The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-09
Is There Water In Your
Think=Tank?
Have Flat-tired Bodyi Do You Try to Make the
Grades on High Geari
Why is a man like an automobile?

pant answer
: Mr. COtfman has drawn an automobile here and has
labeled it You.
He has person at the wheel which we presume is the
high cost Of living or the boss the income tax. Let's
forget the the wheel and think about the car which
he calls You.
Man does resemble an automobile or an automobile
does resemble man. whichever way you want it. Some men
eighty horsepower Others one cylinder
blockers Of trc Others slow moving trucks designed
to carry heavy loads
Your wheels and running gear are the physical body
which carries you about The human body wears out like
automobile running gear.
But like the auto it can be replaced. Careful eating
and sleeping repair shops to WORKOUT tissues torn
down by the work of the day The fabrication OF proper
exercise viii reduce friction IN work and prevent break
downs
without oil, your auto gearing runs hot burns bear
irgs they clog and the car stops
Without physical exercise mans blood clogs and
produces govt, apopexy, and acknowledgements.
The gssoene tank contains the motive power of the In
ternal combustion engine Your brain is your gas tank
and your thinking power is gasolene On the quality
and quantity Of material in your thinktank depend the
speed and power with which you will progress.
Water in a gas tank causes trouble. It will not
vsporze in the csrburetor and makes snort and quit
Foolish ideas in your brain water in the petrol They
get into the caTburetor and reard your progress you
have water in your gas tank, better drain it out
The engine is the driving power with which you forge
ahead Size is not always an indication OF driving power
You have the big forty horsepower auto putting and
snortng in muddy stretch hill, while the little bat
teredup car coughs serenely past
Some roads can't be done high gear. Throwing the
clutch and going into low gear steep hill retards speed
but adds to power It is safer go slowly than to take
chance Of lOOsening piston rings hill trying to make
on high.
The person who shoots ahsad-has meteoric career
as we say columnsoften down as
faster than he went up He strips his derenal going
too rapidly under heavy strain.
Some automobiles have self starters the engine
Others have handles the front to wind them up Higher
priced sefstarting Higher priced are
those who possess the self starting ability. They don
have to be crsnked to make them go.
Your steering wheel is your perspicacity you
wise you pick carefully the better roads The and
ridges of unnecessary trouble and worry will your
car fast if you choose the wrong road
you take the wrong direction at fork, you go miles
ont Of your way Read the signs carefully and consult your
gndebook often that the steering wheel may turned
the right way Guidebook and the gnposts for you are
thoughts of others, embodied in books.
Read the biographies of great and find which way
they turned the steering wheel when they forks
in the road Learn from the experience of others about
the road ahead of you.
Your lamps are your senses. Your eyes show Won
the rough spots and read the signs
The of pain will tell you if your bodY-the run.
ming gears out of order, if the engine pounding
If you have fat tire your sensitive nerves tell YOU
Flat tires rheumatism and headaches and smallpox NAV
not be your fault but it is your fault if you dom
sop and repair the damage Good be ruined BY
running fat tires
Your ears will help you if you will use them Wise
ask many questions and listen Fools ask questions
and themselves Keep the and eyes open and
trained receive impressions just you keep the glass
front of your lamps clean in order to see the way
The appearance of your car means much, especially
Il you are selling it. Your looks much if You re
working for somebody selling your services which
yourself.
The paint on an automobile has nothing to do with the
engine and clothes do not make the But the paint
the does help sell the and the appearance of the
man may help sell his services.
Automobiles painted with red white, and blue stripes
wouldn't sell well Men with loud clothes seldom sell their
services to good advantage.
But clean collar never kept anybody out of a job.