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Show JO (By W. A. Lippman.) jl TVhat you should Lake along with you when you tour depends upon a number Kwj of conditions. "When all the conditions 1 jiff have heen considered anil the personal liS equation of the tourists taken into ac-hH ac-hH count then the answer Is easy. But. j jfl ' alas! regardlcs3 of mathematical calcula- Hu Hons and what one finds on the schedule, 1 H at times all signs may fail and no layout n will be found perfect, no outfit satis-m satis-m factory to all people at all times. Thing3 n do not work out as they should, people H do not act as they promise to and Wm weather conditions do not slick to the flM card. Exceptions occur o often that cx-lis cx-lis perienced tourists invariably hesitate in jjlj giving advice as to the proper cquipmont jl Tor instance. I should not drive fifty jjl milc3 away from my own bailiwick with- ;f out a good strong steel tow rope, well III equipped with end hooks and hemp for ill secure fastening, but I have had to listen I ill m nat'cnco to tne stories of tourists who 1 Jfl firmly declared they never carried a low I 1H rope of any kind and had crossed the J I (19 continent and back without anything of j I ill the sort Wcl1, 1 can readIIv believe that I I ill when I recall how often we have run iSto I llfl touring parties that were calmly sitt'ng j I ft H m tllclr car or fudging hopefully along HOT I tho road while their automobile helpless- Mi'M y I'epoBed in hub-deep mud, waiting for. IN someone to come along who liad the fore- wW sight or gumption or both to carry a strong rope for Just such emergencies. IB I admit there are many tourists for I I T&horu tow ropes, pullout devices, spring I repairers, extra parts and the like would BH be totally useless. It is well for the I I cross roads garage that this is true. nH Likewise it. enriches the purse of many a farmer who slyly lurks within easy n W call of mudholes that arc well known for tue'r car catching propensities. 1 H H distinctly recall one mudholc. a verlt- tl mmc' from which a wise old I V fl farmer pulled twenty-five cars during IV one single day, at the price of two fifty In I per car. Not a bad day's work. Mm M In case you expect to make short trips KB H only, to be gone but a few days, thoro Hi n is little need for special preparation II other than to see that your car is In III flt condltion- Tllis precaution should by III a" means precede any trip, long or Hlfl short, for a few days or for months of HSfl travel. A breakdown ten miles from flyfl town Is Just as annoying when you are Mm fl out on a day's Jaunt as it Is on a trans- I continental trip. H9 Thoro arc a fow emergency measures Hit I which motorists should take for short HI mJ trips. It is only common sense to be HI gl provided with the simple first aid sup HI B plies such as spark plugs and plenty oi HI H tiro patches to protect against tubes lif if I lhat sudden,y develop weak heart. Then Slil 9 there arc those little breakdown parts HI Jl which your own previous experience has Ijn H taught you should be in your kit. IK ij If you havo had no touring experience I 1 21 have been lucky enough to escape G I your share of motor aggravations then lift lcl your sraraBC RJCPcrt tell you what is HI ri most likely to let down or wear out when ill H OU aro a fcw Inl,t3 from help and the ml H automobile Jinx sneaks up on you in an rll I unguarded and ill-fitting moment. Your I wl fl garage expert knows if you can get him I II I Fr mV 0Vrn part 1 carry at aI tIn03. flf 1 1 m atldll'on lo a well equipped Idol roll. Rill replacement parts which 1 havo found IjlW IB useful in the past. Besides spark plug3 iBfiil ani P,Ufr sra3kcts mv DOX contains two sfll va'vcs with springs, spring seats and On spring Beat stops, several valvo tappets. Ynm a fan belt, radiator hoso connection ana lln H a apool of water pump packing cotton, BIB H spare electric system fuses and lamp IjKK O bulbs in a good bulb box. A also tote Hn H along an assortment of nuts and lock- ;BH washers of the sizes required on my car. Hit cotter pins of standard or common, slzc3, 'wll a f0W 4x111 kolts of varied lengths and I ill P thlcltnccscs, a roll of adhcslvo tape, scv- I'SIm CFaI tcCt ot 3"1C inel1 rubbcr tubing for " Iwl I emergency uso. such as blowing out a i TI I stoppago In tho gasoline or for patching Wm a ,cak eight feet of Ignition cable, ten Hyj M feet of small copper wire, the same Hi H amount of iron wire similar to that ucca IftHfl I ln hay ba,er3, a b,cycle spoko (useful in fUU I a scorc oI ways but specially useful in fflll I gauging piston travel when working on uBlS H Ignition trouble). JtHglj A good old fashioned hair-pin Is one of HUafl I ll10 m0Bt convenient tools in my kit be- lHSlS I causo with It I can clean out a stop- Ulfiill Pa5C in the carburetor drain, open clog- iffjlwl gcd radiator or cngino pctcocka and fish Wa m Ut DUtS r 81111111 Parts that havo rolled RlM 1 1 Int PHCCS 100 small for my fingers. A flMl' I 9 multitude of other operations aro easily tlffi 1 1 accomplished with the aid of this cheap, common tool. I find a button-hook of the long-handled variety (the kind that hns advertising prjnJod on the flallrnn handle is idoal) a modest devico of sup-cilativ'u sup-cilativ'u woiih for a button Isook will .