Show hints for motorists automobile clubs and service companies report that a large majority ot of the emergency calls answered by them are due to troubles in the ignition system you may avoid having to send in such a call yourself some day if you remember to have the units ot of the system checked by an expert periodically 4 0 O W if the pressure in three of your tires Is right and the fourth wrong its al most as bad as it if all were wrong because uneven inflation destroys the balance of your car makes it harder to steer and causes the body to develop those annoying squeaks that make even the finest cars seem tinny and cheap 0 o 0 o when an automobile wrecks a train its news it happened recently and the papers played it up on the front page as a rare item its usually the train that wrecks the automobile why the intelligent motorist always approaches a grade crossing with both eyes open and his bis car well under control 0 0 0 experts have figured out that the most economical speed so far as time tire wear gas consumption etc are concerned Is about thirty five alve miles an hour which Is to say that this rate of travel gets you where you want to go 90 without unreasonable wiste waste of time fuel or rubber A good way to prevent the theft ol of your car Is to lock it in every way possible and then dont leave it parted parked where thieves can work on the locks unobserved by passersby passers by 00 01 when breaking in a new car it Is as important to hold down your speed in first and second gears as la in high it is engine speed not car speed that counts and running twenty five miles an hour in second la Is equivalent to about forty in high so far as tho engine Is concerned many squeaks can be traced to doors but the tracing Is not always easy the ib best method Is to drive with each door held eld open in turn until the squeak stops when it does the open door Is the one that needs attention 0 nearly everyone knows that spark points ought to be the thickness ot of a rockefeller dime apart but some do not know that when they need pi essIng together or separating the outside wire and not the center wire Is the one that should be bent |