May Save Motorists
Half Million Yearly
Good Rosdi to Cot Operating Costs i
Of Cars Traveling Hundred
Billion Miles
By E. E. Duffy
American people are striking out
for the open country in motor cars
at the rate of more than a hundred
billion miles a year.
Their annual driving expense in
fuel, oil and car upkeep totais around
eleven billion dollars.
The roads over which they travel
are mainly in state highway systems,
taking the country as a whole, that
plete.
Measured by well established tests
are not more than one-fourth corn
driving expense over roads not vet
surfaced to the point where vehicle
operating costs may be reduced to
bedrock is approximately one cent a
mile greater than on substantially
surfaced roads.
It is assumed that not more than
one-Jhalf of the country's hundred
billion, a year mileage is over surfac
ed roads, that is, surfaced to the point
of minimum operating costs. There
fore, at least one-half the nation's
?11,000,000,000 driving expenses or
$5,500,000,000, is yet to be cut at
least ten per cent, which would mean
a saving of approximately $550,000,
000 a year, or $5,500,000,000 in the
next ten years.
This measured in money, is the
ultimate goal in road building ? to
cut motor vehicle operating costs and
at the same tome add to the life of
car investment.
In arriving at the nation's total
annual mileage and driving expense,
5000 miles a year is estimated for
each of the 22,000,000 motor vehicles
now in service, at the established es
timate of ten cents per mile, count
ing all cost such as fuel, oil. upkeep,
tire and car depreciation.
These figures, seemingly prepos
terous at first glance, are not far
from the mark. The reduction of
driving expense to the extent of more
than $550,000,000 a year is not to 1
be considered within the range of j
possibility in any short period of time j
It may be taken, however, as an ul
timate objective to which road build- I
ing should come, and this astonishing f
sum of highway power waste, as ex
emplified in driving expense, should !
serve to emphasize the necessity for
speeding ahead toward the surfacing
of all main traveled arteries in the
country.
"When will the pressing need for
modern road building close?" some
one may ask.
When will the people stop buying
automobiles?
When this last question is answer
ed. there will be found an answer to
the first. Last year the nation's new
car investment reach ?4,000.000,000,
or fcur time- as much as was spent
or roads during the same period, and
In a Bad Fix
from
INDIGESTION
"I had suffered with indi
gestion for 6 yearn," Bays Mr.
H. C. Dove, R. F. D. 4, Chester.
8. C. "1 had gotten to the
place where I could hardly
eat a thing ? everything hurt
me. I had smothering spella
and fell off 20 pounds. I was
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and decided to try it. I do
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milk and crackers, but after
taking Black-Draught I began
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"Yes, Vv iiiei < ? * c -ck is rigai;. jL-uckies
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Popular pugilist tcllt
his manager, Benedict
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Jo Throat Irritation
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Willard Mack,
Noted Author, Producer
and ?ctor,
writes:
"Wc people of the theatre are , as
a rule , extremists. This is the
reflex action from overwrought
nerves. When a man smokes forty
cigarettes a day, as I do, he must
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factor." . ^
not all of that went on surfacing that
! will cut driving expense to a mini
! mum. With every new car wheeled
out jn the highway, the nation's total
driving expense increases, and there
is undisputable evidence to show that
the percentage of highway power
waste is growing ?r than the per
centage of road construction design
ed to permanently cheek -uch waste.
Again we sight the ultimate coal j
.n road building ? the reduction of
highway power waste by forcing the I
' road building job up to somewh |
near an even basis with car buying. !
' Road building should exceed car buy
j in^r until the various state systems
iare brought into such condition as to
permanently cut driving costs.
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1 considerable <urpri<e.
Winning a Gal
I first saw her at a circus.
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Regardless of the cost.
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Twice, thrice. I threw the ball;
And the third time, knocked tht? cat ?
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Fair Enough
"Sir." said the maia quite haught
iW. "either take your arm from
around my waist or keep it still. I
an? no banjo"
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