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Show PILF OF NEWSPAPERS OF MUCH ASSISTANCE Worked Unc'er Wheels, They Help Motorist Cut cf Mud. Method of Handling Difficult Situation So Simple and So Uniformly Successful Suc-cessful That Every Drwer Should Know of It. From a motorist who lives m a section sec-tion where mud roads are common comes a suggestion which hs author guarantees as the best remedy for such a situation short of a pair of husky mules. He states that he has tried the method on numerous occasions, and that it has never failed to work. Ild says : . "I always have stored, awi.y somewhere some-where in my car a stack of old newspapers. news-papers. They don't take up so much room but that I can always find a place for them. When I strike a mudhole and the wheels begin to fly around in that exasperating way which tells me that I am firmly and definitely stuck, I get out my bundle of papers. "Taking a newspaper I fold it in half horizontal across the page and proceed to the task of working the paper between the tire and the mud. Tills is a simple matter,, and is accomplished accom-plished by feeding the paper while the wheels "are being revolved. I feed the paper in lengthwise. Usually only a few will have been worked In when the tires will begin to grip and the car start forward. If a few won't do the work, keep on feeding in the papers until good traction Is gained. "This method of handling a difficult situation is so simple and so uniformly uniform-ly successful that every motorist should know It. If he is not equipped with some other apparatus for such a contingency, con-tingency, he should always have a little pile of newspapers stored away in some empty place in his car. "In many localities it might be possible pos-sible for a motorist to get old nev -papers from neighboring houses; but when the mishap occurs in some lonely spot, lucky is the man who has some newspapers in his machine." |