Yerington times. [volume], July 20, 1918, Page THREE, Image 3

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AVERAGE DRIVER
IS NOTCtffiFUL
Brakes Should Be Used Intelli
gently and Only Wh§n It Is *
Absolutely Necessary.
JAMMING IS BAD PRACTICE
. Coasting Is Better on Level Road Than
Dashing at Full 8peed—Light Pres
sure Will Cheek Car and
8ave Up-Keep.
Use your brakes Intelligently and
only when absolutely necessury is an
excellent motto to have printed on the
Instrument board of every car. The
average operator, even the average
skilled driver, uses his brakes too
much. This wears the brakes, racks
the mechanism of the car and Injures
the tires—three good reasons why such
treatment should be avoided.
Learn to stop your car by coasting
to the point where you wish to stop.
This may be learned with a little prac
tice and should always be done on a
level road. If you find you are going
a little too far a light pressure on the
pedal will stop you.
Better Than Jamming Brakes.
Tills is far better than dashing up
to a place and then Jamming on both
brakes to make a spectacular stop.
Besides wearing the brake lining and
attachments. It racks the tires severely,
sometimes making the wheels lock and
the tires slide. This wears away the
tread in one spot. If this Is done fre
quently the tread will be ruined ahd
the fabric exposed. A tire worn away
In this manner cannot be returned for
adjustment, as It has been ruined by
abuse.
n neii eoasuiiK uuwn a mu use uie
brakes alternately. By changing from
service brake to the emergency brake
thd first Is allowed to cool, prolonging
Its life. The longer it lasts the less It
costs for repairs, and so the total cost
of upkeep Is reduced.
But changing from one brake to the
other does not cool the drums on the
wheels, as one brake operates on the
outside gnd the other on the Inside of
each drum. So It Is advisable to relieve
the brakes as much as possible.
This Is accomplished by using the
engine ns a brake. On a gentle slope
stay In high gear, with engine throt
tled down, and do withont brakes. On
a steeper grade use the second gear,
or the first If the ear Is a heavy one.
When the emergency brake Is used
on a hill It must be applied with cau
tion or the brake rod will be broken.
If the brake Is set and the band re
moved It cannot give when the car
passes over water bars, etc. At this
time the rear axle moves backward,
owing to the flattening of the springs,
snd If the brake rods are drawn tight
the strain comes on them, stretching or
breaking some part.
Yields to the Strain.
While using the foot brake the foot
automatically yields to the strain, bat
If the emergency brake Is set It cannot
yield.
Where one brake rod passes through
a tube carrying the other they may be
come frozen—that Is, stdek together—
If they are not properly lubricated. Bo
sure that the grease cups are turned
down at least one turn a day. If they
do become seized remove the lower
part of the grease cup and force kero
sene Into the hole with an oil gun.
Ix>ok over the equalizers. If they are
provided, and adjust the rods to the
same length to Insure best action.
If brake lining Is badly worn watch
the workman while he replaces It, and
perhaps the next time you cun do It
yourself.
Test the brakes occasionally by
speeding up and then applying. If the
our keeps on or swerves to one side the
brakes need adjusting. A better way
to test them Is to Jack up both rear
wheels and apply the emergency brake
a few notches, enough to grip the
wheels firmly. Try both wheels to see
If they turn easily. If one turns more
readily than the other that one must be
tightened. To test the foot brake a
jack may be applied to hold It In posi
tion, but It will be better to have a
helper If one Is available.
LEST YOU FORGET.
Watch your car If you wish to
get real service out of It. Don’t
neglect the little Inspections and
adjustments.
1. Storage battery Inspected
every two weeks.
2. Grease cups turned In ev
ery 100 miles.
3. Springs oiled every week.
4. Oil and gasoline connec
tions Inspected every week.
5. Crank case drained and
washed out with kerosene every
500 miles.
6. Universal Joints packed
with grease every 1,000 miles.
7. Differential and transmis
sion packed with grease or oil
every 1,000 miles.
8. Spark plugs cleaned every
1,000 miles.
• 9. Carbon removed from cyl
inders twice a year.
10. Valves ground each 5,000
miles.
11. New piston rings every
18 months.
12. See that the wheels are in
line once a month. •
13. See that the water Is cir
culating every time the car is
started.
14. 'Inspect bearings In wheels
once a month.
15. Gasoline pipe and carbu
retor thoroughly cleaned every
month.
16. Self-starter Inspected ev
ery month.
17. Inspect steering wheel and
steering knuckles once a month.
18. Test brakes and equalise
once a month.
