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Show GASOLINE MONEY FOR LIBERTY BONDS Motor Car Owners Can Do Great Work. Eliminate Trip to Aid United State As spring comes on and the roads Improve, the automobile owner will get out his car. Before he tunes it up for the first long Sunday tour with his family, It would be well at this time for him to reflect that every gallon of gasoline he uses will mean that a gallon of gasoline cannot be used for a motor truck hauling provis. Ions and munitions to the front for the fighting men in France. I it may sound trivial to say" this,' but when one pauses to reflect that there are more than 3,000,000 pleas, ure cars in use In America and that each can burn from three to six gallons of the precious fluid every Sunday that an outing is taken In the car, one readily can see that such an outing means that the already scant supply has been mads shorter by several millions of gallons. With the supply decreased and the Govern ment In the market as a heavy buyer to supply the thousands of motor trucks It is shipping to France fof the army, the price will rise and the Government will be at a greater ex-pense ex-pense to conduct its military Operations. "As every one familiar with the war situation knows." said an army man recently, "gasoline is one of the big factors In the great struggle. Its Importance In the ultimate winning of the war is very great. It propels submarines, firing maMM and motor . .o.w.. -- "" oil lanrpg, tu. .... , Ktalea Is the great producer of this by product of petroleum, and all we can produce is needed by us to hasten a victorious conclusion of the war. "It seems to me that the owners of pleasure cars can effect a great saving " la gasoline If they care to do so In the seasons when outings and pleasure tours are In order. 8hort trips snd not too many of them will result in a big saving of gasoline, gaso-line, without robbing the car owners of their pleasures. And here Is the fins part about this thrift that Is. one of the" fine points: the money saved In gasoline ran be turned lnt Liberty Bonds, and Liberty Bonds can wla the war. The man who Is willing to save gssoline now and tnra 'his savings over to the Government will be able In the future to take all the long tours he cares le, and he'll be able to ride as a victor." |