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Show ELiiiTii DlllffiER FROM BROKEN GLASS Goodyear Manager Out With Timely Suggestion to Car Owners. More than one motorist has run foul of a smear of broken glass on the hard surfaced roads and has experienced a few tire cuts. Now comes Manager T. B. Trent of the Goodyear local distributing distrib-uting .branch, with a suggestion for getting rid of this nuisauce. He says: " Every motorist owes a duty to himself and all other drivers to stop his car and remove from the highway all broken glass or other substance dangerous dan-gerous to tireg which he notices in .his travels. 'The Goodyear Tire & Eubber company com-pany recommends that a small brush or broom be made part of the equipment of each automobile and that the automobile auto-mobile owners of the country pledge themselves to stop their cars and sweep off from the highway any glass or harmful substance encountered. If each automobilist would follow such a policy, it would not be necessary for the average man to remove jla.s3more than a few times a year. ''When a cluster of broken bits of glass is allowed to remain on a highway high-way until it has been entirely swept off by tires or carried away embedded in tires, probably hundreds of cars have their tires more or less injured before the glass disappears. If it is removed by the first man who sees it, hundreds hun-dreds of other machines are free from danger of tire trouble. "The automobile 4 ehib of Wilkes-Barre, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., is the first automobile group in the country to adopt this suggestion.' sug-gestion.' At a recent meeting of the club, the members committed them-Bleves them-Bleves to the glass-reniuviug program. Each member of,thd club will keep a careful record as to the number of times he has to stop to remove glass and will also try to form a judgment as to how the glass came to be on the road. Other clubs are expected to follow fol-low their example and enroll their members as 'knights of the broom.' "One thing is certain the person who drops bottles on the highway for pleasure of hearing them break has become be-come very unpopular and is going to be-como be-como more so.' |