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Show mT 'I RATIONING GASOLINE- w Hvf i"'- When yo.u read about the .enormous ial Xh eet mtor trucks to be put to work Hlp. )v '" irif France, it is evident that the drain on H.H ; the gasohiie supply is going to be enor- H.; J f '',!". mous. And our great airplane force must H ' ave another vast supply. -. B p . y. f , Sharp restrictions upon the use of gas- v' ' volihe in this country seem inevitable. The H' ; - j;overnment of course will not permit U, great quantities of gas to be used in plea- Hv tfl - " sure riding if the army work is being held K; Jt . UP fr, lack f motive power. ' It would Ki' ?nt be 'at all surprising to see pleasure K i" j; 2'iding pretty nearly stopped before the Bi''o " va,r is over. f- k ' Our joy riders can stand it for. a short K , time. There are plenty of people who run K '! ( cars 10,000 miles a year just for pleasure. 'f i And they may not take long tours at that. fl1 -. .With 200 or 300 miles every week and H::"' holiday, several shorter rides through 5 '; " . tlie week, and a lot of little excursions on m S . summer evenings just to cool off, it is not Hf & ' ;, n. a difficult thing, with "a smooth purring -.L . 41 motor, to run off 10,000 miles. ' ? i j ' If the car is burning up a gallon of : , ' 'gasoline every ten miles, its consumption 1; h ' ' -.of 1200 gallons a year would carry an ar- K'7 ,- ..my truck some distance. -:''.' - . As to the fresh air necessary to a K- , .man's health, the fallow who runs his car -U; . i -3,000 or 4,000 miles a year can get a lot H J-. ' '. of it. Pleasant country scents within l. ;jv-, twenty-fiye miles of his home town aio BE ' '? -Just as ref resiling as those one hundred v , . iniles away. Some of us would have a '"' ( Jotibetter health if we would walk to and H:.v , ;i-fr?4iteiae;itj m ; r on beast must cart us eyery step. So there is plenty of chance to save gasoline for army use, without interference with the well being of the people. If people will restrict their pleasure riding reasonably, reason-ably, the government will not be forced to regulate the use of gasoline so drastically dras-tically as otherwise is inexitable. |