Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 25 | How to Abolish the Vacant Auto Seat

HGW TO ABOLISH THE MHO SEAT "Tho idea of displaying a sign on the windshield offering free Tides to soldiers and sailors, has taken America by storm,'-' said the manager of a large motor corporation in a recent interview. inter-view. "Nothing could be more typically American or display a finer patriotic spirit. But to my mind," he continued, " that should only be a beginning. The vacant scat should be eliminated whenever possible. :' "There are. innumerable ways in which this idea can be applied. For instance, in-stance, very often in driving through the country one passes a. w-ayside m-terurban m-terurban station at which a lone passenger pas-senger waits for a, car. To give such a person a lift is not merely a friendly act. Every man 's time is valuable these davs--essential, in fact and the minutes "saved will be turned to good account. It costs nothing to stop and the passenger will be saved money as well as time. "Here is another case in point. You meet a traveling man at lunch in a small town dining room. His next call is at a town only twenty miles or so along the line. But there isn't a train in that direction for three hours. The town is on the route you are traveline. Bv giving him the necessary lift a full half" day' of his working time is conserved con-served for him. "It bus been my experience that people peo-ple arc more than grateful for such thoughtfulness; in fact, when it is suggested sug-gested to tbcm they are more than glad to donate the actual saving of money to the Ked Cross. "Vow that the srovemment has requested re-quested the strict conservation of gasoline gaso-line every' drop should be made to work to its full capacity. That means abolishing the vacant scat entirely."