The Washington times., 1917-07-14
By MONTE W. SoHN.

BY MONTE w. SoHN.
On Life.
A mans a car. How like a car
He enters life. The body squeaks
For very newness. Near and far
The proud possessor tribute seeks.
Petted and unprecedented, loved,
He has a host of sudden friends.
Guided by gentle hands and gloved,
Few are the listless hours he spends
But Time is feet in Youths short
year
When all new things appear sub
lime,
And man or car, the bright veneer
Must dull. Then comes the power
TO climb
On -Efhciency-that mount
whose grades seem most severe to
Youth,
Unversed in all the things that count,
Blind to its power and to truth
Then other years -. a weathered
taint,
with waning strength and power
nil.
A slover gait and much complaint
And hardly ft for any hill
OF Life. The experts shrug and smile,
Renew some parts and some repair
To stay the end a little while
And beat q heart that is not there.
Early in December, of 1916, that
short connecting link between Good
Hope and the Maryland road known
as Walkers Hill, was closed for re-
pairs. Great piles Of crushed stone
were dumped on the banks and in
the bitches.
Motorists, driving down to Leon
ardstown, Rock Point, and Piney
Point were pleased to see the sign.
"At last" thought they, "this dis
agreeable approach to the District,
with its bumps and holes, its wet
weather slime, will be eliminated"
Today, if you need to glance up to
the top Of this page, is July II.
The closed for repairs sign is still
in place on Walkers Hill. The piles
Of crushed stone are still there, not
a nugget out of. place, not a pebble
removed.
What are the District Commits
sioners going to do about it?
You can search US.
On the other mitt, the U. S. Gov
eminent, take it from a Congress
sional decision, has designated the
road between our fair city and Rich
mand as a Post road.
Brethren-can't you hear the
merry tinkle Of the concrete mixer
just below Dumfries?
A. R. Lindburg, Buick manager in
Chicago, according to Middle West
ern newspaper, has just wed Miss
Neva Bucker.
We are wondering, in our simple
way, if she promised to love, honor,
and obey. And we have an idea he
will.
Tom Alley, the race driver, now is
convinced that his is a charmed life.
He sometimes wonders II his parents
did not take a tip from Achilles
mother, who made the Grecian war
rior invulnerable by immersinE him,
when q baby, in the waters Of the
Styx
In his six years OF service on the
gasolene circuit, Alley has figured in
three serious accidents and each time
has cheated death. His most miracu-
lous escape occurred at Omaha on the
Fourth OF July, when his Pan-Ameri-
can, sweeping around the top OF a
steeply banked turn at a speed Of one
hundred miles an hour, left the track,
somersaulted twice in midair, and
after throwing its daring driver and
mechsnician, landed bottomside up in
the infeId Of the board speedway. The
force OF the blow knocked the hood
of the car at right angles to the
frame and bent the steering post
double.
Alley. however. escaped with
wrenched back and a few minor
bruises. Not a bone was broken in
the fall OF thirty feet, nor did he lose
consciousness. Two days after the
accident he was pluckily laboring in
an Omaha garage. rebuilding the
damaged car in hopes OF getting IL
ready for the July II race at the Twin
Cities. Billy Salmon. the mechani-
clan, was just as fortunate as Alley.
since he suffered no fractures and
did not require the services OF a sur
geon. When thrown from the SOM
ersaulting car, Salmon gave an ex-
cellent imitation OF a leaping frog.
flying through the air with arms and
legs outstretched and landing on all
fours in the soft mire of the inield.
Back in 1912, when he was serving
as mechanician for Ralph De Palma.
Alley met with his first accident. and
spent two weeks in q Milwaukee hos
pital The jinX-ridden Mercedes, on
which he was pumping oil. left the
course on the last lap OF the grand
prize road race and turned turtle,
spilling its crew. Two years later.
when Alley was driving a DuesenbeTg
at Sioux City. his car caught on FIRE
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