Show SieW ei ll is M on GI WOULD DE BE G DEG FOR OR BY Dl C P STEWART XE Set ice WASHINGTON Feb Oil 4 21 Conservation which th th-i th govern govern- ment has ha been beep so talking t o much about though lately lately It hasn't done any means conserving means more oro morto I to pedestrians than they realize ml maybe be It means fewer automobiles auton It means slower ones onea It means a smaller size else which Is wont won't ont hurt so much to be run over by Drastic conservation the conservation the kind advocated at the recent conference or of Secretaries of or the tho Interior Commerce War Val and the th Navy l N Work Vork Hoover DavIs Davia and Wilbur with some of or the country country's count y leading leadin oil would nen men would advance lv nc tho price o of gas caa to certainty certainty- Lots Lota of auto anto owner probably owners owners couldn't couldn't stand any high high- higher cr er ci prices price They're han onto theIr cars by financial main maln strength now Even a wee bit or of increase In the cost of or operation would be too much for tor am em m To be b sure the th conservationists con recommend higher test teat gill gas ca and less extravagant motor motors They point out that the aver aver- average average ver-a ver age American machine machine- wastes on chores other than the th actual a tuat task lk ot of scooting over the fa fate fate- fair of o ot or the landscape ab about ut 93 51 1 pcr per cent or of orIts Its efficiency No auto can be b made per percent cent but It can be made 10 or 15 If per cent so instead ot of only S 6 This would make mak a gallon of Ia gas co go two or three thre times limes Ume as Jar far Jaras faras Ura as It does now partly offsetting a higher 1 price Drice but not altogether tf if the conservatIonIsts shut abut down as hard on production as some ot of them favor faor So In the th event of ot some om such euch programs program's adoption the tb only recourse will wilt be b to go so In tn for lighter cars car If it they want to con con- continue con That's That what's what happened in 10 Europe alrea already There gas K coi costa coals about three e whet what wh t it costs cost here ere her and the people haven't n nearly arly BO so mitch m money They simply have hate to economIze In Franc loranc for tor 12 U horsepower classes aj as a a sized car Plenty are aro ar only 4 t S 8 o i pretty fast but they're uneQual to any ny such uch bursts bunt of or speed as the th Mogul J locomotives Amer Amer- AmerIcans AmerIcans Americans chase around In A wallop from D a French auto automobile mobile bears about the th same ame re- re relation re relation lation to extermination at the busIness end of one of tho Amer Amer- Amerlean American lean ican kind that mashing your our thumb with a D tack hammer olmer does to being belne by a a pile driver As An American car when it hits a pedestrian breaks his back his skull and tears his arms and leSS legs off orr One or ot Frances Francos Franc little peewees merely cracks cracks- a couple of ribs These little l French rench uses dina-uses they have ha enl cm all over Europe Europ butIn but butIn butIn In France particularly have particularly have their advantages They go so D a long way ay toward solving the tho parking problem You can get et a midget of or a a car you there you could here too only laugh you to KOrn- KOrn corn that you OU can almost take up In Inthe Inthe Inthe the elevator with you and liter lIter- literally literally ally could park In your DUr office off Ice un un un less le- Its it's If a office Americans Amerlean wont won't like uk cm m cm at first of ot course They want to sit ell at t the steerIng wheel o 0 Of D a dread dread- dread naught to But they'll have bave to come eTa em If tr th the conservationists wIn out They'll have to anyway for It if tho dont don't win out There wont won't be bo any any ny gas I lift lt rt short shortly ly |