Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-06-24
PLAN TO HANDLE
AUTO CAREFULLY
Practically Every Car Carries
With 1t a Book of Instruc-
tons for Owner.
Chief POINTS IN DRIVING CAR
New Drivers Must Learn Need of Care
funess and Watch Themselves
That ReckIessness Does Not
Creep in Somewhere.

There are all sorts of car drivers,
just as there are all sorts and condi-
lions of men. If every owner of
new automobile would take the time
and trouble to study his car care
fully there would be fewer causes for
complaint.
Practically every car when deliv-
cred to the customer, carries with
it a book of instructions in which
everything necessary for the owner
to know about the care of his car
is down in print. There are very
few persons with whom intimacy
will not grow if given a chance and
when the car is new and the driver
inexperienced or nervous there is
usually some fear present which has
to be met and mastered.
How to handle car carefully is
what should be impressed upon every
owners mind. To be able to start
and stop according to the intent of
reason and come and go safely are
the main points in driving.
Whether or not the owner aCquaints
himself with the theory of the cars
operation is another matter which
comes under the heading of expense
in the end and must be dealt with ac-
cording to the owners notions of econ
omy. New owners must learn the
need of carefulness, and as experience
comes they should watch themselves
that recklessness does not creep into
the driving. Thousands of hearts are
yearly made sad because somebody
does not recognize this one point
For public safety and your own
there is at all times a necessity for
being on the watch. Fast driving
around corners where the view is OBJ
structed courts the danger of meet
ing somebody just around the turn.
A straight stretch may have all the
appearances of being perfectly safe
for q burst of speed, but even then
you never know what may come across
your path before you could apply the
brakes and slow down without danger
Gus skidding. There may be a little
| child, as often there is, who comes tod
ding out in front of you, or it may
| be a slow-moving COW or old horse,
hog or sheep. Whoever has had eX-
perience in meeting live stock on the
road knows too we'll with what slow
ness most of it will clear the way.
The danger is always great in fast
driving on the public road. Racing
comes under this head. 1t ought to be
put down in the code of road ethics
Of every car driver that racing is not
to be countenanced. If you must race,
go to q track prepared for that pur-
pose, where, if neck-breaking is to
come as a result, it will be your own
without the greater probability Of add
ing others to the list.
Sudden starts and stops are hard
on tires and passengers as well as a
strain on the whole car. The rule is
that when you are taking liberties on
the public road you are also infring-
ing upon the road rights of other peo-
pie, and so defying the law.
The careful automobile operator
makes his car last two or three times
as long as the other fellow. Care
fulness pays not only in small cost of
operation but also eliminates to a min
imum the possibility of damage suits
for accidents which happen just be-
cause the Golden Rule of the road has
not been observed.