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Show Good Roads Are Adding Years to Battery Life Several eminent physicians have within the past come forward to express ex-press their opinions to the effect that thi! great Increase In motoring on the part of the general public has brought Increased health anil has added several sev-eral years to Mr. Average Man's length of life. This, too, In spite of a naturally Increasing number of accidents acci-dents Incidents to driving automobiles. "lint back of this dally Increasing number of people who are riding In automobiles Is the fact' that good roads are dally making the motorcar a more enjoyable means of recreation and transportation," says Irwin A. Kului, a Cleveland electrician. "The day Is still within the memory of a great many when an automobile was something of a mixed blessing. Only the rich were favored with the advantage of Jolting and Jarring over bumpy, rutty roads. It was then considered con-sidered a luxury to be able to boast that you made a fiOO-mlle trip without any trouble except a couple of blowouts, blow-outs, a broken spring, a burnt-out connecting con-necting rod and a few such trifles. "Today the automobile Is no longer considered a luxury. It has become a necessity and, us necessity mothers Invention, In-vention, automobile engineers have therefore eliminated Just about every discomfort formerly an Integral part of the motorcar. And hand In hand with the automobile engineers have come the automobile associations to father good roads. "Hood ronds have done for the automobile auto-mobile what the automobile has done for the people," comments Mr. Kuhn. "They have lengthened Its useful life by several years. I'oor roads cost ' many millions of dollars to the pioneer automobile owners and drivers. Put those days are gone forever. Today's equivalent of horse sense Is auto suggestion, sug-gestion, a state of mind which has within the last few years Insinuated and Impregnated Itself Into the Intelligences Intelli-gences of our state legislatures, not, of course, until they had themselves become be-come motorists and experienced the f0f) separate Jars and Jolts on every mile of road. "Good roads are Increasing battery life as well as making for Increased health and comfortable riding." |