Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 63 | Plenty of Gasoline, Says Local Reo Man

Ml of rail, IE SAYS LPJE0 Wm Counsels Caption and Mod- -eration, but Sees No Gas Shortage Just Nov. "There isn't another man in tha I'ountry more anxious to do his 'bit' anil help Uncle Sam win this war than K. M. G raily of the Grady Motor Co," " says the distributor of Reo cars in r-alt Lake and vicinity, "but it does " rile me considerably to read and-listen to all this hysterical talk of gasoline conservation. 'Conservation' seems to be the watchword of the day now everything is being Hooverized. 8ure, it 's a good thing to eliminate waste in our daily lite it must be done if we are going to win the war but let's be sensible about it. "'The suggestion that motor car pleasure riding be discontinued or very largely curtailed as a means of -serving the gasoline supply is as ill-ladvised ill-ladvised as it is indefensible. It comes from no source of authority, nor does it carry the weight of conviction. It is wholly in line with the now discredited, discred-ited, untenable tendency to place motor cars in the class of luxuries that can be dispensed with. "But don't misunderstand me. I heartily agree that this is the time of I all times to use caution and moderation p in all things. Careful use of gasolinei most assuredly will tend to make available avail-able for war purposes a most certain, if not inexhaustible, supply. But there is nothing whatever in the! present situation situa-tion that warrants the belief that there will be a shortage of gasoline. The national na-tional automobile chamber of commerce, an association of undisputed authority -in all matters pertaining to the automobile, auto-mobile, bears me out in this assertion. - "Incalculable harm can be done by creating a false impression in this direction. di-rection. The reasonable use of a motor car is not an extravagance in any sense ' of the woid. It is a part of the sane, healthiul outdoor life of every community. commu-nity. To eliminate the motor car from the daily routine of the American family fam-ily at this time would do more harm tlian good. When the situation becomes so strained, if it really does, that larger conservation of gasoline is necessary we doubtless shall be so advised by sources, the authority of which cannot lie questioned. ' '