The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06

1 been campaigning Jefferson county for the | good roads association, and is undoubted- | ly creating a sentiment for good roads. | Thatcher is a bit out of the ordinary
 and that makes him interesting. He gets
 out among the country people and makes
 good impression among them, to judge | by the hundreds and thousands of letters which they write ahead of him urging | everyone to help him in spreading the doctrine of good roads. The country peo- | pie are the ones who invariably defeat | good roads bond issues, and Thatcher de-
 serves the cooperation of every one in his
 effort to break the farmer of this habit
 Rome. Ga. is fast budding into live
 little city, one of the latest indications of | its metropolitan tendencies being the fil- | ing of a8complaint by the Floyd County Automobile association to the effect that | the drive to the right laws are not be- | ing enforced by the Rome policemen. | They charge the policemen with being a | bit too anxious to catch speed violators
 and entirely too lax fin controlling wagon | traffic.
 Rome has a live crowd of autoists and
 their efforts in the way of getting better | roads have been met with success. A | number of good roads have been built | during recent months while a great amount of work is under way on other
 roads. Autoists making the trip between
 Birmingham and Atlanta have found
 night in case they wish to devote two
 days to the trip.
 l The following notes from Automobile l Topics might be of benefit:
 | When the hole in the gear case is so
 small as to make the feeding of greese
 through a gun extremely difficult screw
 into the hole temporarily an ordinary | compression greese cup of large size by | which means a full charge may be in- | serted.
 | little bran fed In through the filling nozzle will often stlp a radiator leak long enough to get you home.
 Headlights should be set to throw the | light straight ahead not pointed down at | the road ct an angle.
 Never cpange single ball in bearing.
 Renew thieH all.
 To prevent damage 10 vanished sur faces, soap should be dissolved in water before using. Dissolve one pound of high | grade soft oil soap to each gallon Of | water, and use from half to full pint | of this solution to each pail of wash wa | ter. Do not put raw soap into the pail | which Is used for washing the car. Wet | the car first with clean water, then wash with the studs and immediately rinse with hose sponge.
 | It is said to be a fact that automobile users as whole do not receive over 75 per cent of the service from their tires that the tires might give them. Why? Because the majority of users abuse their tires shamefully, however careful and fainstalSing they may be of the balance of the car. Pump up your tires? A tire | ii not properly inflated unless 1t st1nds | up full and round under its load. If it shows a depression when the car is stan1- | ing, then in the fabric must under 1 go terrific distortion, bending, twisting, 1 grinding. The wonder is that the tires give the service they do. and not that | they wear out quickly. It is a fallacy of
 some that in summer weather tires should be slightly defated. It is not the heat of