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Show CAREFUL BUYING AUTO ACCESSORIES The past week has witnessed a change in the weather that gladdens the hearts ot all motor fans. Automobiles Auto-mobiles that have boon hibernating for the past five months once more see the light of day, and the streots and boulevards are becoming filled with cars of every description. "With the belated coming of spring," I said W. S. Chcesman, manager of the Icheesman Automobile Co., "the care-Iful. care-Iful. and I might almost say, the pro-jfesslonal pro-jfesslonal motorists for all automobile owners are nowadays more or less pro-'fessional pro-'fessional are beginning to plan and 'prepare for trips out into the country lor up to the mountains, trips that bring the greatest enjoymont out of their automobiles. And the more experienced ex-perienced in the art of motoring a man i becomes the more he looks to the lit-itk- things that will insure the comfort and convenience of himself and party. "Naturally, the automobile manutac-turers manutac-turers could not be expected to fuinis-h the little extras which v.e have come i to know as accessories, with the cars Ithey make, because lastes differ so much. One motorist might want something some-thing that another might never feel (the need of, and so on. So the cars are delivered complete in every detail with the exception of accessories which every man may choose for himself, enabling en-abling him by such choice to get exactly ex-actly what ho wants and considers essential es-sential to his greater driving comfort, i "But, of courfe, there are many different dif-ferent grades and qualities in accessories accesso-ries as there are In lives, oils, and everything else that pertains 'o automobiles auto-mobiles evfln automobiles thoui-' thoui-' reives For the sake of a greater profit some manufacturers put on the market accessories that fail- to measure meas-ure up to a standard of value that justifies jus-tifies their existence. They might 'look as good as any other like articles tn the unpracticed eye; but in a fow months the distress signals are hung out and, with a few excusable expletives exple-tives on the part of the motorist, they 'are relegated to the ash can. "It is the part of wisdom and prudence pru-dence to look to experienced men for recommendation when seeking an article arti-cle for the automobile. In our accessories acces-sories store there is no accessory that 'has not passed rigid tests by experienced experi-enced automobile men." |