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Show Bill, THE "Hitch your brain to the thing you're supposed to be doin'. If that thing happens to be operatln' a motor vehicle, ve-hicle, tie it with a double knot so it won't pull loose." (By MARCUS A. DOW.) Everybody that is old enough to talk about the "good old days" may re- I member a homely sort of expression your teacher used when you was dreamln' Instead of studyln'. She'd say, "Johnny, you're wool gatherin'." There's no way of tellln' where such sayln's come from. They just spring up sort of natural like. We hear plenty of phony words today such as "He's nutty," meanin', the bird referred to Is crazy, or "She knows her onions," meanin', of course, that there Is a Jane you can't put nothin' over on. Well, wool gatherin' was one of them w"ise cracks our grandmothers pulled when they wanted to tell some- , body his or her mind was wanderln' around aimless like. Accordin' to my best calculations there is at least 15,000,000 wool gatherers gath-erers drlvln' automobiles every day in this land of free thinkers and careless drivers. The records show, accordin' . to the newspapers, 30,000 humans ! get killed bumped off, annihilated or wiped out complete and half a million mil-lion get hurt punished or contract drlvin' pains in automobile accidents every year. A thousand different reasons, con-tributin' con-tributin' causes and what have you are responsible for this smashin' American Amer-ican tragedy. But way down at the bottom of most of the causes of these accidents is a main cause that can be described by a little old fashioned grandmotherly wise crack, viz. : The driver was wool gatherin'. Perhaps he was thlnkln' about the baseball score or latest market quotation, or she was wonderln if Mrs. Jones hat cost more'n hers. Wake up, you dreamln' drlvin' fools, before old man Bad Luck comes along and slams you one that'll end your drivln' career permanent or make you wish it had. Keepln' the mind on the Job of drivin', no matter if it's a tin lizzie or a Rolls-Royce, Is the most Important safety rule In the catalogue ! So get hep to yourself and stop this here wool gatherin'. |