LUBRICANT FOR AUTO BOLTS
Hard Oil 8ometlmea Dries In 8mall
Holes and Grooves—Metal la
Quickly Worn Out.
Where hard oil la used as a lubricant
for automobile spring bolts It some*
times dries in the small holes and
grooves that feed it to the bearing
surfaces, thus preventing the parts
from being properly lubricated. This
Using Thin Oil In glard-Greasa Cup*.
causes the bolts and spring eyes to
wear out quickly. A way Is Illustrated
whereby this condition may be reme
died successfully by adopting oil cups
for thin oil.
rfrtll * bole large enough to allow
the oil to be poured In through the
cap and threaded portion of the bolt
as shown In the Illustration. Then
turn the cap half-way around, thus
completely closing the hole.—Odls
Reynolds, In Popular Science Monthly.
GLASSES IN PROPER PUCES
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Vibration May Loosen Rims and Dif
fusing Properties Are Lost—
Faeten With Screws.
Many of the light-diffusing devices
now 'popular are designed to operate
when In a certain fixed position. Vi
bration mny loosen the glasses In their
rims so that tho whole lens creeps
nround and the diffusing properties
are lost Some of these glasses have
a means of anchoring them firmly In
place, but others have not, and It Is
up to the car owner to see that they
are properly In place. Screws may
be used for fastening them, and a lock
washer should be Inserted under each
of them.
Causes Axis Strain.
The most severe strain that-can be
placed on rear axle or driving gear la
to try to get out of a mud hole by back
ing up a little and then plunging for
ward on low gear.
PLAN FOR TWISTIN6 TELEPHONE CABLES
Lw“'"‘ W»w.^r; J.JO.:,;,,;,- ^ V .
Canadian ingenuity has devised a clever scheme for twisting telephone
caldes on the front. The autotruck furnishes the motive power for turning the
wheel device in the center which, in turn, sets the two spools suspended from:
each large wheel to revolving. These spools are so arranged^HUMMM^oli
tlons twist up the single strands Into a two-ply cat
an opeu'ng In the post, Is then rolled up on theC
LIFT OFF CORNS!
Drop Freezone on a touchy
corn, then lift that corn
off with fingers
Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a. little
Freezone on an aching corn, Instantly
that corn stops hurting, then, you lift ,
It right out. Yes, magic! No humbug I
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A tiny bottle of Freezone costs bnt a
few cents at any drug store, but Is suf
ficient to remove every bard corn, soft
orn, or cdrn between the toes, and the
calluses, without soreness or Irritation.
Freezone Is the sensational discov
ery of a Cincinnati genius. It is won
derful.—Adv.
An automobile alarm whistle to be
connected to the cylinders of a car,
can be made to utilize the full force
of their explosions when desired.
SAW OMEN IN HAWTHORNES
—
Red Berries Growing in Place of White
Had Deep Significance for
This Irishman.
Even the humor of Irelnnd is given
a new hue by the war. Nothing es
capes its influence.
Two of us were seaffcig a bit of Dub
I I in from the vantage point offered by
a jaunting car. And no Irishman is
more filled with the effervescent spirit
of the old sod than the “garry” driver
of Dublin.
We crossed the river Uffey—a river
once fragrant with the fragrance un
desirable. Now it is splc and span.
The driver made comment. “Sure, Is
usen’t to be so classic," he said, with
a brogue as broad as the dean-swept
walk along the now “classic” hank.
“They’ll be catchln’ salmon in the Lif
fey yet, it’s that dean an’ swate now.”
We passed a square, all blooming
with hawthornes. “Now look,” said our
driver, philosopher and guide. “The
hawthornes are all red this year. I’m
thlnkln' it’s an omen. They’ve been
white In 'other years, but. this year
they’re all red. Sure it's an omen. I
don’t know what It means, but It’s an
omen o’ some kind.”
Ills tone was lugubrious, but his me
lodious rounding of the turns In his
pronunciation was delightful. The
blooms were red—and, omen or no
omen, they were beautiful.
Too Much Thought of Self.
"Sometimes,” said Uncle Eben, “a
man thinks so much about his own
comfort dat he makes hlsse’f puflickly
miserable.” <
A painful silence Is unknown to men
—but with women it’s different.
Gold Drinks Bad
for Your Stomach
How to Avoid the Digestive Miseries
That Hot Weather Brings
Gold drinks in hot weather are bad
enough for any stomach bat doubly so,
*- in fact, dangerous—when the stomach
is out of fix and von suffer from indi
Kition, acidity, food-repeating, heart
m, sour stomach, and that awful
euffed-up, bloated condition after eat
ig. In fact, all stomach and bowel
miseries are greatly aggravated in hot
weather. Yon can’t be too careful.
