streets of London. The MILLIONS LOST BY CARELESSNESS Motor Car Owners Urged to Check Up on Measure- ments of Fuel. Motor-car owners themselves are much to blame for the continuation of an evil through which millions upon millions of dollars annually are lost from their own pockets, This was pointed cut in a statement issued from national headquarters of the American Automobile association, in which it was asserted that the in- different attitude of the average mo torist is the chief cause for the tre mendcus yearly through measurements in losses casoline and oil. The American Aatomobile associa tion statement is predicate on experience of many of | ated the iH a large clubs throughout the country, which have with the staged invest certain gasoline stations su systematic “short-measure” Attendants Criticized. The experiences of the clubs, ae cording to the American Automobile association, have definitely established that the filling station pump Is not responsible for short measurement in nearly so many the sta- tion attendant who recognizes in the inattention of the patron an excellent opportunity to substitute a lesser quantity of gasoline and oil than is ordered. It has also established that the oil companies and filling stations are in the great major ity of instances doing everything pos- sible to prevent sharp practice on the part of irresponsible attendants. Co-Operation Extended. owners of time to time and from co-operation of tions of and raids on spected of {ices officials pra instances as the owners of Oil companies and indi vidual stations have co-operation to the authorities and to the motor clubs attempting to remedy the short measurement situation, but the motorist must his assistance In a similar manner if the evil is to be quickly and effectively wiped out “In a recent raid staged by city of. ficials with the ov-operation of given unstinted give such a way that short measurement of gasoline was resorted to In order to provide them with easy money, the statement points out. In one case, the raiding party~found an attendant who, on three different occasions, pumped less than four gallons of gasoline into the automobile tank on each five-gal- lon order. Important Principles in Automobile Safety Education, engineering and enforce- ment are the three important princi- ples in automobile safety, Arthur Hardgrave, past president of the Kan. sas City Safety council, told the pub- lie safety session of the sixteenth an- nual convention of the National Safe- ty council, at Chicago recently. This is proved, the speaker said, by the fact that, while 50 per cent of ac- cidental deaths in Kansas City this year have been csused by automo biles, not a member of the safety council of that city has been involved in a fatality. Education is the first step in public safety, Hardgrave asserted. This edu- cation must include teaching the necessity of caring for the car so that it will not skid on wet pavements as well as watching out for pedes- trians and not speeding, Motorists were advised to equip their cars for safety. All controls, chains and bumpers must be In working order, Snow-Proof Road The first snow-proof highway to be constructed In Wisconsin has re- cently been completed. The highway is built a foot higher than the ground immediately surrounding, That this methed of grading will enuse the road to be swept clean by the wind excep: during the most severe storms, Is the belief of engineers, The ditches on either side of the rond are construct. el In such a way that they may be used for sleighing. Contributory Negligence Is Often Misunderstood “Contributory negligence is one of the oldest doctrines of the common law and is one of the most frequently re sorted to by lawyers and Judges to wreck what otherwise might be a per: fect says a bulletin issued by the legal department of the Chicago Motor club, “Contributory negligence is the most frequent defense interposed in auto mobile litigation, yet its application is frequently misunderstood by motor- ists. The meaning of the term Is that any act of omission or commission on the part of a driver or owner of an au tomohile that contributes to an dent bars that driver or owner from redress in court. In other words the driver must come into court free from any neglect when he seeks compensa case,” accel tion for damages done or Injuries sus tained. The complication that arose from the rule of which at comparative one negli- sence rule in Illinois and many other states, the that it ahandoned more work able rule of contributory negligence The fact that the person guilty of negligence and even though his degree of negligence was flagrant than that of the suing, does not help the case, driver suing been negli so confased courts has heen for the sued times more person if the gent.” has Anti-Glare Cap Is Good Protector for Motorist Instead of having a pair of goggles to wear as a glare protec tor at motorist will wel iligstra tion, noon