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Show BRAKE CHECKS HELP MAKE STREETS SAFE Inspections by Policie Are Excellent Excel-lent for Safety. The vigorous manner in which police po-lice departments all over the country are checking up automobile brakes Is good evidence of the important part that brakes play in the nation's safety. In many large cities and in hundreds of smaller ones, motorists are being stopped on the streets and put through driving tests. If the test develops that the brakes do not grip evenly or quickly, quick-ly, the officer orders the driver to have them adjusted. If they function satisfactorily, satis-factorily, the driver is given a windshield wind-shield sticker certifying to the good condition of his brakes and thus saving sav-ing him the annoyance of another bait and another inspection. "These Inspections are an excellent thing," said an automobile expert, "and should be made regularly and universally. The average man hates to drive with poor brakes, but the average man is also very busy. However, How-ever, the man who stops to consider what faulty brakes might result In, will realize that the necessary few minutes in the service station are well spent. Good brakes protect lives. And It is certainly the duty of every motorist mo-torist to make driving as safe as possible." |