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Show Forty Miles an Hour Forty-mile-an-hour spjeed laws imposed in several States at- President Roosevelt's request will - inconvenience inconven-ience no one. They will jnly do away with the luxury and peril of fast driving. Lower speeds, while saving tires and gasoline, will also save wear and tear on car parts not to mention the driver. And any factor tending to reduce the pace of the Nation's 40,000,000 automobile drivers is certain cer-tain to have an effect in lowering last year's inexcusably inex-cusably high total of 40,000 highway fatalities. Most motorists, do no trealize that an average set of five tires can be made to last 40,000 miles. About one-half that mileage is usually lost through carelessness, careless-ness, neglect and wasteful driving practices. The 140,000-mile equation is reached thus : If the normal tire life is 20,000 miles, add 5000 miles for each of the followng practices; regular rotation of the spare tire; keeping down to forty miles an hour maintaining maintain-ing proper air pressure in casings; stepping gently on the gas or the brake in starting, going around curves, and stopping. Even at forty miles an hour, the motorist motor-ist wastes twelve per cent of his .rubber as compared to lower speeds. There is small likelihood that gearing the Nation's pace to forty miles an hour or less will discomfort anyone. On the contrary, the natonal emergency will 'give motorists new opportunity to learn that little time is lost in traveling slowly and that there can be as much enjoyment in going places as in getting there. C. S. Monitor. |