porated in the cap and, therefore, al ways at hand. cap just above the visor and replace this with a separate night, the the idea shown in the where the come goggles are Cut out a piece of the piece of green celluloid a BN GREEN CELLULOID, STRIP SEWED ON BAND AND SUITTED FOR BUTTON Piece of Green Celluloid in Cap Makes Good Anti-Glare Shield for the Motorist, Of course, the can must be large enough to permit this. The band of the cap is cut and » button and but tonhole are provided, as Indicated. When the goggles are needed, simply loosen the button and pull the eap over the eyes so that you ean see through the celluloid William CC. Thomas, Chicago, I'l, in Popular Me. chanics Magazine, HR EEFEERRRAERRLRERTRRABEERR AUTOMOBILE HINTS FRR RRR R NRT TRH HRW H RRR RNR Automobile tires, it is found, give us 27 times the value we used to get a few years ago. * . @» Present figures compiled by the Na- tional Automobile Chamber of Com- merce give the total number of motor trucks in use in this county as 2. 764,000, a * » A new land is open to tourists with the charting of 800 miles of road in Lower California. This ie historical ly famous country that assures new thrills to travelers, . ® » These stock motor cars advertised to do from sixty to one hundred miles an hour could make a ten-strike with the public by furnishing first-ald kits ns part of the accessories that go with the car, *. 0» Now we may have our wheels and tires painted to harmonize with the car's colors. A small tire manufac turer has already started the mode of painting the tire sidewalls for use on flashy autos, Where Swatters Are Taboo In Ukrania, the southern Russin province, superstitious natives hold the common house fly In reverence and meke no effort to kill the pest Many persons regard the fly as a sa cred animal, Jaywalk Into Cars Five per cent of the automobile ac- cidents of the country are caused by persons who walk into the sides of moving machines. Like automobiles running Into the sides of trains. —— —— ———. —— —— NEW WHIPPET CAR A MOTOR MARVEL One of the sensations in the automo- bile world is the perfected “Whippet” produced by the Willys-Overland, Inc. and it 1s direct evidence that John N Willys, president of the corporation, proposes to make good on his decln ration that “there can be no monopoiy in the light car field.” The perfected car, and the price at which it Is offered, placing it directly in compe tition with the lowest priced cars, has centered the eves of the automobile industry and the motor car world in general on the enterprising Toledo manufacturer, It makes him the first manufacturer of automobiles to enter the price field heretofore exclusive.to but one light ear manufacturer. The “Whippet,” which has been in production for more than 18 months holds the national fuel ord of 43.28 miles to the gallon in a test between Log Angeles and New York City, covering a distance of 3.554 miles, under official observation of the A. A. A. In a speed test on Rocking ham Speedway, Salem, N. H, a “Whippet” recently attained n speed of 71.6 miles an hour over a LH-mile route. This was officially timed. The same engine that has plished these records Is the plant employed In the perfected “Whippet,” now offered at the lowest price in the history of Wiliys Overland The “Whippet” was firet light car to be equipped with four wheel brakes, setting a new trend in the light ear fled, The braking the *“Whippet's brakes is than any fzht Details of the perfected “Whippet 8 wider range of ployment of full cadet sun economy rec accom power the aren greater other car. colors, em 1 snders, a disclose crown f that visor imparts a windshield cleaner, rear and a combination ren: tight and stop light, ndditions make the most fully equipped light car built in the four cylinder field ——— view mirror, These Life’s Added Problems Life is becoming more mathematical every day. We are now urged to count our blessings before eating, our eal orles while eating, our change after eating and our sheep while going to sleep.—~Kansas City Star, Opportunity Next thing for scientific breeders to do Is to cross the carrier-pigeon with the parrot so that messages can be delivered verbally.—Wall Street Jour nal, Various Trades Off er Occupation to Blind Blind men are employed In many engineering factories. In one German electrical concern, the annunl report of the Natlonal Institute for the Blind, more than hundred sightless people ure employed, while double thant number are being trained Blindness, it is sald, is no hindrance to a man looking after two or even three automatic machines, The aver age earning capacity of a blind oper native in considered to be about 80 that of a normal-sighted Ninety blind French engineering trades earn 85 per of full wages, A factory in America employs 44 men, ziven the competent, sAys one works Is per cent of man, persons these employed in about motor blind for cent who work are which they seem most Nature’s