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Show A DIFFERENT MOTORIST A few years ago owning an auto was something like joining a lodge. All men wearing the emblem were brothers, to be helped in : time of trouble and to be called upon when a friendly turn was j needed. In those happy days when one motorist met another with a stalled machine, it was the proper thing to do to stop, help change a tire, get a spark to the dead engine or fool with the carburetor car-buretor to make her run agai.r. Now the average motorist casts a more or less pitying and cor temptuous glance at the man who is stalled and goes on about his business. j Several things have transpired to bring about this change in ' attitude. In the old days when it took money to buy and operate an automobile, only the exclusive and responsible few had them. Today everybody has. them. Agin, when responsible people ex- j clusively were running them, the passerby ran no chances when he' offered assistance. Today when he picks up a pedestrian or stalled motorist he may find a large, injurious weapon pointed his way and hear the command to get out and walk, or to hand over such valuables as he may happen to have in his pockets. The next time your machine stalls along the road, and a party insolently and maliciously drives past without offereing you any ' assistance, it may temper the blow somewhat to remember that he is afraid of being held up. The way machines are operated now it is every fellow for himself and the garage man take the hind-I hind-I most. ' , |