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Show oo SCIENCE HELPS MOTORING JOY. Engineering science, plus modern methods Of manufacture have developed devel-oped the hiRh-grade motor car to c point where performance is taken by til owner as mnttr-r of course. Long-J distance touring by automobile, once' regarded as s feat worthy of comment, now is looked upon as a task that the automobile may be expected to accom pllsh. On a cross-country tour of 2000 miles or more tho motor car encoun-ters encoun-ters all manner of road conditions. Drill travel day after day without giv-' ing trouble. A railroad locomotive, on 'he other hand, is run into the round j l - n in i house at the end of 250 or 300 miles for cleaning, oilin and general recuperation, recu-peration, In fact, at each division point It receives, .it thi hands of experts, general inspection. The inspection of the motor car, on a long distance tour, generally in con- I fined to a glance at the oil gauge and a poop into the gas tank. It is comparatively only a few years since a tour of a few hundred miles was looked upon by the owner as n .real test of his car's endurance. On la trip of that kind the driver was prr- pared to experience merba? ,n j Jf j ble. Sine- then there ha !,ndltloB cided improvement In roid.c1he coutB ; throuphoul most sections of m j try, but the big advancement n- Alit0. 1 l)J found in the construction of I , mobile itself. hJ . ;!V |