-.iii.li ;i spring mihI hold it when no other tool .-n tui7i the trick. While ou were reading Ihis list you prohnlily wondered where Ihcse many tri -flinK artl' los cnuld he carried so as tu be readily availiblv when vnn'.'!(. 1 puck thoiu. s-.vitlf dozens of oHier I Ct odd: and cuds. In a tin' "fishing tackle box four inches high, eight Inches deep and twelve Inches wide, a box such as you can buy at any hardware or sporting-goods sporting-goods store. The compartments of this. I box are ideal for stowing away a. host of small automobile trinkets. I have made mine very convenient by using a dozen typewriter ribbon boxes (the narrow ribbon rib-bon box) as these Just fit the spaces I in the top tills. "With an Index pastcn in the top lid referring to the numbers on the small boxes I can quickly find nnything I wish to use. This box Is always al-ways under the front scat with my tools. When we take to tho tall timber via the open road on our summer trips. I supplement sup-plement the list given above with replacement re-placement parts which might be needed not only for roadside repairs but for lay-up repair work which is encountcrca en route. These arc connecting rod bearings, bear-ings, two pairs of them with ampla shims, two sots of piston rings, a carburetor car-buretor float, carburetor needle valve, wiring terminals, ignition platinum screw. Ignition latch assembly. You cannot can-not trust the average gurnge to havo these parts In case you need them on the trip. I take ignition distributor and spring, as those arc the Ignition parts that havo given mo trouble, ball and socket joints for carburetor and spark connections, repair re-pair parts for the gasoline vacuum sys- ! tern including cork tank gasket and elbow el-bow Joints. A few feet of soldering I string Is a good substitute for an en j tire soldering outfit Grcaso In tubes is convenient. One year I had trouble with my driving driv-ing axles, breaking several of them under un-der conditions of sudden shock. Tho nezt year I carried a spare pair with me. Now, howcxer, I leave them behind as I havo had other troubles since but that one has not returned. Axles arc qultu too heavy, even for their small size, to carry about for thousands of miles. Moreover, More-over, this is one repair that can be made, albeit as a makeshift, ln any blacksmith shop. On one occasion we broke a drive shaft nine miles from a railroad and many moro miles from town. A handy smithy in a village shop beat and hammered a new axle out of a piece of harvester shafting and we traveled on that for three Jiun-drcd Jiun-drcd miles. When we took it out i had twisted two complete turns in tho length of It but was still good for somo distance. It did not possess the hardness hard-ness but it was tough cnougn. I have named here the majority of labor la-bor saving parts favored by us but you would probably throw out half or mort of these and replace them with a list or your own equally as valueless and doubtful doubt-ful lo somcono else. That Is one of the factors that makes touring an intensely interesting sport, ranking with hunting and fishing for diversity of equipment and paraphernalia. Nevertheless. I stand by my lessons of six summers ot Incident filled louring. I am ablo to carry many of theso additional small parts In the tin tackle box already described. de-scribed. During tho past winter we mot a party of tourists about eighty miles south ot St. Louis who wero headed for a point several hundred miles beyond. For hours thcy had attempted to start the stalled motor of their excellent six cylinder car. Finding that no amount of tinkering would help them wo towed them about sixteen miles through the foothills of the Ozark mountains to the first town, wher we left them. Coming back over the same route, a few days later, wo found that tho party had been forced lo leave their car and proceed by train, all because a magneto breaker bar was defective. Tho local garago could not repair It, and a phono call to St. Louis to the welt known agent of the car in question was, of no help. His supposedly efficient and completo parts bins did not contain a single breaker break-er bar nor point, and an order from tho factory meant a week's delay. In these days of disturbing conditions road delays may become Irksomo while waiting wait-ing for coming repair parts which in themselves amount to nothing. Popular makos of cars arc served better bet-ter ln most cases than the ono in this Instance, but you may drive a car that is not well represented in the country through which your touring will take you. It is not safe nor ranc to attempt carrying car-rying a duplicate of every breakable part on your car. Those days arc gone. But there are certain constant driving part which are easy of replacement cn 'route-and 'route-and which -can easily bo carried at no great expense. If they arc needed at any time you will be spared the annoyance of laying up in some small town for three or four days while waiting tho arrival or the replacement part. nn |