Show Patience and Lots of It Needed By Auto salesmen In Teaching em em em to Drive kONT think that because mo- mo motor motor mo DONT tor cars are ar becoming more common use and nd are ars down to the fine lne points of or engineering that salesmen arc are not still compelled to p pass many hours In teaching people who I buy new cars care said salian an Ogden automobile dealer last week eek In In fact tact I had one ono salesman who devoted three thre months to try try- trying ing In to teach t ach a young woma woman the thIns Ins and outs cuts oC or shifting gears carand and backing away from the curb At the tho end of or this period he h mar mar- nod her and then drove the car himself when the they went ent riding But this of or course was an exceptional exceptional case I I I J Judging from rom the number of or au- au automobiles automobiles being belne driven you might think that every ery Adult could drive one Yet Tet this is the season or of o greatest car buying and dealers report they are spending the usual amount oC or time In initialing new car owners Into the mysteries or of orthe the clutch and the th accelerator FROWNS AND s SMiLI SMILES S The men whoso w olo profession Is 1 selling cars and teaching the customers cus- cus customers how to drive them must ha have vo a lot of or patience They I also have hav to have ha a sense of or hu- hu humor humor hu humor mor To keep ones one's temper while wrestling day after day with stu- stu stupid stupid stu stupid pid humans In the drivers driver's seat or of new cars is fa a task surpassed only by lIy the more difficult one or of keeping a straight face But you ou get Bet used to It atte aCte a ow while said one of or these men and you come to expect a certain amount of or dumbness dumbness dumb- dumb dumbness ness You soon learn just lust what what- points to stress and lust what nils- nils I I I takes are ar apt to bo be made I recall one woman I was teaching to drive She got cot along fine until sir she became confused l lIn In the traffic on Washington ave avo- avenue nue and the th car started for the curb As the machine hopped over the th curb and toward a a big plate glass class window sn forgot everything and started blowing the horn I 1 managed to turn tum oft orr the just lust before reaching the window GEAR It n RD It It It Is surprising how little some people know about a motor car when they buy one Sometimes you have havo to start at the tho th very ver bot- bot bottom bottom tom to give civo them even a 11 foundation lion tion for learning to drive or Of course It Is possible Just lust t to teach them a few automatic motions but that's no good You should tell them not only what to do dibut but why they do It Gear shifting HUng has been mado much easier casler In recent years oar but blIts blIt's Ills Ill's its it's nevertheless h hard for tor the average person who who has never jutI driven to get ret on to It They lust jut Juwill will not remember to disengage the clutch before shifting or Of course they th y always engage the clutch with a jerk that gives fives you youa youa yoa i a headache but they ovet come that with practice And after all that's all that Is necessary to make a good rood driver drive A person after aner he has driven a acar acar car for a while does almost everything eV- eV eVerything without thinking of or 11 consciously But Dut the new Dew driver r cant can't do that lie He cant can't rely on habit to feed gas at the th right tim time shift at the rIght time and step on the brake when c necessary necessary essary thus leaving his conscious mind free rree to watch the road lIes lIe's got to think of or three thre or four things at once I guess it Isn't surprising that he gets balled up at first WHICH SEX Ive found round that men are arc easier easIer Ier to teach than women Women while they make good rood drivers after arter they learn usually lack self confidence and that's Important They are more excitable excitable and lose their heads When they do do 10 that they just lust drop their hands handi and an and 1 forget everything about aboul the car caiA A man on the other hand may ma get set excited In a a pinch but when he does he e doesn't stop slop doing doin thing thins thins- He may do the tha wrong but ho does docs something Young people arc easler to teach c sac than an o old Some ome aged rp middle age a-age 1 men are about as tough touch ones to handle as you get Ive I've got rot one now that simply will not learn that the emergency brake should be b off orr before he starts and he stalls engine tim after atter time lime Another one goes toes well forward but hes he's a total loss In reverse lie He has to back out of or his garage and hes he's got cot his yard looking like No Mans Man's land He Ho gets ets In great but when he wants to set get et out he usually takes ort oft a fender and then calls for help |