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Show 1 Absent Minded Autoists in kGowag" or 'Goiwag' Clubs! blazes on my last trip, and T think vou ought to put It right after gasoline and oil. It is Ignition.'' "Well, that would make a new word, 'Goiwag. ' " "Yes." said the younger man, "and I can tell you that with a battery ignition system, such as I have, you cannot be too careful that your contact points are properly cleaned and adjusted, that there is no short circuit In the wiring, that you have an ample supply of good fuses and that everything is wired up prop- I erly. I. started on my last trip with my battery discharging instead of charging, and did not notice it until I bad nearly wrecked it with the constant strain of ignition service." The older man laughed. "Don't think that because you have added one letter to my word that every motorist has to use your revision of it, any niore than we all have to agree to every revised "version "ver-sion of the league of na.tlons pact. I don't need to be a Goiwag. because my itrnition never gives me uriy trouble. I have a magneto and t never have to look at it nor even remember that it is on the car." EVERY motorist is either a "Gowagr" a "Goiwag'" and the "Gowass" think they have something on the "Goiwags.", "Are you. a Gowag?" T -vo in o t o r i .s t s wc-.ro talking- in t h g rooms of the Automobile club of America in New York city recently, and the elder propounded this question to the younger. "Am 1 a what ?" "I said, a Gowag. The word is very useful. I will take all the credit for inventing in-venting it. I was on a trip recently and I found that at the end of each day's ru n there were certain thi ngs that I ought to think of, to attend to, and every now and thvn I found myself forgetting one or two of these things. Sn I hit upon the ido, of devising a word made up of the initial letters of the five things that I ought 15 think of each day. These were as follows: "G for gasol me. Of course. I had to see that the tank was replenished. "O for oil. The car has simply got to have .an abundince of oil, and it must be the right k1 nd, ""W for water. The engine has a thirst, especially in th;se dry days. "A for air. The tires must be inflated to the correct air pressure. Ten miles on tires undcrinf'lated may take hundreds of miles off of the end of their lives. "G for greasi. At the end of each day's run I must turn certain grease cups, one completo turn or more, other-wsie other-wsie I shall hafe squeaks in my springs wise 1 shall have squeaks in my springs "That is a grftit idea," said the other man, "and I c'il sec that In making up the. word Gog'you have given the five points i-' vnat seems to me their proper order importance but, say, you have left out ono . thing that bothered me like |