Economy Inventions during the next three centuries will, in the opinion of many experts, probably be In the di rection of imitations of the wonderful economy and the simple, meth ods Take Its in no sense a storage battery which the rest, the two or direct of nature the electric eel organ Is but a energy it Is organ shows as an example electric contrivance by electric is liberated at moment when required. At small an roo] electromative force galvanometer is but from the required to de tect it, a sudden nervous impulse spinal cord raises a potentis f many volts, with very ht tie heat small an expenditure of matter as to defy the most expert Fireflies, glow worms and many deep sean fishes hent nt BA the pro duce light without cost which wonld make " 11 cand He nn ex price of 5 wax tins travagant oy Feet and Talking it's the feet when he talk on his his San Francisco who can’t foot In fellow who puts his mout! tries - Chron icle, Grandfathers on Vacation Fifteen grandfathers, whose ages totaled 1,200 years, recently enjoyed thelr annual two-weeks' vacation to gether at Littlehampton, England They are members of the Browning Hall Grandfathers’ club of London The oldest in the party was elghty- four and the youngest seventy. the Fault dislike in another correct in your Correct Whatever person take self you care te Migratory Bird Treaty A resident of Ohio, who had previous ly raised wild fowl under an federal permit, but failed to submit the re quired report of operations and con tinued to make sales and shipments without renewal of the permit, was arraigned In Federal court at Toledo, Olilo, found guilty, and fined $300 and CORLE, To engage in the business of rearing and selling migratory waterfowl, says the hurean of blologieal survey, Unit ed States Department of Agriculture, first obtain a per from of agriculture then require it is mit and ments of state law, necessary to the secretary to comply with all These requirements are made under the bird tions to protect and perpetuate migra migratory treaty act regula passing eael the United tory species of birds year between tates and Cannda, Lets the World Go By consecutive Auchmuty of her summer the Lenox never owned seventy-fourth tichmd T. has arrived at Dormers, on She has kas no For the season, Mrs York home, the Pittsfield an automobile, phone, no electric heat in her New road. listed tele lights, no steam villa, radin Khe drive nor a wonded Glowing prefers 10 aver the roads in an open victoria in her fireplaces and furnish ninetieth Lernsene She is fagots lamps heat and flerkit HE in her yvenr — Barton Globe Not That Sick nt a wa nice honk in Somethir nol now, Cure for Optimism The says optimists live neuraogist longer an pessimists They might if they in loose brakes. —San Francisco Chron didn’t have such sublime cle. AA — A 7300 omega Hen Lay A hen in Ulster lays two eggs at 8 times, sometimes three. The owner ex- plains this by saying that the ben, a last year's pullet, had sunstiroke when a month old Since it has grown up the hen has on four days a week laid {two eggs at a time, and has twice laid three, Apotheosis of the Pancake Sign In restaurant window—"Waf- fles of Class and Distinction” —Bos- ton Transcript Canadian Lakes Beautiful Among the seven reservations set aside by the government of Canada in the Rocky mountains there is none more beautiful thay Waterton Lakes Nutional park, which lies on the east. ern slope of the Rockies where these mountains approach the internation- al boundary. The park forms a rough with a I-shaped section added to the the whole having an area of about 220 square miles, Newest American Sport Critic-baiting become an even and typical American spe~* than framing prize tighte or fix- and championship fhe prac- criticism In this constantly In district, his ent prospect Na- square long enst, Lins i ate mors ing horse races i aseball games man vho tices professional year of metaphorical our Lord lives gushouse 0nd and seat in fmm and boot, —George Jean than in Vanhty Fair, Profit by Past Errors The past is gone, and gone forever. You may learn by mistakes, but do not be guilty of the sin of constant over them. Turn your the future Give yoww blunders a decent burial and let the memory of you with implements of which sou may operate future possibilities — your ily worrying face toward mistakes snd in the past them furnish industry by mine of Exchange the gold Fowls in Biblical Times poled in the Old The fatted fowl (1 Kings, inte goose Cocks and bens were brought ia two or three centuries be A tomb at Marissa of #8 good representa. ure rpreted as either lias a crowing coc Sparrows and were also “twittering birds” food advertise unless goods, doesn’t pay to able tn deliver the * F.0.B. Factory New Low Prices Reductions 535 90 535 90 - 355 90 e in light car design for smart, lines, * Prenndent, safer. hour, and many owners say 65 miles per gallon.
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