Sunstroke can be traoed in many cases
to poor digestion. Everyone should
watch their stomach in hot weather.
Keep it sweet and cool. Hera la fin
easy and pleasant way to oorrect stom
ach ills. A compound has been dis
covered which sorely takes up the
harmful juices and gases faomtbeatom
mach, leaving it sweet, dean, cooLand
comfortable. Yon won’t know you
have a stomach if yon take one or two
EATONIO tablets after your meal, so
light and pain-free you will feel.
There is not a harmful thing in
EATONIO tablets. They taste flnel
Just like eating candy. Druggists will
tell you that EATONIO users say they
never dreamed anything could give
such quick and wonderful results; yon
can insure yourself a good, cool, sweet
stomach, you can eat what you like,
and always have the appetite to eat it.
EATONIO is absolutely guaranteed.
Get a box from your druggist today.
Use it to get rid of and prevent the
stomach and bowel troubles that are
bound to come in hot weather. If
EATONIO fails, return to your drug
gist and get your fifty cents back. If
you cannot obtain EATONIO where
you live drop a card to Eaton ic Remedy
Co., Chicago, 111. They will mail yon
a box at once. __
Birds Use Ifieir Brains.
The English thrush brings its snails
to a certain convenient stone on which
It will crack their shells by beating
them upon it. Some sea birds carry
shellfish to a height and drop them oa
the rock to break their shells.
The man who Is anxious to acquire
knowledge Is never ashamed to con
/ess his Ignorance.
Imagination, Not Romance.
She—Do you think that people aro
less romantic and Imaginative after
they are married?
He—I don’t know about the roman
tic part of it, but If they are going to
try to explain everything they've got
to be more Imaginative.
Money still talks, but Its voice is get*
ting weaker‘and weaker.
Are the Packers Profiteers?
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Plain Facts About the Meat Business '
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The Federal Trade Commission in its recent report on war
profits, stated that the five large meat packers have been
profiteering and that they have a monopoly of the market.
These conclusions, if fair and just, are matters of serious
concern not only to those engaged in the meat packing
business but to every other citizen of our country.
The figures given on profits are misleading and the state
ment that the packers have a monopoly is unsupported by
the facta.
The packers mentioned in the report stand ready trt prove
their profits reasonable and necessary.
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The meat business is one of the largest American indus
tries. Any citizen who would familiarize himself with its
details must be prepared for large totals.
The report states that the aggregate profits of four large
packers were $140,000,000 for the three war years.
This sum is compared with $19,000,000 as the average
annual profit for the three years before -the war, making it
appear that the war profit was $121,000,000 greater than
the’ pre-war profit.
This compares a three-year profit with a one-year profit—a
manifestly unfair method of comparison. It is not only
misleading, but the Federal Trade Commission apparently
has made a mistake in the figures themselves.
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The aggregate three-year profits of $140,000,000 was
earned on sales of over four and a half billion dollars. H‘
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means about three cents on each dollar of sales—or a cqga*
fraction of a cent per pound of product. *
seriaiwar
Packers’ profits are a negligible factor in prices dfTiv#^
stock and meats. No other large business is
upon such small margins of profit. •«**
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Furthermore—and this is very important*
portion of this profit has been paid in
balance has been put back into the businesse^teft tfttfi ftp**
be, as you realize when you
packers have had to solve—and solve quickly—during«ltafceru*
war veara. At a*i M «tfw T*«nnetl
W,F ye4r,‘ Jzt* r»v. mAewW
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and the necessity of peyii^r twsher<tkres9Hmeaetfce*ta’Hrtft si
prices for live stock, has reqtfft^d
times the. ordinary amount, ^^o!2||i^aaia^ejfiheeedds>iM4
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tional profit makes only a fair return on this, and as h—
been stated, the larger portion of the profits earned haa
been used to finance huge stocks of goods and to provide
additions and improvements made necessary by the enor
mous demands of our army and navy and the allies.
• • •
If you are a business man you will appreciate the signifi
cance of these facts. If you are unacquainted with busi
ness, talk this matter over with some business acquaint
ance—with your banker, say—and ask him to compare
profits of the packing industry with those of any other
large industry at the present time. join
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No evidence is offered by the Federal Trade Commi^i^^
in support of the statement that the large peckers baneo* yti Hiw
monopoly. The Commission’s own report shews
number and importance of other packers. *
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