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Show KEEP DIRT OUI . - OFJATTERIES Impurities Will Caue Dam tended to alra and to maka aura that thy. do hava thla care and aJao to e, that It la dona rtirht whan betng-done, betng-done, unro all wnera of Columbia batteries! an! all automublla owners no matter whit the maka of battery, to taka adrantag-a of tha fraa tnstins alid fllllnr eervica which me maintain. "W maintain a forra of men to do nothing, but thin work and they are alwaya on the job, ao that there In very little delay and wa know that If moturlata do get the habit of com in they ara alao ffmnjr to Ret a far greater great-er eervlre from their batterlea beoauaa they will be kept In condition and not 1 given a chance to go and quickly, bi many do when they are not Inspected." age to Apparatus, Say Cronk. ('I HK cold weather end the low I grade of fuel are certainly X causing havoc among owner own-er of cars with batteries that should hava hevn overhauled and attended at-tended to during the early fall month.' say AUxrt C. Cronk. manager man-ager of The Battery Charging Station and distributor of Columbia batterlea. at SS Kojt Fourth 8outh. . With 'the present grade of fuel used, starting 1 much more difficult In the morning than it ever has been before, and consequently a rtpr drac on a battery that is not in the beat L-fj-ondlUan, due to neglect or putting off mttch needed re; wit Many different materials enter Into the manufacture of a storage battery and aa the batten is a chemical apparatus ap-paratus and Its life and capacity depend de-pend upon pnier electro-chemical reactions, all material mut be free from impurity that might cause chemical reaction contrary to thoe necespary for the proper charge and discharge- "In no other line of business Ih the cont in nous testing of materials more necessary,' say Cronk, "and to safeguard safe-guard production, the Columbia battery bat-tery makers maintain extensive laboratories, lab-oratories, both cheiuicul and mechanical, mechani-cal, and for the h me reason we maintain main-tain W II a-Mi'lHUS IMllTlg Hfin Tilling" aervlce because the life and service received from a battery depend so much on the care given It. "We want to see Columbia batteries give the service which they were Jit- |