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Show Yes, They All Do It While Mastering Art of Driving WHEN you go out with the demonstrator demon-strator in the new car you have bought, running It looks Just as easy as giving candy to a child, ' but when you start out by yourself your-self that's different. About the first trouble you have Is with your gears, and, while you are certain that you can shift them as well as the demonstrator did, you discover that you can't, and in all probability you blame it on the car. Then there's the rules of 'the road, and especially getting by the traffic policeman. police-man. If you ever noticed it, when the off Icnr holds up his hand von stop and kill your engine and bump bark and forth when you uo lo start, and tie up other cars, and finally two or three cars pass you an1 yofi can see black looks find hear a voice calling out something that you knew isn't complimeitary. y When you try to back up you are likely like-ly to back into another car, or over a curb, or into a telephone pole, and when you're out for the first time you usually want the entire street clear when you go to pass another machine, and you feel like you'd rather stop than try to pass a street car. Then, again, you ve wondered what was the matter with your new car because it wouldn't go right and bumped alone and the engine heated liko a furnace and vou couldn't get your machine out ot a slow walk. Possibly you have stopped and telephoned the service man to come and see what was the matter. Tie came, released re-leased your b rak e and vou were a 1' right. Then, perhaps, you allowed your lights to burn all night in the gara.ee, or nmyho you left on your ignition and exhaust ed your . battery. Al.so, perhaps, you forgot all about your lights until a policeman warned you. The new driver usually kills his engine on the track when he passes in front of a street e;i r. Ajiuin, did yon over step on the accelerator instead of the brake and run over the eiirh? In the winter, did you L' t you r ra d ia tor freeze? Out of Round. i When the whed of a motor triud; is i "out of round." due generally to one or ' more Jin t spots on a stolid tire, wry se- vere and injurious r.hoeks are imposed on the springs parliculn rly. ii nd on the rest of the mechanism hi h.'ssur degree. |