The Dickinson press., 1917-01-06

weeks and dealers are making de-
mands for cars for early spring de-
livery. There are a number of cars
sold here now and we are informed
that other distributors will seek quar-
tiers here in the spring.
"The only way to get the most out
of a storage battery in service and in
length of life is to keep it FULLY charg-
ed, according to Mr.. Blank of the To-
cal Willard Service Station. "By far
the greater number of repairs that we
do on batteries" says Mr.. Dauber,
"are necessary because the owners do
not seem to have realized the neces-
sity of keeping their batteries fully
charged. 1t stands to reason that a
half-charged battery cannot do the
work that requires the power of a
fully charged battery and do it with.
out doing some injury, any more than
one man can do two mems work and
do it regularly without hurting HIM
self physically. A battery that is con
stantly half charged loses part of it's
capacity for renewal. The plates be-
come hardened and no treatment will
bring them back again TO their first
satisfactory condition. Keeping the
battery undercharged, then, affects
the owner in two ways. First, he
does not get the satisfactory service
from his battery that he would if it
were fully charged, and second, the
battery lasts much less than half as
long as q fully charged n would.
In other words, the owner is out in
service and in money. The remedy
is right in the car W hands.
He must have definite means of know
ing whether his battery is being kept
fully charged or not. This means that
as regularly as he fills the battery
with distilled water, he must test it
with a hydrometer syringe. If he does
this every two weeks at the outside
he knows enough about the condition
of his battery to be able to have any
trouble corrected. in good season. For
instance, if he is running his car under
conditions that call for many stops, a
great deal of energy for light and
Short runs, the battery is Immediately
affected for it must supply power for
the cranking of the engine and for the
lights, but the generator does not get
a chance to return sufficient power to
the battery to offset this drain. If
| Cne car OWUcI uOSS INV 1lohC 4AO4uSAAe
tests of his battery he does not know
this, and in a short time his battery
is dead, or so exhausted that it is no
longer able to perform it's duties"
"A few years ago, the plant of the
man who was saving his dimes and
nickles was that he had to buy shoes
for the baby. Now he says he has to
buy tires for the auto" said A. T.
Ellian, who is representative of the
| Saxon motor cars here. "He might
have more shoe money and less tire
trouble and expense if he would only
look for the cars that have demon
strated that they afford long service
to. their tires because OF their light
ness and the fact that they. have the
other qualities Of construction which
prevent unnecessary wear to the deli
cate inflated shoes with which they
are equipped. Aside from the way
that a tire can be conserved by the
driving of the motorist, in avoiding
glass. bricks and other road obstruc-
tions which produce cuts and bruises
to the rubber tread, the light weight
which the tires have to support is the
important factor. Even wear on q
tire such as comes from ordinary driv-
ing will not destroy the tire until a
large mileage has been obtained from
it. provided that the weight is not too
great. AS the heavier car presses
down on the tires, there is more Of a
tendency to wear. This fact has been
demonstrated thoroughly in the few
years that the motor al has been IN