Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 25 | Lest you Forget to Save a Little Gas

LEST YOU FORGET TO SI UITTLE GAS Registration statistics obtained from all states in the United States up to July 1 of this year, disclose that there are now over five and a half million 1 passenger cars aud trucks in active service. serv-ice. These same statistics 6how that, despite the war end tho prolonged howl about restricting passenger car construction, an actual increase in car registration has taken piece in all but six states. This increase amounts to 530, 56S cars and trucks over the registration reg-istration of the previous year, and indicates in-dicates a decidedly healthy growth. For an off year this remarkable showing is phenomenal. It forces to the front, however, the subject of gasoline gaso-line conservation because of the great, demand for it by the allied countries at war as well as at home. It is now proposer! by the senate to investigate the gasless Sundays order recently promulgated pro-mulgated for the states cast of the Mississippi; Mis-sissippi; but whether the request was actually needed or not, the patriotic necessity for all motor car users to ivatch carefully against all wastage of gasoline remains. The fuel administration asks that you save gasone aside from any gas-less gas-less Sundays that may be proposed, in the following wav: Don 't spill any. Don 't permit leaks. Don 't use for washing. Don't ruu engine while standing. Doo 't leave tanks or cau open. T'od 't wa.-ic lubricating oil. Don 't use too rich a mixture and don "t let brakes drag.