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Show BUY IEIIIS TO IMPROVE TIBES Inventors Busy All the Time, but All Fail to Give Results Tl e modern pne mat c tiro e dent 1 aij ears to bo a pathe i 1 lra 1 and intrust vorth str cture If the 1 t ters wo recei o e er daj fron n enti e gen see may be taken as a crl teriou sa Branch Manager P W Sen r of tho Goodoa T ro & Rub ber on pan of kron Ohio Mr Senour continued The hearts of in entors no out to t The i,uis faiu s of a er feet tire non puncturable and n destru tible s oust a 1 r ng to m n Is of inventi e trend W e re cei o daily suggestions and tlans of gafet al es patent t bes spring wheels tire air cooling s ten s armor plate treads and an endless iroc ssion of cure alls for t re troubles. A large nun ber are subm tted bv per&ous who are unfan 1 ar w th tire constn ct on Man of them ha e ne er owned a car nor e en operated one Ninetv per cent of all the thousands of in entions of fered us deal th a puncture proof tire tho usual re ommendation be ing that of a n etal tread or a metal' strip ins de tKe tread As a n at ter of lact puncture proof qual ties in coinpar son with other qual itaes wh ch are imperative are a minor po nt in t re construction and are usuallv obtained by eacri ficine some other desirable quality Our invest rations show that on a bas s of ISO per cent for direct wear on a tire 11 per cent will represent rep-resent expense caused bv punctures W th well made tares toe puncture eil is no longer a bugbear to the motorist We take the time to answer each communication giving the ideas ad vanced careful cons aeration irre spective of the merits of tbe de Mce offered If the idea is faultv we try to show the sender just wherein h s suggestion cannot be used and encourage him to write aga n. We have found that somet mes a person unacquainted with the tech nicalities of the subject bv reason of having a broad perspective rath er than intimate knowledge mav h t npon very valuable ideas wh eh the trained expert may overlook. But after examining the thou sands of suggestions of improve ments the present pneumat e tire that we know seems superior to the schemes for improving it and the prospects are excellent for its re-mainingso re-mainingso for an indefinite period. pe-riod. We are able to nse about one in every 200 suggestions fur n shed s |