Show WATER INJURY T TO 0 TIRES IS SMALL Running Through Stream Is Not Injurious Now and then in tho the course of aa an 1 automobile trip a car has hal to pass through a stream and the question Is hi sometimes discussed whether the action ac ae- action tion of ot the water Is harmful to the I tires The same question arises when I the car Is la out in a n heavy y rain Such a wetting etting la Is practically nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- I ing at nil all either for damage or Im provement At any rate the effect I on the tire lo la not harmful Two chief constituents of ot a n tire are aro rubber an and cotton both vegetable substances and andas andas as ns a rule water does not Injure vegetable vegetable vege vege- table matter Aa As B Illustrative e of ot this point there Is the old but true story of ot the farmer former who when one of ot his rubber boots fell tell Into a well placed the other on a shelf shel In a closet Twelve years later Inter when the well w was cleaned the lost boot was waa found to be In excellent excellent excellent ex ex- condition but the boot on the shelf had fallen tallen into ruin I If running through a brook resulted In cooling a tire Ure the effect would be decidedly beneficial but a quick dash through the tho water has haa little effect on the heated air nir within the tire and consequently the temperature change In the tire the after atter Its bath Is negligible Water Itself apparently does no harm to tires but the combination ataIr of at air and moisture commonly known as ns humidity is very destructive e especially especial especial- ly on the cotton In ordinary fabric tires Ures The moist air nIr works In between the layers of ot the fabric and rots them out sometimes even en before the tires leave the dealers dealer's storeroom Cord tires stand humidity better The harmful effect of moist air II Is s the chief reason renson why when tires are stored they should be kept in a n dry atmosphere As sunlight Is also harmful harmful harm harm- ful the time storage place should be dark dark- ened |