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Show ABUSE OF BATTERY IS EASY IN WINTER This is the lime of the year when storage batteries usually go wrong. j 1 ddd weather means that automobile ill 1 storage batteries are called on to do super-duty. Ins'ead of turning ov. r ' the motor a couple of times when tho gas ignites and the motor runs, owners own-ers stick for minutes at a time with ii their foot on the starter button, hoping hop-ing against hope that the motor will start. If a person's eye was equipped with a gang, and he could look into the ,. battery at such a time, he could see 't Its strength being sapped away, and al- (rj ti i several mornings of this sort of 2ij trial he could see the battery plates ilLfl begin to buckle. Drivers of cars ty? should not keep their starter in opei- ?t 'J ation but a moment or two at a time. They will get Just as good and better H results if the starter turns the engine '' oer a few times and then is permit- , ted to rest a moment in case the engine en-gine does not tire. In this way the jjji I ci lis are permitted to recuperate and i the battery will last much longer. |