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Show Sponsored by Iron County Record in Cooperation with the new car dealers in this community Good Sense Important To Good Driving Plain old "horse sense" is not enough these days. Traffic being what it is, you also need "horse power sense'' or automobile sense or just good judgment, if you please. Old timers can remember when the country doctor, coming home at dawn after a sleepless night of calls, could fall asleep at the reins and his faithful old nag would bring him safely home. That was horse sense. But your automobile, miraculous miracu-lous as it is these modern days, just won't do that kind of a job. That's why you have to use your good judgment and stay alert while driving. Horses seldom got into trouble, either, unless they panicked and ran away. But insurance people say that about two tenths of one per cent of today's accidents, killing 60 and injuring about 3,000 people, aie caused by automobiles au-tomobiles running away. And even these were caused by bad driver judgment. Most accidents, in some degree, are caused by lapses of a driver's driv-er's common "horsepower" sense exceeding safe speed limits, driving on the wrong side, passing pass-ing on the wrong side or on a hill or curve, and similar chance taking. But there's one thing that hasn't has-n't changed much. A horse used to do some of the work of taking tak-ing care of himself grazing and exercising, for example calling for outside repairs only when in need of the blacksmith or the veterinary. A car will do some of that work, too recharging its own battery as it operates, keeping keep-ing itself lubricated with its oil pump, and so on. But when it needs outside help that's the time to make sure you take it to the man who handles han-dles your make of car, the man who knows best. It's up to your horsepower sense to make sure your car gets the kind of care that will keep it in safe operating condition. |