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Show Costly Coasting The touring season Is at hand again, and many thousands of car owners are faring forth In quest of the Inevitnhle plensures of long-distance travel. One of the safety precautions that should be borne In mind on such a trip Is that It does not pay to coast with the clutch disengaged or the car out of gear on the strange hill. Grades are deceptive, particularly the strange ones that one encounters on the annual an-nual tosr. Failure to recognise this truth has caused many an accident If nil the motor cars In the United States were placed end to end it would be Sunday afternoon. Arkansas Arkan-sas Gazette. ,. e a a A London thief took tubes of flu germs from a doctor's car, and Is now about in the position of the pedestrian who learns he has the-right of way. a a a . fn Massachusetts, one of the states In which such things are regulated and recorded, out of 1,816 motor accidents acci-dents last year taxi drivers figured in only 10 of them, - |