the healthy act of a man’s mind. It is a mysterious, indescribable process, that of getting to believe; indescribable as all vital acts are. We have out mind given up, not that it may cavil and argue, but that it may see into something, give ua| clear belief and understanding about something, whereon we are then A proceed to act —Thomaa Carlyle.