Show WiDEN OGDEN OWNERS FEAR THIEVES ThE VES AUTO LOCKS SEEM WELL USED THE OHE T HE old saying about locking the stable door after the horse horae was stolen docs does not apply In this city A canvass baa lias proved that most Ogden n motorists lock their lIl Seventy-seven Seventy of o automobiles examined on Ogden streets Satur Satur- Saturday Saturday day afternoon proved to be en- en enclosed en enclosed closed cars Seventy of these closed car cars were locked either cither by door or transmission locks The Tho count showed that but 15 IS of the tho remaining eara car all open models were locked Closed cars are ara often locked In three ways Ignition transmission and door Open cars usually have hava but the ignition lock although some makes arc are also equipped with witha a transmission lock loek In addition to these precautions there Is the chain which fastens around the spring and wheel the tho spike clamp lock which goes around the wheel and as III a final of safety the specIal steerIng wheel lock which I Is pur- pur purchased pur purchased chased by the tearful fearful motorist ALLOWS 8 NO XO PROFIT Of Or all nil the Iho automobiles on Ogden streets Saturday only I 41 Id two cars were fortified from theft by the uso use of ot the spike lock which the advertising reads reade Cries out loud when th the car Is being stolen Many fortunes have been made front contrivances contrivance for l 10 locking automobile Ono One car standing on or I the street Saturday was wa allowing for no profit to the manufacturer of such luch a product The owner carried a log chain as standard equipment c lie hall had strung M Ms chain around one of Ogden's steel light vole pole poles and then through the front wheel Securing the two ends of the chain was a huge padlock Everyone Is familiar with the jumpy old boy whose whoso car la is I not worth taking but who Insists on removing the Iho distributor arm from his hll timer before he leaves It stand stand- standIng standIng standing ing unguarded The writer personally knows on such man who vho had ha I the joke turned on himself for tor when ho he returned and attempted to replace the arm armIn armin armIn In the Ignition system he did it wronG and ond he couldn't get the car started lie fussed around for hours houra and finally had to get et a garage hand to fix It ODD INSTANCES It we was said there was once II a aman man man who carried the wheel of his Ford wherever he went after aCler parking the machine this story atory has hal ha not been con con- confirmed confirmed con confirmed firmed It I Is rumored that the man manone manone one day laid the wheel down and ond h found It yet There i Is II another Interesting case cas of a fellow who nightly chained his machine to a post In front of his house houle I found he declared that a achain Achain chain Is no stronger than Ulan Its weak weak- weakest eat est link Ink One morning I 1 climbed Into the old bus In a hurry and without thinking started her UP and lit out The chain offered no resistance but snapped In to two at atthe atthe atthe the first jump lump Halt Half ot of o the world shout shoOt Why have I 10 have a car If It you cant can't enjoy It it and the other half halt replies And And you wont won't have It long either It your Idea of enjoyment |