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Show TO PREVENT AUTO SKIDDING ON ICE Winter Driving Is Attended With Elements of Danger. "Driving an automobile over packed end polished snow is an undertaking not without an element of danger," gays a bulletin Issued by the mechanical me-chanical first aid department of the Chicago Motor club, "and a better knowledge of the way in which a car acts under these conditions will make for the safety of the winter driver. Chains Are Useful. "The inexperienced driver has heard veteran drivers extol the use of chains, with the result that the tyro comes to believe that chains are an absolute skid preventive. It conies as a surprise then, for him to discover dis-cover his car skidding when he has taken the precaution to apply chains to his wheels. Driving should not be attempted without chains, but many serious and fatal accidents have happened hap-pened to drivers who have placed too much confidence In the power of chains to stop a skid. When a quick step Is necessary, the rear wheels are likely to lock ; if this occurs, the cross chains part, the bare rubber comes in contact with the icy surface of the road, and a skid results. A skid of this kind generally can be stopped by releasing the brake for a second and then applying it again. On long trips it Is advisahle to carry a stout piece ef rope which can be bound around a section of the wheel if the chain should break. "Another difficulty In winter driving driv-ing is that snow and sleet form a coating of ice which the windshield wiper Is sometimes powerless to remove. re-move. The motorist who is far-sighted enough to carry a bag of salt can quickly remedy this trouble by rubbing rub-bing the salt over the Ice-coated wind--hleld." Car Under Control. The bulletin concludes: "The beginning of all wisdom In " winter motoring is, however. In knowing know-ing that anything may happen, and that the only way to be sure is always al-ways to have the car under complete control. If a motorist has arrived at this stage of driving wisdom, he will never fall 'nto the most common of winter driving mistakes, that of traveling trav-eling fast In ruts of snow. He will know how difficult It is to turn out for an oncoming car, and he will realize real-ize that a quick turn is liable to have disastrous results." |