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Show ECONOMIZING GASOLINE I' WAS going off fot a, saotor trip with very little knowledge nt the hahlta ) and vognrlcs of automohlles In general j and this one In particular. "If you want to save gasoline," : Spencer said to me, "drive steadily at I a moderate speed. It takes gasoline j to atop and start the car frequently, and nothing eats It up like pushing : the machine beyond It normal speed." I I waa Interested, An automobile Is apparently not no-' no-' like people. Kinney was building , house for me. It was begun In April I and was to be finished by September. The work dragged at first and I spoke 1 to him about It "Don't worry," he aald, "we have ! oceans of time. I'll have the job On- lshed a month before the day agreed apon." He was mistaken, however. I There were delays at a crucial time, a ' strike laid the men off for two weeks, and when September came, although Kinney was "steppln' on 'er" hsrd, the t house lacked a month of completion. ' He had wasted his opportunities at I the beginning and no matter how much ' gasoline he used up at the end he I could not make the grade. There was Culver, on the other hand, i who did his work so regularly that he : never aeehied rushed or worried for i fear he would not be finished In aea-J aea-J son. Other fellows thought that Cul-1 Cul-1 ver was lucky or a genius but the real : explanation was that he was a steady, 1 consistent worker, who economised his gasoline throughout the whole trip. 1 lie got farther with the expenditure ' of less energy then anyone else I I ever knew, j The fellow who doee his work regu-J regu-J larly, who keeps from worry, who set for himself a moderate Intellectual I pace and keeps It every day will ao J compllsh more by the end of the year 3 than the fellow who works by fit and ; starts, who loafs at the beginning of i the week, and then pushes himself t J a pace of fifty miles an hour on 8un- 3 day. It Is the moderate uniform rate ; of speed that saves the nerves and 4 economize the gasoline. Very few young people give much 5 thought to the future. The fuct that f they will some day be old, or weak-4 weak-4 ened, or broken In strength does not ocr'ur to them. The young fellow, hwever, who dissipates his energies 6 or his emotions, who lives the fast 4 life, who taxes hi physique beyond It norma! leslstance, ultimately pays the J penalty. Before his Journey Is ended, his strength will be gone, the gwnollne 4 will be out, he will have wasted his powers. He will come to the heavy jj hills of middle life wUhout the power 'I to carry Win up. 4 Each of us tins about so much re- si ne power. If we wante It tolny, we ahull need It tomorrow. If we lite up our energies In youth, we may ex-pwt ex-pwt a prnuiutiire, weekened old ag |
