The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-11-27
AF.aTAl COMBINATION

following interesting and timely ar
ticle:
Garage Men, Bews,rel Auto:sts
Attention Theirs is death IN tn,
channels strainer. Whenever yoi
filter gasoline through! channels yot
are playing hide and seek with one
of the deadliest combinations known
to man, electricity shd:gasoline.
If your tank Is Under the seat, be
careful when you fill It. If you are
not, you will be as foolish as the man
who looks for a gas, leak with a
lighted candle.
Read every word of this article.
Let it make an indelibe impression
upon your memory.
Never strain gasoline through a
chamois. Now we'll tell You why it
is dangerous.
Gasoline and shamoss do Rot get
along. They are "indompatibles."
Let Us assume that you are about
to fill yuur tank. The funnel IS in the
nozzle, A chamois strainer is In the
funnel. The Easjiine il! turned on
and asst pours through the chanois
itgcnerates static electricity. Stati-
cal electricity may be defined as eisc-
tricity Chat is at rest. 1t is an agent
neither of construction nor destruc-
ton, co long az n,'thins is done to
Unleash il. Unleash it, knowingly or
.nknowing.y. by brushing clumsy
niger against a .iatural law an you
lave TO deal with the most diabo!i-
al physical agent k1awn, force
:hat destroyes i@th the quic1ness of !
ightrirg. /
Static electricity, az we have said, |
, now in the funnel. Tie funnel is
harged with it, So long az the fun
el fits securely into the mouth of
he tank, thus creating J ground"
Gu are safe.
You go about your journey, not
you have brushed elbows
-!th the most deadly as We'll as the
lost useful force known to scien ce-
ectricity.
Now for the sake Of excitement, let
assume that you did not allow the
,nnel to rest inside the nozzle of .
our tank, as the gasoline seeped
lrough the ch.mois slsin. Either
,urself or some one else held the
lnnel in midair, or it rested free of
.e sides of the tank. No ground"
as formed. :
Wehave seen that gasoline, a vola-
e substance passing through cham G
forms the static electricity, which {
argos the funnel. When ihe amount Y
electricity is sufficien: to prodsce t
jump spark, that spark, following a
e inevitable law of electricity at .
action, jumps to the nearest I
ground" which is your tank. In .
ing so it must pass across the OPEN
9 between the end of the funnel
d the edge Of the tank through :
lich gasoline vapor il rising. Sud-
My there is violent discharges,
e that of lightning, which is, after n
7, a gigantic jump spare. All those L
close relation are, az it wers
'uck by ligftnlng.
Many have been burned and
lrred for life through the ignor-
&c of this fiend of electricity. {,
my more, it is sad TO relate, have
en- measured out on their lsst cool
7. No one was able IN tell iusf why
" died.
The the moral to be derived from
8 article is this: Do not put gaso-
e through chamois skin. But if
i will insit on taking chances, be
e that you have 4 ground" on Al
by seeing that the funnel touches "
opening of the tank. Be doubly n
e that you take this precaution.
lire departments statistics of i
ny cities show that an over !,
Ginning per cent of auto fires are n
sed by using chain3iss with gas
Ie-a fatal c6mftnafseH-