Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-09-18 | Page 12 | Eastern Motorists a Help to Government

EASTERN MOTORISTS A GO I Patriotic a A Automobile t Mobile OWl Owners ers Are Saving a vin Fuel 1 I v I on n Sundays f F OIT Mich tich I b. b Sep s pi t I traffic in In Detroit DeDoit D last las ilI ti was aj cut down down approximately 0 O percent err en t in ln com compliance corn corn- with the government et ts t's s request com I that t cars cars cars' be no riot not drive o tt er than strictly strictly necessary necessary purposes purposes Darkness cloa cloaked ced the recalcitrance t of oC I some automobilists who did MIL not care to risk risk recognition in in in daj light Tho Those e who used their machines a few here ere re bent ent on I urgent business but the rhe were merely jo joy jov riding with It Is anticipated ant there will be fewer I Ilac slackers rs next Sunday and that Detroit the tha automobile elt city will as Jar far as the Sabbath day is co concerned cern d. d become the thea 1 a ess city Most l of C the motorists motorists mo mo- on on pleasure bent belt Be med to real y realIze realIze real real- Ize once once they were out that they were I conspicuous and shamed 1 fae faces s showed their feelings all aU too plainly IThe I IThe IThe The incongruity of ot automobiles used in I defiance of oC the fuel administrators administrator's re request request re- re quest having their hoods decorated with j t American flags nag appealed to the boys boys' sense of the proprieties and u h were halted in the middle of orthe the street end and nd I Ithe ithe the flags unc taken en off oce I Automobile parties who stopped at one of the largest ice cream Jf parlors in search r of of cooling g refreshment IT fresl ts were met Instead I j I w with Ith a warm reception rec tl T The k proprietor tor tor I ordered his clerks to refuse refuse- to serve anyone anyone anyone any any- any any- one who came to the place lit I Dismay and astonishment showed on the features of oC those thos whose patronage was Wall so o brusq brusquely ey declined I Taxicab companies observed the regulations regulations regu regu- lations IO bv by refusing SI to r rent their le machines c for other Wl rY than direct fre frer calls Hs Never e since I I Ithe the auto came Into general use have the principal cite thoroughfares and and and boulevards boule boule- yards on a pleasant afternoon borne the I deserted d appearance that hat characterized I them Resolution i Sunday YbY bv by Alderman Walsh and j amended by Alderman Allan was adopted Tuesday directing Commissioner Marquard Marquard Marquard Mar- Mar 1 to instruct the police to stop everyone every every- every I 1 j one using using- a motorcar next Sunday day and warn him off the street sun I